REWIND: Aligning Profits with Planet / The Circular Economy

Published: March 27, 2020, 2:41 p.m.

b"\\u201cHow do you move from a place of simply trying to stop bad things and asking instead how would you make products and services in a sustainable manner?\\u201d asks Adam Davis of Ecosystem Investment Partners. Is it possible to protect profits and the planet? Despite claims that a win for the environment is a loss for the economy, corporations are finding innovative ways to have it both ways, realizing that protecting watersheds and ecosystems can also protect their business.\\n\\nNow, innovative companies are \\u201cgoing circular\\u201d by transforming how their products are designed, used, and remade. Can a circular economy salvage the climate and save the planet?\\n\\nVisit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode.\\n\\nGuests (Part 1):\\nGretchen Daily, Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University\\nAdam Davis, Managing Partner, Ecosystem Investment Partners\\nBarbara Grady, Senior Writer, GreenBiz.com\\n\\nGuests (Part 2):\\nJohn Lanier, co-author, \\u201cMid-Course Correction Revisited: The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change\\u201d (Chelsea Green, 2019)\\nBeth Rattner, executive director, Biomimicry Institute\\nPeter Templeton, president and CEO, Cradle to Cradle Innovation Institute\\n\\n\\u201cAligning Profits with the Planet\\u201d was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on July 27, 2017 \\n\\u201cCan a Circular Economy Salvage the Climate?\\u201d was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on May 7, 2019\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"