Daniel Hartz

Sustainability Champions

Science EN ↓ 129 episodes

We highlight the people, ideas, and innovations protecting and healing the planet. Here you will find our podcast episodes where we interview sustainability champions as well as articles about the many positive changes happening right now all over the world to make us more sustainable. Sustainability Champions are the individuals, companies and organizations currently solving environmental challenges around the world. They are leaders and innovators and their numbers are growing. If you are a Sustainability Champion, please subscribe and listen today.

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Daniel Hartz

Episodes

How Our Governments Can Help Heal the Planet 22.05.2019 58:13

In this episode, my guest is Jay Manning, partner at Cascadia Law Group, an environmental law firm, based in Olympia, Washington, in the US.  In addition to working as an environmental attorney, Jay was the Chief of Staff for Washington Governor Christine Gregoire from 2009 to 2011.  He was the director of the Department of Ecology where he helped clean up and restore the Puget Sound and...

Bee Keeping On Skyscrapers 07.05.2019 40:06

In this episode, my guest is Camilla Goddard, founder and owner of Capital Bee ( http://www.capitalbee.co.uk ), an urban beekeeping operation in London, England. Camilla keeps around 70 beehives for businesses and organisations around London, teaches beekeeping courses on the rooftop of a 4-star luxury hotel, and finds homes for vulnerable bumblebees and honeybees. We start with Camilla's journey...

How Tech Companies Can Be Sustainable with VMware 04.04.2019 35:49

Join me as I speak with Natasha Tuck (@nstuck), Sustainability Director at VMware, a leading Silicon Valley technology firm.  We discuss VMware’s strategies for being a corporate leader in sustainability and a major milestone they have already accomplished, becoming 100% carbon neutral two years ahead of schedule.  VMware's virtualization technology makes I.T. infrastructure more efficie...

Easy Tips On How You Can Become Self Sustainable 12.02.2019 47:35

In this episode, my guests are Elena and Zima Hartz, a couple who have a very productive home: they grow their own fruits and vegetables, preserve and ferment their own foods, and have a self-contained ecosystem with chickens that eat pests and produce eggs. We discuss a lot of things, but some of the highlights are the love of composting, the importance of keeping your own bees, and the best turk...