Τα καλύτερα Planet Happy podcast (2024)

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When renewables provide a strategic advantage. Philipp Stratmann, Ocean Power Technologies 38:12

5d ago38:12

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! This will be our last podcast until 2025 and I want to thank you for tuning in this year! It's been an exceptionally interesting journey for me and I hope you've been enjoying the podcasts. If you have feedback, please do not hesitate to share it. This week we head to New Jersey to speak to Philipp Stratmann, …

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Reducing Building's Carbon Footprint: Nick Farmer, Opal Build 37:11

19d ago37:11

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! And to American followers, Happy Thanksgiving! During the US presidential debates, we heard a lot about the nearly five million unit housing shortage in the US. While this needs to be addressed urgently, it won't be good for the climate. Traditional building activity accounts for up to 40% of the world's carbo…

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Can Social Change Drive Ocean Conservation? Sea Rangers, Wietse van Der Werf 31:12

1M ago31:12

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! This week we are hopping across the Atlantic to speak to serial Dutch innovator Wietse van der Werf. Wietse's current venture, Sea Rangers, is a social enterprise that trains youth from underprivileged backgrounds in the maritime trades. Aspiring sea rangers learn while working on ocean conservation missions t…

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When things don't go as planned. Shuttering AKUA. Courtney Boyd Rey 39:39

2M ago39:39

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! I was tempted to call this week’s episode “Unhappy Planet” because in it we grapple with what happens when your startup doesn’t go as planned. When I learned that Courtney Boyd Rey shuttered her seaweed startup AKUA, I reached out to see if she would come on the podcast. Given that over 90% of startups fail, a…

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Can 3D Knitting Fix Fashion? Slater McLean, Oliver Charles 35:21

2M ago35:21

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Send us a text In this episode of the Happy Planet Podcast, host Abigail Carroll interviews Slater McLean, co-founder of Oliver Charles, a sustainable sweater company. Slater discusses the significant environmental impact of the fashion industry and how Oliver Charles is addressing these issues using natural materials like yak wool and seaweed-base…

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Reducing Noise Pollution with the Subsea Quieter - Damien Demoor, Greenov 34:17

3M ago34:17

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Send us a text In this podcast episode, I welcome Damien Demoor, a French engineer and ocean innovator based in France, who introduces his company, Greenov, and its groundbreaking product, the Subsea Quieter. Demoor discusses the significant threat of underwater noise pollution caused by maritime activities, detailing its detrimental effects on mar…

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Can Insects Provide Sustainable Fishfeed? Alessandro Romano, Founder, Ittinsect 41:06

3M ago41:06

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Send us a text Innovative Fish Feeds: Reducing Aquaculture's Environmental Footprint In this episode of the Happy Planet podcast, I speak to Alessandra Romano, the entrepreneur behind Ittinsect. Allessandro discusses his novel aquaculture feed supplements derived from insect proteins, which aim to accelerate fish growth with lower environmental imp…

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Can Probiotics Save our Coral Reefs? Benjamin Alva, Azul Bio 38:44

3M ago38:44

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Send us a text In this podcast episode, Abigail interviews Benjamin, founder of Azul Bio and participant in the Ocean Pitch Contest by the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. The discussion focuses on Benjamin's startup, which aims to save coral reefs from extinction caused by ocean warming. Benjamin explains the importance of coral reefs for ocean life an…

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Is the future of fashion cyclical? William Calvert, Return to Vendor 28:38

5M ago28:38

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Send us a text Welcome to Happy Planet! Our guest this week is William Calvert, co-Founder and CEO of the NYC based startup, Return to Vendor. William is a fashion designer and entrepreneur who has lived in Paris, and Italy and designed for the likes of Balenciaga before getting the fashion-tech bug about 10 years ago. His first foray into the fiel…

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Can two Norwegians Establish a Fish Farm "up country" in Maine? Marianne Naess, CEO Katahdin Salmon. 29:21

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! The weather has been so beautiful in Maine lately that I am going to bring you all here to my home state. Today we’re going to speak to Marianne Naess, a Norwegian native living in Maine who, with her husband, has co-founded Katahdin Salmon, a soon-to-be scaled salmon aquaculture farm that intends on bringing …

