Climate Change
5/1/23 UPDATE - Yes, yes, I know, it's past earth day now...I got busy and didn't have time to actually post this on Earth Day. I still wanted to share. Forgive me. So this year for Earth day, I thought about trying to
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Daniel Mandler is a Professor of Chemistry in the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University and the incumbent of Archie and Marjorie Sherman Chair in Chemistry. He holds also an adjunct Professorship at the Nanyang Technical University in Singapore. His research interests span from analytical to physical electrochemistry sol-gel
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You've probably heard a lot of hype about how electric cars are gonna save the planet, right? Our "climate savior" Elon Musk would certainly have us believe so. While they're definitely a step in the right direction, but I would be careful not too
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Javad Mohammadi is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include multi-agent optimization and machine learning in networked cyber-physical systems, including smart grid-interactive buildings, power grid, and electrified transportation systems. In short, he's
Climate Change
Climate change can be seen as a disaster or an opportunity. Paul Laycock and his company VinZero is a new global company with a goal to cut major emissions from one of the biggest emitting sectors globally: construction. Paul and his staff at VinZero are passionate about facilitating the construction
Climate Change
Jill Wagner of Terraformation and the Hawaii Island Seed Bank returns to talk about the results of her sustainability challenge and how her mission of reforesting the planet is progressing! Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time for a long conversation, but I'm looking to having another
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As regular readers might know, I've been thinking a lot about how to have more and better climate change conversations, and as I thought more and more about how to do that, the sage words of Josh Spodek, host of the This Sustainable Life podcast came back to
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We've become arrogant. We've come to a point where we believe we have conquered nature, and nature bends to our will. But we have not. Increasingly strong heatwaves, hurricanes, and wildfires are mother nature's warnings: we are not above nature. And if we don&
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Yishan Wong is an engineer and entrepreneur who has worked at big name companies like Paypal and Facebook, and was CEO of Reddit. After leaving Reddit, he used his knowledge of the tech industry and combined it with the knowledge of Solve For Nature former guest, Jill Wagner, to found
Climate Change
The single largest piece of #climate legislation has JUST been signed into law by President Biden! 😍 But what does it do, and does it actually make us more sustainable? I'm here to talk about it with Joshua Spodek, Ph D, author of Leadership Step By Step, and host
Climate Change
Inflation Reduction Act just passed through the senate, house, and is now heading for President Biden's desk. Today we’re going to talk about what’s in it, and then have a discussion on sustainability and whether this bill is making us more sustainable or not with Joshua
About Me
I want to share something personal today, just because I was able to do something that I had been meaning to do for a long time but could never find the right moment to do: have a climate talk with my own wife and daughter. Finding The Perfect Moment I