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Shipping containers are a staple of global trade, helping in the transport of all sorts of goods by sea across the world. But their relatively cheap cost and sturdy structure lends them to many other purposes. In this episode we look at a start-up business in the UK that uses shipping containers to store carbon captured from the air in the production of building materials. And we visit a school for poorer children created out of shipping containers that sits in the middle of a busy intersection in Mumbai, India.People Fixing The World from the BBC is about brilliant solutions to the world's problems. We'd love you to let us know what you think and to hear about your own solutions. You can contact us on WhatsApp by messaging +44 8000 321721 or email peoplefixingtheworld@bbc.co.uk. And please leave us a review on your chosen podcast provider.Presenter: Myra Anubi Producer: William Kremer India reporter: Chhavi Sachdev Editor: Jon Bithrey Sound mix: Hal Haines(Image: Myra with Nicholas Chadwick from Mission Zero outside a shipping container in Norfolk, BBC)
Here's something new.... it's an Inter-MissionJoin 009 and 004 for a shorter (than usual episode) as they discuss the new Netflix series "Zero Day" starring Robert De Niro. Just a warning there are plenty of SPOILERS so if you don't want the surprises ruined pause now and give it a watch.It's not always possible to get into the studio for a full-on movie review so we've come up with this concept and if it works it means we can pump out more content for your to enjoy.... well, that's the theory.In this one Andrew & Tim look at Zero Day and try to work out what they got right and where they went wrong. While we're at it we have a go at fixing Hollywood studios and tell Netflix how to do their job properly.Keep your Negligent Discharge coming to Licence to Podcast on Facebook, X or Instagram or email hello@licencetopodcast.com
News; Jakub Menšík defeats Novak Djokovic in Miami; Mission Zero-G inspires future Czech astronauts; socialist chandeliers restored; documentarian Martin Dušek on Czech taste.
News; Jakub Menšík defeats Novak Djokovic in Miami; Mission Zero-G inspires future Czech astronauts; socialist chandeliers restored; documentarian Martin Dušek on Czech taste.
Patricia Tilley, Associate Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services and an ASTHO member, discusses New Hampshire's Mission Zero; Dr. Stephen Lee, the Executive Director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, updates us on the Ending HIV Epidemic program; and ASTHO's Legislative Prospectus Series outlines the public health trends to watch for in 2025. New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Web Page: Mission Zero NASTAD Web Page ASTHO Web Page: Joint and Affiliate Councils ASTHO Web Page: 2025 Legislative Prospectus Series
In the episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we are speaking with Jill Albers. Albers is an account executive at Interface, a global leader in modular flooring, offering an integrated collection of carpet tiles and resilient flooring. Albers graduated from Marymount University in Arlington, VA, with a BA in Interior Design and immediately began working in the Washington metro area's commercial and corporate design segment. In 2017, Jill moved to her family's home state of Maine so she could start working for Interface. In 2019, she was awarded the Ray C Anderson Sustainability Award, an honor given by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation to a member of the Interface sales team who actively demonstrates their commitment to Interface's Mission Zero and Climate Take Back mission in their career and personal lives. In 2023, she was asked to join the Global Sustainability Council for Interface, an internal group from all facets of the Interface business. She was tasked with inspiring and influencing the company's sustainability path forward. Locally, she has been a board member of the Maine Interior Design Association (MIDA) and served as president from 2022 through 2024. Our interview today is sponsored by Maine Home+Design. Don't miss Alber's Design Theory in the upcoming January/February issue of Maine Home+Design. Web: https://www.interface.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/interface_me_vt_nh/ More from us: Website: www.adppodcast.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/adppod_
Mark and Dan talk about quests! Listen to learn more! To get in touch with us please email us at spellmanministries@gmail.com You can find us on all our socials & website below! www.spellmanministries.org www.Facebook.com/SpellmanMinistries www.Instagram.com/SpellmanMinistries
In this impactful episode of the "Shark Theory" podcast, host Baylor Barbee shares his enlightening experience participating in the North Texas Warrior Golf Association's Mission Zero classic, a charity golf tournament with an extraordinary purpose: using the game of golf to assist veterans in overcoming mental health challenges. Remarkably, this program has maintained a record of zero suicides since its inception in 2011, coinciding compellingly with World Suicide Prevention Day. Baylor's reflective insights on gratitude, camaraderie, and resilience are poignantly woven into his narrative, making this episode both inspiring and educational. Baylor's narration transitions into a deep dive into the essence of being a genuinely good person, epitomized by his friend Randy Watkins, a mortgage lender and an embodiment of altruism. He discusses how Randy's unwavering commitment to selflessness and helping others without expecting anything in return orchestrates success in both personal and professional arenas. Baylor encourages listeners to evaluate and enhance their own "good person" skills, stressing the importance of putting others first and creating meaningful connections. Additionally, this episode underscores the significance of perseverance and adaptability in the face of varying life circumstances, drawing parallels between the changing dynamics of a golf course and one's opportunities in life. Key Takeaways: The North Texas Warrior Golf Association's Mission Zero classic has effectively utilized golf to promote veteran mental health, achieving zero suicides since 2011. Playing golf with veterans offers a profound sense of gratitude, especially on significant days like World Suicide Prevention Day. Developing a "good person" skill is essential; altruism and thoughtful connections can significantly impact one's success and fulfillment. Persistence in the face of difficult seasons or circumstances can eventually lead to success, much like adapting to wet or dry conditions on a golf course. Blocking out negative noise and maintaining focus on your goals, despite external distractions, is crucial for personal and professional growth. Notable Quotes: "Since 2011, they have had zero suicides as a result. And I just thought that was so incredible." - Baylor Barbee "I think the secret to Randy's success, he's just an all-around great guy." - Baylor Barbee "Sometimes you just have to focus on being an extremely good person." - Baylor Barbee "Eventually the tide turns, eventually the season changes. Just stay where you're at, commit to what it is that you're doing right." - Baylor Barbee "Remember why you're there and what you're doing it for." - Baylor Barbee If you're looking to sharpen your mindset and achieve your goals, we've got you covered. Download our FREE Mindset Resources to get started on your journey to personal growth. Don't forget to check out our exclusive Shark Theory Apparel and Books for more tools and inspiration. Interested in taking your organization to the next level? Book Baylor to speak to your organization or at your next event. Mindset Matters - Let's make yours Unstoppable!
In 2019, the UK became the first major economy in the world to sign its commitment to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 into law. Mission Zero, commissioned in September 2022 and published in November 2023, was a landmark independent report into the delivery of the UK's net zero commitment. Chaired by Chris Skidmore, the UK's former Energy Minister who was responsible for signing net zero into law, the review asked how the UK could better meet its net zero commitments, and how it might deliver targets in a way that works for all. Its conclusions set out a new economic narrative for climate policy, demonstrating the financial opportunity that net zero can deliver. In this IPR event, the panellists discuss the UK's transition to net zero. What challenges and opportunities will the UK face? How can we deliver net zero while also creating new jobs, industries and investment? How do we ensure that as we reduce our emissions, the transition is fair and creates a better future for everyone? With Alix Dietzel (University of Bristol), Joss Garman (European Climate Foundation) and Chris Skidmore. Chaired by Lorraine Whitmarsh (University of Bath). This panel discussion took place on 15 May 2024.
In today's podcast we will be finding out just how much we still have to do as nation and as a planet to hit our net zero carbon emission targets and really start to reverse the clearly catastrophic impacts of a changing climate.My guest today is the Rt Hon Chris Skidmore, former MP for Kingswood in South Gloucestershire and the man who, as interim Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth in 2019, signed into law the UK's legally binding target of hitting net zero emissions by 2050. He has held a number of government roles in his parliamentary career – notably Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation and then for Health under Boris Johnson, but returned to the backbenches in 2020.It was from there that he authored the well-thumbed Mission Zero review of government's net-zero strategy – a hard hitting tome that it's fair to say wasn't entirely well received by those in charge of the strategy.Chris resigned as an MP earlier this year in protest at the government's stance on new offshore petroleum licensing. Nowadays he's very busy championing the net-zero cause and missing few opportunities to get that vital message across ResourcesMission Zero reportBetter Earth' initiative launched in EdieMission Zero CoalitionBuilding the Future, Lessons for a Buildings Breakthrough report
Freya Pratty, FT-backed Sifted.eu's prolific climate tech reporter, joins Wicked Problems - Climate Tech Conversations. Just in time for her scoop this morning about 2150.vc leading a ‘buzzy' £22m Series A investment into Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy-backed, UK-based, direct air capture pioneer Mission Zero.Episode Highlights:The Quest for White Hydrogen: Freya opens up about her exploration into white hydrogen, emphasizing its potential impact and the formidable challenges associated with harnessing this elusive energy source.Climate Adaptation & Venture Capital: A significant portion of the conversation is dedicated to adaptation technologies. Freya shares her insights on the venture capital community's cautious engagement with climate adaptation tech despite its critical importance.The Rapid Evolution of Direct Air Capture (DAC): Freya discusses the advancements in DAC technology, highlighting companies that are pioneering scalable and efficient solutions to carbon capture.Unveiling the Vargas Group's Success: Anticipation builds as Freya teases her upcoming piece on the Vargas Group, a conglomerate known for its streak of successful climate tech ventures, underscoring a unique model of innovation and execution.Name Checks:SiftedClimateXPale Blue DotPlanet A VenturesMission ZeroRealIceThe Vargas Group (Mentioned as a successful conglomerate in climate tech)Northvolt, Polarium, H2 Green Steel, and Aira (All part of the Vargas Group's portfolio)Connect with Freya PrattyLinkedInConnect with UsWicked Problems is a audience-supported media. Become a free or paid subscriber at wickedproblems.earth.Follow us on LinkedIn or BlueSky for updates and discussions on the latest in climate tech and renewable energy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In our very first #StopBurningStuff Friday Takeover podcast, campaign co-founder Quentin Willson is joined by the Rt Hon Chris Skidmore OBE to talk about clean energy, EVs, politics and the future of UK Industry. Many have hailed Chris Skidmore as a ‘Politician with principles' following his resignation from UK Government over its decision to grant new oil and gas licences. Since authoring the Government's independent Net Zero review in 2023, Chris has advocated for the transition to cleaner technologies. In this episode Chris talks about the need for greater political backing of EVs and clean energy solutions, what is at stake for UK industry and the economy if we don't embrace these new technologies, and how we can all help influence positive change at a grassroots level. Find us on Youtube: Fully Charged Show: https://www.youtube.com/@fullychargedshow Everything Electric Show: https://www.youtube.com/@EverythingElectricShow Podcast references: Mission Zero. Independent Review of Net Zero: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/63c0299ee90e0771c128965b/mission-zero-independent-review.pdf Support our StopBurningStuff campaign and help fight EV and clean energy misinformation: https://www.patreon.com/STOPBurningStuff Join us at the next Everything Electric expo for more myth-busting content: https://everythingelectric.show Subscribe for episode alerts and the Stop Burning Stuff newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iKxG9-/ Visit: https://fullycharged.show/blog/stop-burning-stuff-myth-busting/ Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StopBSCampaign Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stop-burning-stuff #stopburningstuff #podcast #everythingelectric #fullychargedpodcast #fullychargedshow Tags: Stop Burning Stuff Podcast Fully Charged Show Podcast Stop Burning Stuff Stop BS Quentin Willson Robert Llewellyn Fully Charged Show Everything Electric LIVE
Jeremiah Lim, Director in the Sustainable & Impact Investment Banking group at Barclays, discusses how climate hardtech companies can raise debt / project finance to help grow and scale their businesses. He discusses how a climate tech startup can get ready to raise debt, considerations ahead of structuring offtake agreements, when to start collaborating with groups such as his, as well as his take on the “low hanging fruit” within climate tech or technologies that should be prioritized. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mentioned in the podcast:Mission Zero - https://www.missionzero.tech/Deep Science Ventures - https://deepscienceventures.com/UNDO - https://un-do.com/Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital: https://home.barclays/sustainability/addressing-climate-change/financing-the-transition/sustainable-impact-capital/------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Connect with us:Email us: info@climatetech360.comHost: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samiaqaderGuest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremiah-lim-cfa-4bb93060/
The Carbon Removal Show | Negative Emissions, Net Zero, Climate Positive
2023 was a big year for carbon removal! With only 27 years until 2050, Tom and Emily look back on the last 12 months to reflect on the current stage of the industry's growth commercially, socially and politically. With big thanks to the organisers, speakers and participants of Carbon Unbound Europe 2023 for welcoming us to the event and for all the inspiration. Huge thanks to all our guests in this episode: Sebastian Manhart, Senior Policy Advisor at Carbonfuture Oliver Katz, Founder and CEO of Unbound Summits Michelle Li, Founder and Executive Director of Women and Climate Gabrielle Walker, Co-Founder of CUR8 and Founder of Rethinking Removals Bilha Ndirangu, CEO at Great Carbon Valley Ted Christie-Miller, Director of Carbon Removal at BeZero Carbon And our very own Producer Ben, making his on-mic debut for The Carbon Removal Show! We also shout out a lot of other hard working CDR companies and organisations in this episode: CDR.fyiCarbon Removals at COPMission ZeroHeirloomClimeworksRewind: biomass sinkingBrilliant Planet: macroalgaeEquatic: ocean direct carbon removalDeutscher Verband für negative EmissionenCO2RE Future Leaders Network: join the SlackWomen and Climate: join the Slack To learn more about The Carbon Removal Show, including further reading and all our sources, head to thecarbonremovalshow.com. And thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show. Resources and further reading Climeworks and Great Carbon Valley chart path to large-scale direct air capture and storage deployment in Kenya: https://climeworks.com/news/climeworks-and-great-carbon-valley-chart-path-to-large-scale-dac Mission Zero turns on UK's first direct air capture plant to enable jet fuel made from air: https://www.missionzero.tech/news/uk-first-direct-air-capture-plant Suck carbon from the air? US facility launches novel climate solution: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/19/carbon-dioxide-direct-air-capture On the durability of biochar carbon storage: https://biochar.systems/durability-statement/ Assessing biochar's permanence: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166516223002276?via%3Dihub Frontier Makes Largest Carbon Removal Purchase From Lithos Carbon: https://carbonherald.com/frontier-makes-largest-carbon-removal-purchase-from-lithos-carbon/ Carbonfuture, Exomad Green, and Microsoft Sign One of the Largest Biochar Carbon Removal Deals To-Date: https://www.carbonfuture.com/project-showcase/carbonfuture-announces-innovative-offtake-collaboration-with-exomad-green-and-microsoft-for-large-scale-biochar-carbon-removal COP28 — Mixed Results on Removals, Markets and Carbon Capture: https://evetamme.com/2023/12/14/cop28-on-carbon-removal-ccs-and-markets/ Why Carbon Removals Are Center Stage At COP28: https://www.forbes.com/sites/phildeluna/2023/12/07/why-carbon-removals-are-center-stage-at-cop28/?sh=26a7e1e82c68 Climeworks Direct Air Capture Summit 2023 Highlights: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://climeworkscom.cdn.prismic.io/climeworkscom/9493f4d4-676f-47cc-a1f8-8959bc84abee_DAC%2BSummit%2Bhighlights%2B2023%2B%25282%2529.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1704643167135658&usg=AOvVaw1O0rP7eNt04mSMiYQB3UKo Paying for Quality: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2023: https://3298623.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/3298623/SOVCM%202023/2023-EcoMarketplace_SOVCM-Nov28_FINALrev-1.pdf The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal Report: https://www.stateofcdr.org/ Fossil-fuel industry embrace raises alarm bells over direct air capture: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/fossil-fuel-industry-embrace-raises-alarm-bells-over-direct-air-capture-2023-10-10/ Biden picks two DAC hubs for federal funding: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/cen-10127-buscon1
Broadcasting from COP28 at Expo City, Helen speaks with experts to discuss all things sustainability in the realms of education and healthcare. Alex from House of Social also joins the show for a small biz clinic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this session, the Rt. Hon Chris Skidmore MP, author of the Net Zero Review, joined Catalyst Host Joanna Gosling to discuss the UK's journey to Net Zero. The inaugural Innovation Zero Congress at Olympia London in 2023 convened 6,866 passionate, forward-looking experts who exchanged critical knowledge, debate and discussions around the implementation and scaling of the innovations needed to meet the Paris goals. Learn more via www.innovationzero.com.
