173 Episodes

  1. Turning Plants into Plastic-Free Packaging: The Xampla Story

    Published: 8/1/2025

  2. Microbial Might: Can MicroHarvest Replace Animals in Pet and Livestock Feed?

    Published: 7/15/2025

  3. There’s no Eighth Continent to Farm: Mike Grunwald on Feeding Ourselves without Frying the Planet

    Published: 7/1/2025

  4. Trash into Treasure: ChainCraft Is Converting Food Waste into Sustainable Chemicals

    Published: 6/15/2025

  5. Unstoppable Entrepreneurs: Lori Rosenkopf on the Many Paths to Startup Success

    Published: 6/1/2025

  6. The Crazy Rock Lady: How Eion is Turning Crushed Rocks into Climate Gold

    Published: 5/15/2025

  7. Vedge of Glory: How Two Plant-Based Restaurateurs Have Survived for Decades

    Published: 5/1/2025

  8. The Venture Capitalist Who Wants You to Donate More to Charity

    Published: 4/15/2025

  9. No Palm, No Problem: Fermenting the Future of Fat

    Published: 4/1/2025

  10. Turning Air Into Butter: Savor’s Revolutionary Approach to Alternative Fats

    Published: 3/20/2025

  11. Cleaner Air from Better Plants: The Neoplants Story

    Published: 3/1/2025

  12. Helping Alt-Protein Startups Survive the Winter: Ahimsa’s Consolidation Approach

    Published: 2/15/2025

  13. Subtracting the Bean from Coffee: The Minus Story

    Published: 2/1/2025

  14. Can a Problem as Big as Climate Be Solved by a Solution as Small as a Microbe?

    Published: 1/15/2025

  15. From Harvard Business School to Rural Africa: Nicole Poindexter’s Journey to Advance Clean Energy Access

    Published: 1/1/2025

  16. From Korea to the US: UNLIMEAT Puts its Signature on the Plant-Based Meat Movement

    Published: 12/15/2024

  17. Bringing Clean Energy to African Businesses

    Published: 12/1/2024

  18. One Good Human: Eric Schulze on Cultivated Meat’s Past and Future

    Published: 11/15/2024

  19. Chocolate without Cocoa Farming: The California Cultured Journey

    Published: 11/1/2024

  20. Will Pets Be the First European Consumers of Cultivated Meat? Meatly is Betting on It

    Published: 10/15/2024

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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.