Scaling circular businesses often faces infrastructure challenges. Sway founder Julia Marsh highlights how seaweed packaging can replace traditional thin-film alternatives.

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Scaling circular businesses often faces infrastructure challenges. Sway founder Julia Marsh highlights how seaweed packaging can replace traditional thin-film alternatives.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity, champions the circular economy. This design-driven model eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products and materials, and regenerates nature.

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Susan Orlean, New Yorker staff writer and author of the best-selling *The Library Book*, visited The Commonwealth Club on October 14, 2021. She discussed her new book, *On Animals*, a collection

Susan Orlean, New Yorker staff writer and author of the best-selling *The Library Book*, visited The Commonwealth Club on October 14, 2021. She discussed her new book, *On Animals*, a collection exploring cross-species connections and animals' central role in human life. Orlean shared her lifelong fascination with human-animal interaction.

She was joined by journalist Julia Flynn Siler. The Commonwealth Club, the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, hosts diverse speakers at over 400 annual events.

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The COVID-19 recession has profoundly impacted the energy sector. The oil industry faces evaporating demand, while renewables, like solar, project significant job losses. Federal relief packages

The COVID-19 recession has profoundly impacted the energy sector. The oil industry faces evaporating demand, while renewables, like solar, project significant job losses. Federal relief packages have excluded clean energy, raising critical questions about the future of both hydrocarbons and renewables.

Join experts Jason Bordoff (Columbia University), Amy Harder (Axios), Scott Jacobs (Generate Capital), and Julia Pyper (Political Climate podcast) for a conversation on these pressing energy impacts and future implications.

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A global surge in youth climate action is influencing governments, yet its impact on industry, fossil fuel interests, and administrations that downplay climate change remains uncertain. Can this

A global surge in youth climate action is influencing governments, yet its impact on industry, fossil fuel interests, and administrations that downplay climate change remains uncertain. Can this new generation drive meaningful change?

Join student activists Isha Clarke and Sarah Goody, alongside Julia Olson (Our Children's Trust), Ben Wessel (NextGen America), and Morissa Zuckerman (Sunrise Movement, Bay Area). They will discuss the future of climate activism.

"Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It" launches today! Join our live book launch event this evening at 5 PM Pacific (8 PM Eastern) via