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Business for Good Podcast — 191 episodes

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Why Jim Mellon Is Still All In on Alternative Protein After Five Years

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Investing in Biodiversity with Venture Capitalist Tom Quigley

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Using Wildlife Intelligence to Prevent Animal Collisions with Sára Nožková

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Turning Green Leaves Into High-Performing Protein with Ross Milne

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Vasectomies, Family Planning, and Environmental Pressure with Dr. Douglas Stein (The Vasectomist)

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Feed the People Authors on Abundance, Food Policy, and Meat Demand

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Bruce Friedrich (Good Food Institute) on Taste, Price, and What It Takes to Scale Alternative Meat

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Modern Mill's Chris Guimond on Upcycling Rice Hulls Into Low Maintenance Building Materials

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Deep Fission: Using Boreholes to Cut Nuclear Costs and Deliver 24/7 Clean Electricity

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The Incredible, Edible… Pea? How Meala is Using Biotech to Render Eggs Obsolete

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From Oil Wells to Oak Trees: Ben Dell's Half-Billion-Dollar Pivot to Carbon Offsetting

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Ready for a Carpet Made of Human Hair? This Entrepreneur Turns Salon Waste into Textiles

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From Fashion Model to Fission Mission: Isabelle Boemeke's Nuclear-Powered Future

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Fungi-Filled Diapers: How Plastic-Eating Fungi May Change Child-Rearing

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Raising Capital for Alt-Protein in the Midst of the Winter

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Bottling the Sky: Aircapture's Carbon Capture Breakthrough

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Inside Mighty Earth: Glenn Hurowitz on Transforming the Meat Industry

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Turning Waste into Bioplastic Gold with Genecis CEO Luna Yu

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Turning Plants into Plastic-Free Packaging: The Xampla Story

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Microbial Might: Can MicroHarvest Replace Animals in Pet and Livestock Feed?

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There's no Eighth Continent to Farm: Mike Grunwald on Feeding Ourselves without Frying the Planet

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Trash into Treasure: ChainCraft Is Converting Food Waste into Sustainable Chemicals

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Unstoppable Entrepreneurs: Lori Rosenkopf on the Many Paths to Startup Success

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The Crazy Rock Lady: How Eion is Turning Crushed Rocks into Climate Gold

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Vedge of Glory: How Two Plant-Based Restaurateurs Have Survived for Decades

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The Venture Capitalist Who Wants You to Donate More to Charity

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No Palm, No Problem: Fermenting the Future of Fat

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Turning Air Into Butter: Savor's Revolutionary Approach to Alternative Fats

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Cleaner Air from Better Plants: The Neoplants Story

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Helping Alt-Protein Startups Survive the Winter: Ahimsa's Consolidation Approach

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Subtracting the Bean from Coffee: The Minus Story

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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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From Harvard Business School to Rural Africa: Nicole Poindexter's Journey to Advance Clean Energy Access

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From Korea to the US: UNLIMEAT Puts its Signature on the Plant-Based Meat Movement

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Bringing Clean Energy to African Businesses

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One Good Human: Eric Schulze on Cultivated Meat's Past and Future

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Chocolate without Cocoa Farming: The California Cultured Journey

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Will Pets Be the First European Consumers of Cultivated Meat? Meatly is Betting on It

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Investing in an Animal-Free Food System: Milk & Honey Ventures

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Can Bacteria Make Better Leather than Cows? Polybion Says So

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Are Chickpeas the Future of Alt-Protein? NuCicer is Working On It

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Better than the Reel Thing: How Oshi is Redefining Seafood

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Turning the Tide on Fossil Fuels: Is Eco Wave Power the Future of Clean Energy?

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From Home-Made Smoothies to $200 million in Revenue: Daily Harvest's Journey

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Novel Proteins for Pets: Omni is Helping Animal Lovers Feed Their Pets Fewer Animals

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Maisie Ganzler Dishes on When and How Corporate Animal Welfare Policies Work

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Which Came First: The Chicken or the Potato?

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Premature Obituaries? Bruce Friedrich's Optimism for Cultivated Meat

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Defying the Odds: Orbillion Bio Raising Capital for Cultivated Meat in 2024

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The Past, Present, and Future of Cultivated Meat with UPSIDE Foods' Uma Valeti

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Fishing for Progress in Asia: Avant Meats

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Fishing for High-Margins in Cultivated Seafood: BlueNalu's Path to Scale

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Is the Future of Cultivated Meat in Thailand? Aleph Farms is Betting on It

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Flying Cars or Electric Cars? Isha Datar's Thoughts on Where Cultivated Meat Tech Stands Today

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Mark Post, A Decade After the First Cultivated Burger

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Are Smaller Cultivators the Answer for Cultivated Meat's Success? Niya Gupta Thinks So

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Josh Tetrick on the Future of the Cultivated Meat Movement

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Brief thoughts on the alt-meat movement and my role in it

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Incubating Tomorrow's Alt-Protein Unicorns: The Kitchen

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When Nonprofits Start Businesses: Garden for Wildlife and the National Wildlife Federation

