Episode Archive - Page 15 of 18 - Mindful Businesses

39: Civic Champs – Seamless Volunteering

October 20, 2020 aviyer2000 00:27:52 0 Comments

Guess in which industry 10% of the American workforce generates $ 2 trillion? It’s the non-profit sector! Geng Wang – founder of Civic Champs, seamless volunteering talks to us about his journey in founding an organization to serve this very underserved industry. Bringing timely technological solutions in these historically unprecedented times. The passion and desire to do good is part of the core value of Civic Champs. Learn more in this episode.

IT for sustainability

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38: The Unscented Company – Effective Unscented Home and Body Care

October 13, 2020 aviyer2000 00:33:44 0 Comments

Anie Rouleau – Founding CEO of The Unscented Company, is a Montrealer, who is guided by the belief that a business’ social values are no obstacle to its profitability and financial viability. Her vision is driven by a desire to encourage new consumer habits for more conscious living and to be an active participant in the global initiative to ban single-use plastic and reduce our collective ecological footprint. This B – Corp certified business is passionate about changing consumer habits – to reduce plastic use in everyday life. Listen to what she has to say in our episode.

Fashion and Beauty

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37: Textile Exchange – Creating Material Change

October 6, 2020 aviyer2000 00:35:57 0 Comments

Being a fifth generation cotton farmer gave LaRhea Pepper the knowledge, grit and passion to farm the way her granddaddy had taught her. She set out to to create the non-profit Textile Exchange to build a community that can collectively accomplish what no individual or company can do alone.

Agriculture & Farming

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36: W – Cycle – Naturally replacing plastic

September 29, 2020 aviyer2000 00:41:32 0 Comments

When an autodidact and world traveller, Joseph Siani, co-founder of W – cycle. saw his eco-conscious fried using a disposal diaper, his curiosity was piqued. That led him to create and patent a compostable material called SupraPulp™, non-coated food packaging solution from discarded sugar-cane pulp.

Design and Innovation

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35: Palette By Pak – A Better Way To Pack Your Beauty

September 22, 2020 aviyer2000 00:34:26 0 Comments

It was 12:05 a.m., the night before a soul-searching solo trip to Paris, her luggage was laid out across her bedroom floor and Kate Westad, founder of Palette by Pak, looked at her beauty, cosmetics and toiletries, realized there must be a better way to pack them. Between her four children and her job as an attorney, Kate took her passion of beauty products and design and figured out a way to develop and manufacture this break-through product. She was adamant her product be reusable so that small plastic travel containers are kept out of the waste stream. With the use of recycled plastics, a tight foot-print and sustainable packaging, she produced a planet-friendly product she was proud to call her own.

Design and Innovation

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34: Reel – Bamboo Toilet Paper That Does Good

September 9, 2020 aviyer2000 00:32:07 0 Comments

We chat with founder Derin Oyekan, a 20 year digital marketing veteran about his journey in creating sustainable toilet paper and a brand which strives to give back by building toilets and empowering women. Learn how Reel does it in a mindful collaborative way.

Africa

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33: Hinterhouse – Design Spaces Hidden in Nature

August 6, 2020 aviyer2000 00:31:43 0 Comments

Art and nature can have a deep impact in our well-being. we strengthen that connection by creating spaces that integrate them. We talk to founder of Hinter Company creator of spaces, Mauricio Padilla. Hinter is no traditional hotel, it has spaces where guests can reconnect through nature and minimalism. Hinter sets a new norm on sustainability by giving more than what they take.

Travel

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32: Desserto – Vegan Cactus Leather.

July 11, 2020 aviyer2000 00:42:50 0 Comments

How a chance meeting in Taipei, Taiwan brings birthday twins together in their home country of Mexico, to create vegan leather. We talk to co-founders Adrian Lopez and Marte Cazarez of Desserto, where they create a highly sustainable plant-based vegan-leather made from cactus, with its characteristic softness to touch and yet a great performer in a wide variety of applications, complying with the most rigorous quality and environmental standards.

Fashion and Beauty

32: Desserto - Vegan Cactus Leather.

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31: Dropps – Eco – friendly Household Cleaning Products

June 18, 2020 aviyer2000 00:35:33 0 Comments

We talk to the CEO of Dropps, Jonathan Propper, who reinvented the way consumers do laundry with the invention of the liquid laundry detergent pod. In 2017, Dropps became exclusively direct-to-consumer by offering cost-saving subscription plans shipped via sustainable packaging; eliminating third-party retailers from its distribution chain. This autonomy has allowed the brand to thrive in providing eco-responsible cleaning products with reduced environmental impact, which saves money, time, water and plastic.@Dropps

Design and Innovation

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30: Diaspora Co – Building a Better Spice Trade

May 19, 2020 aviyer2000 00:40:02 0 Comments

The original intent of colonial conquest of the Indian subcontinent was a desire for domination of the spice trade. 600+ years later, as a young woman born and raised in postcolonial Mumbai, working at the intersection of food and culture, Sana Javeri Kadri founder of @diasporaco, was slowly discovering that not much about that system had changed. Farmers made no money, spices changed hands upwards of 10 times between farmer and consumer, and the final spice on the shelf was usually an old, dusty, and flavorless shadow of what it once was. Living a life between two worlds – India and USA, and mindfully impacting lives in both places. Listen to Sana’s passion in this episode.

Food

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Archives: Episode

39: Civic Champs – Seamless Volunteering

38: The Unscented Company – Effective Unscented Home and Body Care

37: Textile Exchange – Creating Material Change

36: W – Cycle – Naturally replacing plastic

35: Palette By Pak – A Better Way To Pack Your Beauty

34: Reel – Bamboo Toilet Paper That Does Good

33: Hinterhouse – Design Spaces Hidden in Nature

32: Desserto – Vegan Cactus Leather.

31: Dropps – Eco – friendly Household Cleaning Products

30: Diaspora Co – Building a Better Spice Trade

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