Mitch Ratcliffe

Mitch is the publisher at Earth911.com and Director of Digital Strategy and Innovation at Intentional Futures, an insight-to-impact consultancy in Seattle. A veteran tech journalist, Mitch is passionate about helping people understand sustainability and the impact of their decisions on the planet.

NextCity.org reports that 75% of the infrastructure that will be in use by 2050 has not yet been built. That calls for a lot of concrete, and we need to avoid the emissions associated with that growth if we are to provide housing, workplaces, and everything that connects humanity on an equitable basis in a decarbonized world. Meet Alex Hall, CEO of

Globechain aims to build a worldwide reuse marketplace for excess inventory and lightly used goods. It will expand to 20 U.S. cities in 2024.

krill, the billions of tiny crustaceans that are a keystone in the food chain of the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica. Overfishing of krill to make Omega-3 oil products also threatens a vital carbon sink that pulls planet-warming CO2 from the environment. This special video event features environmental journalist Ashlan Cousteau of EarthEcho International

Earth Hour 2024, the “Biggest Hour for Earth” of the year, takes place on March 23rd. Since the World Wildlife Fund launched the event in 2007, Earth Hour has symbolized a commitment to the planet by simply turning off lights for one hour. However, despite its noble intentions, awareness of the movement was limited, with only 52% of the global population aware of the event. Our guests today, Phil Wilce and Antonia Simon, are Creative Director for Europe and Senior Experience Consultant, respectively, for EPAM Continuum, a research and strategy firm that worked with the World Wildlife Fund to reinvigorate the campaign and its outreach efforts as the climate crisis becomes more pronounced. The project represents an opportunity to explore how to tell stories about the environment and humanity’s impact on nature, something everyone listening to Sustainability In Your Ear thinks about in work and life.

I’ve just moved to a new place in the country and want to avoid the mistake of thinking I own the natural world. It is a challenge to become a member of an ecosystem, but with many apps at our fingertips, we can now explore and understand the flora, fauna, and geological features of our surroundings with unprecedented ease.

Honeywell aims for Scope 1 and 2 emissions neutrality by 2035. Dr. Towler discusses the transition to hydrogen and challenges when designing net-neutral operations

our YouTube channel. Georgie’s team supports a network of village wells in her homeland, Burkina Faso, that provides clean water, solar-powered community learning centers and gardens for more than 340,000 people. The organization trains women in the region to serve as engineers who install and maintain the wells, creating jobs and new life opportunities to girls who, like Georgie did in her youth, had to carry water miles every day. As many as 200 million hours per day of women’s time is lost to carrying water around the world. By donating only $10 a month, you can help bring clean water to 36 people in a year.

The built environment, particularly office buildings other urban facilities, are responsible for 39% of the...

Tune in to a special Earth Day 2024 episode about accelerating the path to a circular economy with lessons learned at the the REMADE Conference.