The Future of Sustainability and Technology: Is It Enough? Part 2

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Buzz 1: Sustainability is no longer just a buzzword, but an environmental, economic and social driver that’s changing our day-to-day lives… committing to sustainable practices is no longer a “nice to have” but a “must do”…. [forbes.com] The Buzz 2: Technologies shaping the sustainability agenda: Public electric transport. Electric trucks. Cheap energy storage. Plastic recycling. LED light efficiency. Accessible solar power. Carbon capture and storage. Hydrogen in the energy transition. [mckinsey.com] The Buzz 3: “I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel – that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.” (Bertrand Piccard FRSGS, Swiss explorer, psychiatrist, environmentalist] The Buzz 4: “Unfortunately, in the environment, I don’t see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that’s a pity.” (Ramez Naam, American technologist, sci-fiction author: Nexus Trilogy] BIG QUESTION: Can we achieve Sustainability through data-driven processes, technology, collective mindset, government mandates, individual action or a combination of the above? We’ll ask Don DeLoach, Debra Lam, Geoffrey Kasselman, Rob Tiffany and Chris Rezendes for their take on The Future of Sustainability and Technology: Enough for Tomorrow? – Part 2.

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.0	Welcome to technology revolution, the future of now.
0:21.3	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.6	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now. Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.0	Bonnie D. in the house, happy to be here. I think we got somebody, one of my panelists is in a swimming pool.
0:40.3	Jeffrey, why don't you mute for a second there, dear.
0:42.3	Let's get rid of that back.
0:44.3	There we go.
0:45.3	We are live, everybody wave hello to LinkedIn, wave hello to Facebook.
0:48.3	I don't have the fancy countdown clock.
0:50.3	We're covering a topic today.
0:51.3	This is part two of a topic that everybody's talking about.
0:55.0	I don't know what people are doing about it, but they're talking about it.
0:58.2	And we're still trying to understand it. The topic is sustainability.
1:02.1	And of course, this is technology revolution. So we're talking about sustainability and technology.
1:07.5	That's our spin. And the question is is are we doing enough for tomorrow for
1:11.7	our kids for our grandkids for anybody in that future so this is part two welcome welcome
1:16.6	welcome let me give a couple of buzz quotes and then I will have my experts introduce
1:21.6	themselves so bear with me here buzz number one this is from Forbes one of my favorite
1:25.5	quotes sustainability is no longer a buzzword, but an environmental, economic, and social driver that
1:32.2	is changing our day-to-day lives committing to sustainable practices is no longer a nice
1:37.9	to have, but a must-do. Panel, nod and wave if you agree with that. It's a must-do.
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