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Can eating farmed redfish help restore the Florida coastline? Megan Sorby; Pine Island Redfish 35:59

6M ago35:59

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! Could eating farmed redfish be the answer to building coastal resilience in Florida? Founder Megan Sorby would like to think so. Megan and her husband co-founded Pine Island Redfish. True to its name, they grow growing the much-loved but highly protected redfish for the commercial market on Pine Island, a Flor…

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Can seaweed bring relief to rural African farmers? Anga Mbeyiya, Co-Founder Ole Blue 26:45

7M ago26:45

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! Pack your bags, we're headed to Kenya! This week we'll be speaking to Anga Mbeyiya, a South African seaweed entrepreneur whose company, Ole Blu, is transforming seaweed into biostimulants to help rural farmers adapt to climate change. While her company is still young, it's also already having a big impact both…

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Does the solution to coastal resilience lie offshore? Matt Campbell, President of NatrX 37:25

7M ago37:25

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! If you live on the coast, this is a podcast you might want to pay special attention to. Matt Campbell, President of NatrX, is joining us today to talk about his nature-based solutions for building coastal resilience. Thinking you need to protect your community from rising sea levels? Rather than building a wal…

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Can deep drilling make nuclear power greener? Elizabeth Muller, Founder, Deep Isolation 39:08

8M ago39:08

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! This week's guest, Elizabeth (Liz) Muller is Co-Founder of Deep Isolation. While living in France, was impressed by France's nuclear power program, which provides nearly 70% of the country's power, with zero carbon emissions. The problem was, and it still is, the waste. Today, over 490,000 metric tons of nucle…

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Can an oyster in the ocean be worth more than one on your plate? George Birch, Founder, Oyster Heaven 43:57

8M ago43:57

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! With all of the good work that oysters can do for the planet, filtering water, preventing erosion, reducing acidification, mitigating storm surge and more, entrepreneur George Birch wanted to see if an oyster living in the water doing all of those good deeds could be more valuable in terms of dollars or euros …

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Brian Skerry: Can powerful images save our oceans? 1:00:51

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Send us a text We are kicking off the season with the unstoppable Brian Skerry. Brian is a world renown photojournalist and film producer specializing in marine wildlife and underwater environments. He has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition no less than ELEVEN TIMES. He is a National Geographic Society Storytelling Fe…

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Economic, Social and Environmental Impact in Zanzibar with Luxury Skincare 34:22

1y ago34:22

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday ! Before I introduce our guest today I want to thank you for your support over the past year. Because, yes, today’s podcast concludes our first year of programming! To celebrate we venture into Africa. We will be speaking with Klaartje (Klara) Scarde the Co-Founder of Mwani Zanzibar, a seaweed based cosmetics c…

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The Seaweed Revolution with Vincent Doumeizel 35:02

1y ago35:02

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! This week we are joined by Vincent Doumeizel, a French native from Burgundy who is Director of the Food Program for Lloyd's Register Foundation as well as an expert on everything seaweed. Vincent has spearheaded the Global Seaweed Coalition, which "is a global partnership established to support the safety and …

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Thor Sigfusson, Founder of Icelandic Ocean Clusters & Author of 100% Fish, hacks the Ocean. 30:08

1y ago30:08

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday ! We are headed to Iceland today to meet Thor Sigfusson the Founder of Iceland Ocean Cluster, an innovation hub he founded in 2011 to focus on marine startups. Since then Ocean Clusters have been popping up around the world, including the New England Ocean Cluster right here in Portland, Maine. It’s a real deli…

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Harnessing the Wind to Reduce CO2 at Sea. Aloft with Miles Keeney-Ritchie 40:02

1y ago40:02

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday ! We've talked quite a bit about renewable energy on this podcast and we've also looked at old technologies that are coming back, often with a modern twist. Our guest today is starting a business that checks both of those boxes. Miles Keeney-Ritchie, founder of Aloft, aims to reduce ocean transportation carbon …

