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Wesley Herche discusses the critical role of energy in supply chain management and sustainability on Earth Day.

In this special Earth Day episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, Sheri Hinish sits down with Wesley Herche, Director of Energy and Sustainability Solutions at Prologis and co-founder of the Sustainability Decoded newsletter. Wesley brings one of the most unconventional career paths in the sustainability world, from civilian intelligence officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and deployment to Iraq, through BCG and Amazon, to his current role at the world's largest logistics real estate company. Wesley's thesis is as provocative as it is precise: there is no difference between GDP and energy. Every supply chain decision that appears to be about cost, resilience, or emissions is fundamentally an energy decision. He argues that organizations must stop treating energy like a procurement line item and start treating it as the operating system on which their entire supply chain runs. Together, they unpack why the discovery of fossil fuels created the sharpest inflection point in human development history, how Pakistan added 25 gigawatts of rooftop solar (most of it through DIY TikTok tutorials) to build energy resilience now larger than all other…

People in this episode

Host: Sheri Hinish

Guest: Wesley Herche

Topics covered

• sustainability
• energy management
• supply chain
• logistics
• Earth Day
• renewable energy

Keywords

• energy
• supply chain
• sustainability
• logistics
• Earth Day
• renewable energy
• GDP
• fossil fuels
• Pakistan
• solar energy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Prologis, Sustainability Decoded, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, BCG, Amazon

Places: Pakistan, Strait of Hormuz

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