Heroes of tomorrow

Today with EPEA Switzerland we bring you the latest episode of the second series of Heroes of Tomorrow. We are digitally travelling to Washington DC to meet Elise Amez-Droz.

Elise AmezDroz asks us:

“How can we not only be neutral but also contribute with something positive?”

There is a common energy that moves the people who discover the cradle to cradle methodology in their paths. It is something that goes with them all their life, no matter what sector they work in.

We hope that our guest's statement will motivate you to be part of the change our society needs.

We all together can remake the way we make things.

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Today we have the pleasure of being with Heike Petersen Cunza. A woman always looking forward, who has found the balance between her passion and her profession, creating a sustainable yoga fashion line. The Wellicious story began in 2007 in London when sustainability was a vision shared by just a few in the fashion industry.

We hope that our guest's statement will motivate you to be part of the change our society needs.

We all together can remake the way we make things.

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This month we have the pleasure to introduce you to Manuel Schweizer, the CEO and founder of OceanSafe.

Manuel Schweizer has been working for the textile industry more than 25 years. In 2010 he realized that something was really wrong with the textile industry. Since many years he was working looking for solutions in order to make textiles circular, toxin free and safe for the biological cycle.

We hope that our guest's energy and motivation can motivate you to be part of the change our economy needs.

[00:38] Presentation

[01:11] How OceanSafe started with Cradle to Cradle?

[01:56] We must change eveything, not only a part of the product.

[02:44] Can we change the textile industry using natural fibers?

[03:22] Synthetic fibers are good if you make them good.

[04:50] What about the microplastics?

[05:12] What is offering OceanSafe to the textile industry?

[06:08] The future for the textile industry

[06:48] We do not have an excuse, we are ready, you can start making good products.

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Today we have the pleasure to introduce you to Peter Bachmann. He works in the building industry in Germany since more than 20 years. His wife calls him sentinel because of his high sensitivity and ability to detect chemicals.

Are you sensitive to smells? Does the smell of petrol, paint, solvents, inks, pesticides, perfumes or cleaning products suffocate you? Do you have allergies?  If the answer is yes, perhaps you share the same sensitivity as our guest. Listen to his statement to better understand the close relationship between the construction industry and our health.

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This month we have the pleasure to introduce you to Janine Weiz-Bühler, the product and brand director of a swiss under-wear brand; Calida.

In this episode we are going to discover part of their circularity and cradle to cradle journey and the challenges that a company need to “tackle” when facing circularity.

Today we are pleased to introduce you to the professor and mechanical engineer Adrian Burri, he works at the University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland. Finding solutions is in his DNA. He has already achieved great goals, and the last one is a new mobility solution. He has developed the startup called Roo. His solution can fill a gap in the needs of today's drivers.

He has always been fascinated by finding ways to change things that one might think are unchangeable. Our guest is sensitive to today's problems, he appreciates nature, animals and music, which are a huge source of inspiration for him. He wants to preserve them in return. After long and hard days of work he has created a solution for those who are dependent on the car and cannot adapt their working day to the public transport schedule.

In this episode he talks about efficiency, innovation, his desire to change things, his willingness, the importance of the materials choice and the cradle to cradle concept.

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Welcome to the second series of Heroes of tomorrow, the EPEA Switzerland’s podcast.

We bring you closer to the leaders of change. If you are a CEO, a decision-maker or even a student, this podcast is for you. If you want to lead the change in your company, don't hesitate to listen to our first series. All the guests have been part of a cradle to cradle project at some point on their careers. They all talk about their experiences, their values and how they see the future. If you are thinking about reducing the impact of your company or radically changing the way you produce, listening to their testimonies can help you in your reflections.

On this episode we are going to digitally travel to Germany to meet Bonita Grupp, the head of HR and e-commerce of Trigema. Trigema is the Germany’s largest manufacturer of sportswear and casual fashion.

The company consider doing business as a duty to increase the prosperity of the community.

Let’s listen to our guest Bonita Grupp.

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In EPEA Switzerland we are glad to publish the sixth and final episode of this first series of "Heroes of tomorrow." We go (digitally) back to Italy to meet our guest, an engineer and a passionate about products. He has been in the apparel industry for about 30 years; Bhavesh Naik

He talks about his life experience, his internal journey in questioning himself and ignoring his own limiting judgments. Bhavesh explain to us some of the decisions he made to really make a professional and personal change.

"Transforming the industry is not about cost reduction. It’s about really create something new and based on some principles."

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We all have our role to play in transforming the linear economy as we know it, into a resilient economy; a circular economy.

Today, I take you again to Austria, this time to listen to the statement of a designer who wants to change the rules of the game; Harald Gruendl, from EOOS Design Studio.

If you are a designer and you think your work cannot make a difference to the world, please take a break and let yourself be inspired by our guest.

And you, what is your role as a designer?

Today we are glad to bring you our fourth episode. This time we are going to virtually travel to Italy to listen to Giulio Bonazzi a man who speaks loud and clear.

If you are still thinking that your company cannot change, I highly recommend you to listen to his statement. Aquafil is the largest nylon fiber company in Europe and a top ten largest in the world. The company was created by his family in 1965, then at the beginning of the 2000s, he decided to take up the challenge and do what everybody thought was impossible. They believed he was crazy, nobody wanted to finance him but today, time has proved him right.

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