Business for Good Podcast
By Paul Shapiro
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Episodes: 168
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Join host Paul Shapiro as he talks with some of the leading start-up entrepreneurs and titans of industry alike using their businesses to help solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Whether it’s climate change, unsustainable agricultural practices, cyber threats, coral reef die-offs, nuclear waste storage, plastic pollution, or more, many of the world’s greatest challenges are also exciting business opportunities. On this show, we feature business leaders who are marrying profit and purpose by inventing solutions to both build a better world and offer investors a bang for their bucks.
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The Crazy Rock Lady: How Eion is Turning Crushed Rocks into Climate Gold
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May 15, 2025 |
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Vedge of Glory: How Two Plant-Based Restaurateurs Have Survived for Decades
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May 01, 2025 |
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The Venture Capitalist Who Wants You to Donate More to Charity
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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No Palm, No Problem: Fermenting the Future of Fat
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Turning Air Into Butter: Savor’s Revolutionary Approach to Alternative Fats
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Cleaner Air from Better Plants: The Neoplants Story
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Helping Alt-Protein Startups Survive the Winter: Ahimsa’s Consolidation Approach
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Subtracting the Bean from Coffee: The Minus Story
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Can a Problem as Big as Climate Be Solved by a Solution as Small as a Microbe?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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From Harvard Business School to Rural Africa: Nicole Poindexter’s Journey to Advance Clean Energy Access
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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From Korea to the US: UNLIMEAT Puts its Signature on the Plant-Based Meat Movement
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Bringing Clean Energy to African Businesses
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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One Good Human: Eric Schulze on Cultivated Meat’s Past and Future
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Chocolate without Cocoa Farming: The California Cultured Journey
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Will Pets Be the First European Consumers of Cultivated Meat? Meatly is Betting on It
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Investing in an Animal-Free Food System: Milk & Honey Ventures
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Can Bacteria Make Better Leather than Cows? Polybion Says So
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Are Chickpeas the Future of Alt-Protein? NuCicer is Working On It
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Better than the Reel Thing: How Oshi is Redefining Seafood
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Turning the Tide on Fossil Fuels: Is Eco Wave Power the Future of Clean Energy?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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From Home-Made Smoothies to $200 million in Revenue: Daily Harvest’s Journey
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Novel Proteins for Pets: Omni is Helping Animal Lovers Feed Their Pets Fewer Animals
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Maisie Ganzler Dishes on When and How Corporate Animal Welfare Policies Work
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Which Came First: The Chicken or the Potato?
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Premature Obituaries? Bruce Friedrich’s Optimism for Cultivated Meat
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May 17, 2024 |
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Defying the Odds: Orbillion Bio Raising Capital for Cultivated Meat in 2024
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May 10, 2024 |
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The Past, Present, and Future of Cultivated Meat with UPSIDE Foods’ Uma Valeti
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May 03, 2024 |
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Fishing for Progress in Asia: Avant Meats
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Fishing for High-Margins in Cultivated Seafood: BlueNalu’s Path to Scale
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Is the Future of Cultivated Meat in Thailand? Aleph Farms is Betting on It
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Flying Cars or Electric Cars? Isha Datar’s Thoughts on Where Cultivated Meat Tech Stands Today
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Mark Post, A Decade After the First Cultivated Burger
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Are Smaller Cultivators the Answer for Cultivated Meat’s Success? Niya Gupta Thinks So
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Josh Tetrick on the Future of the Cultivated Meat Movement
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Brief thoughts on the alt-meat movement and my role in it
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Incubating Tomorrow’s Alt-Protein Unicorns: The Kitchen
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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When Nonprofits Start Businesses: Garden for Wildlife and the National Wildlife Federation
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Can Tech Improve Farm Animals’ Lives? Robert Yaman Is Betting On It
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Making Alt-Meat Research More Intelligent: GreenProtein AI & Noa Weiss
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Building a Better Chew: Chef GW Chew is Working to Create Better Plant-Based Meat
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Making All Births Intended and Wanted: Cadence OTC and Samantha Miller
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Power Walking for Cleaner Energy: The Pavegen Story
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Robots as a Service to Turn the Tides for Our Oceans: The Reefgen Story
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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From Food Bank to Making Bank on Food Influencing: Maxime Sigouin and Fit Vegan Coaching
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Cementing a Better Future: Leah Ellis and Sublime Systems
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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The Most Successful Plant-Based Meat Entrepreneur Ever? Yves Potvin’s Konscious Foods
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Microbes to the Rescue: Lisa Nunez Safarian and Pivot Bio
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Swapping Leaves for Leather: Biophilica’s Mira Nameth
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Turning the Tide for Tuna: Impact Food’s Kelly Pan
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Is the Future of Plastic Fungi? MadeRight Is Working on It
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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From Villain to Hero: Rubi Labs’s Quest to Make CO2 Work for the Climate
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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The Most Controversial Plan to Cool the Planet: Make Sunsets
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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A Packaging Revolution: TIPA is All in on Compostables
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Hummus as a Force for Good: Joey Bergstein and the Sabra Story
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May 15, 2023 |
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The OG of Mycelium Fermentation: The Quorn Story
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May 01, 2023 |
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From Cultivated Meat to National Security: The Journey of Jason Matheny
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Some Help from Kelp: How Keel Labs is Reimagining Sustainable Materials
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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(Bio)engineering Better Beef: Josh March and SciFi Foods’ Quest to Cultivate Meat
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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The Business of Being an Author and Influencer with Toni Okamoto of Plant-Based on a Budget
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Will Technology Spare Animals from Experimentation? Emulate and Jim Corbett are Working on it
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Selling Shovels and Pickaxes to the Cultivated Meat Pioneers
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Fermenting Methane into Meat! The String Bio Story
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Is the Road to the Future Paved with Upcycled Plastic? Shelly Zhang and Molten Materials Thinks So
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Is Sugar by Another Name Just as Sweet? Ali Wing and Oobli Are Fermenting Their Way to a Sweet Protein Future
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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The Deepest Hole Humanity’s Ever Dug: The Quaise Energy Story
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Automated Reforestation: Grant Canary and the Drone Seed Story
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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The Legendary Venture Capitalist Fixated on the Future: Steve Jurvetson’s Quest to Improve Life On Earth and Beyond
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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A Whale of a Tale: Wildtype and the Future of Cultivated Seafood
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Tree-mendously Fast-Growing Trees to Fight Climate Change? Maddie Hall and the Living Carbon Story
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Mighty Mycelium: Isabella Iglesias-Musachio and Bosque Foods
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Spreading the Good Word about Olivine Spreading: Kelly Erhart and Vesta
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Can Fungi Fix the Climate Crisis? Colin Averill and Funga Are Working on it
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Is the Future of Fat Fermented? Jeff Nobbs of Zero Acre Farms Is Betting on it
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Robots to the Recycling Rescue: Matanya Horowitz Is Ensuring Your Recyclables Are Actually Recycled
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Is Plant-Based Meat about to Get Chunkier? Amos Golan of Chunk Foods Thinks So
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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“Meat” the Meat Industry’s Journalist: Lisa Keefe and Meatingplace
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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This Dude Vasectomized Himself! Meet Dr. Esgar Guarin, the Evangelical Vasectomist
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Is Alt-Protein a National Security Issue? Rep. Ro Khanna Thinks So
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May 15, 2022 |
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Reproductive Freedom in the Developing World: Anna Christina Thorsheim and Family Empowerment Media
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May 01, 2022 |
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Oat-to-Market Strategy: Mike Messersmith and the Oatly Story
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Ep. 86 | From Tech to Table: Richard Munson and the Food & Ag Tech Revolution
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Ep. 85 | A Prime Pivot: Why Kimberlie Le and Prime Roots Are Going All in on Deli Meats
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Ep. 84 | Investing in a Post-Animal Economy: Elysabeth Alfano and VegTech ETF
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Ep. 83 | Will Fungi Free Fish? Anne Palermo is Betting on Fermentation at Aqua Cultured Foods
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Ep. 82 | Engineering Our Way Out of Single-Use Plastics: Troy Swope and the Footprint Story
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Ep. 81 | The Rapid Rise, High-Profile Fall, and Resilient Recovery of Juicero’s Doug Evans
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Ep. 80 | Is What You Believe About Food Sustainability Wrong? Robert Paarlberg Thinks So.