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Would you spend eternity in an underwater urn? Louise Skajem and Aura Murillo of Resting Reef 45:15

1y ago45:15

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Send us a text Today, we are hopping over the Atlantic to speak with Louise Skajem and Aura Murillo, two young, UK-based women designers who are innovating in a marine area I never imagined I would discuss on this show: funerary services. These young women are full of life and will challenge everything you have ever come to believe about funeral di…

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Should your next car run on BIO-fuel? Bernard Hidier, Co-Founder KarrGreen 35:56

1y ago35:56

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Send us a text You may recognize today’s guest from episode 5. We’re here with Bernard Hidier, the French expat living in Maine who co-founded Finsulate the non-toxic antifouling solution that looks like velvet and mimics a sea urchin. Bernard is back with us because somehow he has managed to co-found and co-manage more than one company at the same…

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Can SafetyNet Save Our Fisheries? 40:59

1+ y ago40:59

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Send us a text We are going to kick off the fall season with a chat with Dan Watson, the UK-based founder and CEO of a fisheries startup called SafetyNet. I first met Dan through Harry Wright’s accelerator Bright Tide, where I am an advisor. Then I wound up on his mentor team for another accelerator run by Boston-based Sea Ahead. I can’t wait to se…

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Will we all be WEARING seaweed? Laura Hayes of Keel Labs 29:53

1+ y ago29:53

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Send us a text Fashion and smelly seaweed may seem like an odd pair but one company in North Carolina is spinning them together - quite literally! Our guest is Laura Hayes and she is the Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager at Keel Labs. Keel Labs makes a natural silky yarn that is composed of about 70% kelp! While they are not the first to try to…

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Can Natural Proteins Reduce our Dependency on Antibiotics in Fish Farming? 28:21

1+ y ago28:21

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday ! We are travelling to South America this week ! Our guest, Daniela Allerbon, is CEO of Aquit, a company specializing in natural proteins that can be used to replace antibiotics in fish farming. Aquit was founded by researchers in Chile and Daniela recently joined the team as CEO from Buenos Aires, Argentina. W…

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One Man's Mission to Measure the Ocean: Jeremy McKane 31:12

1+ y ago31:12

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday ! Our guest today is Jeremy McKane, Founder of Ocean Currency Network whose mission is to create an ocean map with real-time ocean data. The goal is to map 30% of the ocean by 2030. Sound ambitious? It is. But as Jeremy say in the podcast, if we can’t see the problems, we can’t fix them. Getting real time data …

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Why We Should all be "Fed by Blue": Jennifer Bushman 25:13

1+ y ago25:13

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Send us a text Today we are going to dig into seafood with our guest Jennifer Bushman. She’s going to help us better understand how the bounty of the ocean fits into our diets as well as our national food security plan and a healthier planet. Jennifer Bushman is a sustainable seafood expert, communicator, and strategist who has been championing eth…

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Modern, Modular Hydropower. Stuart Davies, ORPC 28:02

1+ y ago28:02

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Send us a text This podcast marks our 30th episode which seems like something to celebrate! So thank you for tuning in! If you like what we’re doing here, please spread the word. We have traveled the world together on this podcast, but today’s guest is located right here where I am, in the great state of Maine! Stuart Davies joins us today to speak…

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Turning a Seaweed Problem into an Opportunity: Edward Shao, ProjectQRSargasso 22:32

1+ y ago22:32

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Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday ! Many of you, especially those who love the Caribbean, are aware of what is now called the sargassum belt, a 5,000 mile long belt of floating sargassum seaweed mass that stretches from the Gulf of Mexico all of the way to Africa, hitting the South East coast of the United States along the way. In normal doses,…

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Can the Ocean Help Fix our Fashion Problem? Runa Ray, Fashion Environmentalist 34:01

1+ y ago34:01

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Send us a text The fashion industry is at odds with the survival of our planet. Ten percent of total global carbon emissions derive from the fashion industry, as much as the whole European Union. The industry is polluting our rivers, streams, and oceans. Meanwhile some 80% of our discarded textiles are either incinerated or wind up in trash heaps e…

