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To make sustainable change, protect our environment and create a lower-carbon future, we need to have a dialogue with everyone involved. Join us on Sustainably Speaking, as we talk with innovators, policymakers, academics, and scientists to discuss the most critical issues of our time – and innovative ways to create a brighter future through the lens of sustainability. Visit: https://plasticmakers.org/education-innovation/podcast/.
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SAYER

Adam Bash

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SAYER is a narrative fiction podcast set on Earth’s man-made second moon, Typhon. The eponymous SAYER is a highly advanced, self-aware AI created to help acclimate new residents to their new lives, and their new employment with Ærolith Dynamics. New episodes release every other week.
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A narrative news show about the trends shifting our carbon-based economy. Each week, host Stephen Lacey digs into the business and technology stories that explain the rise of clean energy, the challenge to fossil fuels, and how the energy system is transforming in dramatic ways. Produced by Latitude Media.
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Materials Unlocked

Royce at the University of Sheffield

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Dr Lewis Owen brings together a diverse panel of experts and aspiring materials scientists to discuss and explore the work, achievements and discoveries that happen within the Advanced Materials Processing research area of the Henry Royce Institute based at the University of Sheffield.
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A podcast about the legal, taxation and lending aspects of structuring - how you own assets, how those assets are funded and the transactions associated with this. Your host, Terry Waugh, aka Terryw, is a solicitor, Chartered Tax Adviser, mortgage broker and former financial planner. Terry runs a law firm and a mortgage broking company. www.structuring.com.au
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NothingWasted! Podcast

NothingWasted! Podcast

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We chat with the rockstars of the waste, recycling, and sustainability industry. Get a glimpse of the latest news and insights and the people behind this amazing industry. Trust us, it won't be a waste of your time.
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Join us as we discuss a Range of topics like Athletic Development, Strength and Conditioning, Barefoot Education, Tactical development, Mindset, Cold exposure, Movement and Mobility, Health and wellness, Nutrition, Questioning the Norm and so much more all while in the ice bath!
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CGF Sustainability Podcast

The Consumer Goods Forum

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The CGF Sustainability Podcast takes a deep dive in to all things sustainability: from forced labour, to plastics, food waste, deforestation, and refrigeration. The series gives listeners insights in to the strategies of the key players working behind the scenes to tackle the challenges facing our industry and the planet.
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Greendale Human Podcasters

Greendale Human Podcasters

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Welcome to the Greendale Human Podcasters! We are 3 Aussie guys who wanted to do a Community rewatch podcast just for fun. Join us as we understand the Community roller coaster ride of six seasons and a movie. We don’t promise to be the best podcast, we don’t promise to be the worst..... we might be but we won’t promise it so give it a listen.
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From start up to sale, the course of building a business never did run smooth… Welcome to The Entrepreneurs’ Chat, a podcast brought to you by Kleinwort Hambros. In this series, host James Hurley, Enterprise Editor at The Times, is joined by six entrepreneurs to delve behind the scenes of ambitious and fast growing companies. Meet the people behind the businesses, as our guests share the challenges they have faced throughout their entrepreneurial journeys – and the lessons they have learnt a ...
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US News | Tech Trends

