This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature – Tech n’ Trees: Reforesting Reinvented w/ Jill Wagner

This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature – Tech n’ Trees: Reforesting Reinvented w/ Jill Wagner

Jill Wagner is the Chief Forestry Officer at Terraformation, a company that is trying to reinvent reforesting using technology to do what traditional reforesting does in a much shorter timespan. She’s a forester, horticulturist and land use specialist, as well as Director of the Hawaiʻi Island Seed Bank and founder of Future Forests Nursery. She’s responsible for planting tens of thousands […]

This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature – Above and Beyond Plant-Based Foods w/ Martin Williams

This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature – Above and Beyond Plant-Based Foods w/ Martin Williams

Martin Williams is the co-founder, president & chief innovation officer of Above Food. He has over 20 years experience in Consumer Packaged Goods (or CPG) in Innovation, Marketing, Operations, and Product Development. Now, with Above Food, he is working on producing and distributing identity preserved ingredients in North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. In short, they are trying to make […]

This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature – Sayonara, Single-Use! w/ Isabel Aagaard

This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature – Sayonara, Single-Use! w/ Isabel Aagaard

Isabel Aagaard is an entrepreneur and collaborative designer on a mission to eliminate single-use plastic by creating reusable alternatives to single-use items we use daily. She’s the creator of the world’s first reusable cotton swab, LastSwab, which raised more than 1.2M USD from more than 30,000 backers on crowdfunding platforms. Her products are made to last more than 1000 times […]

The Road to Happiness

The Road to Happiness

Want to find more happiness? Add more challenge to your life. There’s something that I’ve come to learn from my sustainability journey: challenge always appears hard, but the result is always more happiness. When you challenge yourself to do something, it’s likely to be something you aspire to; a change to take you a step closer to who you want […]

TSL: Solve For Nature – 008: David Radlo, Part 1

TSL: Solve For Nature – 008: David Radlo, Part 1

David Radlo is the best-selling author of Principles of Cartel Disruption: Accelerate and Maximize Performance, and an internationally-recognized expert in leadership, innovation, and growth. He is a partner with RB Markets-Achievemost, a Masters professional outside director, a growth coach, and an International Fortune 500 speaker. He is experienced in the US and globally, building sustainable consumer food brands such as […]

TSL: Solve For Nature – 007: Steve Melink, Part 1

TSL: Solve For Nature – 007: Steve Melink, Part 1

Many large companies are transitioning to renewable/clean energy as the world confronts climate change. But what about the small and medium-sized companies that may not have the money to switch to renewable energy? What are the benefits to convince them? Business owners have concerns about the up-front expenses of switching to clean energy, but those concerns are outweighed by the […]

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