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Business for Good Podcast — 201 episodes
Inside the Alt Protein Job Market with Noga Golan
How Two Grad Students Teamed Up With Sam Altman to Build an $8 Billion Nuclear Energy Company
The Geothermal Startup That Made It Big
The Geothermal Startup That Made It Big
Did America Forget How to Build Nuclear Energy?
The Lean Startup's Eric Ries on How Good Companies Go Bad
How a Biologist Built a Startup to Stop Billions of Bird Deaths with Dominique Waddoup
Turning Waste Biomass Into Carbon-Negative Buildings with Allison Dring
Rebuilding the Ocean Floor with Clay Castles with Dr. Ulrike Pfreundt
Hannah Ritchie Has Some Uncomfortable Truths About Helping the Planet
Why Jim Mellon Is Still All In on Alternative Protein After Five Years
Investing in Biodiversity with Venture Capitalist Tom Quigley
Using Wildlife Intelligence to Prevent Animal Collisions with Sára Nožková
Turning Green Leaves Into High-Performing Protein with Ross Milne
Vasectomies, Family Planning, and Environmental Pressure with Dr. Douglas Stein (The Vasectomist)
Feed the People Authors on Abundance, Food Policy, and Meat Demand
Bruce Friedrich (Good Food Institute) on Taste, Price, and What It Takes to Scale Alternative Meat
Modern Mill's Chris Guimond on Upcycling Rice Hulls Into Low Maintenance Building Materials
Deep Fission: Using Boreholes to Cut Nuclear Costs and Deliver 24/7 Clean Electricity
The Incredible, Edible… Pea? How Meala is Using Biotech to Render Eggs Obsolete
From Oil Wells to Oak Trees: Ben Dell's Half-Billion-Dollar Pivot to Carbon Offsetting
Ready for a Carpet Made of Human Hair? This Entrepreneur Turns Salon Waste into Textiles
From Fashion Model to Fission Mission: Isabelle Boemeke's Nuclear-Powered Future
Fungi-Filled Diapers: How Plastic-Eating Fungi May Change Child-Rearing
Raising Capital for Alt-Protein in the Midst of the Winter
Bottling the Sky: Aircapture's Carbon Capture Breakthrough
Inside Mighty Earth: Glenn Hurowitz on Transforming the Meat Industry
Turning Waste into Bioplastic Gold with Genecis CEO Luna Yu
Turning Plants into Plastic-Free Packaging: The Xampla Story
Microbial Might: Can MicroHarvest Replace Animals in Pet and Livestock Feed?
There's no Eighth Continent to Farm: Mike Grunwald on Feeding Ourselves without Frying the Planet
Trash into Treasure: ChainCraft Is Converting Food Waste into Sustainable Chemicals
Unstoppable Entrepreneurs: Lori Rosenkopf on the Many Paths to Startup Success
The Crazy Rock Lady: How Eion is Turning Crushed Rocks into Climate Gold
Vedge of Glory: How Two Plant-Based Restaurateurs Have Survived for Decades
The Venture Capitalist Who Wants You to Donate More to Charity
No Palm, No Problem: Fermenting the Future of Fat
Turning Air Into Butter: Savor's Revolutionary Approach to Alternative Fats
Cleaner Air from Better Plants: The Neoplants Story
Helping Alt-Protein Startups Survive the Winter: Ahimsa's Consolidation Approach
Subtracting the Bean from Coffee: The Minus Story
Can a Problem as Big as Climate Be Solved by a Solution as Small as a Microbe?
From Harvard Business School to Rural Africa: Nicole Poindexter's Journey to Advance Clean Energy Access
From Korea to the US: UNLIMEAT Puts its Signature on the Plant-Based Meat Movement
Bringing Clean Energy to African Businesses
One Good Human: Eric Schulze on Cultivated Meat's Past and Future
Chocolate without Cocoa Farming: The California Cultured Journey
Will Pets Be the First European Consumers of Cultivated Meat? Meatly is Betting on It
Investing in an Animal-Free Food System: Milk & Honey Ventures
Can Bacteria Make Better Leather than Cows? Polybion Says So
Are Chickpeas the Future of Alt-Protein? NuCicer is Working On It
Better than the Reel Thing: How Oshi is Redefining Seafood
Turning the Tide on Fossil Fuels: Is Eco Wave Power the Future of Clean Energy?
