Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war. —Marthin Luther King

One of the leading causes of death for children every year are malnutrition-related illnesses. Global hunger continues to rise despite the efforts of many to lessen it. In order to combat hunger, companies like Cure4Humanity has developed a solution that works!

Today on Sustainable, I talk about Cure4Humanity Inc.’s complex business model and its inventions as a sustainable solution to world hunger and other global and environmental problems with Eric Williams.

Eric Williams is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Cure4Humanity Inc.& SafestCities Inc. Cure4Humanity is a socially responsible organization who invented the ability to provide water, innovative indoor farming, energy and affordable safe housing.

He’ll be talking about how Cure4Hunger invented the world’s first legitimate cure for global hunger. He also shared how developing Cure4Humanity’s complex business model became a way for people to earn money and make big companies be more sustainable.

In this episode, Eric talks about:

• How C4H complex business model and great vision was developed
• Developing the “Gravity Garden”- how it works and its benefits
• Providing equity to farmers
• How Eric handles scepticism when people doubt his visions
• Providing basic humanity needs thru C4H and SafestCities affordable homes
• How C4H Food and Water Domes keeps the food safe and secure
• Global refugee crisis, deforestation and vertical farming
• Where do C4H’s profits go to
• Building thousands of Water and Food Domes over the next decade and beyond

More about Eric Williams:

A southern-California native, Eric is 25-year channel technology expert, philanthropist, filmmaker “40 Point Plan” (Rated PG 2012) and music producer. Eric has advised more than 300 companies worldwide as CEO of Corporate Channels from 1999-2007. Eric retired from the industry to pursue humanitarian efforts and conceived the world’s first disaster proof farm that does not require any 3rd party water, power nor seasons. From seed to harvest, this game changing invention is able to grow more crops per square foot in recorded history. Unlimited self reliant and sustainable farms are now able to be mass produced in more than 90% of the world’s populated regions.

Connect with Eric Williams:

• LinkedIn
• Cure4Humanity Inc.
• SafestCities Inc.

More about Cure4Hunger:

Cure4Hunger has invented the cure for global hunger by integrating six state of the art technologies creating the world’s first legitimate cure.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million of the world’s 7.1 billion inhabitants, or one in eight, suffered from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012.

The majority of the world’s hungry population live in developing countries, where Cure4Hunger is charted to build thousands of Water and Food Domes over the next decade and beyond.

Learn more here.

Send your message directly to them at [email protected]

Additional Resources:

• Cure4Hunger cure for global hunger inventions
• Cure4Hunger Food & Water Domes
• Vertical Farming
• Del Webb

If you enjoyed this, check out episode128: Nature: The future of energy, innovation & business with Bill Browning, Partner, Terrapin Bright Green

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke

Every year, a  great number of coconuts are being harvested worldwide. After harvesting, the shells are either burned, thrown in the ocean or piled up contributing to billion kilos of waste. And waste is a huge problem that causes serious environmental impact. 

But many are in pursuit of finding solutions, one is Michiel Vos of CocoPallet!

In today’s episode of Sustainable, we talk about coconuts and finding your calling and purpose to make an impact with Michiel.

Michiel Vos is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of CocoPallet. He’s a serial entrepreneur who specializes in the Circular Economy and Bio-Based products. He and his team found a creative and innovative solution to utilize the waste from coconuts and turn it into biodegradable pallets. 

He shares how he came up with the idea of using coconut husk as the main material in making Coco pallets and how it helps in lessening waste and helping local coconut farmers. He also talks about how making an impact starts with yourself. Every action is important and has an equivalent impact. If you want to be a part of the solution to a more sustainable world, you need to take responsibility for every action you take and decisions you make.

In this episode, Michiel talks about: 

• How he came up with the idea of using coco pallets as an alternative to timber pallet
• The circular economy and making products out of waste streams
• Finding your purpose to create sustainability efforts
• Scaling products to drive down production cost
• Identifying problems that are worth solving
• Taking responsibility for your actions, whether big or small
• Advice to everyone who wants to make a difference
• Designing a truly circular business model
• The greatest joys of being entrepreneurial
• Spark, Idea, Awareness, Decisions, and Execution
• The difference between power and influence
• How reading books can help us solve problems and understand our surroundings better
• Effective teamwork and other things we can learn from the military
• Business as a tool for creating sustainability
• Finding your calling and healing our planet with the right decisions

Listen to yourself. What is my task? Why am I here? What's my mission on this planet? And then start researching and doing things. Whether it's small or big, take responsibility. We came here into this planet with a reason. Find your purpose and start working on it.