Zero-Emissions Public Transportation: Demand and SupplyGlobally, transportation accounts for approximately one quarter of all CO2 emissions and grew by 3% in 2022. “Buses and other heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for a disproportionate share of the carbon and air pollution emissions from the transportation sector.” As a result, many governments are focusing policies and financial assistance on transitioning heavy-duty vehicles from diesel to zero-emissions vehicles. In the United States, the Federal Transit Administration received $7.5 billion through 2026 for battery-electric buses from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. As public awareness of climate change and the risks associated with climate pollution grow, demand for zero emissions public transportation options is also rising. “Nearly 5,500 new full-size zero-emission transit buses were on the road, on order or funded in the U.S. in 2022, a 66% increase over the previous year.”This public demand requires bus operators to purchase zero-emissions buses and to build or acquire the needed infrastructure for those buses. For larger metropolitan areas, this can pose a significant financial obstacle. For example, the transit authority in Washington, DC, will “buy about 100 electric buses and refurbish a depot to charge and maintain them,” at a cost of $104 million. Thus, the public demand for zero emissions public transportation options translates to local government need for federal grants to respond to that demand. While in the US, much of this money will be coming from the federal government, Scotland's transportation agency is taking a different approach.Scotland's Bus Decarbonisation TaskforceTransport Scotland–the national transport agency for Scotland–has ambitious emissions reductions targets for vehicles of all categories, including heavy-duty vehicles, and hopes to achieve those targets through programs like the Mission Zero for Transport initiative, “a mission-led approach” that includes a pledge to “ensure that people and places benefit fairly from the shift to sustainable, zero emission mobility.” Scotland's Low Carbon Economy Directorate facilitates the development of solutions that leverage the expertise and experiences of participating communities. The Bus Decarbonisation Taskforce is a good example of this. The taskforce developed rounds of bidding for financial and technical assistance from the government, as well as peer-to-peer learning and support opportunities. Initially, small- and medium-sized operators, while frequently interested in transitioning to zero-emissions vehicles, did not have the staffing capacity to develop the bid applications or to seek needed infrastructure improvements, leading to fewer small- and medium-sized operators being able to take advantage of the taskforce's programs. As a result, the taskforce changed aspects of the second round of bidding to benefit small and medium-sized operators. Benefits of a holistic approach to governanceIn convening and collaborating so closely with the transportation sector, Transport Scotland learned more about the internal dynamics of the industry and how market share facilitates or hampers a transition to zero-emission vehicles. The taskforce also incentivized bidders to collaborate with other sectors, such as bus depots operators that might open their spaces to other operators such as EV charging, potentially accelerating the spread of zero emissions adoption to sectors beyond buses. Finally, the hope is that by developing the skills, abilities, and awareness that will strengthen the market for zero-emission public transportation, eventually the type of support offered by the government will no longer be needed.Time and moneyThere are, of course, drawbacks to such an approach. Financing can be difficult for the private sector. While studies show that total operating costs of running zero emissions buses will be equal to or less than diesel engines, investment in new buses and infrastructure requires significant capital at the start. The transport sector often runs on very small margins, making such capital outlays a precarious option. Additionally, the collaborative and iterative approach takes time, which was particularly true during the covid-19 pandemic. Transform Scotland, a national alliance for sustainable transport, released a report in September 2022 indicating that the Scottish government would not reach their ambitious target of removing the majority of diesel buses from public transport by the end of 2023. In fact, Transform Scotland noted that only about 16% of the fleet would be decarbonized by that time. In a BBC article, the author of the Transform Scotland report, Marie Ferdelman, noted that the group “observed no or only slow progress on the majority of sustainable transport commitments” and that “[t]he climate emergency and the cost of living crisis require urgent action … on delivering sustainable transport commitments.”Technology, contextualizedHaving zero emissions public transportation is great, but is less effective if everyone is driving cars. Large scale technological shifts do not occur in a vacuum, so support of the technological shift must be accompanied by, for example, easier access to public transportation. About our guestEd Thomson is the Head of Zero Emission Foresight and International Engagement in the Low Carbon Economy Directorate of Transport Scotland, a government agency. He joined Transport Scotland in 2018 as Head of Low Emission Vehicle Policy, leading a team that focuses on the options, challenges and opportunities posed by the transition to low carbon forms of transport, including the implications for the economy and workforce. ResourcesSierra Club, Electric VehiclesUN Sustainable Transport Conference, Fact Sheet (2021)IEA, Transport (2023)The US' billion-dollar EV bus program can't keep up with demand, Canary Media (2023)Utility Dive, Transit agencies' zero-emission bus adoption increased in 2022 (2023)Mission Zero for Transport (Scotland)Bus Decarbonisation Taskforce (Scotland)Transportation Decarbonisation AllianceBBC, Scotland to miss target on ditching most diesel buses (2022)Transport Scotland, Stuck in Traffic: Meeting the Programme for Government Commitments on Sustainable Transport (2022) For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://climatebreak.org/matching-demand-for-zero-emissions-public-transportation
What's at stake in the next general election for UK climate policy? Listen to Jason Mitchell discuss with Rt. Hon. Chris Skidmore MP, former Minister and Chair of the UK Net Zero Review, about why it's critical that the UK maintain its international climate leadership; what should the UK do about domestic oil and gas production in another energy security crisis; and how the UK can respond to the US and EU clean energy stimulus programmes. The Right Honourable Chris Skidmore is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Kingswood. He was the UK's former Energy and Clean Growth Minister attending cabinet who signed the UK's net zero commitment into law in June 2019, and also served as Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation twice between 2018 and 2020. In September 2022 he was appointed Chair of the Net Zero Review, an independent review into the delivery of UK net zero climate commitments. The report of the review, Mission Zero, was published in January 2023.
The first episode in our Net Zero Series in collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric, we are joined by Chris Skidmore OBE, Chair of Independent Government Review on Net Zero. His ‘Mission Zero' review, which was published in January, made 129 recommendations for delivering a prosperous UK ‘green economy'. These included speeding up decisions around low carbon heating, the role of energy efficiency in buildings, and accelerating the process for connecting renewable power generation to the country's electricity grid. Chris is joined by David Frise Chief Executive, BESA, Martin Fahey – Head of Sustainability, Mitsubishi Electric and Chris Newman – Zero Carbon Design Manager, Mitsubishi Electric.They discuss in detail:How building services have adapted before and can do it again, with BESA members urged to help government understand detailHow the UK will be warmer and richer thanks to net zero, and will narrow the price gap between electricity and gasThe major barrier to net zero - our skills shortageOne trillion of inward investment possible this decade with 90% of global GDP focused on net zeroHow we need to link net zero to safety agenda to drive compliance____________________________________________________________________________________________________Find out more about the UK's leading trade body for Building Engineering Services - BESA. Be in the know about building services, including net zero, building safety act, IAQ and ventilation, skills and training and fair business payment by subscribing to our newsletter and weekly webinars.Get social with us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
In this week's episode, Desiree speaks with Mai Bui, Shiladitya Ghosh, and Nicholas Chadwick on a variety of topics related to carbon dioxide removal. We talk about the latest research around direct air capture hubs, technical differences between direct air capture and point source capture, challenges in commercializing DAC technologies, and advice for everyday people to support this industry. Mai is currently a researcher at Imperial College informing policymakers with multiscale perspectives on a variety of carbon removal technologies. She also works heavily with the UKRI in completing due diligence on industrial decarbonization technologies and sits on the technical advisory board of Puro.earth, the world's largest crediting platform for engineered carbon removal. Shiladitya and Nicholas both met at Deep Science Ventures, a deep-tech venture builder based in the UK. Shiladitya is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mission Zero Technologies. Previously, he completed his PhD at Imperial College in post-combustion carbon capture and thermochemical energy storage. Nicholas is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mission Zero Technologies and prior to founding Mission Zero, he completed his PhD in Chemistry at UCL focusing on water sensing and semiconductors. Selected resources: https://www.stateofcdr.org/resources https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/finding-a-job-in-climate Email for suggestions - podcast.greenminds@gmail.com
This week we are discussing global plans to reach Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2050. Listen to Lord Adair Turner, Chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, discuss the current challenges and necessary commitments to reaching this goal. This is in advance of a webinar being hosted on this subject by the Foundation on 21st March.
Telling your sustainability story is an essential part of any business model and a growing area for us communications professionals. By telling this story, we're helping to create a strong connection with customers on this topic and helping establish that credibility. As we move into 2023, I think this topic is becoming even more relevant and important as businesses look to even monetise sustainability and see it as an opportunity of jumping on the bandwagon. There are two important reports launched recently. And I think they're proof of this. UK Minister Chris Skidmore launched Mission Zero and his report; and the Confederation of Business Industry (CBI), just released a report on mapping the net zero economy. I think this proves this topic needs to be high on our agenda as communications professionals. We need to be sure we're communicating this story in an authentic and compelling way focusing on the impact of the initiatives, rather than individual products or services – or waving company flags. So here are some of my thoughts on this topic this week. Let's dive in. Liked Listening today? What to do next: Get my FREE roadmap to get more strategic with communication activity in your business. Listen to more episodes, take some training, or download a resource: Find out more here. Hire my expertise Whether that's support with a one-off comms project or an entire strategy for your business, drop me a line if you want to explore this further. You can also work with me 1:1 as a trainer and mentor - emma@henbe.co.uk Work with me closely If you'd like to work with me to develop and implement your communication strategy through 1:1 work, podcasts, workbooks, sharing ideas, and lots of accountability and up-skilling, then email me at emma@henbe.co.uk to register your interest for you or your entire team. Leave me a voicemail on my Speakpipe page I would love to hear your feedback on this episode and thoughts on any topics I could include in future ones too.
In this latest episode EG's Piers Wehner and former housing minister Mark Prisk discuss two Michaels - or is it three? - and a couple of missions. First up is the lasting impact of Michael Heseltine's approach to regeneration, which you can hear more about in this full-length interview. Then its the turn of Michael Gove, both the latest allocation of levelling up funding and his rather Heseltinian speech in Manchester, in which he proclaimed levelling up to be a 'moral mission'. And finally, it is the turn of Chris Skidmore's report on the path forward for the government's net zero strategy, Mission Zero.
Lendease's ambitious science based emission reduction targets have been described as industry leading. Listen as Ann Austin, Head of Sustainability for Lendlease Australia, shares some of their journey for developing these and the importance for organizations to understand and hone in on their unique area of influence in determining thoughtful, and considered, strategies rather than borrowed ones. The result is their mission zero roadmap which is already delivering exciting innovations in fossil fuel free construction.
Nicholas Chadwick is the founder and CEO of Mission Zero Technologies. MZT is developing direct air capture (DAC) technology that will recover high-purity CO2 from the air while incurring only a fraction of the costs and energy it takes to do so today. Frontier is a recipient of an advanced market commitment grant from Frontier, the effort from companies like Stripe, Shopify, Meta, and Microsoft to ensure there is a market for carbon removal credits. This podcast is sponsored by Causal: Many of us rely on Excel, and we couldn't imagine a world without it. Excel lets us quickly crunch numbers, build financial forecasts and model out scenarios to make better decisions. But modelling in Excel and G-Sheets comes with its challenges: manual data dumps, #REFs, untraceable errors, and a lack of data protection create a constant stream of manual work, stress and a lack of confidence in the work you just did — and that's where Causal comes in. Causal is a better way for working with numbers. It's like Excel minus the arcane formulas (no more Sheet1!$E$4 or VLOOKUPs), plus effortless modelling, live data integrations (accounting systems, CRMs, etc.), and beautiful interactive dashboards. And given current market conditions, every startup needs a solid financial model to steer the ship. I've worked with the Causal team to create the Startup Suite — a set of 4 template models for early stage companies. It includes your revenue model, hiring plan, P&L and runway projection: the basics for any startup to keep an eye on the finances and plan for the future. If you're a startup founder, early-stage employee or just a lover of all things data, you'll love Causal. Use the Startup Suite as a starting point, or sign up for the product for free. The links are in the description! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/notboring/message
Chris is a serial entrepreneur who has founded over 13 companies, namely Bentley Marketing Plus, Mission Zero, the Good Energy Guild, Aspen Pet Products, which became the largest non-food pet supply company in the US, and the Pet Sustainability Coalition Through his world travels, he absorbed the cultures around him, but most importantly; witnessed the eco-destruction that was well underway across our planet. Today, he is focused on the Pet Sustainability Coalition, which improves the environmental and social impact of the pet products industry and mentoring Colorado University MBA and Masters of the Environment students along with women-led start-ups focused on game-changing eco-endeavors. His Motto: “Be sure everyone you meet feels a little better for having met you”
Interface is a modular flooring company with one of the most forward-thinking sustainability visions. In 1994, company founder and CEO Ray Anderson committed to becoming the world's first environmentally sustainable and restorative company after reading Paul Hawken's The Ecology of Commerce. Since then, Interface has achieved impressive milestones including being the first flooring company to have all carbon-neutral products, achieving Mission Zero in 2019, and establishing the company mission to overcome the biggest challenge facing humanity and reverse global warming. In this episode, I sit down with Erin Meezan, the Chief Sustainability Officer at Interface. Erin is a sustainability spokesperson, a thought leader, and an accomplished keynote speaker on sustainable business and climate worldwide. In this episode we discuss: Moving from a “do-no-harm” approach to sustainability to a vision of reinvigorating the planet What biomimicry means and how it can inspire sustainable innovation The psychological shortcomings of focusing on a compliance approach to sustainability Key Takeaways: Getting transparency into a company that's been a champion of sustainability for over two decades is a gift for every company that is just starting on this path. What I really appreciate about Erin is how she's able to convey simple frameworks to use when approaching the complex topic of sustainability, and then share how Interface has used these frameworks in practice. I love the thought experiment of considering what type of business mother nature would create. What would business look like, what would our world look like, if all companies aimed to mirror mother nature in their operations: Using only renewable energy, sending zero waste to landfills, all materials serving as raw ingredients for something else at the end of its lifecycle. There's a lot we can learn by studying the way the natural world operates. While we all need a paycheck to support our families, we also want our careers to be so much more than that. We want to contribute to something that matters. We want to leave a legacy that we're proud of. I was really inspired to hear the impact that Interface's purpose has on employees across the company. When you know your job is having a positive impact on the world, you show up in a different way. You have a different relationship with your work, and with yourself. References: Interface Carbon Negative Innovation Press Release From Carbon Neutral to Carbon Negative Why Carbon Matters Lessons for the Future (The Mission Zero report) 2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards pPress rRelease and Interface aAward pLanding Page The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken Biomimicry 3.8 Beyond Zero documentary website Erin's TED short “What nature can teach us about sustainable business” Interface in the media “Interface Moving from Net Zero to Climate Positive by Rethinking Factories as Forests”, Sustainable Brands, June 13th, 2018 “This carpet company has always been an unlikely environmental leader. Now it's going further.” Fast Company, October 20th, 2020 Beyond Sustainability: The Regenerative Business” Forbes, October 24th, 2020 “Manufacturing Goes Carbon Negative”, Strategy + Business, May 7th, 2018 Connect & Share: If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading them! If this episode resonated with you, I ask you to send it to a friend. Help bring even more visibility to these leaders that are using business as a force for good! Subscribe to the Purpose and Profit newsletter to make sure you don't miss future episodes. This podcast is for you, the listener. I'd love to hear what resonated with you, or if you have a suggestion on who would be a great guest for this show. Please send me a note at info@KathyVarol.com.
