Podcasts about Brundtland

Kunne Sveinung tenke seg å være bærekraftsdirektør? Og kunne de gamle kollegene hans i rusomsorgen tenke seg å få ham tilbake, eller tenker de "good riddance"? Kanskje vil han enkelt og greit være direktør? I denne episoden tar vi en prat med vår gode kollega Anna Eitrem, som tar doktorgrad ved vårt Centre for Sustainable Business på "sustainability management", og har også gjort forskning på bærekraftsdirektørens rolle. Vi snakker med Anna om CSO-rollen i både med- og motvind, hvorvidt hun angrer på å forske på bærekraftig business (og om hun angrer på å ha tatt doktorgrad in the first place) og får høre om den spennende studien hennes av bærekraftsdirektørens gjøren og laden. Vi graver også i en annen studie Anna har gjennomført, hvor hun ser på endringen i bærekraftsfeltet tilbake til Brundtland-kommisjonens rapport i 1987, og hvor hun har gjennomført intervjuer og dokumentstudier fra hele perioden siden da. Vi spør oss om vi er nærsynte og fokuserer for mye på detaljer rundt Omnibus-pakken i 2025, og dermed ikke ser skogen for bare trær. Lars Jacob siterer Bill Gates og namedropper Diego Maradona, vi snakker om skandalenes rolle som drivere i bærekraftig business og Lars Jacob kommer i skade for å si høyt at det er lenge siden Anna var student (Sveinung redder dagen ved å påpeke at det er særdeles lenge siden vi var studenter). Sveinung påpeker at ikke alle næringslivsfolk har falt i CSRD-gryten, vi nikker til Karoline Bakka Hjertøs innramming av bærekraftsdirektørrollen som endringsleder, og Anna snakker om etterlevelse, effektivitet og innovasjon. Sveinung pirker i Lars Jacobs sans for byråkrater, vi krangler om lidenskapens rolle, men er mer enige enn uenige, når alt kommer til alt, og vi snakker om bærekraftsdirektørens kobling til andre lederfunksjoner. Vi snakker om bærekraftsarbeid som "kall" og Lars Jacob trekker en Florence Nightingale-parallell. Vi snakker om bærekraftsarbeid som en slags profesjon, utfordrer Anna til å fortelle om det nye bachelorkurset i bærekraftig business som hun utvikler sammen med vår gode kollega Matthew Coffay. Vi avslutter med å konkludere med at heller enn å klone Jørgensen og Pedersen, er det bedre å drepe en av oss. Men hvilken? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I denne episoden tar Michael og Heidi oss med på en reise inn i kunstens verden sammen med kunstrådgiverne Anette Krosby og Cecilie Malm Brundtland, som også representerer det internasjonale auksjonshuset Sotheby's i Norge. Vi får et unikt innblikk i deres hverdag som rådgivere, samtidig som de deler verdifulle råd for deg som vurderer å investere i kunst.Disclamer:Söderberg & Partners Wealth Management AS sin podcast skal ikke betraktes som investeringsrådgivning. Handel i verdipapirer medfører til enhver tid risiko, og historisk avkastning er ingen garanti for fremtidig avkastning. Söderberg & Partners Wealth Management AS er verken rettslig eller økonomisk ansvarlig for direkte eller indirekte tap, eller andre kostnader som måtte påløpe ved bruk av informasjon i denne podcasten. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imagine 2074: A Visual Journey into the future. Focusing on Norway's role as a global leader in green transformation. Listen in when former Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland gives an overview of the past 50 years' groundbreaking changes and how we can imagine Norway's next 50 years towards sustainability. She is interviewed by Professor Einar Lie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Energisektoren har fået en ny tænketank. Fjernvarmens tænketank Grøn Energi er nedlagt – mens tænketanken Brundtland er opstået og bygger videre på Grøn Energis arbejde. Den nye tænketank skal favne forsyningssektoren mere bredt – og inkludere flere parter som fagbevægelsen. Gæster: Magnus Skovrind Pedersen, direktør og Pôya Pakzad, chefkonsulent i Tænketanken Brundtland. Vært: Mikkel Lysgaard

Herzlich willkommen zu Irgendwas mit ESG - Teil 2! In dieser Folge widmen wir uns den Grundlagen der Nachhaltigkeit. Warum gibt es keine grundlegende Definition von ESG? Was hat die preussische Forstwirtschaft mit dem Thema zu tun? Was hat es mit den Sustainable Development Goals auf sich? Welche Dimensionen ökologischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Handelns gibt es, die auf ESG-Themen einzahlen? Welche generationenübergreifenden Themen stellen sich? Antworten auf diese und viele weitere Fragen erhaltet Ihr in dieser Episode. Viel Spaß!

Is the Brundtland definition of sustainability useful in today's complex landscape? Or is creating one universal definition of sustainability an impossible feat? In the first episode of BE Sustainable, our host Mike Speight is joined by guests Dr Graeme Larsen and Dr James Ritson. From global challenges to individual priorities, they explore the limitations of singular definitions of sustainability, and navigate the intricacies of the field in the built environment.  Subscribe now via: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ucem/id1524980861- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Czk2mZlZmknjUZfwLmLTa- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/universitycollegeofestatemanagementGuests  Dr Graeme Larsen  Dr Graeme Larsen is the Associate Dean (Sustainability) at UCEM. He's also Visiting Professor at RMIT, Australia, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building as a Chartered Construction Manager. Grame also holds a key strategic international role within the prestigious International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB), as coordinator for ‘Working Group 65 – Organization and Management in Construction'. Dr James Ritson  Dr James Ritson is a Senior Lecturer at UCEM, and an architecturally trained building conservator with a focus on sustainability and historic built environment documentation. Alongside his role at UCEM, James holds key positions in various organisations, such as his role as the Vice President of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Energy and Sustainability, and is published widely on sustainability, health, and conservation issues. 

Aflevering #11 vruchtgroenten zijn geen schimmels met Jelte van Kammen Deze week verwelkomen we in ETEN IS WETEN een nieuwe gast: Jelte van Kammen, een ware 'titan of industry' uit het Westland en drijvende kracht achter paprika's, tomaten en het platform Stop the Food Fight, dat deze podcast mogelijk maakt. Jelte deelt zijn visie op een duurzame toekomst voor de glastuinbouw, die verder reikt dan de vaak genoemde 'hoogtechnologische' aspecten. Hij brengt een boodschap van optimisme en innovatie, die de complexiteit van deze sector belicht. Hij gaat in op de toenemende maatschappelijke kritiek op glastuinbouwpraktijken en hoe de sector, ondanks uitdagingen zoals het energievraagstuk en het nog niet behalen van de Parijsdoelstellingen, vooroploopt met oplossingen. Jelte bespreekt ook hoe glastuinbouw bijdraagt aan het energienetwerk door stroom terug te leveren en af te nemen en waarom kassen meestal aan de kust te vinden zijn. Verder duiken ze in het belang van vitamine D, een vetoplosbare micronutriënt. Van het belang van vetrijk voedsel tot het nuttigen van supplementen, eieren of shiitakes, er zijn vele manieren om voldoende vitamine D binnen te krijgen. Tot slot maken ze een diepe duik in de wereld van derogatie, de regeling die Nederland toestond meer mest te gebruiken dan andere Europese landen, en die recentelijk is afgeschaft. Ze bespreken de lange geschiedenis van het mestprobleem in Nederland en de noodzaak om deze uitdagingen niet langer te negeren. Feit #1 De CO2-uitstoot van de glastuinbouw daalt

In de nieuwste ETEN IS WETEN aflevering ontrafelen we de complexe relatie tussen media, maatschappij en landbouw. We bespreken hoe een gebrek aan stedelijk inzicht in het boerenleven heeft geleid tot wijdverspreide misvattingen. Ook duiken we in de historie van 'agrarisch exceptionalisme', de periode na de Tweede Wereldoorlog waarin boeren vrij spel hadden, wat een immense invloed heeft gehad op hoe de samenleving vandaag de dag over boeren denkt. We verkennen ook de 'tovenaarsdroom' Neom, de toekomstige Saoedische stad, die een voorbeeld is van voedselproductie onder extreme omstandigheden, met high-tech Nederlandse kassen, kweekvis en -vlees. Vraag is: zal de rest van de wereld hiervan profiteren? Ook gaan we in op de schrikbarende impact van vleesverspilling, die veel verder gaat dan een beschimmeld stuk brood. Tenslotte beantwoorden we vragen van luisteraars over de complexe aard van duurzaamheid en emoties rondom glyfosaat. Feit #1 de media weet niks van landbouw

Kathrine Thorborg Johansen er skuespiller, og høyaktuell i rollen som Gro Harlem Brundtland i NRK-serien «Makta». Hun bruker en del tid på å tenke på hva hun potensielt kommer til å angre på, men har lært med årene at det ikke er katastrofalt å velge feil, for man kan alltids velge noe annet. Vi snakker bl.a. om det inngående arbeidet med å finne sin Gro, og hvor det i ulike faser var behov for at regissøren ropte "mer eller mindre Gro", hvordan det var å høre hva Brundtland selv syntes om serien, som hun egentlig aldri trodde at hun skulle se, at serien har satt i gang en interessant debatt om hvordan man lager kunst og at mye lages med frykt for å ikke tjene penger, og at man diskuterer mer hvordan politikere oppfører seg mot folket og folket mot dem, at det ble lettere å improvisere etter hvert som ærefrykten slapp litt tak, om mannefallet i film og TV-bransjen, forskjellen på prosjekter, og at hun er redd for å ha glemt hvordan hun spiller teater, om å ikke ta konfrontasjoner når hun er sint og en god del om å elske og bli eldre og være tryggere i seg selv, klare å si ja og nei til det som føles riktig for seg selv og slettes ikke savne tjueårene.Programleder: Sivert MoeSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/anger. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you interested in where the three pillars of sustainability came from? Summary of the article titled Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins from 2018 by Ben Purvis, Yong Mao and Darren Robinson, published in the Sustainability Science journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the three pillars of sustainability – social, economic and environment – came about. This article investigates the origins of sustainability and the gradual emergence of these pillars due to critics. As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects: Sustainable ideas have been emerging since the 17th century but gained more aspects during the 20th century to include economic, environmental and social aspects and economic growth can be a solution to environmental and social challenges. Sustainable development was clearly defined in the 1987 Brundtland report as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Even though the origins of the three pillars are unclear, each of them is vital for sustainability and a clear understanding is crucial for proper implementation and decreased political nature. You can find the article through this link. Abstract: The three-pillar conception of (social, economic and environmental) sustainability, commonly represented by three intersecting circles with overall sustainability at the centre, has become ubiquitous. With a view of identifying the genesis and theoretical foundations of this conception, this paper reviews and discusses relevant historical sustainability literature. From this we find that there is no single point of origin of this three-pillar conception, but rather a gradual emergence from various critiques in the early academic literature of the economic status quo from both social and ecological perspectives on the one hand, and the quest to reconcile economic growth as a solution to social and ecological problems on the part of the United Nations on the other. The popular three circles diagram appears to have been first presented by Barbier (Environ Conserv 14:101, doi: 10.1017/s0376892900011449, 1987), albeit purposed towards developing nations with foci which differ from modern interpretations. The conceptualisation of three pillars seems to predate this, however. Nowhere have we found a theoretically rigorous description of the three pillars. This is thought to be in part due to the nature of the sustainability discourse arising from broadly different schools of thought historically. The absence of such a theoretically solid conception frustrates approaches towards a theoretically rigorous operationalisation of ‘sustainability'. Connecting episodes you might be interested in: ⁠⁠⁠No.008R - What are the differences between sustainable and smart cities?⁠; ⁠⁠⁠No.036 - Interview with Magnus Moglia about urban regeneration and sustainability⁠; You can find the transcript through ⁠⁠this link⁠⁠. What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter ⁠⁠@WTF4Cities⁠⁠ or on the ⁠⁠wtf4cities.com⁠⁠ website where the ⁠⁠shownotes⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠are also available. I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by ⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠from ⁠⁠Pixabay