Connect with Michiel:

• LinkedIn 
• CocoPallet

Also Mentioned:

• David Goggins
• Brexit
• Art of War
• Machiavelli
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Edmund Burke

If you enjoyed this, check out episode 143: Finding New Uses for Plastic Waste with Caleb Rick, CEO EcoGlobal

“If the armies of the world now numbering 22 million could be redeployed in planting in the desert, in eight years 100 million people could be rehabilitated and supplied with protein rich food, grown from virgin sand. If we could accept the challenge, and make that a One World Purpose, this would unite East and West and be the scientific and physical answer to this world’s dilemma.” — Richard St. Barbe Baker”

Have you ever stopped to think if what you’re doing is sustainable?

As stewards of the environment, we need to ensure a world of peace and prosperity for people and the planet. But how do we do this? What does it take to create a systematic change in order to achieve a sustainable world? How can we utilize our resources to create a positive global impact?

To help the world run better and improve people’s lives, global leaders through the United Nations developed a bold vision that’s widely gaining attention and interest both from public and private sectors, and that is the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Join me today as I talk about redefining leadership for a sustainable world. Redefining leadership starts by addressing the number one vision for all leaders, which is the UN’s SDGs.

I’ll also discuss the things that leaders can learn from nature about leadership that can help us redefine our understanding of it for a sustainable world. As well as the most important thing that a leader must work on to effectively attain these goals.

To hold this vision, we need to allow nature to support us and look within the natural world to find answers on how we need to be doing things differently and working together to create harmony.

In this episode, I talked about:

• The #1 one vision for all leaders in today’s world
• The starling analogy and what we can learn from nature about leadership that can help us redefine our understanding of it for a sustainable world
• The collective vision of peace and prosperity and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
• What it really means to become a leader and working on one's self
• The most important thing that a leader should work on
• The natural world as a mirror of reflection for the conflicts that we are facing internally within our inner landscape and nature.
• How protesting is causing disturbance to others and disruption to the system
• The fundamental concept of interdependency between nature and humans
• The awareness that we are all capable of creating change

Buckminster once said, “We do not create a new world by focusing on the old or destroying it. Instead, we should focus on building the new”. When we collectively come together, it is possible to make the world a better place for everyone now without destroying the possibilities of the next generation.

Now, let’s get to work and make it happen!

Additional Resources:

• Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
• My Life My Trees by Richard St. Barbe Baker

If you enjoyed this, check out episode 115: Nature as a Catalyst for Transformational Change

Focusing on sustainability is the right thing to do. Serving your consumers in a sustainable way is a priority because it's the right thing. — Todd Cline

There’s a rising growth in people purchasing organic food and natural beauty & cosmetic products because consumers want to make sustainable choices especially when it comes to the products that they buy. But that’s not the case when it comes to cleaning and laundry products.

Today on Sustainable, I talk about the efforts of designing and launching Tide Purclean, the first plant-based laundry detergent that has the same cleaning power you can expect from the brand with Todd Cline.

He is the section head for Procter & Gamble’s North American Fabric Care Research Development Team. He’s responsible for developing new programs and business operations across Tide and Gain Laundry detergents, the leading brands in the industry.

Washing your clothes may seem like a simple house chore but doing laundry has a bigger impact on the planet than you might think. From washing to drying,  it uses a lot of energy to just heat the water and run the dry cycle.

How can we reduce the energy and water we use? How can we help consumers make decisions that are more sustainable as they do their laundry?

Todd shares what drive him and his team to create sustainable laundry products and the challenges they experience in developing it without sacrificing cleaning performance.

In this episode, Todd shares about:

• The challenges he and his team had in developing a plant-based detergent without sacrificing cleaning performance
• How washing in cold water (the number one driver of environmental footprint in doing laundry) setting reduces your environmental footprint.
• The energy and impact of creating the raw materials that go into the product that they make
• Helping consumers be confident and comfortable in purchasing sustainable products
• Leveraging a brand’s reputation by incorporating it from one brand to another
• Clothing longevity as another way to lessen your environmental impact
• How we can design products that help consumers make simple choices
• The “Milkman Model” for sustainable packaging
• What Green Chemistry is all about and how it works
• How  Focusing on sustainability made Todd more intentional in the choices he makes

The simple choices and actions we make to minimize our impact, makes all the difference towards achieving a sustainable world.

More about Todd Cline:

Todd Cline currently serves as the Section Head for Procter & Gamble’s North America Fabric Care Research & Development team. In this role, Cline is responsible for developing new programs and business operations across Tide and Gain laundry detergents, the leading brands in the industry. He plays a critical role in leading sustainability efforts, including the design and launch of Tide purclean, the first plant-based detergent with the cleaning power of Tide.

