Doing More With Less, The Ben Franklin Way - Live online with Bruce Piasecki
Wed, Sep 17, 2025 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM EDT
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Ben Franklin is having a cultural comeback. Ken Burns devoted a two-part documentary to him.
PBS is now filming a prime-time special, Doing More with Less: The Ben Franklin Way, built around the life’s work of Bruce Piasecki, a strategist corporations call when resources tighten and stakes soar. The program airs in early 2026, but on September 17, you can hear the source material live in this exclusive SSF interview with Bruce.
Applying Technology to Reduce the Risk of Catastrophic Wildfires: Real Pathways for Turning Forest Waste into Products
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 1:15 to 2:45 PM EST
This webinar is the second in our series with Arizona State University, exploring solutions to the catastrophic wildfire crisis. It focuses on technologies, like biochar, renewable natural gas, and e-methanol, that are ready for commercial application but need infrastructure, investment, and policy support to scale.
Watch the 90-second explainer video on ASU’s Biomass to X initiative to see how these solutions could reshape wildfire mitigation and rural economies. https://vimeo.com/1089171228
Welcome to The Stability Brief
I’m Edward Saltzberg, an economist, engineer, and environmental scientist. As Executive Director of the Security and Sustainability Forum, I’ve spent years convening global leaders to make sense of complex transitions like these.
The Stability Brief builds on that work, offering clear, timely, and solutions-focused analysis to help you better understand—and respond to—the risks and choices shaping our future with clarity and purpose.
What You’ll Get:
✅ Timely commentary on political and global energy shifts
✅ Deep dives on climate and national security risks
✅ Thoughtful, action-focused analysis—no handwringing, no partisanship
Requiem for America’s Helping Hand in the World
I have seen the U.S. Agency for International Development in action — in Bolivia, Botswana, Pakistan and in Eastern Europe — and I can say that it is sometimes ragged and sometimes wasteful, but overall it is a great value for the money.
Tech Giants Want In on Electricity, Google Has a Foothold
During the desperate days of the energy crisis in the 1970s, it looked as though the shortage was permanent and we would have to change the way we lived, worked and played to accommodate it.
In the end, it was technology that solved the crisis.
The Next Climate Frontier – Industrial Decarbonization
Tackling industrial greenhouse gas emissions is emerging as the next frontier in the crucial transition to a clean energy economy.
While significant strides have been made in finding cost-effective alternatives to fossil fuel use in power generation, transportation, agriculture, and building sectors, decarbonizing industrial processes poses a much greater challenge - high process heat requirements.
Welcome to The Security & Sustainability Forum
Welcome to the World of the Security and Sustainability Forum.
Formed in 2009, SSF convenes global experts in free educational webinars to address pressing threats to society - human or natural - that impact our environmental, economic, and social systems. Over 25,000 educators and business and government professionals worldwide rely on SSF’s programming to enrich curricula and stay informed on the evolving landscape of security and sustainability. Over 350 webinar recordings are in the SSF Webinar Library, organized into nine Webinar Tracks.
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