Earth911 Podcast: Thinking Zero Waste With Sarah Currie-Halpern

Earth911 Podcast: Thinking Zero Waste With Sarah Currie-Halpern

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Practical progress towards a sustainable way of life, whether or not you might be a person or a enterprise, will at all times be distinctive to your scenario, however you may base your selections on classes discovered by others. Tune right into a dialog with Sarah Currie-Halpern, Co-Founder of Think Zero LLC, a consultancy that helps companies, establishments, and households cut back waste and embrace sustainable practices. With a concentrate on sensible, actionable options, Sarah and her workforce work to make sustainability accessible to many purchasers. Sarah shares journey ideas to remember to scale back your influence on the bottom in different cities and international locations. Taking a water bottle, reusable utensils, and a espresso cup can remove the single-use stuff you’ll discover at many resorts and resorts. Check out Ecohotels.com and the Global Sustainable Tourism Council’s guidance. You will uncover insights that may pierce the veil of greenwashing by journey entrepreneurs with the data you discover there.

Sarah Currie-Halpern, cofounder of Think Zero LLC, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Sarah attracts on her waste administration work within the workplace of the Mayor of New York to debate the potential for purposes of synthetic intelligence (AI) to scale back the circulate of supplies to landfill. According to several studies, AI may devour as much as 10% of electrical energy generated by the tip of the last decade. AI generally is a highly effective software, however many firms concentrate on delivering trivial client comfort utilizing the expertise. Finding your subsequent favourite social video or saving the hassle concerned in altering the channel in your TV aren’t worthwhile purposes of expertise that could possibly be utilized to, for instance, creating fireplace suppression supplies which are freed from the toxins and heavy metals dumped in waves of red on cities in the Los Angeles basin amid this yr’s wildfires. We can and can use AI to invent new, sustainable supplies, kind reusable supplies out of the waste stream, and rather more. Still, we should always not see each query people pose, like “What’s on TV tonight?” handed to AI to resolve. If data is the brand new oil, we are able to use AI extra judiciously than we did with petroleum through the Industrial Age. You can study extra about Sarah and her work at Think Zero at https://www.thinkzerollc.com/