Today we will be diving into the coffee industry, including transparency, labor practices, direct trade, and much more through the eyes and initiatives of one of the sustainability leaders in the coffee industry, Oliver Stormshak. As as you'll hear soon, he travels all over the world for our morning coffee and to improve the lives of others.

Oliver is Co-Owner, President and Green Coffee Buyer for Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. He has worked in the specialty coffee industry for over 20 years. Studying Food Science in Academia, he was inspired to approach Coffee Roasting in a unique way, looking at the chemical reactions during the roasting process, Oliver invented a new process of roasting process, dubbed, "Caramelization Roast." He is passionate about improving lives around the world through quality coffee, equitable trading, and global transparency. Olympia Coffee is known for their direct trade partnerships, which allows control over the flavors of their coffee. From varietal selection, to day lot separation, to even experimental processing, Olympia has had great success with finding the flavors they want out of their coffee. Located in the greater Seattle, Washington area, Olympia Coffee is a retailer, wholesaler, and Roastery.

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For episode 16 of Scaling Sustainability, our guest today is William Paddock of WAP Sustainability. William's experience as a sustainability manager lead him to create a consulting firm that provided sustainability leaders and company leaders a one-stop-shop for all things carbon. This is important as more an more companies, and governments are making pledges to get to "net-zero".

As managing director, William is responsible for day to day management, business development, strategic partnerships and client delivery. His straight forward approach to sustainability offers business leaders a pragmatic, unbiased, third-party opinion that is designed to broaden and accelerate sustainability initiatives. Thank you for joining us, William!

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For episode 15 of Scaling Sustainability, we have with us Kate Bratskeir. Kate is a journalist who covers food, health, and the environment. Her work has appeared on several outlets like Fast Company, Huffington Post, and more. Her first book, "A Pocket Guide to Sustainable Food Shopping," has just recently published. We go over her book, talk about greenwashing and… Corn ice cream??

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On episode 14 of the podcast, we are taking a looking into the financial side of agriculture and farming. Our guest on the podcast for this episode is Chris Rawley of Harvest Returns. Chris is the founder and CEO of Harvest Return, a start-up fintech company for investing in agriculture. His background is a navel officer, and is still serving while running Harvest Return, as a captain in the U. S. Navy Reserve.

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Throughout the series of this show, Real Life Sustainability, we originally set our goals to see how we as individuals, and consumers, can make better choices in our daily lives. As each episode progressed, we have found ourselves more and more delving into the businesses that are making the impact in creating sustainability. Because of this, instead of looking at the consumer perspective, we are shifting our goal to the perspective of businesses and how they are scaling sustainability. So with that, we are changing the name of our podcast as well, from, "Real Life Sustainability" to, "Scaling Sustainability." We are just at the beginning of this journey and we are really excited to bring you along with us as we venture into this.

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Spending time with Trent is always an experience and even after spending just a little bit of time with him, when we met out in Tennessee for the first time, I knew we had to have him as a guest on our show. Before Trent's current work with Cabriejo Ranch, he had a dairy farm producing award-winning cheeses and he is on board of directors for the American Grass Fed Society. I am really excited for you to hear what he's doing now. Thank you Trent for jointing us today on Real Life Sustainability.

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With over 100 employees and 7 restaurants, and growing, the restaurant group, Toscana Divino Hospitality Group, have found themselves pivoting a little bit more these days. They have always found ways to be sustainable, but now they've made sustainability the core of their business. Today, we are speaking with Tommaso Morelato. He is an entrepreneur, and also the founder of Toscana Divino in Miami, Florida. Thank you for joining us Tommaso!

Show Notes:Learn more about Toscana Divino's sustainability mission here. Find out how Toscana Divino is being resourceful by clicking here. Visit Toscana Divino's website to see what they're up to: Toscana Divino

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"Turning every day purchases into clean energy" is the tagline of today's guest, Clearloop. Today we're talking with one of their partners, Laura Zapata, to discuss who Clearloop is, what they're all about, and how they're turning around the carbon emissions and getting your carbon footprint back. We are really excited to talk with them today, especially after Coolperx® just announced our partnership with Clearloop. Thank you Laura for joining us today on Real Life Sustainability.

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The products Coolperx sources for companies to give to their stakeholders as corporate gifts have to align with our values. We have high standards for environmental sustainability, ethical business practices, and covetability. When I first found Refresh Glass, their products checked all of those boxes right away. But oddly enough, I can't recall when I first discovered them. The earliest would be when I was in Charleston with my family, at the restaurant, Husk, and my daughter pointed out how she though the glasses were cool… Sure enough, they were Refresh Glasses. So without further ado, Ray, thank you for joining us!

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As the west coast of the United States grows ever more of smoke, debris, and damage from the wild fires, we are finding more and more housing and overall real estate developments deteriorate in a variety of ways. In terms of long term sustainability, we wonder, what is a way to continue development in a responsible and sustainable way? That's where Blokable comes in. Today we are talking to Aaron Holm, founder and Co-CEO of Blokable. At Blokable, they build housing that solves a myriad of economic, cultural and environmental issues, while creating comfortable, inspiring places that people can call home. They design, manufacture, and deliver fully-functional modular structures that can be configured, connected, and stacked. Their approach to housing removes many drawbacks that hamper traditional housing development, namely lengthy construction time, high material, and labor costs, and production waste and just plain uninspiring antiquated design. Aaron, thank you for joining us!

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