REWIND: Aligning Profits with Planet / The Circular Economy

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🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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“How 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?” 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. Now, innovative companies are “going circular” by transforming how their products are designed, used, and remade. Can a circular economy salvage the climate and save the planet? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests (Part 1): Gretchen Daily, Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University Adam Davis, Managing Partner, Ecosystem Investment Partners Barbara Grady, Senior Writer, GreenBiz.com Guests (Part 2): John Lanier, co-author, “Mid-Course Correction Revisited: The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change” (Chelsea Green, 2019) Beth Rattner, executive director, Biomimicry Institute Peter Templeton, president and CEO, Cradle to Cradle Innovation Institute “Aligning Profits with the Planet” was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on July 27, 2017 “Can a Circular Economy Salvage the Climate?” was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on May 7, 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.8	Can what's good for the planet also be good for business?
0:39.4	Climate One Conversations feature oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, the exciting and the scary aspects
0:44.8	of the climate challenge. I'm Greg Dalton. On today's program, we take a look at the ways corporate leaders are changing their thinking and operations to lighten their environmental impact, from far away factories to the boardroom.
1:06.1	If you can make more money with less inputs, that's more profit.
1:10.1	That's a good thing for business.
1:11.6	The business stakes are rising as millennials who say they care deeply about the environment,
1:16.6	flex their market muscle, and look for brands aligned with their values.
1:20.6	There's much more consumer scrutiny of what companies are doing these days,
1:23.6	so they realize there's a reputational risk if they do not take care of the
1:27.9	environment.
1:28.7	Today we will revisit two discussions about aligning profits with the planet and the companies
1:33.4	that are working to bring full circle the things we make, buy, and use.
1:37.7	First, three guests who joined us on the Climate One stage in July of 2017.
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