RESET Mindset - Responsible Enterprises for Social and Environmental Transformation

We invited innovators who fully embrace circularity by helping solve issues surrounding waste and making it valuable as a profitable business. by upcycling and leveraging for waste streams as components of the regenerative supply chain in order to eliminate products made with plastic.  On an all-female panel, we discuss the opportunities in the value of waste with the co-founder of NewGenSurgical Kim Chase and co-founder of Nutshell Coolers Tamara Mekler,  founder of Fermenstation and co-founder of waste*d Taylor Zehren.

We speak with the co-founder of Solid Carbon Products about how the desire to protect their son going into the Iraq war inspired the late Dallas B. Noyes to figure out a better armor to protect their son turns into a project that will benefit humanity by making specialty reinforcing carbons using carbon dioxide as the carbon source.

In this episode, Brian and Yoshi discuss with Vic the positive externality of ranching sea urchins to feed not only an increasing appetite for uni at fine restaurants globally but also restore barren sea floors back into a vibrant kelp forest. 

A new type of company and community is emerging. Zebras Unite.Org fosters a more inclusive, equitable, and ethical environment for early-stage businesses, catalyzing community, capital, and culture for people building businesses that are better for the world.

https://www.urchinomics.com/

https://www.zebrasunite.org/

Direct Air Capture is a technology able to remove CO2 directly from the air for sequestration or to be used for carbon-neutral fuels. Since 2009 Carbon Engineering has been pioneering this technology and inventing new solutions to transform the carbon into carbon-neutral fuel (Air to Fuel). In this episode, Marcello interviews Amy Ruddock, VP for Europe at Carbon Engineering to unpack the role of this technology as a contributor to a CO2-balanced economy.

https://carbonengineering.com/our-technology/ 

Refurbed is the marketplace for refurbished electronics in Europe. This episode is an interview with founders and CEO Kilian Kaminski about the current state of electronics sustainability, the “right to repair movement” and the future of refurbished products as a way to reduce consumption and waste.

Speaker: Kilian Kaminski, Founder & CEO. Forbes 30 under 30.

In this episode, Dr. Vic Woo speaks with Kim Luedee-Chase, co-founder and vice president of marketing and business development, at NewGen Surgical. NewGenSurgical was started with the vision to design a quality single-use medical device with sustainable materials, revolutionizing the operating room (OR).  We learn about life's squiggle lines to success and finding the light through dark tunnels during COVID when surgeries were drastically reduced.

NewGenSurgical https://newgensurgical.com/

Impact calculator: https://newgensurgical.com/scbi/

Gary Cohen https://practicegreenhealth.org/

Marcello and Victoria interview Loop’s Head of Communication, Eric Rosen, unpacking today’s waste crisis and how Loop’s reusable packages system is solving the problem at the root cause. Hear from Eric how this spin-off project from recycling giant Terracycle will change the way we buy and dispose of everyday consumer goods.

The sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. The sustainable energy industry faces a problem when it comes to energy production and storage. How do we make sure to store the surplus energy generated during peak production times, and deliver it 24/7? In this episode, we talk to Corey Blackman, CTO at SaltX, a company whose mission is to solve this problem. Using a combination of salt, and an innovative patented nano-coating they developed a system that stores energy potentially forever, thus offering a sustainable solution to our current and future energy storage.

In this episode, Marcello and Nao interviewed co-founders of Doconomy Mathias Wikström and Johan Pihl. Doconomy helps each of us measure and take control and keep track of CO2 emissions generated from our everyday consumption. Hear from the cofounders Mathias Wikström and Johan Pihl on their journey to raise global awareness, disseminate knowledge to the many and bring evidence of what utilizing the power of banking, leading climate expertise, and global payment technology at scale can achieve.

In this episode, Matias shared with Vic and Nao his journey founding NotCo and how he is approaching a more sustainable future by combining the power of AI to fuel the plant-based food evolution by removing animals from food production, using Giuseppe an AI engine that could learn infinite combinations of plants to replicate animal products, NotCo recently raised $85 million in funding and are now positioned to really scale. In Plant We Trust..

In this episode, Taejun Shin shares his journey in raising the initial founding and investment strategy to enables financial inclusion by building partnerships with financial service providers.