Podcasts about Circular

What is circularity, and why does it matter? As we seek to manage the climate emergency, companies are being challenged to play their part in being more sustainable. Which is where the concept of circularity comes in. This is the idea, in the context of sustainability, that a product is created with its own end-of-life taken into account.In other words; businesses take responsibility, not just for producing an item, but for what happens after it reaches the end of its useful life. Whether that's an item of clothing that is no longer wearable or a bottle that contained a drink that we've finished. In a circular economy, once the user is finished with the product, it goes back into the supply chain instead of to a landfill.My guest on this episode is Chris Houghton. Many years ago, Chris and I worked together in financial services regulation. While I moved into the field of human risk, he's gone on to work for energy and consumer companies and is now an advocate for circularity, which forms the core of the business he runs.Chris is the CEO of Teemill; the world's first open-source closed-loop apparel manufacturer. You can find out more about them by visiting their website: www.teemill.comFor more on Circularity see: https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/topics/circular-economy-introduction/overviewIt's a company that has shifted away from much of the conventional logic that is deployed by the majority of the apparel industry. Most obviously, the idea of producing clothes speculatively in the hope of selling them, rather than only producing them on demand, but also the idea of taking end-to-end responsibility for what happens to the clothes after the customer is no longer using them.To connect with Chris on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-houghton-a28a408/To pre-order my new book ‘Humanizing Rules: Bringing Behavioural Science to Ethics & Compliance' visit https://www.human-risk.com/humanizing-rules-book

Ana Ortiz Ríos es CEO y Co-founder de Ligo, una app latinoamericana enfocada a la comunidad STEM (STEM por sus siglas en inglés: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Ligo es un ecosistema digital que trabaja como una plataforma conectando negocios y organizaciones con profesionales de estas disciplinas para proyectos de innovación y sustentabilidad.Las empresas pueden enviar su proyecto a LIGO, con el fin de que los apoyen en la identificación de diferentes aliados para realizarlo, dentro de las diferentes categorías que se manejan están: Biotecnología, Economía Circular, Energía, Medio Ambiente, Nanotecnología y Salud.Ana nació en Hong Kong, creció en China, Colombia, Perú, Francia y México. Desde siempre, supo que su vida estaría ligada a la ciencia, por lo que decide estudiar Ingeniería en el Tecnológico de Monterrey, para después hacer una especialidad en Desarrollo Sustentable. Inicia su carrera profesional ligada a empresas de energía como: S2G Energy y Bright Inc. Posteriormente se incorpora a APALA GROUP, firma de consultoría que se dedica a acelerar la transición a energías limpias y renovables.Recuerda que ahora puedes escuchar Cuentos Corporativos en vivo. Estamos en RADIOMEX los martes y jueves a las 8 pm de la CDMX.Síguenos en:www.cuentoscorporativos.com Newsletter. Escribe una ReseñaEncuesta Audiencia Nuestras redes sociales:Facebook Instagram. LinkedinTwitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carmen Tomás Estefanía Giraldo, una de las beneficiadas del Plan Circular del Banco Santander para apoyar a jóvenes estudiantes.

Dr. Constantine Campbell is the Professor and Associate Research Director at the Sydney College of Divinity, and also a jazz saxophonist and a visiting instructor at The Australian National University School of Music.You can find out more about his projects HEREFind his commentary on 1, 2, 3 John HEREContact Cyndi Parker through Narrative of Place.Learn more about me and sign up for upcoming tours of Israel/Palestine.Join Cyndi Parker's  Patreon Team! 

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 2/2: #HotelMars; Unexplained  non circular ring around a Trans-Neptunian ?" Bruno Morgado, Nature Magazine. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Observatory of Valongo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05629-6

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1/2: #HotelMars; Unexplained  non circular ring around a Trans-Neptunian ?" Bruno Morgado, Nature Magazine. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Observatory of Valongo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05629-6

Guy Swan joins us to talk about Nostr and “Nostr-Relays”. We go in-depth on the new social apps that are being built with bitcoin and how to get connected with them. We're then joined by Fernando of Bitcoin Beach Brazil and Lukas from Global BTC Fest to talk about how they're revolutionizing communities in Brazil by creating circular economies with bitcoin. Swan Private Team Members: Alex Stanczyk Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexstanczyk Sign up for Swan Private today: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/private/ "Buy, Learn and Earn" with the Swan Bitcoin Mobile App: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/app/ Hello and welcome to The Café Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. We're excited to announce we are bringing the The Café Bitcoin conversation from Twitter Spaces to you on this show, The Café Bitcoin Podcast, Monday - Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guest like Max Keiser, Lyn Alden, Tomer Strolight, Cory Klippsten and many others from the bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button to make sure you get the notifications when we launch an episode. Join us Monday - Friday 7pst/10est every Morning and become apart of the conversation! Thank you again and we look forward to giving you the best bitcoin content daily here on The Café Bitcoin Podcast. Swan Bitcoin is the best way to accumulate Bitcoin with automatic recurring buys and instant buys from $10 to $10 million. Get started in just 5 minutes. Your first $10 purchase is on us: https://swanbitcoin.com/yt Connect with Swan on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SwanBitcoin

Hablando de Sostenibilidad Corporativa - Juan José Tohá - LATAM Airlines"El planeta no puede esperar hasta el año 2040, las medidas de conservación del medio ambiente deben tomarse ahora, no hay más tiempo y las empresas deben asumir ese compromiso!" Nos comentaba nuestro invitado a esta inspiradora conversación sobre Sostenibilidad Juan José Tohá, destacando las iniciativas de Grupo LATAM en temas de Cambio Climático, Economía Circular y Valor Compartido. Definitivamente un episodio cargado de esperanza, impacto social y concientización! Como parte de la programación de contenidos del Movimiento Latino de Bienestar All4ness, conversamos con líderes empresariales y altos ejecutivos , sobre la importancia del bienestar corporativo como factor clave para el logro del éxito, de las personas, las empresas y la sociedad, enmarcado en el concepto de Empresa Saludable. Juan José Tohá, Director de Asuntos Corporativos del Grupo LATAM. Periodista con especialización en Sostenibilidad en la Universidad de Oxford, además de máster y doctor en Comunicación en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Posee amplia experiencia en el diseño e implementación de estrategias comunicacionales y relacionamiento de organizaciones con su entorno. Se ha desempeñado en la oficina regional para América Latina y el Caribe de la FAO, con sede en Santiago de Chile, además de desempeñar roles de gerente de Comunicaciones de Codelco y de BHP Sudamérica, entre otros. En 2019 se incorporó al grupo LATAM como Director de Asuntos Corporativos y Sostenibilidad, reportando directamente al CEO del grupo LATAM, y donde articula la estrategia corporativa de Asuntos Públicos, Comunicaciones Externas y Sostenibilidad. Desde hace años trabajan en la sostenibilidad y desarrollo de proyectos que les han dado grandes satisfacciones. Todas las acciones y decisiones de LATAM se basan en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la ONU, desde el lanzamiento de la agenda global en 2015, y responden a necesidades climáticas, sociales y de salud, entre otras.

We had an eventful week. Also, shopped on Saturday again. Not a bad day, it's been getting to the point where maybe the winter is not endless. Isabelle went to North Bay. I went to visit Jon at College. It's my Mom's birthday! We lost a friend this week.

