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Charlie Szoradi is a sustainability speaker and professional with 30 years of experience and over 10 years of public speaking across a diverse range of engagements. He is the author of LEARN from LOOKING How Observation Inspires Innovation. Over the course of his career Mr. Szoradi has founded GREENandSAVE, Independence LED Lighting the Energy Intelligence Center, and Purge Virus now part of Clean Solution Technologies. Mr. Szoradi focuses on high performance architecture, sustainable living, and next-generation agriculture. Since 2021, Charlie has been serving as the President of The Agrarian Group. In the early 1990s he wrote his Masters of Architecture thesis on Energy Intelligence – “Eco-Humanism.” Mr. Szoradi is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and he earned his Masters from the University of Pennsylvania.
Speech topics with descriptions:
Trends to watch across Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) related investing • Cost-Effective Sustainability – Insights from Overseas, Energy Saving LED Lighting, Air Conditioning Optimization, Hydrothermal Carbonization, U.S. Cleantech Job Creation • Sustainable Triple Bottom Line – Impacting People + Planet + Profit + The Business Case for LED Lighting – Next-Generation Technology • Future Food – The Path to a Healthy and Sustainable Future • Future Home – Cost Effective Solutions and Green Job Creation • Travel with Open Eyes – Insights from Japan and Eastern Europe to Islands and countries around the world.
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Sustainability Speaker Media Coverage Example 1:
Why Independence LED Moved Manufacturing Back to the US | Industry Week https://www.industryweek.com/leadership/companies-executives/article/21962875/why-independence-led-moved-manufacturing-back-to-the-us
Sustainability Speaker Excerpt:
The vast majority of global lighting, either traditional or the new Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology, is currently manufactured in China. My company used to do the same thing: We built our products in China, relying on the inexpensive labor to keep our products low-cost. In 2010, we made the conscious decision to move our Independence LED (www.IndependenceLED.com) manufacturing back to the United States -- to Southeastern Pennsylvania.
It’s been the best decision my company has ever made. Our customers have asked if the move was based on patriotism over profit and I respond simply with: “Both.” By moving manufacturing back to the United States, we have created American jobs, increased the quality of our products, doubled the average LED warranty (up to 10 years) and reduced our total costs through advanced automation and proximity to a large portion of our customers. Satellite maps of the night sky reveal the “hot spots” around the planet, and the U.S. Northeast Corridor glows like a beacon. Our operations outside of Greater Philadelphia are centered between Washington, DC and New York City, with easy access to the region that has the highest population density coupled with highest cost of electricity in the U.S. Putting a lighting business in an area that uses a lot of lights seemed like a pretty good idea. Our customers now range from the Fortune 100 to the U.S. Military and from independent small business owners to franchise owners.
With a growing national and international sales network, we educate our customers to look into the “Total Cost of Ownership,” which is often lower with U.S. made products. The idea is pretty simple: do it right from the start and save on the replacement labor and cost of shipping back failed imported products. Here are some of the top reasons why we moved our manufacturing to produce “Made in America” LED technology: Top Five Reasons Independence LED Manufactures in America: 1. Quality Assurance – We were not seeing the consistency in quality control that met our standards with overseas production. 2. Proximity – We were unable to deliver to U.S. customers in time frames that met our standards when relying on overseas shipping. 3. Automation Technology – We found the automation equipment and strategic relationships to reduce production cost in the U.S. 4. Deep Fin Aluminum Heat Sinks – We saw the thermal management advantages of deep fin aluminum heat sink, and it did not make sense to ship aluminum 10,000 miles around the world. 5. Warranties Extended– When the industry average was 3 year warranties we wanted to lift it to 5. We achieved that, and because we have the performance results over multiple years with so few failures and so much faith in the reliability of our products built on American soil, Independence LED is now able to offer an industry-leading 10 year warranty.
