"Breaking Old Stigmas in Hospitality":

"When you're doing a hotel, there's $5,000,000 for flooring or textiles or electronics. And depending on that's an individual hotel and they then can redirect that to more sustainable things, you make a huge impact without actually really doing anything."

Systems Efficiency Versus Point Efficiency: "You know, it’s pointing to a systems efficiency versus point efficiency. And that’s something that we need to realize as we’re very good as a society pointing out point efficiency."

The Importance of Biodegradable Products: "What’s going to be used and disposed of should be biodegradable effectively and immediately... Like you have a straw. It shouldn’t be plastic. Bioplastic is fine because that does break down as natural and as you can eat it and it's not gonna kill you."

The Truth About Eco-Friendly Products: "My eco friendly pair of sneakers disintegrate after every, like, 6 months to a year. Is that green if I'm constantly throwing this stuff out?"

Sustainable Practices in Hotels: "So you can take that that mindset of system efficiencies and put that into hotels. So how can you get what you need to get as close as possible? So it doesn't mean growing your own food for the restaurant. Does it mean producing your own products on on on-site? Does mean producing your own energy on-site? Does it mean producing, you know, like heating and cooling on-site sustainably?"

Impact of Hotels on Local Communities: "And this is why people put up a lot of fights around hotels going up in their neighborhood because you're tracking all these people."

Global Trade Disruption: "The Panama Canal is at 50% capacity because it has been raining for the last year, but some climate change. So anything that's coming from Asia to the US, there's a good chance it's gonna get heavily delayed. And if it doesn't rain for the next couple of months, the Panama Canal ceases to function. So how does it get around? It's gotta go all around the south of South America, right by Antarctica and all the way back. That's not a viable, shipping solution."

"Recycling Myths Debunked": "I don't know where we got that idea, which is probably the plastic manufacturers, that recycling is free, but it's not. It takes quite a bit of energy to recycle things."

Accelerated Product Commercialization: "Because people think of things differently, when they get into that hotel room, they're gonna find the holes and whatever you're doing real fast. So they're going to find the weak points and they're going to tell you about it."

Unlocking Potential in Disadvantaged Communities: "How many more Einsteins are working in child labor camps because they don't have access to schools? How many more, you know, you know, Neil deGrasse Tysons there are, but they are stuck in a non ending loop because they can't break free?"