Chris O’Brien is the Founder and CEO of Hungry Giant, a company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Austin, TX. Hungry Giant is a cleantech business commercializing waste management and recycling equipment. A revolution in food waste management, Hungry Giant solutions use new technologies that turn food waste into a useful, reusable resource. They recently launched their Bio-Dehydrator solution. The cutting-edge, proprietary technology turns food waste into a useful, useable, and valuable resource on-site at any facility that generates commercial volumes of food waste. Created by a longtime innovator in the waste management and recycling industry, the Bio-Dehydrator enables food providers to better address food waste and reduce their emissions by helping to eliminate food waste in landfills, the ocean, and other sources, while at the same time creating a valuable byproduct out of a waste. Their range of products includes the Bio-Dehydrator, Bio-Grinder, and Bio-Digester solutions all available to buy, rent, or lease. 

Find Chris O'Brien online:

• Hungry Giant Waste Systems Homepage
• Hungry Giant on LinkedIn

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Erin has been involved in resource recovery for 18 years and in the last decade has focused specifically on the sales and marketing of finished compost. She has supported commercial compost facilities throughout the West Coast and has worked closely with the end users of compost, particularly the agricultural industry. Erin is a Certified Composting Professional through the US Composting Council and a Certified Compost Programs Manager through the Solid Waste Authority of North America. Currently, Erin works as the Resource & Recovery Manager at World Centric.

As someone who's always been super excited about compost, I was really excited to talk to Erin and learn more about composting! I can't wait to talk to her again and continue discussing compost!

Find Erin Levine online:

• World Centric: Compostable and Zero Waste Products
• Erin Levine on LinkedIn

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• This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature Podcast: ⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/solvefornature⁠⁠
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Daniel Mandler is a Professor of Chemistry in the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University and the incumbent of Archie and Marjorie Sherman Chair in Chemistry. He holds also an adjunct Professorship at the Nanyang Technical University in Singapore.

His research interests span from analytical to physical electrochemistry sol-gel technology, thin films and polymers, coatings of medical devices, forensic science and nanotechnology. He has numerous patents and is very active in commercialization of various applications in numerous fields such as solar thermal coatings and medical coatings.

Today, we're here to talk about a new kind of technology he is developing: sustainable bricks made from salt! These salt bricks replace typical CMU blocks, but don't have nearly as big of a carbon footprint - not to mention they are made from excess, unneeded salt that builds up in the dead sea.

Find Professor Daniel Mandler online:

• Professor Mandler's page at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Salt blocks at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem homepage
• Article on Professor Mandler's salt blocks

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• This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature Podcast: ⁠https://anchor.fm/solvefornature⁠
• Blog: ⁠https://verdantgrowth.blog/⁠
• YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/verdantgrowth⁠
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Lizzie Horvitz is back to discuss her challenge and how it went! If you don't remember, she founded Finch, a browser extension that helps you select sustainable products on Amazon. It's a tool that educates people on the ins and outs of sustainability, making it easier to shop sustainably online, add more transparency to online purchases, and dispel lots of the myths around the nonsense marketing terms like "green," or "organic" that drive consumer behavior but has little impact.

Find Lizzie Horvitz and Finch Online:

• The Finch Homepage
• Get the Finch Browser Plugin for Google Chrome
• Lizzie Horvitz on Twitter

Find me online:

• This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature Podcast: https://anchor.fm/solvefornature
• Blog: https://verdantgrowth.blog/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/verdantgrowth
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/VerdantGrowth
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realverdantgrowth
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/verdant.growth or http://instagram.com/verdantgrowthofficial

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Adarsh Ambati, age 16, of California, has been utilizing his talents to design new technologies to help conserve nature! He designed a moisture sensor-based smart sprinkler system that integrates real-time weather forecast data and soil moisture levels to provide optimum levels of water for huge water savings. He also designed a very low-cost, rapid diagnostic to detect the presence of an emerging fungal amphibian parasitic pathogen threatening to wipe out many species of endemic amphibians around the world at a fraction of the cost of current methods. Tying all his ideas together, he founded Green Environment Initiatives to design solutions for environmental crises and to provide STEM education for underserved students.

