Road to Forest Valley - Climate Talks

Teresa Agovino explained how, with her startup Faroo, intends to pursue a sustainable style of tourism which creates only positive impacts for the planet.

Fabio Dalmonte and his colleagues from SEADS, told us how they put circular economy principles into practice, succeeding in reusing plastic collected from rivers.

In this episode, Giacomo explains how difficult it is to create an industrial symbiosis and how, at BugsLife, they have harnessed it to create a sustainable insect-based protein flour.

Luca Medeghini and his colleagues at AIRA have found a device that responds to the problem of rubbish left on the ground during concerts and events: which can also be extended to city use!

Shyaam illustrates the benefits of building relationships among companies: finding the right partner that can influence the whole network and sharing sustainable innovations with it.

Noemi De Santis is the co-founder of Junker: an app that scans product labels and tells you where to throw them away, helping you to sort your waste easily, quickly and above all without mistakes.

In this episode Rob talks about how to integrate Sustainable Development Goals in companies. In the role of judge in fact, there are the youngest generations: they expect companies absolute transparency and to make a significant contribution towards achieving a greater ethical goal. Purenessity is a consulting company that helps the process of building brands around purpose and supports the integration.  

In this episode we explore the meaning of sustainability in business and its crucial link with ethics. How can ethics be applied to different types of business strategies both for start-ups and established companies, and some useful tips on how to start a journey towards sustainable ethics.

"What I'm trying to signal, and I try to research in my work, is that sustainability transformation requires the full set: you need the heart, you need the moral element, you need the moral conviction that is the right thing to do and not only doing the right things... and the self-interest and drive of a corporation, an entrepreneur for market competitiveness."

Environmental Grants helps conservationists from all around the world to find available funds, coming from the private and public sectors and related research for environmental and wildlife research management and conservation.

Katerina explains how a house can be sustainable and compostable by using the rice waste and how it can last up to 70 years. 

"From the beginning of our activity in 2016, we managed to reduce around 400 tons of CO2 just by preventing the burning of the rice residues. And to this data, we need to add up the CO2 that is trapped during the life cycle of the buildings...in fact, the rice husk and straw continue to absorb CO2 during the entire life cycle of the building in which they're inserted."