Julia News
Sustainability 101: Startups with Innovative Materials
Finalists for SEMI’s Startups for Sustainable Semiconductors (S3) program pitched their solutions at SEMICON West. As in previous years, most...
Sustainability 101: Carbon Credits – Definitions and Directions
If your company is committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions, meeting that commitment will require purchasing carbon credits. Although...
Sustainability 101: Smart Sensing and Sustainability
What are you measuring, and what are you doing with the data? Sensors and monitors are great for tracking process...
Sustainability in the West: Planning for the Future
The high temperature in parts of the Seattle area last weekend was 89 degrees. That must mean two things: It’s...
The Possibilities and Challenges of E-waste Recycling
In theory, urban mining—harvesting materials from used electronic devices—is a commonsense route toward reducing society’s reliance on traditional mining to...
Sustainability 101: Recommitting to the UN SDGs
Last month’s announcement that the United States “rejects and denounces the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development...
Sustainability 101: Making Sense of Sustainability Reporting Requirements
The business news is head-spinning, so it’s understandable that many people feel like they don’t know which way is up....
What You Need to Know About PFAS
You have probably heard about health and environmental concerns related to per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Companies are being pressured...
Sustainability 101: 2025 and Progress Toward Sustainability Goals
Happy New Year 2025. How are those 2030 sustainability goals coming along? If you committed to 2025 goals, are you...
Sustainability 101: How Green is Your Electricity?
Where does the energy come from to power your facilities? Even if your company claims to be 100% renewable energy,...
Sustainability 101: Let’s Talk Supply Chain
My blog post for November is about supply chains and sustainability. I’ll get to that, but first, I want to...
Sustainability 101: Materials, AI, and Sustainability
If you read my blog posts or follow me on LinkedIn, you probably know that I’m passionate about the intersection...
Sustainability 101: The Green Guides
What do you know about the Federal Trade Commission’s “Guide for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims,” also known as...
Sustainability 101: Critical Minerals and Collaboration
We need governments, companies, and communities worldwide to cooperate if we want to build a more circular and more equitable...
Sustainability 101: Employee Action Groups for Sustainability
Lofty sustainability goals like becoming carbon neutral by a specific date or committing to science-based targets for greenhouse gas emissions...
Sustainability 101: PFAS-Free Filters
Fluoropolymers are excellent materials for filters. Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), the same polymer used in Teflon coatings, is inert, stable, hydrophobic, and...
Sustainability 101: Rethinking Sustainable Materials
The materials we use to make products are usually chosen with performance as the highest priority, followed by cost. Performance...
Sustainability 101: Refuse, Reduce, Repair, Refurbish, Rework
The Hierarchy of the Re’s You are probably familiar with the phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle.” You may have heard that...
