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: Rachael Z. Miller Tracks Microfiber Pollution
Rachael Z. Miller is a leading voice in the fight against microfiber pollution, the plastic smog that trails our clothing like exhaust from a car. You might not see them, but our synthetic clothing s…
00:45:17 |
Mon 02 Sep 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Room & Board Makes Furniture Sustainability A Top Priority
Meet Emily McGarvey, furniture maker and retailer Room & Board's first Director of Sustainability. The company, founded in 1980, recently became an employee-owned B Corporation. Room & Board has made…
00:33:15 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Earth911 Podcast: USEFULL Founder Alison Cove Brings Reusable Packaging To Campus Cafeterias
Alison Cove, CEO and founder of USEFULL, works at the forefront of a critical shift in how we approach food service sustainability. By implementing collection systems for reusable food packaging, USE…
00:31:51 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Relocalize Aims to Hyper-Localize Ice and Beverage Production
Growing, packaging, transporting, and distributing food is a major source of society’s emissions, accounting for approximately 26% of annual global emissions. Reducing the impact of food production i…
00:35:38 |
Mon 22 Jul 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Carbon Limit's Tim Sperry Pours the CaptureCrete Story
Tim Sperry is the Founder and CEO of Boca Raton, Florida-based Carbon Limit, the maker of CaptureCrete. He founded the company in 2020 after recognizing concrete’s huge environmental price — it accou…
00:36:01 |
Mon 15 Jul 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Peter Fusaro Takes the Wall Street Green Conference Global
For 23 years, Peter Fusaro has been a leading force in the green economy. His exclusive Wall Street Green conference has been a hot ticket for investors and executives looking for sustainable paths f…
00:39:55 |
Mon 08 Jul 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Mike Baker's ReCORK Recycling Puts The Circular Into Footwear
Circular economies grow from the ground up, starting with recognizing that a material used to make a product can be recaptured, reused, resold, and recycled to lower the cost of sourcing raw material…
00:35:39 |
Mon 01 Jul 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Cotapaxi Partners With Customers & Suppliers To Achieve Sustainability
Cotopaxi was built from the ground up to meet these high goals, but any company can transform itself; it just takes the first step, beginning the critical self-reflection that thoughtful leaders can …
00:43:21 |
Mon 24 Jun 2024
Earth911 Podcast: David Lipsky on His Climate Denial History, The Parrot and The Igloo
Rising CO2 levels have created climate change, the denier's name for global warming. It's the environmental crisis that will shape our species' future. The long story of willful disregard of the cons…
01:01:49 |
Mon 17 Jun 2024
Eath911 Podcast: World Ocean Day Special -- Blueprints for Coastal Adaptation
Join the Earth911 podcast community for a special World Ocean Day conversation, Blueprints for Coastal Adaptation, keynoted by ocean advocate Ashlan Cousteau of EarthEcho International and Voyacy. H…
01:27:26 |
Mon 10 Jun 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Sailing Toward Composting Convenience With 11th Hour Racing's Michelle Carnevale
Meet Michelle Carnevale, president of 11th Hour Racing, which advocates for sustainability and ocean health with solutions designed to create a more inclusive future. Michelle recently contributed an…
00:31:06 |
Mon 03 Jun 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Kidsy.co Takes A Step Toward Circular Children's Products
With the rise of recommerce, parents can find and buy top brands' children's products — from toys and clothing to furniture and car seats — at a deep discount. Our guest today is Shraysi Tandon, cofo…
00:35:47 |
Mon 27 May 2024
Earth911 Podcast: IKEA's Mardi Ditze On Retailing's Path To The Circular Economy
IKEA is a global retail and furniture giant that has grown up with the modern era, defining a spare but elegant Nordic style that influences many of our homes. Mardi Ditze, IKEA's Country Sustainabil…
00:30:21 |
Mon 20 May 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Consumer Reports' Chris Harto On The Lifetime Cost Of Climate Change
Consumer Reports and Breakthrough Energy recently put numbers on the social cost of carbon, calculating the cost for an American child born in 2024 due to climate change. They found that an American…
00:29:31 |
Mon 13 May 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Keel Labs' Tessa Gallagher Introduces Kelsun Kelp-Based Textiles
The fashion industry is responsible for as much as 10% of annual CO2 emissions and an immense amount of waste that chokes landfills, rivers, and beaches worldwide. Too much of our clothing is made fr…
00:33:02 |
Mon 06 May 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Author Lowell Baier Explores The History Of The Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act (ESA), passed in 1973 and signed into law by Republican Richard Nixon, has been a bulwark against unrestrained deforestation and development for over 50 years. It has prote…
00:33:56 |
Mon 29 Apr 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Mapping A Smart Path To The Circular Economy At The Ellen MacArthur Foundation REMADE Conference
Tune in to a special Earth Day 2024 episode about accelerating the path to a circular economy. Sustainability In Your Ear Mitch Ratcliffe shares lessons he learned at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's…
00:17:20 |
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Making Billions of Square Feet of Commercial Space Sustainable with CBRE's Rob Bernard
The built environment, particularly office buildings other urban facilities, are responsible for 39% of the global energy-related emissions, according to the World Green Building Council. About a thi…
00:39:22 |
Mon 15 Apr 2024
Earth911 Podcast: Ecoteens Founder Pragna Nidumolu On Activating Youth Environmental Networks
Youth face the greatest impact of climate change, and will certainly have to live with the consequences of the extractive economy for the longest time. They also have the opportunity to pass along a …
00:29:20 |
Mon 08 Apr 2024
Earth911 Podcast Special: Water For Peace With Model And Water Philanthropist Georgie Badiel
Join Earth911's Mitch Ratcliffe for a special World Water Day conversation with model and activist Georgie Badiel and Newday Impact Investing's Dan Keeler. If you'd like to watch instead of listen to…
01:06:36 |
Mon 01 Apr 2024
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