Impact at Scale

Impact at Scale was joined by Manish Sethi, a Founder of Rescued Glass and currently employed at Thrust Carbon. Rescued Glass upcycles glass bottles from landfills into decorative and usable household items, endeavoring to make a meaningful difference, one bottle at a time.

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Impact at Scale connected with Alex Laplaza to discuss early-stage impact investing and what technologies are currently exciting him. 

Alex is a Partner at Lower Carbon Capital, a venture firm that "back kickass companies that make real money slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky and buying us time to unf**k the planet." Lower Carbon's investments in leading-edge technologies include sustainable lithium mining, plasma-taming fusion magnets and electric passenger planes. 

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Impact at Scale could not have enjoyed its conversation with Aparna Bhatnagar Saxena more.  You can hear in our voices how much fun we were having.

Aparna is the CEO of TORAJAMELO, a slow, ethical, sustainable, lifestyle brand that is working towards alleviating the cycle of systemic poverty in rural excluded communities, preserving the cultural heritage of “backstrap loom weaving” in Indonesia, preventing the breakdown of rural communities due to outward migration, and environmental sustainability of natural habitats.

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Impact at Scale learned a lot about building communities with Alya Annabi the founder of GreenPush. GreenPush runs various programs that empower people with knowledge, resources, and support to encourage sustainable behaviors in every part of their business and personal lives. Alya is passionate about growing communities from the ground up, which really shows in this conversation. 

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Impact at Scale chatted with Paul Bevan, Founder and CEO of Magic Valley. Magic Valley is an Australian food company developing healthy and delicious cultivated meat products.

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This episode was produced by Stephanie Ng.

Impact at Scale went on the road to talk to Mathias Boissonot, a co-Founder of Handprint, a sustainable software company that helps businesses be involved in regenerative projects. Mathias is passionate about the power of mangroves and other natural resources to absorb carbon from the atmosphere and created Handprint as a way to connect businesses with these projects.

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Impact at Scale chatted with Tom Peacock-Nazil, the Founder and CEO of Seven Clean Seas. Seven Clean Seas is an organization that has commercialized ocean plastic cleanup. What started as a passion project for Tom and his wife has now turned into a full-fledged business, employing people to help with waste management.

Plastic is a major problem in our world and Tom and his team want to do everything they can to help stop as much of it as possible from getting into the oceans. Tom tells us about how they lucked into their business model and how that eventually led to him working for the World Cup in Qatar. Tom also talks to us about how cleaning up the waste is not good enough and how they are working with communities to help educate them on how to manage plastic and their waste in general.

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In the latest episode of Impact at Scale, we are talking to Lauren Blasco who is a Principal for ESG at AC Ventures and Neels Steyn Venture Architect Director at BCG Digital Ventures. They are the authors of Scaling Impact With Technology. Accelerating ESG Adoption in Indonesia's Digital Economy, a report that aims to be the baseline for how Indonesian tech companies measure their impact. The report looks at a wider range of issues than just one's carbon footprint when allocating a score to a company.

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The Social Innovation Podcast got to sit down and talk to Andre Menezes, the founder of Tindle Foods and Nex Gen Foods. Andre is a man clearly passionate about food and in this case specifically chicken. Singapore-based Tindle Foods produces plant-based chicken and has recently started working in the US and European markets.

In this discussion, Andre talks to us about alternative protein and the changes we are seeing in our society in terms of approaching animal products. We got to ask Andre all the questions we had about alternate protein and got a deeper understanding of the industry and where it is going.

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The Social Innovation Podcast had an in-depth conversation with Sonalie Figueiras the founder of Green Queen Media and the founder and CEO of Source Green a platform that helps businesses reduce the plastic in their packaging.

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