Conversations with dozens of sustainability leaders from around the world for Environment + Energy Leader produced numerous insights this year. In-depth Q&As with executives covered a wide range of focus areas from resource management and circular design to energy efficiency and renewables procurement. Our editorial team also interviewed many 2019 E+E100 honorees in Denver at ELEMCON. These professionals moving the industry forward opened up about their success. Amid the regular refrains — collaborate, get buy-in from the top, don’t be afraid to fail, you can’t manage what you don’t measure — we heard helpful new suggestions.
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The Good Samaritan Food Donation Act of 1996. You’re not giving it away. You’re giving it to a hauler and the hauler is giving it away.” Kraig Westerbeek, senior director of Smithfield Renewables at Smithfield Foods, isn’t afraid to challenge Sweden Phone Number List traditional project structures on manure energy initiatives. “It’s essential that projects create a solution that is mutually beneficial to all that are involved,” he said. “You can’t just have projects that are beneficial to investors.” Charles McEwen, GEMS program manager and industrial hygienist for the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Health Care System, shared a useful analogy.
