The Better Business Show

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about:

- How paint has saved the shipping sector $3bn in fuel savings (http://bit.ly/2oaCj8J)

- Why big oil has joined the race to build sea-based wind farms (http://bloom.bg/2mS7DYI)

- Which country tops the latest World Happiness ranking (http://bit.ly/2mxuE8b)

- How and why the number of rural peoople living in India without access to clean water is the same as the UK’s population (http://bit.ly/2n9vc0T)

- And the fact global emissions from the energy sector have hardly risen in the last three years (http://bit.ly/2nv9TKm)

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A show title likely to get completely and utterly lost on our North American listeners, we appreciate….this time we’re with Jason Spitkoski, a man that has left his background as a tech developer behind to chase the dream of running a successful underwear business. He is the proud owner of Buddha Boxers, a company that is getting seriously comfortable that its raw material of bamboo is capable of blowing cotton out of the water as a sustainable material of choice in the 21st century.

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about:

- The fact people want their cash ISAs to create more positive change in the world (http://bit.ly/2mCo5Nk)

- A round-up of International Women’s Day from last week (http://bit.ly/2mWBYIY)

- A woeful lack of effort to make use of recycled plastic by the world’s biggest drinks brands (http://bit.ly/2nEoizK)

- The world’s most ethical companies (http://bit.ly/1VTGlgo)

- Why more fossil fuel companies are waking up to carbon risk in a serious way (http://bit.ly/2nLMbFS)

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As Fairtrade Fortnight kicks off, we speak with Sophi Tranchell, CEO of Divine Chocolate, a unique business majority-owned by the Ghanaian farmers at the end of its cocoa supply chain.

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about:

- Heineken’s rampant growth while keeping emissions at bay (http://bit.ly/2meI20l)

- 6 emerging trends on sustainability communications (http://bit.ly/2kS29gl)

- Where in the world’s women’s workplace equality is best (http://bit.ly/2l36Pzj)

- A new sustainable menswear range on the block, donating profits to ocean charities

- Shell places huge bet on hydrogen fuel cell cars taking off (http://on.ft.com/2mkZjAK)

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This week, we catch up with Natalie Grillon, co-founder and co-CEO of Project JUST, an online platform that wants you to seriously sort out your shopping habits out – and has Ivanka Trump's clothing line firmly in her sights.

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about:

- Finance sector putting pressure on G20 to get out of fossil fuels (http://bit.ly/2m1uFMV)

- Ivanka Trump’s untraceable clothing line (http://bit.ly/2lGlnGQ)

- Trump’s latest effort to reverse the climate change efforts of EPA (http://bit.ly/2lqjPn7)

- Walmart going down the science-based targets route (http://bit.ly/2fGlkH8)

- The National Trust’s energy revolution (http://bit.ly/2lSJNAb0)

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This week, we’re with the incredibly resourceful Alexie Seller, CEO and co-founder of Pollinate Energy, a genius start-up transforming the lives of those living in the slums of India by helping people to access clean energy solutions.

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about:

- Unilever’s game-changing transparency on perfumes (http://bit.ly/2lqTiXa)

- A new alternative to leather (http://kck.st/2kbj0d3)

- New clean power exploding in Europe (http://bit.ly/2lqPBAs)

- Business community’s response to Trump’s travel (http://bit.ly/2kzfWL0)

- Waitrose’s 500-mile biomethane trucks (http://bit.ly/2ktynOV)

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This week, we catch up with the brilliant Paul Lindley, founder of organic baby food business Ella’s Kitchen. “It’s about the why we do business, not necessarily the what we do business for. We must all find our why!”