Svein Berge och Torbjørn Brundtland träffades som barn hemma i Tromsø. De spelade datorspel tillsammans. De sålde lotter för Synskadades förbund för att få pengar till att köpa synthar. Och de bildade så småningom Röyksopp som strax efter millennieskiftet blev ett av världens mest hyllade elektroniska band. I fjol överträffade de sig själva med trippelalbumet "Profound mysteries" och nu hälsar de på hemma hos Strage för att prata om italodisco, om obskyra Super Nintendo-soundtracks, om det inspirerade mörkret i norra Norge, om att sträva efter en naiv lyckokänsla, om att få stryk av Martin Gore i bordsfotboll, om varför de tackade nej till att samarbeta med P Diddy och Britney Spears och om hur mycket elektricitet som krävs för att producera en remix som är tio miljoner år lång. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Was kann aus einer Freundschaft werden? Musikalische Paarläufe gibt es ja reichlich in der Musikgeschichte. Nicht alle führen zur Veröffentlichung eines Trippel-Album-Projektes, das 30 Tracks, 30 Artefakte, 30 Visualizer und 30 Kurzfilme umfasst. Haben wir etwas vergessen? Kann schon sein… Schier unüberschaubar, aber auch faszinierend ist die neueste Veröffentlichung des norwegischen Duos Röyksopp. Wie hatte doch gleich nochmal alles angefangen? Mit der Freundschaft von Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland, als sie noch Kinder waren und in Tromsø lebten. Irgendwo zwischen ein paar Häusern in der Provinz und der überwältigenden norwegischen Natur. Sie gingen nach Bergen, waren Teil der norwegischen Künstlerwelle, die auch von den Kings of Convenience oder Bjørn Torske geritten wurde, und Röyksopp landeten nicht nur, aber auch bei radioeins ein paar Mega-Hits der frühen 00er Jahre: „Eple“, „Poor Leno“ oder „Remind Me“. Funky, leichtfüßig und doch mit diesem nordisch-melancholischen Schluckauf versehen – das war das Erfolgsrezept. Eigentlich waren sie schon am Ende angelangt vor ein paar Jahren – jedenfalls wollten sie keine herkömmlichen Alben mehr veröffentlichen. Haben sie ja auch nicht, sondern gleich drei Alben mit 30 Songs, 30 Artefakten, 30 Visualizern und 30 Kurzfilmen. Passt nicht alles in eine Elektrobeats Sendung, aber immerhin einiges – und vor allem auch ein Interview mit Svein und Thorbjørn.

In episode 158 of the Futurized podcast, the topic is: The Real World Beyond Sustainability. Our guest is Dr. John R. Ehrenfeld, industrial ecology pioneer, ex-MIT researcher, and author. Futurized is a bi-weekly show, preparing YOU to think about how to deal with the next decade's disruption, so you can succeed and thrive no matter what happens. Make sure you are subscribed to our newsletter on Futurized.org, where you can find hundreds of episodes of conversations that matter to the future. Futurized—conversations that matter. In this conversation, we talk about how reducing unsustainability still does not create whatever it is we agree should be sustained and how the significant problems must be attacked at the roots, not merely at the level of symptom, by taking up a normative worldview he calls flourishing. We discuss his recent book, The Right Way to Flourish: Reconnecting with the Real World, Routledge, 2019, which deserves a wide audience for its deeply considered vision of a new paradigm beyond the eco-efficiency implicit in how most of us currently understand sustainability. We discuss a number of thought leaders, including philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, and neuroscientist and psychiatrist Ian McGilchrist.   Trond's takeaway After it gained prominence with the Brundtland report in the late 1980s, Sustainability quickly became defined and operationalized as eco-efficiency without considering the important question of what it is that we want to sustain in the first place. That was convenient both for policy makers and for corporations, and was alluring to consumers, too, but it is ultimately misguided. Instead, we need to embrace a different, more ambitious paradigm which contains within it a normative vision for a better future, not just a form of managed ecological decline. Thanks for listening. If you liked the show, subscribe at Futurized.org or in your preferred podcast player, and rate us with five stars. If you like this topic, you may enjoy other episodes of Futurized, such as episode 52, The Future of Peer-to-Peer, episode 14, Post-pandemic Tech, or episode 3, The Remaking of Transportation. Hopefully, you'll find something awesome in these or other episodes. If so, do let us know by messaging us, we would love to share your thoughts with other listeners. Futurized is created in association with Yegii, the insight network. Yegii lets clients create multidisciplinary dream teams consisting of a subject matter experts, academics, consultants, data scientists, and generalists as team leaders. Yegii's services include speeches, briefings, seminars, reports and ongoing monitoring. You can find Yegii at Yegii.org. Please share this show with those you care about. To find us on social media is easy, we are Futurized on LinkedIn and YouTube and Futurized2 on Instagram and Twitter: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurized2/ Twitter (@Futurized2): https://twitter.com/Futurized2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Futurized-102998138625787 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/futurized YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Futurized Podcast RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/www.futurized.co/feed.xml See you next time. Futurized—conversations that matter.

Året er 1983: NRK lanserer tekst-tv og Dagbladet gis nå ut som tabloidavis – to viktige hendelser i medienorge. Men dette er også året Magnus Takvam blir ansatt i NRK. Og selv om det kanskje ikke rystet verden i 1983, skal han i løpet av de neste tiårene få det som bare kan kategoriseres som legendestatus på Marienlyst! Når han nå setter punktum ved en lang karriere som politisk kommentator ser vi vårt snitt til å invitere ham til Bergen. Sammen med Frøy Gudbrandsen, tidligere politisk kommentator og nå sjefredaktør i Bergens Tidende, tar vi et dypdykk i det politiske landskapet i Norge sett med medias øyne – helt fra Brundtland til det Blåblå! For hvordan er det egentlig å formidle og analysere store politiske hendelser mens de utspiller seg og påvirker samfunnet du lever i? Og hva er vel mer passende enn at disse kloke hodene ble samlet på den internasjonale dagen for pressefrihet? Vi feirer pressefriheten og runder av semesteret vårt med politiske kommentarer på fortid og nåtid! I denne panelsamtalen møter du altså NRK-kommentator Magnus Takvam og Frøy Gudbrandsen, Sjefredaktør i Bergens Tidende. Opptak fra Bergen offentlige bibliotek den 3. mai 2022.

Mit ihrem Debütalbum «Melody A.M.» waren Röyksopp massgeblich für die Electronica-Explosion der 00er-Jahre mitverantwortlich. Über 20 Jahre später sind Svein Berge und Torbjørn Brundtland mit «Profound Mysteries» zurück und bleiben ihrem Sound und den Instrumenten der 90er treu. Nach ihrer letzten Platte «The Inevitable End» kündeten Röyksopp eigentlich an, dass sie kein weiteres Album mehr veröffentlichen wollen. Zur Freude vieler Liebhaber:innen der elektronischen Musik haben sie ihr Wort aber nicht gehalten.  «Profound Mysteries» ist ein sphärisches, hypnotisierendes und sehr ausgeklügeltes Gesamtkunstwerk und zeigt, dass die zwei Norweger den Puls der Zeit noch immer kennen, ohne dabei in den Mainstream abzudriften. An den Einfluss ihrer beiden ersten Alben kommt «Profound Mysteries» aber nicht heran, was jedoch nicht an der Qualität des Albums liegt, sondern an der Vorreiterrolle, die Röyksopp in den letzten 20 Jahren eingenommen haben und somit den Grundstein legten für viele weitere Bands, die ähnliche Musik produzierten. «Profound Mysteries» ist unser neues Sounds! Album der Woche. Wir haben CDs zu verschenken – jeden Abend, nur im Radio!

As teenagers, Svein Berge & Torbjørn Brundtland — the gearheads behind Röyksopp — would spend hours pondering the infinite and the impossible. Well, that doesn't seem to have stopped. Enlisting the help of electro icon Alison Goldfrapp, the conversation continues on the boppy track  “Impossible.” 

Shownotes It's a new year, a new day and The Elephant in the Room podcast is ready with its first episode of 2022. My guest Dr Mukund Rajan is the Chairman of Ecube, an investment advisory focused on transforming the climate and ESG landscape in India.  The focus of this freewheeling conversation in this episode is around ESG and Dr Rajan's latest book 'Outlast - how ESG can benefit your business' which he co-authored with Col Rajeev Kumar We also spoke about the drivers for change including climate and environmental exigencies and changing stakeholder expectations

Bygg kan gå fra å være en vesentlig del av klimaproblemet til å bli en stor del av løsningen, sier arkitekt og Snøhetta-grunnlegger Kjetil Trædal Thorsen. I 1987 kom Brundtland-kommisjonen med rapporten Vår felles framtid, og bærekraftig utvikling ble satt på agendaen verden over. Samme år flyttet Kjetil Trædal Thorsen og noen andre arkitekter og landskapsarkitekter inn på loftet over puben Dovrehallen i Oslo. Og ga seg selv navnet Snøhetta. To år senere meldte de seg på i konkurransen om å tegne biblioteket i Alexandria i Egypt. Den konkurransen vant de, og det som Snøhetta har gjort i årene etter, er blitt en del av norsk og internasjonal arkitekturhistorie. Men Snøhetta er ikke bare opptatt av å tegne flotte bygg. De jobber også for å gjøre bygg og byer mer bærekraftige. Snøhetta har vært med å etablere Powerhouse-organisasjonen, som utvikler klimavennlige og bærekraftige bygg, sammen med eiendomsselskapet Entra, entreprenøren Skanska, miljøstiftelsen ZERO og rådgivningsselskapet Asplan Viak. I denne episoden forteller Kjetil Trædal Thorsen om Powerhouse-resultatene, behovet for 15-minuttersbyen, deling av arealer og det han omtaler som "lavterskeltiltakene" alle kommuner bør vurdere: Det å ta vare på grøntarealer og jobbe helhetlig med å gjøre byene og tettstedene mer attraktive. Å bygge nye signalbygg løser ikke kommunenes utfordringer – sier arkitekten som kanskje er aller mest kjent for å gjøre akkurat det. I tillegg ønsker han seg reguleringsplanfrie soner slik at arkitekter, byggherrer og entreprenører kan eksperimentere med nye løsninger. Dette hører du om i denne episoden: Powerhouse-samarbeidet https://www.powerhouse.no/om-oss/ Hjelp til lokalt klimaarbeid Miljødirektoratet har mange ressurser for deg som jobber med lokalt klimaarbeid, blant annet: Veiledning og ressurser Her finner du veiledning i klimatilpasning, klima- og energiplanlegging og hvordan kommunen kan kutte utslipp i ulike sektorer, søke støtte til lokalt klimaarbeid, lese søknader og rapporter fra Klimasats- og klimatilpasningsprosjekter, og mye mer. https://www.miljodirektoratet.no/ansvarsomrader/klima/  Webinarer om lokalt klimaarbeid Webinarer er gratis seminarer via nett. Her kan du melde deg på webinarene, eller se tidligere webinarer i opptak. https://www.miljodirektoratet.no/aktuelt/arrangementer/webinar  Kontakt oss Kontakt oss på klimapodcast@miljodir.no Podcastens hjemmeside: www.klimapodcast.no

