The Zero100 Podcast

The energy that powers global supply chains is also the biggest source of carbon emissions on our planet. But what exactly does that mean? In today’s episode Deborah works to demystify the relationship between energy and carbon in supply chains with Sandra MacQuillan, chief supply chain officer at Mondelez International, Dr. Julio Friedmann, chief scientist at Carbon Direct, and Nalin Agarwal, co-founder of Climate Collective. Research manager Shelby Newsome also joins Deborah to share how digital threads could help decarbonize supply chains along with a few case studies of companies currently using them.   

SHOW NOTES: 

• Sandra MacQuillan 
• Mondelēz International 
• Dr. Julio Friedmann 
• Carbon Direct  
• Nalin Agarwal 
• Climate Collective 
• Building resilient supply chains for the European energy transition 
• Apple calls on global supply chain to decarbonize by 2030 
• 'Clean Energy Charging' is coming to iPhones this year 
• The wasted potential of garbage dumps 
• Africa's access to universal electricity 
• Zara party dresses made from CO2 
• AIR Vodka 
• Aether Diamonds 
• Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030 
• Trimble 
• Back to Source: Defining and Implementing Digital Threads 
• Jaguar Land Rover x Circulor 
• Jaguar Landrover tracking leather footprint 
• Adidas x TrustTrace 
• Porsche x Circularise 

Supply chains need to be transformed, not just optimized, to survive the climate crisis. In this episode, Deborah explores the “weird science” behind cutting-edge concepts with Tom Van Aken, CEO of Avantium, a plant-based plastics manufacturer, Dr. Anthony Atala, Director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine and a bioengineering pioneer, Eben Bayer, CEO of Ecovative, a company that grows mushrooms as an alternative materials source, Tyler Cole, an electrofuels expert and the host of the Net-Zero Carbon podcast, and Zero100 research science director Colin Gilbert. Could the innovations we’re exploring today completely change how supply chains source materials, manufacture goods, and ship products?

Episode links:

• SynBio Radically Reinvents Supply Chain  
• Avantium 
• Tom Van Aken 
• Avantium Holds First Piling Ceremony for its FDCA Flagship Plant 
• Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine 
• Dr. Anthony Atala 
• Growing new organs 
• Ecovative 
• Eben Bayer 
• Premium Leather Producer ECCO Leather Partners With Ecovative to Pursue New Mycelium Materials 
• Net-Zero Carbon podcast 
• Tyler Cole 
• Freight Waves: The Nerve Center of the Global Supply Chain 
• Developing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) 
• The Paris Agreement 
• Ambition gap 
• Weird Science (film) 
• Weird Science (song)

For our very first episode we’re tackling the ongoing labor shortages that continue to threaten the health of the supply chain with Saru Jayaraman, the President of One Fair Wage, Jasmine Donovan, the President and CFO of Dick's Drive-In, and Zero100 researchers Colin Gilbert and Eddie Toledo. Despite massive job openings, positions are going unfilled. So what’s it going to take to get folks back to work? Kevin says the key is increasing wages – big time. And increased wages, he predicts, will be followed by increased investment in automation. So what does all that mean for workers and businesses?

• Saru Jayaraman 
• One Fair Wage  
• MIT living wage calculator 
• The US Has Reversed Pandemic Job Losses. Most Individual States Haven't.  
• Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It’s the 1970s  
• Jobs Are Back, Baby, But Maybe Not Your Job  
• College Enrollment is Down – But There’s a Silver Lining 
• Data Deep Dive: A Decline of Women in the Workforce 
• The value of the federal minimum wage is at its lowest point in 66 years  
• Inflation 2022 is a One-Time Demand for Higher Pay  
• 23 Essential Gig Economy Statistics 
• The State of Gig Work in 2021 
• New Research: Reskilling & Upskilling in the Age of Automation 
• The importance of manufacturing industry diversity 
• How unions are winning again, in 4 charts 
• Tensions rise in West Coast port labor battles, with unions and management trading accusations 
• Rate of union membership of employees in the United States from 1983 to 2021 
• Here's how automation and job creation can go hand in hand 
• Jasmine Donovan 
• Dick’s Drive-In  
• How Dick's Drive-In pays workers $19 an hour with a menu completely under $5 
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don’t, Jim Collins