This week, we meet Auro Foxcroft, a man with a vision to turn a derelict pocket of East London into a living, breathing creative hub for start-ups across the capital. The disused Tube carriages on the roof are just part of this truly inspiring story of perseverance, determination and passion. Step inside Village Underground.

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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 time, we're talking:

- why Tyson Foods is buying into the vegan market

- the big HFC climate deal

- Timberland's new boots made from recycled plastic bottles

- the Disney-Dole deal to get kids eating more healthy food

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With 95p of every £1 spent in big supermarkets leaving the local economy, clearly they are no good for local communities.

This week's guest business is proving that its social enterprise model can be applied to the often brutal supermarket sector. Meet HiSbe, a community-first food store that wants to built better relationships with customers, staff and suppliers.

We also check in with the Global Alliance on Banking Values to explore how a group of banks are using finance to positively effect change across the world.

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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 time, we're talking:

- Nespresso’s mission to kick-start South Sudan’s coffee industry continues

- Companies are failing to consider the boundaries of the planet when setting targets

- H&M’s new TV ads – and why everyone’s losing their minds over them

- A boom in electric vehicle sales

- The Girlfriend Collective, the brand making leggings from old bottles

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What’s the point of banking? What can financial institutions – with all their power and influence – do to help create a better, fairer and more sustainable world?

This week, we spend some time with Bevis Watts, the UK managing director for Triodos Bank, a company which believes that banking can be a powerful force for good: serving individuals and communities as well as building a more sustainable society.

Welcome to the Better Business Show Friday Five, our brand new show coming to you at the end of every week. This is your dedicated 10-minute news round-up, digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This time, we're talking:

- Palm oil abuse

- The shameful steel industry

- Leonardo DiCaprio's new documentary

- The stigma of mental health in the workplace

- And the Paris Agreement

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This week, we meet Campbell Murray, the brains behind Takestock - an online platform based on the principles of eBay, to connect buyers and sellers of unwanted food. With 600,000 tonnes of food thrown away every year – at a cost to the UK economy of £1bn, here's a company trying to get to the heart of the age-old problem with supermarket-farmer relationships.

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And don't forget to check out our new Friday Five show, digesting all the best sustainable business news from the last seven days, every Friday.

Welcome to the very first Better Business Show Friday Five, our brand new show coming to you at the end of every week.

This is your dedicated 10-minute news round-up, digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This time, we're talking:

- Palm oil giant IOI and a tough new campaign from Greenpeace

- Brooklyn's new rooftop winery, Rooftop Reds

- BMW's new energy storage facility built from used EV batteries

- How the most sustainable dress in fashion was created

- And why Patagonia is getting involved in the US election

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Jonathon Porritt does not like to describe himself as a ‘greenie’ – not least because his work over the past 40 years has been as much about tackling economic, social and strategic issues as anything else – but he continues to bang the drum for progressive thinking, in politics, business and beyond.

And, as you’re about to find out during our extensive and wide-ranging interview this week, he continues to despair at the lack of government intervention in supporting companies of all shapes and sizes to get on the right path towards sustainability – describing as "utterly pathetic", the UK government’s insistence that letting companies make voluntary commitments is enough to transform the economy.

What makes somebody give up their €100k salary and CEO position to launch a start up at the age of 26?

Well, that’s what our guest this week has done. His company is HomeTree, a UK based tech start-up focused on alleviating the hassle too often associated with buying energy-saving equipment for your home.

Plus, this week's news round up features Nike's all-singing, all-dancing distribution centre, the problem with CEO salaries and why the world's biggest food companies still aren't taking deforestation seriously.

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