Alle må tenke nytt, og bærekraftig utvikling er det vi må forholde oss til, sa Brundtland-kommisjonen allerede i 1987. Men når bunaden ikke lenger er bærekraftig, hva betyr begrepet da? Hør episoden i appen NRK Radio

For mer av Brundtlands tale fra 1992: https://www.nrk.no/video/det-er-typisk-norsk-aa-vaere-god_3235 Epost: Laernorsknaa@gmail.com Teksten til episoden: https://laernorsknaa.com/88-det-er-typisk-norsk-a-vaere-god-om-norsk-selvgodhet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/laernorsknaa Donasjon (Paypal): https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=-yR0zEJ65wE-69zvoB17FdXGd7Gh1fXTKI5CsvjA2jbcQcV9KgR35SBYpH6JD5ofFImlLCuCuNuinHyh Twitter: https://twitter.com/MariusStangela1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxdRJ5lW2QlUNRfff-ZoE-A/videos «Det er typisk norsk å være god» – Gro Harlem Brundtland 1992 Dette sa statsministeren vår i 1992 Gro Harlem Brundtland i nyttårstalen sin til det norske folk. Denne delen er henta fra en lenger tale om nordmenn som hevder seg i verdenstoppen, og at norsk næringsliv skulle gjøre det samme. Konteksten til talen var at det var en krevende økonomisk situasjon i Norge på denne tida. Brundtland mente derfor at norsk næringsliv skulle klare seg gjennom de vanskelige økonomiske tidene og hevde seg i verdenstoppen, akkurat som «fotballjentene, håndballjentene, skigutta og Oslo-filharmoniske.» For det er jo «typisk norsk å være god!» Det var altså ei tid med en del pessimisme i Norge, og det var kanskje behov for å skape litt optimisme. For å forstå sitatet, må man derfor også forstå konteksten. Dette sitatet har blitt svært kjent i Norge. De færreste husker konteksten til det. De færreste husker hvorfor Brundtland sa at det er typisk norsk å være god. Men vi husker sitatet, for kanskje er det en del nordmenn som kjenner seg igjen i det? Kanskje det er det vi som nasjon ønsker å si om oss selv. Vi er gode. Og det er typisk norsk! Du har kanskje hørt at nordmenn er stille og ydmyke? At vi ikke gjør så mye ut av oss selv? Dette tror jeg stemmer dårlig. Nordmenn er generelt veldig stolte av landet sitt. Men vi er også veldig selvgode. Jeg husker at det var helt vanlig at lærerne på barneskolen fortalte oss hvor heldige vi var som bodde i «verdens beste land». Tenk på alle de stakkars barna som ikke bodde i «verdens beste land». Vi var heldige vi! Verdens rikeste land, verdens vakreste land, verdens beste land! Vi tjener mer penger enn andre land, vi jobber mindre enn andre land, vi har mer ferie enn andre land, vi har høyere BNP per innbygger enn nesten alle andre land i verden, vi har et av verdens mest inklusive velferdssystem. Hvem er øverst på indeksen for menneskelig utvikling HDI? Joda, det er Norge det! Eller hva med demokrati-indeksen? Norge på førsteplass!

Er du som forbruger også blevet vildledt af virksomheders grønne budskaber om deres produkter? Så skal du lytte med i dag. For ordet ”Bæredygtig” er blevet et hypet buzzword og flere og flere virksomheder bruger det, fordi de ved, det sælger varer. Men må de det? Er det "Greenwashing"? Og hvad er reglerne egentlig? I dag kigger vært Steffen Max Høgh nærmere på den efterhånden ret ublu udnyttelse af buzzwords som blandt andre ”bæredygtig”, ”grøn”, ”cirkulær” og ”klimaneutral” sammen med Tanja Gotthardsen, som driver rådgivningsvirksomheden ”Second Hand First” og Vibeke Myrtue Jensen, som er politisk rådgiver i Forbrugerrådet Tænk. De to har indgået et samarbejde og har anmeldt fem tøjvirksomheder for vildledende markedsføring af bæredygtigt tøj. Hør mere om sagen i denne episode, hvor vi også taler om: • Hvad markedsføringsloven siger om reglerne for at noget må kaldes ”bæredygtigt” • Hvad Forbrugerombudsmanden gør på området • At det mest googlede ord om bæredygtighed er: ”Hvad er bæredygtighed” • Hvordan man i stedet skal kommunikere, hvis man som virksomhed har produkter, der er bedre for planeten • At det ikke kun er tøjbranchen, der kaster om sig med de grønne budskaber • At vi mangler en operationel definition på begrebet ”bæredygtighed” Nævnt i episoden: • Dokumentation for anmeldelsen til Forbrugerombudsmanden, som bliver nævnt i podcasten: https://dokumentation.taenk.dk/dokumentation/breve/anmeldelse-om-vildledende-markedsfoering-af-baeredygtigt-toej?_ga=2.149150837.235991463.1620678118-397326633.1619678950&_gac=1.91102568.1620710581.Cj0KCQjws-OEBhCkARIsAPhOkIZbskMi7EX6fZQJ9UMgl1EbXc98q2UCjuj207sMTFnv3LTiGIF3chQaAsINEALw_wcB • Forbrugerrådet Tænks artikel om mærker og certifikater, du bør være opmærksom på (GOTS, Svanemærket, mm) https://taenk.dk/test-og-forbrugerliv/ferie-og-fritid/toejspild/baeredygtig-toejforbrug-maerker-materialer • Definitionen på bæredygtighed i den meget korte form fra Brundtland-rapporten i 1987: "(…) som opfylder de nuværende generationers behov uden at bringe fremtidige generationers muligheder for at opfylde deres behov i fare". Læs mere i denne pdf: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiKor6J9qrxAhWWuaQKHXETBNoQFnoECAcQAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.verdensmaalene.dk%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fhvad_er_baredygtighed_dac.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2VmlKlzbl5gVL7WEWqQ3Ar • Tanja Gotthardsens artikel, hvor hun stiller skarpt på ansvarlige virksomheder: Jeg har fundet et indlæg frem til shownotes, hvor jeg blandt andet stiller skarpt på, at den ansvarlige virksomhed også ser forbrugeren som et led i værdikæden i sin egen ret: https://secondhandfirst.dk/mangelfuld-kommunikation-afsloerer-hvor-vaerdikaeden-hopper-af/ • ”Vejledningen” som Vibeke Myrtue Jensen nævner: Etiske og miljømæssige udtryk i markedsføringen: https://www.forbrugerombudsmanden.dk/hvad-gaelder/markedsfoeringsloven/etik-og-miljoe/ • ”EU's nye taxonomi”: Dansk artikel: https://finansdanmark.dk/nyheder/2021/ny-faelles-eu-maalestok-for-baeredygtige-aktiviteter-skaber-fundamentet-for-den-baeredygtige-omstilling/ EU's egen forklaring: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_1804 Du er velkommen til at skrive til mig på LinkedIn, hvis du har idéer til emner, jeg skal tage op i podcasten Bæredygtig Business. Find mig her: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffenmax/ Ros og konstruktive forslag modtages også gerne. Og hvis du vil give Bæredygtig Business en god anmeldelse i din podcastapp, vil det være fantastisk. Læs i øvrigt mere i min nye bog Bæredygtig Business – for bundlinjen og en bedre verden, som netop er udgivet og som jeg har skrevet sammen med Simon Elsborg Nygaard. Du kan købe bogen her: https://www.saxo.com/dk/baeredygtig-business_steffen-max-hoeghsimon-elsborg-nygaard_haeftet_9788740664362