On this episode, Ben Gibbons of Circular 11 joins me to share how their startup company is turning plastic waste into low-carbon building products that can outlast and outperform traditional building materials.  In the UK, 75% of plastic goes to waste, and a significant reason for this is the cross-polymer contamination that is an inseparable... The post Transforming Plastic Pollution into a Material Solution – Interview with Ben Gibbons of Circular 11 appeared first on Composites Weekly.

Both of these eponymous foods feature chocolate, but they also both feature some issues with timelines and attribution that need to be unraveled.  Research: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell. “The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History.” History Press. Charleston, S.C. 2009. Accessed online: https://archive.org/details/bakerchocolateco00samm/page/80/mode/2up “Celebrating Not-So-German Chocolate Cake.” NPR. All Things Considered. June 23, 2007. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11331541 Asher Edwards advertisement. Goldsboro Messenger. Nov. 18, 1878. https://www.newspapers.com/image/62317791/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 Pat's Steak House advertisement. The Welsh Citizen. October 12, 1951. https://www.newspapers.com/image/855431677/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 “This is the Youngland Look for Fall.” Lincoln Journal Star. July 19, 1959. https://www.newspapers.com/image/312770953/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 “A Tested Recipe.” Star Tribune. Dec. 2, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/image/180802997/?terms=%22German%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 “Miss Florence Davis Charms Family With German Chocolate Cake Recipe.” Denton Record-Chronicle. January 27, 1952. https://www.newspapers.com/image/36794004/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 “German Sweet Chocolate Cake.” The Guthrie Daily Leader. Feb. 3, 1957. https://www.newspapers.com/image/591933621/?clipping_id=79147909&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjU5MTkzMzYyMSwiaWF0IjoxNjczNjYzMDYxLCJleHAiOjE2NzM3NDk0NjF9.1-IZfz1ipCaYbFDzYrvI4l8vbgh-yruhCMNpjLUZVe4 “County Cook's Corner.” Taylor Daily Press. July 24, 1955. https://www.newspapers.com/image/52547082/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 Bode, Mary Jane. “Anything, Just So Long As It Is With Chocolate.” Austin American-Statesman. Sept 4, 1958. https://www.newspapers.com/image/356073125/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 Lundeen, Kay. “Buttermilk Mystery Solved.” The Eugene Guard. August 21, 1958. https://www.newspapers.com/image/140086242/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 “German Chocolate Cake.” Chickasha Daily Express. April 28, 1957. https://www.newspapers.com/image/591919201/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 Garrison, Eudora. “Here's That Chocolate Cake Again.” The Charlotte Observer. Oct. 10, 1958. https://www.newspapers.com/image/619939965/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 “Curried Chicken Asparagus Salad.” Cookin' With Daisy. Irving News Record. May 10, 1956. https://www.newspapers.com/image/44445870/?terms=%22Summer%20German%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 United States Copyright Office. “Works Not Protected by Copyright.” Circular 33. March 2021. https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf “History of Pecans.” Texas A&M. https://pecankernel.tamu.edu/history-of-pecans/ Dysard, Virginia. “German's Cake Sweeps Country.” Sept 1, 1958. https://www.newspapers.com/image/398144745/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 “German Sweet Chocolate Cake.” The Llano News. June 6, 1957. https://www.newspapers.com/image/11305935/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 Lacy, Mary. “Favorite Recipes – Jefferson County Variety.” Waurika News-Democrat. January 31, 1957. https://www.newspapers.com/image/590019658/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 Treaster, Hazel Hogan. “Home Tested Recipes.” Oklahoma City Advertiser. January 11, 1957. https://www.newspapers.com/image/594427114/?terms=%22German%27s%20Chocolate%20Cake%22&match=1 Byrn, Anne. “American Cake.” Rodale. 2016. Eschner, Kat. “Tootsie Rolls Were WWII Energy Bars.” Smithsonian. Feb. 23, 2017. Hirschfeld, Leo. “Process of making candy.” 1907. https://patents.google.com/patent/US903088 “Kills Himself in Hotel.” New York Times. January 14, 1922. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/01/14/109830963.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 Kawash, Samira. “Tootsie Roll Tragedy: The Real Leo Hirschfeld Story.” CandyProfessor. Jan. 4, 2014. Accessed on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160319022205/http://candyprofessor.com/2014/01/04/tootsie-roll-tragedy-the-real-leo-hirschfeld-story/ Kawash, Samira. “Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2013. Tootsie Roll Industries. “Company Timeline.” https://tootsie.com/interactive-timeline/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For this edition of Shop Talk, we are back with Kai Palkeinen, founder of Pulse Boot Lab, to hear about what Kai's been up to since we last talked, including opening a third location in Collingwood; the evolution of Pulse and what they have in mind for the future; their process for developing and refining some 3D printing technology that is being applied to more than just ski boots; what it means to spend the day fitting race boots; why liners are everything, subjective, and also circular (?); Kai's thoughts on some recent new boot tech, and more.TOPICS & TIMES New Collingwood Location (2:41)Skiers That Care (5:57)The Race Skillset (7:16)The Evolution of Pulse (9:49)3D Printing & Verticals (14:04)Other Pulse Initiatives? (26:17)BOA Hype (32:06)Liners: Subjective & Circular (40:26)RELATED LINKS:Blister Recommended Ski Shop: Pulse Custom Boot LabEp. 35: New Innovations in Bootfitting with Pulse Boot LabEp 217: A Very Deep Dive on Bootfitting, Pt. 3: Stance Balancing with Pulse Boot Labs Blister Summit 2023 Registration Blister + Spot Membership OUR OTHER PODCASTS:Happy HourCRAFTED Bikes & Big IdeasOff The CouchBLISTER Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Heidi J. Ellsworth road trips east and over the Atlantic to visit with Tom Bauer from Viking Products Group about sustainability and circular roofing products, specifically armored flashing from Leadax.  Tom Bauer shares how the GreenWeld™ PVB Armored Flashing System, powered by Leadax, is one of the first-ever circular lead flashing substitutes, made from recycled polyvinyl butyral (PVB)which is the safety film used in laminated glass such as car windows.  The conversation focuses on the need for circular products, what exactly that is and how this type of product is going to be in high demand for the built environment.  Learn more at RoofersCoffeeShop.com! Sign up for the Week in Roofing!

In this podcast, Emmett Scanlon talks to Luke McManus, a documentary film maker based in Dublin. Luke's debut feature documentary as a director, North Circular, had its International Premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2022 and won awards at Dublin IFF, Louth IFF and IndieCork Film Festival. It recently won a prestigious Grand Prix at France's biggest documentary festival, FIPADOC in Biarritz in southwest France. North Circular is currently screening in cinemas across Ireland and in London and has had many sold-out screenings and excellent reviews - the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw awarded it four stars and said it was "resonant, vivid and beautifully shot, pregnant with images and ideas, a film made with real artistry." _ _ The music is by Sinead Finnegan and is played by The Delmaine String Quartet. The podcast was recorded on zoom in January 2023.