From Home-Made Smoothies to $200 million in Revenue: Daily Harvest's Journey
Novel Proteins for Pets: Omni is Helping Animal Lovers Feed Their Pets Fewer Animals
Maisie Ganzler Dishes on When and How Corporate Animal Welfare Policies Work
Which Came First: The Chicken or the Potato?
Premature Obituaries? Bruce Friedrich's Optimism for Cultivated Meat
Defying the Odds: Orbillion Bio Raising Capital for Cultivated Meat in 2024
The Past, Present, and Future of Cultivated Meat with UPSIDE Foods' Uma Valeti
Fishing for Progress in Asia: Avant Meats
Fishing for High-Margins in Cultivated Seafood: BlueNalu's Path to Scale
Is the Future of Cultivated Meat in Thailand? Aleph Farms is Betting on It
Flying Cars or Electric Cars? Isha Datar's Thoughts on Where Cultivated Meat Tech Stands Today
Mark Post, A Decade After the First Cultivated Burger
Are Smaller Cultivators the Answer for Cultivated Meat's Success? Niya Gupta Thinks So
Josh Tetrick on the Future of the Cultivated Meat Movement
Brief thoughts on the alt-meat movement and my role in it
Incubating Tomorrow's Alt-Protein Unicorns: The Kitchen
When Nonprofits Start Businesses: Garden for Wildlife and the National Wildlife Federation
Can Tech Improve Farm Animals' Lives? Robert Yaman Is Betting On It
Making Alt-Meat Research More Intelligent: GreenProtein AI & Noa Weiss
Building a Better Chew: Chef GW Chew is Working to Create Better Plant-Based Meat
Making All Births Intended and Wanted: Cadence OTC and Samantha Miller
Power Walking for Cleaner Energy: The Pavegen Story
Robots as a Service to Turn the Tides for Our Oceans: The Reefgen Story
From Food Bank to Making Bank on Food Influencing: Maxime Sigouin and Fit Vegan Coaching
Cementing a Better Future: Leah Ellis and Sublime Systems
The Most Successful Plant-Based Meat Entrepreneur Ever? Yves Potvin's Konscious Foods
Microbes to the Rescue: Lisa Nunez Safarian and Pivot Bio
Swapping Leaves for Leather: Biophilica's Mira Nameth
Turning the Tide for Tuna: Impact Food's Kelly Pan
Is the Future of Plastic Fungi? MadeRight Is Working on It
From Villain to Hero: Rubi Labs's Quest to Make CO2 Work for the Climate
The Most Controversial Plan to Cool the Planet: Make Sunsets
A Packaging Revolution: TIPA is All in on Compostables
Hummus as a Force for Good: Joey Bergstein and the Sabra Story
The OG of Mycelium Fermentation: The Quorn Story
From Cultivated Meat to National Security: The Journey of Jason Matheny
Some Help from Kelp: How Keel Labs is Reimagining Sustainable Materials
(Bio)engineering Better Beef: Josh March and SciFi Foods' Quest to Cultivate Meat
The Business of Being an Author and Influencer with Toni Okamoto of Plant-Based on a Budget
Will Technology Spare Animals from Experimentation? Emulate and Jim Corbett are Working on it
Selling Shovels and Pickaxes to the Cultivated Meat Pioneers
Fermenting Methane into Meat! The String Bio Story
Is the Road to the Future Paved with Upcycled Plastic? Shelly Zhang and Molten Materials Thinks So
Is Sugar by Another Name Just as Sweet? Ali Wing and Oobli Are Fermenting Their Way to a Sweet Protein Future
The Deepest Hole Humanity's Ever Dug: The Quaise Energy Story
Automated Reforestation: Grant Canary and the Drone Seed Story
The Legendary Venture Capitalist Fixated on the Future: Steve Jurvetson's Quest to Improve Life On Earth and Beyond
A Whale of a Tale: Wildtype and the Future of Cultivated Seafood
Tree-mendously Fast-Growing Trees to Fight Climate Change? Maddie Hall and the Living Carbon Story
Mighty Mycelium: Isabella Iglesias-Musachio and Bosque Foods
Spreading the Good Word about Olivine Spreading: Kelly Erhart and Vesta
Can Fungi Fix the Climate Crisis? Colin Averill and Funga Are Working on it
Is the Future of Fat Fermented? Jeff Nobbs of Zero Acre Farms Is Betting on it
Robots to the Recycling Rescue: Matanya Horowitz Is Ensuring Your Recyclables Are Actually Recycled
Is Plant-Based Meat about to Get Chunkier? Amos Golan of Chunk Foods Thinks So