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Can Tech Improve Farm Animals' Lives? Robert Yaman Is Betting On It

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Making Alt-Meat Research More Intelligent: GreenProtein AI & Noa Weiss

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Building a Better Chew: Chef GW Chew is Working to Create Better Plant-Based Meat

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Making All Births Intended and Wanted: Cadence OTC and Samantha Miller

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Power Walking for Cleaner Energy: The Pavegen Story

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Robots as a Service to Turn the Tides for Our Oceans: The Reefgen Story

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From Food Bank to Making Bank on Food Influencing: Maxime Sigouin and Fit Vegan Coaching

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Cementing a Better Future: Leah Ellis and Sublime Systems

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The Most Successful Plant-Based Meat Entrepreneur Ever? Yves Potvin's Konscious Foods

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Microbes to the Rescue: Lisa Nunez Safarian and Pivot Bio

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Swapping Leaves for Leather: Biophilica's Mira Nameth

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Turning the Tide for Tuna: Impact Food's Kelly Pan

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Is the Future of Plastic Fungi? MadeRight Is Working on It

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From Villain to Hero: Rubi Labs's Quest to Make CO2 Work for the Climate

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The Most Controversial Plan to Cool the Planet: Make Sunsets

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A Packaging Revolution: TIPA is All in on Compostables

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Hummus as a Force for Good: Joey Bergstein and the Sabra Story

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The OG of Mycelium Fermentation: The Quorn Story

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From Cultivated Meat to National Security: The Journey of Jason Matheny

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Some Help from Kelp: How Keel Labs is Reimagining Sustainable Materials

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(Bio)engineering Better Beef: Josh March and SciFi Foods' Quest to Cultivate Meat

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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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Will Technology Spare Animals from Experimentation? Emulate and Jim Corbett are Working on it

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Selling Shovels and Pickaxes to the Cultivated Meat Pioneers

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Fermenting Methane into Meat! The String Bio Story

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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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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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The Deepest Hole Humanity's Ever Dug: The Quaise Energy Story

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Automated Reforestation: Grant Canary and the Drone Seed Story

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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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A Whale of a Tale: Wildtype and the Future of Cultivated Seafood

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Tree-mendously Fast-Growing Trees to Fight Climate Change? Maddie Hall and the Living Carbon Story

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Mighty Mycelium: Isabella Iglesias-Musachio and Bosque Foods

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Spreading the Good Word about Olivine Spreading: Kelly Erhart and Vesta

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Can Fungi Fix the Climate Crisis? Colin Averill and Funga Are Working on it

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Is the Future of Fat Fermented? Jeff Nobbs of Zero Acre Farms Is Betting on it

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Robots to the Recycling Rescue: Matanya Horowitz Is Ensuring Your Recyclables Are Actually Recycled

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Is Plant-Based Meat about to Get Chunkier? Amos Golan of Chunk Foods Thinks So

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"Meat" the Meat Industry's Journalist: Lisa Keefe and Meatingplace

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This Dude Vasectomized Himself! Meet Dr. Esgar Guarin, the Evangelical Vasectomist

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Is Alt-Protein a National Security Issue? Rep. Ro Khanna Thinks So

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Reproductive Freedom in the Developing World: Anna Christina Thorsheim and Family Empowerment Media

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Oat-to-Market Strategy: Mike Messersmith and the Oatly Story

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Ep. 86 | From Tech to Table: Richard Munson and the Food & Ag Tech Revolution

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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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Ep. 84 | Investing in a Post-Animal Economy: Elysabeth Alfano and VegTech ETF

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Ep. 83 | Will Fungi Free Fish? Anne Palermo is Betting on Fermentation at Aqua Cultured Foods

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Ep. 82 | Engineering Our Way Out of Single-Use Plastics: Troy Swope and the Footprint Story

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Ep. 81 | The Rapid Rise, High-Profile Fall, and Resilient Recovery of Juicero's Doug Evans

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Ep. 80 | Is What You Believe About Food Sustainability Wrong? Robert Paarlberg Thinks So.

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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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Ep. 78 | A Conversation with NYC's Mayor-Elect Eric Adams

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Ep. 77 | Creating a Cultivated Meat Community: Anita Broellechs and Alex Shirazi

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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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Ep 75 | The Sweet Side of Starting a (Dairy-Free) Ice Cream Company: Aylon Steinhart & Eclipse Foods

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Ep 74 | A Financial Journalist's Prescription for Making the Economy Work for Animals

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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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Ep 72 | Plastic that Won't Last Forever: Kristin Taylor and the Radical Plastics Story

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Ep. 71 Life as a Scrappy Startup Exec: Doni Curkendall and The Better Meat Co.

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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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Ep. 69 | The Sharks Tried to Buy Her Plant-Based Fried Chicken Company: Deborah Torres and the Atlas Monroe Story

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Ep. 68 | Using Tech to Drive Change: Google.org and Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink

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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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Pineapple Express to Disrupting Leather: Mélanie Broyé-Engelkes and Piñatex

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Ep. 65 | The Billionaire Out to End Factory Farming

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Ep. 64 | From Seafood to Seaweed: Monica Talbert and the Plant-Based Seafood Co.

