Superhero Academy Podcast

Superhero Academy Podcast
Albert Bates - Sustainability Tech

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Summary
In this podcast, Marc Coppola, Lawrence and Nick interviews Albert Bates, a legend in terms of sustainability, or resilience, as he prefers to put it. He has had an experience in Tennessee as his post-graduate education on sustainability. What he learned in living in the farm was how to be creatively adaptable. You learn to adapt creatively to fill the needs from the minimum that you can use. We're going to have to be really creative really fast to be able to sustain 21st century technologies using less energy. We have to act now if we really want to become more sustainable or resilient. We need to cut back on consumer goods. We need to save more money in order to balance out the costs for more sustainable products. We've become so detached with the world that supports us. People are going to do what's easy and people are going to do what's most pleasurable. We need to advertise and educate people to make sustainability cool and sexy so they would support it and take action.

Main Questions Asked
• How did you start being involved in sustainability? [01:11]
• Would you say that sustainability and adaptability are synonymous? [08:35]
• What do you think should the average person be more sustainable or resilient with? [10:58]
• What is your definition of sustainability or resilience? [11:39]
• Do you think solar energy is the answer? Or wind? Or a combination? [19:48]
• What are the things that we can do today energy-wise that will make us shift in the best possible way? [19:52]
• Why isn't the technology of turning garbage into electricity, which can be seen in Copenhagen, replicated across the world? [23:22]
• Can we change our economic system to motivate people to be more energy-efficient? [28:22]
• What are your thoughts on the education side of things? How can we shift our education to make the change to sustainability happen? [38:43]
• What are your thoughts on branding, such as making sustainability sexy? [39:30]

Powerful Quotes
• "You start to learn to adapt creatively to fill the needs from the very minimum you can use." - Albert Bates [10:40]

Links Mentioned
Sirius Ecovillage
siriuscommunity.org

Contact Information for the Guest, Albert Bates
youtube.com/peaksurferalbert
thegreatchange.com

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