Once Upon a Planet

And we're LIVE! Ok, we decided to do something a little different...during NeoCon we managed to do a series of podcasts LIVE from the OFS showroom in Chicago. These conversations were incredible and we are so excited to finally share them with you! In today's episode, you'll hear from:

Lauren Perich | Senior Designer | Studio O+A

Todd Bracher | Founder & Creative Director | Todd Bracher Studio

Carolyn Clark Beedle | Director Audience Development | One Workplace

These amazing guests sat down to discuss rethinking materials, reimaging the design process, and how the design community just might be the best group to give our world a fighting chance at a more sustainable future.

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John Cary, currently the President & CEO of Eames Institute, is typically

busy working his magic to bring design to the people. John has been a key

player in the Pro Bono Design movement for a long time, and that doesn’t appear

to be changing anytime soon. Everyone deserves good design. Verda tells us that

interior designers care a lot about people, the problem is that it has

traditionally been for a specific group of people. We want more people to

experience good design, so join us as we talk with John about Public

Architecture, Eames Institute, and more. 

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The recycling system is broken. Did you know that only 9% of what we put in blue bin programs is actually recycled? Our guest today is on a mission to address this issue.

In today's episode, hear how Ashley Gorrie and her company, Unwasted, are taking a stand to clean up recycling by harnessing the power of design and discarded plastics to create functionally beautiful furniture.

When asked why she's pursuing this Unwasted vision when the road seems so challenging, Ashley said, "it may be the crazy entrepreneur in me who doesn’t know when to stop, but it's also the right thing to do. I don’t know if we will be successful but we are going to try our hardest to fail and win forward in the right direction for change."

Learn more about Unwasted: https://www.unwastedtrash.com/

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Did you know that each year, 17 billion pounds of office furniture ends up in a landfill? This statistic didn't sit well with today's guest, so she decided to do something about it.

Today, we welcome Brandi Susewitz - she's the CEO and Founder of Reseat, the first online marketplace for second-life office furniture, and the first step toward a more sustainable, circular industry.

In this episode, we explore Brandi's journey to launching Reseat (which is inspiring itself!), as well as explore how it might be time to rethink the furniture industry and get serious about developing a truly circular economy.

Learn more about Reseat: https://reseat.com/

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Are you familiar with sustainable finance? ESG investing? Impact accounting? No? That's ok, neither were we - that is until we met Ken Pucker. Ken is the Advisory Director at Berkshire Partners and a Senior Lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts University - he is also the former COO of Timberland.

In today's episode, Ken helps pull back the curtain on sustainability reporting, the myth of sustainable fashion, and how accounts just might be the unlikely heroes in giving our world a fighting chance at a more sustainable future.

Read more from Ken Pucker on HBR: https://hbr.org/search?term=kenneth%20p.%20pucker

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Our guest today is Todd Sims - he's here to help us answer the question:

Can we be friends with plastic?

The answer to this question might not be as easy as we think.

Todd is the former Director of Sustainability and Market Outreach at the American Chemistry Council and is an experienced and passionate advocate in the fields of sustainability and energy efficiency.

In today's episode, he helps guide us through a challenging, nuanced, and important conversation on one of Earth's most troublesome and misused materials - plastic.

Join us as we explore what the future holds for plastics and what changes we can make in the design industry to give our planet a fighting chance.

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Ginger Krieg Dosier is the co-founder and CEO of Biomason - and they have a goal to help save our Earth, one brick at a time.

Taking inspiration from marine ecosystems, Biomason aims to eliminate the need to emit carbon to produce building materials - developing a way to grow cement bricks and tiles with bacteria in order to replace traditional cement, the production of which, she says, generates more carbon dioxide than all but two countries, China and the United States.

Ginger Krieg Dosier and the Biomason team have a BIG goal and disrupting a billion-dollar building materials industry won't be easy, but it's a goal that's worthy of their efforts because as she says "the planet doesn't have time to wait."

Learn more about Ginger Krieg Dosier and Biomason:

https://biomason.com/

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Our guest today is Jeff Frost - he's a material specialist with Brightworks Sustainability and co-founder of mindful MATERIALS collaborative; an industry-led initiative to make it easier for building professionals to select products with health and environmental attributes.

Jeff is recognized as a national subject matter expert on how building material choices affect human health, climate change, and the environment.

In today's episode, we learn from Jeff how healthier materials are a pathway to a healthier planet...and a healthier YOU.

Get to know Jeff Frost and Brightworks Sustainability:

https://brightworks.net/people/jeff-frost/

Learn more about the Mindful MATERIALS mission:

https://www.mindfulmaterials.com/

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Today, we welcome the Founder & CEO of Humanscale, Bob King. During our discussion, Bob reveals how combining sustainable principles with business acumen has led to industry-leading success.

We also explore the problems, complexity, and difficult decisions required to create true progress in sustainability as a manufacturer - including the urgent need for all manufacturers to adopt material transparency and eradicate the use of harmful ingredients...all in an effort to ensure a healthier planet for the future.

To learn more Humanscale, please visit: https://www.humanscale.com/

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Porter Fox, author of "The Last Winter,” trekked the world to tell the story of what he’s seen firsthand — a winter that’s shrinking.

Fox is a lifelong skier, so he has a personal interest in cold, snowy weather. But less winter and less snow doesn’t only mean less skiing; it could also spell the end of the natural world as we know it.

In today's episode, Porter Fox explains what he learned by crisscrossing the globe with scientists and adventurers to better understand the scale of this climate catastrophe and how humans might yet have time to respond.

Visit the link below to learn more about Porter Fox and pick up your copy of "The Last Winter."

https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/porter-fox/the-last-winter/9780316460934/

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