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537 Tom Costabile, Executive Director/CEO of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Apr 08, 2020

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Tom Costabile, ASME's Executive Director / CEO, is a Mechanical Engineer by training who began his career in the nuclear power industry before moving on to numerous leadership roles in the music distribution industry. Since joining ASME in May of 2018, Tom has made re-engagement with ASME's students, sections and volunteers a cornerstone of his tenure.

Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing and skill development across all engineering disciplines, while promoting the vital role of the engineer in society.

536 How does the Catholic Climate Covenant undertake sustainability projects? With Dan Misleh Apr 02, 2020

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Dan Misleh has been engaged in the social mission of the Catholic Church since 1982 when he joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. In 2006, he founded Catholic Climate Covenant as a way to help the Catholic community understand and act on climate change from a position of faith.

Catholic Climate Covenant helps to educate the Catholic community on creation care and provides programs and resources to help it be better stewards of the planet. Catholic Energies is a program of Catholic Climate Covenant.

536 How does the Catholic Climate Covenant undertake sustainability projects? With Dan Misleh Apr 02, 2020

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535 Daniel Brooks, Author of The Stockholm Paradigm Mar 25, 2020

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On Daniel Brooks: Professor emeritus, University of Toronto, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Research Fellow of the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska State Museum. Working for the past decade as a free-lance consultant on the evolutionary biology of climate change and emerging disease (current major project with the Hungarian National Institute of Ecology).

The crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Human, veterinary and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could be controlled by medicating the sick, vaccinating those at risk, and eradicating the parts of the biosphere responsible for disease transmission. Most climate scientists made no connection between climate changes and disease. A new understanding of the evolution of pathogen-host systems, called the Stockholm Paradigm, explains what is happening. The planet is a minefield of pathogens with pre-existing capacity to infect susceptible but unexposed hosts, needing only the opportunity to come into contact with them. Climate change has always been the major catalyst for such new opportunities, through disrupting local ecosystem structure and allowing pathogens and hosts to move to new ecosystems. Once pathogens expand to new hosts, novel pathogen variants may emerge, each with new capacities to infect hosts. Mathematical models and real-world examples uniformly support the conceptual framework. Emerging disease is thus one of the climate change-related threat multipliers confronting humanity. The universe of risk is thus enormous and climate change is the trigger - time is short, danger is great, we are unprepared. Emerging diseases cost humanity more than a trillion dollars per year in treatment and lost productivity. The Stockholm Paradigm also offers hope. Embodied in the DAMA (document, assess, monitor, act) protocol, we can "anticipate to mitigate" emerging disease, buying time and saving money while we search for more effective ways to cope with this challenge.

You can find Alicia Juarrero's episode here, and learn more about Vector Analytica.

534 Why is the Water Environment Federation changing their AMS and how? With Walt Marlowe. Mar 22, 2020

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Walt Marlowe is the Executive Director of the Water Environment Federation. Before joining WEF, he was the Executive Director of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and was previously the Executive Director of the Construction Specifications Institute and the Executive Director of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. He has a B.E. in Civil Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from George Washington University.

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization of 35,000 individual members and 75 affiliated Member Associations representing water quality professionals around the world. As a global water sector leader, our mission is to connect water professionals; enrich the expertise of water professionals; increase the awareness of the impact and value of water; and provide a platform for water sector innovation.

533 How does The Recycling Partnership use Capture Rate Studies to improve recycling in their industry? Mar 18, 2020

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As the lead of the Recycling Partnership's Circular Ventures Team, Sarah Dearman has spent her career collaborating for good through corporate, government and nonprofit sustainability initiatives. She is bringing this solutions-oriented, collaborative approach to the team to help launch the Pathway to Circularity initiative and others that will move us from a make-waste to a circular economy.

The Recycling Partnership is a national nonprofit organization that leverages corporate partner funding to transform recycling for good in states, cities and communities all across the U.S.

532 TTN Insights: Password Management Mar 12, 2020

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In this episode of TTN Insights, Ernesto and Mickey talk about password management, protection, secure sharing and why you need different passwords for everything. Learn why you need to exercise caution and how password managers can help you.

Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new software, technologies, trends, regulations that may impact leaders of organizations. Listen to their Insights on this segment of Through The Noise.

531 Maria Morukian, President & Founder of MSM Global Consulting Mar 10, 2020

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Maria Morukian is an organizational change and leadership development consultant specializing in diversity, equity, and inclusion. For 16 years she has provided training, coaching, and facilitation to help leaders to thrive in diverse, complex and changing environments.

MSM Global Consulting is a women-owned small business that provides a full suite of consulting, training and coaching services to organizations and their leaders on 21st-century leadership skills, diversity, equity, inclusion, and intercultural competence.

530 John Chalifoux, President and COO of MERA - The Association for Sustainable Manufacturing Mar 05, 2020

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John Chalifoux is the president and COO of MERA. Utilizing his engineering background, marketing skills and extensive knowledge of the automotive industry, Chalifoux strives to increase the awareness and acceptance of remanufactured goods—and solidify their place in the circular economy—with policymakers and the public. Previously, he was a strategy consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and he is an experienced marketing and sales executive, having worked for leading automotive suppliers.

MERA, The Association for Sustainable Manufacturing, is a member-based network of manufacturers, suppliers, universities, and professional services firms that promotes the economic, environmental, and product performance benefits of remanufacturing and similar forms of sustainable manufacturing.

529 Max Boykoff, Author of Creative (Climate) Communications Mar 03, 2020

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Max Boykoff is the Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies program.

Through a sustained assessment of research and experimentation into Creative (Climate) Communications, this handbook provides guidance for what works, where, when, why and under what conditions.

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