Seneca College recognizes the importance of making sustainable choices in everything we do, from food services, to construction projects, to how Seneca keeps its sidewalks safe for walking during the winter, and even to curriculum design. To help formalize the processes for making sustainable choices, Seneca College has created the newly established Office of Sustainability. Working with curriculum planners, procurement, professors, and more, the Office of Sustainability provides consultation and guidance so that sustainability can truly be part of every decision Seneca College makes. The guests on today's show work directly with Operations, and with Academic, to help keep Sustainability top of mind in every aspect of life at Seneca College. Also in this episode we: 1. Get to meet our amazing guests, Wai Chu Cheng, Sustainability Specialist Academic and Courtney Hayes, Sustainability Specialist Operations. 2. Discover how Wai Chu and Courtney will approach such a large task 3. Gain insight into the newly created Office of Sustainability, which is poised to put Seneca at the leading edge of sustainable institutions in Canada. 4. Lots more! About today's guests, Courtney Hayes, and Wai Chu Cheng Courtney Hayes Courtney Hayes is the Sustainability Specialist in the Operations Department of the new Office of Sustainability. And on the day this podcast is published. She will have been in her role an entire month. Courtney has a BA in environmental and urban sustainability and her master's degree in sustainable management from the University of Toronto. Courtney also has experience in environmental consulting for clients in the IC and AI, industrial, commercial and institutional sectors to achieve environmental certifications, perform audits and reports and carry out engagement projects like internal trainings, webinars and events. Fun fact, Courtney is also a worm mom. She has a vermi compost bin in her front closet at home! Wai Chu Cheng Wai Chu is the Sustainability Specialist in the Academic Department of the Office of Sustainability and has been in that role for a very short time, just a few days when we recorded this podcast, but brings with her a wealth of experience in this space. Wai Chu has been named by Canadian living as one of its 10 Amazing Canadians making the world a cleaner, greener place, and is the co founder of one of Canada's longest running repair cafes called the repair cafe with over 800 volunteers. The repair Cafe diverted nearly 3000 household items from landfills in 2019. Wai Chu was also Sustainability Coordinator at Sheridan College from 2013 to 2022. YG was nominated for the 2020 shared and people award purple ribbon category for purposeful creativity, and was also nominated as a Mission Zero hero last year, as well. A project Wai Chu led involving transforming to sites filled with popcorn into pollinator friendly gardens, was a national finalist for nature inspiration awards 2021 by Canadian Museum of Nature, Wai Chu has a master's degree in environmental studies, and a second master's degree in education. In Wai Chu's own words, “My passion comes from my love for the natural world, and the local and global community. I am part of.” Keeping Up to Date on COVID-19 For Updates on Seneca's Policies Regarding COVID-19, visit here: https://inside.senecacollege.ca/health This Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts! #SenecaProud Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, which means it's available pretty much wherever you get your podcasts. Click here to subscribe. While you're there, please give us a rating and leave a comment. It really helps get our podcast found. Thanks for listening! Pat Perdue
The establishment of functioning carbon markets, and carbon trading systems could provide the incentive we need to push large countries and companies to work hard at mitigating emissions. The markets that we have now aren't yet stable enough or widespread enough for them to be effective at providing that incentive. On today's episode with Gael from Mission Zero Tech, we are taking a look at the future of carbon capture and how that will interact with the larger energy and consumer markets that we have well established today. More resources below.Website - https://missionzero.tech/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/missionzerotechTwitter - https://twitter.com/MissionZeroTechThe Period Table, Primo Levi - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/427282.The_Periodic_Table?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Kui3ZnHHtj&rank=3Innovating a Bright Future is the podcast that brings together technology and climate action in an engaging interview format that showcases some of the most interesting initiatives taking place across the globe. If you are someone who cares about climate change but you're tired of hearing about how the world is going to explode in a few short years if we don't do something soon (What does that even mean?), then this podcast is for you. We stay away from divisive politics and meaningless numbers with no context, and instead, I interview climate action leaders implementing revolutionary ideas that are helping to reduce our impact on the world around us. Listen to this podcast to learn, be inspired, and find new ideas to look into even more. If you are interested in getting involved, please use any of the contacts or social media listed below, and look into the links below for actionable things you can do right now.Who am I?My name is Avry Krywolt, I am a student from Alberta Canada, I am passionate about taking action against climate change, and I am the host of Innovating a Bright Future. I've noticed through my own experience that the number of people concerned about climate change is growing quickly. At the same time, the information being presented to the public is, in most cases, a sad sigh of defeat, irrational denialism, or frantic screaming that does no one any good. The fact is that climate change is happening, but it is not hopeless, and you are not powerless. TED speaker and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe said that “The most important thing you can do for climate change is talk about it.” so let's talk about it. Let's learn about solar energy and battery storage, let's dig into green hydrogen, and wind, and the power of water, and the importance of sustainable energy. Let's learn and let's discuss. We aren't doomed, but we have to work hard in order to keep climate change from wreaking real havoc on our world. So let's get to work.Find more information about me and the show at our website - innovatingabrightfuture.comJoin our email newsletter - https://innovatingabrightfuture.aweb.page/p/be526572-0819-4a4d-93af-05cd8b2b715c Get involved:Become a member of the Alberta Youth Leaders for Environmental EducationTake a step in the right direction with Count Us InLearn more about climate change + climate action with TED CountdownSocialsInstagram - https://instagram.com/innovatingabrightfuture?igshid=tq6tfg2l0s7Twitter - Twitter.com/ainnovatingSupport the ShowPatreon - patreon.com/innovatingabrightfutureBuy sustainable clothing from TenTreeMusic:Tech Talk by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4464-tech-talk License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Welcome to the Oil and Gas Onshore podcast — brought to you by Endress+Hauser on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. In this episode, Justin sits down with Jeff Peeples, founder and CEO of Sentinel Safety to discuss his recent recharge in Tulum, Mexico along with sharing information about launching Sentinel Safety. Sentinel Safety is a PPE company dedicated to delivering world-class safety products for all industrial applications. Jeff is also a freelance writer and host of the Mission: Zero podcast. LinkedIn profile link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffpeeples/ Website link: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mission-zero-podcast/ https://practicalpragmatist.substack.com/ More from OGGN ... Podcasts LinkedIn Group LinkedIn Company Page Get notified about industry events
Welcome to the Oil and Gas Onshore podcast — brought to you by Endress+Hauser on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. In this episode, Justin sits down with Jeff Peeples, founder and CEO of Sentinel Safety to discuss his recent recharge in Tulum, Mexico along with sharing information about launching Sentinel Safety. Sentinel Safety is a PPE company dedicated to delivering world-class safety products for all industrial applications. Jeff is also a freelance writer and host of the Mission: Zero podcast. LinkedIn profile link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffpeeples/ Website link: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mission-zero-podcast/ https://practicalpragmatist.substack.com/ More from OGGN … Podcasts LinkedIn Group LinkedIn Company Page Get notified about industry events
Welcome to the Oil and Gas Onshore podcast — brought to you by TechnipFMC on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. In this episode our host Justin Gauthier talks with Jeff Peeples, founder and CEO of Sentinel Safety to discuss his recent recharge in Tulum, Mexico along with sharing information about launching Sentinel Safety. Sentinel Safety is a PPE company dedicated to delivering world-class safety products for all industrial applications. Jeff is also a freelance writer and host of the Mission: Zero podcast. LinkedIn profile link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffpeeples/ Website link: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mission-zero-podcast/ https://practicalpragmatist.substack.com/ We'd like to highlight some fascinating technology provided by our sponsor, TechnipFMC. Their new and integrated iComplete™ ecosystem is digitally enabled and delivers efficiency benefits by dramatically reducing components and connections while simultaneously providing real-time data to operators about the #wellpad operations. TechnipFMC is continuing to push the limits in order to achieve full frac automation. To discover more about all the benefits of iComplete™ click the link in the show notes or check them out on linkedin: https://lnkd.in/eeSVvcc TechnipFMC Giveaway https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/pcEvkKz/OGGN Ogio Dome duffle bag Yeti 20 oz purple tumbler Executive power bank Columbia neck gator AcePods 2.0 – True Wireless Stereo (TWS) Bluetooth Ear Buds More from OGGN … Podcasts LinkedIn Group LinkedIn Company Page Get notified about industry events
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Astro Pi Challenge calls on young people to run their own experiments on the International Space Station. I find out more from Olympia Brown, Head of Youth Partnerships, Raspberry Pi Foundation. Two upgraded Raspberry Pi computers were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in December 2021, enabling young people aged 19 and under to run scientific experiments in space and communicate with astronauts aboard the ISS. The European Astro Pi Challenge from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, in partnership with the European Space Agency, empowers young people, no matter their experience with computers, to write a simple computer program and share a message with the astronauts orbiting 408km above the Earth. The two Raspberry Pi computers will replace older, less-advanced models called Ed and Izzy that were originally deployed as part of Tim Peake's Principia mission in 2015. The European Astro Pi Challenge Mission Zero is aimed at beginners and primary school children and guides young explorers through the steps of writing a computer program to measure the humidity on the ISS. They can share a personal message and create a digital animation that appears on the LED display for the station's astronauts to read and enjoy. Previous messages sent to the ISS included, ”Do you like pizza?”, “Can you take pets to space?” and “I want to go to space one day.” Mission Zero is free, takes about an hour to complete and can be done at home or in the classroom through the Astro Pi website: http://astro-pi.org/ (astro-pi.org). Everyone that follows the step-by-step guidance is guaranteed to have their computer program message and animation run in space and will receive a personalised certificate to confirm the date, time and location of the ISS when their program was run. They will also have the opportunity to name the Raspberry Pi computers heading to space in December. Young people can have a go and send their messages to the space station until 18 March 2022. Philip Colligan, CEO, Raspberry Pi Foundation said: “I can't think of many free science-education projects for young people that have their own space programme. The Astro Pi Challenge is a fun activity to support children to discover coding, explore digital creativity and take part in an ‘out of this world' learning opportunity. You don't need to be a computer whizz to have a go, you don't need specialist equipment, and parents don't need to have any knowledge of coding to support their child to take part, we talk you through it step-by-step. We are putting the power of computing into children's hands with one of the coolest educational opportunities out there.” In addition to Mission Zero, the Astro Pi Challenge Mission Space Lab is aimed at teams of young people with some prior experience of coding. Teams develop more detailed experiment ideas in school or as part of a coding club that can run on the two Raspberry Pi computers, learning about the real-world impact that their experiments can have. Olympia Brown, Head of Youth Partnerships, Raspberry Pi Foundation said: “More than 54,000 young people from 26 countries have taken part in the Astro Pi challenges to date to run their own computer programs in space . Our two new Raspberry Pi computers mean even more young people can learn about coding and digital creativity to empower them to share messages with the International Space Station. The upgraded technology allows young participants to develop and run more detailed and complex experiments than they have ever been able to before.” The deadline for entries to this year's Mission Space Lab has now closed but the most promising experiments will now be supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to progress their ideas, with selected teams receiving hardware to refine their experiment on Earth before the best ideas run on the ISS. Previous Mission Space Lab experiments designed by young people explored the health of...
Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us: Check out the courses over at Talk Python And Brian's book too! Michael #1: Box: Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access Want to treat dictionaries like classes? Box. small_box = Box({'data': 2, 'count': 5}) small_box.data == small_box['data'] == getattr(small_box, 'data') == small_box.get('data') There are over a half dozen ways to customize your Box and make it work for you: Check out the new Box github wiki for more details and examples! Superset of dict See Types of Boxes as well Brian #2: Reading tracebacks in Python Trey Hunner “When Python encounters an error in your code, it will print out a traceback. Let's talk about how to use tracebacks to fix our code.” Brian's commentary Tracebacks can feel like brick wall of error telling you “you suck”. But they are really meant to help you, and do, once you know how to read them. Probably should be one of the earliest things we teach people new to coding. Like maybe: hello world tracebacks testing Anyway, back to Trey Start at the bottom. Read the last line first That will have the type of exception and an error message The two lines above that are The exact filename and line number where the exception occurs a copy of the line Those two lines are a stack frame. Keep going up and it's other stack frames for the callstack of how you got here. Trey walks through this with an example and shows how to solve an error at a high level stack frame using the traceback. Michael #3: Raspberry Pi: These two new devices just went live on the International Space Station The International Space Station has connected new Raspberry 4 Model B units to run experiments from 500 student programmer teams in Europe. From the education-focused European Astro Pi Challenge These are new space-hardened Raspberry Pi units, dubbed Astro Pi The AstroPi units are part of a project run by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Earth-focused Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab. The former allows young Python programmers to take humidity readings on board ISS while the latter lets students run various scientific experiments on the space station using its sensors. Brian #4: Make Simple Mocks With SimpleNamespace Adam Johnson Who's crushing it recently, BTW, lots of recent blog posts SimpleNamespace is in the types standard library package. Works great as a test double, especially as a stub or fake object. “It's as simple as possible, with no faff around being callable, tracking usage, etc.” Example: >from types import SimpleNamespace >obj = SimpleNamespace(x=12, y=17, verbose=True) >obj namespace(x=12, y=17, verbose=True) >obj.x 12 >obj.verbose True unittest.mock.Mock also works, but has the annoying feature that, unless you pass in a spec, any attribute will be allowed. The SimpleNamespace solution doesn't allow any typos or other attributes. Example: >obj.vrebose Traceback (most recent call last): File "[HTML_REMOVED]", line 1, in [HTML_REMOVED] AttributeError: 'types.SimpleNamespace' object has no attribute 'vrebose'. Did you mean: 'verbose'? Michael #5: Extra, extra, exta Marak Squires, supply chain issues (NPM), and terrorism? [npm issues] css outlines! python 3.10.2 Python Shorts YouTube series #1 Parsing data with Pydantic #2 Counting the number of times items appear with collections.Counter Stream Deck + PyCharm video, github repo Brian #6: 3 Things You Might Not Know About Numbers in Python David Amos Most understated phrase I've read in a long time: “… there's a good chance that you've used a number in one of your programs” There's more to numbers than many people realize The 3 things numbers have methods integers have to_bytes(length=1, byteorder="big") int.from_bytes(b'x06xc1', byteorder="big") class method bit_length() and a bunch of others floats have is_integer(), as_integer_ratio() and a bunch more use variables or parentheses, though. 5.bit_length() doesn't work n=5; n.bit_length() and (5).bit_length() works numbers have hierarchy Every number in Python is an instance of the Number class. so isinstance(value, Number) should work for any number type Then there's 4 abstract types encompassing other types Complex: has type complex Real: has float Rational: has Fraction Integral: has int and bool Where's Decimal? It's not part of those abstract types, it directly inherits from Number Also, floats are weird Numbers are extensible You can derive from numeric classes, both abstract and concrete, and create your own However, to do this effectively, you gotta implement A LOT of dunder methods. Joke:
Scott King joins the podcast this week as he and Dave talk about selling businesses, managing the transition, electric cars, climate change, and much more. Listen in as Scott shares his experience building his company, ReadyTalk, a cloud communications provider, from the ground up and how ultimately it went to sell for over $50 million. Scott is now the founder of Mission Zero, whose mission is to “improve society's resilience to climate change” and “champion zero-carbon living.” Links Mission Zero: https://missionzero.io/
