I am the Founder and CEO of Globechain. My passion is to prove that a business with its foundation structured on the principle of being commercial with a conscience can grow to become a global company, generating revenue, doing good AND offering infinite possibilities to those who use it. Globechain is an ESG reuse marketplace that connects enterprises with non-profits, small businesses, and people to redistribute unneeded items, reduce waste, and optimise assets through internal and external reuse and loan, generating ESG data on the impact.

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582 The ESG Impact of Globechain's B2B Reuse Marketplace - with May Al-Karooni

Dr. Francis Wang serves as the Chief Executive Officer for NanoGraf Technologies, a leading advanced materials company in the energy storage space. He brings over 20 years of experience in technology innovation and commercialization in the energy storage and clean energy industries. NanoGraf is an advanced battery material company whose patented silicon-anode technology enables longer-lasting, higher-energy, and higher-power lithium-ion batteries.

581 NanoGraf: Creating Batteries with Record Efficiency - with Dr. Francis Wang

Rob Writz is director of commercial partnerships for AMP Robotics; his professional career has focused on the intersection of software with the circular economy and safety. Before joining AMP in 2016, Writz was a product manager for Intrado (acquired by West), worked in technology commercialization at The Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and led the Cleantech Practice at Innosphere, Colorado’s seed fund and incubator for science-based startups. AMP Robotics is a pioneer and leader in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and infrastructure for the waste and recycling industry.

580 AMP Robotics: Using AI to Revolutionize the Recycling Industry - with Rob Writz

Andy Straisfeld is the Co-Founder and VP of Business Development for Lifecycle Revive and has devoted himself full-time to reducing and recycling post-Covid waste, since 2020. Lina Bowden is a Partner with Carmina de Young and part of the team bringing the Lifecycle PPE initiative to life. For the past 10 years Lina has devoted her energy to a number of social enterprises, helping them create community and environmental impacts. She also is the catalyst behind VERGE Capital, an impact-focused loan fund. Lifecycle Revive is a sustainable PPE supply chain and Canada’s first circular economy-based industry on used medical textiles. Lifecycle takes medical waste, reduces it to plastic pellets, and transforms it into new PPE products. They are working with 12 other companies to recycle PPE worldwide.

579 Recycling Medical PPE through a Local Circular Economy - With Lifecycle Revive

In her role as Executive Director for the newly established nonprofit, Building Transparency, Stacy Smedley leads the continued management and development of the free, open-access Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool and works to educate and engage the building industry on actionably reducing embodied carbon emissions of building materials. Building Transparency is a 501(c) nonprofit organization that provides open access data and tools that support broad and swift action across the building industry in addressing embodied carbon’s role in climate change.

578 Building Transparency: The Tools for Embodied Carbon Reduction - With Stacy Smedley

Petroleum engineer and energy consultant Ian Palmer has worked for BP, Los Alamos, The Department of Energy, Oral Roberts University, and Higgs-Palmer Technologies. His book The Shale Controversy details the pros and cons of fracking.

577 Dr. Ian Palmer on the Truth about Fracking & Moving Forward

Andy Sweetman is the Sales & Marketing Director at Futamura EMEA, he is also Chairman of the UK based BBIA (Biobased and Biodegradable Industries Association). Futamura is a world leading manufacturer of renewable and compostable cellulose packaging films.

576 Bioplastics vs Plastics: Andy Sweetman (Futamura) on the Right Balance

Jason Howell is a Certified Financial Planner™ and Chartered SRI Counselor™ professional. He is also a professor, author, former US Congressional Candidate and a Top Wealth Adviser by Washingtonian Magazine. Jason Howell Company is a family wealth management firm that uses Sustainable Responsible Impact investing strategies to develop community stakeholders.

575 Jason Howell on Sustainable Investing & the Social Power of Stakeholders

Lisa Conway serves as VP of Sustainability at Interface – the global flooring manufacturer that is leading industry to love the world – and is passionate about bringing awareness to the interconnectedness of environmental sustainability and human health. To drive understanding around the impact of carbon on human health, Lisa and her team provide educational programming on the need for transparency and prioritization of embodied carbon in specifications within the building industry.  Interface is a worldwide commercial flooring company and global leader in sustainability. For sustainable home flooring by Interface, visit www.flor.com

574 The Carbon Negative Path of Interface - With Lisa Conway

At The Recycling Partnership, Ali Blandina brings her deep experience and passion for developing innovative strategies, building collaborative partnerships, and catalyzing change to her role as Director of Circular Ventures. Ali leads many initiatives including The Partnership’s Pathway to Circularity, which enables stakeholders to successfully understand circular packaging challenges, solutions, and actions – turning thought leadership into action leadership in building a circular economy. The Recycling Partnership is the lead action agent catalyzing the circular economy in the U.S., working with communities, brands, and other aligned organizations to transform recycling for good.

573 The Importance of Polypropylene Recycling & Its Place in a Circular Economy - With Ali Blandina of The Recycling Partnership

Nate Storey leads science and innovation for Plenty’s cutting-edge vertical farm technologies. He has extensive experience in plant production and equipment design, and drives Plenty’s ground-breaking plant science to deliver industry leading yields of delicious fresh fruits and vegetables. Prior to Plenty, he founded Bright Agrotech, an agriculture company that created hardware, software and services to advance the indoor and vertical agriculture industries. Nate received his Ph.D. in Agronomy from the University of Wyoming with an emphasis in vertical plane hydroponic production. He also received his Bachelor’s and Masters of Science degrees in Agriculture Science from the University of Wyoming. Plenty is the only scalable indoor vertical farm that can grow multiple crops on one platform with superior flavors and yield. Its mission is to improve the health of people, plants, and our planet.

572 Dr. Nate Storey on Vertical Farming & Plenty's Groundbreaking Technology

David Beurle is a globally renowned expert on Future Thinking and Trends within Governments, Corporations, Industry, Regions and Communities. He is also CEO of Future iQ. Future iQ is a global research and consulting company specialising in foresight and scenario-based strategic planning. Future iQ, has just hosted the follow up virtual consultation to the successful Future of Urban Living consultation, held in December 2018 at St George’s House in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The virtual consultation (Jan 22nd 2021) engaged 30 global experts around issues pertinent to society and the Future of Urban Living post pandemic. These include: Evolving Social Fabric, Distribution of Power and Influence, Demographic Distribution and Movement and Mobility. Experts were invited to take part.

571 David Beurle from Future iQ, on The Future of Urban Living

Caroli Buitenhuis is a bioplastics and packaging expert and founder of Green Serendipity. She has an award winning track record in the fields of bioplastics, circular packaging and the development of innovative circular concepts and strategies. Green Serendipity is an international consultancy for advice on bioplastics for packaging and products. Located in the Bioplastics Hub in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

570 Why We Need Bioplastics in Retail Packaging, with Caroli Buitenhuis of Green Serendipity

Scott Nguyen is CEO of 17TeraWatts and a Fellow at the University of Texas Energy Institute. Scott has 15 years of energy industry experience, 18 USPTO patents, and a PhD in Physics from Harvard University. 17TeraWatts' Bodhi software platform empowers residential solar companies to deliver amazing customer experiences.

569 Solar Company Software from 17TeraWatts - with Scott Nguyen

Daniel Brooks is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Linnean Society of London, and a Research Fellow of the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska State Museum. He has been working for the past decade as a free-lance consultant on the evolutionary biology of climate change and emerging disease. He is also an author of The Stockholm Paradigm, which we discussed in his first episode, during the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown. Find his last episode here.

568 Dr. Daniel Brooks on the Covid-19 Vaccine

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