Sustainability In Progress (SIP)

About Sustainability In Progress (SIP)

Welcome to Sustainability in Progress (SIP), a podcast brought to you by John George and Laura Negre, two like-minded sustainability professionals who met during their graduate program at Columbia University and look to bring sustainability education from the classroom to your devices. The sustainability space is constantly evolving, as are we, so we’ve decided to call this podcast Sustainability in Progress, or SIP. To suggest topics for future episodes, email us at sustainabilityinprogresspod@gmail.com.

Publisher

Sustainability in Progress (SIP)

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Jul 2022

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026

   A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Norway's Climate Playbook

   How does one of the world's biggest oil and gas producers also become a climate leader? We sit down with Jo Sletbak, Consul General of Norway in New York, to talk about how Norway practices climate diplomacy now that climate, energy security, trade, and geopolitics are all tangled together. We also get into U.S.–Norway clean tech partnerships, Arctic cooperation, and what American cities can learn from Oslo.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Should I Stay or Should I Grow? Farming, Profitability & the Regenerative Transition

   This week, we sit down with investor Nick Schroer to unpack the economics of modern farming, from shrinking margins and the “technology treadmill” to what makes ag-tech worth investing in. We explore why profitability may be a prerequisite for regenerative agriculture, what the next generation of farming could look like, and why consumers might be overthinking sustainable choices.

3. 

   29 Jul 2026

   One Man's Trash, Another Man's Treasure: UBQ's Groundbreaking Material

   In this episode of Sustainability in Progress, we sit down with Albert Douer, CEO of UBQ Materials, to unpack how household garbage gets converted into a material that can replace plastic in manufacturing. Albert draws on 40+ years in the plastics and materials industry to explain why traditional recycling can only solve part of the waste problem, and how UBQ's process instead breaks down organic waste at a molecular level to create something entirely new. We discuss what a "negative carbon footprint" actually means in practice, why global adoption has been slower than expected, and what it would take to scale this technology into a true alternative to landfills and incinerators.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

21

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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