Cost, inventory, and access to charging stations are major barriers when making the jump to an electric vehicle. In fact, 71% of Uber drivers across Canada said they're interested in making the switch, but these factors are holding them back. Uber's Matthew Price joins Dan Séguin and Rebecca Schwartz for an in-depth look at what the company is doing to help make electric vehicles more accessible to their drivers—and Canadians. Related Content and Links Matthew Price's Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewprice3/ --- Transcript: Dan Seguin 00:06 This is thinkenergy. The podcast that helps you better understand the fast changing world of energy through conversations with game changers, industry leaders, and influencers. So join me, Dan Seguin, and my co host Rebecca Schwartz, as we explore both traditional and unconventional facets of the energy industry. In this episode, we'll do a deep dive with Uber and discover how they plan to reduce their carbon footprint. I'm Dan Seguin. Rebecca Schwartz 00:39 And I'm Rebecca Schwartz. Hey, Dan, have you ever noticed how quickly language changes seemingly overnight? In 2021 words, like Doom-scrolling and adulting were added to the dictionary? While, words like salty were updated with new definitions. Dan Seguin 00:55 Wait, what salty? What the blank does salty mean now? Rebecca Schwartz 01:00 Well, it's a term for being bitter, angry or resentful. Like, Dan, don't be salty! Dan Seguin 01:07 I don't think so. I'm in a great mood. Cool. Anyways, what about popular phrases? The perfect example: It wasn't that long ago, we used to say, let's call a cab. Now it's, let's order an Uber. Between 2017 and 2019, nearly 4 billion rides were taken using Uber in the US and Canada alone. In fact, Uber is the largest mobility platform in the world. Rebecca Schwartz 01:41 Well, as an avid user myself, there is no question that ride sharing companies like Uber have disrupted the transportation space, providing convenience, accessibility and affordability to riders in nearly every major city around the world. Collectively, ride sharing companies have transformed how we move and commute in our cities, to the point that some critics believe people are foregoing lower carbon forms of transportation, like public transit, biking and walking, resulting in 69% more climate pollution. And that's according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. Dan Seguin 02:18 With the Canadian government's promise to be zero carbon by 2050. And transportation currently accounted for 28% of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions, there's another disruption and culture shift coming. Recently, Uber released its climate assessment and performance report to address how it plans to aggressively tackle climate change and the missions its business produces, Rebecca Schwartz 02:44 adopting the mantra that with great power comes great responsibility. Uber is aiming to be an environmental leader and game changer in the mobility and ride sharing space. So here's today's big question: stating that it will be a zero emissions platform by 2040, what are some of the innovative strategies and incentives Uber is introducing to address its carbon footprint? Dan Seguin 03:07 I'm really interested to talk about what those are in today's show with our very special guest, Matthew Price. Matthew is the general manager of Uber Canada. During Matthew's time at Uber, he helped lead its transformation in Europe, across 15 countries for some of Uber's most strategic cross functional programs. Bonjour Matthew, welcome to the show, perhaps you could start us off by telling us a bit more about yourself and your role at Uber, Matthew Price 03:38 well, Bonjour and thank you for having me on today. So I'm Matthew price, proud Canadian sustainability enthusiast, and also the general manager of Uber Canada. I joined Uber back in 2015, based in Europe, so a front row seat to how this topic has evolved across that continent helping to implement many of Ubers early policies in terms of driving the green resolution there. And then the privilege then to come back to Canada in 2019. To take on this role, and you know, help Uber start its journey to Mission Zero in Canada. So in my role, I'm responsible for our vision and strategy, the overall performance of our business health of our team and you know, importantly, the customer experience both both riders and drivers. Rebecca Schwartz 04:22 Thanks, Matthew. Now, can you tell us more about Uber green, and the uptake thus far by customers? Matthew Price 04:28 Absolutely. So Uber green is our low emissions, right option, electric or hybrid. It is in 16 cities across Canada today. And as an Uber user, you can effectively select Uber green in your app. To request that hybrid or electric ride. It's $1 more than than your Uber X ride, but you're getting to experience something very different. We made a commitment at Uber to be fully emissions zero by 2030. And cities that have supportive policies and 2040 everywhere, globally. In this uber Green was one of our first actions to actually make the commitment a reality. And I will say, I do think, you know, we in ride sharing are really at the next frontier, and can have a real impact here in catalyzing this change. And let me just quickly tell you why. You know, as you might know, gas powered vehicles account for about three quarters of greenhouse gas emissions to transportation and cities today. But not all of those cars are created equal ride sharing drivers use their vehicles much more than your average car owner. And in fact, if, if a driver makes a switch to electric vehicle, you see three to four times greater emission savings compared to your average car. So if you think of the millions of drivers that we as Uber have on the streets across the world, if even a small portion of those drivers make the switch to Go Electric, that's a huge push to getting zero emission transportation off the ground. And importantly, contributing to the scale, that's going to be required to bring down the cost of vehicles and increase the availability of charging, which will we'll talk a lot more about here today. Rebecca Schwartz 06:01 Alright, so has this resulted in an uptake for drivers to transition to electric vehicles? Matthew Price 06:07 so drivers that come to our platform with electric vehicle, they have an opportunity to earn $1 more on any trip they take. And if it's an Uber green trip $1.50 More, which at scale is a significant increase in earnings, which, as we know, is really important when it comes to electric vehicles. Because these cars, these vehicles are still, you know, more expensive today than your your internal combustion vehicle. But at the same time, as I mentioned, there are real barriers here in terms of the cost and access to the vehicle and the availability of charging, which is why it's going to take partnership across the ecosystem to drive the uptake that we all want to see. And and I'll give you example of one of the things that we're doing there to make that happen. And I'm really proud to say we just announced yesterday, the following, which is we did a survey of drivers in Canada, 71% of them are interested in switching to electric vehicle, which is big, but you also hear from them that charging is a significant barrier. So we announced a partnership yesterday with Green Lots, which is a member of the shell group to actually create three new charging stations in Vancouver. That's one of the leading EV markets in North America for Uber. And effectively this is Ubers first exclusive partnership across North America to give drivers and delivery people access to fast charging, and access to fast charging at a discounted rate that will make it cheaper than charging at their home. So it's a pilot. It's a blueprint, but it is the type of thing that we need to replicate across Canada and globally to drive that uptake in terms of drivers transitioning to electric vehicles. Dan Seguin 07:38 That's really interesting, Matthew. Now, Uber recently published its climate assessment and performance report. What were the biggest takeaways from the report? And was there anything that surprised you from the data? Matthew Price 07:53 Yeah, let me let me talk you through a couple of the key insights in that report. So the first one is that the efficiency of trips with Uber actually improve as ridership grows, let me let me explain what that means, which is from 2017 to the end of 2019. Our average active much monthly ridership, it grew by 36%. But carbon intensity declined by 6%. If you look at that, that three year period, the efficiency improvement results in about a half million metric tons of avoided CO2 and 56 million gallons of gasoline conserved. Interestingly, though, the performance is even more efficient in cities. So you know, again, if you look at the 2019, the carbon intensity of rides in our top 10 metros across North America was about five and a half percent lower than Uber average. And even lower if you look at the the largest cities. But the last thing I'll say there is that we found and reported there that Uber drivers, on average, use hybrid vehicles about five and a half times more than your average car. And that speaks to what I mentioned before in terms of, you know, transitioning one Uber driver into an electric or in this case, a hybrid vehicle has an outsized impact in terms of taking, taking dirty miles and putting clean miles on our streets. I will say the other thing in there is we've referenced a number of policies that we think are going to be important to to kind of accelerate the, the revolution here towards green. Things like increasing the quality and availability of local transit, micro mobility infrastructure, we should talk a bit about that road pricing that includes all vehicles, increasing drivers access to cleaner and electric vehicles, as well as charging availability. And that all really helped inform the actions that we've taken as an organization to work towards the 2030/2040 goal. Rebecca Schwartz 09:54 Okay, so as a global company with a global impact. I've read that you're developing some innovative strategies to be a zero emission platform by 2040. Can you tell us what are some of those strategies and how you guys plan to get there? Matthew Price 10:10 Would love to and I touched on a few but but let me let me elaborate. So the way we think about it is, you know, commitments, one thing has to be coupled with action. And there's four key actions that that we're taking. So, you know, the first I've already spoken about, which is expanding ubergreen, you know, and that's gonna give consumers those of us that don't own electric vehicle today an opportunity to experience what it's like, which I think is going to be really important to letting people experience the magic that is an electric vehicle and kind of have that motivate their own choices moving forward. The second one is helping drivers then transition to electric vehicles, we definitely don't have as many on the streets as we need today to service the demand that's there for green. I mentioned green lights already as one way we're doing this. Another instance here, for example, is we have a partnership with General Motors to offer all eligible Uber drivers, effectively the employee discount on a Chevy bolt, which is important to bring down the upfront cost, which which we know is high. And you know, this is important, in addition to federal funding that is that is currently available. We are also investing in our multimodal network. So I mentioned this a moment ago, what that means is, it's going to take more than just offering electric vehicles to fully get to our sustainability goals, we also need to drive mode shifting, which means we need to integrate lime into our app, we've actually done this in Ottawa, where you can now get E bikes and scooters through the Uber app. And we need more partnerships with local transit authorities to give you information and help you figure out how to combine Uber with transit to get to where you need to go. And the last thing I'll say here is we need to be accountable. The Climate report we just talked about is one step in that direction. But it's really just the start, we want to bring our data to the public to the table to discuss how we do this because this is a team sport, we cannot do this alone, it is going to take private and public industry coming together and working towards what I think we all think is a common goal. Dan Seguin 12:11 Now, Matthew, what are some of the biggest barriers and challenges you've identified in your roadmap to zero emissions? Matthew Price 12:19 So I've touched on a couple, let me quickly reiterate those and I'll add a couple more. So I mean, when when we talk to drivers, again, 70% of what you're interested, it is the cost and the access to the vehicle, keeping in mind that the inventory is not there today for people who want the vehicles. And then it's the the access to charging. In fact, there's a study that came out of California not long ago, that shows unfortunately, one in four electric vehicle drivers switch back to a gas car because of how painful it is to charge which is a problem. So So you know, against those I mentioned earlier that, you know, part of evergreen is about people getting to experience what an electric vehicle is, today electric vehicle is is often, you know, a luxury for more wealthy households, often people kind of buying their second or third vehicle and having it be electric. But the data shows that, you know, every electric vehicle on our platform, on average touches 100 different riders. So you know, that gives a lot of people the opportunity to experience an electric ride. And the reason that's important is that scale is going to help kind of catalyze the shift, which means the scale will lead to more demand for vehicles and over time lower battery costs that bring down the cost. The scale off also offers the demand, that's going to be required to get the charging infrastructure to be installed and have the utilization required to make the economics work for those for those asset owners. So think that's really important. I mentioned earlier that it's going to take more than just private cars. So we need multimodal, we need the regulatory framework in place to roll out multimodal. And the one of the things I'll add to this, it's also about education. There's a lot of people, you know, who don't fully understand what an electric vehicle is what it's like to drive, one of the things we recently did was was rolled out an EV calculator, which means you can now go on and compare as an Uber driver, the cost of a current internal combustion versus electric vehicle through the lens of a driver, including all the subsidies and local benefits available to get a sense for what your total cost of ownership is and what it takes to get it on par. So as I've as I said here a couple times, early days on this journey, I think we know what the barriers are. We don't know how to address all of them, but we also know we're not gonna be able to do this alone. Rebecca Schwartz 14:40 So Matthew, the integration of multimodal network is innovative, including the incorporation of public transit tickets, lime scooters, and bike rentals and even carpooling to help commuters get from point A to point B. So can you touch on these and tell us why this was the right step in Ubers evolution? Matthew Price 15:00 Absolutely. And let me let me first talk a little bit more about transit. And I think about it like this today. Most people when they leave their house, they grab their keys, and I hop into their car. And we need to give Canadians something that for the first time is sufficiently convenient that they might consider doing something different, which needs to be more than just offering Uber X and Uber green. But it also needs to be offering new transit options, electric bike and scooter options to effectively help create, you know, a suite of solutions, that makes it more likely you're going to forego the car. And that's important because that car sits idle 95% of the time. And the other 5% is often in meeting carbon emissions with only one person in the vehicle. So the new thing we've done, just in the last few weeks, is rolled out for now just in the GTA, a product called Uber plus transit. And it's a combination of two of our existing products. Uber X and journey planning and how it works is when it convenient routes available, we will actually now help you find an Uber X to the closest transit stop, and then give you the information about how to get to your final destination using public transit. So it's you know, we find that unique ways to combine the two to get you where you want to go, sometimes faster, oftentimes cheaper. And we've integrated this with public transit across the GTA, we're watching the data very closely to see see how it performs. And definitely something we want to roll out across this country to continue to deepen the integration with with public transit, I think it's really, really important as part of the solution. And I think every everyone's you know, everyone, when going from point A to point B, you know, they're they're solving for a slightly different set of things. For some people, it's about what's the green assumption for some people, that's what's the fastest option for some people, it's what's the cheapest option. And you know, I want to I want to offer Canadians ways to solve for all of that, and ways to do it in the most environmentally conscious way. Dan Seguin 17:00 Okay, Matthew, wondering if you could expand on key takeaways from your operations and the overall impact from this past year during shelter in place, and the golden age of food delivery? Matthew Price 17:14 Yeah, I mean, we often get this question in terms of, you know, look, you made this, this this commitment to be zero emissions in late 2020. You know, why then? you know, when and, you know, for us COVID-19 was not a barrier, a challenge, it was actually the catalyst to do this. And the reason and we all saw this was for a period of time there, when we looked at our window, we saw our cities breathing again, for the first time, and if you look at the data, carbon emissions, were actually down for a period of time, as we were all sheltering in place. You know, as the industry leader in Canada, we knew we had an obligation, we have responsibility to take advantage of a moment like that, and figuring out how we can build back better, very much aligned to, you know, the leadership, our Canadian government, shown, very much aligned to the Paris Climate Agreement. And that really spawned the commitment around sustainability. And, and the beginning of that, of course, very focused throughout the pandemic, on helping Canadians in need move safely. In terms of helping, you know, drivers find a flexible earning opportunity that for many people was was necessary during, you know, a really big economic crisis. But, you know, we kept the sustainability aspirations front and center. And I'm really pleased, this is one of the ways that we are building back better. And, you know, in some sense of silver lining for what's been a really, really difficult time for all of us over the last 18 months. Rebecca Schwartz 18:44 Okay, let's talk about government and industry partnerships, including Ubers advocacy for key policy reform, what are some of the changes you'd like to see in these new collaborations for the transportation sector? Matthew Price 18:57 There's no silver bullet here. And, you know, it's going to take all parties coming together, you know, solving for our common goal as, as Canadians and what is the biggest challenge of our generation, in terms of how to make this this kind of low carbon future a reality. There's a long list of things here at the federal level, at the provincial level, at the municipal level. I'll say to that, I think are particularly important to, you know, how we catalyze a lot of what we've talked about here from using ride sharing as a way to share this. You know, one, we've talked about it, we think Uber green is really important in terms of, you know, helping people experience electric, which will help people upgrade to their own electric vehicle will help create some of the the demand required to bring down the cost to make this happen. There's ways that cities can incentivize the use of Uber green. You know, what we've seen in a number of cities, Vancouver's done it. In fact, Pearson airports done it, is they've actually reduced the per trip fee on zero emission vehicles, which makes it for you as a rider cheaper to take to take a green truck. And I do think, you know, there's there's an opportunity to do more of that, to help to to, to, you know, enable that part of what's going to be a key part of the the transition. I think the other thing is, you know, there's real opportunities for us to work as a, you know, ride sharing and taxi industry to think about how to do this in the right way. And you know, very much encouraging cities across the country to create a vehicle for higher working group, bring the right stakeholders to the table, that's going to be all levels of government, it's going to be the private transport companies, taxi companies, utilities, others, and let's talk about things like what are the barriers? And really specific barriers in that specific city? what are best practices we can bring from other jurisdictions? What's the roadmap to get there? There's no silver bullet, as I said, off the top. But, you know, it's these types of things, often with government leading, supported by organizations like ours that will get us to where we need to be. Dan Seguin 21:10 And Matthew, does Canada's commitment to zero carbon by 2050 make collaboration easier compared to other countries? Matthew Price 21:18 I think the answer to that is absolutely. We need that constructive relationship we talked about with local government, there's no other way to do it. And very much seen that and I'm just really pleased and proud as a Canadian to see our government leading in the space. You know, partnerships, like what I've talked about here with Greenlaw are going to be key. The way we kind of take that blueprint and expanded across the country is in part with government helping to pave the way. Dan Seguin 21:45 Now in Canada, more than 3 million people use Uber regularly across 18 cities. I'm curious about Ottawa, what is your data telling you about our mobility habits? Matthew Price 21:58 happy to share some data on on Ottawa, one of our early Canadian cities that we that we brought Uber to, I'll tell you the following. So most most trips in Ottawa happened during commuting times. 8am 4pm To be specific, and of course, on weekends. I can tell you that the people of Ottawa had a lot of fun on Halloween, a really big spike over Halloween weekend. And some of the top destinations in Ottawa are the Rideau center ByWard Market area, Elgin street downtown, via rail station and TD place stadium. Ottawa is a really, really important city for us. And one, you know, in particular, where we are excited to partner with all levels of government and, you know, organizations such as hydro Ottawa, to to make this green future reality. Rebecca Schwartz 22:51 Okay, Matthew, we're coming to the end. So how about we close off with some rapid fire questions? Are you ready? What is your favorite word? Matthew Price 23:01 Oh, hello. Maybe that's my most frequent word. If nothing else, Rebecca Schwartz 23:08 tell us one thing you absolutely cannot live without? Matthew Price 23:11 music. Rebecca Schwartz 23:13 What is something that challenges you? Matthew Price 23:15 I would say how to integrate work and life. I love both sides of that equation so much. There's only so much time in a day and how you balance the two continues to be a real challenge for me. Rebecca Schwartz 23:26 If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Matthew Price 23:29 I would love the ability to pause time and lengthen those kinds of special moments are busy workdays to get a bit more. Rebecca Schwartz 23:39 Now let's say you were talking to your 18 year old self, what would you tell him? Matthew Price 23:44 Life is short. And there's no substitute for passion and doing things that you love. Rebecca Schwartz 23:49 And lastly, what do you find most interesting in your sector right now. Matthew Price 23:54 This one probably won't be a surprise given the conversation we just had. But I think ride sharing it's fundamentally changed how people move around our cities. I think the next frontier is for ride sharing to fundamentally catalyze this electric revolution. Dan Seguin 24:07 Well, Matthew, we've reached the end of another episode of The think energy podcast. Thank you so much for joining us today. I hope you had a lot of fun. Matthew Price 24:17 I did indeed. It was great to meet you both. Thank you for having me on and all the good work you're doing to to help make Ottawa a green city. Dan Seguin 24:28 Thanks for tuning in for another episode of The thinkenergy podcast. Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review whereever you're listening. And to find out more about today's guest or previous episodes, visit thinkenergypodcast.com I hope you will join us again next time as we spark even more conversations about the energy of tomorrow.
