Hear Earth911.com interview with sustainability leaders from communities and companies, artists and innovators, and ordinary people who are changing their personal life and buying habits to support a vibrant Earth.
Hear Earth911.com interview with sustainability leaders from communities and companies, artists and innovators, and ordinary people who are changing their personal life and buying habits to support a vibrant Earth.
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Hear Earth911.com interview with sustainability leaders from communities and companies, artists and innovators, and ordinary people who are changing their personal life and buying habits to support a vibrant Earth.
Hear Earth911.com interview with sustainability leaders from communities and companies, artists and innovators, and ordinary people who are changing their personal life and buying habits to support a vibrant Earth.
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The Healthy Climate Alliance has a bold plan to use existing science to remove carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere, returning the climate to pre-Industrial levels by 2050. Peter Fiekowsky, founder of the organization, is a physicist turned entrepreneur who is gathering a remarkable network of engineers, scientists, economists, and others to develop economically attractive projects to sequester carbon. In this first interview with Fiekowsky, Earth911.com's Mitch Ratcliffe talks through Ocean Iron Fertilization as an important step for carbon removal.
In this week's interview, Earth011.com digs into the future of dirt with Brian Scott, CEO of PittMoss, a recycled paper soil replacement manufacturer. Using entirely recyclable materials, PittMoss provides better growth performance using one-third the water compared to peat moss-based soil products. Brian’s team won Shark Tank funding a couple years ago and is dedicated to reducing the mining of peat for garden use. PittMoss is expanding to build plants close to regional sources of recycled paper.
John Atcheson, co-founder and CEO of Stuffstr, an innovative app for tracking what you buy and reselling it when you are finished using it, talks about the future of business with Earth911.com. Products will eventually be delivered more like services are today. Atcheson's company is partnering with retailers in Britain and the United States to let consumers catalog and sell their stuff. A circular economy is taking shape. Get the lowdown on where it is first appearing in this conversation.
Consumers have access to corporate sustainability and social responsibility reporting they can use to select the companies they can trust to act ethically. With the rise of "big data" and transparency, there is more information on which to base a smart buying decision than ever before. Cynthia Figge, co-founder and CEO of CSRHub.com, a Seattle-based website that rates and ranks companies based on environmental and social responsibility, joins Mitch Ratcliffe to discuss what CSR reports cover, why business has learned sustainability is good for their bottom line, and how consumers can begin to access CSR data -- including on Earth911.com
Aviva Rahmani answered the call of citizens of Peekskill, New York, who were facing the destruction of a local wetland. Her response was a wonderful combination of natural experience, sound, and geography that began a national movement to embed art in nature and copyright the results to prevent the exercise of Eminent Domain claims by developers.
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