Developing Waste-to-Value Projects Part 2: Technology

Once you have completed a feedstock evaluation and populated your feedstock matrix, the next step is to select the technologies available that will convert your feedstock into a valuable output or set of outputs. This could mean wood chips to wood pellets for energy, old tires for jet fuel...

For a Successful Company Culture, Aim for Better, Not Best

I won’t pretend that we’ve perfected our company culture at Nexus PMG. Seven years in, and we’re always fine-tuning. What I can say is that we aim for better, not best. Best says you’ve accomplished the goal, so starting out with that mindset is counterproductive. Better means we can...

Core Values Series: Enjoy What We Do

To celebrate Nexus PMG’s seven-year anniversary, I’m taking a deeper dive into our core values as a company and how they are influencing, changing, and improving Nexus PMG. Our shared core values, both professionally and personally, are: To build a better world To be better people and continually improve,...

Introducing Bigger Than Us Issue 3: Electricity

Come along for the adventures of Mira and Nexi as they travel (with parental supervision) the world to discover the creative solutions that human beings are deploying to solve our most significant Earthly challenges. Want share this comic with children, teachers, friends, or colleagues? You can download Bigger Than...

Book Review: ‘The New Map’ by Daniel Yergin

This week Nexus PMG reviews a compelling new book: The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin.   Yergin won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1992 book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power and is considered the unofficial biographer of the...

Human Resources or Human Responsibilities?

What if we changed human resources to human responsibilities?  What comes to mind when you think of resources? Maybe things that have utility, or that can be extracted, or even used up. Is that how you want to think about people you hire or work with? In most cases,...

Can a Circular Economy Save The Planet?

Most products we use are not made with their end of life in mind. As an example, my takeout order from last night arrived in a plastic and Styrofoam package that will take 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill. Proponents of the circular economy ask a simple question:...

Core Values Series: To Be Better People and Continually Improve

To celebrate Nexus PMG’s seven-year anniversary, I am taking a deeper dive into our core values as a company and how they are influencing, changing, and improving Nexus PMG. Our shared core values, both professionally and personally, are: To build a better world. To be better people and continually...

Introducing Bigger Than Us Issue 2: Trash Island

Come along for the adventures of Mira and Nexi as they travel (with parental supervision) the world to discover the creative solutions that human beings are deploying to solve our most significant Earthly challenges. Want share this comic with children, teachers, friends, or colleagues? You can download Bigger Than...

Vote! A Pay-It-Forward Election Day Plan

Dear Clients & Business Leaders, In America, voting is a right but not an obligation. I often think about what the mechanics and infrastructure would have to look like if it were indeed compulsory. We would need more voting centers, volunteers, public transportation, and improved logistics coordination (under the...

Green Hydrogen: The Fuel of the Future?

“Green hydrogen” has the potential to become a major contributor to the decarbonized energy future of the planet.  Hydrogen based fuel cells are cleaner and more efficient than traditional power plants and internal combustion engines and can be used in cars and trucks just like batteries. Hydrogen fuel has...

What Drives You On Your Sustainability Journey? 10 Industry Leaders Weigh In

What drives you? What’s your why?  I’ve had the opportunity to ask nearly 100 entrepreneurs, executives, and industry leaders this question on the Bigger Than Us podcast. While conserving resources for the next generation is an underlying theme, their personal stories tell a bigger story. Here are some of...