Interface has some of the most ambitious climate goals in business, and is achieving them by deeply integrating purpose and sustainability throughout the organization. While Interface may not be a company you've heard of, you might step on its products every single day. Founded by Ray C. Anderson in the 1970s, Interface designs and manufactures modular commercial flooring, including a revolutionary carbon-capturing carpet tile. Long before such innovative products, Interface was a “typical” company with a negative impact on the environment. In 1994, after a customer asked Anderson what his company was doing for the environment, the founder developed a task force to come up with the answer. Since then, Interface has achieved its “Mission Zero” commitment to be net zero by 2020 (and did so a year early) and has embarked on Climate Take Back, an initiative to create a climate “fit for life.” To talk about Ray's vision and Interface's radical journey, we welcomed Erin Meezan, VP and Chief Sustainability Officer, to the show.Listen for Erin's insights on: How Interface operationalized Ray's original vision into strategic initiatives that have transformed the way companies approach sustainability. Why and how Interface engages its supply chain partners in achieving sustainability goals. How purpose-driven products and services can mobilize customers under a shared mission. Transformational lessons learned along Interface's sustainability journey. Links & NotesErin Meezan on LinkedInAbout InterfaceRay Anderson ObituaryRay Anderson's Author PageInterface's Lessons for the FutureNew York Times | “Has the Carbontech Revolution Begun?”Interface's Sustainability HistoryClimate Take Back VideoThe Four Pillars of Climate Take BackCarbon Neutral Floors
Interface has some of the most ambitious climate goals in business, and is achieving them by deeply integrating purpose and sustainability throughout the organization. While Interface may not be a company you've heard of, you might step on its products every single day. Founded by Ray C. Anderson in the 1970s, Interface designs and manufactures modular commercial flooring, including a revolutionary carbon-capturing carpet tile. Long before such innovative products, Interface was a “typical” company with a negative impact on the environment. In 1994, after a customer asked Anderson what his company was doing for the environment, the founder developed a task force to come up with the answer. Since then, Interface has achieved its “Mission Zero” commitment to be net zero by 2020 (and did so a year early) and has embarked on Climate Take Back, an initiative to create a climate “fit for life.” To talk about Ray's vision and Interface's radical journey, we welcomed Erin Meezan, VP and Chief Sustainability Officer, to the show. Listen for Erin's insights on: How Interface operationalized Ray's original vision into strategic initiatives that have transformed the way companies approach sustainability. Why and how Interface engages its supply chain partners in achieving sustainability goals. How purpose-driven products and services can mobilize customers under a shared mission. Transformational lessons learned along Interface's sustainability journey. Links & Notes Erin Meezan on LinkedIn About Interface Ray Anderson Obituary Ray Anderson's Author Page Interface's Lessons for the Future New York Times | “Has the Carbontech Revolution Begun?” Interface's Sustainability History Climate Take Back Video The Four Pillars of Climate Take Back Carbon Neutral Floors
News Corp say they believe in climate change now. Don't take their word for it. We also discuss whether buying billboards is effective climate activism. News Corp are climate activists? News Corp are running a two-week campaign called “Mission Zero”. Joe Hildebrand is fronting the campaign. Their tabloids ran with “Green and Gold” on their front pages. McLean's deep dive into News Corp's ongoing climate denial and pushing of gas. The News Corp writeup of solar panels is just as bad. A part of the their other “Green” coverage, News Corp ran a hit piece on renewables, an exclusive with Gina Rinehart, and a puff piece on Twiggy Forrest. Andrew Bolt is big mad (or plays the heel at least). Ketan Joshi on the whole News Corp package. Labor can't deny Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen gave a wild speech to launch the Climate of the Nation Report. Victoria Labor is also shit, voting down a Green party bill to prevent drilling for gas near the Twelve Apostles. School struck for climate Carn the kids! The School Strike for Climate's demands. JokeKeeper ha ha A Rational Fear podcast. The Jokekeeper fundraiser. Running billboards in Times Square. A Rational Fear had Joe Hildebrand on to continue whitewashing News Corp. McLean's analysis of the episode. Shoutouts Shoutout to the AFL Players for Climate Action!
Cam Wilson and Sami Shah talk about the progress of News Corp's net zero by 2050 campaign “Mission Zero”, their juicy history with the NRL, News Corp global exec fronts up and why hedge funds are suddenly investing in the media company.Subscribe to the podcast: https://shows.acast.com/murdocracy-a-podcast-about-rupert-murdochs-news-corp Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/murdocracy Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/murdocracypodArticles: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/15/news-corp-is-going-only-positive-on-climate-but-did-gina-rinehart-miss-the-memo https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/news-corp-global-boss-robert-thomson-to-give-evidence-at-senate-inquiry-into-media-diversity-20211014-p58zx1.html https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/why-australia-only-has-10-years-to-act-on-climate-change/news-story/bfd315421167ce67c853bef773c7a6b1https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/terry-mccrann/rupert-murdoch-and-his-most-amazing-decade-ever/news-story/0bb500aa274b80cfa2bbfa3f507bf2fb Artwork by Ruby Innes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Van Badham and Ben Davison dive into the miraculous conversion of the Murdoch empire from climate skeptics to "Mission Zero" warriors. They explore how all it has taken is decades of campaigning, billionaires identifying the money making and subsidy extracting opportunities and enough space to allow the likes of Bolt, Gleeson and Panahi to hedge his bets for the man who destroyed Turnbull, Rudd and Turnbull again, over climate policy to start helping save the planet on which he lives. Meanwhile the National Party, "led" by a very "tired" sounding Barnaby Joyce, is trying to reposition itself as the party of "battlers" after having spent the last twenty years being the party of Gina and Twiggy in a last ditch effort to play "outsiders on the inside who can get wins for you!"* *You must be one of a small handful of national party preselectors Van and Ben also examine a recent report on the impacts of job insecurity in the retail sector on Australians trying to care for their kids and/or their parents. Van and Ben link the insecure work crisis to how the COVID pandemic has spread through Australia and examine ways in which people can resist casualisation and the under valuing their humanity so we can have a functioning society. Plus there is good news from France on new ways to recycle plastics using leaves!
Mildura residents in snap lockdown; Ambulance boss calls in ADF to help ease health crisis; Freedom Day in NSW for those fully vaccinated, how will business respond? Daily Tele launches Mission Zero; Vaccine passport trials ahead of Melbourne Cup; NSW heads for daylight as Victoria stays in the dark; Climate policy may lose the election for Morrison government; Man sues after police failed to intervene in a brutal attack; New Mazda models on the way. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In deze aflevering van The Regenerative Education Podcast ga ik het gesprek aan met Eveline Kapteijn, docent-onderzoeker bij de Haagse Hogeschool waar zij ook de coördinator van de living labs van het kenniscentrum Mission Zero is. Tevens is Eveline al jaren actief als bestuurslid van het landelijk overleg finance & control waar zij een spin in het web is om het hoger onderwijs op het gebied van verduurzaming van het economische domein. In dit gesprek duiken we in haar ervaring en visie op ecologische en hybride vormen van hoger onderwijs wat aansluit aan regionale vraagstukken. Zo noemt zij het voorbeeld van KOIOS een open source leerplatform wat beschikbaar is voor iedereen en aansluit bij praktijkvraagstukken op het gebied van blockchain technologie. En pleit ze voor een basisinkomen voor studenten in ruil voor werkleren door het helpen van regionale ontwikkeling zodat iedereen de kans krijgt om betekenisvol te leren in een living lab. In het gesprek zijn de volgende Systeem barrières en kansen naar voren gekomen: Het belang van een inclusieve cultuur voor living lab onderwijsvormen. De kracht van levende omgevingen in de openheid voor aansluiting. De rol van de docent als verbinder tussen studenten, complexiteit en vraagstukken. De kracht van plezier in het hoger onderwijs. De noodzaak voor eigenaarschap van het leerproces voor studenten. Het gebruik van enkele lessen (Projectmanagement, personal development, system's engineering) i.c.m. leren door te doen. Het belang van de regionale uniekheid en het vertellen van regionale verhalen. Het belang van grens overstijgende samenwerkingen tussen onderwijsinstellingen. Het belang van onderwijs ondersteuning om dit soort vormen van onderwijs te faciliteren. De kracht van een lange tijd aan een project te kunnen werken. Externe Links: https://www.koios.online/ http://www.loobe.nl/site/default.aspx https://www.dehaagsehogeschool.nl/onderzoek/kenniscentra/details/kenniscentrum-mission-zero
In deze aflevering van The (Re)generative Education Podcast ga ik het gesprek aan met dr. Anja Overdiek, lector cybersocial design bij de Hogeschool Rotterdam waar zij o.a. verbonden is aan het kenniscentrum creating 010. Tevens is zij als associate lector betrokken bij het kenniscentrum Mission Zero van de Haagse Hogeschool. Zij pleit voor labs als een antwoord voor het gezamenlijk oplossen van complexe maatschappelijke vraagstukken zoals de toekomst van democratie, digitalisering en verduurzaming. Dit kan alleen samen met stakeholders die betrokken zijn met deze ontwikkelingen. Waarbij een balans nodig is tussen disruptie van de huidige onderwijssystemen en een evolutie van het huidige onderwijs. In het gesprek zijn de volgende Systeem barrières en kansen naar voren gekomen: Het belang van co-creatie voor complexe vraagstukken. Waarbij je zoveel mogelijk met alle stakeholders werkt. Het belang van kritisch aansluiten bij de huidige hoger onderwijscultuur. De kracht van aansluiten bij bestaande discourse en contexten. De kracht van studenten en hun unieke positie in de samenleving om bij te dragen aan gezamenlijke leerprocessen. Het belang van het voorbereiden van studenten voordat ze actief aan de slag gaan met deze grote vraagstukken. De kracht van een ontwerpaanpak voor dit soort complexe leerprocessen. Het belang van prototypes om deze leeromgevingen te faciliteren. Het belang van (visuele) en creatieve methoden om dit gezamenlijk leren te faciliteren. Het belang om langere tijd onzekerheid te kunnen verdragen. Het belang van empathie en reflectie en de noodzaak deze serieus maar op leuke manier te integreren op flexibele manieren.Externe Links: Kenniscentrum Creating 010: Home - Hogeschool Rotterdam PERSBERICHT (hogeschoolrotterdam.nl) w1811-0877-a3a1-posters-netwerkdiner-hosts.pdf (dehaagsehogeschool.nl)
Welcome to THE STONED VET USMC! The purpose of our podcast is to help build the community around the VETS and to find our PURPOSE again! Come and hang out with us and feel like you did with your brothers and sisters on those Friday nights. The weather is always nice and you already know how the conversation can go with all of us. Crack a cold one, roll a FATTY, or light a bowl!! This week I have the honor of bringing Jose from Mission Zero!! I LOVE when I can bring family on the show that understands all the MARINE chaos and logic!! You remember what it was like to have your brother/sister with you enjoying the companionship and the camaraderie that was shared during our time in the service! Go and check out Jose @ FB: https://www.facebook.com/missionzeroactual IG: https://www.instagram.com/medicatedvet405/ Jose.cincojr@gmail.com HUGE Shout out to RAPHA180 for sponsoring us!!!! GET 15% off your order when you check out with THE STONED VET USMC If you are looking for natural health alternatives, go and check out their website @ https://rapha180.com/ Become part of the RAPHA180 sales team!! Go to https://rapha180.com/for more details!! Want to be a sponsor to THE STONED VET USMC?? Email thestonedvet420@gmail.com for more details let my podcast help your business grow!! Needing that little bit of extra weight off? Are your joints hurting from all the gear you were carrying around? Wanting to get that refreshing skin? Check out Modere @ https://modere.co/3yRQHqI Referral code 6187712 Don't Forget to vote @ The Veteran Podcast Awards!! https://www.veteranpodcastawards.com/vote Multiple Categories Don't forget to vote for THE STONED VET USMC!!!
In this episode of The (Re)generative Education Podcast I chat with dr. Kim Poldner, professor Circular Business at The Hague University of Applied Sciences where she is one of four professors of the Mission Zero centre of expertise. She is also the host of the wasted tales podcast where she engages with the lived-experience of products and objects as they enter a circular society. Her expertise lies in organizational studies from an aesthetic perspective and the creation of innovative circular business models that focus on multiple value creation. With particular expertise in circular fashion. In this chat we discuss the importance of play, imagination and creativity for regenerative higher educational practices. In this discussion the following systemic barriers and opportunities emerged: The importance of aesthetic and experiential interventions to touch hearts (that lead to transformations. The importance of magic in the ‘classroom'. The power of risk taking, and daring to take risks. To see the cracks in the systems and intervene. The importance of bringing and asking the whole self to be brought to educational spaces The importance of the biophysical environment in which education takes place. The power of creating a community that is welcoming. Starting from a place of equality. Using the genius of the diverse groups in interdisciplinair and international groups. Bringing the capacity of playing as a valuable form of becoming with the world. Sewing the seeds in the cracks of the system through play. External Links: Kim Poldner (@kimpoldner) • Instagram-foto's en -video's Research Group Circular Business - The Hague University(9) Inaugural Address of professor Kim Poldner - Entrepreneuring a regenerative society - YouTubeMetaal Kathedraalhttps://www.dehaagsehogeschool.nl/onderzoek/kenniscentra/details/kenniscentrum-mission-zero
Hi! And welcome to The Regenerative Education Podcast, where sustainability transitions and higher education collide. My name is Bas van den Berg and I am the educational coordinator of the Mission Zero centre of expertise, where we find regenerative solutions for sustainable futures. In each episode, leading educators share their stories of how they are designing and enacting regenerative forms of education and the types of sustainability transformations that these forms of education are nurturing. This podcast is part of my PhD in education and learning sciences as an external candidate at Wageningen University & Research. Where I explore how we can design and enact regenerative higher education. Higher education that nurtures the appropriate participation in the healing of places and self. The first micro-season of this podcast launches after the summer, on the 29th of August. The Regenerative Education Podcast will be available on all major streaming platforms. You are warmly invited to join me on this journey as we chat with twenty-six teachers, professors, researchers and activists active in Western Europe. Join me as we discover how their innovations emerged, the futures they envision for them and the different challenges and barriers they face(d) trying to enact this. Do you want to collaborate or know more? Feel free to reach out through LinkedIn or check out my blog @Medium/Mission Impact. I am excited to go on this journey with you. Let's discover what a regenerative education could be like and how we can take on this awe-some response-ability. For now, happy holidays. RLE — Regenerative Learning Ecologies – MediumBas van den Berg | LinkedIn
Today we bring to you a phenomenal example --> Interface Inc. Did you know that over ninety percent of all of the carpet made today is made up of synthetic fiber...that is nylon, polypropylene or polyester. Now nylon, polypropylene & polyester are raw materials derived from the oil & gas industry. So you can understand how crucial it is for the world to make this supply chain circular because Oil & Gas is a non-renewable industry. Good news is that an individual & visionary by the name Ray C. Anderson, founder and former chairman of Interface Inc. led his company and people on a path to Mission Zero® with a pledge to reduce their negative impact on the environment in the year 1994. Yes, more than 2 decades ago. He was moved after he read a book by Paul Hawkins. That book affected him so deeply that he went to the office the next day and challenged his senior executives to make their business sustainable! If Ray Anderson can do that in 1995 then our generation has no right to make excuses towards climate action today. Since then Interface carpets have been redesigning and reshaping their processes, their thinking and their whole business to try and achieve sustainability by 2020. Their machine that they like to call “Cool Green” separates the reclaimed materials from used carpets → turns it into pellets→ then homogenized powdered form which then is mixed with Bitumen compounds and recycled limestone to turn it into new carpets! Interface carpets have radically changed entire business practices- influenced the industry by reducing dependency on petro-chemicals and minimized their carbon footprint. Their Cool green technology has evolved over the years and now forms a part of all their factories and business processes around the globe. Their carpets are made from recycled / renewed repurposed yarns, which are manufactured using renewable sources of energy. Just imagine how beautiful and efficient the world will be when you have such well thought & well made carpet floorings across corporate spaces, co-working spaces, hotels, schools and colleges and hospitals! Ooh and they also lease you carpets-as-a-service which totally ups their game in this industry. Since 1996, they've reduced the embodied carbon footprint of their carpet tile product by 74% by changing how they design and make their products through the use of recycled materials, dematerialization and improved manufacturing efficiencies. Then, through their Carbon Neutral Floors programme, they compensate for what they still can't avoid with carbon offsets from renewable energy, fuel switching and reforestation projects. Tune into the episode to learn more; Follow our page- (Circular Business Podcast | The Circular Collective) * Keep the conversation on by commenting on our posts on social media- LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter * Please rate and review us wherever you listen to your podcast! Keywords : What is a circular economy? ; Circular Economy Podcast ; Circular Business Models ; Circular Design --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circular-business-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circular-business-podcast/support
Erin Meezan is the VP and Chief Sustainability Officer at Interface Inc, a publicly listed company in the USA that manufactures carpet tiles and has earned a reputation as a leader in sustainability. Erin led the company to unveil a new mission in 2016 – Climate Take Back, tackling the single biggest threat facing humanity: global climate change. This mission is focused on creating a path for Interface and others to reverse global warming, not just reduce carbon emissions. We first caught up with Erin back in episode 21 so we highly recommend going back and listening to that episode to learn more about Interface and also about Erin personally, including how she got started in this fascinating career. Today we cover the latest progress from Interface, Erin's thoughts on what has changed over the last 3 years, #corporateinfluencing and much more... ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Find the show notes here ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ *** SOCIALIZE WITH US *** Website Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube
Audi México tiene un objetivo claro, la producción sustentable del Audi Q5 y sus derivados. Como parte de su programa medioambiental Mission: Zero
On this episode Jeff Peeples (Chief Development Officer - Tomahawk Safety & Host of Mission Zero Podcast) joins us and we have a great conversation that starts off with his upbringing in rural Georgia and how he got into the industry and specifically safety. We discuss him going from designing a revolutionary safety glove, all the way to the launch of the product and what challenges he faced on the way. We then get into Mission Zero podcast, and why he started it (share information and help make people feel safer). We then dive into his hobbies which are history, podcasts, and books. We then discuss the powerful impact of being kind to others and detaching from the news to begin your own critical thought and outlooks. Enjoyed our convo Jeff and wish you the best!
