Podcast: USA

43: Ecocart – Sustainable Shopping, Simplified

With one click, EcoCart automatically calculates and eliminates the carbon footprint of your online orders at 10,000+ stores — all at no extra cost. How do they do it? We talk to Dane Baker, Founder of Ecocart who walks us through how Ecocart can make your purchases carbon neutral and how brands can be sustainable with just two clicks.

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IT for sustainability
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41: Dr. Sroufe – Teaching Sustainability to Cities, People and Enterprise

In this episode, we chat with sustainability expert, author, and educator Dr. Robert Sroufe. If you a business owner Dr. Sroufe shares tips on how you can be sustainable. He had the opportunity to spend time in Sweden and he compares how Americans differ in our lifestyle and habits compared to the Swedes. He offers are tips for sustainable living for all. Listen to him now.

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Architecture
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40: Phoenix Solutions – Corporate Philanthropy Through Data Destruction and IT Asset Disposal.

Phoenix Solutions has been crushing it — your hard drives that is — since 2011. Ever wondered what to do with outdated computers or what happens to them after you drop them off at your local E-waste site. Listen to the founder of Phoenix Solutions, James Gordon, who not only does good to the planet by recycling your electronics but has woven a social responsibility objective into the core values of their business model.

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Repairability
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39: Civic Champs – Seamless Volunteering

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.

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

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.

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Fashion and Beauty
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37: Textile Exchange – Creating Material Change

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.

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

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.

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Design and Innovation
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34: Reel – Bamboo Toilet Paper That Does Good

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.

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Africa
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33: Hinterhouse – Design Spaces Hidden in Nature

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.

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Travel
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32: Desserto – Vegan Cactus Leather.

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.

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Fashion and Beauty
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