When you think about circular weaving, you may flashback to weaving on a paper plate or cardboard using simple materials and methods. But artist and weaver Emily Nicolaides has taken circular weaving by storm, opening up the technique to include a new world of richness, beauty, and complexity. In 2016, Emily began exploring shaped tapestry weaving and the possibilities and limitations of weaving in the round. She started with a simple arch and then developed more complex shapes, such as ovals, eventually finding herself back to weaving circles. In the years that followed, she tested many weaving methods to see how they could apply to circular weaving. She often discovered what worked (and did not) through trial and error. Her years of research and teaching her techniques landed her a book deal. Her book, Amazing Circular Weaving, came out in September 2022. In this episode, Emily shares how weaving grounded her; how warp and weft coming together to create fabric mirrors how she brings herself and her knowledge together to make unique pieces. Host Anne Merrow connected with her at her home on the island of Cyprus and talked about her love of books, research, and the lineage and history we all take part in while weaving. This episode is brought to you by: You'll find the largest variety of silk spinning fibers, silk yarn and silk threads & ribbons at TreenwaySilks.com (https://www.treenwaysilks.com/). Choose from a rainbow of hand-dyed colors. Love natural? Their array of wild silk and silk-blends provide choices beyond white. Treenway Silks—where superior quality and customer service are guaranteed. Links See Emily Nicolaides' website (https://www.emilynicolaides.com/) for information on her, and her book, Amazing Circular Weaving. You can find the tapestry weaving series, “Tapestry Talk,” by Tommye Scanlin in the Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2022, and Spring 2023 issues of Easy Weaving with Little Looms. Emily mentions The Handweaver's Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon, and Shaped Tapestry by Kathe Todd-Hooker, as two of her favorite resources. Learn more about fythkiotiko (the famous colorful patterns from the village of Fyti) at https://heartlandoflegends.com/fythkiotika/ (https://heartlandoflegends.com/fythkiotika/).

Welcome to Episode 1244 in which Marc Millon interviews Amanda Barnes award winning wine and travel writer in this installment of Wine, Food & Travel with Marc Millon on the Italian Wine Podcast. More about today's guest: Amanda is a sought-after specialist with in-depth and expert knowledge in the South American wine and travel scene, although frequently found researching and writing internationally too. Author of the South America Wine Guide and regular correspondent for leading international wine and travel magazines, newspapers and books. Writer & Journalist Amanda is an award-winning wine and travel writer with over 15 years of experience writing for newspapers, magazines, guides and books. She is also an established communicator and presenter with an extensive repertoire working in video, web, radio and live presentations, including masterclasses and seminars. She is also Editor of the Circle of Wine Writers' publication, The Circular, since 2017, and won a scholarship to study to become a Master of Wine (since 2019). South America Wine Guide Amanda is the author and creator of the South America Wine Guide: the essential guide to the wines and wine regions of Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia and Peru, published as a print book in 2021 and online since 2012. Around the World in 80 Harvests Amanda is creator of global wine adventure, Around the World in 80 Harvests, through which she is visiting 80 wine regions in 42 countries over 5 continents and exploring what makes each region and their wines unique. To learn more about Amanda visit: Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/amandabarnes2 Websites: amandabarnes.co.uk southamericawineguide.com More about the host Marc Millon: Marc Millon, VIA Italian Wine Ambassador 2021, has been travelling, eating, drinking, learning and writing about wine, food and travel for nearly 40 years. Born in Mexico, with a mother from Hawaii via Korea and an anthropologist father from New York via Paris, he was weaned on exotic and delicious foods. Marc and his photographer wife Kim are the authors of 14 books including a pioneering series of illustrated wine-food-travel books: The Wine Roads of Europe, The Wine Roads of France, The Wine Roads of Italy (Premio Barbi Colombini), and The Wine Roads of Spain. Other titles include The Wine and Food of Europe, The Food Lovers' Companion Italy, The Food Lovers' Companion France, Wine, a global history. Marc regularly lectures and hosts gastronomic cultural tours to Italy and France with Martin Randall Travel, the UK's leading cultural travel specialist. He is soon to begin a regular series on Italian Wine Podcast, ‘Wine, food and travel with Marc Millon'. When not on the road Marc lives on the River Exe in Devon, England To learn more visit: quaypress.uk/ marcmillon.co.uk vino.co.uk quaypress.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marc-millon-50868624 Twitter: @Marc_Millon Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodcast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin!

Richard Hirschhorn and Mona Chun, co-creators The Circular Design Glossary, introduce the new guide to understanding the future of furniture design. It was developed by mebl | Transforming Furniture, where Richard and Mona are founder/CEO and chief operating and sustainability officer, respectively, in partnership with the Sustainable Furnishing Council. Our homes are the center of our lives and a primary source of CO2 emissions. The Ellen McArthur Foundation has estimated that 80% of the environmental impact of the way we live can be changed by making better product design decisions. That may make it sound like most choices are out of our hands, because we have to rely on the companies to chose low-impact materials designed for circularity, taking what we can get. Richard and Mona share a variety of examples of sustainable furniture designs from small designers as well as retail giant IKEA.Mona and Michael suggest that “the very first step to a ‘circular future' is accessible information and awareness” and ask “how can we transform this throwaway paradigm into a just, regenerative and sustainable system?” Those are great questions to ask when shopping for furniture or any other product or service each of us choose. Becoming better informed about our home decor and furnishing choices empower shoppers to exert pressure on manufacturing and services companies to reduce their environmental impact and our own footprint. You can learn more about the Circular Design Glossary at https://sustainablefurnishings.org/glossary and about mebl at https://meblfurniture.com/

CEOE Aragón ha presentado en sociedad su nueva comisión de Economía Circular y Sostenibilidad. Tiene como objetivo poner en valor estas iniciativas. Hablamos con su presidenta, Avelina Bellostas. En la sección "Mis abuelos no lo entienden" comenzamos a contar las grandes estafas de la historia de la Economía. Comenzamos hablando de Carlo Ponzi y su estafa piramidal. Con Javier Martínez.

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Kevin Mercer of Raingrid talks us through the use of rain barrels as distributed stormwater infrastructure avoiding the need for expensive water treatment services. This is a great free ranging discussion about real solutions to stormwater treatment, More importantly, we discuss the broader water energy nexus and rethinking our approach to water and water systems. A fun time was had by all.

Simone Andersson is Chief Commercial Officer at WEEE Centre, a Kenyan social enterprise that's been expanding safe e-waste management and circular solutions across East Africa, since 2012. Simone's background is in communication and sustainability action around waste and water management, and before joining the WEEE Centre she was at RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden), where she led innovative developmental projects on resource efficiency, circular economy systems, traceability, precious materials and various solid and liquid wastes. Her mission is to create awareness about the possibilities and prosperity of Green Business and Clean Tech. The WEEE Centre focuses on people, planet and prosperity, in particular by helping young people improve their social and economic circumstances. It's aiming to expand the collection infrastructure to cover all Kenyan Counties and to increase local recycling by bringing more advanced technologies. It also wants to reach other African countries, starting with neighboring Uganda and Tanzania. By 2019, the WEEE Centre had recycled more than 10,000ntons of e-waste, serving over 8,000 clients across Africa, and creating hundreds of jobs. It became the first and only e-waste management organization to be ISO certified with multiple awards. WEEE Centre has the capacity to recycle all types of e-waste, and has trained many other African countries on safe e-waste recycling. We'll hear about the operational complexities, some of the collaborations and partnerships they've fostered to overcome the challenges of being a relatively small enterprise, and how they're trying to make sure they create value-adding circular flows, rather than focusing on recycling.