"Meat" the Meat Industry's Journalist: Lisa Keefe and Meatingplace
This Dude Vasectomized Himself! Meet Dr. Esgar Guarin, the Evangelical Vasectomist
Is Alt-Protein a National Security Issue? Rep. Ro Khanna Thinks So
Reproductive Freedom in the Developing World: Anna Christina Thorsheim and Family Empowerment Media
Oat-to-Market Strategy: Mike Messersmith and the Oatly Story
Ep. 86 | From Tech to Table: Richard Munson and the Food & Ag Tech Revolution
Ep. 85 | A Prime Pivot: Why Kimberlie Le and Prime Roots Are Going All in on Deli Meats
Ep. 84 | Investing in a Post-Animal Economy: Elysabeth Alfano and VegTech ETF
Ep. 83 | Will Fungi Free Fish? Anne Palermo is Betting on Fermentation at Aqua Cultured Foods
Ep. 82 | Engineering Our Way Out of Single-Use Plastics: Troy Swope and the Footprint Story
Ep. 81 | The Rapid Rise, High-Profile Fall, and Resilient Recovery of Juicero's Doug Evans
Ep. 80 | Is What You Believe About Food Sustainability Wrong? Robert Paarlberg Thinks So.
Ep. 79 | From Sophomore to CEO: Jessica Schwabach of Sundial Foods is Flying on Plant-Based Wings
Ep. 78 | A Conversation with NYC's Mayor-Elect Eric Adams
Ep. 77 | Creating a Cultivated Meat Community: Anita Broellechs and Alex Shirazi
Ep 76 | Is Your Cat Ready to Eat Cultivated Mouse Meat? Shannon Falconer and Because Animals Think So
Ep 75 | The Sweet Side of Starting a (Dairy-Free) Ice Cream Company: Aylon Steinhart & Eclipse Foods
Ep 74 | A Financial Journalist's Prescription for Making the Economy Work for Animals
Ep 73 |From Dust to Dust...or to Soil: Katrina Spade and the Recompose Vision for an Eco-Friendlier Death Industry
Ep 72 | Plastic that Won't Last Forever: Kristin Taylor and the Radical Plastics Story
Ep. 71 Life as a Scrappy Startup Exec: Doni Curkendall and The Better Meat Co.
Ep. 70 | The Second Publicly Traded Plant-Based Meat Company: Mitchell Scott and The Very Good Food Co.
Ep. 69 | The Sharks Tried to Buy Her Plant-Based Fried Chicken Company: Deborah Torres and the Atlas Monroe Story
Ep. 68 | Using Tech to Drive Change: Google.org and Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink
Ep. 67 | Where's the Animal-Free Materials Revolution? Nicole Rawling of the Material Innovation Initiative Wants You to Launch It
Pineapple Express to Disrupting Leather: Mélanie Broyé-Engelkes and Piñatex
Ep. 65 | The Billionaire Out to End Factory Farming
Ep. 64 | From Seafood to Seaweed: Monica Talbert and the Plant-Based Seafood Co.
You Can Buy a Piece of the Mycelium Revolution: Joanne Rodriguez and Mycocycle Are Literally Turning Trash into Treasure
Ep. 62 | Maximizing the Good We Can Do: A Conversation with Peter Singer
Ep. 61 | Modernizing Contraception with Your Choice Therapeutics' Akash Bakshi
Ep. 60 | Marrying Cultivated Meat & Plant-Based Meat for the Best of Both Worlds: Brian Spears Shares New Age Meats' Gameplan
Ep. 59 | Silk and Leather from Fermentation, Not Animals — David Breslauer and the Bolt Threads Story
Ep. 58 | The Meat Company that's Put Nearly a Billion Dollars into Plant-Based Meat
Ep. 57 | From Corporate Giant to Pre-Revenue Startup: Irina Gerry's Journey to Alt-Dairy Newcomer Change Foods
Ep. 56 | From Nonprofit Activist to Entrepreneur for Animals: Kristie Middleton and Rebellyous Foods
Ep. 55 | Ubiquitous Energy's Susan Stone Intends to Power Our Cities with Invisible Solar Panels
Ep. 54 | From Startup Founder to Investor & Philanthropist: Chris Bryson's Wild Ride to Do Good
Ep. 53 | Wood-Fed Meat? Marc Chevrel and Arbiom Say Bring it On
Ep. 52 | The Business of Election Security with Aaron Brantly
Ep. 51 | Making a Living as an Influencer: Toni Okamoto & The Plant-Based on a Budget Story
Ep.50 | The Conscious Leader: Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey
Ep. 49 | Priming the Market for Fungi-Based Meat: The Prime Roots Story with Kimberlie Le
Ep. 48 | Upcycling Mining Waste: The Phoenix Tailings Story with Nick Myers and Thomas Villalon, Jr.