US News & World Report

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After a decade as a closet geek and departmental guru, David LaGesse started writing about personal tech for U.S. News six years ago. He also writes about corporate trends, strategies and executives, having spent more than a decade as a business writer at newspapers including most recently The Dallas Morning News, where he also spent seven years covering Latin American affairs.
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Many of our preceding episodes have focused on development in the Lithium Ion battery field, but of course Lithium is not the only alkali metal that lends itself to use as a battery material. In this episode we explore the growing interest in Sodium Ion battery technology, and with the help of Spencer Gore, CEO of Bedrock Materials. we explore how …
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Are you curious about the recycling industry? Have you ever wondered how you can get involved? In this episode of Sustainably Speaking, Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership, shares advice for anyone who feels inspired to have a positive impact on the planet. Keefe also brings new data to the table as we learn about the current state of …
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AI is suddenly in use everywhere – and it’s headed for the power sector. New research from Latitude Intelligence and Indigo Advisory Group shows a coming wave of AI integration, inside and outside of utilities. Distributed energy companies are increasingly integrating AI into their products, and many power companies are building teams to take advan…
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PhD researcher Durga Tilak is Lewis's co-host in this final episode of the series. They talk all things recycling, sustainability and long term storage in the world of materials science with expert Dr. Richard Thackray. Durga is in the second year of her PhD in eddy current reduction in automotive permanent magnets in collaboration with Volkswagen.…
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One of the critical materials used in Li-ion battery technology is Graphite. It has been the key anode material since the birth of the EV revolution. In this episode we take a deep dive into Graphite, and with the help of Vikram Handa and Sunit Kapur of Epsilon Advanced Materials. we explore how Graphite is key to the global EV ecosystem. Speaker N…
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John O’Donnell co-founded and ran two solar thermal companies. He watched as the technology shifted from being the most promising utility-scale solar technology, to getting out-competed by photovoltaics everywhere. But he stayed passionate about heat. Today, he’s CEO of Rondo Energy, which makes a “heat battery” for industrial applications using br…
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Lewis, alongside student co-host Lucy Farquhar, discuss sample testing with expert Prof. Russell Goodall. Lucy researches the development of refractory high entropy alloys for additive manufacturing. She's a runner and plays netball a lot, aswel as being an avid baker. Asking her to choose a favourite cake is like asking a parent to pick their favo…
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Mark Gurman has been covering Apple since 2009. His reporting career is full of scoops about new products or strategic decisions from inside the company. His latest scoop in February: Apple is finally shutting down its efforts to build an autonomous electric car. Apple first started exploring an electric car in 2014. At that point, cars had already…
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Jeremy DeBenedictis is on a mission to change the future of recycling. Advanced recycling technologies, like those used at his company Alterra, have potential to fast-track recycling and keep more plastics in the circular economy. Alterra’s disruptive technology breaks down hard-to-recycle plastics and converts them back into materials that can be …
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The US green hydrogen industry is at a critical juncture. After months of input and debate, the government put out draft rules for tax credits at the end of last year – setting strict requirements for matching new, local renewables to hydrogen production. It was hailed by many as a really important step for ensuring that green hydrogen actually liv…
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In this episode we shake things up a bit as we enter into Dr Lewis Owen's specialist field. So we welcome back Dr Kathy Christofidou, this time in the role of host as Dr Lewis Owen sits in the 'expert' seat, and they're joined by doctoral researcher Frances Synnott. Frances is a PhD researcher at the University of Sheffield with the Advanced Metall…
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There are many forces that could hold back AI in the power system: computing infrastructure, power availability, regulation, and corporate inertia. The biggest one? Good data. Utilities and grid operators are awash in data. But getting access to it – or making sense of it – is very difficult. For a better understanding of how to change that, we tur…
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Early in her career, Amanda Li worked on many deals in solar and storage as part of a billion-dollar sustainable infrastructure fund. And she discovered a problem that often hinders deployment: the underwriting process is cumbersome and slow. “All of it was in spreadsheets, word documents, emails. When you look at a solar deal, there's a lot of doc…
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I'm always fascinated by the development of innovative processes to take end of life batteries and from them generate battery grade materials. Essentially, making finite resources, infinite. In this episode we explore how ReElement Technologies are developing scalable and deployable purification and refining processes using chromatography at the he…
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When Brian Janous took charge of Microsoft’s clean energy strategy in 2011, the company’s data center demand was modest. He was measuring new demand in the tens of megawatts. Over the years, that grew to hundreds of megawatts of new demand as hyperscale computing expanded. And then everything changed in the spring of 2023, with the public launch of…
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In the early 2000s, Steve Cotton ran a company serving the fast-growing data center industry with backup battery systems. And when those systems reached the end of their lives, the company monetized kilotons of lead-acid batteries by sending them to recycling facilities – industrial plants that break down and burn the components. “It's very dangero…
