#137: Sustainability Without Politics: David Adams on Getting It Right

Written By Gary Ricke

I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Adams. David shared his unique path from rural Ohio to the Peace Corps in Jamaica, and eventually to COO of Wilmot Inc. Where he's leading sustainability efforts focused on energy, water and waste.

We got into how resource hiring plays a critical role in their mission, and David reflected on the difference between hires that work and the ones that don't. Spoiler alert referrals and shared values matter more than just resumes, so head on over to building efficiencypodcast.com for the full episode.

Another Clip from my discussion with David Adams

So I think the future of our industry is specifically in the energy industry. Is just becoming more mature and saying, you know, saving energy is good, like there's a place for solar, there's a place maybe for nuclear, if we need natural gas as a bridge, just like learning to work together and all those things and like, figure out the true value of each of them.

Because if you look at solar, it's not a political thing. It's like a asset that sits there and generates power with no fuel and you can figure out the twenty five year cost of that twenty five year revenue from sales of that, like it's just an asset. So I think, I guess, my hope that the future of the industry is, we can come to look at those technologies as just like pure assets and not politicize them.

I think that's starting to happen, I'm seeing that in our industry. So I'm really hopeful over the next fifteen years that we just look at things as assets and they have dollar values and it's not a political fund.

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