In this episode, I discuss America’s Stonehenge and what is the meaning behind it. Who could be behind the agenda? This episode is sponsored by WYSK Spark Radio, https://live365.com/station/Spark-Radio-a82219. To keep this podcast going please feel free to donate at https://paypal.me/yopistudio?locale.x=en_US If you would like to read more on this topic or any other previous topics, you can do so by checking out our blog at https://yopistudio.blogspot.com/ Feel free to see what we are up to by following us at:  https://twitter.com/Dauricee https://www.facebook.com/yopistudio/ https://www.facebook.com/LouisianaEntertainmentAssociation/ To listen to the podcast, watch creative videos and skits go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvn6tns6wKUwz9xZw11_vAQ/videos Interested in projects Daurice has worked on in the movie industry you can check it out at www.IMDb.com under Daurice Cummings. For comments or questions, you can reach us at yopi@post.com To read more about today’s topic check out the references below. References: https://www.unwomen.org/en http://www.thesilverpen.com/breast-cancer-inspiration/ted-turners-ten-voluntary-initiatives/ http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2002/carl-teichrib/guidestones.htm https://www.lucistrust.org/ https://www.stjohndivine.org/ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-calls-for-new-world-order-says-wasting-covid-crisis-would-be-worse-than-pandemic https://earthcharter.org/ http://arkofhope.org/ https://www.clubofrome.org/ https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/outcomedocuments/agenda21 http://www.wildlifelandtrust.org/sanctuaries/conservation-projects/american-wildlands.html https://newzealandecology.org/article-keywords/significant-natural-areas https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/democracy https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/fraud/ https://portals.iucn.org/library/efiles/documents/WCS-004.pdf#:~:text=The%20World%20Conservation%20Strategy%20%28WCS%29%20was%20commissioned%20by,grateful%20to%20both%20organizations%20for%20all%20their%20support. https://wilderness-society.org/4th-world-congress-of-biosphere-reserves/ https://www.un.org/en/development/devagenda/millennium.shtml Appendix 1:  UN conferences and reports concerned with the human impact on the environment 1972 to 1992 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972, organised by Maurice Strong at the request of U Thant.   Typically the Conference resolutions are strongly focused on reining in humanity rather than advancing it.  Maurice Strong is responsible for the preliminary planning of the first UN Conference on Human Settlements and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat I), held in Vancouver, 1976.  The Conference epitomised the prioritising of nature over the rights and needs of humanity.  While on the one hand there was a three day ‘Earth Healing’ ceremony, the Conference condemned private property, supported urbanisation and was represented by a poster showing a block of apartments. 1980 UNEP, founded by Maurice Strong in 1972 produces the WorldConservation Strategy. which declares ‘The most acute climatic problem, however, is carbon dioxide accumulation as a result of the burning of fossil fuel, deforestation and changes in land use.’ In 1987 David Rockefeller, accompanied by associates Strong and Brundtland hijack the 4th World Wilderness Congress, organised by Maurice Strong – none of the three had attended previous conferences, but all three-spoke, using the new language of sustainability and biological diversity. 1991, 14 months before the Rio Earth Summit (UNCED), Prince Charles holds a private two-day international conference aboard the royal yacht Britannia, moored off the coast of Brazil, bringing together key international figures ‘in an attempt to achieve a degree of harmony between the various countries that would happen at the Rio Earth Summit.  Those attending included Al Gore, senior officials from the World Bank, and chief executives from companies such as Shell and British Petroleum, and the key NGOs. Rio Earth Summit (UNCED) 1992, organised by Maurice Strong.   The Summit gave rise to numerous reports and agreements, including Agenda 21,  the comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment (UN definition).  They all repeat the same themes of climate change, biodiversity, urbanisation, government control of land and global governance, including more say for NGOs. Maurice Strong was also an advisor to the 2012 Rio + 20 Summit   Appendix 2: UN Conferences from 1990 to 2000 to promote global governance In 1990 and 1991 the International Conferences On A More Democratic United Nations (CAMDUN-1 and CAMDUN-2).  April 22 1991, the Stockholm Initiative on Global Security and Governancearising from a meeting of world leaders, including Club of Rome member Gro Harlem  Brundtland, leads to the Commission on Global Governance, with a brief ‘to further explore the new challenges of global interdependence‘ with Maurice Strong as a member. Our Global Neighbourhood: the Report of the Commission on Global Governance was produced in 1995.  Among those recommendations are specific proposals to expand the authority of the United Nations to provide: Global taxation; A standing UN army; An Economic Security Council; UN authority over the global commons; An end to the veto power of permanent members of the Security Council; A new parliamentary body of “civil society” representatives (NGOs); A new “Petitions Council“; A new Court of Criminal Justice; Binding verdicts of the International Court of Justice; Expanded authority for the Secretary-General. 1997 New Secretary-General Kofi Annan appoints Maurice Strong as Executive Coordinator for United Nations Reform in January 1997 with a view, according to a UN press release to reform and streamline the Organization’ [sic].  July 1997 Maurice Strong produced his report, Renewing the United Nations, six months later, in July 1997.  1999 ‘The Charter for Global Democracy.  2000 the Millenium Declaration Sponsored by: WYSK Spark Radio https://live365.com/station/Spark-Radio-a82219    

Quick Overview The Brundtland Report presented observations that were radical and new to most people at that time, and it called for the duty to protect future generation's ability to make their choices. The intergenerational responsibility is thus key to Gro Harlem Brundtland's vision of sustainability. As the world has moved on, Ms. Brundtland considers that even though the concept of sustainable development has evolved adding to the substance of the Report, it did not depart from its core message. Reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic, she tells a couple of stories to illustrate the inspiring concepts of interconnectedness and “one health”. Towards the end of the conversation, she also explains how the Earth Charter is a successful pursuit after the Brundtland Report, and how the philosophical and ethical considerations in the Earth Charter have been incorporated in the Sustainable Development Goals in quite a fundamental way.

På vår halve dag sammen var transport- og installasjonstekniker av kunst, Kurt Syversen og jeg innom Galleri Riis i Oslo, Lunner helse-og omsorgssenter på Harestua, STANDARD (OSLO) og kontoret til kunstrådgivningsselskapet Brundtland & Krosby og Sotheby´s, i Odins gate. I bilen underveis fortalte Kurt om stort og smått som skal til for å gjøre en virkelig god jobb i hans bransje. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Le développement durable, les entreprises, la finance et moi, c'est le premier épisode de notre podcast dédié à la pédagogie autour de l'investissement responsable. Au cours de leur échange, nos invités vous apporteront un éclairage sur la façon dont les entreprises et les investisseurs intègrent les enjeux du développement durable dans leurs activités. Ces échanges seront également l'occasion d'introduire les principaux concepts, termes et acronymes qui reviendront de façon récurrente tout au long de ce podcast. Bonne écoute et découverte de ce premier épisode de "Un pied devant l'autre" by LFDE.Si ce podcast vous a plu, n'hésitez pas à vous abonner, à en parler autour de vous et à nous laisser une note ou un commentaire sur votre plateforme d'écoute préférée. Vous pouvez également nous rejoindre sur les réseaux sociaux : « La Financière de l'Echiquier » sur LinkedIn ou encore Twitter. Invités : Didier LACHAUD, Directeur des Ressources Humaines et de la RSE d'ElisColine PAVOT, Responsable de la Recherche ESG de LFDERéférences :Démarche RSE d'Elis : https://fr.elis.com/fr/groupe/nous-connaitre/notre-engagement-responsableDémarche d'Investissement Responsable de LFDE : https://www.lfde.com/fr/investissement-responsable/notre-conviction/Le rapport Brundtland, fondateur de la notion de Développement Durable : https://www.novethic.fr/lexique/detail/rapport-brundtland.htmlRSE : https://www.novethic.fr/lexique/detail/rse.htmlESG : https://www.novethic.fr/lexique/detail/esg.htmlISR : https://www.novethic.fr/lexique/detail/isr.html Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

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Este episódio narra a evolução da sustentabilidade corporativa, que começou com a responsabilidade socioambiental, passando pela comunicação da sustentabilidade, a sustentabilidade atrelada aos processos de negócios e produtivos, até chegar a proposta de modelos de negócios sustentáveis. Além disso, o episódio faz um resgate histórico de quando se começou a falar de sustentabilidade, citando o Clube de Roma, a Conferência de 72, o Relatório de Brundtland e a Rio-92.

Knut Brundtland, styreleder i ABG Sundal Collier har opplevd en rekke ulike finanskriser i løpet av sine over 30 år i finansmarkedene. Hva skiller korona-krisen fra Bank-krisen på slutten av 1980-tallet, Asia-krisen på slutten av 90-tallet, dot.com-krisen noen år senere eller finanskrisen for litt over 10 år siden? Han mener også at korona-krisen åpner opp for et kjempekupp i markedet for folk flest. Hør dette, og mye mer, i ukens Stavrum & Eikeland. For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ebben az adásban Köves Alexandra Pataki Györggyel beszélget arról, hogy hogyan gondolkodnak az ökológiai közgazdászok a fenntarthatóság fogalmáról, és miért rázza ki a legtöbbjüket a hideg a „fenntartható fejlődés” fogalmától. A fenntartható fejlődés kifejezést a 87-ben megjelent Brundtland-jelentés óta használjuk egyre elterjedtebben, olyannyira, hogy mára már a csapból is ez folyik olyanok szájából is, akik még véletlenül sem gondolják komolyan a fenntarthatóságot. Ennek a fenntarthatóságnak három pillérjét ismerjük: környezeti, társadalmi és gazdasági. Jól hangzik, de mégis az ökológiai közgazdászok felől sok kritika éri egyszerűen azért, mert olyan kompromisszumokból született, amelyek elhitetik velünk, hogy a szokásos üzletmenet mellett is lehet fenntarthatóságról beszélni. De hogyan lehet eltérően értelmezni a környezeti fenntarthatóságot? És mi az a társadalmi fenntarthatóság, és hogyan viszonyul a környezeti fenntarthatósághoz? Vannak ellentmondások? El lehet érni a kettőt egymás nélkül is? A gazdasági fenntarthatóság a fenntartható fejlődés trójai falova?

2019 Oct 浦西 Puxi Progressions   Apologies had to take it down and re-upoload as version was not final one.   Buyers beware! Set may start Dark & Progressive but you will end up straight on the dance floor..   The counterpoint of Pudong Progressions uploaded previously. To a certain extend almost bipolar.   Puxi (浦东) (West of Pu): the “old and traditional” Shanghai, unlike Pudong, Puxi is vibrant, beaming of culture and style. Both hip and representative of the best a very confident China can offer. The place to be and the place to go out and find the best a modern metropolis has to offer. Very cool.   Set got a life of its own as I progressed. Until track 6 “The One You Left Behind” a melodic, dark progressive set and then ... it started building up. I did not realize until it was too late. Very much what Puxi is: elegant and stylish but also vibrant and happening.   Playlist: 2019 Drift Away (Original Mix) [Xtian !00% House Edit]. Mika Olson 2015 I Had This Thing (Original Mix). Royksopp 2019 The Moon (Soul Button Remix). Nick Devon, Soul Button 2018 Elephant Shunned (Solee Extended Remix). Jan Blomqvist 2019 The One You Left Behind (SØNIN Extended Mix). Yotto, Vök, SØNIN 2019 When the Sun Goes Down (Original Mix). Richard Grey, Colla 2019 Pacific State (Club Mix). Jonathan Ulysses, Peter Brown, House of Virus 2019 Trippin' (Extended Mix). Alaia & Gallo, Dames Brown 2019 Hallelujah (Joshwa Remix). David Penn, Kevin McKay, Joshwa (UK) 2018 Give You (Igor Blaska Remix). Djaimin, Crystal Re-Clear, Igor Blaska 2019 Move on Down (Jeremy Bass Remix). Ricky Montana, Paolo DB, Jeremy Bass 2019 I Feel for You (Extended Remix 2019). Bob Sinclar 2019 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (Michael Gray Remix). Sylvester, Michael Gray 2018 Skies The Limit (AM2PM Remix). Stephen Nicholls, AM2PM   Highlights:   “Drift Away” good, solid current progressive house from Mika Olson, a European Deep & Progressive House producer and DJ based in Vietnam. https://soundcloud.com/mika-olson-tracks   “I Had This Things” from Royksopp, one of my favourite post Y2K track. Melodic, great male vocalist, perfect production, great lyrics. Top track. Röyksopp are a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø, Troms, formed in 1998. The duo consists of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland. https://soundcloud.com/royksopp https://open.spotify.com/artist/5nPOO9iTcrs9k6yFffPxjH   “Elephant Shunned” from Jan Blomqvist. Could repeat the same comment from above and a massive late 2018 release in the dark progressive realm. Big new talent! Based in Berlin. https://soundcloud.com/janblomqvist https://www.facebook.com/blomqvist.music   The One You Left Behind” from Yotto with Vök on (magnificient locals). Progressive, Balearic, Ambient perfection! One of the most talked about release of 2019 in Progressive House. This is a treat and a pearl! Chicane like.. Yotto, is a Finnish DJ, songwriter, and record producer. Currently residing in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.yottomusic.com https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Dyfxq0ZrFjjeFBdSNxDbo   “When the Sun Goes Down” from Richard Grey. Great semi progressive/trance/dance track. So good that I need to look for remix as the OM I bought is too short! For almost two decades, the legendary DJ and house music producer Richard Grey has created some of the most memorable dance tracks known to man. Originally from France, Richard played a massive part in developing the "French Touch" style in the latter half of the 1990s. https://soundcloud.com/richard-grey-173305944   “Skies The Limit”.. AM2PM, it seems that they always creep up in my sets!  Shoutout! Great British duo, funky, current, fusion of dance, progressive and soulful house.. Pretty much what I love. London based AM2PM is the brainchild of DJ/ producer Matt Kye and vocalist Alec Sun Drae. Their sound is a mix of 90s classics, US Garage and Deep House. With more than 30 years of collective experience in the Club Industry, both Matt and Alec have performed in popular venues both in UK and Europe and have had successful releases in their own rights. I have seen them live.. DO NOT MISS THEM. DJing impeccable but performance was amazing! https://www.facebook.com/AM2PMmusic/?rf=106299089406072 https://www.mixcloud.com/AM2PMLIVE/stream/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/52c0bomuoLqXEPQ8SlSKaX   A bientôt   Xtian 

L'éducation aux changements climatiques a été débattue au 8e Congrès mondial de l'Internationale de l'Education. Alors que débute la semaine mondiale d'action pour le climat initiée par les étudiants, Luc Beauregard de la Centrale des Syndicats du Québec/Canada nous en dit plus sur les établissements verts Brundtland et les activités syndicales dans sa province.

