Sustainabilime Podcast

24/12/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today Jason and Kelly will be providing an overview of the recent COP 28 that took place between November 30th to December 12th in Dubai. This Conference of Parties (COP) gathered to discuss all things climate change related. Specifically, they discussed reducing fossil fuel usage, loss and damage, adaptation, and food. So was this a good COP or a bad COP? Listen to find out!

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13/12/2023

New episode!🎙️
Today Jason and Kelly will be covering the sustainable stories from the month of November. These stories include: MI Clean Energy Bills, Kenya tree planting, Deforestation decrease in Brazil, the Vatican going electric, and the first commercial transatlantic flight with SAF.

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15/11/2023

Today I’ll be chatting with Jeff Grasser, Senior Resort Operations & Sustainability Manager for Copper Mountain Ski Resort located in Frisco, Colorado. It’s really exciting to be releasing this episode today, because as of this week, the 2023-2024 ski season at Copper Mountain is officially upon us. What’s also exciting is the fact that Copper Mountain is truly serious about their sustainability efforts through their Play Forever campaign. Jeff will be covering all of the pillars of that campaign including energy, waste, land, and community. He will be really diving into the land preservation and enhancement techniques that enhance biodiversity and carbon sequestration on the mountain.

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09/11/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today Jason and Kelly will be covering the sustainable stories from the month of October. These stories include Kelly getting a job, the Pope and climate change, California's senate bill 253, and the US clean hydrogen hubs.

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25/10/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today I’ll be chatting with Paul Hickman, Owner and Founder of Urban Ashes in Ann Arbor, MI. Urban Ashes is an urban wood consulting and design company with a mission to collaborate with municipalities, businesses, and universities to design, develop, and implement circular UrbanWood Triconomies. I’ve been seeing a lot of beautiful furniture made from urban wood, so I’m really excited to learn more about all of the sustainable practices.

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24/10/2023

You may recall a previous episode with The Farmlink Project where we chatted about rescuing food from farms to feed those in need. I absolutely loved their story - college kids identifying a food waste problem, a hunger problem, and a solution… especially during a global pandemic! They just released a 23 minute doc about their origin story and continued operation and I 100% recommend it. I felt so inspired watching it. Check it out!

Give Today: https://farmlink.donorsupport.co/-/XNJNVNBZGet Involved: https://www.farmlinkproject.org/abundance As we close out 2023, we are on track to have ...

19/10/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today I’ll be chatting with Nick Kemp, Technical Director of Fresh Coast Climate Solutions. Fresh Coast is a climate consulting company focused on bold solutions and transformative action in various areas such as carbon and climate, water, biodiversity, cleantech, and ESG. This makes Nick the perfect person to talk about today’s topic - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting 101. Recently, many of us have been hearing a variety of climate commitments from companies. From going carbon neutral or net zero to reducing scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, and so on. But What exactly are these emissions that they are talking about and how are they calculated? Today, Nick is going to explain all of that!

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10/10/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today Jason and Kelly will be covering sustainable stories from the month of September 2023. These stories include: Shell moving away from offsets, heat pump efficiency, Climate Corps, Starbucks reusable cups, Lego ditching rPET, and Ireland refusing a new LNG terminal.

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19/09/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today I’ll be chatting with Greg Woodring, President of Ann Arbor for Public Power. Ann Arbor for Public Power is a group advocating for a 100% renewable, public-owned electric utility for the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prior to moving to Ann Arbor, I wasn’t too familiar with public power systems, but it turns out that they are more common than I thought. Check out this episode of .pod in your podcast app or the link in our bio!

07/09/2023

Calling all teachers! Here are some great K-12 STEM Resources to help teach your students a variety of topics from biodiversity, climate change, renewable energy, etc. (there's a lot of topics!)

Thanks to the Center for Sustainable Systems from the University of Michigan!

The University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Systems (CSS) has researched and compiled a collection of outside resources, that K-12 educators can use to supplement some of the key sustainability topics found in CSS’s Sustainability Factsheet collection. Resources include videos, podcasts,...

07/09/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today Jason and Kelly will be covering the sustainable stories from the month of August 2023. These stories include Vogtle Unit 3 being operational, Norway's largest floating wind farm, London's low emission zones, and Montana's climate lawsuit.

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29/08/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today I’ll be chatting with Jean-François Gauthier, VP of Strategic Initiatives at GHGSat Inc. - Global Emissions Monitoring. GHGSat is a global leader in greenhouse gas emissions monitoring. They use satellite based and aerial remote sensing technology to identify emissions such as methane leaks and provide this information to companies looking to better their environmental impact.

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📷: All photos were provided by GHGSat

15/08/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today I’ll be chatting with Kendra Schneider, the founder of Takeout Takeout out of Lansing, MI. Takeout Takeout is a company focused on providing reusable and returnable takeout containers for restaurants and businesses. I personally love the idea of a returnable takeout container, because I absolutely hate the waste associated with takeout food - especially the flimsy plastic and styrofoam containers.

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02/08/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today Jason and Kelly will be covering the sustainable stories from the month of July 2023. These stories include a nature restoration bill in the EU, DTE planning to retire their Monroe Coal Plant early, a new clothing repair law in France, and the largest wind turbine becoming operational.

