Delivering Efficiency with Marc Kuo, Routific
Routific uses AI to cut mileage and drive time by 20%-40%. Marc Kuo is the Founder & CEO of Routific. He is a routing expert with nearly a decade of experience in last-mile logistics. But he didn’t always work in logistics. “Being a fresh grad out of school, I just wanted to get into either […]
Confronting Environmental Change in the Midwest, with Janet McCabe, Environmental Resilience Institute
The Environmental Resilience Institute helps midwestern communities understand and prepare for environmental change. There’s something powerful about understanding how a global trend impacts your local community. For example, it’s one thing to hear about world hunger. It’s another to hear about hunger in your state. But there’s a different feeling when you realize that there’s […]
Jessica Hellmann, Geofinancial Analytics and the Institute on the Environment
If you could invent a post-pandemic world, what world would you create? I hear people talking about the desire to return to “normal.” However, normal was unsustainable. Before the pandemic, there was another crisis, an environmental crisis. A crisis in our food systems, our energy systems, our clean water systems, and our unequal economic systems. […]
A Systems View of the Climate Crisis (and Coronavirus) with Jonathan Foley, Project Drawdown
Project Drawdown has one clear goal: “Drawdown,” the point when greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere start to decline. The world is, rightly, focused on the current pandemic. However, Dr. Jonathan Foley of Project Drawdown invites us to look at the bigger pattern. “The world’s attention is focused on this pandemic, as it should be,” […]
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the Internet, with Jack Amend and Matthew Reid, Web Neutral Project
The Web Neutral Project is a comprehensive certification program that calculates, offsets and neutralizes the carbon footprint of websites and digital products. Matt Reid and Jack Amend have known each other almost all of their lives. They grew up just down the street from one another. Matt attended the University of Minnesota where he studied […]