God Stop
Posted On January 31, 2024
What do you call it when your certain plans are suddenly upended? They’re changed with no warning? You call it a God-stop. On this week’s Keepin’ It Real, Cam shares his experiences with them. —– A friend told me a story about how he had applied for a job a long way from home. His potential new employer had said they were going to make a very attractive offer. My friend and his wife began discussing selling their home and moving their kids to a new school. It was certain to happen and then…it didn’t. The job offer never came…. Read More
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Reusing waste to help protect the environment
Posted On January 30, 2024
Many companies are actively seeking out ways to make their processes healthier for the environment. When your business involves hazardous waste, that can sometimes be difficult and always heavily regulated. But our guest in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” runs a business that has a solution. Ted Reese is President and CEO of Cadence Environmental Energy, a company that supplies alternative fuels to the cement kiln industry. And yes, even hazardous waste can be reused as an alternative fuel. “My father was one of the early pioneers back in the early ‘70s who found that waste… Read More
Categories: Blog, What's Working with Cam MarstonHazardous Waste Disposal – Ted Reese of Cadence Environmental Energy Explains How It’s Done
Posted On January 29, 2024
When huge chemical containers are cleaned at chemical plants, what happens to the left over hazardous sludge? What’s done with the excess from some cosmetic overruns? What about those piles of tires we used to see stacked up behind old tire shops? Ted Reese is president and CEO of Cadence Environmental Energy. His company destroys wastes that contain energy value by feeding it into long rotary kilns at cement plants that operate at above 2600 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s all high in carbon which reduces fossil fuels needed to generate the heat. The resulting product, now harmless, becomes part of the… Read More
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Remanufacturing: The answer to helping electric cars reach their potential?
Posted On January 24, 2024
Electric cars are the solution to reducing our carbon footprint, we’re told, and doing something about climate change. No they’re not, we’re also told, because the process required to produce their batteries is also harmful to the environment. What to believe? There’s truth to both statements, but our guests in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” have a solution. Maria Caballero is president of E-Mobility and John Boyer is president of TERREPOWER. They’re both subsidiaries of BBB Industries, a top remanufacturer of automotive, industrial and solar industry parts. Among the parts they remanufacture are electric car batteries…. Read More
Categories: Automotive, Blog, What's Working with Cam MarstonTwenty-One
Posted On January 24, 2024
Cam spent Monday evening at a big party for a small group of twenty-one year olds. To say the least, times have changed. Here’s what he saw. —– A moment after midnight on March 4th, 1990, I stood on a barstool and declared loudly to the packed bar that I had just turned twenty one years old. I was in Boulder, Colorado. A moment later the bouncer had me by the shirt and said, “That means you used a fake ID to get in”, which was true. I was nearly carried, my feet barely touching the ground, to the door… Read More
Categories: Libsyn2Myth v Reality in the EV Car Battery World. A Chat with the Leadership of E-Mobility and TERREPOWER
Posted On January 22, 2024
Are electric car batteries an environmental disaster like some would have you think? Or are they God’s gift to planet earth as others would have you think? I speak with Maria Caballero, President of E-Mobility, a division of TERREPOWER and John Boyer, President of TERREPOWER, a division of BBB Industries. TERREPOWER takes used EV batteries and remanufacture them for resale. The execs say that, yes, there is an environmental cost to creating them, like there is for all things, but the benefit of running a car with no emissions outweights their cost. They also do electric storage tied to solar… Read More
Categories: LibsynResident Cynic
Posted On January 17, 2024
My real name is Charles. But Chuck and Chas live inside me. Chuck was trying to get out this week. Chas had to try to keep in under control. —– An icicle hangs from the roof of my house. I’m looking at it but still can’t quite believe it. Icicles are very rare here. Usually reserved for the freezer door that was left open overnight. A winter storm blew through and Mobile, Alabama is doing what it usually does when it gets below average cold – we’re freaking out. School is cancelled, quote, “out of an abundance of caution” for… Read More
Categories: Libsyn2Charles (my real name), Chuck, and Chas – All Present and Accounted For
Posted On January 17, 2024
This week’s Keepin’ It Real as broadcast Fridays on Alabama Public Radio. —– An icicle hangs from the roof of my house. I’m looking at it but still can’t quite believe it. Icicles are very rare here. Usually reserved for the freezer door that was left open overnight. A winter storm blew through and Mobile, Alabama is doing what it usually does when it gets below average cold – we’re freaking out. School is cancelled, quote, “out of an abundance of caution” for the kids. There’s no rebuttal to that phrase. It can’t be argued. Right now, my kids are… Read More
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A cautionary tale of running afoul of ethical behavior
Posted On January 16, 2024
You may think you have a pretty firm grasp on personal and professional ethics, and that you’d never step across the line into behavior that would be considered unethical. Consider, however, that sometimes the pressures of the marketplace, of a demanding boss, or of one’s own ambition might sometimes cause us to take shortcuts we wouldn’t ordinarily take, even if we know they’re wrong. Our guest in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” provides a case study in this very possibility – and a warning of the consequences of failing to recognize and react to ethical red… Read More
Categories: Blog, What's Working with Cam MarstonAaron Beam Was Head of Accounting at Healthsouth When He Decided the Fudge the Numbers. It Was the Beginning of His and Healthsouth’s Downfall.
Posted On January 15, 2024
Aaron Beam says it was his boss’ drive for weath that put pressure on him to fudge the numbers. Aaron admits he liked the wealth that Healthsouth had generated for him, too. But that moment in his boss’ office when things got heated about missing the quarterly numbers, Aaron says he should have said No. His inaction in that moment has shaped his life since. Show Sponsors: Mason Hills Farms – True Farm to Table Meats E3 Termite & Pest Control Roy Lewis Construction Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors Allison Horner – State Farm Agent Angelo DePaola – The… Read More
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