Through the Noise

Lisa Conway serves as VP of Sustainability at Interface – the global flooring manufacturer that is leading industry to love the world – and is passionate about bringing awareness to the interconnectedness of environmental sustainability and human health. To drive understanding around the impact of carbon on human health, Lisa and her team provide educational programming on the need for transparency and prioritization of embodied carbon in specifications within the building industry.

Interface is a worldwide commercial flooring company and global leader in sustainability.

For sustainable home flooring by Interface, visit www.flor.com

At The Recycling Partnership, Ali Blandina brings her deep experience and passion for developing innovative strategies, building collaborative partnerships, and catalyzing change to her role as Director of Circular Ventures. Ali leads many initiatives including The Partnership's Pathway to Circularity, which enables stakeholders to successfully understand circular packaging challenges, solutions, and actions – turning thought leadership into action leadership in building a circular economy.

The Recycling Partnership is the lead action agent catalyzing the circular economy in the U.S., working with communities, brands, and other aligned organizations to transform recycling for good.

Nate Storey leads science and innovation for Plenty's cutting-edge vertical farm technologies. He has extensive experience in plant production and equipment design, and drives Plenty's ground-breaking plant science to deliver industry leading yields of delicious fresh fruits and vegetables. Prior to Plenty, he founded Bright Agrotech, an agriculture company that created hardware, software and services to advance the indoor and vertical agriculture industries. Nate received his Ph.D. in Agronomy from the University of Wyoming with an emphasis in vertical plane hydroponic production. He also received his Bachelor's and Masters of Science degrees in Agriculture Science from the University of Wyoming.

Plenty is the only scalable indoor vertical farm that can grow multiple crops on one platform with superior flavors and yield. Its mission is to improve the health of people, plants, and our planet.

David Beurle is a globally renowned expert on Future Thinking and Trends within Governments, Corporations, Industry, Regions and Communities. He is also CEO of Future iQ.

Future iQ is a global research and consulting company specialising in foresight and scenario-based strategic planning.

Future iQ, has just hosted the follow up virtual consultation to the successful Future of Urban Living consultation, held in December 2018 at St George's House in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The virtual consultation (Jan 22nd 2021) engaged 30 global experts around issues pertinent to society and the Future of Urban Living post pandemic. These include: Evolving Social Fabric, Distribution of Power and Influence, Demographic Distribution and Movement and Mobility. Experts were invited to take part.

Caroli Buitenhuis is a bioplastics and packaging expert and founder of Green Serendipity. She has an award winning track record in the fields of bioplastics, circular packaging and the development of innovative circular concepts and strategies.

Green Serendipity is an international consultancy for advice on bioplastics for packaging and products. Located in the Bioplastics Hub in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Scott Nguyen is CEO of 17TeraWatts and a Fellow at the University of Texas Energy Institute. Scott has 15 years of energy industry experience, 18 USPTO patents, and a PhD in Physics from Harvard University.

17TeraWatts' Bodhi software platform empowers residential solar companies to deliver amazing customer experiences.

Daniel Brooks is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Linnean Society of London, and a Research Fellow of the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska State Museum. He has been working for the past decade as a free-lance consultant on the evolutionary biology of climate change and emerging disease. He is also an author of The Stockholm Paradigm, which we discussed in his first episode, during the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown. Find his last episode here.

David Beurle is a globally renowned expert on Future Thinking and Trends within Governments, Corporations, Industry, Regions and Communities. He is also CEO of Future iQ.

Future iQ is a global research and consulting company specializing in foresight and scenario-based strategic planning.

Wendy Owens is the founder and CEO of Hexas Biomass Inc. and combines her background in materials engineering and biotech to lead Hexas to help the world achieve a more sustainable future through plant-based raw materials. Wendy is a published author and a former cabinet-level advisor to two US administrations.

Hexas Biomass is a biomaterials company that sells raw and pre-processed, plant-based materials as substitutes for wood and fossil fuel-based raw materials in multiple applications.

As part of the 3rd generation, Scott Attman, Vice President of Acme Paper & Supply, has spent 23 years growing his family's 74 year distribution company focusing on providing innovative and sustainable solutions to clients in various verticals ranging from fast casual restaurants to caterers, stadiums to hotels, and commercial office building to government facilities. When Scott is not working, he enjoys enjoying the vibrant Washington DC restaurant scene, coaching his children's sports teams, and skiing. He resides in the Maryland suburbs outside of Washington DC with his wife Donna and their 3 children.

Acme Paper is a distribution organization that services clients throughout the greater Mid-Atlantic Region with 5 divisions, Restaurant Equipment and smallwares, disposable foodservice packaging, facilities and hygiene solutions, industrial packaging, and custom retail packaging.