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Earth911.com's Sustainability In Your Ear

By: Mitch Ratcliffe
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  • Earth911's Mitch Ratcliffe interviews activists, authors, entrepreneurs and changemakers working to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, post-carbon society. You have more power to improve the world than you know! Listen in to get started saving the planet!
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  • Earth911 Podcast: Author Lowell Baier Explores The History Of The Endangered Species Act

    Earth911 Podcast: Author Lowell Baier Explores The History Of The Endangered Species Act
    Apr 29 2024
    The Endangered Species Act (ESA), passed in 1973 and signed into law by Republican Richard Nixon, has been a bulwark against unrestrained deforestation and development for over 50 years. It has protected and helped restore 1,700 species that teetered on the brink of extinction but returned to viable populations. Author Lowell Baier was a young lawyer in Washington, D.C., when the law passed and has worked for 60 years at the leading edge of environmental law, including leading the first President Bush's conservation policies in 1989. Tune into this critical discussion to learn from Lowell's work on a comprehensive history of the ESA in two volumes, The Codex of the Endangered Species Act and his just-released book, Earth's Emergency Room: Saving Species As The Planet And Politics Gets Hotter.

    Lowell explains the origins of the law during the 1960s and 70s Green Revolution and the revitalization of the ESA in the Clinton era, which made it more effective and responsive in the face of climate change. A post-partisan movement, Conservation Without Conflict, is now working in Washington to pass new legislation, the Recovering America's Wildlife Act, to expand funding to support state and federal species restoration programs—Lowell Baier's books are available on Amazon and the Powell Books website.
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    34 mins
  • Earth911 Podcast: Mapping A Smart Path To The Circular Economy At The Ellen MacArthur Foundation REMADE Conference

    Earth911 Podcast: Mapping A Smart Path To The Circular Economy At The Ellen MacArthur Foundation REMADE Conference
    Apr 22 2024
    Tune in to a special Earth Day 2024 episode about accelerating the path to a circular economy. Sustainability In Your Ear Mitch Ratcliffe shares lessons he learned at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's circular economy-focused REMADE conference, which met at the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington DC earlier this month. Scientists and business leaders gathered to discuss and share research about enabling a circular economy. REMADE focuses on reducing waste and creating circular systems in the industry, which accounts for 30.2% of annual human CO2 emissions — and the conference has a decided tilt toward recycling, specifically industrializing it at a massive scale so that consumers no longer need to learn materials sort them at home for better recycling. As you'll hear, that requires an enormous investment, and it's a form of technological utopianism promising solutions so simple people don't have to think about it. Many of the scientific presentations at the event explored advanced recycling technologies for plastics, textiles, and metals, industrial decarbonization techniques, and how to design products for easier recyclability. These important and compelling initiatives will move us toward a make-recapture-remake approach to the products humans rely on daily.
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    17 mins
  • Earth911 Podcast: Making Billions of Square Feet of Commercial Space Sustainable with CBRE's Rob Bernard

    Earth911 Podcast: Making Billions of Square Feet of Commercial Space Sustainable with CBRE's Rob Bernard
    Apr 15 2024
    The built environment, particularly office buildings other urban facilities, are responsible for 39% of the global energy-related emissions, according to the World Green Building Council. About a third of that impact comes from the initial construction of a building and the other two-thirds is produced over the lifetime of a building by heating, cooling, and providing power to the occupants. Our guest today is leading a key battle to reduce the impact of the built environment. Tune in for a wide-ranging conversation with Rob Bernard, Chief Sustainability Officer at CBRE Group Inc., which manages more than $145 billion of commercial buildings, providing logistics, retail, and corporate office services across more than 100 countries.

    Rob cut his sustainability teeth at Microsoft, as its Chief Environmental Strategist for 11 years, as the company was developing its world-leading approach and collaborating with other tech giants to lobby for policy and funding to accelerate progress. He discusses CBRE’s Sustainability Solutions & Services for commercial building owners, as well as the accelerating progress for renewables, carbon tracking, and economic, health, and lifestyle benefits of living lightly on the planet. You can learn more about CBRE and its sustainability services at cbre.com

    Take a few minutes to learn more about making construction and building operations more sustainable:
    • Earth911 Podcast: Cityzenith’s Michael Jansen Uses Digital Twins to Reinvent Urban Planning
    • Earth911 Podcast: Concrete.ai CEO Alex Hall On Mixing Embodied Carbon Out Of the Built Environment
    • Best of Earth911 Podcast: Lowering Construction Impacts With Green Badger’s Tommy Linstroth
    • Best of Earth911 Podcast: William Ulrich on Learning From Y2K To Design the Circular Economy
    • Best of Earth911 Podcast: Autodesk Spacemaker Aides Building Efficiency With AI Insights
    • How to Assess Your Business’ Environmental and Social Impacts
    • Passive House Design: Changing the Future of New Home Construction
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    39 mins
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