Je rencontre aujourd’hui Sophie Lawson, créatrice du restaurant solidaire Mam’Ayoka. Quand elle parle de son métier de restauratrice, Sophie parle avec son cœur et ça s’entend. Elle nous raconte son coup de cœur pour ses cuisinières, femmes éloignées de l’emploi, immigrées avec un vrai talent culinaire. Son métissage qui a construit son rapport à l’altérité et son envie d’aller vers l’étranger. Elle nous explique aussi sa quête de sens dans sa vie professionnelle qui l’a mené à créer Mam’Ayoka, son sentiment d’être en train de réaliser l’ Œuvre au sens noble et artisanale du terme. A cause d’un petit problème technique, le qualité du son n’est pas toujours optimale. Je me suis réenregistrée pour reposer certaines questions ce qui donne un patchwork assez sympathique. J’espère que ça ne vous empêchera pas de vous laisser bercer par la voix de Sophie. Références - Site de Mam’Ayoka : https://mamayoka.fr - Reportage télé de Partage Social Club sur Mam’Ayoka : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7J5iG7SETc - Restaurant « Un Monde Gourmand » : Restaurant solidaire situé à Paris dans le IIème arrondissement fondé par https://www.mondegourmand.com - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) : Créé pendant la révolution française, en 1794, le CNAM donne principalement aujourd’hui des cours du soir pour les personnes engagées dans la vie active. Le CNAM a des centres partout en France. - Equoevento : Association à but non lucratif, créée en décembre 2013 à Rome par quatre jeunes professionnels qui, se rendant compte de l’énorme gaspillage alimentaire causé par les événements (Mariages, Diners de Gala, congrès..) ont voulu s’organiser pour y remédier. - Les investisseurs solidaires sont des investisseurs qui mettent au même niveau la rentabilité et la pérennité économiques du projet que l’impact social qui en découle. Exemple : Groupe SOS Pulse (anciennement Comptoir de l’Innovation). - Test du RIASEC : théorie sur les carrières et les choix vocationnels qui s'appuie sur les types psychologiques. Il identifie 6 types de personnalités dans le milieu professionnel. - Responsabilité Sociale de l’Entreprise (RSE) : concept dans lequel les entreprises intègrent les préoccupations sociales, environnementales, et économiques dans leurs activités et dans leurs interactions avec leurs parties prenantes sur une base volontaire. - Développement durable : Notion créée en 1987 avec le rapport Brundtland, qui le définit ainsi : Le développement durable est un développement qui répond aux besoins du présent sans compromettre la capacité des générations futures de répondre aux leurs. Deux concepts sont inhérents à cette notion : le concept de « besoins », et plus particulièrement des besoins essentiels des plus démunis, à qui il convient d'accorder la plus grande priorité, et l'idée des limitations que l'état de nos techniques et de notre organisation sociale impose sur la capacité de l'environnement à répondre aux besoins actuels et à venir.

What does "sustainability" mean? Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland is famous for serving three terms as the Prime Minister of Norway and chairing the World Commission on Environment and Development -- the Brundtland Commission -- which defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." In this episode we discuss Dr. Brundtland's autobiography, Madam Prime Minister, her life and accomplishments, and her contribution to our modern understanding of sustainability. (Dr. Brundtland at a conference in 2014 (image by Luiz Munhoz)) Want more podcast episodes? You can find them all on our podcast page, or you can subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. #### **ABOUT THIS EPISODE** Related links: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future (1987) Madam Prime Minister - autobiography by Gro Harlem Brundtland (2002) Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology Interviewee: Liz Laudadio Producer/Host: Miriam Krause Music: Ketsa

Le Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles, campus de Gaspé, obtient le premier niveau de certification Établissement vert Brundtland. Nelson Sergerie reçoit la responsable du comité vert, Lise Chartrand, et une étudiante, Ann-Sophie Boily.

The fourteenth episode of VARVET INTERNATIONAL contains: Norwegian electronic music duo Røyksopp – Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge – on Robyn in Paris, the promotion tour, being a Brundtland, how to craft a sound, Tromsø, software, money, Swedish pop culture, media shyness, sacrifice for music, sleeping in the mountains, video games, and being skilled musicians. VARVET INTERNATIONAL is sponsored by Stutterheim.com. Host: Kristoffer Triumf. Producer: Christina Jeurling Birro. Editor: Lovisa Ohlson. Theme song producer: Maria Marcus. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The term sustainability and phrase sustainable development were popularised with the publication of Our Common Future, a report released by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987. Also known as the Brundlandt report, it introduced the widely quoted definition of sustainable development: -development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs-. The report argued that economic development and social equity were necessary in order to protect the environmental and that the goals of economic well-being, equity and environmental protection could be reconciled if social and environmental considerations were systematically integrated into all decisions affecting the economy. Since the publication of the Brundtland report sustainable development has been widely accepted as a guiding principle, and yet the concept remains elusive and implementation has proven difficult. This is caused by the fact that economic development, social equity, and environmental protection are contradictory areas that are difficult to be reconciled. As a result the report is seen by many as a landmark in environmental politics and diplomacy while others decry it as a missed opportunity. In a newly published book entitled Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future. A History of the World Commission on Environment and Development Iris Borowy critically examines the history and impact of the Brundtland Commission. The book explores how the work of the Commission brought together contradictory expectations and world views in the concept of sustainable development as a way to reconcile these profound differences. This episode of Exploring Environmental History examines these contradictions as well as the historical context of sustainability with the author of Defining Sustainable Development, Iris Borowy. She is a researcher at the Institute of History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine of RWTH Aachen University, in Germany. Music credits: Where You Are Now by Zapac, Piano 8 by AT by Martijn de Boer (NiGiD), Life Isnt Everything by Hans Atom. All available from ccMixter