Find Adarsh Ambati Online:

• Adarsh Ambati's Homepage

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• This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature Podcast: https://anchor.fm/solvefornature
• Blog: https://verdantgrowth.blog/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/verdantgrowth
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/VerdantGrowth
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realverdantgrowth
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If you missed the first episode with Veeral, go back and check it out! Veeral Hardev is the VP of Strategy at Ubiquitous Energy, a company that is becoming the world leader in transparent solar technology, aka clear solar panels!

Last time he was on the show, he decided to take on a sustainability challenge. Let's hear how it went, as well as dig a little more into Ubiquitous Energy and their solar windows!

Find Veeral Hardev and Unbiquitous Energy Online:

• Ubiquitous Energy's Homepage

Find me online:

• This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature Podcast: https://anchor.fm/solvefornature
• Blog: https://verdantgrowth.blog/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC24IiwM0BPQ-_3DVz2KnuVw
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/VerdantGrowth
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realverdantgrowth
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/verdant.growth or http://instagram.com/verdantgrowthofficial

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Sonja Michaluk is back, but this time with backup from her sister Charlotte! Winner of the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes for her work protecting wetlands and drinking water sources using a novel bioassessment method she created, Sonja came up with a sustainability challenge to take on with her sister in our first recording, and is back to talk about how it went. I was so impressed with Sonja's motivation and passion for saving the environment, and was just as surprised to see her sister is just as motivated and passionate! Definitely worth a listen!

Founded by author T. A. Barron, the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes annually honors 25 outstanding young leaders (in the US and Canada) ages 8 to 18  who have made a significant positive difference to people or the environment.

Check out my blog post for upcycled rope photos they sent from their challenge!

Find Sonja Michaluk online:

• Sonja Michaluk on Instagram
• Charlotte Michaluk on Instagram
• Gloria Barron Prize Homepage

Find me online:

• This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature Podcast: https://anchor.fm/solvefornature
• Blog: https://verdantgrowth.blog/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC24IiwM0BPQ-_3DVz2KnuVw
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/VerdantGrowth
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realverdantgrowth
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/verdant.growth or http://instagram.com/verdantgrowthofficial

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Sonja Michaluk of New Jersey works passionately to protect wetlands and drinking water sources using a novel bioassessment method she created. For more than a decade, she has collected scientific data and shared it with policy makers to help conserve ecologically sensitive wetlands, critical habitat for threatened species, wildlife corridors, and old growth forests. Through her Conservation Communities Initiative, she has protected more than 50 acres of wetlands in densely populated Central New Jersey – and is working to preserve 250 more. Her years spent streamside have also led to the identification of a threatened amphibian species and protection of its habitat. At the age of 17, she was one of the winners of the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.

Founded by author T. A. Barron, the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes annually honors 25 outstanding young leaders (in the US and Canada) ages 8 to 18  who have made a significant positive difference to people or the environment.

Find Sonja Michaluk online:

• Sonja Michaluk on Instagram
• Gloria Barron Prize Homepage

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Lizzie Horvitz has been passionate about sustainability since the age of 16 when she lived off the grid. It was there that, depending only on wind energy and rainwater, she saw the solution of climate change before fully understanding the problem.

She founded Finch, a browser extension that helps you select sustainable products on Amazon. It's a tool that educates people on the ins and outs of sustainability by turning complex scientific facts into simple, actionable insights. Their goal is to make it easier to shop sustainably online, add more transparency to online purchases, and dispel lots of the myths around the nonsense marketing terms like "green," or "organic" that drive consumer behavior but has little impact.

Find Lizzie Horvitz online:

• The Finch Homepage
• Get the Finch Browser Plugin for Google Chrome
• Lizzie Horvitz on Twitter

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Javad Mohammadi is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include multi-agent optimization and machine learning in networked cyber-physical systems, including smart grid-interactive buildings, power grid, and electrified transportation systems. In short, he's solving problems and figuring out how to make our electric grids smarter with artificial intelligence!

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• Javad's Homepage at University of Texas
• Javad's Homepage
• Javad Mohammadi on Twitter
• INFORMS Homepage

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