It's very likely that you will have recently bought, upgraded or replaced some sort of tech or electrical appliance in the last month. Unsuprisingly, tech is one of the top 5 things we buy at Christmas - but what do we do with all our old stuff? It feels a little more complicated than giving away clothes due to pack testing and how things are put together. Dr David Greenfield from Tech Take Back in Brighton joins me this week. I visited their new hub and got a full guided tour of the victorian building packed full of retro tech treasures. David shares how they repair and donate old tech to charities, what kinds of tech you can take back and buy from their shop on North street and the meaning and importance of a circular way of doing things. He also shares what other companies such as The Library of Things and the Restart Project are doing to help us reduce waste. You can find out more here https://www.techtakeback.com/

Reuse for Our Future! And join us on this week's PreserveCast as we talk with Stephanie Phillips a recipient of the 2021 Goodall Fellowship. Stephanie will be sharing about the Circular Heritage Project, of which the fellowship supported the launch. The Circular Heritage Project, which seeks to strengthen the alignment between the heritage conservation field and the growing circular economy movement in North America. Stephanie Phillips, AICP, is a San Antonio-based senior public policy & planning professional working at the intersection of heritage conservation and the circular economy. She leads the City of San Antonio's Deconstruction and Circular Economy Program, which aims to maximize material salvage and reuse opportunities from older structures while advancing the City's climate action, affordable housing, and workforce development goals - all through a heritage conservation lens.  

This is course taught by evangelistic worker John O'Roark on how to defend the Christian faith against the arguments of all other religious systems. Apologetics is the defense of the Christian worldview, and in this course you will learn how to defend the faith when anyone asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

Guided circular breathing with Jake and Danny.Circular breathing is a rhythmic breathing technique that has been used for thousands of years. Conscious breathing exercises, like this one, can promote feelings of relaxation, and calm, and combat anxiety and stress.To learn more about conscious breathing exercises, check out this article. You can register for all of our LIVE  shows on TikTok @breathebluedoor.For free Meditation exercises, check out The 1 Minute Meditation and Breathe Blue Door.If you want FREE access to our Email Community, send us an email! team@bluedoormedia.coAnd for more information on Breathwork and Meditation visit www.breatheandthinkbetter.comIntro music: The Right Direction by Shane Ivers 

All season, Chris and Yaniv have talked about the mindset that is needed to succeed at venture-backed startups. For the final episode of Season 1, we tie it all together with an analogy: tournament poker. It is amazing how many things poker and startups have in common, so in this episode we use the lens of poker to discuss the big picture of how to approach building a successful startup. We dive into each of the following aspects of commonality between poker and startup life: Iterative Cash-burning Making decisions based on uncertain information Progressive learning Resulting Relatively low probability of a successful outcome (and that's OK!) We were inspired by the book Thinking in Bets, by former pro poker player Annie Duke. Follow the Startup Podcast on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-startup-pod/ Follow us on Twitter Yaniv Bernstein @ybernstein Chris Saad @chrissaad Please rate and Review The Startup Podcast on your podcast app. Ask questions for future Listener Q&A episodes: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-startup-podcast/id1612757016. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5C6oN1uFj29A4jHZn57lNO. Listen on Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84NjhlNWEwNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw A bit about our hosts: Chris Saad: Independent Startup Advisor and Angel Investor, who helps startups and entrepreneurs fast-forward company's growth. Chris consults on developer platforms & ecosystems, future of media, data portability, on-demand economy, and the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Visit http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ or connect with Chris on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Yaniv Bernstein: Founder and COO of Circular, a subscription e-commerce platform with sustainability at its heart. By focusing on customer experience while reducing waste and underutilization, Circular provides subscriptions to premium devices at affordable prices and with unmatched flexibility. Visit Circular https://www.nowcircular.com/ and connect with Yaniv on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

Dr. Julio Friedmann is one of the most widely known authoritative experts in the world on carbon removal, drawdown, and sequestration and storage. He has worked in the U.S. Dept. of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Global CCS Institute, and Columbia University, where led teams that invented and fielded technology to reduce GHG emissions and produce new materials. In our daisy chain theme, Julio answers a question from GenderCool Project's Gearah Goldstein.

Live from SPC Advance in Atlanta Georgia .  https://greenblue.org/What is advance recycling for plastic? How can we keep these materials working for us and not lose them to a land fill? What does Nexus Circular do with plastic? https://ororapackagingsolutions.com/Looking to improve the sustainability of your packaging today? Check out: https://www.landsberg.com/The views and opinions expressed on the "Sustainable Packaging with Cory Connors" podcast are solely those of the author and guests and should not be attributed to any other individual or entity. https://specright.com/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1329820053/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=corygathttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-connors/I'm here to help you make your packaging more sustainable! Reach out today and I'll get back to you asap. This podcast is an independent production and the podcast production is an original work of the author. All rights of ownership and reproduction are retained—copyright 2022.

When looking for more circularity within the textile & apparel industry, most look to existing fibres and ways to elevate them. Keel Labs were on the hunt for something new and looked to the ocean. On this episode of Textile Innovation, WTiN talks to Tessa Callaghan, the chief executive officer and one of the co-founders behind Keel Labs. Based in the US, the company has an eye for innovation, starting with its seaweed-derived yarn called Kelsun that holds a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to legacy fibres. Created using an abundant polymer found in the kelp, Callaghan says Kelsun harnesses the renewable and regenerative power of the ocean. To discuss any of our topics, get in touch by following @wtincomment and @rubyatwtin on Twitter, or email rpenson@wtin.com directly. To explore sponsorship opportunities, email sales@wtin.com

https://www.driscolls.com/How is Driscolls making huge impacts on the recycling of their PET trays? What is Plastic Ingenuity doing to support PET recycling? How can consumers help with recycling PET Berry trays? https://www.plasticingenuity.com/https://ororapackagingsolutions.com/Looking to improve the sustainability of your packaging today? Check out: https://www.landsberg.com/The views and opinions expressed on the "Sustainable Packaging with Cory Connors" podcast are solely those of the author and guests and should not be attributed to any other individual or entity. https://specright.com/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1329820053/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=corygathttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-connors/I'm here to help you make your packaging more sustainable! Reach out today and I'll get back to you asap. This podcast is an independent production and the podcast production is an original work of the author. All rights of ownership and reproduction are retained—copyright 2022.

