In this episode of Sustainability Ambassadors, José María Figueres, Former President of Costa Rica, speaks with Rich about putting Costa Rica on the path to sustainability in the 1990s. The conversation starts with WHY he saw sustainability as an opportunity for his country, and from there HOW he developed strategy, aligned stakeholder, and measured success. Timestamps: 00:30 - Welcome to…
In this episode, we speak with Sammie Ho Dumas, Director of Social Impact & Sustainability at Williams-Sonoma, about her 20 year career focused on elevating sustainability and social impact through the supply chains of leading brands. Timestamps: 00:18 - Welcome to Sustainable Ambassador Podcast 01:00 - Sammie Dumas Ho introduction 02:00 - Lessons from factory floors 03:05 - Asssessing co…
On this episode of Sustainability Ambassadors, we speak with Ellen Weinreb about the trends and opportunities she is seeing for (young) professionals to develop their careers in the areas of ESG & Sustainability. Through our episode, she mentioned the following reports: State of the Profession 2022 https://weinrebgroup.com/state-of-the-profession-2022/ The Chief Sustainability Officer…
In this episode, we speak with Andrew Angle, Research & Networks Manager at ERM Sustainability Institute, about their recently released report, “The Next Steps for Sustainable Business”, which speaks to the top sustainability business trends for 2024. Through our discussion, we speak about the trends they identified, the critical developments and catalysts driving each, and how leaders are…
Through this episode of the Sustainable Ambassador Podcast, we speak with Janice Lao about her 20 years of work experience in corporate sustainability, and her recent research to benchmark the traits of sustainable leadership and create a blueprint from which others can follow. ? ABOUT JANICE Janice Lao is an internationally multi-awarded environmental scientist and economist working with b…
In this episode, I speak with Diana Chen and Dmitry Andreev about how they got their start in sustainability, the work they are doing as generalists (who are specialize), and how they approach career development in a space where the size and scale of challenges continues to grow. If you are a young professional, or student, looking to develop your career in sustainability, you'll want to stay t…
In this episode of the Sustainable Ambassador Podcast, we have the honor of speaking with the Mayor of Columbia, Missouri, Barbara Buffaloe. Through our conversation, we speak about how as Mayor sustainability is embedded into her work, the importance of engaging her constituents, the challenges/opportunities that are unique to a small(er) Midwestern town, and the resources/ inspirations she ga…
In this episode of the Sustainability Ambassadors Podcast, we speak with Roger Levermore, Dean of Management at Asia Institute of Technology , and Alison Greig, Director of Education for Sustainability at Anglia Ruskin University, about their work as educators to educate the next generation of leaders in sustainability and ESG. ? LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify: https://open.spotify.…
In this episode, I speak to Imran Ahmed, Founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), about his recent research showing how the patterns around climate denialism on social media have changed, and from there, the the work he is doing to catalyze stakeholders to solve the problem. CCDH Report: The New Climate Denial - https://counterhate.com/research/new-climate-denial/ ? L…
On this episode of Sustainability Ambassadors, we speak with Erin Meezan, about her experience and insights about being Chief Sustainability Officer at Interface. ? LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1eTyAfaKphSdyiSNZFcKSm Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/sustainable-ambassador-podcast/id1705344128 Amazon: acast: https://shows.acast.com/sus…
Following our previous events in June and July, where we focused on the development of China’s circular economy, explored the opportunities and challenges to “sell sustainability” in China, through this event we explored the opportunities for brands, entrepreneurs, and innovators to “Deliver sustainability” in the areas of product design, material innovation, and platform sustainability. To hel…
Following our June event, focused on the development of China’s circular economy, through this event we explored the opportunities, and challenges, of “selling sustainability” in China. A topic that has grown increasingly important as reports of North American heat waves, and severe flooding in China and Germany, have catalyzed conversations about the impacts of climate change. To help provi…
Following our previous events in April and May, where we spoke about China's ambitious carbon goals, this month we launched our first of three events on product and process level sustainability. Themed as the Circular Economy forum, we invited distinguished Professor Zhu Dajian from Tongji University, Anders Lennartsson, Country Sustainability Manager from IKEA China, William Yao from Alufun…
Following our event in April, China’s Race to Zero, on May 19th, 2021, we invited Andy Klump, Founder of Clean Energy Associates (“CEA”), Peter Cheng, General Manager of Xebec Adsorption, and Yana Hryshko, Senior Sales Manager at JA Solar, to share their insights and experiences in the areas of clean energy with The Collective at our Powering Sustainability Forum. An event focused on the realit…
To help participants understand China’s Path to 2060 Carbon Neutrality, on April 21st, 2021 we invited Jia Li, Associate Professor at the China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tong Fun and Peter Chen from CBRE, and Sunny Wang from Interface to speak to The Collective about their vision for the path forward. Neutrality will take a Collective Effort: With over 15 year…
