Newday Impact Investing CEO Doug Heske returns to talk about investing to create a sustainable, circular, and equitable economy that we can hand to our children and grandchildren with a sense of pride. This week we’re looking at diversity, equity, and inclusion (often shortened to “DEI”), the idea that the dignity and value of every person must underlie a just […]
Few images of childhood are as iconic as the yellow school bus. Perhaps that’s because school buses haven’t changed with the times. Despite well-known environmental and health risks, most school buses today are not much different from the ones we rode when we were kids, filled with screaming children gulping lungsful of diesel exhaust. The classic yellow school bus is […]
How do you reduce your digital life’s environmental impact? Making changes to reduce your environmental impact around the house is straightforward — you can eat less meat, reduce your purchases of single-use plastic or turn down the thermostat by a few degrees to make a difference. But when you go online, there aren’t many obvious choices to cut your impact. […]
The founders of Cambium Carbon, CEO Ben Christensen and CFO Marisa Repka, explain how they salvage wood from the 36 million trees that fall each year in American cities to create a hyper-local lumber supply chain. Currently, most of those fallen trees are mulched, burned, or landfilled, all of which contributes to global warming. The company’s Carbon Smart Wood is […]
Sam Teicher, co-founder and Chief Reef Officer at Coral Vita, a social enterprise that grows resilient corals on land and transfers them to the sea to restore dying reefs, joins Mitch Ratcliffe to discuss ocean restoration. Check out his recent article, Coral Vita and the Vital Importance of Restoring Coral Reefs, on Earth911. More than half of the world’s coral […]
Newday Impact Investing CEO Doug Heske returns to talk about how to design an investment portfolio to achieve environmental improvements in our world. Just as buying sustainable products can help reduce your environmental impact, your investing can change the direction of the economy. And 2021 was the biggest year in the history of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing by […]
Mike Marsch, the head of solar development at BlueWave Solar, explains how floating solar panels (“floatovoltaics“) can plan a key role in delivering widely available community and privately owned renewable energy generation capacity. The Boston-based certified B Corp is on a mission to “revolutionize energy with simple, powerful solutions.” But solar faces challenges from communities that are concerned about local […]
Jason Gates, CEO of Compology, is taking the recycling battle to the dumpster. Compology makes AI-powered smart cameras that monitor how full dumpsters are and help understand and manage what they contain. The process reduces unnecessary pickups, which lowers fuel waste and improves the processing of the contents of each bin. There’s no question the current economy is wasteful, but […]
The availability of safe, fresh drinking water will become a more pressing issue as the climate crisis progresses. Our guest today, Rich Razgaitis, started FloWater, a maker of water refill stations that can purify local water, allowing people to refill bottles safely and quickly. The company also sells reverse-osmosis purified water in recyclable, reusable aluminum bottles and a faucet filter […]
The total energy consumption of existing buildings was 40% of total U.S. energy consumption in 2020 — 22% residential and 18% commercial buildings. If you are planning to build a new house, building it with Passive House standards may be the single largest opportunity you have to reduce your carbon footprint and to do your part in moving towards a […]