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Business for Good Podcast

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

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Ep. 78 | A Conversation with NYC’s Mayor-Elect Eric...

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2021/11/15

A year and a half ago, a guy few people had ever heard of came on to this show’s 44th episode to talk both about the business of police reform as well as his new book advocating plant-based eating. A former police officer, at the time of our interview he was the Borough President of Brooklyn and certainly had nearly no national profile. I mentioned in the episode that he was reportedly considering a run for New York City’s mayor’s office and that some people were even considering him a frontrunner

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Ep. 77 | Creating a Cultivated Meat Community: Anita...

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2021/11/01

Welcome to our first-ever episode taped before a live audience! That’s right, episode 77 was taped on-stage at the Cultured Meat Symposium in San Francisco before a live audience, and now you get to be a part of it. This is a story of two people who despite not having experience in the cultivated meat space felt so strongly about building a community around it that they started their own podcast, called Cultured Meat and Future Foods, their own conference, the Cultured Meat Symposium, and are now

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Ep 76 | Is Your Cat Ready to Eat Cultivated Mouse...

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2021/10/15

There’s already plant-based pet food, but what about growing actual animal meat for all of our carnivorous best friends? The company featured in this episode, Because Animals, is trying to do just that. And they’re starting with cultivated mouse meat for your cat. That’s right: cats have been eating mice for millenia, but just maybe they’re about to start eating cultivated mice. Because Animals debuted what they call their Harmless Hunt Mouse Meat Cookies at a recent pet industry conference, and

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Ep 75 | The Sweet Side of Starting a (Dairy-Free) Ice...

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2021/10/01

In 2019, two friends were both working in the alt-protein sector, one at the Good Food Institute and the other at Eat Just. Even though Aylon Steinhart and Thomas Bowman were both doing great things to advance the animal-free protein movement, they wondered if they should try their own hands at co-founding a food tech start-up that would put cows out to pasture and mimic dairy with plants. After serious deliberation, they both left their secure jobs to team up and found Eclipse Foods. A couple years

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Ep 74 | A Financial Journalist’s Prescription for...

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2021/09/15

It’s not every day that hard-nosed financial journalists write about our ethical obligations to animals, let alone do they devote an entire book to the topic. Yet that’s exactly what Financial Times journalist Henry Mance has done. In his new book, How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World, Henry takes his readers on a wild ride through our relationship with animals, including getting a job working at a slaughterhouse himself. Henry repeatedly weaves personal experiences like this one into his

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Ep 73 |From Dust to Dust...or to Soil: Katrina Spade...

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2021/09/01

Whether we like it or not, one fact of modern living is that every day we’re creating greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution. But should our final act on the earthly stage also necessitate one last pollutive hurrah? Katrina Spade is on a mission to offer a better way to deal with human corpses, and it involves a process called natural organic reduction. It’s essentially a fancy way of saying she’s invented a method of accelerated composting for your body. Rather than cremating your corpse,

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Ep 72 | Plastic that Won’t Last Forever: Kristin...

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2021/08/15

Sure, diamonds—including lab-grown—may be forever. But does plastic also have to be? Not so, according to Kristin Taylor, CEO of Radical Plastics. After a multi-decade career in the plastic industry, including working at a small company you may have heard of called ExxonMobil, Kristin decided to take the entrepreneurial plunge and form her own startup, Radical Plastics, to help plastic manufacturers make their conventional plastics actually biodegradable. Radical Plastics is essentially asking the

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Ep. 71 Life as a Scrappy Startup Exec: Doni...

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2021/08/01

Doni Curkendall was born and raised in Mexico, came to the US as a seven-year-old, and when she entered the workforce started as a receptionist at Goodwill. As the years went on, Doni was continually promoted, got her MBA, and eventually was a Vice President at Goodwill overseeing more than 200 employees. But two and a half years ago, as fate would have it, Doni and I began exploring whether Doni could help run my own then-one-year-old, The Better Meat Co. For the past 2+ years, I’ve often said

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Ep. 70 | The Second Publicly Traded Plant-Based Meat...

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2021/07/15

You’ve probably heard of Beyond Meat’s big IPO and their success as a publicly traded company. Sure, they were the first plant-based meat company to go public, but are you aware that The Very Good Food Co. is the second? As you’ll hear in this episode, what started just a few years ago as a dude selling his own plant-based concoctions at a farmers market on a Canadian island has turned into a publicly traded company with a $300M market cap. In between was a kickstarter, a plant-based butcher shop,

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Ep. 69 | The Sharks Tried to Buy Her Plant-Based...

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2021/07/01

So often you hear about start-ups that raise millions or even tens of millions of dollars from venture capitalists before beginning to generate revenue and start making a dent in the marketplace. That is very far from the story of our guest in this episode. Meet Deborah Torres, founder and CEO of Atlas Monroe, a start-up making plant-based fried chicken. As you’ll hear, a chance encounter with a stranger in a supermarket led Deborah to become vegan, which ultimately transitioned her whole family

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Ep. 68 | Using Tech to Drive Change: Google.org and...

