Sustainability In Your Ear
Mitch Ratcliffe interviews activists, authors, entrepreneurs and changemakers working to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, post-carbon society. You have more power to improve the world than you know! Listen in to learn and be inspired to give your best to restoring the climate and regenerating nature.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 520
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Earth911 Podcast: Pursuing Sustainable Packaging with AE Global's Elizabeth Corbett
Plastic and paper waste from product packaging remains an environmental crisis, with millions of tons of packaging ending up in landfills and the ocean every year. Despite growing consumer demand for…
00:39:01 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Earth911 Podcast: Molecular Farming of Potato-Sourced Egg Proteins With PoLoPo's Maya Sapir-Mir
Humanity is grappling with the effects of climate change, and one urgent challenge is ensuring a stable and sustainable supply of protein for human consumption and agricultural use. That's where mole…
00:34:03 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
Earth911 Podcast: Meet Carbon Capture Innovator Varin Sikka, Barron Prize Young Hero Prize Winner
Climate Change has terrible impacts today, and youth coming of age face depressing prospects. However, they are stepping up to the challenge and could see the fruits of their efforts in a restored cl…
00:32:00 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
Earth911 Podcast: Eco-Stylist Garik Himebaugh On Creating Your Sustainable Style
Meet Garik Himebaugh, the founder of Eco-Stylist.com, a site dedicated to promoting sustainable fashion choices. Garik's journey into the world of sustainable fashion began with a background in peace…
00:37:39 |
Mon 27 Jan 2025
Earth911 Podcast: Thinking Zero Waste With Sarah Currie-Halpern
Practical progress toward a sustainable lifestyle, whether you are an individual or a business, will always be unique to your situation, but you can base your choices on lessons learned by others. Tu…
00:35:10 |
Mon 20 Jan 2025
Earth911 Podcast: Our 500th Episode with Bad Naturalist Paula Whyman
We celebrate a milestone episode of Sustainability In Your Ear, our 500th program since we launched in 2018, with an in-depth conversation with Paula Whyman, author of the captivating collection of e…
00:47:09 |
Mon 13 Jan 2025
Earth911 Podcast: DC Water Goes Bloom With Biosolids-Based Fertilizers
Start the new year with a dive into the world of biosolids—a potentially transformative way to turn sewage that traditionally is seen as waste into a valuable material for sustainable agriculture. Wi…
00:39:18 |
Mon 06 Jan 2025
Earth911 Podcast: Tim Montague Talks Clean Power Hour And Economic Competitiveness
The Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law contributed much-needed progress but has not completed the transition — only approximately 21% of total utility-scale electricity generat…
00:40:55 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Alter Eco Foods CEO Keith Bearden Is All-In On Regenerative Chocolate Farming
Food production is one of the most impactful forces shaping our environment, responsible for approximately a quarter of annual global carbon emissions, deforestation, and soil depletion, among other …
00:39:44 |
Mon 25 Nov 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Making IT Product Chemical Impacts Transparent With TCO Development's Stephen Fuller
Being a consumer in an advanced economy—or any economy these days—is challenging because you cannot keep up with the ever-changing range of ingredients and materials in the products at the store. For…
00:41:01 |
Mon 18 Nov 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Peerby's Daan Weddenpohl Accelerates Circular, Sharing Economies
The sharing economy can be a platform for keeping products in circulation and out of landfills until they are no longer usable and must be recycled. If we can get more uses out of things we currently…
00:37:41 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John Englander's 2024 Sea Level Rise Update
Sustainability In Your Ear welcomes back oceanographer and author John Englander, who last visited with us in February 2023. John is the author of two pivotal books on Sea Level Rise, High Tide on Ma…
00:47:39 |
Mon 04 Nov 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Rare.org's Brett Jenks Ties Global Climate Impacts To Everyday Decisions
The climate crisis cannot be solved by one person, one organization, one company, or one government. A network of collaboration is being built, and nonprofits often serve as the connective tissue. Ou…
00:40:32 |
Mon 28 Oct 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Earth911 Podcast: Spout CEO Reuben Vollmer Introduces A Countertop Atmospheric Water Harvesting Appliance
The water crisis is one of the most pressing issues facing our planet, with climate change, population growth, and pollution threatening the availability of clean water worldwide. One company working…
00:30:25 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Author Mark Easter Serves Up The Blue Plate
The global food system is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, responsible for about 25% of annual anthropomorphic CO2 emission, the unfortunate, planet-warming exhaust of our…
00:38:59 |
Mon 14 Oct 2024
Earth911 Podcast: GS1 Goes Wholechain To Track Beef Impacts
Consumers and grocers who want to verify the quality of the beef they sell are asking for increased supply chain transparency. Vivian Tai, Director of Innovation at GS1 US visited with Earth911 in Fe…
00:40:46 |
Mon 07 Oct 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Plastic Bank's David Katz On Building A Global Bottle Deposit System
David Katz, founder and CEO of Plastic Bank, returns to talk with Mitch Ratcliffe about the groundbreaking social enterprise's effort to transform plastic waste into economic opportunity. Plastic Ban…
00:36:51 |
Mon 30 Sep 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Author David Steinman on Raising Healthy Kids In a Toxic World
Meet David Steinman, an environmental activist, investigative journalist, and author who has worked to expose the dangers of chemical toxins in everyday life. Steinman's bestselling 1990 book, Diet f…
00:38:51 |
Mon 23 Sep 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Author Nadina Galle on The Nature of Our Cities
More than half the world's population—4.4 billion people—live in cities today. That number is expected to rise to 80% by 2050. Our guest, Nadina Galle, is a trailblazing ecological engineer and autho…
00:42:35 |
Mon 16 Sep 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Cemvita’s Biotech Breakthroughs
The global push for sustainability has reached a critical juncture, particularly in industries traditionally associated with high environmental impacts, such as chemical manufacturing and mining. The…
00:40:24 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
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