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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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Ep. 62 | Maximizing the Good We Can Do: A Conversation with Peter Singer

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Ep. 61 | Modernizing Contraception with Your Choice Therapeutics' Akash Bakshi

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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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Ep. 59 | Silk and Leather from Fermentation, Not Animals — David Breslauer and the Bolt Threads Story

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Ep. 58 | The Meat Company that's Put Nearly a Billion Dollars into Plant-Based Meat

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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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Ep. 56 | From Nonprofit Activist to Entrepreneur for Animals: Kristie Middleton and Rebellyous Foods

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Ep. 55 | Ubiquitous Energy's Susan Stone Intends to Power Our Cities with Invisible Solar Panels

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Ep. 54 | From Startup Founder to Investor & Philanthropist: Chris Bryson's Wild Ride to Do Good

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Ep. 53 | Wood-Fed Meat? Marc Chevrel and Arbiom Say Bring it On

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Ep. 52 | The Business of Election Security with Aaron Brantly

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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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Ep.50 | The Conscious Leader: Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey

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Ep. 49 | Priming the Market for Fungi-Based Meat: The Prime Roots Story with Kimberlie Le

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Ep. 48 | Upcycling Mining Waste: The Phoenix Tailings Story with Nick Myers and Thomas Villalon, Jr.

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Ep. 47 | The Solo-preneur: How Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Paved Her Own Way to Help Animals

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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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Ep. 45 - Bringing Plant-Based Meat to India: The Good Dot Revolution

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Ep. 44 - The Business of Police Reform with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams

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Making Tap Water Cool Again: Will Bottled Water Be the Next Cigarette?

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Ep. 42 - Selling Cellular Agriculture the Nonprofit Way: Isha Datar and New Harvest

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Ep. 41 - Solving Plastic Pollution and Poverty Simultaneously: The Plastic Bank Story

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Ep. 40 - Sheltering in Place...for Millennia: Deep Isolation Has a Plan for Nuclear Waste

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Ep. 39 - $200 Million for Plant-Based Chicken: The LiveKindly Co. Story

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Ep. 39 - The OG of the Plant-Based Meat Movement: Seth Tibbott's Tofurky Story

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Ep. 38 - Making Plastic Disappear with Notpla's Seaweed Packaging

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Ep. 37 - Making Meat Out of Thin Air

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Ep. 36 - Protecting the Planet from the Ground Up

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Ep.35: From Funding Alt-Protein to Starting His Own Company

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Ep. 34: $50 Million to Crack the Egg: Real Egg Proteins without the Chickens

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Ep. 33: Real Leather without the Cows

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Ep. 32: From ConAgra to Culturing Fish Cells

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Ep. 31: Can Beer Brewery Waste Help Solve Plastic Pollution?

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Ep. 30: Bean-Free Brew

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Ep. 29: TurtleTree Labs

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Ep. 28: Bringing Power—Solar and Social—to Rural Africans, with Lyndsay Holley Handler

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Ep. 27: Your Trash Is Tom Szaky's Treasure

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Ep. 26: The Meat-Scientist-Turned-Plant-Based-Entrepreneur

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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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Ep 24: How Often Should Workers be Paid? Safwan Shah Has an Idea

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Ep. 23 - Josh Tetrick on Resilience in the Face of Both Adversity and Success

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Ep. 22 - Turning Down the Global Thermostat

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Ep. 21 - Sampling a Historic Pint of Ice Cream with Perfect Day

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Ep. 20 - What common traits do serial inventors have?

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Ep. 19 - Giving Farmers a Fairer Shake

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Ep. 18 - Growing a Cleaner Shrimp Industry in Asia

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Ep. 17 - Cleaning for Good with Biokleen

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Ep. 16 Will Mycelium Materials Save the World?

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Ep. 15 - Making McProgress for Good

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Ep. 14 - From Stand-Up Comedian to Saving the World with Soup

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Ep. 14 - From Stand-Up Comedian to Saving the World with Soup

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Ep. 13 - Would you hire a convicted felon? This guy does.

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Ep. 12 - Building a Sweeter, Slavery-Free Chocolate Industry with Tony's Chocolonely's

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Ep. 11 - The Business of Saving Coral Reefs with Sam Teicher

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Ep. 10 Moby Is a Rock Star for Animals

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Ep. 9: Lindsay Reinsmith and Jason Payne Are (Lab-)Growing a More Cultured Diamond Industry

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Ep. 8: Saving Trees with Joe Luttwak, the Entrepreneurial Lorax

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Ep. 7: Simon Griffiths on How Toilet Paper Can Save Lives

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Ep. 6: The Saudi Arabian Prince Who's Investing in a More Humane Future

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Ep. 5: Michelle Masek Uses Science to Make Your Produce Last Longer

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Ep. 4: Bharti Singhla Ushers In a Pollution Revolution

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Ep. 3: Seth Goldman on Sweetening the Less-Sugar Market

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Ep. 2: Lisa Schon on Saving Wildlife with Bird-Friendly Glass

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Ep. 1: John Mackey on Conscious Capitalism