In this clip from episode 4 "Replacing Plastic With Seaweed", Alyssa Pace, the communications lead at ⁠⁠Sway⁠⁠, discusses some of they key differences between bio-degradable, industrially compostable and home compostable products.

Sway is a biomaterials startup that uses seaweed to make home-compostable alternatives to petroleum-based plastic packaging. As one of their guiding principles, regenerative design ensures that Sway's products replenish the planet rather than pollute ecosystems, exhaust resources or emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

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In this episode I am joined by Alyssa Pace, the communications lead at Sway, a biomaterials startup that uses seaweed to make home-compostable alternatives to petroleum-based plastic packaging. 

We discuss the quality and impact of plastic alternatives, what home-compostable really means, the power of regenerative design and what stands in the way of a future without ubiquitous petroleum-based plastics.

Sway is being piloted with brands like J. Crew, Burton and more and has taken the bioplastics world by storm, winning first place in the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize and was one of four winners of the 1% For The Planet's Summit Awards in 2023.

Made to scale, Sway's thermoplastic seaweed resin, named TPSea, is designed to fit into existing plastic manufacturing systems. With 400 million tons of new plastic created annually, innovations like TPSea that don't require new processes for manufacturing have immense potential for environmental impact.

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In this episode I speak with Michael Grossmann about how satellites and geospatial data are being used to better react to natural disasters and combat the climate crisis.

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This show is supported by Oco Crew, a grassroots non-profit aimed at making it convenient for people to crowdfund climate projects around the world. Learn more at ococrew.org and on Instagram at @oco.crew.

In our first episode I speak with Ben Sterne, the founder of Oco Crew, a grassroots non-profit aimed at making it convenient for people to take climate action by way of crowdfunding climate projects around the world. He speaks about how and why he started a non-profit despite having no prior experience in the space and why having an outsider's perspective is beneficial to any endeavor.

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This show is supported by Oco Crew, a grassroots nonprofit designed to make it convenient and easy to take meaningful climate action. Volunteer run and crowdfunded by donations from everyday people, Oco Crew is able to help fund projects that remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and support local communities in the process. For more information, please visit ococrew.org and follow on Instagram.