with 🎙️ Denise E Mall, Managing Director of EnsO Earth 

💧 EnsO Earth focuses on the intersection of living futures, biomimicry, circularity, and ecological design thinking to go beyond sustainable towards regenerative solutions.

What we covered:

🍏 How we can learn from nature and apply the best of what it developed through 3.8 million years of R&D 

🍏 What Biomimicry is all about, and how down that path you'll find Net Positive Water 

🍏 How EnsO Earth created the Living Machine and the Living Building concepts 

🍏 How Janine Benyus ignited the "sacred fire" that steers Denise towards creating a better planet for her great-great children 

🍏 How becoming an Engineer as a woman is still not as much of a common path as being a teacher, a lawyer, or a nurse 

🍏 How most of the pollution can be traced back to humans, pouring chemistry into nature 

🍏 How there is no such thing as "waste" in nature, but only valuable building blocks and natural resources. 

🍏 How we're kind of stupidly using drinking water for water applications that don't require at all such a level of purity 

🍏 How it is our collective responsibility to sort the mess we've created 

🍏 How "Day Zero" may sadly become much more common all around the Planet 

🍏 How transposing the International Space Station's water management to earth is only a matter of financial equation - and how we value water stress. 

🍏 Biophilic environmental connection, the power of plants, all being organs of a bigger body, working on reality, not fiction, and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Denise Mall on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denise-e-mall-ensoearth/

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How big is Sustainable Development as an opportunity?

Well according to a United Nation's study, tremendous:

- $12 trillion/year of created value (10% of the World's Economy!)

- 380 Million new Jobs

- 90% of these being in developing countries

BUT WAIT!

We might well miss that terrific chance if we don't act now...

00:00 The Usual Narrative on #SDG6

00:30 What are the UN SDGs?

01:17 Sustainability is a $12 Trillion/Year Opportunity

02:23 Opportunity 1: Fixing Water Leakages

03:10 Opportunity 2: Water and Sanitation for All

04:14 Reaping the Opportunity

05:03 Subsidies as a Negative Externality

06:53 Water as a Spending Sector

08:12 Public Banks as a solution

08:48 Helped by Blended Finance

09:16 Conclusion

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with 🎙️ Meena Sankaran, CEO and Founder of KETOS. 

💧 KETOS ambitions to transform how water operators measure, manage and forecast water quality and efficiency in Industrial, Agricultural, and Municipal applications.

What we covered:

🍏 How digitization is everywhere but in the Water Industry, and how that may be swiftly changing 

🍎 How Water Quality and especially Heavy Metal Ions is still a blind spot in many industrial and agricultural applications 

🍏 How KETOS' vertically integrates from Hardware to Software in a quite unique take at Water Quality digitization - and how that all came from thorough market research 

🍏 How KETOS markets monitoring as a service in a zero-money-down approach 

🍎 How growing an innovative hardware-based business in the water sector as a woman solo-founder is a challenging sum of hurdles - to say the least 

💪 How Grit, Resilience, and Passion are the three most essential traits of a successful entrepreneur 

🍏 How fascinating it is for operators to start leveraging the "power of knowledge" 

🍀 How growth is a by-product of solving deep and vivid market pains, and how circular models are the best platform for growth 

🍏 How committed Meena is to reveal women's inner strength (W.IN.S) regardless of their career path and background 

🍏 But also: presenting the SDG6 at the United Nations, Social Entrepreneurship, CoVid 19 leapfrogging digitization, and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Meena Sankaran on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenas/

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with 🎙️ Alice Schmidt, MBA lecturer, Adviser to the European Commission, and non-profit organizations like Extinction Rebellion, Protect our Winters, and Chair of the Board of Endeva e.V. 

with 🎙️ Claudia Winkler, CEO, and co-founder of Goood Mobile, Europe's first B-Corp Certified telecom provider, and a Founding Partner of Adjacent Possible Network. 

💧 Alice and Claudia are the Authors of "the Sustainability Puzzle," a must-read addressing how systems thinking, circularity, climate action, and social transformation can improve health, wealth, and wellbeing for all.

What we covered:

🍏 How that achieving the UN Sustainable Development goals represents a 12 trillion dollars growth opportunity

🍎 How the Fossil Fuel Industry received 420 billion dollars a year of subsidies over the past decade 

🍎 How we'll produce more food between now and 2050 than in all the last 8'000 years combined 

🍏 What to do about those facts and how to connect the dot by zooming out 

🍎 How our systems must evolve, and how even recent concepts like the triple bottom may already be outdated 

🍏 A load of very actionable bits of advice you can start using today 

🍎 How as uncool as it sounds, some of the solutions for the future can be found in the past 

🍏 How "Save ourselves!" is probably a much better message than "Save the Planet!" 

🍏 We're 7 billion creative people on this planet, that could do much to make it a better world for all of us 

🍎 How solving the Sustainability Puzzle may not be enough, given the point we've reached - and what to do instead 

🍏 But also: Greenwashing, Apocalypse Porn, Need for Regulations, Crafting the right stories, Culture as the fourth bottom line, and SO - MUCH - MORE!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Alice on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliceschmidt/

➡️ Then do the same with Claudia on LinkedIn as well: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-winkler/

🔗 Check the Sustainability Puzzle's website: https://www.sustainability-puzzle.org/

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in this new #Water101 Segment, we go back to the roots of Ozone Treatment!

How was it discovered? By whom?

Who first domesticated it? For what?

Why is it used in Water Treatment?

How did Technological Evolution help its market penetration?

What else shall you know about ozone?

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with 🎙️ Florian Heeb & Julian Kölbel - Researchers @ the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) in Zürich

💧 CSP is an academic research and teaching institution at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich.