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Ep. 79 | From Sophomore to CEO: Jessica Schwabach of Sundial Foods is Flying on Plant-Based Wings
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 78 | A Conversation with NYC’s Mayor-Elect Eric Adams
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 77 | Creating a Cultivated Meat Community: Anita Broellechs and Alex Shirazi
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Ep 76 | Is Your Cat Ready to Eat Cultivated Mouse Meat? Shannon Falconer and Because Animals Think So
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Ep 75 | The Sweet Side of Starting a (Dairy-Free) Ice Cream Company: Aylon Steinhart & Eclipse Foods
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Ep 74 | A Financial Journalist’s Prescription for Making the Economy Work for Animals
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Ep 73 |From Dust to Dust...or to Soil: Katrina Spade and the Recompose Vision for an Eco-Friendlier Death Industry
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Ep 72 | Plastic that Won’t Last Forever: Kristin Taylor and the Radical Plastics Story
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 71 Life as a Scrappy Startup Exec: Doni Curkendall and The Better Meat Co.
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Ep. 70 | The Second Publicly Traded Plant-Based Meat Company: Mitchell Scott and The Very Good Food Co.
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 69 | The Sharks Tried to Buy Her Plant-Based Fried Chicken Company: Deborah Torres and the Atlas Monroe Story
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Ep. 68 | Using Tech to Drive Change: Google.org and Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 67 | Where’s the Animal-Free Materials Revolution? Nicole Rawling of the Material Innovation Initiative Wants You to Launch It
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Pineapple Express to Disrupting Leather: Mélanie Broyé-Engelkes and Piñatex
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May 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 65 | The Billionaire Out to End Factory Farming
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May 01, 2021 |
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Ep. 64 | From Seafood to Seaweed: Monica Talbert and the Plant-Based Seafood Co.
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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You Can Buy a Piece of the Mycelium Revolution: Joanne Rodriguez and Mycocycle Are Literally Turning Trash into Treasure
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Ep. 62 | Maximizing the Good We Can Do: A Conversation with Peter Singer
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 61 | Modernizing Contraception with Your Choice Therapeutics’ Akash Bakshi
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Ep. 60 | Marrying Cultivated Meat & Plant-Based Meat for the Best of Both Worlds: Brian Spears Shares New Age Meats’ Gameplan
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Ep. 59 | Silk and Leather from Fermentation, Not Animals — David Breslauer and the Bolt Threads Story
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 58 | The Meat Company that’s Put Nearly a Billion Dollars into Plant-Based Meat
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Ep. 57 | From Corporate Giant to Pre-Revenue Startup: Irina Gerry’s Journey to Alt-Dairy Newcomer Change Foods
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Ep. 56 | From Nonprofit Activist to Entrepreneur for Animals: Kristie Middleton and Rebellyous Foods
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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Ep. 55 | Ubiquitous Energy’s Susan Stone Intends to Power Our Cities with Invisible Solar Panels
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 54 | From Startup Founder to Investor & Philanthropist: Chris Bryson’s Wild Ride to Do Good
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 53 | Wood-Fed Meat? Marc Chevrel and Arbiom Say Bring it On
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 52 | The Business of Election Security with Aaron Brantly
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Ep. 51 | Making a Living as an Influencer: Toni Okamoto & The Plant-Based on a Budget Story
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Ep.50 | The Conscious Leader: Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 49 | Priming the Market for Fungi-Based Meat: The Prime Roots Story with Kimberlie Le
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 48 | Upcycling Mining Waste: The Phoenix Tailings Story with Nick Myers and Thomas Villalon, Jr.
