The Better Business Show

This week, we meet Shaz Umbreen, a women on a mission to empower women through her high heels business. By channelling funds to support education programmes in the developing world, she believes the empowered women buying her shoes can inspire women everywhere to take control of their lives.

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This week, we meet the founder of Honest Tea, Seth Goldman to find out what its like selling your baby to a corporate giant like Coca-Cola, something he did back in 2011. "We didn't set out to create a model of change; we wanted to be a driver of change," says Seth – something the deal has allowed him to do.

Plus, check out our 10-min news round up, this week featuring Apple's tax avoidance, ink made from pollution and China's latest green skyscraper.

When does a charity become a business? This week, we're with the brilliant Toast Ale, a London-based company taking surplus bread that would have been thrown out and using it to make great tasting beer.

Plus, this week's news round up features flying taxis, an app to grab cheap food, a Kickstarter-type platform with some real kick and the awesome Library of Things.

This week, we're in the company of Tom Robinson, a man on a mission to create healthier buildings with with his bio-composite alternative to traditional plasterboard. "Our products act as a set of lungs, absorbing the moisture when we cook and clean and then, when we sleep, breathing it back out."

Plus, this week's news round-up features Rio's real Olympic legacy, the Premier League football sustainability quiz, the non-compliance naming and shaming debate, and Waitrose new pasta packaging.

Meet the man at the helm of Hubbub, a charity that knows how to get people excited about environmental issues. And it has the projects to prove it.

Plus, our news round-up including stories on Toyota, Impossible Foods, timber and nano-farming.

This week we’re in the company of Rob Drake-Knight, co-founder of the super ethical and fully traceable t-shirt business Rapanui. How does this Isle of Wight-based manufacturing company continue to innovate, using the power of technology to boost its impact in the world.

We also have an incredibly exciting announcement to make – which sees The Better Business Show launch its very own business with Rapanui’s off-the-shelf ethical supply chain. Check it out.

Gregor Gomory hopes to leverage the 'perfect storm' brewing as ocean waste hits the mainstream of environmentalism. His business, ByFusion, makes building blocks out of ocean plastic waste – and he wants to open source how they might be used in communities everywhere.

Elsewhere this week, Vikki Knowles helps digest the week's happenings from across the better business world. And Joss Tantram concludes his 'Big Ideas' series. Enjoy.

From old decommissioned fire hose and parachute silk, to tea and coffee sacks and show leather scraps, Kresse Wesling has made it her lifetime mission to rid the world of waste, one small step at a time. And she’s doing it, all the while running a luxury goods business bringing stunning items to market. Find out the hows, whys and wherefores during this week’s show.

Elsewhere, our news round-up features Ford’s decision to make plastic components from tequila, a damning new report on anti-corruption, the worrying pay-gap emerging within the retail sector and Tesco’s cage-free hen egg stance.

Andy Middleton gives a resounding 'yes' in response to the question posed in today's show – can play help to create a better world?

Through his organisation TYF – an adventure and activities-based business located on the Welsh coast – he believes getting people away from their desks in towns and cities and better connecting them to the natural world is the best way to encourage innovative, creative and sustainable thinking.

Andy shares with us his vision for connecting the rules of nature to the way we design our businesses – and why we need to put our values at the heart of what we do (and why play is so crucial to that process).

There's a problem with plastic – from the way it is made to the way it is disposed of. But there is a better way.

There is a better way of creating plastics by sucking nasty greenhouse gases out of the air, combining it with oxygen and forming pellets that can be used to form a range of plastic products. Meet Mark Herrema, CEO of New Light Technologies, a company truly shaking up the manufacturing sector.

Plus, this weeks news round-up, featuring Norton Point, bioplastic tents, the new Hubbub website NeatStreets.co and the West Virginian hemp sector.