If you met Leilani Munter you would never guess she was one of the highest-performing race car drivers on the planet. This dynamic woman is transforming the race car industry – one race, one tree-planting, one solar-powered race car pit at a time. Literally. Listen to this biologist-turned racing phenom Leilani tell Green Connections host… Continue reading Top Race Car Driver Does it Green- Really! Leilani Munter
Did you know that the U.S. Dept. of Defense is the largest energy consumer on the planet and the Army is the largest one in the federal government? The Army’s Net Zero Initiative’s goal is to reduce its total energy and water use to “net zero,” and to reduce waste in landfills to net zero… Continue reading Largest Energy Consumer Goes “Net Zero” – Secretary Katherine Hammack, U.S. Army
Debbie Levin personally converted Hollywood’s television and movie productions into a greener way of doing business – and awards them when they do, as founder of the Environmental Media Awards. Awardees include Gwyneth Paltrow, 21st Century Fox, “Steve Jobs” the movie, and even “Star Wars.” In this brief interview at an Environmental Media Association gala,… Continue reading “Greening” Hollywood – One Plastic Bottle, One Recycled Set at a Time
Listen to this fascinating discussion with one of the world’s foremost business leaders and innovators, Dr. Sophie Vandebroek, Chief Technology Officer of Xerox, talk about “democratizing energy,” and driving innovation in large organizations. (Note: She went on to be COO of IBM Research and now is at MIT leading an innovation group. This was recorded… Continue reading Democratizing Energy, Innovation & STEM Careers – Dr. Sophie Vandebroek, CTO of Xerox
San Francisco has ambitious clean energy goals: Reducing their carbon footprint by 80% by 2050 and zero waste by 2020. How can they get there and what can the rest of us learn from their experience? As head of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment, Melanie Nutter has been on the forefront of this effort… Continue reading City Energy that Works- with Melanie Nutter, of SF’s Dept of Environment
Remember the last concert or sporting event you attended….Did you notice how much energy is being consumed by that venue? Lights for starters are a fortune, and concession stands use energy and spew all kinds of waste as they keep us fueled up. AEG Worldwide, which owns hundreds of venues around the globe has been… Continue reading Sports & Concert Venues Go Green – with Jennifer Regan, Sustainability Dir. of AEG Worldwide
Leadership – advancing your career – finding alternate paths to solutions – even peaceful policing strategies that work… Listen to renowned journalist Jay Newton-Small of Time magazine and author of the best-seller “Broad Influence: How Women are Changing the Way America Works” in her enlightening conversation with host Joan Michelson about all of that and… Continue reading Leadership Tips from Author & Time Magazine’s Jay Newton-Small
What do the Fortune 50 Most Powerful Women do that has advanced their careers to the very top? What can we all learn from them? Listen to this fascinating discussion with executive coach Eleanor Beaton who was trained by the Oprah coach Dr. Martha Beck. Eleanor and Green Connections host Joan Michelson break down the… Continue reading Lessons fr Fortune 50 Most Powerful Women – Eleanor Beaton, Executive Coach
“There’s an imagination gap.” Rachel Kyte on Electric Ladies Podcast Rachel Kyte, CEO of the United Nations Sustainable Energy for All program articulately describes the challenges of developing a clean energy infrastructure with 21st century technology with every country on earth – and as fast as possible, because populations are at grave risk. Implementing the… Continue reading Bringing Clean Energy to All – Rachel Kyte, CEO, UN Sustainable Energy for All
Do you think your community recycles? Think again. Just because it’s picked up doesn’t mean it’s recycled properly. Listen to Melissa Walsh Innes, of Recycling Reinvented, talk with Green Connections host Joan Michelson about the realities of recycling — and how Recycling Reinvented has been trying to literally “reinventing” it. Thanks for subscribing to Green… Continue reading Recycling Reinvented – with Melissa Walsh Innes
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