Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: Glacier CEO Rebecca Hu-Thrams On How To Build An Advanced Manufacturing-Based Circular Economy

Can robotic sorting help materials recovery facilities (MRFs) turn recyclables into the feedstock for the next generation of products and packaging? Glacier's robots are accelerating progress for more than 10% of the U.S. population.

Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: David Lawes On Colorado’s Motor Oil EPR Program

The CEO of the oil industry's Extended Producer Responsbility efforts at the Lubricants Packaging Management Association discusses whether single-stream collection or specialized recycling programs are the foundation of an effective circular economy.

Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: Star's Tech Hando Choi On Inventing A Low-Carbon, Low-Chloride De-Icer Made From Star Fish

How do you solve a multi-billion dollar infrastructure and vehicle corrosion problem—and launch a skincare product line—using an invasive starfish that is typically thrown back into the sea by fishing fleets? Star's Tech found a use for every part of a creature that does damage to Korean shellfish farms.

Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: LiquiDonate Founder Disney Petit Redirects eCommerce Returns to Non-Profits and Schools

What if the solution to the retail industry's $890 billion returns crisis wasn't better logistics, but better logic? Disney Petit, founder and CEO of Liquidonate, is proving that the most sustainable return skips the trip back to a warehouse and goes directly to a community in need.

Otters Passing Through and a Sustainability in Your Ear Transcript: Luke Purdy, Wieden+Kennedy's Director of Sustainability, on Advertising's Power To Change

It's otter time at Elk Creek. Tune into a discussion about whether the industry that taught the world to consume can help us learn to do it more responsibly.

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres

Can a forestry software and infrastructure company inspired by the open source software movement spur enough tree planting to reforest an area larger than the United States by 2050?

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: The Climate Action Network's Pre-COP30 Briefing with Rebecca Thissen

Ten years after the Paris Agreement, the world's climate negotiators will gather in Belém, Brazil, this November for COP 30, a summit many are calling a critical juncture for global climate action.

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: Buckstop's Alexander Olesen Digs Into Urban Mining

Buckstop is building a tracking system for the renewable enery infrastructure that supports long-term management, recovery, and reuse of critical minerals, lithium, and other valuable materials that today, too often, end up in landfills after their use.

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: Culligan CEO Scott Clawson Maps The Path To Clean, Healthy Drinking Water

In an era when microplastic and PFAS contamination is common, and 37% of Earth's population is exposed to contaminated water, Culligan's water delivery and filtering services offer 170 million people clean alternatives.

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: Terracycle Founder Tom Szaky On Building The Circular Economy

Instead of thinking about reuse and recycling as a burden, companies can deliver the circular economy experience shoppers want as a service that makes their brands stand out.

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Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: GoodSAM Foods Founder Heather Kelly On The Path To A Regenerative Economy

Can the MAHA moment open the door to a useful dialogue about food system transparency?

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: SePRO's Mark Heilman On Phosphorus, Waterways, And Invasive Species

Lawncare missteps open the door for "disturbance specialists."

Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: Author and Activist Bill McKibben Brings the Sun

Meet the cofounder of 350.org, Third Act, and Sun Day

Sustainability In Your Ear: Carbonfuture Counts The Pace Of Carbon Removal

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Sustainability In Your Ear Transcript: Author Topher McDougal Asks If Earth Is Evolving A Planetary Consciousness

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