Martin Mulvihill, the Executive Director of Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, discusses the Center's efforts to build an academic program to advance green chemistry through interdisciplinary scholarship. He discussed his views of sustainability in chemistry. bcgc.berkeley.eduTranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 3: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and [00:00:30] technologists. Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Good afternoon. I'm Rick Karnofsky. Brad swift and I are co-hosting today's show today. We have on Martin Mulva Hill, the executive director of the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry. He'll talk to us about the center's efforts to build a novel academic program and how he views sustainability and chemistry. Marty Mulvihill, welcome to spectrum. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. I wanted [00:01:00] to have you talk about sustainability and then my take on things. Sustainability is fast becoming a cliche, so if you would spell out what you believe sustainability to be. Speaker 4: Yeah. Sustainability is a broad movement towards both dematerialization materialization and trans materialization, so looking at ways to use fewer resources to still meet the means of society such that future generations [00:01:30] can also meet their needs. That comes from the Brundtland report, which is the UN report, which back in 86 sort of defined sustainability. Sustainability includes a lot of different things, which is much broader than any one discipline and even any one interdisciplinary center can really take on, in my opinion, at the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, my background and my current position, we really focus on a narrow part of sustainability and that's the chemicals piece. How do we ensure [00:02:00] that at the molecular level, the things we're building, um, are more sustainable, I. E don't use more resources than necessary and are safe for human health and the environment. The overarching goal for the center, how would you characterize that? Speaker 4: And you're the executive director of the center now, right? That's correct. We have like many of the centers on campus, three main purposes. The first is education. So we're teaching [00:02:30] a number of graduate classes and are redoing the undergraduate laboratories in chemistry. So first and foremost, it's about bringing these concepts of sustainability and green chemistry to our students here at UC Berkeley. Secondarily, as a research institution, we're very interested in pushing the bounds of green chemistry. So making the new materials, working with people to make safer materials and understanding the broad consequences of chemicals within [00:03:00] our environment and business supply chains such that we have better and safer chemicals for consumer use. That's the research piece. And the third piece, because this is applied and a big topic is about engagement. So that's working with both local NGOs, the California government, as well as a local businesses to take a look at how do we, beyond the [00:03:30] walls of UC Berkeley, actually improve the chemical footprint, so to speak. Speaker 4: Can you give us an example of a sustainable versus an unsustainable chemical process? Yeah. I'll give you an example of something that we're working on right now. So we don't necessarily have the more sustainable substitute at hand. But in the wake of the recent oil spills, we were taking a close look at what was used, [00:04:00] what was the response? So first we have to characterize what are your options that are available? What are the technologies in the case that dispersants so something that's gonna take that oil slick and turn it into small globules are your only option either because of concerns about the environment or concerns about the human health, safety of the people cleaning up the oil spill. Sometimes these really are your best option. You dig down another level and you talk to the folks in a toxicology [00:04:30] and you find out that the dispersants we use actually break down more slowly than the oil itself. Speaker 4: So if you're going to add something to an oil slick, it seems like what you'd want is something that breaks down at least as fast as the oil you're trying to get rid of. So again, we talked to our colleagues and we're characterizing this issue. So as chemists, we can think about how can we make something that breaks down more quickly. Additionally, you talked to your, our colleagues that have worked out in the Gulf and characterize [00:05:00] the biological communities that actually break down this oil, found that there are a couple of strains of bacteria that are primarily responsible for that and one of those strains of bacteria is adversely effected by the most commonly used oil dispersant. That's a problem. Again, if you want to clean up oil and sometimes it's absolutely necessary to disperse it, you want to make sure that the things that are naturally going to break it down aren't going to be harmed by the thing you're using to disperse it. Speaker 4: So [00:05:30] with those design parameters in mind, the center is now seeking to create an oil dispersant that breaks down as quickly or more quickly than awhile and is not toxic hopefully to any aquatic life, but especially not to the aquatic life that's going to be primarily responsible for breaking down the dispersant in the oil that we're getting rid of in the first place. So it's a way of, in the past, you would have chemists just to create a molecule that effectively disperses [00:06:00] oil. Absolutely good goal. But it wasn't until other people took a look at what they created that you started understanding the environmental fate and the toxicology of these things. Now we have the knowledge upfront, so I'm working with graduate students in toxicology and in chemistry to characterize this solution from beginning to end before we even claim that this is something we can be used out in the environs Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:06:30] you you're listening to spectrum on KALX we are speaking with Martin Mulvihill, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry. Speaker 4: The the key thing to getting the center off the ground was getting buy in from college chemistry, the School of Public Health, college in natural resources, Haas School of business and the College of Engineering. So getting all [00:07:00] of those folks at the table was actually probably the biggest challenge. The center is so far met because you find that as the disciplines become, you know, more and more focused and more and more advanced, their ability to communicate actually has lost a little bit. So understanding that a chemist doesn't advance in his field without making new products, while at the same time a environmental scientist has a hard time advancing in his or her field if they don't actually [00:07:30] characterize problems. Chemists don't like to hear about problems. Environmental scientists don't necessarily like to hear about the millions of new chemicals we want to make. So those discussions are aren't necessarily, it's easier as natural as we'd want them to be, but we're breaking those barriers down at Berkeley and the people who break them down the most are actually the students because they aren't indoctrinated in one way of thought yet. So they naturally see the connection between making a capital goal and understanding where [00:08:00] it goes. It's really the people who have been trained for the longest have the hardest time breaking down those boundaries. So a bit of a generational issue. Yeah, absolutely. We view a generational shift in the way that we can see of making and distributing chemicals and materials in our society. Speaker 4: And what about the regulatory environment? I know the European Union is very aggressive and the EPA has somewhat, [00:08:30] California's always been very aggressive. How does that play in this with the industry and their costs and how they want to go forward? Yeah, the regulatory question is a very important one and is actually in some ways where you see Berkeley. Got It start. So since 2006 the folks in public health, especially Mike Wilson makes Schwartzman, they were both working actively with California legislation in this area and continue to work [00:09:00] actively in this area. The regulatory piece, at least the way we see it is all about providing more information, more information to the marketplace and also more information to the consumer. So when you look at things like the reach initiative in the European Union, what is really asking for is information. If you produce chemicals at certain scales, you have to, as the scales increased, provide more and more information. Speaker 4: The next step is going to be how do [00:09:30] we figure out what to do with that information. And it is regulation that can create economic barriers or incentives to adoption of safer chemicals. So the California Green Chemistry initiative is still in the phase of deciding what information we're going to ask for. And then how are we going to promote changes to safer chemicals. Those discussions involve both industry folks, academic folks and NGO folks. They're happening in [00:10:00] real time, so there are certainly differences of opinion there, but we are intering a phase of global chemical production where more information is going to become necessary and consumers, governments and other folks are going to start asking for products that perform better environmentally is an international standard, something that's conceivable and possible because what seems to happen is that developing countries create strict standards [00:10:30] and then the companies just dump in the non developed world or company places where they don't have any sort of regulatory framework. Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly from a my viewpoint international action is certain is necessary because if you have different sets of economic and environmental drivers in different places, it's easy to game the system. I mean we do have a, a global chemical manufacturing [00:11:00] system. It's already global so they can easily move things from one place to another. I think that it's in the best interest of all of us in the end, all of the stakeholders, both individual consumers as well as the companies and the governments to do some coordination, um, coordination of international policies, very tough. You sometimes run the risk of being pushed to the lowest common denominator. I think that's the danger [00:11:30] of going that route. The first step. And what I would like to see globally is at least some standard information requirements. So taking a look at what do you have to test for chemicals produced at what levels based on where you're selling them. So you might be producing them somewhere else and you have to worry about all those, uh, waste products and how they're being dealt with. But at least if you have a standard [00:12:00] for a global standard for what information you have to test in order to sell, it does, you know, good to produce a chemical somewhere that you can then sell back into the developed world. Speaker 5: Talk a little bit about your research in nanotechnology. Speaker 4: Yeah. So, um, I've actually been at Berkeley Awhile and my research as a graduate student was in nanotechnology, making [inaudible] new materials, mostly inorganic materials [00:12:30] that had some application for either the energy space or environmental sensing space. So I was able to create a sensor for arsenic in groundwater. That was actually the project that got me excited about this more interdisciplinary approach to science and technology. After that, I did research on the fate of nanoparticles in the environment. So I went up to the national labs, um, Berkeley national labs right up the hill behind campus [00:13:00] and did a year long postdoc in environmental science and material science characterizing the fate of Nano materials in the environment. Because as we create all these new materials, it's important to take a life cycle approach, right? Understand both how as a chemist I can get the function that I want out of a new material, but also make sure that the end of life isn't going to create unfortunate undesirable harms. So that's an exciting area of my own research [00:13:30] where now that I have a better sense of the life cycle of nanomaterials. We're trying to apply some of that too. Water purification technology, so I still work with a show Gad go who's in environmental engineering and e t d at the labs trying to create new, a safer, I'm sorbent for mineral contamination and groundwater so get rid of things like arsenic or excess fluoride. Speaker 5: Nanoscience then could [00:14:00] also have this kind of sustainability issue and push in. It's Speaker 4: growing cause this, this is a brand new science. It's, yeah, I think nanoscience is a great case study. Take a look at Green Chemistry and nanoscience side by side. They actually started around the same time and they have a lot of the same goals. The goal of nanoscience really is to do more with less, right? Let's take small materials that are well-engineered [00:14:30] to more efficiently produce energy. I mean you look at what Nano technologies being used for. It's a lot of, it looks like the same things that green chemistry is trying to do and in fact folks are also it already looking at the end of life issues around nanomaterials. I think it's a perfect example of how greater awareness, greater awareness from the funding agencies is actually taking a more proactive approach to new chemical materials, Nano materials [00:15:00] being a large class of the new materials that we're producing. So you already have large centers throughout the country that are taking a look at what are the environmental implications of nanomaterials, what are the toxicological fates of new nano materials? It's actually a place where I think we're ahead of the historical curve. Are there still concerns and unknown knowns about nanomaterials? Absolutely. Are nanomaterials making it into consumer products? Yeah, they're just beginning to, [00:15:30] I don't think they represent a clear and present danger that's larger than any of the other chemicals that we're using. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 4: you're listening to spectrum on KLM Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 4: one exciting thing I'd just plug is that this May, we're going to be having our second conference here on campus. So last March was [00:16:00] our first kind of big open public conference and brought in people representing all of these backgrounds. And we're going to do that again, this May. So take a look at our website, it's going to be on May 3rd here on campus. So you know if you're interested in being involved, always send me an email. We have lots of opportunities. Take a look at our classes and consider coming to our conference in May. And the conference is open to the students and community. Absolutely, absolutely. [00:16:30] Great. And what's the website? The website is BC gc.berkeley.edu so Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, BC GC. Good. See you there. Excellent. Marty Mulvihill thanks very much for coming on spectrum. Thank you very much. Speaker 2: Pleasure. [inaudible] Speaker 6: [00:17:00] irregular feature of spectrum is a calendar that highlight some of the science and technology events happening in the bay area over the next two weeks. The Audubon society is hosting a winter bird count tomorrow, Saturday, January 28th this is a free event open to families of all ages and sizes. Naturalists will lead a bird walk around lake merit to discover and [00:17:30] count wintered bird species such as ducks cormorants inheritance. Meet at the lake 600 Bellevue Avenue in Oakland. Dress warmly bring binoculars and field guides if you have them, but binoculars will be available to borrow. Bring water into lunch. Please RSVP with the Golden Gate Autobon g g a s education@gmail.com or (510) 508-1388 or [00:18:00] also visit www.andgoldengateaudubon.org for more information. Speaker 1: Registration is open for she's Geeky Bay area. This event runs January 27th 28th and 29th at the Computer History Museum in mountain view. She's Kiki hosts on conferences across the U s providing a unique environment for women working in technology and other geeky fields including science, engineering and math. To learn from one another. Grow networks, [00:18:30] connect across generations and discuss issues. Women attending. She's Geeky events. Find inspiration and gain self confidence to pursue or continue on stem career paths because they are given the opportunity to present their work often for the first time. Discuss critical issues and build peer networks for support. Visit www dot [inaudible] dot org for more information Speaker 5: producing natural gas from shale opportunities and challenges of a major new energy source. Mark Zoback is the Benjamin M. Page [00:19:00] professor