Prior to joining the North America Fabric Care team, Cline spent more than 10 years in a variety of leadership roles at P&G and has lead product innovation launches across the U.S. and Europe.

He earned his MBA from Xavier University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky.

Connect with Todd Cline:

• LinkedIn
• Facebook

Additional resources:

• Tide Purclean™
• Tide
• Procter & Gamble
• Gain Laundry Detergent
• The 12 Principles of Green Chemistry
• Life-cycle assessment (LCA)
• TerraCycle
• Loop

If you enjoyed this, check out episode 7: Making Things Last - Jon Molyneux, Scotland

The most powerful decision you make is the decision for what you should and should not buy. — Tom Szaky

How much of the things you buy do you really need?

Every day our waste piles up. Ninety-nine percent of what we purchase - we don’t really need.

The world is suffering because of our actions. Poorly-managed landfills cause litter. Incinerating waste produces toxic substances. These are some problems we are faced with when it comes to waste management. Stemming from these issues are people devoted to finding creative solutions in address these problems.

On today’s episode of Sustainable, I talk about the work that TerraCycle is doing to better manage our waste and recycle the unrecyclable with Tom Szaky

Tom is the founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of hard to recycle waste. He is also the author of three books Revolution in A Bottle, Outsmart Waste, and Make Garbage Great.

Through TerraCycle, Tom is pioneering a new waste management processes involving manufacturers and consumers to create circular solutions for hundreds of unrecyclable waste (e.g. cigarette butts, dirty diapers, used chewing gum and flexible food packaging).

TerraCycle along with 25 top consumer product company and retailers, have announced a new e-commerce shopping platform called Loop. This will enable consumers to shop online for their favorite brands in durable and reusable packaging.

Tom and TerraCycle have received hundreds of social, environmental, and business awards and recognition from a  range of organizations including the United Nations, the US Chamber of Commerce, Fortune Magazine, World Economic Forum, and The Swap Foundation.

Tom shares how our garbage is continuously impacting the environment in a negative way. He talks about eliminating the idea of waste through creative and innovative solutions - which is the goal to achieve a sustainable planet.

In this episode, Tom will share his insights about:

• The learnings that have helped TerraCycle become a pioneer in waste management
• What caused the success of TerraCycle
• Innovative and creative methods for waste management
• Changing our perspective towards waste management to unlock other important values
• The TerraCycle and Loop project and its essence
• Reimagining the way that we consume
• Working with consumer behaviour instead of fighting it
• The future of packaging
• The reality behind biodegradable packaging
• The challenges of the Environmental Movement
• What you can do to lessen your waste
• How the act of buying triggers every environmental issue
• Active buying as a solution
• How he manages to get organizations, especially the large ones, to center on the environment
• How focusing on sustainability impacted the way he lives his daily life
• How his experience with nature influenced and impacted the work that he is doing
• The most powerful tool to create solutions and change

Reducing waste means less environmental impact, fewer resources and energy used. And most of all, it saves you money!

More about Tom Szaky and TerraCycle:

Tom Szaky is founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle waste. TerraCycle operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world’s largest brands, retailers, cities and manufacturers to create national platforms to recycle products and packaging that currently go to landfill or incineration.

Through TerraCycle, Tom is pioneering new waste management processes involving manufacturers and consumers to create circular solutions for hundreds of waste streams such as cigarette butts, laboratory waste, used coffee capsules, dirty diapers, used chewing gum and flexible food packaging that otherwise have no path to be recycled. TerraCycle developed and operates the largest supply chain for ocean plastic in the world, partnering with companies like Procter & Gamble to integrate this material into their product packages.

In January 2019, TerraCycle, along with 25 top consumer products companies and retailers announced a new e-commerce shopping platform called Loop that will enable consumers to shop for some of their favorite brands in durable, reusable packaging. Launched in May 2019, Loop is a key step in helping to end the epidemic of waste that is caused by 'single use' consumption.

Tom and TerraCycle have received hundreds of social, environmental and business awards and recognition from a range of organizations including the United Nations, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Fortune Magazine, World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation.

Connect with Tom Szaky through social media:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• YouTube
• LinkedIn

Additional resources:

• TerraCycle
• Books:
  • Revolution in A Bottle
  • Outsmart Waste
  • Make Garbage Great

If you enjoyed this, check out episode 121: The Business Case for Circular Economy with Robert-Jan van Ogtrop, founder of Circle Economy and Natural Leadership

There is always something that you can be doing. Everyone has a path to something. — John Featherby

In today’s episode we talk about the transition to a more sustainable world, the impact of an organization’s decisions on its workers, customers, business partners, community, and the environment as a whole with John Featherby.