Join Marty as he sits down with Sjors to discuss a million little bitcoin rabbit holes. Follow Sjors on Twitter Check out the Sjors's book 7:00 - A wild Sjors appears in Austin! 10:08 - Senator Warren's DAAML bill 13:46 - Miners could start self censoring 20:24 - Forced labour 22:28 - Who interested in passing DAAML? 24:09 - Warren's terminology of "money transmission" 25:25 - Can this kill Bitcoin? 30:30 - State of Bitcoin development 33:08 - Utreexo and the growing blockchain 39:44 - Erlay 46:39 - Back to Utreexo and blockchain growth 50:44 - Foreshadowing a new blocksize war 55:10 - Building Bitcoin with future humanity in mind 58:06 - Bitcoin full node is a ship of Theseus 1:01:25 - Sjors backstory: Physics and Ducks 1:04:52 - Sjors backstory: Gold and Bitcoin 1:08:07 - Javascript dependency circus 1:09:07 - Geeks project 1:16:44 - Defending your node 1:20:07 - Separating wallets from nodes 1:25:28 - Miniscript 1:31:39 - How's Taproot doing? 1:34:27 - Are devs spread too thin? 1:36:09 - Bitcoin: A Work In Progress 1:41:59 - AI writers 1:46:44 - What happened with bitcoin core v0.24.0 1:47:39 - Checkpoints 1:52:36 - Bitcoin's upcoming 14th birthday 1:53:39 - Regulatory attacks 1:58:25 - Circular economy helps with privacy 1:59:48 - Countries switching to bitcoin 2:04:04 - Blocked by Taleb 2:05:28 - Ending Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins CrowdHealth TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

In this Friday's rebroadcast, I joined Evan H. Hirsch, MD on the EnergyMD Podcast to answer: What breathwork is and why it's such a powerful wellness tool. My own breathwork discovery journey plus why and how I created the BREATHE | Breath & Wellness Program. How box and circular breathing specifically help combat fatigue and help you gain more energy. Whether you should breathe through the mouth or the nose. Plus how we can determine and differentiate the hype from the actual science. Hope you enjoy! For more powerful conversations, visit https://joshtrent.com/podcast A special gift from Evan and myself: Use the code "EVAN" for 25% off of my BREATHE | Breath & Wellness Program at breathwork.io Are You Stressed Out Lately? Take a deep breath with the M21™ wellness guide: a simple yet powerful 21 minute morning system that melts stress and gives you more energy through 6 science-backed practices and breathwork. Click HERE to download for free. Is Your Energy Low? Get more superfoods to improve your energy, digestion, gut health plus also reduce inflammation and blood sugar. Click HERE to try Paleovalley's Apple Cider Vinegar Complex + Save 15% with the code 'JOSH' *Review The WF Podcast & WIN $150 in wellness prizes! *Join The Facebook Group

In this Friday's rebroadcast, I joined Evan H. Hirsch, MD on the EnergyMD Podcast to answer: What breathwork is and why it's such a powerful wellness tool. My own breathwork discovery journey plus why and how I created the BREATHE | Breath & Wellness Program. How box and circular breathing specifically help combat fatigue and help you gain more energy. Whether you should breathe through the mouth or the nose. Plus how we can determine and differentiate the hype from the actual science. Hope you enjoy! For more powerful conversations, visit https://joshtrent.com/podcast A special gift from Evan and myself: Use the code "EVAN" for 25% off of my BREATHE | Breath & Wellness Program at breathwork.io Are You Stressed Out Lately? Take a deep breath with the M21™ wellness guide: a simple yet powerful 21 minute morning system that melts stress and gives you more energy through 6 science-backed practices and breathwork. Click HERE to download for free. Is Your Energy Low? Get more superfoods to improve your energy, digestion, gut health plus also reduce inflammation and blood sugar. Click HERE to try Paleovalley's Apple Cider Vinegar Complex + Save 15% with the code 'JOSH' *Review The WF Podcast & WIN $150 in wellness prizes! *Join The Facebook Group Shop the Wellness Force Media Store Save 20% on LiftMode Products until February 13, 2023 PLUNGE – Save $150 with the code “WELLNESSFORCE" HIGHER DOSE INFRARED MAT - Get 15% off with the code “WELLNESSFORCE15“ Organifi – Special 20% off to our listeners with the code ‘WELLNESSFORCE' MitoZen – Save 10% with the code “WELLNESSFORCE” NOOTOPIA - Save 10% with the code "JOSH10" SENSATE - Save $25 on your order with the code "JOSH25" ION - Save 15% off sitewide with the code ‘JOSH1KS' Feel Free from Botanic Tonics – Save 40% when you use the code ‘WELLNESS40′ M21 Wellness Guide Wellness Force Community

This episode is Part Seventeen of the epilogue for Stanley's letters, "Dearest Ones," that he wrote to his family throughout his Second World War.  Michael G. Sievers, the writer, producer & creator of The Silver King's War, discusses his work and father's war.  It's mid-June 1944. Stanley has new orders to pack & ship.  His delay in training hours, due to mechanical problems and extra nights in Missouri, meant his group shipped from South Carolina without him.  Instead, The Silver King will learn to fly the B-26 Martin Marauder with his crew at Barksdale Field in Shreveport, Louisiana. This assignment is the pivotal change in Stanley's war.  It means he will go to the European Theater of Operations. Contact us: thesilverkingswar@gmail.com Please review "The Silver King's War" on Apple Podcasts Share our hero, The Silver King, with family & friends Thank you for listening to our podcast

Mike Scott is a serial entrepreneur who found himself working at a large tech unicorn when they acquired his business. As newly-minted Head of Product Partnerships, Mike has questions! Luckily, Yaniv and Chris have (some) answers. This ended up being a bit of a personal discussion and coaching session, and we thank Mike for opening up. In this Office Hours episode, topics discussed include: The transition from entrepreneur to employee. What is the Product Partnerships function? Measuring the impact of your function in a cross-functional setting. How “small business thinking” can help bigger companies move faster. The unique role and cadence of partnership functions at a product company. Moving from an enablement function to a value driver. Mike has an awesome podcast of his own, How To Be Moderately Successful: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/how-to-be-moderately-successful/id1535553116 Connect with Mike Scott on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/ Follow the Startup Podcast on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-startup-pod/ Follow us on Twitter Yaniv Bernstein @ybernstein Chris Saad @chrissaad Please rate and Review The Startup Podcast on your podcast app. Ask questions for future Listener Q&A episodes: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-startup-podcast/id1612757016. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5C6oN1uFj29A4jHZn57lNO. Listen on Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84NjhlNWEwNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw A bit about our hosts: Chris Saad: Independent Startup Advisor and Angel Investor, who helps startups and entrepreneurs fast-forward company's growth. Chris consults on developer platforms & ecosystems, future of media, data portability, on-demand economy, and the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Visit http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ or connect with Chris on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Yaniv Bernstein: Founder and COO of Circular, a subscription e-commerce platform with sustainability at its heart. By focusing on customer experience while reducing waste and underutilization, Circular provides subscriptions to premium devices at affordable prices and with unmatched flexibility. Visit Circular https://www.nowcircular.com/ and connect with Yaniv on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in a respectable New York City neighborhood, he finds the body of a man brutally stabbed to death, yet lovingly laid out on the floor of his study. The only apparent witnesses are a deaf and dumb butler driven mad by the event, and a caged bird that sings out a vital but puzzling clue. Before he solves the crime, with the help of the redoubtable Miss Amelia Butterworth, Gryce must uncover a motive that spans generations and the passions that have kept it alive. Anna Katharine Green was a pioneering writer of detective fiction in the United States. Her first such novel, The Leavenworth Case, was published in 1878. She is credited with changing the genre by making her stories legally accurate. She invented the "girl detective." But her works remained popular because of their lively, twisting plots and the strong characters she developed.