Ep. 47 | The Solo-preneur: How Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Paved Her Own Way to Help Animals
Ep. 46 And You Thought Goodwill Was Just a Used Goods Store. Lori Dearwester Shares the Charity's Story
Ep. 45 - Bringing Plant-Based Meat to India: The Good Dot Revolution
Ep. 44 - The Business of Police Reform with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams
Making Tap Water Cool Again: Will Bottled Water Be the Next Cigarette?
Ep. 42 - Selling Cellular Agriculture the Nonprofit Way: Isha Datar and New Harvest
Ep. 41 - Solving Plastic Pollution and Poverty Simultaneously: The Plastic Bank Story
Ep. 40 - Sheltering in Place...for Millennia: Deep Isolation Has a Plan for Nuclear Waste
Ep. 39 - $200 Million for Plant-Based Chicken: The LiveKindly Co. Story
Ep. 39 - The OG of the Plant-Based Meat Movement: Seth Tibbott's Tofurky Story
Ep. 38 - Making Plastic Disappear with Notpla's Seaweed Packaging
Ep. 37 - Making Meat Out of Thin Air
Ep. 36 - Protecting the Planet from the Ground Up
Ep.35: From Funding Alt-Protein to Starting His Own Company
Ep. 34: $50 Million to Crack the Egg: Real Egg Proteins without the Chickens
Ep. 33: Real Leather without the Cows
Ep. 32: From ConAgra to Culturing Fish Cells
Ep. 31: Can Beer Brewery Waste Help Solve Plastic Pollution?
Ep. 30: Bean-Free Brew
Ep. 29: TurtleTree Labs
Ep. 28: Bringing Power—Solar and Social—to Rural Africans, with Lyndsay Holley Handler
Ep. 27: Your Trash Is Tom Szaky's Treasure
Ep. 26: The Meat-Scientist-Turned-Plant-Based-Entrepreneur
Ep 25: Can Helping the Homeless with Surplus Food be Profitable? Jasmine Crowe is Betting on It.
Ep 24: How Often Should Workers be Paid? Safwan Shah Has an Idea
Ep. 23 - Josh Tetrick on Resilience in the Face of Both Adversity and Success
Ep. 22 - Turning Down the Global Thermostat
Ep. 21 - Sampling a Historic Pint of Ice Cream with Perfect Day
Ep. 20 - What common traits do serial inventors have?
Ep. 19 - Giving Farmers a Fairer Shake
Ep. 18 - Growing a Cleaner Shrimp Industry in Asia
Ep. 17 - Cleaning for Good with Biokleen
Ep. 16 Will Mycelium Materials Save the World?
Ep. 15 - Making McProgress for Good
Ep. 14 - From Stand-Up Comedian to Saving the World with Soup
Ep. 14 - From Stand-Up Comedian to Saving the World with Soup
Ep. 13 - Would you hire a convicted felon? This guy does.
Ep. 12 - Building a Sweeter, Slavery-Free Chocolate Industry with Tony's Chocolonely's
Ep. 11 - The Business of Saving Coral Reefs with Sam Teicher
Ep. 10 Moby Is a Rock Star for Animals
Ep. 9: Lindsay Reinsmith and Jason Payne Are (Lab-)Growing a More Cultured Diamond Industry
Ep. 8: Saving Trees with Joe Luttwak, the Entrepreneurial Lorax
Ep. 7: Simon Griffiths on How Toilet Paper Can Save Lives
Ep. 6: The Saudi Arabian Prince Who's Investing in a More Humane Future
Ep. 5: Michelle Masek Uses Science to Make Your Produce Last Longer
Ep. 4: Bharti Singhla Ushers In a Pollution Revolution
Ep. 3: Seth Goldman on Sweetening the Less-Sugar Market
Ep. 2: Lisa Schon on Saving Wildlife with Bird-Friendly Glass
Ep. 1: John Mackey on Conscious Capitalism