The Better Business Show

Imagine a business set up with the sole intention of getting older people working. Well, that's what this week's guest business, Wooln has done. Find out why and how this New York-based fashion brand has made it happen.

Also, this week, Gareth Kane gives us his Top 10 Sustainability Mistakes – and how to learn from them.

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, our new show coming to you at the end of every week – digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about:

- London’s new hydrogen buses (http://bit.ly/2fKUKMC)

- WWF-labelled green and lean meals (http://bit.ly/2gu6Wpc)

- Why New York’s trees are worth hundreds of millions of dollars (http://bit.ly/2h1OFjP)

- Cool Effect’s ‘Save Our Snowman’ campaign (http://bit.ly/2gg3Guw)

- and why France and Japan are ranked top in a new sustainable food index (http://bit.ly/2gNHJ9H)

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This time we are with Hugo Spowers, the brains behind Riversimple, the new car maker keen to rip up the rule book when it comes to how vehicles are powered and 'owned'. He has spent the last 16 years creating a business fit for the 21st century as people will ultimately be forced to banish their combustion engines completely.

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, our new show coming to you at the end of every week – digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking:

- adidas and its amazing new trainers

- MPL, the Indonesian logger up to no good

- why Marks & Spencer says human rights is the 'next big thing'

- a round up of sustainable shopping campaigns

- why recyclable stuff isn't being recycled

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In our information age full of concepts and stories, how do you make your ideas stick?

According to this week's guest, comedy doesn’t just make people laugh. It makes them think. Belinda Raffy works with people with a passion for something – and a need to communicate that passion – to help them be funny. She says people can use comedy or improvisation to circumvent ingrained perspectives and challenge business as usual thinking – and it works.

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, our brand new show coming to you at the end of every week – digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking:

- Palm oil pragmatism, at last

- The new Veg Curious social movement

- Investors waking up to climate change

- Green Friday, a perfect antidote to Black Friday

- Alaskan Airlines timber-powered flight

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This week we meet the rather brilliant Laura Thomson, a workplace learning expert who spends her time training people to maximise their potential. Laura has been closely monitoring the rise of robots in the workplace and is confident that the value of humans – in our creativity, our curiosity, our ability to care and empathise, and the way in which we can collaborate with each other - should not be ignored or underestimated in the face of the smarts and efficiency offered up by robots.

This time we're with Rob Webbon, a man on a mission to rip up the fast fashion rulebook with his sportswear brand. From the circular materials used in the production, to his philosophy to manufacture local, there are plenty of takeaways from Rob's vision for Grn Sportswear.

Elsewhere, we talk COP22 and Trump v Clinton.

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, our brand new show coming to you at the end of every week – digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking:

- The Paris Agreement, which has finally come into force

- The fitness gear made from used coffee grounds

- Tesla and its new solar roof tiles

- Crispy Creme - giving free donuts to encourage people to vote in the US.

- Millennials - those pesky youngsters that will soon make up 50% of our global workforce

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More and more investors want to pour their money into making a positive contribution to society and the planet – but they don't really know where to start. As Good Money Week kicks off, we use this week's show to question how ethical investing can be used as a force for good and what people can do to make a real difference.

You also get my review of Leonardo DiCaprio's new film, 'Before the Flood'.