Homework. Unit 9.

Choose one of these videos, look up the words of the vocabulary list and answer the questions. You can use the subtitles and transcript.

The missing link to renewable energy

Vocabulary:

Intermittency

Enabling

Heterodoxies

Electroplating

Grid-level storage

Paradigm

Axiomatically

Abundant

Recedes

Electrometallurgy

Workhorse

Bistro

Questions:

1. In the very beginning, what does he say a battery could solve?

2. Who invented the first battery and how does the presenter describe it?

3. Why does he say that certain parts of the periodic table must be axiomatically off-limits?

4. What does he say is the economic miracle of modern electrometallurgy?

5. Describe the new type of battery that the presenter wanted to create.

6. Who built the first liquid metal battery?

7. Describe the batteries they (LMBC) make today and the ones they hope to make in the future.

8. What does he say the liquid metal battery story is a blueprint for, and why?

Steve Howard: Let's go all-in on selling sustainability. IKEA example

Vocabulary:

Scarcity

Blueprint

Impact

Yields

Standards

Codes of conduct

Audit

Discerning

Luxury

Questions:

1. What did he say was the issue with 3 billion people joining the global middle class?

2. What does he say about six degrees centigrade and what does he give us as a point of comparison?

3. What are the 3 reasons he gives for making sustainability go from a nice-to-do a must-do?

4. What is the name of IKEA’s business strategy for sustainability?

5. What was the main problem people had with sustainability in the past?

6. What was his argument for LED bulbs versus incandescent? Give the details and numbers he provided.

7. Explain the Better Cotton Initiative.

8. Describe IKEA’s renewable energy situation.

9. What can a business do today to actually use total value chain to support a better quality of life and protect children’s rights?