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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Can we have a regenerative planet within a decade? Rob Avis, Co-Founder 5th Generation
Send us a text Welcome to the 70th episode of Happy Planet podcast. This is the podcast where we celebrate innovation for a happy planet. This week we are traveling to Alberta, Canada to speak with Rob Avis, co-founder of 5th World, a Canadian startup focused on regenerative living. 5th World designs and builds self
Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! You might want to listen to this podcast before you pour yourself that cherished morning cup of coffee.... Our guest today is Etelle Higonnet, a French-born, Yale Law School graduate, living in Denmark, who set out to make coffee more environmentally friendly through her organizat
Send us a text Happy Planet Wednesday! If you have ever wanted to lift the veil on New England"s mysterious working waterfront, this is the podcast for you. Our guest today is Bill Gerencer, a veteran of 40+ years on the New England Working Waterfront. Bill served as lobsterman commercial fisherman, fish buyer, salesp
Send us a text There"s nothing we like more than a comeback kid. While 98% of total farm seaweed in the world comes from Asia, over the past decade, entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Africa have been trying to change that by producing locally-grown, high-quality seaweed for their domestic markets. I"ve met a number o
Send us a text Every day we see more devastating news coming out of on the wars in Gaza and the Ukraine. We see photos of cities and towns turned into piles of rubble and people who have lost their loved ones, their homes and their livelihoods. But there are other insidious ramifications of these wars that we seldom di
When innovating for health and circularity involves navigating global affairs. Alison Cove, Founder, USEFULL
Send us a text Our guest today is Alison Cove, founder of USEFULL, a circular reuse solution that partners with college campuses to make student takeout meals a zero-waste and microplastic-free experience. With a business focused on domestic health and circularity, Alison never thought she’d be so affected by global a