Bringing Equity And Resisting COVID-19 Within A ‘Circular Economy’

By Steve Bynum
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Garry Cooper, CEO/President of Rheaply with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in background. Rheaply is in partnership with Chicago city government and World Business Chicago to facilitate affordable Professional Protective Equipment (PPE) access for local small businesses and nonprofits Rheaply
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Garry Cooper, CEO/President of Rheaply with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in background. Rheaply is in partnership with Chicago city government and World Business Chicago to facilitate affordable Professional Protective Equipment (PPE) access for local small businesses and nonprofits Rheaply

Bringing Equity And Resisting COVID-19 Within A ‘Circular Economy’

By Steve Bynum
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African-American entrepreneur Garry Cooper and Reset’s sustainability contributor Karen Weigert discuss how a circular economy can increase equity and help solve problems like COVID-19 and climate change.

GUESTS: Karen Weigert, vice president at Slipstream and former chief sustainability officer for the city of Chicago

Garry Cooper, sustainability entrepreneur, co-founder of Rheaply, adjunct assistant professor of physiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine