#25 Andrew Mangan - Collaborating for Sustainable Development

Andrew Mangan joins me for episode #25 of the podcast. At the time we recorded the episode, Andrew was the Executive Director of the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development. Andy has recently stepped out of the Executive Director position and continues to serve on the Board for the US BCSD. Andrew Mangan founded the council in 1992 and developed it into a globally recognized leader in sustainable development solutions, collaboration, and innovation. In our conversation, we talk about how businesses that might normally never work together have found ways to collaborate to reduce waste and cost and improve their sustainability, the role of experimentation in sustainability, and how the growing drive for sustainable practices needs more collaboration. 

Some links to some of the things we discuss during this episode: 

• Andrew Mangan
• United States Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD)
• Gulf Coast Carbon Collaborative
• Great Lakes Carbon Collaborative
• Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
• ArcelorMittal is a steel manufacturer.
• Book: Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Travern

Check out more on the United Stated Business Council on Sustainable Development to see what kinds of collaborative work is happening in sustainable business and development. 

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.