Interviews with founders taking on climate 🌎💡🎙NEW EP: “The non-profit rescuing millions of meals for ppl in need” w/ @replateyourmeal
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Every day, millions of pounds of perfectly-good food goes to waste.
Think about it: all of the company, campus, + hospital cafeterias that cook up amazing meals --> then toss the leftovers 🗑
So much waste!
Enter @replateyourmeal...
Replate.org is a non-profit on a mission to reduce food waste and alleviate food insecurity in communities everywhere.
They do this by enabling food surplus generators-- like big co's, hospitals, campuses-- to donate their leftover food to people in need.
Replate Founder + CEO @MaenSMahfoud joins us to explore:
- his origial eureka moment
- launching the v1 as a Wix website
- working w/ co's like Netflix, Snap, + more
- rescuing millions of meals
- enabling other orgs to reduce waste
Tune in: ingoodhands.us/episodes/repl…
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“Don’t give them more work to do as your product.” Enjoyed hearing Jake Tauscher crib from @G2VPLLC deep dives on @peteralevin’s @ingoodhands pod. Explained why folks should buy CO2 offsets bit.ly/3Oed8OL & industrial firms need insights, not data apple.co/3O0MbOl
Recent headlines have triumphantly claimed 📢
“The plant-based meat revolution is here!”
💰 $100Ms in investment
😋 soaring consumer demand
🔬 rapid R&D
But we still have one major problem: cost.
Plant-based meat still costs 2-5x as much as its animal counterparts.
This is why - despite "soaring demand" - it makes up just *1/5 of 1% of the entire meat industry*
If we want to mainstream plant-based meats, we need to solve the cost problem.
Enter @RebellyousFoods 👇
On this week's episode, Rebellyous Founder + CEO @lagallyc joins us to discuss:
- Why costs are 2-5x higher
- Destructive vs constructive food production
- Rethinking the way we make plant-based meats
Tune in:
ingoodhands.us/episodes/rebe…
For the last 30 years, corporate sustainability has meant the pursuit of ‘eco-efficiency’ + ‘win-win’ opportunities.
But what if we have it all wrong —
what if these are just myths that give us the illusion of progress, while the data suggests otherwise?
This is the core thesis of @rolandfgeyer's new book, "The Business of Less"
+on today’s ep, we’re thrilled to speak w/ him about:
- why these are myths
- his groundbreaking research
- reasons to be optimistic
- the path forward
Tune in: ingoodhands.us/episodes/geye…
Which countries are:
📈 bullish
📉 bearish
⚖️ bullish and bearish
on nuclear?
1729.com/the-countries-that-…
Most plant-based meats are made with protein from soy, wheat or peas.
The ingredients work, but have 2 major flaws 👇
(1) Growing and harvesting the crop
+ milling it into a powder
+ isolating it to up the protein = time consuming
(2) Making it mimic the texture of animal meat = hard
If we want clean meat, we need better ingredients...
Enter @PaulHShapiro + @BetterMeatCo -
the startup developing a new type of plant-based superfood that has:
- more nutrition
- more meat-like texture
- more efficiency
than anything in the industry today.
Tune in: ingoodhands.us/episodes/bett…
This week in the hot seat 🎙
@mattpohlson from @omaze - the fundraising platform that’s raised $150M+ for charities around the world 💸
How does Omaze work?
By increasing the donor pool, a typical Omaze campaign ends up raising *significantly more* than traditional fundraisers 🚀
When people donate, not only do they have a chance to win amazing prizes —
like a trip to space w/ @virgingalactic, or a multi-million $$ house —
they also directly support the non-profit co-sponsoring the campaign.
Profit x Purpose done right ✅
ingoodhands.us/episodes/omaz…
The footwear industry accounts for ~1.4% of global emissions.
For context, the entire aviation industry accounts for ~2% of global emissions.
Which means: the plastics + foams used to make our shoes almost = the emissions created from operating 10,000s of flights every day..
Enter @walkfulton - the startup pioneering the future of sustainable footwear, starting w/ insoles.
Co-Founders Libbie + @djnel15 join us on this week's ep to talk:
- Big Footwear
- Carbon-negative manufacturing
- Why cork is the answer
Tune in: ingoodhands.us/episodes/fult…
Lithium is a key building block in the modern battery.
Phones
Laptops
Electric vehicles
All enabled, in part, by lithium.
Which means: as demand for lithium increases, we need to find better ways to extract it to ensure supply can keep pace.
Enter @energyx - the startup that just raised $20M to dramatically improve the way we extract and recover from the earth.
ingoodhands.us/episodes/ener…
