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Sustainability Daily Podcast — December 2, 2025
Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories: a mix of breakthrough AI, circular bioeconomy research, responsible minerals exploration, and people-centered policy insights shaping a more sustainable future.
30+ AI Agents from Growing SaaS and Interesting Startups
By Isaac Sacolick — Dec 1, 2025
This round-up shows how agentic AI is moving from concept to capability across functions like IT operations, customer service, HR, finance, and ESG, with notable entries from companies including Moveworks, PolyAI, UiPath, and Workato. It highlights industry-specific agents and time-to-value wins (from days to hours), signaling a pragmatic shift toward AI that reasons, automates, and integrates. For leaders, it’s a useful short list to fuel research, proofs of concept, and targeted deployments.
Development of a low-cost culture medium from industrial and environmental by-products for sustainable cultivation of lactic acid bacteria
By Michele Letitia Tchabou Tientcheu, Pierre Marie Kaktcham, Edith Marius Foko Kouam, Laverdure Tchamani Piame, Lysette Chabrone Djodjeu Kamega, Aarzoo, Agnihotri Shekhar, Singh Bhim Pratap, François Zambou Ngoufack — Dec 1, 2025
Researchers formulated a low-cost, high-performance culture medium using pineapple peels, sugarcane molasses, and black soldier fly larvae cake—delivering growth and bacteriocin activity comparable to or better than commercial media. The work advances circular bioeconomy principles and lowers barriers for labs and producers in resource-limited settings. It’s a practical blueprint for scaling microbiology with less cost and waste.
Copper Quest partners with ExploreTech for AI-driven resource exploration and development
By GlobeNewswire — Dec 1, 2025
Copper Quest will deploy ExploreTech’s generative AI and 3D geological modeling at its Kitimat Copper-Gold Project to integrate geophysics, geochemistry, and field data into probability-ranked drill targets. With historic intervals pointing to a significant Cu-Au system and strong access infrastructure, the program aims to accelerate high-confidence targeting as copper demand surges for electrification. The company also announced a fully subscribed flow-through financing to fund exploration.
Hybrid marketing strategies: how modern businesses use print + digital to build stronger, smarter brands
By Angela Scott-Briggs — Dec 1, 2025
The piece makes the case for hybrid marketing: pairing the scale of digital with the credibility and tangibility of premium print. Practical tactics—QR-enabled collateral, consistent cross-channel branding, and retargeting loops—help turn physical touchpoints into digital conversions. In crowded markets, this approach can lift trust, recall, and conversion efficiency.
Frontline AI: The deskless AI transformation is next
By Lara Williams — Dec 1, 2025
An MIT CTL study finds more than half of surveyed warehouses report advanced or fully automated operations, with typical AI ROI in two to three years. Partnerships among IFS, Anthropic, Boston Dynamics, Nvidia, and others underscore rapid progress in physical AI, robotics, digital twins, and edge inference—targeting safety, uptime, and productivity for 2.7 billion deskless workers. The message: industrial AI is moving from pilots to plant floors, with accuracy, governance, and workforce design in focus.
Precarious employment and gender-based violence against migrant women: a scoping review mapping the intersections
By Cyndirela Chadambuka, Prossy Kiddu Namyalo, Rhea Raghunauth, Navya Arora, Fiona Kouyoumdjian, Beverley M. Essue — Dec 1, 2025
This review shows precarious work both fuels and follows gender-based violence, with debt bondage, immigration status, and weak labor protections compounding risks. Using intersectionality and feminist political economy, the authors call for structural reforms, not just individual supports—stronger enforcement, safer workplaces, and responsive services. It’s a reminder that social protections are foundational to truly sustainable economies.
