Scaling Nerds | Startup PR, Thought Leadership and Storytelling for Startup Founders
By Marina Schmidt
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Scaling Nerds (formerly Red to Green) helps science and tech founders master the essential communication skills for VC-backed growth: from branding and storytelling to media strategy and investor decks. Ranked in the top 5% globally, with listeners in 160+ countries, Scaling Nerds will help you win minds, markets, and your next fundraise. Hosted by strategic communications advisor Marina Schmidt.
Scaling Nerds is a premier startup communications podcast on startup marketing, founder thought leadership, and storytelling for technical and science-driven companies.
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11. Win Your Next Startup Pitch with this 3-Minute Pitch Formula - David Beckett from Best3Minutes
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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10. Live Pitch Fix: Wood as Strong as Steel (Series A Pitch) - Strong By Form CEO Andres Mitnik
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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9. Choose VCs That Won't Go Bust - Hard Truths from an LP with Ariel Barack from Ordway Selections
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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8. Close Corporate Deals Faster Without Getting Ghosted: Pilots are NOT the Answer with Ben Kimura-Gross from Catalyne
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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7. Skip Panels, Do This Instead: Founder Thought Leadership 101 with Sarah Rall from Cherry Ventures
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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6. Prevent a Media Crisis: DON'T do this Post Series A with Sarah Rall from Cherry Ventures
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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5. Live Pitch-Fix: Finding the Right Narrative for Critical Minerals Startup Magmatic
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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4. How to Sell Something People Don't Understand (yet) with Nina Mannheimer from Klim
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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3. Pitching Specialised VCs: Cutting-Edge Tech Doesn’t Sell Itself, with Steve Molino From Synthesis Capital
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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2. How to Announce Your Fundraise Without a Headache - A PR Crash Course With Elisheva Marcus from Earlybird VC
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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The Narrative War: How Founders Shape the Public Narrative for Better or Worse
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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-- Red to Green is now Scaling Nerds -- The Communications Podcast for Science and Tech Founders
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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8.1. What is Micro Fermentation? New Cheeses Made with Koji Protein - Formo CEO Raffael Wohlgensinger
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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(Old/R2G) 7. SEASON FINAL - BOOK TALKS - What Food Futurist are you? 🔮 Part II of Meals to Come
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 7.10. Three Archetypes of the Future of Food - The History of the Future of Food
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 7.9. When a Scientist Whistleblows Pesticides - The Monsanto Papers
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 7.7. GMO-Activists ✊ The Biggest Marketing Mistake - Seeds of Science
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 7.5. Lobbying Strategies in US vs. Europe - Food Politics part II
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May 31, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 7.4. Food Politics - How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
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May 24, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 7.2. Blind Spots of Food Tech 🔍 Distribution and Responsibility - Part II of Stuffed and Starved
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May 03, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 7.1. Stuffed and Starved 🍔 Understanding Inequality in our Food System
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 7. SEASON TRAILER - Books on the future of food 📕 Reviewing and discussing
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.12. Regulatory approval in Europe vs. the US and Singapore with Seth Roberts, The Good Food Institute Europe
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.11. The investor's perspective on biotech 🎢 in food with Foodlabs Principal Christian Guba
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.10. Scaling food biotechnology 📈 bioreactors, inputs and brains with GFI Lead Scientist Elliot Swartz
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.9. Mimiking Honey and Monoculture Honey Productions 🐝 Melibio CEO Darko Mandich
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.8. Cacao-free chocolate 🍫 and cacao's issues with WNWN Co-Founder Ahrum Pak
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.7. A Critical View on Biotech 🔍 Is This Healthy? Is This Safe? 🤔 With Larissa Zimberoff
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.6. Molecular Farming - Growing Whey 🐮 in Plants 🌱 with Miruku CEO Amos Palfreyman
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.5. Bioactive Proteins and Cell-based Milk with TurtleTree CSO Aletta Schnitzler
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.4. Traditional Fermentation 🍷 Yogurt, Kimchi and Wine with Empirical Spirits Co-Founder Lars Williams
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.3. Gas Fermentation 🏭 Proteins From CO2, Hydrogen and Salt - with Arkeon Co-Founder Gregor Tegel
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 6.2. Three Types of Biomass Fermentation 🍄 with Nature's Fynd CSO Debbie Yaver
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 6. SEASON - BIOTECH IN FOOD - An Introduction with Irina Gerry from Change Foods
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5. SEASON FINAL FOOD HISTORY ☢️ The Pink Slime Scandal - Ammonia in Ground Beef 🥩
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5.11. How China Became the 2nd Largest Dairy Nation 🧀 A Lactose Intolerant Society Meets Political Influence
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5.10. Lessons from the New Coke - How Coca Cola Flopped in a Race to Better Taste
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5.9. Bubble Tea Boom, Bust and Rise - How Faulty Science Destroyed an Industry 💣
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5.8. How microwaves and freezers changed food culture forever 🥡 Food history for the future of food.
