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Earth911 Podcast: WIlliam Ulrich on Learning from Y2K to Design the Circular Economy

Earth911 Podcast: WIlliam Ulrich on Learning from Y2K to Design the Circular Economy

FromEarth911.com's Sustainability In Your Ear


Earth911 Podcast: WIlliam Ulrich on Learning from Y2K to Design the Circular Economy

FromEarth911.com's Sustainability In Your Ear

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Jan 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What do the response to climate change and the Y2K computer bug, which required hundreds of thousands of technology workers to spend several years fixing in the 1990so prevent catastrophic errors when the date turned over to Jan. 1, 2000, have in common? Both are complex problems that reach into every corner of our lives. Y2K showed humans they can overcome huge challenges using self-organizing groups that span companies, nations, and many languages. Meet William Ulrich, president of Tactical Strategy Group and cofounder and board member of the Business Architecture Guild, a global, not-for-profit association of business professionals dedicated to enabling strategy execution and business model transformation. Bill worked extensively on the Y2K solution and has developed an approach to creating sustainable, circular businesses based on his decades of work on the practice of business architecture.Bill wrote two papers that applybusiness architecture thinking to create circular economies in the auto industry. We talk about how those ideas can be applied to "product-as-a-service" businesses that take responsibility for the materials used to build, for example, a car or smartphone, over many generations of products. He also emphasizes the patience and transparency are necessary to help companies make adequate progress toward low- or no-carbon operations. The Climate Crisis will not be solved by silver-bullet solutions but broad transformation of our infrastructure and economy, which requires disclosure of information so that everyone, including entire supply chains and the consumers that rely on them, can learn and improve. If anything, it can help identify the unknown unknowns that can upend our progress. You can learn more about Bill https://tacticalstrategygroup.com/and his Northstar Radio Show can be heard at https://tacticalstrategygroup.com/the-north-star
Released:
Jan 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Each week, Evelyn Lopez and the Earth911.com team talk sustainability news, interview sustainability leaders, and answer your questions about how to recycle and buy responsibly. You have more power to improve the world than you know! Listen in to get started saving the planet!