Rethinking Buying and Building: A New Sustainability Chain

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🗓️ 18 May 2009

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Rethinking Buying and Building: A New Sustainability Chain Andy Ball, CEO, Webcor Builders Beth Springer, EVP, Clorox Dave Steiner, CEO, Waste Management, Inc. Greg Dalton, Vice President, Commonwealth Club, moderator Companies and consumers are being asked to think more about the full life-cycle of the products they make and buy. Whether making consumer goods or constructing skyscrapers, companies are coming around to such a cradle-to-cradle mentality. This panel, which includes the CEO of the country’s largest recycler, $14 billion Waste Management, will discuss innovations in design, materials and marketing that are convincing people and companies that being green is good for business and the planet. This program was recorded in front of a live audience on May 12, 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	combe.
0:29.6	Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club.
0:35.4	I'm Greg Dalton, founder of Climate One.
0:38.2	Climate One brings together thought leaders from around the world
0:41.1	to advance solutions to global warming.
0:44.0	The Commonwealth Club is a non-profit, non-partisan forum open to the public.
0:48.9	Join us online at commonwealthclub.org.
0:54.2	Good evening and welcome to tonight's meeting of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club of California.
0:58.5	I'm Greg Dalton, the founder of Climate One.
1:00.9	Tonight we're talking about sustainability and rethinking, buying and building.
1:04.8	And we have a panel of experts here to discuss that with us.
1:08.1	We have Beth Springer, who's executive vice president of Clorox Company. We have Beth Springer, who's executive vice president of
1:11.7	Klorox Company. We have Dave Steiner, who's CEO of Waste Management, and Andy Ball, who's
1:17.8	CEO of WebCore Builders. So please give them a Commonwealth welcome here tonight.
1:26.6	So let's begin, Beth, with you talking about what's some of the big and exciting things that are happening in consumer goods that you see where companies, Clorox, or others have an opportunity to create more sustainable products and create something that's lower carbon.
1:45.0	Thanks, Greg.
1:46.1	You know, I think there are some things that have been going on in consumer goods for many years
1:49.6	that may not make the, might not meet the standard of exciting, but I think you're important.
1:54.7	And it's really, it's reducing packaging, right?
1:57.0	We can do it all the time without changing what consumers have to do,
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