Through the Noise

Through the Noise

The world is fast, ever-changing, and unpredictable. We stand across climate change, technological advancements, fragile economies, market trends, changing regulations, and now a pandemic. The key to survival and success is adaptation. We sit down with the passionate leaders of innovative companies and nonprofits that want to change the world, with fascinating authors who expand our minds, and with association heads who give us a clear picture of their industries. We cut Through The Noise and find out what makes them special, how they survive, what risks they take, what obstacles they face, how they build success. Adaptation is at our core.

Episodes

February 8, 2024 44 mins

Join Ernesto as he talks with Shaun Frankson, co-founder of Plastic Bank, who shares what it's like running a business that impacts billions of people on this planet by turning plastic waste into currency.

Plastic Bank empowers the Social Recycling movement that stops ocean plastic and helps alleviate poverty.

 

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Join Ernesto as he goes behind the scenes with Off_JaWaggon, a YouTuber quickly rising in popularity with his raw opinions surrounding politics and life on the farm in rural Minnesota. You will hear about the challenges and what actually goes into creating digital content that gets large numbers of views on platforms such as YouTube and TikTok.  

Off_JaWaggon is a Youtuber and Content Creator who discusses...

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Mark Fastoso from Mark's Game Room takes you behind the scenes sharing everything from researching his ideas, to the preparation, and even the best practices for making his videos that have gained him a large number of views in a very short period of time. 

Mark Fastoso, is a multiple Emmy® and Edward R. Murrow award-winning producer with more than twenty years experience working for PBS, Curiosity Stream, History Hit ...

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Have you ever considered the concept of an electric plane? Join Ernesto in this exciting episode as he sits down with Gregory Davis, President & CEO of Eviation Aircraft, as they dive into the groundbreaking achievement of creating the world's first all-electric commuter aircraft.

Eviation Aircraft builds electric airplanes using advanced technology and design. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Arlington, Washington. Their mis...

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Farzad Mesbahi is a YouTube content creator primarily focused on technology and its impact on our future. He's an entrepreneur, worked at Tesla for 4 years as a Program Manager, and was a Director of Business Intelligence and Pricing at the largest Pet Food Distributor in the United States, Phillips Pet Food and Supplies.

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Josiah Hunt, CEO of Pacific Biochar Benefit Corporation, has had a career focus on biochar since 2009, helping pioneer methods of biochar production, processing, use in agriculture, and associated carbon accounting during these years.

Pacific Biochar Benefit Corporation is a biochar producer and distributor with a focus on climate change mitigation and long-term soil fertility improvements.

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Jeremy Lang is the Founder and Vice President of Sustainability ...

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Climate change is accelerating, and Brennan Spellacy has built a platform that could exponentially scale our efforts to reverse its effects. He’s the CEO and co-founder of Patch, the platform for climate action. Backed by some of the world’s most visionary investors, he’s figured out how businesses can make bold, impactful climate action a reality with every transaction — with just four simple lines of code.

Patch is the platform f...

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Jean-Francois Gauthier is a mechanical engineer, lifelong space geek, and the Vice-President of Me...

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Tony Pan is the co-founder and CEO of Modern Ele...

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Scott Nguyen is CEO of Bodhi Solar and a Fellow at the University of Texas Energy Institute. Scott has 15 years o...

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C-Power has groundbreaking technologies that can harness the immense power of ocean waves and accelerate decarbonization at sea and on land. Its kilowatt-scale products change the ocean from a power desert into a power- and data-enriched environment, reducing operational costs, carbon, and complexity for offshore, island, and coastal applications.

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Tesla got cut from the S&P 500 ESG Index. What?

Jason Howell comes back to step us through the world of ESG and what’s going on with Tesla and the S&P ruckus. Jason also informed us about the SEC’s open for public comment meeting on ESG’s Sunshine Act Notice. That should be a fun one!

https://www.sec.gov/os/sunshine-act-notices/sunshine-act-notice-open-052522

Jason Howell is a Certified Financial Planner™ and Chartered SRI Counselo...

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Stefan Koester is a senior policy analyst with the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation where he focuses on clean energy innovation and climate change policy. He has a background in energy and environmental policy and has worked on carbon pricing, corporate sustainability, energy efficiency, electricity markets, and issues related to the electric power sector and renewable energy at the state, regional, and federal levels...

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John Belizaire’s parents escaped Haitian dictatorship and potential death before reuniting and coming to the United States. Since the age of 14 selling floppy discs in high school, John has had an entrepreneurial spirit and interest in technology. He was a recipient of the Intel Scholarship Program and he went on to receive a computer science and engineering degree from Cornell University.

When he was 28 years old, he sold his firs...

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Tony Pan is the co-founder and CEO of Modern Electron. He is an inventor on 250+ patents pending, and has been name...

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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...
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Amaury is an entrepreneur and business executive with past experiences in financial consultancy and business development.
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Lizzy is a Carbon Accounting Lead at Emitwise. She works with Emitwise’s customers to provide the most accurate picture of a company’s carbon footprint, so that effective reduction strategies can be implemented. A Chartered Accountant, she began her career at PwC, working in Assurance, where she specialized in Sustainability Assurance.

Emitwise is a tech company that enables large organizations to measure, report and reduce the car...

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