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Business for Good Podcast

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.

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Ep. 33: Real Leather without the Cows

Ep. 33: Real Leather without the Cows

How do people with ideas for businesses to save the world find cofounders? If you’re fashion designer Michalyn Andrews, ... Read more

15 Jan 2020

36mins

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Ep. 23 - Josh Tetrick on Resilience in the Face of Both Adversity and Success

Ep. 23 - Josh Tetrick on Resilience in the Face of Both Adversity and Success

When Josh Tetrick in 2011 cofounded Hampton Creek, later renamed JUST, the idea of applying tech to food to solve public... Read more

15 Aug 2019

55mins

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Ep. 26: The Meat-Scientist-Turned-Plant-Based-Entrepreneur

Ep. 26: The Meat-Scientist-Turned-Plant-Based-Entrepreneur

Many of the people running plant-based and clean meat companies are vegetarians themselves who often have come out of th... Read more

1 Oct 2019

42mins

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Ep. 32: From ConAgra to Culturing Fish Cells

Ep. 32: From ConAgra to Culturing Fish Cells

You’ve likely heard the story about the Jew who was said to have taken a small amount of fish and multiplied it to feed ... Read more

1 Jan 2020

48mins

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Ep. 29: TurtleTree Labs

Ep. 29: TurtleTree Labs

What do  you get when you combine a Google leader, a dairy industry executive, and an engineer? Apparently, if you’re in... Read more

15 Nov 2019

37mins

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Ep. 22 - Turning Down the Global Thermostat

Ep. 22 - Turning Down the Global Thermostat

There are few people who know more about climate change than Columbia University’s Graciela Chichilnisky. Not only did ... Read more

1 Aug 2019

51mins

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Ep. 31: Can Beer Brewery Waste Help Solve Plastic Pollution?

Ep. 31: Can Beer Brewery Waste Help Solve Plastic Pollution?

Plastic is amazing at doing so many things—except going away. As the planet increasingly swims in humanity’s plastic gar... Read more

15 Dec 2019

38mins

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Ep. 30: Bean-Free Brew

Ep. 30: Bean-Free Brew

In the 29 previous episodes of this show you’ve heard about pork without pigs, milk without cows, diamonds without minin... Read more

1 Dec 2019

38mins

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Ep. 21 - Sampling a Historic Pint of Ice Cream with Perfect Day

Ep. 21 - Sampling a Historic Pint of Ice Cream with Perfect Day

Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi were both in their early 20s when they were e-introduced to each other by another person ... Read more

11 Jul 2019

36mins

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Ep. 28: Bringing Power—Solar and Social—to Rural Africans, with Lyndsay Holley Handler

Ep. 28: Bringing Power—Solar and Social—to Rural Africans, with Lyndsay Holley Handler

You’ve heard the folklore time and again: a group of young idealists starts a company in their garage with dreams of one... Read more

1 Nov 2019

41mins

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Ep. 27: Your Trash Is Tom Szaky's Treasure

Ep. 27: Your Trash Is Tom Szaky's Treasure

You know the story: there’s a bright college student who drops out of an Ivy League school to embark upon an entrepreneu... Read more

15 Oct 2019

32mins

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Ep. 20 - What common traits do serial inventors have?

Ep. 20 - What common traits do serial inventors have?

Have you ever wondered what makes the most successful inventors tick and whether you could develop more of those traits?... Read more

2 Jun 2019

41mins

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