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In this episode Lewis welcomes student co-hosts; Ben Jolly and Jacob Whittle to talk all things Advanced Manufacturing with expert Dr Felicity Freeman. Ben and Jacob are both in the third year of their PhD research with the AMSCDT. Ben is currently researching the local structural behaviours of multi-component alloys via Neutron Total Scattering ex…
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One of the most intriguing aspects of the battery industry is the emergence of new enabling chemistries that can propel battery performance to the next level. In this episode we discuss the emergence of Niobium as a disrupting element in battery development and explore the role Niobium could play in achieving faster charging, higher energy densitie…
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Can a couple trillion dollars feel small? Global investments in the energy transition – from the buildout of factories and power projects to project finance and government debt – hit nearly $1.8 trillion last year. That’s almost as big as the GDP of South Korea. It’s nearly 20% more than the year before, and nearly eight times more than a decade ag…
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Microplastics are defined as plastic particles smaller than five millimeters. They are challenging to detect and can have primary or secondary origins. Studying the life cycles of plastics is crucial for reducing microplastics and allows the industry to develop more durable products and design items that degrade under controlled conditions. The jou…
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In this third episode of season four of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)'s Sustainability Podcast Series, Maria Isabel-Cubies, Senior Manager with the CGF chats live at the Global Summit in Tokyo with Tomoya Obokata, UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery about global and local perspectives on advancing human rights due diligence. In …
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In this episode Lewis cohosts with PhD student Wunmi Olukoya and they discuss how and why we produce material samples with Dr. Yunus Azakli and Dr. Will Pulfrey from the Royce team at the University of Sheffield. Wunmi is a researcher from the AMSCDT investigating the interaction between silver and lead-free solders in order to develop new solder a…
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If we want any chance of affordably and reliably building a grid powered 100% by zero-carbon resources, we need to triple the capacity of virtual power plants. That’s the conclusion of a report released last fall by the Department of Energy, which examined the different business models and integration approaches for tying solar, batteries, thermost…
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There's a lot happening in the world of Battery chemistry. In this episode, we take a step further down the value chain and explore the how developments in digitalisation are helping companies design not just battery componentry but to optimise the manufacturing process through which they will be built. Speaker Notes: Puneet Sinha | Sr. Director, B…
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The storage market is full of surprises. Last year, global storage installations were a third higher than expected, driven mostly by Chinese policy to attach batteries to renewables. Meanwhile, a ramp-up in manufacturing is causing oversupply – and a potential shakeout for smaller battery makers. By 2030, the world could see 1.8 terawatt-hours of s…
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In this bonus episode, Jon and Colin discuss the recently deceased actor Carl Weathers. *** The Hop-Ons Podcast is an Arrested Development/Twin Peaks/Community review show. Support the podcast by becoming a patron through Patreon. Buy merchandise at our Threadless page. The Hop-Ons Podcast is produced by Nice Marmot Productions with assistance from…
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At the core of any battery system is the cathode. The positive electrode, Choices made in cathode chemistry determine much of the battery performance and is responsible for a majority of the cost elements of a battery. In this episode we are joined by Dr Mark Copley, Research and Development Director of FAAM to discuss all things cathode. From basi…
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Lewis is joined by guest student cohost Josh Berry in this episode, and expert panel Dr. Claire Utton and Prof. Hector Basoalto. Josh is a PhD student with the AMSCDT investigating material and process design for additive manufacturing of hard metals. Claire is a research fellow at the University of Sheffield, her research interests are based aroun…
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As President Biden’s green industrial policies reignite the US manufacturing base, AI computing workloads soar, and machines across the economy turn electric, the power grid is facing an historic increase in demand. After almost two decades of flat electricity consumption, suddenly America’s grid planners are doubling their forecasts for demand – r…
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In this episode of Sustainably Speaking, Ross Eisenberg, president of America's Plastic Makers® at the American Chemistry Council delves into his journey, sharing his experience advocating for circular and sustainable solutions and looking at priorities for this year and beyond. He also shines a light on the challenges of implementing federal and i…
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Artificial intelligence is quickly accelerating drug discovery, healthcare services, product design, and manufacturing efficiency. Now it's here for materials development – and it could be one of the most influential uses of AI in energy. A decade ago, Greg Mulholland started playing around with machine learning as a way to accelerate product devel…
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Lewis is joined by a new student co-host, Frances Livera, to discuss how to find a solution we first need to properly define the problem with this month's experts, Professor Iain Todd (professor of Metallurgy) and Dr David Bowden (UK Atomic Energy Authority). Frances is a final year PhD student whose research is based around Additive Manufacturing …
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Turbulent. Equilibrating. Those are the words that investors Gabriel Kra and Carly Anderson use to describe the last year for venture capital in climate tech. We now have a full picture of the year for climate tech venture investing in 2023. Fresh data from Sightline Climate shows a decline in deal counts, round sizes, and a dropoff in repeat inves…
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