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2021/06/15

How often do you use Google’s services? If you’re like me, it’s many times per hour. So you may think you know all about Google.com. But how much do you know about Google.org? In short, Google.org is the company’s foundation that gives away $200M a year in grants both to social enterprise startups and to nonprofit organizations seeking to use technology to advance their missions. For all you startup founders out there, note that these are dilution-free non-equity grants, or essentially free money as

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Ep. 67 | Where’s the Animal-Free Materials...

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2021/06/01

You’ve likely noticed that there’s been an explosion of investment into the animal-free food space, with producers of alt-meat, milk, and eggs advancing weekly. But why isn’t there anything comparable happening in the animal-free materials space? Sure, we’ve had plastic-based leather alternatives (aka pleather) for a long time, but in terms of products not derived from animals or fossil fuels, what’s out there on the market at scale? Turns out, just not that much. Enter the Material Innovation

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42:45

Pineapple Express to Disrupting Leather: Mélanie...

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2021/05/15

It’s often that we hear about some really cool and promising new technology that’s allegedly going to change the game, but only once that tech is scaled and commercialized. In this episode, however, we’re featuring a start-up that not only has a very cool technology, it’s already commercialized it with hundreds of customers, including some very big names in the fashion world. Mélanie Broyé-Engelkes is the CEO of Ananas Anam, makers of Piñatex. For those of you not fluent in Spanish, “piña” means

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Ep. 65 | The Billionaire Out to End Factory Farming

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2021/05/01

How often have you wished that more billionaires used their money to do good in the world? Well, you’re in luck, because in this episode we talk with British billionaire Jim Mellon. In recent years Jim’s been most well-known for his work on human longevity research, which we discuss. But he’s also become fixated on ending the factory farming of animals. As a result, Jim has learned an immensity about alternative protein and has invested in dozens of start-ups in the space via his fund Agronomics

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Ep. 64 | From Seafood to Seaweed: Monica Talbert and...

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2021/04/15

Our oceans are in dire trouble, and a big part of the reason is because we’re killing so many aquatic animals for food. But if you want hope, look no further than Monica Talbert, whose story is sure to inspire. Monica was born into the seafood industry, and for years has been running her family business, Van Cleve’s Seafood, from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. But as you’ll hear in this conversation, a series of events led her to start experimenting with plant-based seafood recipes. And while it’s

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You Can Buy a Piece of the Mycelium Revolution:...

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2021/04/01

Landfills are, well, filling up. We’re running out of places to put our trash, and the trash we’ve landfilled won’t decompose for centuries. But, what if we could take a lot of trash and seed it with fungal cultures that would eat it and render it no longer toxic within just a few weeks rather than having to wait centuries? That’s exactly what Mycocycle is planning to do, and we’ve got their CEO, Joanne Rodriguez, on the show to talk about it. After a decades-long career in construction, Joanne

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Ep. 62 | Maximizing the Good We Can Do: A...

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2021/03/15

Typically on this podcast, we showcase entrepreneurs and business titans alike who are using the power of commerce to try to solve serious social problems. Occasionally we’ve had on nonprofit leaders, and in this episode, we’ve again got a very special guest who also is not a grinding entrepreneur. But this guest is someone who’s inspired many mission-oriented entrepreneurs, myself included, along with millions of others trying to do good in the world. In fact, it’s hard to think of many people on

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Ep. 61 | Modernizing Contraception with Your Choice...

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2021/03/01

Did you know that two of every five births in America are unplanned? That’s not to suggest that an unplanned baby is going to be an unloved baby, of course, but family planning does tend to offer advantages, especially for families with fewer means, since high birth rates make it particularly difficult for children to escape a vicious cycle of poverty. (See more from the charity Having Kids.) Smaller family sizes not only are helpful for poverty reduction, but they also have environmental benefits

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Ep. 60 | Marrying Cultivated Meat & Plant-Based Meat...

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2021/02/22

Founded in 2017, New New Age Meats is practically old school when it comes to cultivated meat companies. In mid-2018, the nascent startup debuted its first sausage made with cells from a living pig who the company biopsied at a nearby farm. Rather than being made entirely of animal cells, that historic sausage was part animal and part plant, and that’s the point, according to co-founder and CEO Brian Spears. In this episode, Brian argues that you don’t need to make cultivated meat products

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Ep. 59 | Silk and Leather from Fermentation, Not...

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2021/02/15

If you’ve ever heard of Bolt Threads, you may know them as one of the OGs in the space of growing animal products without animals. After all, since they were founded way back in 2009 they’ve been creating spider silk via synthetic biology and fermentation. But the company’s headlines these days typically don’t relate to spider silk at all, even though it’s still an important part of the company. In a turn of events that they’d never have predicted at the outset of their startup, Bolt Threads has

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