Impact at Scale

Impact at Scale had a great conversation with Steve Hoy and Grant McDowell the founders of Enosi.

Enosi is an energy traceability solution enabling households and businesses to buy energy directly from solar and wind farms. Technology that will become more important as consumers start to demand their energy comes from renewable sources.

Steve and Grant are both at the forefront of the energy transition and we talk about how that is progressing and how much longer we have on the journey to 100% clean and renewable energy.

They are strong advocates for giving the consumer the option to choose where their energy comes from and their PowerTracer software gives customers that ability.

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Impact at Scale had a chat with Simon JD Schillebeeckx the Co-Founder of Global Mangrove Trust and Handprint. Both of these organizations work towards preserving the natural ecosystems around the world.

Simon is in a unique position of being both an academic at Singapore Management University and an entrepreneur which gives him an interesting perspective on sustainability. His combination of science-backed research along with business practicality allows him to contribute positively to both aspects of his life.

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The Impact At Scale Podcast had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Darian McBain, CEO of Outsourced Chief Sustainability Officer Asia and a Visiting Professor in Practice with LSE.

Darian has a wide range of experience covering sustainability in companies as diverse as healthcare, agriculture and even a central bank. This gives her a magnificent perspective on the way sustainability impacts the economy from various angles.

Her insights into what companies can do to improve their sustainability processes have led her to start her latest business and this conversation covers a wide range of topics about how the world of sustainability has changed since she started her career.

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The Impact at Scale Podcast had a lively and exciting conversation with Sonia Weymuller Co-Founder and General Partner at VentureSouq.

VentureSouq is a Dubai-based venture capital fund with a global portfolio. They manage thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

Sonia got her start in investing by organizing what would become one of the largest private investment syndicates in the Middle East. She talks to us about her usual journey to being a VC and how she feels about

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Impact at Scale got to discuss the world of sustainable cleaning products with Jeremy Lee, CEO & Founder of SimplyGood. SimplyGood is a cleaning product supplier that has developed an innovative new way to package a traditional product.

Jeremy started the company during covid when cleanliness and hygiene came into sharp focus. He realized we were wasting so much space and energy in the transportation of cleaning products when most of the product was actually water. He felt there could be a better way.

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Impact at Scale got the chance to sit down with Konstantin Popovic the founder of Impact3P a consultancy that helps businesses turn their sustainability journey into a competitive advantage by aligning people, planet, and profit. KP believes that all companies need to be sustainable businesses and that doing so will be good for their business. Increasingly stakeholders such as customers and employees want.

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Impact at scale caught up with Barak Ekshtein the Founder of TONTOTON. TOTOTON is a plastic credit solution for non-recycled plastic. Choosing to focus on the hard-to-recycle plastic that typically gets left behind in the current recycling system. So far they have collected and treated more than 2,513 tons of orphan plastic and are growing every day.

Barak was inspired to start this business when he noticed the growing amount of plastic that we could not recycle and wanted to do something about it—developing an economy around cleaning up orphan plastic and creating jobs for those that collect this plastic.

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The Impact At Scale Podcast enjoyed talking about the recycling industry with Nishchay Chadha the CEO of ACE Green Recycling. ACE is a green battery recycling technology company that has sustainable solutions for both lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries and is developing clean technology solutions for other metallic waste streams.

Nishchay started his career in the mining industry where he experienced firsthand the impact that it had on the planet. This was where he first got a view of the recycling space and saw that there was an opportunity in this fast-growing market to develop solutions that would meet the needs of the planet. Battery recycling is an industry that will continue to grow as the production of all sorts of batteries continues to increase significantly.

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Impact at Scale got the chance to talk to Renat Heuberger the CEO and Co-Founder of South Pole. South Pole develops and implements comprehensive emission reduction projects and strategies that turn climate action into long-term business opportunities for companies, governments and organisations around the world.

Renat has been in the sustainability space for a long time and we talk about some of the stories from the early days of South Pole and how he feels the world needs to change it's perspective on what success is. Renat is a firm believer that people should be successful by saving the planet and not by digging it up and destroying it. This is a great conversation with someone who is on the front lines of helping organizations decarbonize and be more planet positive.

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Impact at scale spoke with George Wade the Co-Founder of Zevero which was conceptualized when the founders struggled to get accurate data for their emissions and thought about building a tool they could use for themselves. So that was the genesis of Zevero, a platform that helps businesses measure, report and reduce their carbon.

We talked about George's early fascination with sustainability and some of the contradictions he saw in the space. His hope is that getting companies to report on carbon emissions will make them take their reduction goals seriously.

To read George's blog check out The Grumpy Optimists

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