HAPPY PLANET
Can innovation, entrepreneurship and investment make the planet happier and healthier? Entrepreneur and investor Abigail Carroll thinks so. Through conversations with founders, investors, and thought leaders, in over a dozen countries and counting, Abigail shares this thought-provoking and hope-promoting world with her audience. And always with a little humour.
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When renewables provide a strategic advantage. Philipp Stratmann, Ocean Power Technologies
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 t
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
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
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 t
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
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