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 47 | The Solo-preneur: How Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Paved Her Own Way to Help Animals
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 46 And You Thought Goodwill Was Just a Used Goods Store. Lori Dearwester Shares the Charity’s Story
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 45 - Bringing Plant-Based Meat to India: The Good Dot Revolution
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 44 - The Business of Police Reform with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Making Tap Water Cool Again: Will Bottled Water Be the Next Cigarette?
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 42 - Selling Cellular Agriculture the Nonprofit Way: Isha Datar and New Harvest
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 41 - Solving Plastic Pollution and Poverty Simultaneously: The Plastic Bank Story
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May 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 40 - Sheltering in Place...for Millennia: Deep Isolation Has a Plan for Nuclear Waste
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May 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 39 - $200 Million for Plant-Based Chicken: The LiveKindly Co. Story
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 39 - The OG of the Plant-Based Meat Movement: Seth Tibbott’s Tofurky Story
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Ep. 38 - Making Plastic Disappear with Notpla’s Seaweed Packaging
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 37 - Making Meat Out of Thin Air
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 36 - Protecting the Planet from the Ground Up
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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Ep.35: From Funding Alt-Protein to Starting His Own Company
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Ep. 34: $50 Million to Crack the Egg: Real Egg Proteins without the Chickens
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 33: Real Leather without the Cows
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Ep. 32: From ConAgra to Culturing Fish Cells
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Jan 01, 2020 |
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Ep. 31: Can Beer Brewery Waste Help Solve Plastic Pollution?
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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Ep. 30: Bean-Free Brew
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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Ep. 29: TurtleTree Labs
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Ep. 28: Bringing Power—Solar and Social—to Rural Africans, with Lyndsay Holley Handler
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Ep. 27: Your Trash Is Tom Szaky's Treasure
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Ep. 26: The Meat-Scientist-Turned-Plant-Based-Entrepreneur
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Ep 25: Can Helping the Homeless with Surplus Food be Profitable? Jasmine Crowe is Betting on It.
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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Ep 24: How Often Should Workers be Paid? Safwan Shah Has an Idea
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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Ep. 23 - Josh Tetrick on Resilience in the Face of Both Adversity and Success
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Ep. 22 - Turning Down the Global Thermostat
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Ep. 21 - Sampling a Historic Pint of Ice Cream with Perfect Day
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Ep. 20 - What common traits do serial inventors have?
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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Ep. 19 - Giving Farmers a Fairer Shake
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May 16, 2019 |
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Ep. 18 - Growing a Cleaner Shrimp Industry in Asia
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May 01, 2019 |
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Ep. 17 - Cleaning for Good with Biokleen
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Ep. 16 Will Mycelium Materials Save the World?
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Ep. 15 - Making McProgress for Good
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Ep. 14 - From Stand-Up Comedian to Saving the World with Soup
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Ep. 14 - From Stand-Up Comedian to Saving the World with Soup
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Ep. 13 - Would you hire a convicted felon? This guy does.
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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Ep. 12 - Building a Sweeter, Slavery-Free Chocolate Industry with Tony’s Chocolonely’s
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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Ep. 11 - The Business of Saving Coral Reefs with Sam Teicher
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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Ep. 10 Moby Is a Rock Star for Animals
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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Ep. 9: Lindsay Reinsmith and Jason Payne Are (Lab-)Growing a More Cultured Diamond Industry
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Ep. 8: Saving Trees with Joe Luttwak, the Entrepreneurial Lorax
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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Ep. 7: Simon Griffiths on How Toilet Paper Can Save Lives
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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Ep. 6: The Saudi Arabian Prince Who’s Investing in a More Humane Future
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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Ep. 5: Michelle Masek Uses Science to Make Your Produce Last Longer
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Ep. 4: Bharti Singhla Ushers In a Pollution Revolution
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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Ep. 3: Seth Goldman on Sweetening the Less-Sugar Market
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Ep. 2: Lisa Schon on Saving Wildlife with Bird-Friendly Glass
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Ep. 1: John Mackey on Conscious Capitalism
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Jul 26, 2018 |