John is the owner of Shoremount, a consulting firm that helps organizations meet the opportunity and challenge of a marketplace that rewards better business. He’s the B leader for the B Corp, the world’s leading business force for good movement.

He’s the author of the Guide to Human Organizations and the founder of Teylu, a network using the power of peer to peer small groups to cultivate community and pursue a common purpose, as well as Human Stories At Work, a place to engage with the ultimate cultural barometer of life at work, storytelling.

John shares about the work that he does with Shoremount to pursue positive change; through self-exploration, community connection, and practical support.

In this episode, John talks about:

• The transition to a more sustainable world
• Change: Who you are and what you hope to become
• The journey between where we are and where we are going
• What it means to change and create a “sustainable world”
• Becoming a sustainable human being
• John’s perspective on death, loss, pain, and suffering
• The death analogy
• Recognising change and creating a behaviour for it
• The risk of looking at positive data when you’re using it to persuade someone
• The benefits of talking about loss
• Reasons why change is hard for big companies
• Addressing the fatigue that comes from change
• The disconnection of meaning from our roles in the workplace
• Doing self-exploration for change to start
• The problem with language impairment
• Recognizing others for their innate individual gifts
• Giving others space for better and honest conversations
• Being and doing
• Deeper human peace
• How John’s upbringing impacted the work he is doing

Recognize the power that you have to make small differences and decisions. Speak up about the change that you want to happen.

More about John Featherby:

John Featherby is the owner of Shoremount, a consulting firm that helps organisations meet the opportunity and challenge of a marketplace that rewards response, “better” business.

John is also a B Leader for the B Corporation (the world’s leading “business as a force for good” movement.  Shoremount is a founding UK B Corp and was awarded “Changemaker Honoree” in the B Corp 2018, “Best of the World Lists”.

He's also the author of The Guide to Human Organisations, the founder of Human Stories at Work: a place to engage with the ultimate cultural barometer of life at work: storytelling and the founder of Teylu: a network using the power of peer-to-peer small groups to cultivate community and pursue a common purpose.

Connect with John Featherby:

• Johnfeatherby.com
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Twitter

Additional resources:

• Shoremount
• Teylu
• Human Stories At Work
• Guide to Human Organisations

If you enjoyed this, check out episode 139: The Truth About Transformational Change with Tabitha Jayne, Founder of EarthSelf

In the midst of trouble and difficulties, finding moments of aliveness of joy and magic are what makes life - life!

We are living and working in a complex world where the constant demands and pressure of our job heavily affects how we live our lives. We actually need more conscious and sustainable leaders in institutions and organizations to help support people commit to awareness, learning, change, growth, and action.

On today’s episode of Sustainable, I talk about coaching and nature with Kay Young. We focus on how nature enhances one’s coaching practice and why this is very relevant and needed in the corporate world.

She’s deeply passionate about leadership, well-being, resilience, and in spending time with nature. She works with individual leaders and leadership groups to support personal restoration and create conditions for change and awareness.

Kay shares how nature has played an important role in her coaching journey and how she utilizes it to help others find meaning and joy in their work and life.

In this episode you will learn:

• How nature enhances Kay’s coaching practice and why it’s needed in businesses
• The stages to achieve clarity and focus
• The benefits of bringing nature into coaching in the corporate world and how she discovered it
• How nature reminds us of the forgotten aspect of wholeness in the workplace
• The deeper sense of awareness and aliveness in nature due to the sensory experience it provides
• Coaching as the catalyst to move someone forward
• We as human beings are interconnected to nature
• How support can make changes possible
• How nature experiences influenced and impacted the work that she does.
• Awareness IQ

More about Kay Young:

Kay Young is a leadership coach and supervisor, with public and private sector clients. She has extensive senior management experience, including: working at NHS Board Director level; developing high profile executive coaching and leadership development programmes; working internationally; and tutoring for 15 years with the Open University Business School, on a range of MBA programmes.

Kay is currently a member of the Faculty Team for the Academy of Executive Coaching, facilitating the Coaching Skills Certificate, and Practitioner Diploma Programmes in Edinburgh. She's also an ICF Evaluator and Assessor, on the AoEC’s Advanced Practitioner Diploma Programme.  She's a highly experienced, ICF accredited coach and have gained the Diploma in Advanced Executive Coaching and the Master Coach Practitioner Diploma with the Academy of Executive Coaching.

