Almost a quarter century ago, Daniel Pauly, one of the most important scientists of the Anthropocene, introduced “shifting baselines syndrome” to explain our generational blindness to environmental destruction. In his upcoming book Vanishing Fish, Shifting Baselines and the future of global fisheries, Daniel Pauly offers a devastating look at the state of today’s global fisheries—and a radical way to turn it around.

Carol Sanford has worked with Fortune 500 and “rock star entrepreneurs” for nearly forty years—creating significant evolution in financial effectiveness, meaningful market contribution, and transformation of communities and ecosystems. Carol is the author of The Responsible Entrepreneur; Four Game-Changing Archetypes for Founders, Leaders, and Impact Investors, and most recently, The Regenerative Business: Redesign Work, Cultivate Human Potential, Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes.

Linda Wang is the Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University. Since 2011, Linda and team have developed the first extraction method to recover high-purity polycarbonate from electronic waste. During this research project, however, she realized that polycarbonate waste is only 1% of total plastic waste. Linda and team have since come up with a solution, using supercritical water to create fuel out of plastic waste.

On today’s episode our guest is Tony Rossi from Loop, Tony is the VP, Global Business Development for Loop, a global platform that enables consumer product companies and retailers to shift from a disposable supply chain to a durable one, and to do that in partnership with some of the largest brands in the world, which are, it turns out, the ones that produce the most plastic: Coca cola, Unilever, Nestle, Pepsico, P&G, Danone, Colgate, and so on.

For nearly forty years, Alexandra has dedicated her life to restoring the balance between the people and wild salmon off the coast of British Columbia. When the salmon farms first appeared toxic algae blooms and sea lice developed, and the wild salmon die-off began. Her website tells the story of an ongoing battle. It references science, activism, films like Salmon Confidential, and legal battles she has undertaken with the help of many to keep British Columbia alive and thriving.

Dan Giusti is the Founder of Brigaid. He formerly served as the Head Chef of Noma in Copenhagen, perennially called the best restaurant in the world. Coming from a big Italian family, Dan grew up seeing his aunt (Zia Rosa) taking care of his family, and simply making everyone happy through her food. After three tremendous years as the Head Chef of Noma, he wanted to expand his reach and bring his expertise to tackle another challenge: school food in the United States.

Peter is a German forester and author who writes on ecological themes in popular language.In his riveting book, the hidden life of trees, published in 2016, he explores how trees are social organisms,

what they feel, and how they communicate.

Dry Farm Wines is the world’s only health-conscious and lab tested Natural Wine Club. Dry Farm Wines curates high quality Natural Wines from small, organic family farms around the world. This is real wine (not like commercial shelf wines), grown with respect for Nature, sustainability, and human health.

On top of that, Dry Farm Wines has a very original way of doing business everyday. Listen up and find out how the awesome team at DFW makes the magic happen.

Patrick Venail is a 39 year-old, French-Colombian community ecologist.

In 2011 the French Society of Ecology awarded him as the best young ecology researcher after his publication in Nature. His research focuses on understanding biodiversity (that is, the diversity of life). His interests are at the interface between microbiology, ecology and evolution. He has contributed to over 20 major scientific publications so far.

Dr. Sofia Axelrod, PhD is a sleep researcher at The Rockefeller University, New York, in the laboratory of Michael W. Young, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. When her two children were born, Dr. Axelrod’s vast research experience allowed her to naturally implement knowledge from sleep research to help her babies sleep, with surprising results.