Knowing is half the battle and fun is the other half! We're recruiting you to listen to this monthly podcast hosted by three lifelong Joe fans. Our mission is to look at every era of GI Joe from the classic 12" Joes to today's modern Classified Series. From toys to comics to cartoons, the A.I. Pod is there! Yo Joe! On this special preview episode your hosts – Dave, Kristian, and Noel – break down Hasbro's exciting new GI Joe website! From character selection to the history of the Joes, Mission Zero will examine the relaunch of America's greatest toy franchise. All music by Andy Samford Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this month's episode! Let us know what you think! Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!
CLIMATE ACTION SHOW APRIL 5TH 2021"ONCE YOU KNOW"Produced by Vivien Langford What happens "once you know" about climate change? Two film makers from TFF show us the "spear in the chest moment", when a person with a platform becomes an activist. Once you KnowEmmanuel Cappelin had such a moment when he realised we are heading for collapse. It is a grenade word. When it explodes in your mind you need to find out what to do, to be transformed or to remain stuck. He visits Joanna Macey in USA and Dr Saleemul Huq in Bangladesh. These people have been bravely facing the challenges for decades. He looks at Transition Towns, Citizens' assemblies and direct Action through Extinction Rebellion. It is an intellectually provocative discussion. Emmanuel talks about preparing for the "long future". When we are reeling from local climate shocks and shortages how will we maintain democractic and civilised behaviour? What must we save on the way down? Beyond ZeroNathan Havey film is Beyond Zero – A feature length documentary from HaveyPro Cinema (beyondzerofilm.com) It brings us the story of a carpet company called " Interface" whose CEO, Ray Anderson, had a "spear in the chest moment" after reading a book by Paul Hawken. Ray saw that industry needs to achieve far more than sustainability. It needs to sequester carbon, and prevent future environmental damage. In 2019, "the company officially announced the completion of Mission Zero and introduced the next mission, called Climate Take Back; an aggressive new strategy to sequester carbon in their products and make their factories perform the same functions as forests, sustaining and replenishing the ecosystem." Nathan says " You can't mandate a change like that. A cultural transition makes an environmental transformation possible." We talk about the Green New Deal, Biden's climate action promises and the caring economy. He says we "have to bring more people in to design solutions" and offers his film as a part of any Business Curriculum.Teach This Story – Beyond Zero (beyondzerofilm.com)To build a lasting community of workers with a stake in the future here is an online course from HarvardIntrapreneur Accelerator If there's a tomorrow Song by David Rovics and friends Songbook – David Rovics -Singer/Songwriter
Es ist eine Mammutaufgabe: Bis 2025 sollen alle Audi Produktionsstandorte bilanziell CO2-neutral sein. Unmöglich? Nicht für Rüdiger Recknagel und sein Team. Wie sie die „Mission Zero“ erfüllen wollen, warum es dabei auch um Trinkwasser geht und wo die größten Herausforderungen liegen, damit daraus keine „Mission Impossible“ wird, darüber spricht der Leiter Umweltschutz mit Podcast-Moderatorin Brigitte Theile. Informationen zum offiziellen Kraftstoffverbrauch und den offiziellen spezifischen CO2-Emissionen neuer Personenkraftwagen können dem „Leitfaden über den Kraftstoffverbrauch, die CO2-Emissionen und den Stromverbrauch neuer Personenkraftwagen“ entnommen werden, der an allen Verkaufsstellen unentgeltlich erhältlich ist. Und bei der DAT Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH, Hellmuth-Hirth-Str. 1, 73760 Ostfildern oder unter www.dat.de.
In this episode, we sit down with Nadia Costanzo, Head of banking and expansion at TransferWise. Transferwise is built by and for people who live global lives and make sending money abroad up to 8 times cheaper than the bank.Nadia discusses all things FinTech, expanding into new markets, and how TransferWise is working to mission zero. TalentintheCloud's Website: https://talentinthecloud.io/TalentintheCloud's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/talentinthecloud/Nadia Costanzo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadia-costanzo/ TransferWise' Website: https://transferwise.com/Stacey Japhta's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyjaphta/
Cement og minedrift. Hvad er der bæredygtigt i det? Det kan du få svaret på, når jeg i dag har Fleming Voetmann fra FLSmidth på besøg i HOLMRIS B8s lokaler, mens vi optager podcast. Fleming Voetmann er VP for Marketing, Communication, Branding and Sustainability i FLSmidth, og han fortæller passioneret og indgående om alle de tiltag, FLSmidth har på bæredygtighedsområdet. Med deres strategi ”Mission Zero” er de godt på vej til at nå målet om nul-procents emission i 2030. Kom med indenfor i den store koncern med de lige så store ambitioner for den grønne omstilling. Fleming Voetmann siger, at vi ikke har tid til at ”fravælge de små forbedringer på bæredygtighedsområdet, mens vi venter på de store spring". Hvad han mener med det, kan du få uddybet i denne episode, som også tager os omkring Apple, Nestlé og bilindustrien og deres forsøg på at bruge flere bæredygtige metaller i produktionen. Vi taler om politikere og det danske afgiftssystem, der egentlig er en forhindring for en grønnere vej. Du kan også høre om: • ”Carbon Capture” – altså en slags ”CO2 fangstanlæg”, som Norge er ved at bygge det første af i verden • Den danske regering, der også vil have disse anlæg på Amagerforbrændingen i 2025 og på Aalborg Portland i 2030 • At FLSmidth ikke har en bæredygtighedsstrategi, men at de har en strategi, der er bæredygtig! • Mediernes betydning for holdningsændringen hos f.eks. Apple til at fokusere på bedre minedrift under bedre forhold • Om et værdikædesamarbejde for råvarer, hvor virksomheder forpligter sig på 32 indikatorer inden for bæredygtighed • Hvordan man skaber konkurrence på to produkter, der ligner hinanden, men hvor det ene har en lav CO2-udledning, og det andet ikke har • At 99% af FLSmidths samlede CO2-udledninger ligger hos deres kunder Nævnt i episoden/Nævnt i denne podcast: • Carbon Capture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage • FLSmidths “Mission Zero”-projekt: https://www.flsmidth.com/en-gb/company/sustainability • R&D= Research and Development • Fleming Voetmann på LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flemingvoetmann/ Tips, idéer eller ønsker? Skriv til mig på LinkedIn 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.
Knowing is half the battle and fun is the other half! We're recruiting you to listen to this monthly podcast hosted by three lifelong Joe fans. Our mission is to look at every era of GI Joe from the classic 12" Joes to today's modern Classified Series. From toys to comics to cartoons, the A.I. Pod is there! Yo Joe! On this special preview episode your hosts – Dave, Kristian, and Noel – break down Hasbro's exciting new GI Joe website! From character selection to the history of the Joes, Mission Zero will examine the relaunch of America's greatest toy franchise. All music by Andy Samford Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this month's episode! Let us know what you think! Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!
China just reported no new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases for the first time since the outbreak began. We’ll explain why that’s great news, but why China isn’t quite out of the woods just yet. Meanwhile, the federal government is giving Americans three extra months to pay their taxes. But taxpayer beware! That April 15th tax filing deadline is still very much a thing. Also on today’s show: we’ll look at why ‘panic-buying’ groceries isn’t the most urgent food issue we should be worried about. We’d love to hear your tips for helping your community during the COVID-19 outbreak. Call and leave us a voicemail at: 646-461-6370.
Girish Shivakumar guides us through the energy systems of India, the second-largest country population and one of the fastest-growing economies. In this episode, we discuss the amazing rise of India's electricity access rates, from 70 to almost 99% in the last 10 years. The driving forces behind the booming economy, emerging electric vehicles market, and business adoption of sustainable practices. _ Learn more about Girish and his podcast, Mission Shunya: https://girishshivakumar.com/podcast/ Connect with Girish on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivakumargirish/ _ Music by Jensen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jensen_chuah/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jensen_chuah SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jensenneedsfriends YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHFEpuTjAVekbI1xz
“Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way......" - Michael Scott (The Office) And that really sums up this week's episode, lol!!! Listen in as Goldberg & Wadsy fill you in on all things #BarRated and get you ready for this week's offering of 53 FREE TRIVIA GAMES all across CT & MA!!! And to really get you excited, the pair have all the info that you need to get ready for our "The Office" themed trivia games happening the weekend of November 23rd, 2019! There's new locations for you to #TrainYourBrain at (such as White Dog Cafe in Portland, CT & Rocks 21 in Mystic, CT) and upcoming ones as well (like Elm City Social in New Haven, CT) so keep your ears peeled for that info as well! Oh, and Tom Brady is moving his family to Connecticut???Plus, like every week, we have for you the "Question of the Week" (win a World of Beer West Hartford prize pack), the Keating Agency Insurance #5PointPhrase and your N.E.R.D. (New England Rock Discovery) song of the week: "Kitten in a Tiger Suit" by Hartford's own Mission Zero!!! So thanks for checking out our BaR Rated Trivia podcast, and have phun this week at our games.....
Pattison Agriculture is one dealership that is fully committed to safety, signing a “Mission: Zero” charter. The charter is an initiative of WorkSafe Saskatchewan. Learn about the elements of the program and its measurable impact on the business.
Have you watched the new season of Stranger Things yet on Netflix??? We haven't, but are all geared up to get you ready for the next chapter of the adventures in Hawkins, Indiana!!! Goldberg, Jill & Sarah are in the studio this week playing some "Stranger Things Trivia" and also announce our Stranger Things Themed Games that will be happening at locations all over CT & MA on July 28th, 2019 at 4 pm!!! There's also Jill's "What The Hell is Going On" update, the "BRE Sports Report" with Brett Berry, and of course, your #5PointPhrase of the week!!!!! Plus, this week's N.E.R.D. (New England Rock Discovery) local artist is Mission Zero from Hartford, CT with "Kitten in a Tiger Suit"!!! Oh, and no "Question of the Week" this show, as we apparently forgot to add one in (bigger prize next week!!!).......but enjoy the show and we hope to see you our training your brains at one of our 50+ locations this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Notre grande force vient de la volonté de Ray Anderson"Cette semaine, nous partons à la rencontre de Mickaël Cornou, Responsable Marketing d'Interface France. Si vous suivez le podcast ou si vous avez lu notre livre, l'exemple d'Interface y est souvent mentionné étant donné qu'il s'agît probablement d'une des meilleures applications d'une véritable économie circulaire qui existe à ce jour. Que ce soit à la conception, à la fabrication, l'usage ou en fin de vie, l'entreprise américaine a réalisé des avancées majeures, souvent citées pour utiliser pour valider l'intérêt globale de la démarche.Débutée au milieu des années 90, la transition du leader mondial de la moquette est riche de bonnes pratiques et d'accomplissements avant-gardistes. Nous avions rencontré Laure Rondeau en 2015 alors Sustainability Manager d'Interface pour le marché sud européen. Aujourd'hui, à quelques mois de la fin de Mission Zero lancée il y a plus de 20 ans par Ray Anderson, objectif global imposé à l'entreprise de façon à ce qu'elle n'ait plus d'émissions négatives pour les écosystèmes, nous voulions savoir ou en était l'entreprise.Mickaël nous a fait le plaisir de nous recevoir dans les nouveaux bureaux d'Interface à Paris. Il évoque les nouvelles réussites d'Interface depuis 2015 mais aussi fait le bilan de Mission Zero tout en présentant le nouveau masterplan : Climate Take Back.Merci à Mickaël pour son accueil et sa disponibilité.Soutenez-nous et diffusez l’économie circulaire autour de vous en partageant le podcast sur les réseaux sociaux et en mettant la note de 5 étoiles sur iTunes. Vous pouvez les écouter sur Deezer, Spotify, Pippa ou sur votre appli de podcast.Suivez-nous aussi surhttps://www.instagram.com/circulab_ww/https://twitter.com/circulab_ww/https://www.linkedin.com/company/wearecirculab/ Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.
Erin gives voice to Interface’s conscience, ensuring that strategy and goals are in sync with its aggressive sustainability vision established more than 20 years ago. Today, Interface has evolved its thinking to go beyond doing less harm to creating positive impacts, not just for Interface and the flooring industry, but for the world at large. Erin led the company to unveil a new mission in 2016 – Climate Take Back, tackling the single biggest threat facing humanity: global climate change. This mission is focused on creating a path for Interface and others to reverse global warming, not just reduce carbon emissions. As CSO, Erin leads a global team that provides technical assistance and support to this audacious goal and the company’s global business, addressing sustainability at all levels – from operations and management, to employees and customers, and in policy forums. Erin and her team also develop industry-leading approaches to measurement, driving transparency and innovation in the field of sustainability, while also capturing successes as the company nears its Mission Zero targets in 2020. Erin Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss: Interface's Climate Take Back program and aligning corporate sustainability programs with what the world needs What stakeholders are expecting from a 20-plus year leader in sustainability Net Positive and moving beyond traditional corporate sustainability and CSR Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders Highlights: How are expectations shifting for what it means to be a company leading in sustainability? In a good way, I think a lot of our stakeholders are expecting, not just Interface but other companies, to raise their level of ambition. I think it comes on 25 years of dialogue about what sustainable business is, reducing impact, companies making incremental steps and some really good progress, but then the rest of us observing that the planet isn't really in a much better place. So, we're hearing, whether it's potential employees, current employees or customers, that ambitions need to be higher and that there's an expectation that companies should be solving larger sustainability challenges than just their own. A great place to see this playing out is in the Globe Scan Sustainability Leaders Survey that gets published annually. It asks people in universities, people in business, people in NGO organizations what they expect of businesses. You can see that the expectation is getting higher in terms of businesses having more aggressive approaches, but we also see that anecdotally. We had a new CEO come to Interface in 2016 and one of the first things we did was have a conversation with him about not just where we were on achieving the goals Ray Anderson set 25 years ago, but also our future ambition. We surveyed all of our employees at Interface, and even that exercise let us know that our own employees within the business had much bigger ambitions for where Interface needed to go. So, building on that, we've been able to really accelerate our ambition and in 2017 issue a new challenge and a new mission for the business. But I think it's something every business needs to be looking at. What is our current approach to sustainability? What are we really trying to solve and isn't ambitious enough? It's great that we are starting to see movement from leaders like yourselves where incremental reductions in energy, water and emissions just aren't enough anymore. We need to do more. More companies are using those words like "positive," "carbon positive," "regenerative" and actually using business as a force for good, as the B Corp world would say. So, what does this mean for your business and new approaches within Interface? I think what it really meant for us, first, was setting a bold next step. Really putting out the next mission for the company and getting away from the traditional CSR or sustainable business language of just framing that mission within the context of your business. So, not just saying that Interface wants to be carbon neutral, which by the way we achieved in 2018 for all of the products in the whole business, but actually framing the mission in terms of the problem we wanted to solve. In 2016, Interface publicly said the next mission for Interface and the business is reversing global warming. We wanted to get out of that whole language of CSR commitments, incremental change and carbon neutral business. We wanted to align the mission of our business with the problem that needs to get solved in the world. I think it's a really important shift in language and in thinking. So we said that in 2016, the next step in sustainability is reversing global warming. We call it the Climate Take Back and we're going to get the business really focused on how we do this. Obviously, the first question that comes after that is, "How's a 5,000 person, billion dollar business actually going to reverse global warming?" I think the answer is, we're going to do what we can do in our business to sequester more carbon than we emit and to make products that do the same whether they end up getting called carbon negative or carbon positive or climate positive or any of the new labels out there. The ambition will be to first do it in our business. This is a huge global challenge. So, what else do we need to do as part of that business strategy to achieve the mission of reversing global warming? We have to double down on engaging every one of our employees to do something in their personal lives. The third part of it is we have to influence everyone else, not just our supply chain, not just our immediate customer base, but we really have to influence other companies to raise their level of ambition and shift their corporate targets from a reduction, or net zero, to reversing global warming. So, if we really want to live into this kind of bold commitment we've made for ourselves, this shift to positive, it actually means doing a lot more to influence other companies. I think that's one of the big lessons. In the last 20 years, sustainability has been focused on businesses just reducing the impacts of their immediate operations and their supply chains, right? But how many of us have really deeply invested in saying we want every employee to start taking real action at home? Or, we want every single customer we interact with to have a deeper understanding of what they can do to reverse global warming. So, it's a huge ambition that we've put on ourselves, but I think directionally, it's where not just Interface needs to go, but the rest of the business world does as well. What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? Think about developing your skills as being an advocate. I think a lot of people think about getting a science background or getting a business background, and I have found over my like 15 plus year career in sustainable business, that you end up becoming the biggest advocate for sustainability in your business. So, the ability to make effective arguments, having a communication style that's pretty clear and direct and being able to find a way to harness your passion in a way that persuades senior leaders in the business, customers and other people in the business to really follow you, is really important. So, think about what it is that you can do to develop yourself into a really effective advocate. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability? I'm super excited to see how companies are applying this idea of net positive and whether it's pilot projects like our Networks Project, whether it's work that Unilever is doing, there's just some really exciting examples of how businesses are raising their level of ambition and trying it out through really innovative partnerships that are having amazing impacts in the world. What is one book you'd recommend sustainability leaders read? There's so many. I think one of my favorite books is Ishmael, which was written by Daniel Quinn. It's not a new book. It's been out for at least 25 years. It's a really good one about resetting your mindset about how we think about business and the natural world as being quite separate, or even how we think about humans and the natural world as being quite separate. It's a really good read. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in your work? Some days I wished that I had had the benefit of being able to go through some of the really cool programs that exist right now for people to develop degrees or areas of focus in sustainable business. So for example, Arizona State University has some amazing programs now for undergraduates to get degrees in sustainability. There are also really great emerging MBA programs. The University of Vermont has a really innovative program that I serve on the advisory board of that's called SIMBA and it's a sustainable intra-preneurship MBA. I secretly wish that I were of the age now where I could participate in that because I think those are some of the best tools around. In terms of tools or how do to get the best, most energizing sense of where we're going, I do attend business conferences like Sustainable Brands and gatherings like that because I find that that's a really great place to stay connected to what's emerging and what's happening. One other thing we do here at Interface is we maintain this environmental advisory board that we internally call the Eco Dream Team. Outside, we call it our environmental advisory board. Spending time with those people like Paul Hawkin and Janine Benyus is incredibly valuable. They are kind of a continual source of innovative ideas and inspiration. If you don't have an eco advisory board, finding ways to interact with some of these leading lights in the movement and finding a way to interact with those guys is always a great way to kind of get inspired and be challenged and think about what's beyond your immediate focus. Where can people go to learn more about you and the work being done at Interface? They can go to the Interface website: www.Interface.com. You can read all about Climate Take Back and what we're doing to achieve that mission. About Sustridge Sustridge is a sustainability consulting firm providing consulting in sustainability strategy development, GHG emissions calculating and management, zero waste planning and guidance in TRUE Zero Waste, B Corp, LEED and Carbon Neutral certification.
