Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living

The Waste Transformers are on a mission to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions from food waste are no longer a reality. Their waste transformers are a truly circular economy solution in action: closed-system anaerobic composting installations that extract every ounce of the value from food waste, producing clean electrical energy, residual heat, liquid and solid fertilizers. Plus there is research, underway to upcycle the solid extractions to cardboard and textiles.

Inspirational take-aways from John's B Corp Summit 2019 keynote, his 70th birthday celebration and his recall of his Triple Bottom Line management concept the year of its 25th anniversary.

Sharing a conversation that reminded me to be grateful for unanswered prayers plus how I'm using, 'How are you?' to bring more awareness to the abundance I all to often take for granted.

Insights shared from a recent conversation that helped me learn more about myself and gifted me with inspired empowering actions I can take to interrupt some disempowering patterns to help myself shift to a more empowered point of view.

The description on theLIVEKINDLYco.com website sums it up wonderfully, ‘A collective of activists on a mission to make plant-based living the norm’. All the brands are mission-aligned to make a more sustainable food system a reality. It’s about creating delicious animal-free plant-based food that do not deplete our natural resources.

Apeel is using food to preserve food. Their edible coating that enables fruit and vegetables to stay fresh twice as long (even up to 5 times as long) is derived from plants! It keeps moisture in and oxygen out. This means reduced food waste, as well as other positive sustainability impacts, like reduced GHG emissions and water savings.

Forward Fooding helps connect food and foodtech entrepreneurs with the most relevant partners for their ventures. They stand for collaborating towards a more sustainable future that addresses the challenges of our current food system, by providing data access, consulting services and startup networking initiatives. Plus they are the presenters of the FoodTech 500.

Wasteless helps supermarkets and online stores sell more and waste less by providing a dynamic pricing solution which allows for discounting of products, based on how close they are to their expiration date. Great for stores, their suppliers, their customers and the planet.

In 2004 Klean Kanteen were the first to sell a BPA stainless steel bottle in the US. Today their stunning range of reuseable items, made using stainless steel and food-grade silicone, champion the bring your own movement and the reduction of single-use plastics. Plus this B Corp is climate-neutral certified and a member of 1% for the planet.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, poverty drops by 7% for every 10% rise in crop yields. CoolCap’s goal is to get the right tools into the hands of emerging dedicated farmers through farmer-friendly financing. The CoolCap method involves identifying high-potential farmers through wholesale buyers, and offering financed CoolCap vetted income-generating equipment, that pays for itself through its use with payment terms linked to harvest time.