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Can Seawater Fuel our Future? Green Hydrogen with Nasir Mahmood 30:13

1+ y ago30:13

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Send us a text You may recall that in Episode 12 we spoke about hydrogen fuel cell stacks. It was a very popular episode so I wanted to dig into the theme a bit more. As such, today we’re going to dig into green hydrogen itself. Just a reminder that GREEN hydrogen is hydrogen derived from a renewable-energy powered electrolysis process that splits …

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The Man in the Middle of Maine's North Atlantic Right Whale Crisis 32:31

1+ y ago32:31

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Send us a text As I think you know by now, I believe technology can solve most things - but sometimes the right tech just can’t come fast enough, and in the meantime, the most innovative tool at our disposal may be good old fashioned dialogue. Such is the case in Maine where a dwindling population of the large and lumbering North Atlantic Right Wha…

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Time to Upgrade to an Electric Outboard? Benjamin Sorkin of Flux Marine. 30:11

1+ y ago30:11

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Send us a text Our guest today is Benjamin Sorkin, Founder of Flux Marine, a Rhode Island-based company innovating electric outboard motors. I was invited to visit Ben’s shop back in January following a conference organized by the Blue Venture Forum. I was impressed by what I saw. Ben and his team have taken electric propulsion technology a long wa…

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Cutting Edge Ocean Research: Deborah Bronk, CEO of Bigelow Laboratory 37:28

1+ y ago37:28

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Send us a text Today we’re going to dive into the world of marine research. Our guest is Deborah Bronk, President and CEO of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, a Maine-based marine research institute specializing in ocean microbes like algae, plankton, viruses, and bacteria. Bigelow Laboratory is a relatively small institute but it's growing fa…

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Supporting Innovation through Angel Investing - with Adam de Sola Pool 33:22

1+ y ago33:22

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Send us a text A number of listeners have reached out with questions about how to get involved in angel investing. So in this episode I speak to one of the most experienced and articulate angel investors I know. Our guest is Adam de Sola Pool, a Venture Capitalist by trade who now has over $1M in angel investments of his own. I met Adam through a b…

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Can Venture Philanthropy Close the Critical BlueTech Funding Gap? 34:36

1+ y ago34:36

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Send us a text When you think about GOOGLE, ocean innovation may be the last thing that comes to mind. But Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy have been great friends to the ocean and climate, pouring millions into the sector through their Schmidt Family Foundation. Our guest today is Mark Schrope. He is the Director of Schmidt Marine…

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Billion Oyster Project and NYC Harbor School: Models for Urban Development 39:55

1+ y ago39:55

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Send us a text This week’s podcast touches upon two themes that are close to my heart: my college town of New York City and oysters! Our guest today is Murray Fisher. He is the man behind two fairly recent, but already iconic, NYC institutions. In 2002, Murray founded the New York Harbor School, a public high school revolving around New York City’s…

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The Future is in (Seaweed) Plastics: FlexSea Co-Founder Thibault Monfort-Micheo 35:30

1+ y ago35:30

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Send us a text This week we’re going to address the planet’s plastic problem. These petroleum-based materials only became mass produced after WW2 but as we heard from our very first guest Bill Curtsinger, as early as the 60s micro-plastics were already being identified as a concern in the remote waters of Antartica. It was about that time that the …

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Funding Ocean Tech: Steven Fox of Propeller VC 35:41

1+ y ago35:41

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Send us a text I am really excited to introduce you all to Steven Fox, a founding Partner of Propeller VC, a new early stage venture fund that invests in and builds ocean-climate companies that use science and technology to address the climate crisis. Propeller is the brainchild of Hubspot Founder Brian Halligan and it was designed to be the ventur…

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Alex Searle on the Art and Importance of Impact Storytelling 33:39

1+ y ago33:39

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Send us a text There are a few things that separate winning startups from those that crash. Some of them are pretty obvious: Good leadership. A Good Market Fit. Sufficient Cash on hand to grow. But you also need a good story. And that’s not always easy for entrepreneurs to formulate, especially in an increasingly crowded field like climate or blue …

