Sustainability Champions

Join me as I speak with Natasha Tuck (@nstuck), Sustainability Director at VMware, a leading Silicon Valley technology firm. 

We discuss VMware’s strategies for being a corporate leader in sustainability and a major milestone they have already accomplished, becoming 100% carbon neutral two years ahead of schedule.  VMware's virtualization technology makes I.T. infrastructure more efficient which fundamentally changes how their customers use power and with their tech, VMware's clients have avoided putting 540 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That's the equivalent to powering 68 percent of U.S. households for one year.  

You can learn more about VMware here: https://www.vmware.com.  

Resources  

[00:00:53] Information about how much carbon VMware's clients have saved was taken from this article: https://www.vmware.com/radius/achieving-carbon-neutrality/.  

[00:05:19] You can learn more about what it takes for a company to become carbon neutral here: https://www.carbonneutral.com/  

[00:05:48] You can read the press release of this announcement here: https://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-newsfeed.VMware-Achieves-Carbon-Neutrality-and-Partners-with-City-of-Palo-Alto-on-Community-Microgrid-as-Part-of-Global-Impact-Initiative.1641169.html.  

[00:07:47] This article really helped me understand the differences between Scopes 1, 2, and 3 emissions, as well as the difference between Carbon Neutral and 100% renewable energy: http://100percentrenewables.com.au/carbon-neutral-100-renewable/.  [

00:11:38] The stat Natasha referred to is that in Guatemala, 97 percent of water sources are contaminated, leading to the death of one in 20 children before the age of five. You can read more about it here: https://www.vmware.com/radius/low-carbon-sustainable-development/.  You can learn more about the Ecofiltro projects here: https://www.ecofiltro.com/en. You can learn more about Ecofiltro's cookstove in this video: https://youtu.be/HpSuLc2qly4.  

[00:20:48] You can read more about renewable energy credits here: https://www.epa.gov/greenpower/renewable-energy-certificates-recs.  

[00:33:33] Natasha’s two book recommendations: 1) Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood 2) Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken  

You can read the transcript of this episode here: http://bit.ly/NatashaTuckTranscrip

You can watch the full episode here: https://sustainabilitym.at/Youtube-Natasha-Tuck

In this episode, my guests are Elena and Zima Hartz, a couple who have a very productive home: they grow their own fruits and vegetables, preserve and ferment their own foods, and have a self-contained ecosystem with chickens that eat pests and produce eggs. We discuss a lot of things, but some of the highlights are the love of composting, the importance of keeping your own bees, and the best turkey they have ever had for Thanksgiving. 

Let’s dive in and see why these topics contribute to an eco-friendly lifestyle.   

You can read the transcript of this episode here:  http://bit.ly/Elena-ZimaHartzTranscript

You can watch the full episode here: https://sustainabilitym.at/Youtube-Elena-and-Zima-Hartz