Republicans need someone to blame besides Trump, so Laura Ingraham is turning on the RNC, Kellyanne is turning on Jared, and a rump group in the Senate is turning on McConnell. Plus, Democrats are a little too high on hopium. A.B. Stoddard joins Charlie Sykes today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, we pull back the curtain on fast fashion with  Aaron Jacobson, the creator of faan, a Cleveland-based clothing company. Aaron designs and creates low-waste, locally-made, unisex clothing that supports the philosophy of true circular fashion. Circular fashion is the opposite of fast fashion, which accounts for 10% of global CO2 emissions and exploits workers and the environment worldwide. Hear how fast fashion works as we travel around the world in Diane and Greg's closets and talk about becoming more conscientious consumers. This is the first of several episodes we devote to this topic as we hear from people in our community that help us rethink how we clothe ourselves.Guest:  Aaron Jacobson, Designer | Director FAAN Clothing Resources:Ellen MacArthur Foundation -Fashion and the Circular EconomyA History of Cleveland's Garment Industry - Belt Magazine Good on You - Sustainable and Ethical Fashion RatingsReading Recommendation:  Consumed by Aja BarberFollow us: https://www.facebook.com/ecospeaksclehttps://www.instagram.com/ecospeakscleContact us:hello@ecospeakscle.com

Saad and Ajay talk through the lost opportunities of this past offseason's biggest moves and intriguing propositions to correct them.

Ser ecológic@ y sustentable hoy en día parece un reto muy grande, lo relacionamos con personalidades bohemias o hippies y con hábitos súper difíciles de implementar además de los costos que muchas veces implican.Hoy platicamos con Chantal Chalita y rompimos con todos los mitos que hay atrás de la sustentabilidad, la ecología y el estilo de vida porque ser conciente de nuestro entorno es mucho más fácil de lo que creemos.Chantal Chalita es ingeniera ambiental con especialidad en Mercadotecnia, es consultora ambiental y blogger de medio ambiente. Es también directora en el departamento de sustentabilidad de Sonora Grill Group.Es además co fundadora de ECOWA, empresa de Economía Circular de Agua y Cualia, consultoría en Huella de Carbono. Es Tedx speaker en la UDLAP, en la Anáhuac de Querétaro, en la Anáhuac Cancun y tiene un reconocimiento por 3M como Vocera de la Ciencia.La puedes seguir en: @chantalchalitaSuscríbete para apoyar al podcast y comparte tus episodios favoritoshttps://www.instagram.com/aha.mx/?hl=eshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv8U1AvWPzorcjRnTn0xB9ghttps://m.facebook.com/ahamomentsmx/postshttps://www.instagram.com/mindbodypau/?hl=eshttps://www.instagram.com/valeriabenavidesb/?hl=es 

In a world where everything has a lifecycle, what can we do to create greener practices across waste? Circular economics steps beyond measuring carbon emissions and may be the answer to improved sustainability. In today's episode, we chat with Marvin Nussek, Finance & Indicator Strategist at Circle Economy. Marvin explains the core of circular economics, addresses common misconceptions, and what circular economics looks like across tech. We discuss: Common misconceptions around circular economy The function of product passports Re-evaluating values when developing technology  For more amazing DEX content, including podcasts, articles and exclusive research, head over to the DEX Hub (dex.nexthink.com) To hear more interviews like this one, subscribe to the Digital Employee Experience Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred podcast platform. Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for Digital Employee Experience in your favorite podcast player.

Old friend Brian Marteeny stopped by the studio with every intention of having a light and topical conversation. He probably expected to talk about politics, the weather, traffic, and The Bachelor. But he forgot that this is Ramble by the River. We don't talk about politics unless we are exposing corruption at the highest level. We don't talk about the weather unless it is in reference to the impending global catastrophe. Traffic?! How about self-driving autonomous automobiles? And we just don't cover The Bachelor; it is for morons. Tune in and buckle up!Topics to enjoy:Jeff explains getting rear-ended twice.The Pacific Garbage patch clean up.Pet cloning and what they don't tell you at the clinic.Why are they making robots so sexy?The recent disgusting controversy at Balenciaga.Brian gets rescued from a life in the system.Famous Jeffreys through history.Ramble by the River Links:WebsitePatreonFacebookInstagram TwitterEpisode catalogueBusiness: ramblebytheriver@gmail.comMusic:Algarve, William Benckert.Luv, Bomull.The Changes, Hara Nada.Baby's on Fire, Die Antwoord.Circular, Silver Maple.Still Fly, Revel Day.Copyright 2022 Ramble by the River LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Ger Gilroy was joined by Luke McManus for an introspective look at his new film, North Circular which chronicles stories of Dublin's north side. 'McManus interleaves plangent and melancholy folk music with individual interviews and reflections on the institutions and landmarks, including the brutal Mountjoy prison and the building that once housed the grim St Brendan's psychiatric hospital in Grangegorman.' (The Guardian)

This is a one-off bonus episode featuring a number of live performances from Luke McManus' new film North Circular. The film is a documentary musical journeying along the North Circular Road in Dublin's North Inner City. Written & directed by Luke McManus, edited by John Murphy, produced by Luke McManus & Elaine Gallagher. Score by Kevin Murphy and Seti The First. North Circular opens on December 2nd in Irish Film Institute, Dublin 2, Light House, Dublin 7, Savoy Cinema, Dublin 1, IMC Dun Laoghaire and Queens Film Theatre Belfast. It opens on Dec 4th at Bertha Dochouse in London, and on Dec 9th in the Gate Multiplex in Cork and Palás Cinema in Galway. Tickets and info from www.northcircular.ie Production and mixing on tracks by Hugh Fox. Boom operated by Dave Harris. NCR picture by Andrew Sheridan. Tracklist John Francis Flynn - Lag Song Annie Hughes - The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin - Dark Horse on the Wind Jerry O'Reilly - Van Diemen's Land Julie Kavanagh - Siúil a Rún Ian Lynch - Banks of the Nile https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

