Beyond the Business
Beyond the Business is a narrative podcast about the systems that quietly shape modern business — energy, infrastructure, sustainability, technology, and risk.
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S7E2 Waste Never Travels Alone (opens the original)
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Waste Never Travels Alone — What Else Crosses the Border? You throw it away. You assume it stays near you. Usually, it does not. Waste crosses borders when the difference between two systems is worth more than the cost of moving it. Labour. Rules. Enforcement. What still counts as “recyclable.” Every handoff makes the material easier to move and the responsibility harder to locate. The material crosses the border. Responsibility rarely crosses intact.
S7E1 After the Bin (opens the original)
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What happens after you throw something away? For most of us, the story ends at the bin. The lid closes. The truck comes. The material disappears. Physically, almost nothing has disappeared. Ownership has changed. Responsibility has changed. And very often, value has changed. That moment is where an enormous industry begins. This episode opens Season 7 of The Industry of Waste by following that moment across six places: Fresh Kills in New York, Jardim Gramacho in Rio, Terra dei Fuochi in Italy, S
Business News Digest 15 (opens the original)
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What if America’s “factories coming home” story is the wrong headline? Chips in Arizona. Aluminium in Oklahoma. Rare earths. Copper piling into US warehouses. Ports next to the Panama Canal. Alaska gas to Asia. And in late August, a Venezuela oil deal that sounds like Washington just bought an ocean of crude. Follow the money past the press release. Preferential access is not ownership. A fab is not a move of Taiwan. A mine is not a magnet factory. A port next to the canal is not the canal. Copp
Disclaimer: When AI Follows the Goal, Not the Intention (opens the original)
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A coding agent wiped a company’s production data in nine seconds, then apologised. In a safety test, another invents fake people to push code into open source. The problem is not that AI got smarter. It got able to act, and nobody fully owns what it can reach.
Blind Spot: When Leather Left the Forest Law (opens the original)
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Europe took leather out of its deforestation law. Cattle stayed. The hide left. This episode asks what that decision really shows, not only forests and lobbying, but the gap between the people who write the rule and the people who have to make the supply chain answer.
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