Sabine Valenga, Food For All’s Co-Founder and CMO, joins Peter on this week’s episode to discuss:

- The food waste problem and how to solve it

- Launching a surplus food marketplace

- Building demand before supply

- Solving food insecurity at scale

- Standing out in the food delivery space

Learn more at: https://foodforall.com

Stephanie Benedetto, Queen of Raw’s Founder and CEO, joins Peter on this week’s episode to discuss:

- Her eureka moment

- The hidden costs of the fashion industry

- How the Queen of Raw marketplace works

- Solving the chicken-and-egg problem

- Quantifying climate impact

- Other markets with huge waste issues

Learn more: https://queenofraw.com.

Caitlin Leibert, Chipotle’s Head of Sustainability, joins Peter on this week’s episode to discuss:

- Creating the sustainability department

- Diverting 50% of waste from landfill by 2020

- Solving single-use packaging at scale

- Regenerative agriculture vs lab-grown protein

- The highest-impact areas for restaurants

Learn more: https://chipotle.com/about-us/sustainability.

John Belizaire, CEO of Soluna, joins Peter on this week’s episode to discuss:

- Building a 37,000 acre wind farm

- Their $200M "MVP"

- Why Southern Morocco for site #1

- The environmental footprint of bitcoin

- The promise of blockchain

Learn more at https://soluna.io.

Nick Kenner, Founder and CEO of Just Salad, joins Peter on this week’s episode to discuss:

- Founding Just Salad and the eureka moment

- Running the world’s largest reusable bowl program

- Executing a zero-waste agenda at a national food chain

- Sustainability as a business strategy

- The pros & cons of online food delivery

End of life has been a binary decision for centuries- cremation or burial. Unfortunately, these options come with grave costs.

Cremation and manufacturing caskets, headstones, and grave liners emit CO2 into the air. Embalming fluid pollutes adjacent water and soil ecosystems. The list goes on…

Enter Katrina Spade and her company Recompose - the public benefit corporation pioneering a better, greener end-of-life alternative.

Learn more at: https://recompose.life.

Consumers spent over $517B online with U.S. merchants in 2018, up from ~$449B the year prior. As online shopping increases, this means more packaging and an increasingly significant shipping footprint.

Enter Jesse Genet and her company Lumi - the LA-based startup helping the world's top e-commerce brands build beautiful (and sustainable!) packaging into their supply chains.

Learn more at https://lumi.com.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there’s a floating mass of waste twice the size of Texas. It’s there because humans dump 10 million tons of plastic into the ocean each year.

Enter Brian Bushell and his newest venture by Humankind - the personal care company eliminating single-use waste from our daily routines.

Learn more at https://byhumankind.com.

“If you were to take food waste and size it up as a country, it’d be the third largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, behind China and the US."

And of all the food types that end up going to waste, bread takes the #1 spot.

Enter Shannon Flannigan and her company Toast Ale - the international food waste company transforming leftover bread into delicious pints of beer.

Learn more at: https://toastale.com.

Americans use enough straws to wrap around the Earth 2.5 times every day.

On top of that- plastic straws can't be practically recycled and don't decompose, leading to long-term pollution of our land and oceans.

Enter Emma Rose Cohen and her company FinalStraw - the world's first collapsible, reusable straw that just went from zero to $5 million (in 9 months!) by removing 100,000s of plastic straws from our daily lives.

Learn more at https://finalstraw.com.