173 Episodes

  1. Incubating Tomorrow’s Alt-Protein Unicorns: The Kitchen

    Published: 2/15/2024
  2. When Nonprofits Start Businesses: Garden for Wildlife and the National Wildlife Federation

    Published: 2/1/2024
  3. Can Tech Improve Farm Animals’ Lives? Robert Yaman Is Betting On It

    Published: 1/15/2024
  4. Making Alt-Meat Research More Intelligent: GreenProtein AI & Noa Weiss

    Published: 1/1/2024
  5. Building a Better Chew: Chef GW Chew is Working to Create Better Plant-Based Meat

    Published: 12/15/2023
  6. Making All Births Intended and Wanted: Cadence OTC and Samantha Miller

    Published: 12/1/2023
  7. Power Walking for Cleaner Energy: The Pavegen Story

    Published: 11/15/2023
  8. Robots as a Service to Turn the Tides for Our Oceans: The Reefgen Story

    Published: 11/1/2023
  9. From Food Bank to Making Bank on Food Influencing: Maxime Sigouin and Fit Vegan Coaching

    Published: 10/15/2023
  10. Cementing a Better Future: Leah Ellis and Sublime Systems

    Published: 10/1/2023
  11. The Most Successful Plant-Based Meat Entrepreneur Ever? Yves Potvin’s Konscious Foods

    Published: 9/15/2023
  12. Microbes to the Rescue: Lisa Nunez Safarian and Pivot Bio

    Published: 9/1/2023
  13. Swapping Leaves for Leather: Biophilica’s Mira Nameth

    Published: 8/15/2023
  14. Turning the Tide for Tuna: Impact Food’s Kelly Pan

    Published: 8/1/2023
  15. Is the Future of Plastic Fungi? MadeRight Is Working on It

    Published: 7/15/2023
  16. From Villain to Hero: Rubi Labs’s Quest to Make CO2 Work for the Climate

    Published: 7/1/2023
  17. The Most Controversial Plan to Cool the Planet: Make Sunsets

    Published: 6/15/2023
  18. A Packaging Revolution: TIPA is All in on Compostables

    Published: 6/1/2023
  19. Hummus as a Force for Good: Joey Bergstein and the Sabra Story

    Published: 5/15/2023
  20. The OG of Mycelium Fermentation: The Quorn Story

    Published: 5/1/2023

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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.