Jose Belen, founder of Mission Zero joins Robert Roundtree for his third appearance on The Marijuana Solution to discuss the future. Mission Zero, under the guidance of Jose and his wife Danielle have set out to end veteran suicide from PTSD and this mission has taken him far and wide around the globe and back....
DID YOU CALL-IN-TO-WIN WHEN THE PHONE LINES WERE OPEN THIS PAST WEEKEND??? If not, then listen in to all the phun that our contestants had participating in the "Free 2 Call / Free 4 All" on BaR Rated Radio!!! Listen is as Goldberg, Sarah, Chris & Colt take phone calls from excited players trying to win great prizes including gift cards from The Beer Collective in New Haven & the Wood-N-Tap restaurant group, as well as another vintage brewery sticker mega-pack! Did our callers (Caroline, Bill & Jay) have what it took to win??? Tune in to find out! And make sure you check out this week's #TopTeamName list, listen for the #5PointPhrase and enjoy this week's N.E.R.D. (New England Rock Discovery) featured local musical artists: Mission Zero & Joey Batts of Hartford, CT!!!And make sure you don't miss a special message from Perez Hilton (celebrity blogger & personality) about our next #ThemedGame happening on February 24th.....
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Jose Belen, founder of Mission Zero gives host Robert Roundtree and The Marijuana Solution listeners a birds eye recap of what happened in the United States Southern District of New York Federal Courtroom earlier this week. We are extremely grateful for Jose coming on to update The Marijuana Solution. This was recorded by phone after the hearing while...
Staying in business can be difficult at times. Critical skills that are required to build a business exist and grow year after year. All business owners, at one time or another, find themselves struggling to keep clients (retention), to keep up with what customers want from the company (experience), and to add people (increase products). Over the last 20 years, Jess Dewell has worked on many of these problems with companies and clients. When there is a chasm to cross, she points it out and cultivates the team to figure out how to build a way across. Professional and thoughtful, she brings to the table. Transcript of the Interview Hugh Ballou: Greetings. Welcome to The Nonprofit Exchange. We are into the fourth year of this now, Russ. Russ, I know we're on an audio podcast, but I don't see your smiling face. All I see is a picture. One of your better pictures. Russell Dennis: Well, I'll fix that. I should be live. Hugh: There you are. I'm traveling today. I'm at a hotel in Orlando. We have a live audience here. We are going to be watching with bated breath, and we will come in with a few questions. We do have a little background noise, so I'm going to mute myself. It's probably a popular notion with some people, so we will mute our end so it will be quieter. Russ has got some really good questions for what I think is going to be an amazing interview today with- Jess, you know me, so I am just getting acquainted with you. I am going to pay attention. Jess Dewell: It's great how that happened. You meet somebody, and they tell you all about you and how you think, yet you have never met them before because of the personality and the ways that we get to communicate. I totally understand being in that place. Hugh: Love it. Tell us about yourself and how come you do what you do. Then Russell will take it on and ask you some really interesting questions. Jess: That sounds great. I am Jess Dewell. I founded Red Direction 14 years ago. It started out as something slightly different than what it became. It became building frameworks for resilience. What came up on the radio show that I host, which was live streamed right before we are live streaming here, we were talking about bounciness. The more struggle we face, the more that we fall down, the more risks we are willing to take, we get bouncier. I love the concept of that and how that fits into businesses. Businesses can get that concept of bounciness. Pick ourselves up together, and go forward together. The last seven years have really been dialed into what we do for organizations that are growing and changing. They are in these critical points of development, and their leadership got them so far, their skills got them so far, and now it's time to infuse them with more. Turn them upside down. Look at them in different ways to maximize the work flow, learning, and experience that already exists to go forward with grace and determination and whatever words you use to describe your companies. That is what we do over here at Red Direction. Russell: It's all about establishing the great culture. There are a lot of things that go into culture. For our audience, what does culture mean to you in the sense that applies to organizations? Jess: You could look it up on the Internet and get the definition that Google or whatever your search engine is will tell you. I define culture as how we work together, and the strength with which we are able to work together and its effectiveness. Russell: Yeah. What are some elements of culture that make organizations successful? Jess: What makes an organization successful? I am getting cues that your volume, Russ, is not as high as our audience would like. Since I got that message, I am going to pass it on to you right here. Will you repeat the question? Russell: What are some of the elements that go into culture that make an organization successful? Jess: Are you ready for this? Are you really ready for this, Russ? Russell: Bring it on. Jess: People, people, people. There might be a few more p's, and we will just replace them with people and people and people. It's the culture. It's what do we look at, how do we react, and preferably, how do we respond, and of course, how are the other people that we are surrounding ourselves with doing those things? And an awareness of the fact that we play off of each other. Russell: Because you work with a lot of organizations of all types, what do you find are the biggest disconnects in organizations that have problems culturally? Jess: Are you ready? Russell: I am ready. Jess: People, people, people, people, people. So really, it's we think we are doing one thing, and we are being perceived as something different. There is a break in our communication. We think somebody is doing something, but we never actually asked the clarifying question. Even some people go, “I have a dumb question.” You know what? The dumb question that goes unasked just leads to bigger misunderstandings, so might as well ask that and get rid of the qualifier at the same time. “I have a question. Did I understand this right?” We are thinking of culture, and we are thinking of how to work together as a team. We all have different reasons for being in the roles that we are at. A wise man once told me, “The people who work here choose with their own two feet every single day to come to work for us.” I thought that was really a fabulous thing, and understanding that everybody has a different reason for being here, to work together. Yes, we have all agreed to this goal; however, if we haven't created some sort of an awareness of how all of us fit into that end goal, we end up getting bumps and scratches and slowdowns and stalls and U-turns also. Russell: Let's look at the term “rules.” My good friend Dr. Hal Dibner talked with me the last time I saw him, we were actually talking about rules and how to move people to action. There are a lot of internal rules that each of us has that shapes the way we approach things and the way that we live. I think these rules can become internalized in the culture with an organization. What are some rules that you have seen that have become part of the culture of organizations that have hindered their progress? Jess: I call those “elephants in the room.” The big elephants in the room. One of the things that Red Directions' programs are really good at is finding the elephants in the room, pointing them out, setting up a little station, and inviting them to break them. Just being aware of what elephants are in the room. Another phrase might be “unwritten agreements.” We have done it this way. It's worked all right, so this is the way that we do it. Whether that's the case, or we are avoiding something, the elephants in the room, either way, when left unexplored, it can cause so many big problems. I have been a part of a company that has imploded because of that. I have also seen companies really unfortunately breed distrust and really feel fear around, “Am I actually safe in my role?” because of the unwritten agreements and insecurities and unknowns they cause. All that gets in the way of decision-making, which really when we are in business, is the ultimate goal: make decisions, nonprofit or otherwise, move toward an objective, make decisions, move toward an objective. Hit those goals and those signposts along the way. Russell: I think that the way people view their work really impacts the culture. When organizations get stuck, in my experience, a lot of people don't really like to be told what's wrong. At what point do you find that organizations have hit a place where they are willing to have those conversations? How much does it generally take in your experience for somebody to reach that point? Jess: It really varies. I have witnessed some other outlying symptoms if you will. If we were to look at symptoms that you are on your way down that rollercoaster, and you're not sure if there is an up at the other side, is that everybody is tired. Everybody is behind. They are unable to keep up with the things that they have going on, with the commitments that they have made, and it becomes a drag. Those are the types of things that allow us to miss other cues. We are turned off from actually using our external perception, and it's only stuck inside here. It can manifest other ways, too, besides the “I'm stuck,” “I'm overwhelmed,” or “I can't meet my deadlines.” People leave. I'm burned out. People leave. “This is not what I thought it was going to be.” People leave, and then they are talking about their experience. They don't talk about their experience until they leave. Nobody inside knew because there was a gap between each of the people, and there was “seemingly” to have a connection, but it was actually missing or had been broken. Russell: A lot of our work focuses around leaders and how leaders interact and work with people and a common problem is leaders that overfunction. Jess: Yes. Russell: They take on a lot of things rather than train people. They find that it's “quicker” just to do it myself than explain how to do it. Sometimes there is a fear of letting go of some control, not trusting people to do it. But if you bring people on to your team, you hire people because of the skills, knowledge, and abilities that will serve you, they have talent, and letting people actually do what it is that they do is a little difficult for leaders. That can get grounded in the culture. That creates burnout because you have a few high performers who are not being built to be better leaders, and they are just trying to do things instead of spreading them out, delegating, and building. The leadership skills of other people. We see that in nonprofits. Are you seeing that with- Jess: In every organization. Every organization is susceptible to that. It's interesting because yes, we hire for skills, knowledge, and ability. Most of the time, in most processes for bringing people on, what is left out, or what doesn't have enough focus in that interview and onboarding process is what we mean when we say whatever we value. If service to a specific group, serving an underrepresented group in some way, if somebody comes on and they have the skills, the knowledge, and the ability, but they are only using this as a stepping stone, and they are exactly what you want for the job, part of the conversation becomes, “We know this is just a stepping stone on your path. Are you able to buy in? What do you like? What are we disconnected on what you're doing while you're here? Do you understand with where you're going how this actually helps you get there?” You know what? A lot of people don't want to face the fact that they are hiring someone who is going to leave. However, if we bring it up in the conversation, and we are talking about this, and it's part of what we believe in, we know- We know we're not going to do what we're doing forever. We know we haven't done what we're doing forever. We have all had different experiences in the past. So why not just put that on the table? Then it's never a surprise. Then it's your performance reviews, your check-ins we're having along the way, the conversations we are having before, after, and during meetings can still revolve around what are we doing in this organization? What is our mission? What is each of our parts in that while we are here? That type of collaboration is what is going to make somebody want to stay, but also it will prepare them to get them to where they want to go. As leaders, as employers, anybody with staff, it is our job to embrace and to love and get that person where they want to go because maybe this is the place, maybe it's not, but we can do really well for them, for us, for our community, for our donors, for the people that we serve because of that small thing: having that type of conversation up front. Hugh: Hey, Russell. We are having trouble hearing you. Russell: It's all about growth. That better? It's all about growth. If you have a conversation about values, it's important for both individuals and the organization to understand what it is that people want to get out of a relationship that you have. This is how you attract people, whether they are working for you, volunteering for you, coming to work as a staff member, coming to serve on your board. It's having congruent values that will drive the day. The idea of growth is something that is fundamental to everything. To get better at what you do, you increase that level of support that you get. Culturally, with nonprofits, one of the things aside from the fact that you have some leaders that may overfunction, maybe they haven't thought through all of their processes or systems or how they can actually get better at creating an experience because they are more effective and efficient at delivering their programs. Talk a little bit about your experience around that and some of the things that you would help people work around that. Jess: I wouldn't say work around, I would say work with and strengthen. The reason is that we all have a strength. When we can put a stake in the ground and say, “This is what I stand for,” wherever I work, whoever I work with, I know what I stand for in general. That allows me to have a guidepost when I show up in an organization and when I am working with other people. If other people are floundering around and are not sure, we put on that lens. What is important to me? What is my purpose here? What is my purpose in this situation? Maybe not my life purpose, but in this situation. How can I bridge that gap to move things forward? Those are the types of skills that we develop, programs that we create. The biggest reason for that is experience. Until we do it, we don't know if we are good at it. Until we do it, we don't know how to apply our personal strengths to the work that we're doing. When we find our strength and can focus everything through that, it becomes easier as managers, as directors, to find the strengths in others and be curious and be willing to try a few things here to be curious with others to find their strengths as well. Maybe it's a strength. A lot of people know that they can stay behind an idea. In a nonprofit, I come to work for a nonprofit, I volunteer at a nonprofit, I give money to a nonprofit because I care about the idea they are working on. When it comes to actually doing the infrastructure, taking the action to make all that possible- You mentioned your values, how do we bring all of our skills together to get something done? But also you talked about processes and systems. Processes and systems are great on paper. As soon as you add people to them, you add what they are thinking in that moment, what their past was, what their dreams are, and what is on their mind right now in that situation. It may not be those things that are most important to working on an organization to develop it. Processes and systems are really impacted by all of the things that we care about, all of the things that we face. I am all about efficient systems, efficient processes. However, when we stop, when we weave what we care about, how we do our work together here at this organization, allows us to then be able to have a deeper conversation, a quicker conversation, which improves efficiency in a whole different way than just pushing the levers of a process. Hugh: How about a question from Florida? Danna Olivo: Yeah, Jess. Jess: Bring it. Danna: Bring it on. It's funny that we're talking about this today because- My name is Danna Olivo, and I am a business strategist. I work with early-stage micro-companies and medium companies. I work on those processes, the systems, and things like that. But one of the things that was really fascinating to me was you were talking about communication styles and hiring and things like that, talking about skills and values. One of the things that a lot of companies don't take into consideration when hiring are the behavioral and cultural characteristics that are inbred in the people they are looking to hire and making sure that those cultural characteristics match the organization. Therefore, in order to do that, what we have done is we are trying to make a concerted effort to try and match those cultures to the behavioral characteristics to get a better understanding of their fit within the organization. Jess: May I ask you a question? Danna: Yes. Jess: When you're thinking about that, that means an organization really has to know. Danna: The whole thing just dropped. Jess: That means an organization has to really know where they stand. They understand that what they're doing is already working. Do you find that a company is going to need some other help and some other work actually figuring out where they stand as an organization versus just being able to put this on top of what already exists? Danna: Yes, I do find that part of the whole process is we have to make sure that they have those working systems and methodologies in place. Part of that process involves bringing the team on that will work with them in order to do that. If they aren't centered around the same cultural values that the company has set in place, you are going to end up with a divided approach to these systems and methodologies. Does that make sense? Jess: It makes complete sense. In fact, sometimes, in an existing organization that is going back, they are going, “We are having this problem hiring the right people. We are having this problem keeping the people we want who have the skills in our roles.” When we get to that, it's interesting because people are always like, it's the people. It's the talent we are facing. They forget to look inward. Those would be the things where I'd be like, How strapped are ya? Because you might be better off having somebody do some temp work just for a short period of time, stop to take a step back, and evaluate some other things. Those are the elephants. You're talking about the elephants in the room right there, Danna, and being able to recognize what we are willing to incorporate right now for where we are. One of the things that I hear in the work that you and I do, people want me to come in, and they think I can change everything. The answer is no, I can't change anything. I can only facilitate and create a program to educate to allow that change to occur within an organization. The other thing that people think, in all organizations, both profit and nonprofit, I get a lot of work done from people who have just done a rebrand, thinking that rebranding will actually solve the problems that we are unclear about what we stand for. You probably are unclear about what you stand for, but the way you look and describe yourself doesn't matter. It's a Band-Aid, isn't it? Danna: I love the fact that you're talking about this because