She recently completed her training in gestalt psychotherapy with the Edinburgh Gestalt Institute. She's deeply passionate about leadership, well-being, and resilience; and in spending time in nature, including with your coaching clients, to support personal restoration, and transformational change.

Connect with Kay Young

• LinkedIn
• Edinburgh Gestalt Institute

Also Mentioned

• David Whyte

If you enjoyed this, check out episode 144: The Role of Coaching in Creating a Sustainable World by Tabitha Jayne, Founder & Director, EarthSelf

Waste is a resource and the pollution that it causes is not only avoidable. If we treat waste as a resource it can lead to a better life for the people and the planet. — Dr. Shannon Bouton

Our waste is polluting the world. It’s poisoning our air, land, and water.

However, there are many people working on amazing solutions.

On today’s episode of Sustainable, I talk about the work McKinsey.org is doing to have a lasting and substantial impact on complex social challenges with Dr Shannon Bouton.

Shannon is the Global Executive Director of the Sustainable Communities Program at McKinsey.org, a charitable organization, founded by McKinsey & Company to have lasting and substantial impact on complex social challenges.

Before this, she worked at McKinsey & Co for 12 years as the Chief Operating Officer of the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment.  

With a background in field biology, Shannon has served as an environmental consultant to grassroots non-profits in the Brazilian Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, and with the Army Corp of Engineers in the Florida Everglades.   

Her Ph.D is in natural resources and the environment and Shannon writes on topics such as sustainability, innovation and urban mobility.

Shannon shares how McKinsey.org helps create a positive impact for our environment. She talks about how to best address sustainability challenges that cities face around the globe. She also shares the actions we can take to reduce waste and how we can recycle both plastic and organic waste.

In this episode you will learn:

• The inspiration behind McKinsey & Company in creating a non-profit
• How Shannon ended up getting involved in sustainability and waste management work
• The key differences in terms of how McKinsey.org is working vs that of McKinsey & Company
• Sustainable community projects in Argentina and Bali and it’s waste problem
• Generating revenue out of waste and recyclables to bring value back to communities
• Creating instability in the market of recyclables through market-driven mechanisms
• The unstable price and demand for recyclables
• Key learnings from creating stability within the marketplace for waste
• How waste and recycling has become a public health issue
• The advancement of technology and the importance of scaling and scaling fast
• Practicing self-care and preventing burnout
• The discrimination against different parts of society especially for people who live in unknown areas
• How sustainability and nature impacted and influenced Shannon’s life and work

Connect with Shannon Bouton & McKinsey.org

LinkedIn Twitter

Know more about her here

Also Mentioned

• McKinsey.com
• McKinsey.org
• Jane Goodall
• David Goggin’s Book: Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

If you enjoyed this, check out episode 140: Changing the Way Waste is Managed Greg Lettieri, & CEO, RTS

Join Andy Egan, CEO of International Tree Foundation (ITF) to find out:

• Why the loss of trees globally is one of the reasons our natural environment is under threat
• How we’ve lost 50% of our existing forests
• Why trees are our best technology to help mitigate climate change
• The many ecosystem benefits trees provide to life on earth
• Why communities need to be at the heart of reforestation efforts
• The different types of communities that are coming together to reforest the planet
• The well-being benefits for humans from spending time taking care of trees
• The key difference between disconnected vs disassociated from nature
• What the role of ITF is in supporting communities to benefit from tree planting
• The surprising link between women and trees
• The inspirational legacy of the founder of International Tree Foundation and why he was known as “the man of the trees”
• What the long-term projects of ITF are
• Why ITF looks to learn from nature and trees to develop their organisation and how they work

Join Dr Bremley Lyngdoh, Founder and CEO of Worldview Impact to find out:

• The drivers behind Bremley’s mission to make a difference
• Why the Lyngdoh clan’s sacred forest inspired Bremley’s commitment to taking action to reforest the planet
• The cultural traditions of the tribe Bremley belongs to and how this has impacted his worldview
• Why trees are key in mitigating the effects of climate change
• The importance of growing a “green shield” in Myanmar and the impact this can have
• Why Worldview Impact’s strategy is based upon the Costa Rican model of ecosystem services
• How technology can help accelerate our reforestation strategy
• Where the funding came from to help Worldview Impact plant 100,000 tree seeds a day
• Why using technology in reforestation strategies creates more jobs for people and reduces the costs of tree planting
• The need to measure the value of ecosystem services to successfully finance reforestation strategies
• What needs to change at the governmental level to change the way we measure GDP