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5.7. The Global Supply of Bananas 🍌 is Threatened - Again. Monocultures and Pesticide Resistance
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 3.12. Season 3 final: Toxic Positivity ☣️ why benefits are not enough - lessons from the fossil fuel industry 🛢️ on personal climate action with Prof. Kimberly Nicholas, Dr Gulbanu Kaptan
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5.6. Food forever - how tin cans revolutionised the food industry 🥫 - food history for the future of food
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5.5. Why Italians feared 🍅 tomatoes and how Heinz and 🍕 Margherita changed that - history for the future of food
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5.4. Pink Margarine and the Butter Lobby 🧈
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5.3. A poor man's meal: 🦞 lobster. How a sea insect made it from cat food to president's dinner plate. Food history for the future of food.
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5.2. From hands to forks🍴 how we changed our eating habits forever - food history for the future of food
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 5. SEASON - FOOD HISTORY - How Potatoes 🥔 Saved (and Killed) Millions 🍟
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 4. SEASON FINAL - FOOD WASTE - The Farmers 🚜 Perspective
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 4.9. The Chef's Perspective 🧑🍳 Regional, Circular and Zero Waste Cooking
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 4.8. Food Rescue - an Activists View on Retailer Waste🚨 with Matt Homewood
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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(Old/R2G) 4.7. The Psychology of Food Waste 🧠 with OLIO Co-Founder and CEO Tessa Clarke
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 4.6. Dynamic Pricing 💸 with Wasteless Co-Founder and CEO Oded Omar
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 4.5. Food Waste in Rich vs. Developing Countries & Wholesalers vs. Retailers 🛒
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 4.4. Apeel - an Invisible Layer that Keeps Produce Fresh 🥑
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 4.3. AI to Predict Consumer Demand 🥦 Retailers Behind the Scenes with Afresh Co-Founder Matt Schwartz
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 4.2. From Farm 🌾 Directly to Fork🍴 a Direct to Consumer Model in China
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 4. SEASON- FOOD WASTE 🥗 An Introduction on Impact, Causes and Solutions
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 3. SEASON FINAL - CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE - Industry Lobbying and Communicating the Hard Thingss ⚡ about animal agriculture with Irina Gerry CMO of Change Foods
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 3.8. Understanding is Not Enough 🔍 Power dynamics, Patents and Big Questions
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 3.7. Open-Access Research, Including Farmers and Cell-Based Censorship in the US with GFI Scott Weathers
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 3.6. Policies Against Milk Alternatives? ❌ EU Amendment 171 - History, Impact and Lessons
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 3.4. Branding Cultured Products 🍖 the Naturalness Trap with Nicky Quinn from Aleph Farms
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May 19, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 3.2. 🦄 Startup vs. Corporate 🏛️ Stop Bashing Animal Agriculture with Jack A Bobo
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May 05, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 2. SEASON FINAL - PACKAGING - Consumer VS. Corporate Responsibility 🚨 is plastic recycling greenwashing?
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 2.10. Plant-Based Plastics Part II 🔮 Why we Need to Switch with Prof. Ramani Nayaran from Michigan State University
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 2.10. Plant-based Plastic 🍬 PLA and Industrial Composting with Dr. Ramani Nayaran - Part 1
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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(Old/R2G) 2.4. Algae-Based Edible Packaging 🌊 A Home Compostable Solution with Notpla
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 2.3. 100% Made From Waste: Compostable Service Ware 🍽️ Using Sugarcane Residue with Ved Krishna from Yash Pakka
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 2.2. Greenwashing 👮 Lifecycle Assessments & what Tetra Pak Doesn’t Want You to Know 🤫 with Paul Foulkes-Arellano
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 2. SEASON - PACKAGING - Biodegradable, Compostable or Recyclable? 😶🌫️ ♻️ with Material Value Author Julia Goldstein
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 1. SEASON FINAL - CELLULAR AGRICULTURE 🔮 Additional Resources 🎁
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 11. Three Investor's Perspectives & Challenges with European consumers
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 10. Private Patents, Monopolies, and Lobbying - Obstacles for Cellular Agriculture with Isha Datar From New Harvest
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 9. Cultured Shrimp - Shrimp Human Health and Sustainability Issues with Shiok Meats CEO & Co-Founder Dr. Sandhya Sriram
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G)8. Steak without Cow - NASA Projects & Becoming Carbon Neutral with Aleph Farms
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 7. Cultured Fat & Foie Gras - How it is Produced - David Brandes and Eva Sommer
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 6. Gas Fermentation - Proteins from CO2 and Hydrogen with SolarFoods CEO Pasi Vainikka
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 5. Plant- and Cell-based Pet Food will Disrupt a Broken Industry - CEO Wild Earth Ryan Bethencourt
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 4. Cell-based Fish - Plastic & Pollutant-free Seafood - BlueNalu CEO Lou Cooperhouse on Cellular Aquaculture
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 3. Cultured Fat - Making Omega-3, Replacing Palm Oil and Reducing Fats by 50% with CUBIQ Foods CEO Andres Montefeltro on Cultivated Fat and Omega-3 from Poultry
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 2. Cheese without Cows - The First-Ever Precision Fermentation Mozzarella - FORMO Co-Founder Dr. Britta Winterberg
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May 26, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) 1. An Introduction to Clean Meat 🥩 & why it is Game Changing - "Clean Meat" Author and The Better Meat Co. CEO Paul Shapiro
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May 12, 2020 |
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(Old/R2G) ABOUT 👋 Welcome to Red to Green & Season 1 on Cellular Agriculture / Cell-based Meat / Cultivated meat / Cell-cultured Meat
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May 11, 2020 |