What Sustainable Innovation you wish to Scale? Let's share and learn from each other

20 Sept 2017 · 2 min

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In this brief LinkedIn video, Mario Sebok, SCPM, MBA, PMP®, reflects on the most pressing existential risks—climate change and nuclear conflict—citing recent evidence such as record Atlantic hurricanes and heightened North Korean nuclear threats to the U.S. West Coast. He references a World Economic Forum report that warns of a three‑year window to avert catastrophic climate damage and notes the urgency of nuclear escalation. Sebok then highlights a suite of converging technologies—renewables, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, nanotechnology, and biotechnology—citing Singularity University as a source that sees these as a potential innovation pipeline to mitigate the threats. He concludes with a direct call to viewers to share how they are applying sustainable innovation in their professional and personal lives, encouraging community discussion to accelerate adoption and scaling of these solutions.

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Hi everybody, how are you? In inaugurating this new feature of LinkedIn, I decided to share a video with what's on my mind this week. I'm wondering, how does our work and projects solve the greatest threats to humanity today, namely climate change and nuclear war? In the last 4 weeks, we had 5 evidences that these threats are here. 4 hurricanes in the Gulf, one being the last largest one recorded in the Atlantic, and the nuclear threats from North Korea that want to wipe out the US West Coast, and with it our high-tech hub with Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and all of these, causing a major impact on the global internet infrastructure. An article last month of World Economic Forum says Experts agree that we have a 3-year window to curb major destruction due to climate change. In regards to escalating nuclear threats, we may not even have that much time. There is hope in the innovation pipeline, though. Renewables, IoT, AI, robotics, 3D printing, nano and biotechnologies, according to Silicon Valley's Singularity University, are all converging and potentially they can solve all these threats. But it's up to us in our daily lives and projects to put out the best innovations to solve these issues. So I ask you, what do you do in your professional and personal life for sustainable innovation that you would like others to know and others to also do? Please share the experiences on these comments below so we can promote the scaling of adoptions of these solutions. Hope to hear from you soon. Have a great weekend. Thank you, Mario.