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When you hear the words food waste do you think about forgotten leftovers? In the journey from farm to stores to the dinner table, some food is lost during the processing and transportation and at home some purchase food simply goes uneaten. How can transportation science help reduce food waste and loss and make the food system more resilient and climate friendly? Interview Summary   Norbert: Welcome Callie and Celeste, it is a real pleasure to have you. Both Brenna and I are agricultural economists. You folks are engineers. So we are curious how did you come be working on food waste and loss? Callie, let's start with you first.   Callie: Thanks Norbert, and thanks so much for having me. I've been really fascinated by waste in general for a long time. Like what makes certain products and certain things valuable to people so that they'll hang onto them and what makes us throw away other things. And for a long time I was studying sort of high tech waste like electronic waste, used lithium ion batteries, old solar panels or even plastics packaging. One of the things that I learned from that is that there's so much resources and there's so much value still contained in the things that we traditionally think of as waste. Whether it's gold in the circuit boards of those old cell phones or it's the chemical energy that can be converted into fuel energy contained in the carbon bonds of plastics. But, one of the challenges that I discovered in working with these different systems is that people don't really connect to them very immediately or very viscerally. When we discard something like a phone it sort of goes away and we don't really see what happens. However, I discovered that when people think about food, it's extremely visceral. That was spinach that you bought at the grocery store with the best intention of eating, and it sort of hurts when you throw it away. It hurts your pocketbook as well as it makes you feel really guilty. So I got into food waste hoping to bring this perspective of value recovery and value retention to the food system. But, doing so in such a way that really connects to people. So looking for technologies and user-friendly solutions where we can first of all try to keep food from being discarded. But then if it is inevitably discarded how can we use best engineering and technology practices to actually recover the energy, the water, the nutrients that are contained inside instead of sending those to landfill.   Norbert: You really are playing off the old idea of one man's or one person's trash is another person's treasures. I appreciate that. And you're right, food does have this deep connection to us from a lot of different perspectives we don't like and we have been taught over and over again not to waste food. So I do appreciate how you were able to take what you've learned in other spaces to the food space. So thank you for coming into this conversation. I'd like to turn this over to Celeste. Your work began in areas around food access and now exploring food waste and loss. What interests you about this societal challenge?   Celeste: So I really fell into the field of food waste. As you know, my background is in transportation and I've always been really interested in the societal impacts of transportation. A lot of my work focuses on equity and accessibility metrics related to transportation. I was working in the food access space before coming into food waste. I kind of first got interested in food access actually from a student of mine who for their senior project wanted to know which food insecurity or food desert metrics should they be looking at for their senior project. We started looking at how different parts of Baltimore indicated different areas of food insecurity. So that's really how I got interested into food. What has been the most interesting about food waste is that transportation is important to all aspects of the food supply chain and just the scale of the problems can be so different. We can think on a worldwide scale, a national scale regional and household level. For me household level has always been I think the most interesting when it comes to food waste questions. I've always been very interested in choice in how people make choices whether it be transportation or food purchasing habits and also how those two work together.   Norbert: Thank you Celeste for that. And I would say the first time I thought about transportation and wasted food or food loss was the challenge that food manufacturers have once a product, especially something like a fresh vegetable or fruit, leaves the farm. If it starts to go bad what are some alternatives to manage that potential loss as the product that's being transported from the farm to the packing house and from the packing house to a food manufacturer or retailer. And that there are real challenges of actually redirecting product once it leaves the farm. It's really exciting to hear how you think about that. Not from the farm gate necessarily but also to the final consumer. So thank you for the work that you're doing.   Brenna: Celeste, if we can continue with you the work you have done focuses a lot on transportation and waste management. Can you tell us more about how your research has informed the ways that we need to think differently about wasted food as a household or a farming problem?   Celeste: Sure, I'll speak about it mostly from the household level. One of the things that first came out of my previous work is that everybody values having choice and agency in their food purchasing. I don't think that we often model those choices when we're doing transportation modeling for example. I think that's still important when it comes to food waste. In my previous work I talked with a lot of people during my focus groups about how they're making the decision of what stores to go to, how often and why. What we found were that households were balancing tough decisions when it comes to limited budget, quality of food not being equal everywhere, which really gets at some of the supply chain issues and making difficult trade offs between how often to shop versus how much they're able to purchase. I think some of those lessons learned translate to food waste particularly when we talk about rescuing food how we go about rescuing food for example do we just provide boxes where people don't have a say in what those boxes are? Are we matching wasted food to the demand and the needs of people? So I think a lot of the lessons learned can translate well into the food waste space as well.   Brenna: I really appreciate those perspectives, Celeste. And appreciate that agency discussion as well. Norbert and I actually have a recently published paper on the tradeoffs households make between the frequency of grocery shopping and the food waste that they incur. People definitely have pretty strong preferences for the amount of transportation they may put in going to and from the store in a given time period. Callie, shifting to you is there anything you want to add related to this topic?   Callie: One of the things that Celeste pointed to is the complexity of this challenge. While we may see quite a large percentage of food waste happening at the household level, that waste is really magnified once we look all the way up the supply chain. And transportation plays a key role at every step of the process. Not only in the transportation of food to the downstream markets, but then the collection the transportation, the aggregation, and all of the choices that then these stakeholders make at a broader scale. So say a grocery store or a restaurant decides to engage in food waste diversion and recycling behavior then the transportation becomes a key part of that. Food is heavy, wet and kind of stinky. So it's a little bit of a unique challenge for transportation in that we both want to pick it up and transport it regularly to a place where it can be recycled but that transportation can be really expensive. So this is another challenge where it speaks to these broader questions about infrastructure because then you have to start deciding where can I put locations to site recycling food waste to energy locations? How do I actually collect the food waste from what places am I going around in my truck and picking it up? Where do I take it and then how do I use the products that come out of that? Because once you have taken food waste and say you've put it through a composting process, and you have the solid compost that comes out. Or perhaps you put it in an anaerobic digester and you have bioenergy in the form of natural gas or electricity that comes out, all of those products then have to be transported back to places where they can be used. So transportation really does infuse the entire system even if sometimes it means we're transporting things other than food itself.   Brenna: That's a really important point and it does add up in between each stages of supply chain and then sometimes back again, once we have these new products and then transforming them and moving them back to where they can be used again. Celeste, if we can continue with you, what are some of the transportation challenges that contribute to wasted food?   Celeste: One of the things we deal with in transportation is just it's a uncertain science, there's always some built in uncertainty with transportation and when we're talking about items that are perishable like fresh food, that is what results in a lot of food waste because they are buffering for that uncertainty and travel time. One of the big challenges is how do we reduce uncertainty and have more reliability in our transportation system? That's becoming more challenging as land use changes. We're seeing farming being more consolidated food is being produced further from where people live as well as just our cities were decentralizing which makes transportation even more difficult. Some of the biggest challenges related to transportation really linked to changes in land use patterns as well as the production of food and how we can kind of bridge those gaps together with transportation. In the near term rising gas prices is definitely a challenge and it'll be interesting to see what impact that has on the food supply chain and to customers as well.   Brenna: That is a really important point. I can imagine where some efforts maybe to recover and recycle foods may be stagnated if transportation costs are too high. Thank you so much for that perspective Celeste   Norbert: Hearing this conversation makes me think of something you said earlier, Callie. And it's this idea that previously you've worked on how to manage waste of science and technology products. There might be gold the circuit of a cell phone or something. But, when you talked about food waste you talked about heavy wet products and ultimately I thought of products that are of relative low value and given that there are rising costs in terms of transportation related to fuel costs how do we balance this? How do we get this relatively low value product on a per unit basis given that there is these high costs associated with transporting them? What do we need to make that equation work out?   