of geophysics at Stanford University. Mark Conducts Research on institute stress, fault mechanics and reservoir geomechanics. He currently serves on the National Academy of Energy Committee investigating the deep water horizon accident and the secretary of Energy's committee on Shale gas development and environmental protection. His presentation is Monday, January 30th at 4:15 PM on the Stanford University campus whining science center [00:19:30] and Video Auditorium. It is free and open to the public conversations at the Herbst, the power of gaming on a planetary basis. We spend 3 billion hours a week playing video games. That's a lot of time enough to change our lives and probably save the world. The real world while we're at it, author of reality is broken, why games make us better and how they can change the world. Dr Jane mcgonigal discusses her belief [00:20:00] that video games can be a positive platform for exploration and problem solving in our lives and for our planet. In conversation with Ryan Wyatt, director of the Morrison Planetarium, Tuesday, January 31st at 8:00 PM at the herps theatre four oh one Venice avenue in San Francisco, tickets start at $22 Speaker 6: February's free. Leonardo art center, evening rendezvous or laser will be on the first at Sanford [00:20:30] universities. PGO Hall Room one 13 networking begins at six 45 and a talk starts at seven here from artists, Daniel Small and Luca and two Nucci on firstlight, their art based on the Hubble ultra deep field imaging systems portrait of the visible universe that reveals the first light from 13.5 billion years ago. Architect and photo person will present city of the future as of 2008 over 80% [00:21:00] of land of the world that is suitable for raising crops is in use. Where will we find farmland we need? By 2040 80% of the world's population will reside in urban centers pushing out into the neighboring agricultural land. How will we feed ourselves form a NASA scientists. San Gill will talk about collaborative intelligence and how evolution and natural systems can inform social problem solving. Then I will conclude with artists, Phil Ross, his presentation [00:21:30] on micro architecture. Fungi can be used to transform agricultural waste into durable and low impact materials at room temperature. The future is moldy in this presentation, Phil will describe as research on growing a building out of living fungus. For more about the laser series, browse www.leonardo.info Speaker 5: the February science cafe presents exploding and brains mice [00:22:00] who love cat piss and people who eat too much cake. The hidden ways that microbes manipulate animal behavior. All animals live in close contact with micro organisms of all sorts. These micro organisms depend on animals for food, shelter, places to reproduce, et cetera. These microbes lives are thus affected by ways in which the animal behaves in. Many of these microbes have evolved ways to ensure that their hosts behave in ways that are good for them, often at the [00:22:30] expense of the animals. Dr. Michael Isen, we'll talk about new work from his lab and elsewhere. Looking at a variety of different ways in which micro organisms use chemical signals and targeted disruptions of cells in the nervous system to alter animal behavior. He will also touch on the ongoing battles over public access to the scientific literature. Michael Isen is an evolutionary biologist at UC Berkeley and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Science cafe happens Wednesday, [00:23:00] February 1st at 7:00 PM in the La Pena Cultural Center, 31 oh five Shattuck avenue in Berkeley.Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: you're listening to spectrum Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: and now for some science news headlines. Here's Brad swift Speaker 5: diesel truck emissions in Oakland fall sharply in January, 2010 [00:23:30] the California Air Resources Board banned all 1993 and older drayage trucks from ports and rail yards statewide. They also ordered trucks built within the years 1994 to 2006 to particle filters by the end of the year 2011 in a paper recently published in environmental science and technology. You see Berkeley Professor Robert Harley and coauthors Tim Dolman and Tom Cush [00:24:00] stutter described the process and the results of their monitoring truck exhaust at a section of highway near the port of Oakland and the Oakland rail yards. They compare data they collected from November, 2009 before the ban with data they collected from the same Oakland site in 2010 after the ban, the comparison found black smoke emissions were reduced by about half and the nitrogen oxide emissions dropped by 40% Harley [00:24:30] and his researchers will return to this section of highway several more times over the next two years. As the remaining 2004 to 2006 truck engines are retrofitted with filters, they expect to study in greater depth the properties of emitted particulate matter. They will also examine more closely the chemical composition of the nitrogen oxide emissions to determine the split between nitric oxide and the nitrogen dioxide. [00:25:00] This diesel emissions control program will go statewide to all trucks over the next several years, including trucks from out of state, Speaker 6: neuro psychopharmacologist, David Nutt and colleagues at the Imperial College. London wrote an article that was published in the January 23rd of the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on how hallucinogens such as magic mushrooms work in the human brain. 15 people with previous history of psychedelic usage were injected with a small amount of psilocybin. [00:25:30] This caused an immediate reaction that peaked within minutes and lasted for about an hour. This differed from those injected with Saltwater Placebo functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scans before and after administration showed decreased blood flow activity through some regions of the brain. The result was found again with a new batch of 15 volunteers and through a different brain scan methodology that showed lower blood oxygenation in the brain. Specific areas [00:26:00] affected included the posterior cingulate cortex and medial prefrontal cortex. Science news reports that Brian Roth of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill who was not involved with the study remarked that they had the complete opposite of what had been predicted. They differ from earlier studies that use positron emission tomography. This work hearkens back to an earlier headline we ran on spectrum that reported that some hallucinogen and phenomena such as synesthesia [00:26:30] may arise from a relaxing of some of the brain's filters. It may also help find drugs or derivatives to be used in the treatment of depression, cluster headaches, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other conditions that linked to too much brain Speaker 5: activity. For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis among [00:27:00] other nervous system diseases. James Hickman at University of central Florida, bioengineer and leader of the research group says we're very excited about where this could lead because it overcomes many of the obstacles present with embryonic stem cells. The main challenge in working with stem cells is figuring out the chemical or other triggers that will convince them to convert into a desired cell type. Had Devika Davis, a postdoctoral researcher in Hickman's lab, [00:27:30] was able to transform umbilical stem cells into oligodendrocytes critical structural cells that insulate nerves in the brain and the spinal cord. There are two main options the group hopes to pursue through further research. The first is that the cells could be injected into the body at the point of a spinal cord injury to promote repair. The other possibility for the Hickman team's work relates to multiple sclerosis [00:28:00] and similar nervous system diseases. Speaker 2: [inaudible] music you heard today was from Lozan and David Sofer. These album Croak and acoustic. It is released under the creative Commons attribution license version 3.0 [inaudible] [00:28:30] spectrum was recorded and edited, and by me, Rick Karnofsky and by Brad swift and Mark Taylor, thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear from this. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k a l x@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. [00:29:00] [inaudible] [00:29:30] [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martin Mulvihill, the Executive Director of Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, discusses the Center’s efforts to build an academic program to advance green chemistry through interdisciplinary scholarship. He discussed his views of sustainability in chemistry. bcgc.berkeley.eduTranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 3: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and [00:00:30] technologists. Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Good afternoon. I'm Rick Karnofsky. Brad swift and I are co-hosting today's show today. We have on Martin Mulva Hill, the executive director of the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry. He'll talk to us about the center's efforts to build a novel academic program and how he views sustainability and chemistry. Marty Mulvihill, welcome to spectrum. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. I wanted [00:01:00] to have you talk about sustainability and then my take on things. Sustainability is fast becoming a cliche, so if you would spell out what you believe sustainability to be. Speaker 4: Yeah. Sustainability is a broad movement towards both dematerialization materialization and trans materialization, so looking at ways to use fewer resources to still meet the means of society such that future generations [00:01:30] can also meet their needs. That comes from the Brundtland report, which is the UN report, which back in 86 sort of defined sustainability. Sustainability includes a lot of different things, which is much broader than any one discipline and even any one interdisciplinary center can really take on, in my opinion, at the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, my background and my current position, we really focus on a narrow part of sustainability and that's the chemicals piece. How do we ensure [00:02:00] that at the molecular level, the things we're building, um, are more sustainable, I. E don't use more resources than necessary and are safe for human health and the environment. The overarching goal for the center, how would you characterize that? Speaker 4: And you're the executive director of the center now, right? That's correct. We have like many of the centers on campus, three main purposes. The first is education. So we're teaching [00:02:30] a number of graduate classes and are redoing the undergraduate laboratories in chemistry. So first and foremost, it's about bringing these concepts of sustainability and green chemistry to our students here at UC Berkeley. Secondarily, as a research institution, we're very interested in pushing the bounds of green chemistry. So making the new materials, working with people to make safer materials and understanding the broad consequences of chemicals within [00:03:00] our environment and business supply chains such that we have better and safer chemicals for consumer use. That's the research piece. And the third piece, because this is applied and a big topic is about engagement. So that's working with both local NGOs, the California government, as well as a local businesses to take a look at how do we, beyond the [00:03:30] walls of UC Berkeley, actually improve the chemical footprint, so to speak. Speaker 4: Can you give us an example of a sustainable versus an unsustainable chemical process? Yeah. I'll give you an example of something that we're working on right now. So we don't necessarily have the more sustainable substitute at hand. But in the wake of the recent oil spills, we were taking a close look at what was used, [00:04:00] what was the response? So first we have to characterize what are your options that are available? What are the technologies in the case that dispersants so something that's gonna take that oil slick and turn it into small globules are your only option either because of concerns about the environment or concerns about the human health, safety of the people cleaning up the oil spill. Sometimes these really are your best option. You dig down another level and you talk to the folks in a toxicology [00:04:30] and you find out that the dispersants we use actually break down more slowly than the oil itself. Speaker 4: So if you're going to add something to an oil slick, it seems like what you'd want is something that breaks down at least as fast as the oil you're trying to get rid of. So again, we talked to our colleagues and we're characterizing this issue. So as chemists, we can think about how can we make something that breaks down more quickly. Additionally, you talked to your, our colleagues that have worked out in the Gulf and characterize [00:05:00] the biological communities that actually break down this oil, found that there are a couple of strains of bacteria that are primarily responsible for that and one of those strains of bacteria is adversely effected by the most commonly used oil dispersant. That's a problem. Again, if you want to clean up oil and sometimes it's absolutely necessary to disperse it, you want to make sure that the things that are naturally going to break it down aren't going to be harmed by the thing you're using to disperse it. Speaker 4: So [00:05:30] with those design parameters in mind, the center is now seeking to create an oil dispersant that breaks down as quickly or more quickly than awhile and is not toxic hopefully to any aquatic life, but especially not to the aquatic life that's going to be primarily responsible for breaking down the dispersant in the oil that we're getting rid of in the first place. So it's a way of, in the past, you would have chemists just to create a molecule that effectively disperses [00:06:00] oil. Absolutely good goal. But it wasn't until other people took a look at what they created that you started understanding the environmental fate and the toxicology of these things. Now we have the knowledge upfront, so I'm working with graduate students in toxicology and in chemistry to characterize this solution from beginning to end before we even claim that this is something we can be used out in the environs Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:06:30] you you're listening to spectrum on KALX we are speaking with Martin Mulvihill, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry. Speaker 4: The the key thing to getting the center off the ground was getting buy in from college chemistry, the School of Public Health, college in natural resources, Haas School of business and the College of Engineering. So getting all [00:07:00] of those folks at the table was actually probably the biggest challenge. The center is so far met because you find that as the disciplines become, you know, more and more focused and more and more advanced, their ability to communicate actually has lost a little bit. So understanding that a chemist doesn't advance in his field without making new products, while at the same time a environmental scientist has a hard time advancing in his or her field if they don't actually [00:07:30] characterize problems. Chemists don't like to hear about problems. Environmental scientists don't necessarily like to hear about the millions of new chemicals we want to make. So those discussions are aren't necessarily, it's easier as natural as we'd want them to be, but we're breaking those barriers down at Berkeley and the people who break them down the most are actually the students because they aren't indoctrinated in one way of thought yet. So they naturally see the connection between making a capital goal and understanding where [00:08:00] it goes. It's really the people who have been trained for the longest have the hardest time breaking down those boundaries. So a bit of a generational issue. Yeah, absolutely. We view a generational shift in the way that we can see of making and distributing chemicals and materials in our society. Speaker 4: And what about the regulatory environment? I know the European Union is very aggressive and the EPA has somewhat, [00:08:30] California's always been very aggressive. How does that play in this with the industry and their costs and how they want to go forward? Yeah, the regulatory question is a very important one and is actually in some ways where you see Berkeley. Got It start. So since 2006 the folks in public health, especially Mike Wilson makes Schwartzman, they were both working actively with California legislation in this area and continue to work [00:09:00] actively in this area. The regulatory piece, at least the way we see it is all about providing more information, more information to the marketplace and also more information to the consumer. So when you look at things like the reach initiative in the European Union, what is really asking for is information. If you produce chemicals at certain scales, you have to, as the scales increased, provide more and more information. Speaker 4: The next step is going to be how do [00:09:30] we figure out what to do with that information. And it is regulation that can create economic barriers or incentives to adoption of safer chemicals. So the California Green Chemistry initiative is still in the phase of deciding what information we're going to ask for. And then how are we going to promote changes to safer chemicals. Those discussions involve both industry folks, academic folks and NGO folks. They're happening in [00:10:00] real time, so there are certainly differences of opinion there, but we are intering a phase of global chemical production where more information is going to become necessary and consumers, governments and other folks are going to start asking for products that perform better environmentally is an international standard, something that's conceivable and possible because what seems to happen is that developing countries create strict standards [00:10:30] and then the companies just dump in the non developed world or company places where they don't have any sort of regulatory framework. Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly from a my viewpoint international action is certain is necessary because if you have different sets of economic and environmental drivers in different places, it's easy to game the system. I mean we do have a, a global chemical manufacturing [00:11:00] system. It's already global so they can easily move things from one place to another. I think that it's in the best interest of all of us in the end, all of the stakeholders, both individual consumers as well as the companies and the governments to do some coordination, um, coordination of international policies, very tough. You sometimes run the risk of being pushed to the lowest common denominator. I think that's the danger [00:11:30] of going that route. The first step. And what I would like to see globally is at least some standard information requirements. So taking a look at what do you have to test for chemicals produced at what levels based on where you're selling them. So you might be producing them somewhere else and you have to worry about all those, uh, waste products and how they're being dealt with. But at least if you have a standard [00:12:00] for a global standard for what information you have to test in order to sell, it does, you know, good to produce a chemical somewhere that you can then sell back into the developed world. Speaker 5: Talk a little bit about your research in nanotechnology. Speaker 4: Yeah. So, um, I've actually been at Berkeley Awhile and my research as a graduate student was in nanotechnology, making [inaudible] new materials, mostly inorganic materials [00:12:30] that had some application for either the energy space or environmental sensing space. So I was able to create a sensor for arsenic in groundwater. That was actually the project that got me excited about this more interdisciplinary approach to science and technology. After that, I did research on the fate of nanoparticles in the environment. So I went up to the national labs, um, Berkeley national labs right up the hill behind campus [00:13:00] and did a year long postdoc in environmental science and material science characterizing the fate of Nano materials in the environment. Because as we create all these new materials, it's important to take a life cycle approach, right? Understand both how as a chemist I can get the function that I want out of a new material, but also make sure that the end of life isn't going to create unfortunate undesirable harms. So that's an exciting area of my own research [00:13:30] where now that I have a better sense of the life cycle of nanomaterials. We're trying to apply some of that too. Water purification technology, so I still work with a show Gad go who's in environmental engineering and e t d at the labs trying to create new, a safer, I'm sorbent for mineral contamination and groundwater so get rid of things like arsenic or excess fluoride. Speaker 5: Nanoscience then could [00:14:00] also have this kind of sustainability issue and push in. It's Speaker 4: growing cause this, this is a brand new science. It's, yeah, I think nanoscience is a great case study. Take a look at Green Chemistry and nanoscience side by side. They actually started around the same time and they have a lot of the same goals. The goal of nanoscience really is to do more with less, right? Let's take small materials that are well-engineered [00:14:30] to more efficiently produce energy. I mean you look at what Nano technologies being used for. It's a lot of, it looks like the same things that green chemistry is trying to do and in fact folks are also it already looking at the end of life issues around nanomaterials. I think it's a perfect example of how greater awareness, greater awareness from the funding agencies is actually taking a more proactive approach to new chemical materials, Nano materials [00:15:00] being a large class of the new materials that we're producing. So you already have large centers throughout the country that are taking a look at what are the environmental implications of nanomaterials, what are the toxicological fates of new nano materials? It's actually a place where I think we're ahead of the historical curve. Are there still concerns and unknown knowns about nanomaterials? Absolutely. Are nanomaterials making it into consumer products? Yeah, they're just beginning to, [00:15:30] I don't think they represent a clear and present danger that's larger than any of the other chemicals that we're using. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 4: you're listening to spectrum on KLM Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 4: one exciting thing I'd just plug is that this May, we're going to be having our second conference here on campus. So last March was [00:16:00] our first kind of big open public conference and brought in people representing all of these backgrounds. And we're going to do that again, this May. So take a look at our website, it's going to be on May 3rd here on campus. So you know if you're interested in being involved, always send me an email. We have lots of opportunities. Take a look at our classes and consider coming to our conference in May. And the conference is open to the students and community. Absolutely, absolutely. [00:16:30] Great. And what's the website? The website is BC gc.berkeley.edu so Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, BC GC. Good. See you there. Excellent. Marty Mulvihill thanks very much for coming on spectrum. Thank you very much. Speaker 2: Pleasure. [inaudible] Speaker 6: [00:17:00] irregular feature of spectrum is a calendar that highlight some of the science and technology events happening in the bay area over the next two weeks. The Audubon society is hosting a winter bird count tomorrow, Saturday, January 28th this is a free event open to families of all ages and sizes. Naturalists will lead a bird walk around lake merit to discover and [00:17:30] count wintered bird species such as ducks cormorants inheritance. Meet at the lake 600 Bellevue Avenue in Oakland. Dress warmly bring binoculars and field guides if you have them, but binoculars will be available to borrow. Bring water into lunch. Please RSVP with the Golden Gate Autobon g g a s education@gmail.com or (510) 508-1388 or [00:18:00] also visit www.andgoldengateaudubon.org for more information. Speaker 1: Registration is open for she's Geeky Bay area. This event runs January 27th 28th and 29th at the Computer History Museum in mountain view. She's Kiki hosts on conferences across the U s providing a unique environment for women working in technology and other geeky fields including science, engineering and math. To learn from one another. Grow networks, [00:18:30] connect across generations and discuss issues. Women attending. She's Geeky events. Find inspiration and gain self confidence to pursue or continue on stem career paths because they are given the opportunity to present their work often for the first time. Discuss critical issues and build peer networks for support. Visit www dot [inaudible] dot org for more information Speaker 5: producing natural gas from shale opportunities and challenges of a major new energy source. Mark Zoback is the Benjamin M. Page [00:19:00] professor of geophysics at Stanford University. Mark Conducts Research on institute stress, fault mechanics and reservoir geomechanics. He currently serves on the National Academy of Energy Committee investigating the deep water horizon accident and the secretary of Energy's committee on Shale gas development and environmental protection. His presentation is Monday, January 30th at 4:15 PM on the Stanford University campus whining science center [00:19:30] and Video Auditorium. It is free and open to the public conversations at the Herbst, the power of gaming on a planetary basis. We spend 3 billion hours a week playing video games. That's a lot of time enough to change our lives and probably save the world. The real world while we're at it, author of reality is broken, why games make us better and how they can change the world. Dr Jane mcgonigal discusses her belief [00:20:00] that video games can be a positive platform for exploration and problem solving in our lives and for our planet. In conversation with Ryan Wyatt, director of the Morrison Planetarium, Tuesday, January 31st at 8:00 PM at the herps theatre four oh one Venice avenue in San Francisco, tickets start at $22 Speaker 6: February's free. Leonardo art center, evening rendezvous or laser will be on the first at Sanford [00:20:30] universities. PGO Hall Room one 13 networking begins at six 45 and a talk starts at seven here from artists, Daniel Small and Luca and two Nucci on firstlight, their art based on the Hubble ultra deep field imaging systems portrait of the visible universe that reveals the first light from 13.5 billion years ago. Architect and photo person will present city of the future as of 2008 over 80% [00:21:00] of land of the world that is suitable for raising crops is in use. Where will we find farmland we need? By 2040 80% of the world's population will reside in urban centers pushing out into the neighboring agricultural land. How will we feed ourselves form a NASA scientists. San Gill will talk about collaborative intelligence and how evolution and natural systems can inform social problem solving. Then I will conclude with artists, Phil Ross, his presentation [00:21:30] on micro architecture. Fungi can be used to transform agricultural waste into durable and low impact materials at room temperature. The future is moldy in this presentation, Phil will describe as research on growing a building out of living fungus. For more about the laser series, browse www.leonardo.info Speaker 5: the February science cafe presents exploding and brains mice [00:22:00] who love cat piss and people who eat too much cake. The hidden ways that microbes manipulate animal behavior. All animals live in close contact with micro organisms of all sorts. These micro organisms depend on animals for food, shelter, places to reproduce, et cetera. These microbes lives are thus affected by ways in which the animal behaves in. Many of these microbes have evolved ways to ensure that their hosts behave in ways that are good for them, often at the [00:22:30] expense of the animals. Dr. Michael Isen, we'll talk about new work from his lab and elsewhere. Looking at a variety of different ways in which micro organisms use chemical signals and targeted disruptions of cells in the nervous system to alter animal behavior. He will also touch on the ongoing battles over public access to the scientific literature. Michael Isen is an evolutionary biologist at UC Berkeley and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Science cafe happens Wednesday, [00:23:00] February 1st at 7:00 PM in the La Pena Cultural Center, 31 oh five Shattuck avenue in Berkeley.Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: you're listening to spectrum Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: and now for some science news headlines. Here's Brad swift Speaker 5: diesel truck emissions in Oakland fall sharply in January, 2010 [00:23:30] the California Air Resources Board banned all 1993 and older drayage trucks from ports and rail yards statewide. They also ordered trucks built within the years 1994 to 2006 to particle filters by the end of the year 2011 in a paper recently published in environmental science and technology. You see Berkeley Professor Robert Harley and coauthors Tim Dolman and Tom Cush [00:24:00] stutter described the process and the results of their monitoring truck exhaust at a section of highway near the port of Oakland and the Oakland rail yards. They compare data they collected from November, 2009 before the ban with data they collected from the same Oakland site in 2010 after the ban, the comparison found black smoke emissions were reduced by about half and the nitrogen oxide emissions dropped by 40% Harley [00:24:30] and his researchers will return to this section of highway several more times over the next two years. As the remaining 2004 to 2006 truck engines are retrofitted with filters, they expect to study in greater depth the properties of emitted particulate matter. They will also examine more closely the chemical composition of the nitrogen oxide emissions to determine the split between nitric oxide and the nitrogen dioxide. [00:25:00] This diesel emissions control program will go statewide to all trucks over the next several years, including trucks from out of state, Speaker 6: neuro psychopharmacologist, David Nutt and colleagues at the Imperial College. London wrote an article that was published in the January 23rd of the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on how hallucinogens such as magic mushrooms work in the human brain. 15 people with previous history of psychedelic usage were injected with a small amount of psilocybin. [00:25:30] This caused an immediate reaction that peaked within minutes and lasted for about an hour. This differed from those injected with Saltwater Placebo functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scans before and after administration showed decreased blood flow activity through some regions of the brain. The result was found again with a new batch of 15 volunteers and through a different brain scan methodology that showed lower blood oxygenation in the brain. Specific areas [00:26:00] affected included the posterior cingulate cortex and medial prefrontal cortex. Science news reports that Brian Roth of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill who was not involved with the study remarked that they had the complete opposite of what had been predicted. They differ from earlier studies that use positron emission tomography. This work hearkens back to an earlier headline we ran on spectrum that reported that some hallucinogen and phenomena such as synesthesia [00:26:30] may arise from a relaxing of some of the brain's filters. It may also help find drugs or derivatives to be used in the treatment of depression, cluster headaches, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other conditions that linked to too much brain Speaker 5: activity. For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis among [00:27:00] other nervous system diseases. James Hickman at University of central Florida, bioengineer and leader of the research group says we're very excited about where this could lead because it overcomes many of the obstacles present with embryonic stem cells. The main challenge in working with stem cells is figuring out the chemical or other triggers that will convince them to convert into a desired cell type. Had Devika Davis, a postdoctoral researcher in Hickman's lab, [00:27:30] was able to transform umbilical stem cells into oligodendrocytes critical structural cells that insulate nerves in the brain and the spinal cord. There are two main options the group hopes to pursue through further research. The first is that the cells could be injected into the body at the point of a spinal cord injury to promote repair. The other possibility for the Hickman team's work relates to multiple sclerosis [00:28:00] and similar nervous system diseases. Speaker 2: [inaudible] music you heard today was from Lozan and David Sofer. These album Croak and acoustic. It is released under the creative Commons attribution license version 3.0 [inaudible] [00:28:30] spectrum was recorded and edited, and by me, Rick Karnofsky and by Brad swift and Mark Taylor, thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear from this. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k a l x@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. [00:29:00] [inaudible] [00:29:30] [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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