U.S. Landfills are at 85 percent filled, and that is a big problem because we’ll continue to keep on making trash, but won’t have anywhere to put it.
Today on Reset, we have an innovator who is breaking down and recycling our waste using an unlikely method-mushrooms!
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Colorado has universal background checks, a red flag law and the city of Boulder recently passed an assault weapons ban. None of it was enough to stop a man from shooting and killing 10 people at a Boulder grocery store this week.
State Rep. Tom Sullivan, whose son was killed in the 2012 Aurora movie theatre shooting, reacts to the events of this week — and tells NPR why he still believes incremental action at the state level can help prevent gun violence.
Matt Donovan, Senior Vice President for Government at Merritt Group joins the show to discuss the importance of developing agency-based marketing programs as part of your GTM strategy. We also discuss tactical steps to begin to building your messaging platform, new digital marketing technologies in the market you can take advantage of today, and best practices in delivering strategic value to your sales leaders.
Tesla is allowing U.S. customers to buy vehicles with bitcoin, and it is not changing the crypto back to fiat.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper, and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.
Today on the Brief:
Robinhood IPO incoming
Competing bitcoin price predictions
Yellen and Powell’s latest testimony on economic growth
Our main discussion:
Elon Musk announced this morning Tesla’s program for buying its cars with bitcoin:
Says the company is running Bitcoin network nodes
Says Tesla won’t convert back to fiat but will hold bitcoin
Expanding the program internationally coming soon
NLW breaks down the hater response from the Tesla and Bitcoin sides and argues that much more significant are the other CEOs – like that of buzzy bed startup Eight Sleep – who are following suit.
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BuzzFeed News executive editor Mat Honan has long covered the way society interacts with technology. He joins Big Technology Podcast this week to discuss the “Zoom Class,” the rise of NFTs, and how San Francisco may change after the pandemic.
Jon Batiste is a pianist, songwriter, and composer from New Orleans. He’s been nominated for multiple Grammys, and just won the Golden Globe and got an Oscar nomination for the soundtrack to the Pixar film Soul, which he composed along with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Jon is also a recipient of the American Jazz Museum’s lifetime achievement award, and on weeknights, you can see him as the bandleader on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In March 2021, he put out his new album, We Are. But the title track from it came actually came out much earlier, last year, in June 2020. In this episode, Jon talks about how he drew from his roots, at a very personal level — and at a cultural, historical level — and wove all of it into the song.
In the second part of this two-part episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore the Great Reset. While it's sometimes called a conspiracy theory, the allegations and speculation circling the WEF and Davos are more like a mix of multiple, at-times contradictory ideas. Listen in to learn more about the criticisms, concerns, and bizarre accusations around Davos and the Great Reset.
A press conference is coming. How will the media try to shield the new president? What questions will they ask—and won’t they ask? Give a listen. Source
Mourning the victims as investigators in Boulder look for answers. Reigniting the gun control debate. Plans to slow down mail delivery. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