Callie: That's a great question, Norbert. This is the perfect opportunity to bring in what we call life cycle thinking. So not just looking at the end of the pipe or at the last part of the problem when this waste is inevitably generated, even if we've put in place efforts to try to prevent or reduce it or divert it upstream, some waste will inevitably result. It's not just about the cost and benefits of that process of managing it but really thinking systemically over the whole supply chain. The food that we're talking about ultimately was produced in such a way that consumes significant amounts of energy, water, and nutrients. We pump a lot of electricity, a lot of fossil fuels, a lot of land, nitrogen, phosphorus and water into the production of food. So all of that is opportunity for us to recover that value at the end of life. The food itself contains much of those resources. It contains a significant amount of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. These are things that we might normally have to obtain from more environmentally intensive process if we're extracting them from nature transforming them into a form that we need for agriculture. And so then when we think about what would happen otherwise to the food if then we move downstream, if we aren't recovering the food at end of life or doing some other activity to reduce or donate surplus food before it becomes waste then we also have this huge cost of the landfill. Depending on where you live in the United States the cost of land filling products varies significantly. In some places it's pretty expensive and that's because landfill space is scarce. And it's also in recognition of the fact that there's a huge climate cost of landfilling, when the food enters a landfill environment where it's anaerobic or in other words oxygen free. It degrades in such a way to where methane is the primary product and if that methane is not captured at the landfill that has a climate impact 25 to 30 times more than carbon dioxide. So we can also think about attaching a cost or even a social cost of the carbon impacts that come from the landfill.   So when you look at this systemically you can think about food waste as a real value recovery and value retention process, in such a way that those costs associated with making it happen are worth it. When you look at the life cycle cost of the food system you can think about using this process to recover some of those initial embedded impacts and the initial embedded carbon, water and nutrients in the food as well as to prevent the downstream cost of unavoidable and unconstrained climate impacts from land filling food waste. But I would also say that for many companies and for many actors in this space they also see a value in food waste recovery. Many households are deciding to try composting for themselves or to work with a community compostor because they value the ability to produce that compost and use it in some way at home. Similarly, businesses are looking at some opportunities for food waste diversion that actually save them money. It may end up actually being cheaper to divert this material and use it in such a beneficial way to recover some value from it than to pay to have it hauled to this landfill instead.   One of the really cool areas that we're looking at is one in which we can think about decentralized solutions in parallel with centralized solutions. Our conventional waste management model has been to collect material within a relatively constrained area and then haul it to some location where it can be processed or landfilled afterwards. There are all kinds of new food waste recovery technologies that are emerging where they can actually be put in place at the point where the food waste is being generated. So this might be a small-scale digester, dehydrator or compostor being embedded right there at the restaurant or at the point at which the waste is generated. Now those can be still very cost sensitive for some businesses but there's some cases when they actually make more sense economically than alternatives.   Norbert: Thank you so much for that. That really adds some clarity to this issue of how do we valorize food waste. And what I've heard from you is that one of the ways of thinking about this is it's the avoidance of the cost associated with processing or throwing away that food that there can be significant effects on society, on the climate by having this product go into a landfill. We can avoid some of that and we can actually capture some value that there are different actors along the supply chain or different supply chains that could benefit from this. So thank you for that, that's really helpful. Along this line I'm interested to hear your thoughts Callie on other ways to improve the transportation infrastructure or the management of food waste that can help us prevent this possible wasted food.   Callie: When we think about minimizing and managing wasted food we really want to take this full circular economy perspective. Circular economy focuses on recovering and retaining value from products rather than thinking about it as waste management. So it's a real change in paradigm first and foremost. And within this circular economy framework we might first be looking at minimizing waste like designing waste out of the system by some of the things that Celeste is shared about ensuring that we actually get food to people who are going to consume it in ways that they want to, in a way that works for their choices. Then, if there's some excess food or surplus food, food that's in the wrong place at the wrong time, then we can think about diverting that through rescue and recovery operations. Transportation clearly plays an important role there because again, you have that sort of narrow time window to get food from one point to another where it can be used effectively. Then finally, in terms of closing the resource loop by this valorization process there are a lot of open questions there that I don't think we completely have the answer to. This again speaks to the importance of a systems perspective. So first and foremost, determining what the optimal strategies are for collecting waste. If I'm a food waste collection business what company do I start with? Where do I pick up waste first? How do I optimize the training of the people who are employed and engaged in this activity? Because if food is not separated effectively at a source and contamination like plastic packaging or other materials in the food waste stream that can really throw a wrench downstream when we try to recycle it. So there's some questions there about optimal methods for separation, segregation and collection of the food waste. And, there's all these open questions about the siting and the scale of the technologies we would use to actually treat it.   I mentioned earlier this question between small scale decentralized and large scale centralized systems. Another thing to layer on that is then the optimization of the markets and the transportation and the siting of the product uses. So one of the most common and promising methods that we're looking out for food waste recycling from commercial not necessarily households but the upstream suppliers is anaerobic digestion. Because in this case we're taking that anaerobic environment with oxygen free environment where the food degrades into methane, methane's the primary constituent of the natural gas we use for heating and driving and other things in our energy system. We can certainly take that energy and put it back into use if the food waste recycling facility is located near a transmission grid or near a pipeline where the compressed natural gas can be injected. But on the flip side, there's other products that come out of that, like a liquid digestate stream, which has some of those nitrogen and phosphorous nutrients still there. Now this could be land applied on farm fields but it is also really expensive to collect this liquid, transport it and then apply it into different areas. You have to be cognizant of the ecological impacts of applying this to land, especially if you are near freshwater resources that may already be vulnerable to agricultural pollution. I don't know that there's really a clear pathway of a one size fits all recipe for setting out these food waste ecosystems. But, I think there are a lot of open questions about the best way to optimize this system in different regions and parts of the country because everywhere has different sort of local infrastructure, ecological resources and transportation available. That's one of the most exciting parts of researching this is, is trying to figure out the right solution at the right place.   Norbert: Wow, thank you for that. That's really helpful. I'm grateful in particular for this idea of reframing our thoughts about waste management and how to think about that differently changes the way we actually approach these issues. We're at the end of our time but I wanted to raise this question to Celeste because Callie I think you've addressed this to some degree, but feel free to jump in. How do we want to make sure we include the environmental impact in the work that we are doing in reframing waste management? Are there some important things that have been left out? Should we reconsider? I would love to hear your thoughts on this.   Celeste: When it comes to food waste, one of the things that really is important is that it is an interdisciplinary field. Often I find as we talk about the role of transportation in food waste is that everybody recognizes that it's an important component of food waste but often it's a separate conversation. So listening to Callie in particular, she highlighted the importance of making sure that transportation is being included kind of as a decision variable in our models. That transportation is not just an afterthought as one of the costs associated with transporting food. When we really embed transportation into the decisions that we are making related to food waste it naturally has a positive impact on the environment as well. One thing that I am curious about is the role of new transportation technologies in the future. Our field is evolving quite rapidly with autonomous and connected vehicles drone deliveries and things like that. In the future there will need to be research to look at what new technologies can do in the field of food waste.   Bios   Callie Babbitt is a Professor of Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology's Golisano Institute for Sustainability. Callie's research group aims to create circular economy solutions to recover value from waste streams - including food waste, consumer electronics, plastics, and lithium-ion batteries. Research at RIT is focused on creating innovative technologies, business models, policy initiatives, and consumer engagement efforts to reduce the amount and environmental impacts of food waste while at the same time creating economic growth and maximizing efficient use of resources.   Celeste Chavis is an associate professor in the Department of Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Studies at Morgan State University. Her research focuses on transportation operations, safety, and performance metrics for multimodal transportation systems through an equity lens. Her research focuses on accessibility measures (including food access), public transit operations, pedestrian and bicycle safety, and travel behavioral modeling. She is a registered professional engineer in Maryland.

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