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Competing for Elon Musk's X Prize with Whale Poop 💩 40:24

2y ago40:24

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Send us a text This week we meet Edwina Tanner and Jill Storey of Whale X, an Australian company competing for Elon Musk’s X Prize, a multi-year competition resulting in the awarding of $100M to the best carbon removal project. Whale X’s solution? Fertilize the ocean with synthetic whale poop. Before you write that off as silly, know that they are …

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Can Crypto Save the Planet? Rob Cobbold, COO, Beach Collective 31:38

2y ago31:38

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Send us a text This week we are going to speak with Rob Cobbold, COO of Beach Collective, a company that is building a digital platform that merges some of the most abstract and immaterial aspects of the web, like Cryptos and NFTs with some of the most tangible and physical activities on the planet, like community building, ocean conservation, and …

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Spiny Lobster Aquaculture for Pharma: Christophe Maier 33:11

2y ago33:11

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Send us a text This week’s guest, Christophe Maier, Founder and CEO of Lagosta. Christophe was raised in Switzerland, on lake Geneva, but once he discovered the Mediterranean he couldn’t get enough of salty waterbodies! Fast forward to adulthood and Christophe raises spiny lobsters, not for the European luxury food market as he originally expected,…

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Can getting a B in Business be an A+ Move? B Corps with Ben Anderson 39:30

2y ago39:30

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Send us a text We’ve spoken to a lot of entrepreneurs from around the world in the past few months and there is one thing they all have in common - a corporation. The precise structures of corporations will vary from company to company and country to country but a relatively new corporate certification is working its way around the planet and creat…

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Can Nemo's Smarter Twin Save our Waterways? Liane Thompson, Co-Founder Aquaai 40:56

2y ago40:56

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Send us a text Watch out NEMO there’s a new clownfish in town and he’s a lot smarter than you are! Today we are talking to Liane Thompson, co-founder and CEO of Aquaai (Uh-qu-why)- which merges the words aqua and the term AI together. Liane has an incredible bio including stints in war reporting and television producing. And she knows a good thing …

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Propelling Green Hydrogen Forward with Tore Enger of TECO2030 28:44

2y ago28:44

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Send us a text This week’s guest, Tore Enger, Founder and CEO of the group TECO 2030, is pioneering the fuel cell stacks designed for green hydrogen in trucking and shipping, industries traditionally reliant on diesel fuel. After speaking with Tore, my worldview on renewables started to broaden. I’d love to know what you think after you listen to t…

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Save the Planet the Delicious Way: Eat Uni. 38:04

2y ago38:04

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Send us a text This week I am delighted to introduce you to the entrepreneur who inspired this whole podcast, Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda, Founder and CEO of Urchinomics. I met Brian through our last interviewee, Harry Wright. Brian was participating in one of Harry’s accelerator programs in the UK. I knew Brian was on to something when I met him. And ap…

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This British Harry Thinks Nature is Serious Business 33:20

2y ago33:20

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Send us a text Today we cross the pond and speak with Harry Wright, Founder of Bright Tide, a UK-based consultancy helping businesses achieve their milestones and sustainability goals through hackathons, accelerator programs, and advisement. Harry is particularly interested in fostering the nascent blue carbon market where carbon sequestration can …

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Philippines' Wonder Woman Tackles Global Plastic 37:32

2y ago37:32

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Send us a text This week we meet Nanette Medved-Po, a Philippine entrepreneur who began her career as an actress and became a regional celebrity thanks to her role as the local version of Wonder Woman. Since then she has employed her education, smarts, and star power to help others and the planet. Nanette is a board member of the WFF Asia and was n…

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Can Lobster Heal our Skin? 🦞 Patrick Breeding, CEO, Marin Skincare 36:09

2y ago36:09

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Send us a text As promised, Happy Planet is kicking off 2023 with an interview with Patrick Breeding, the young founder who says he’s building Maine’s next “unicorn.” And he’s doing it with a lobster based skincare product that is flying off the shelves. His company is Marin Skincare, a Maine-based company founded by couple Patrick and his girlfrie…

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