What we covered:

🍏 The two types of Impact - and what Impact Investing can trigger 

🍏 How Impact Investing can grow green companies 

🍏 How Sustainable Finance can make Brown Companies Greener

🍏 How Impact Investors can act as activists for change

🍏 How the tobacco example reminds us that screening strategies are limited by the barriers to change

🍏 How there are always sin stock funds to counterbalance green stock funds - and how those perform unfortunately stupidly well

🍏 How impact investing worldwide is still of the same magnitude as subsidies to the Fossil Fuel Sector

🍏 How the recent Swiss referendum on CO2 law, ignited by a fossil fuel companies industrial group, proves that there is still a long way to go

🍏 How pension funds could leverage their long-term positions in companies to foster an attitude change towards regulation

🍏 How diversification across the three mechanisms probably offers the best yield

🍏 Creating a special water activist fund, accelerating early water companies' growth, creating new business models, taking risks... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Florian Heeb on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fheeb/

➡️ Send your warm regards to Julian Kölbel on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-koelbel/

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with 🎙️ Navkaran Singh Bagga - Founder & CEO @ Akvo Atmospheric Water Systems 

💧 Akvo produces Water from Air, aka Limitless Water from Unlimited Air

What we covered:

🍏 How water may be a bit less scarce than we all thought, considering there are 140 trillion liters of water up in the air at any point in time 

🍏 How the decentralized nature of Water from Air is an enabler for the solution to grow 

🍏 How AKVO refined and optimized a pretty simple technology  

🍏 Key Hints on the best ingredients to get your water innovations adopted by the early and late majorities  

🍏 How Water from Air is by no means a silver bullet - it only has the potential to solve the water challenges of 3 billion people  

🍏 How competition in your markets and applications is a good sign that you're on the right track 

🍏 How paying for water is still not a given, and how challenging it is to explain that you're charging for the technology, not the resource. 

🍏 The perks of being a bootstrapped business 

🍏 How AKVO tripled its size in the past three years and how Navkaran expects his company to triple again by the end of this year 

🍏 How the company ambitions to turn Water from Air into Atmospheric Water Generation as a Service 

🍏 International expansion, prepaid water distribution, fighting boredom and much more

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Navkaran Singh Bagga on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsbagga/

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with 🎙️  Paul O'Callaghan, Gaetane Suzenet, Megan Glover (& Antoine Walter)

Hypergrowth is everywhere in today's world! 🚀

Never in history have unicorns been created at a similar pace. Right now, there are over 700 of them. 🦄

And among those 700+, how many in the Water Sector? Well... 0.

You can enlarge it to the entire environmental sector, it's still 0.

How is this even possible? 🤔

Are hypergrowth tactics aliens to the Water Industry? Is there a disconnect between Venture Capitalists and Water Entrepreneurs? Oh, by the way, Venture Capital, Hypergrowth, Unicorns... shouldn't we define all of those?

Experts Gaetane Suzenet (Founder of the European Water Tech Accelerator), Megan Glover (CEO & Founder of 120Water), and Paul O'Callaghan (CEO & Founder of BlueTech Research) join forces to answer these questions!

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➡️  ... or with Megan Glover: https://dww.show/whats-hidden-in-your-tap-water-dont-worry-your-utility-doesnt-really-know-better/ 

➡️  ... or with Paul O'Callaghan: https://dww.show/how-long-will-it-take-to-grow-the-4-stages-of-water-innovation/

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with 🎙️ Paul O'Callaghan - Founder & CEO @ BlueTech Research 

💧 BlueTech Research analyzes innovative water technologies to transform your company. 

💧 Paul is also the executive producer & co-director of Netflix's "Brave Blue World." 

💧 ... and as he noticed, that he still had some time on Saturdays, he just completed a Ph.D. on the Dynamics of Water Innovation! 

What we covered:

🍏 How long and what stages it takes for Water Innovations to exit the no man's land and cross the chasm 

🍏 What are the milestones you shall identify on your path to guide you on the quest to mass market 

🍏 Three Key Fields that attract 73% of investments to jumpstart your water venture 

🍏 Key Hints on the best ingredients to get your water innovations adopted by the early and late majorities 

🍏 How to get Netflix, Liam Neeson, Matt Damon and Jayden Smith to root for a Water Project 

🍏 How claiming to bring innovation to life is as broad as saying you want to get a gold medal in the Olympics - you need to know first in which sport you're competing

🍏 How "Done" is better than "Perfect" and how "good enough" approaches may solve big hurdles in the Water Sector 

🍏 How and Why there's more money spent in California every year on bottled water than on utility water 

🍏 How everything looks like a nail if you only have a hammer - aka we might need new paradigms to solve the upcoming water challenges

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Paul O'Callaghan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/o2environmental/

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with 🎙️ Ravid Levy - Founder & Consultant at RLV Consulting 

💧 RLV Consulting helps Water Innovators to translate their technical R&D into Business Chances, Go-To-Market Plans, and Investment Opportunities 

What we covered:

🍏 How to build a sustainable frame to overcome water scarcity? 

🍏 How agricultural water uses - often a blindspot of the water industry - triggered innovation in a good example of constrained creativity 

🍏 How scarcity can be an overall driver for innovation 

🍏 How national water law and central planning are the two pillars of Israel's water miracle 

🍏 How those pillars lead to new water applications such as distributed treatments 

🍏 How we're in an evolution process, that turned Homo Pollutius into Homo Ecologicus, hopefully, Homo Reusis and ultimately Homo Circularis 

🍏 Drip Irrigation, Solar Heating, Aquaponics, World Leadership... and more! 

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Send your warm regards to Ravid Levy on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravid-levy/

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