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April 1, 2021 You are here: Home / World Economic Forum / Three experts on why eradicating plastic pollution will help achieve gender equality Three experts on why eradicating plastic pollution will help achieve gender equality (Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Kristin Hughes, Director, Global Plastic Action Partnership, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva Women fight on the frontlines against plastic pollution. The transition to a circular economy for plasti...

‘What Moves People?’ Drives NREL Mobility Behavioral Scientist To Find Answers March 16, 2021 Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Patricia (Paty) Romero-Lankao arrived in Colorado in 2006 and found her way to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 2018 to grow a new mobility behavioral science capability. “How people behave and make decisions are social science questions, not technical ones,” Romero-Lankao said. Understanding what factors influence people’s choices—specifically energy and mobility choices...

Dr. Joerg S. Hofstetter, an expert in the management of multinational multi-tier supply chains with over 15 years of experience, is associate professor in supply chain management at KEDGE Business School Bordeaux, president of the International Forum on Sustainable Value Chains (ISVC), faculty member of Business School Lausanne, lecturer at the University of St. Gallen’s School of Management, and fellow of the Center for Organization Research & Design (CORD) at Arizona State University. He consulted the World Bank Group, various national and supranational government associations as well as ...

Read Part One here and Part Two here. At the end of January 2021, in amongst the headlines on Covid-19 and the virulent new British strain that was set to hit the United States “like a hurricane,” the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed that riffed on a brand-new addition to the English lexicon: “collapseology”. It was heavy reading for the paper’s Sunday edition, particularly given the new dawn that was supposed to have been heralded by the inauguration of Joe Biden, but the facts in the piece were as true as they were newsworthy. For many decades, the authors noted, an ever-grow...

By David Poulson One of the delights of Michigan State University’s Fate of the Earth conference is the dinner for organizers and speakers the night before. I always angled to get a seat next to Barbara Sawyer-Koch, a former MSU trustee, who with her late husband Donald Koch, an MSU philosophy professor, endowed this annual conference on sustainability. It was their support that allowed MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism to help bring top-flight environmental journalists to speak at the event and later meet with our students. Barb, who died March 6, was an excellent dinner c...