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25/07/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today I will be chatting with Riley Nelson, Head of Sustainability for NASCAR. NASCAR recently released commitments for achieving net zero operating emissions by 2035 which really peaked my interest!

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11/07/2023

New Episode! 🎙️
Today I will be chatting with Dr. Sarah Mills, Lecturer at the School for Environment and Sustainability and Sr. Research Specialist at the Graham Sustainability Institute all at the University of Michigan. Sarah’s current research is focused on energy policy and land use planning, which is a topic I personally find fascinating especially since it highlights the interdependence between rural and urban communities. As the push for renewable energy continues to grow in order to clean the grid, this topic is going to be more and more important.

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05/07/2023

New Episode! 🎙️
Today Jason and Kelly will be covering the sustainable stories from the month of June 2023. These stories include: drone displays, 3M's PFAS settlement, the Church of England divesting from fossil fuels, and EV chargers.

Tip of the week: reusable water balloons! They actually work and are a ton of fun!

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13/06/2023

New Episode!🎙️
On today's episode, Jason and Kelly will be discussing the ongoing Canadian wildfires. We will discuss what is happening, how many fires there are currently, health and safety impacts, and why these fires are so bad. Stay safe everyone!

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06/06/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today Jason and Kelly will be covering the sustainable stories from the month of May 2023. These stories include: Mars Bars Packaging, France's ban on short-haul domestic flights, diapers used in building houses, and electricity from humidity.

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23/05/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today I will be chatting with Maulik Vaishnav, Vice President of Innovation at the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), about all things related to sustainable transit in the city of Chicago. We will touch on the current rollouts and future plans for technological upgrades and how they will be implemented in an equitable way across the city.

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10/05/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today I’ll be chatting with Kilian Roach, Director of Compliance and Sustainable Engagement at Comprenew. Comprenew is a company focused on electronic recycling and refurbishment located in Grand Rapids, MI. Electronics are everywhere now from our phones, tvs, computers, and video games. Each of these items contain metals that can be reused in new products so electronic recycling and refurbishment is only becoming more and more important.

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25/04/2023

New Episode! 🎙️
Today Jason and Kelly will be covering the sustainable stories from the month of April 2023. These stories include: Boston's climate building codes, EPA proposed tailpipe rules, Apple using recycled metals, and Lego building a carbon neutral factory.

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21/04/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today is a day of reflection. Jason will be interviewing Kelly about completing her masters degree in sustainability as well as the past 4 years of podcasting on .pod . All of these events line up with Earth Day... that has gotta mean something right?! Happy Earth Day everyone (tomorrow)!

Btw, this is the goofy first day of school picture I took when I first started my masters at the University of Michigan SEAS 😂

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13/04/2023

Who feels like contacting their state rep to get the House looking at compost? (Me!) There’s some bipartisan movement happening so check this out:

11/04/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today I’ll be chatting with Hannah Craik, founder of Salonvironment. Hannah is a licensed cosmetologist and hairdresser, but found herself wanting to help the beauty industry become more sustainable. Thus, she started Salonvironment to help educate the salon industry and help them to recycle.

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04/04/2023

New episode!🎙️
Today Jason and Kelly will be covering the sustainable stories from the month of March 2023. These stories include: United’s Chief Trash Officer, Allbirds M0.0NSHOT, U.S. Renewables, and Mackinac Island's electric ferry.

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28/03/2023

New Episode!🎙️
Today I’ll be chatting with Brianna Treat, Director of Sustainability for Climate Pledge Arena and the Seattle Kraken. The Seattle Kraken is the newest team to join the NHL, and the Climate Pledge Arena is one of the most impressive arena’s in the world. In fact, they strive to be the most progressive, responsible, and sustainable arena in the world and so far, I’d say they are doing a great job! As many of you know, I’m a huge NHL fan, so I’m beyond excited to chat with Brianna about everything that Climate Pledge Arena is doing.

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24/03/2023

New Episode!🎙️
On this week's episode, Jason and Kelly will continue the series on sustainable labels and certification. This particular episode will focus on milk, specifically, dairy, oat, soy, almond, and rice. Also check out picture 2 from which compares each milk type based on land use, GHG emissions, freshwater use, and eutrophication.

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17/03/2023

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!☘️
Kicked off St. Pat’s week by hanging out with Mary Robinson, former and first female president of Ireland and former High Commissioner for Human Rights. She now continues to focus on human rights as well as climate justice. It was inspiring to hear her speak about Project Dandelion which seeks to address various climate injustices such as the injustice of the climate crisis disproportionately affecting the poorest countries and communities, gender injustice, intergenerational injustice, the injustice of different development pathways between developed and developing countries, and the injustice to nature. Thank you to for hosting Mary and setting up a student conversation with her! If you are interested in watching her full lecture, check out this link: https://record.umich.edu/articles/wege-lecturer-mary-robinson-ties-climate-crisis-to-injustice/

14/03/2023

New Episode!🎙️
On this week's episode, we will continue talking about sustainable product labels. We intended to talk about food as a broad category, however we this plan changed once we realized how many labels were involved with eggs alone. Who knew?! We will dive into Certified Humane, Animal Welfare Approved, Global Animal Partnership, UEP Cage Free Certified, and more.

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