we are all about education. What I teach my people is you can't operate in a vacuum. You don't have all the answers. You have to surround yourself with that team that will be able to help you reach those goals. You have to surround yourself with those people who will be able to say, “You're off base.” Jess: I keep pointing with two different colored pens because these are the notes that I take. Anybody listening is going to be like, “What is she talking about?” I have two pens to take notes on every conversation that I have because there are things I want in one color and other things in another color. All of my notes have been written on before by a third color. If I hold up pens at you, it just means I'm excited. Yes! Nonetheless, I hear what you're saying. You're right. It is about education. You said something that made me think about a program that we have. We talk about ThinkTime. This is a combination of words, think and time, that might be heard in the same sentence, that are squished together with no spaces. ThinkTime. This is something that we do at Red Direction. We have a process. How do I, as the steward of this mission that we're on, whether it's an entire organization, whether it's a business unit, whether it's my particular role, how do I in the stewardship of my position have time to actually allow all the chatter to get out? Because all that chatter has to get out to have new creative thoughts. More importantly, ThinkTime, a lot of people are like great. I like a whole day; however, I don't use a whole day. I use a half day to get started. I use four hours, once a week for four hours, closing everything out. This is how that system typically goes. I am going to give you all the steps. You guys can play with this as much as you want. That is first, put it in a calendar, and guard it fiercely. Four hours, one time a week. The first month, the first four, maybe the first eight, you are going to think they are useless. They will feel useless. All you will want to do is catch up on email. All you want to do is clear up the clutter on your desk. All you want to do is return those phone calls. All you want to do is write out a report that needed to happen or think about reports. It takes some time. But after about eight to ten sessions of four hours, all of a sudden, you sit down. I remember this so clearly the first time I did this. This is going to work; this is so great! You sit down, and it's like, Okay, I actually see the Red Direction vision. I actually see the actions that we're taking right now. I can just experience what that looks like and have an idea of what problems we're facing right now, where we're doing really well, and then what are the things that we could be doing better or different? When we have that space outside of our ThinkTime is when we go, Let's break it down into a problem. Do I have a problem here? What's that problem? Let's go through those four steps of problem-solving. Then we can go bright. When we get to the options, we get to make a decision. Being confident in a decision comes from not running around rapid, not thinking or knowing we are never going to have all the answers no matter how much information you know about it, but we spent the time upfront to decide what the decision was, what the problem is we are going to solve. We are evaluating the path, not just a solution, but the path to betterment, the path to what we want next. The more we get to do that, that's the second piece, the more we get to practice those steps, the more confident we become in our decisions, and we can make them quicker. We can evaluate and get rid of options that don't work right now. Tell me this, Danna, and whomever is sitting next to you, and Russ. When you are sitting here and looking at all these problems you're looking at all these things that are going on. I can choose any one of them. I don't know what this means; you have too many options. Does that happen to you? Occasionally, sometimes, all the time. Danna: Oh yes, even as a strategist, I find that I have to take a step back and decide, Okay, which one do I need to focus on right now? First of all. Secondly, what is the fastest way to come into a solution? By taking that step back sometimes and evaluating what is my talent, what is it, my talent that can help me come up with that solution? If I can't find the talent within me to provide a solution, then I have a resource of people around me who I reach out to. I am not afraid to bring them in. You can't operate in a vacuum. You said this. Our capacity as an entrepreneur only extends so far. Jess: That's right. Danna: This happens to me. Jose Belen here, has a new nonprofit that he is starting called Mission Zero. Great nonprofit. We happen to be meeting Hugh here so we can get some tips and learn and stuff like that. Do you have any questions for her? Jose Belen: No. Actually, this has been very informative. We have been around for about six months. Mission Zero is an organization dedicated to helping veteran suicide. That was part of the initial invasion into Iraq in 2003. Since I was honorably discharged in 2005, I have been fighting PTSD and suicidal thoughts. Every 80 minutes, there is a veteran somewhere in America committing suicide. We are dedicated to making a difference. So Mission Zero hopefully one day will stop veteran suicides. We appreciate any support and like-minded individuals. Thank you. Danna: So they took the advice that you are giving. They have been surrounding themselves with the people who can help them get this off the ground rather than trying to do it all themselves. Hugh: Jess, you probably know more about me than I know about you, but I'm quite amazed at the synchronicity of what you are talking about. I will give it back to Russell. I hijacked his questioning here. But it's the synchronicity of what you are talking about and what we teach at SynerVision. This whole culture piece is core to transformational leadership and how we empower leaders. Thank you for such a passion around this. Love it. So, Russell, remember the old age and mental condition? I will give it back to you. Russell: Almost escaped without that. He loves that one. That is his trademark thing. I don't know why. It's not true. He likes it. He entertains himself with that story. He's going to find out as he gets to spend more time with you and learn more about you how remarkable you are. We haven't known each other very long, but I love what you're doing. What you're talking about is creating safe spaces and collaboration. Collaboration is something that I think people are slowly starting to get. It's a really important piece of everything that we do. It's about people. I just had a mastermind this morning with other business leaders who were talking to me about helping me and my business. It doesn't matter how many people you meet. A lot of times, there is that little piece of us that resists. Talk to us a little bit about how you help businesspeople, nonprofit leaders, some of the tools that you use to help them face that inner resistance. That is the one thing an organization, it's all about people. We have this built-in resistance. Part of it is to change and some other things. Talk a little bit how you equip people to deal with that resistance and what they should look for. Jess: Such a loaded question. There are like 212 ways—that is when water boils—we could start this conversation. I think ultimately the point is that water will boil. If we resist long enough, we have no choice, just like water in a pan on a stove. It doesn't matter how long you leave it there. It will eventually reach 212 degrees and boil. I feel like when, so tools. Let's talk about tools. A lot of the tools that we teach are soft skills. The reason we teach soft skills is because I can come up with a process just like all of the other processes out there. Some would be good, and some would not be as good as the other ones out there. We all work differently. When we all work differently, and we are thinking about how we do what we do, we don't give ourselves grace. We resist what our own strength is and how we work. We are going to go back and use me as an example. There were five people in my family, three kids and two adults. Every Sunday, we would sit at the dining room table after dinner and we would look at the whole next week. If it wasn't on the calendar, it did not happen. It was the time to ask questions, get permission, do all of this stuff. I grew up with this time management concept. I grew up with this concept of, Okay, we know who the decision-maker is, the person who can drive. If it doesn't fit in their calendar, it can't work, so I have to make a really good case that my stuff is more important than my sister's. This happens in business. This same thing happens in business. We get together, whether we are using time management skills or not, it comes down to how persuasive are we, how passionate are we? Can we clearly communicate the beginning, middle, and end of an idea to move it forward? Some people use time. I am really good at time and time blocking, and ThinkTime is a part of that. I am also really adept, and the programs we teach around soft skills are also around time management because we can only scale so much. We can only scale so much with one person. Each person can only scale so much. The whole purpose of being in an organization is to be able to understand what is my purpose, how do I leverage my time? What is their purpose, and how do we leverage their time? Have a good time doing it. Enjoy being together. You mentioned the word “ collaboration.” I think collaboration fits in a lot of different ways here. We are talking about- By the way, everybody who thinks collaboration- I am going to stop what I was going to say and talk about collaboration. I have a bad taste in my mouth when somebody says collaboration because I remember when, and we can all do this, I remember a time I was on a collaborative cross-functional team, and I did all the work. Now you know- You're a driver. You're going to do what it takes. Right? So we have to let that go. Those of us who feel that way, and other people are like, Ooh, collaboration. I give ideas, give ideas, give ideas, and I don't have to do anything. Let me just be an idea machine. Well, that only works to a point, too. Then there are the people who will take different kinds of action and throw in what some of us would call kinks in the wheel, but they are trying to make it better. They are poking holes in it. Can we get this to a point where we are seamless, we have something that can stick that we all agree on? Those people are really necessary, too. When we embrace not everybody does well, not everybody thinks well, not everybody wants to be the devil's advocate, then we get to go, “Hey, we need everybody.” We can do this in a different way. We can have a conversation. Collaboration starts with a conversation. What are we doing? What can our parts be? How can we move this forward together? Hugh: Jess, you have opened up a lot of topics. Jess: I know, right? Hugh: You're in here because Russell invited you. I have to work hard so I can keep up with him. He's a smart dude. What I'm going to throw out here is I'd like to take a couple of these themes and come back around and dig into some of these themes a little deeper. You have a whole lot of stuff to unpack here. We are coming to the top of the hour for this particular show. I want to talk about the sponsor moment here that makes it possible and give you a chance to wrap people's heads around some of the major themes you want to leave us with. Then we will let Russell close us out. Does that sound good to you guys? Russ has been really diligent in helping us pull this together today with a whole lot of technical issues. *Sponsor message for Rock Paper Simple* Jess, how would you like to wrap this up and leave folks with? What is a profound thought you want to leave people with before Russ closes out this great session? Jess: All right, we just upped the ante. The most profound thought you want to leave us with, Hugh. There is no low bars here. Everybody, I have listened to a few of these in preparation for this conversation. Of course, I know Hugh, and I know Russ. There is no going back; there is only forward. I think that that's really a key piece of what culture and what we're talking about when we are talking about these elements of culture is that we are always moving forward. We can embrace it. We can resist it. Either way, it's coming. We can make it more fun. We can make it more effective, and we can serve more people when we get out of our own way and we recognize our own self and how we can show up and invite others to continue to join our party. Russell: Great stuff. In conversation with what's happening with anything that I touch has to start in the mirror. That is the X factor. That is the one thing I can actually do something about. The willingness to actually look at where we are as individuals energetically makes a big difference. We can find some compassion for ourselves in there and in other people and put ourselves in their shoes and say, “How can we create an experience? How can we get to the larger point? What are the things we need to put on the shelf to make this thing work the way it is built to work?” That is really where it starts. Jess, as always, it's been a pleasure. Danna, Hugh, all of our friends down at CEO Space, the July forum, wonderful organization. Being a part of that has changed my life. I have a contact in veteran suicide that is actually somebody that has been in Texas shining the spotlight on it. His primary thing is to get their stories captured. We will cycle back around and talk about that again. In the meantime, I'd like to thank all of our listeners out there every week who join us here at The Nonprofit Exchange. We got a really good guest next week. He is going to be talking about conversations. He has an incredible tool that can help us look at the way we have conversations on a personal and professional level. You don't want to miss this because he has got a brilliant tool called Conversations. Join us next week for that. Hugh. Hugh: Thank you, Russ. 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Good day to you all! Thanks for popping back here for another dose of BaR Rated Entertainment. Goldberg is joined by Miss Wadz yet again to discuss CRAZY mother's day shenanigans, having your cake and eating it too as well as another installment of For Your Health. The #5pointphrase is hidden somewhere inside, along with your top 10 team names and music from Mission Zero. Thanks for listening, as always, and see you at the games!
Longtime friend and former guest of the show, Jose Belen, returns to NTP to share the latest in his journey to help save lives. Jose is a father, husband, friend, combat veteran, and now, and advocate to legalize marijuana. Listen as Jose describes what the last year has been like for him and how his...
Today on Hempire our host is joined by Jose Bellen the co-founder of Mission Zero. Jose and his wife Danielle founded Mission Zero to combat the PTSD and veteran suicide epidemic plaguing U.S. veterans. They know from our own experiences that a PTSD diagnosis isn’t a death sentence or the end of the line. But they also know that it changes everything. Danielle and Jose know how it feels to have the horrors of the battlefield follow them home. They understand what it’s like to be endlessly hounded by nightmares, depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, and the thought that there might never be an escape. They have witnessed firsthand how the current medical and veterans-support systems often can’t handle the problem, relying on oversimplified approaches, punitive mindsets, and dangerous pharmaceuticals that risk making the situation worse. Jose knows what it’s like for the war within your mind to claim collateral damage: your job, your family, your very existence.
Geanne van Arkel, Head of Sustainable Development bij Interface, vertelt over hoe de tapijttegelfabrikant klimaatneutraal wordt en zijn Mission Zero nastreeft.
1. Royalston - People on the Ground (feat. Hannah Joy) 2. Ownglow - All Black 3. Lenzman - Golden Age (Full Vocal Mix) 4. Krakota - Lust Thrust 5. TC - Rep (feat. Jakes) 6. Random Movement - Weve Been Lost in Time (Talkin) 7. Pish Posh, Liminal & DJ SS - Surrender (feat. Bengal) 8. Changing Faces - Inside Your Mind 9. NC-17 - 4 Da Headz (feat. Ray Uptown) 10. Technimatic - Remember You 11. Fena, Barbarix & T>I - Devoted (T>I Remix) 12. Break - Gave Too Much (feat. Kyo) 13. Emery & Garo - Moon Love (Lynx Remix) 14. Zero T - Thirty Four 15. Lenzman - Got My Mind Made Up 16. Lenzman - Cherry Blossom 17. Random Movement, Adrienne Richards & Jaybee - you Got Somethin 18. Icicle - Dreadnaught (feat. SP:MC) 19. Soligen & Type 2 - Cant Go (Break Remix) 20. Benny L - Lava 21. Facing Jinx - Now Youre Gone (feat. Alexsia Louca) 22. MsDoS & DJ SS - Pebbles & Stones (feat. Dave Shichman) 23. Mixmaster DOC, Dave Shichman, Bernzilla & DJ SS - Personally Frankly 24. FD - Get It Right (feat. Soukie) 25. Soligen, Type 2 & Vandera - Lost Soul 26. Critical Impact & Kyrist - Unknown 27. TIEKS - Sunshine (feat. Dan Harkna) 28. MC DRS - The View (feat. LSB & Tyler Daley) 29. LSB - If Youre Here (Lukes Tangerine Dreaming VIP) 30. Boyan & Boyer - Be Right Here (feat. Mission Zero) 31. Lenzman & Forren - Never Enough 32. Pennygiles - Without Worry 33. Pennygiles - Looking In 34. Impish - So Sick 35. Keeno - Perspective (feat. MC Fava) 36. The Standard & Stunna - Timelines (feat. Graeba) 37. Lenzman - Homie Dont Play That 38. Pennygiles & Sevin - Im Sorry
Ramon Arratia, European Sustainability Director for Interface, expounds upon his job, and the jobs of his colleagues, in pursuit of their now infamous Mission Zero target. He talks numbers, ideas, challenges and targets.
2011 was a big year for the Texas Department of Transportation, and it was a small year as well. In the first full year of the department's "Safety: Mission Zero" plan, the department set record lows for incidents and accidents that caused employees and equipment to miss time on the job. It was also a year in which no TxDOT employee was killed on the job, something that is a very real possibility for many department employees. For more on these safety achievements, I spoke with Jerral Wyer, the director of TxDOT's Occupational Safety Division.
Mission Zero - why is this important to the success of colonizing space. We will be talking to Donald Jacques about exploring this brave new world and what it will take to get humanity into space. Bring your questions and comments to this show on Saturday.
The story is now legend; the “spear in the chest” epiphany Ray Anderson experienced when he first read Paul Hawken’s, The Ecology of Commerce seeking inspiration for a speech to an Interface task force on the company’s environmental vision. Fourteen years and a sea change later, Interface, Inc., is approximately 40 percent to it’s target of “Mission Zero,” the journey no one would have imagined for the company, or the petroleum-intensive industry of carpet manufacturing, which has been forever changed by Ray’s vision. The once captain of industry has eschewed a luxury car for a Prius and built an off-the-grid home, authored a book chronicling his journey, and become an unlikely screen hero in the 2004 Canadian documentary, “The Corporation.” He was named one of TIME International’s “Heroes of the Environment” in 2007. He’s a sought after speaker and advisor on all issues eco, including a stint as co-chairman of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.
Ray Anderson is the founder and chairman of Interface, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpets and a company committed to doing business in ways that minimize the impact on the environment, a goal established by the founder nearly 14 years ago. Hosts Charlotte and Martha will talk to Ray Anderson about “Mission Zero,” the company's promise to eliminate any negative impact it may have on the environment, by the year 2020, through the redesign of processes and products, the pioneering of new technologies, and efforts to reduce or eliminate waste and harmful emissions while increasing the use of renewable materials and sources of energy.
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