The Better Business Show

The Better Business Show

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The Better Business Show episodes

  • #25 The fashion house shaking up the industry by ensuring models actually eat
    This week, we're in the company of Heidy Rehman, founder and managing director of Rose & Willard, an ethical and feminist British womenswear brand based in London.
    This is a company which has made pieces for Jennifer Aniston and Gemma Arterton. This is a company that pays interns. This is a company that makes sure its models eat properly.
    This is a company with the lowest carbon footprint in the fashion Industry. And this is a company that is always looking to source materials that are different, such as fish leather.
    Plus, this week we kick off a brand new series: Thoughts, provocations and big ideas for a sustainable future, with the marvellous Joss Tantram from Terrafiniti.
    48 min
  • #24 From ethics campaigner to viable smartphone business, meet Fairphone
    This week, we're in the company of Bibi Bleekemolen, impact development manager at Fairphone, the smartphone business with a difference.
    How did this campaigning organisation go from banging the drum on supply chain ethics, to launching a smart smartphone with a super transparent supply chain – no mean feat of the often murky world of conflict minerals and widespread human rights abuse? We ask Bibi to reveal all.
    46 min
  • #22 Meet Cook, the frozen food business employing ex-offenders
    This week, we meet Charlotte Sewell from Cook, the frozen food business doing more than most to create true social impact, whether in employing ex-offenders or helping staff to fulfil their dreams.
    Plus, our news round-up features Marks & Spencer (and it's first human rights progress report), the beer company making edible packaging, the problem with cement, and non-EU Norway's tough stance on deforestation.
    59 min
  • #21 The world's first zero carbon brewery
    This week, we are in the mountains of Austria with global beer maker Heineken, to meet the team behind the world's first zero carbon brewery.
    Reducing the pollution associated with its more than 160 breweries worldwide is a key priority for the business. In fact, by 2020 carbon emissions coming from its beer production will be cut by 40% should it meet internal goals. Michael Dickstein, the company's global director for sustainable development, explains how the impressive project at the Goss brewery in Austria sets the bar for what is to come as the business continues to prove its worth as a responsible company, fit for the 21st century.
    42 min
  • #20 What does it mean to be a B Corporation?
    This week, we're in the company of Adam Garfunkel, MD of Junxion – one of the UK's first 100 registered B Corps – to find out what that even means and why you might want to go down the same route.
    Plus, this week's news round-up features monkey-dating with the Body Shop, bricks made from old cigarette butts and the new vodka made from San Francisco's fog.
    48 min
  • #19 Using drones to deliver solar power to Africa
    This week, we meet Mobisol – a German solar energy business with an awesome business model for scaling up clean energy use across Africa. And if they can get drones to deliver units in remote villages and towns, the game changes forever.
    Plus, we play 'Lovable Brand or Fake Corporate Imitation', catch up on Kansas City's new sustainable streetcar, get to grips with Mars' new energy commitments and find out whether The Simpsons can actually teach your kids to care for the planet.
    55 min
  • #18 The Marxist Capitalist way to do business
    Meet Simon Biltcliffe, the man at the helm of Webmart, a successful print management company that combines both Capitalist and Marxist ideals to running his business that cares just as much about emotional and intellectual value as financial.
    Plus, this week's news round up, including sustainable seafood, Waitrose TV ads, Emma Watson's dress and wastewater-treating earthworms.
    56 min
  • #17 Forget Facebook. Meet the social network for social good
    This week we meet Nick Davies, founder of Neighbourly.com, the social network for social good. Find out how this unique platform is creating positive change across the UK.
    Plus, our news round-up features new London mayor Sadiq Khan, solar-mad Etsy and Ikea's new range of products.
    54 min
  • #16 Kuli Kuli, transforming lives (and diets) with super superfood
    Meet Kuli Kuli, the US-based business making use of the moringa plant to create a range of energy and health bars. We're in conversation with Lisa Curtis, the CEO, who explains why moringa is a plant that has the potential to not only change the health and dietary habits of those in the West, but also the lives and livelihoods of farming communities across the developing world.
    Our 10-minute news segment (starts at 25:00) this week features the app making it easier to find sustainable restaurants, the fall-out of SunEdison's bankruptcy and how our clothes could soon be digitally tagged providing the ultimate transparency tool for apparel companies everywhere.
    39 min

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For organisations that want to change the world, The Better Business Show offers insight, inspiration and hope by exploring the people and companies proving that sustainable business models do work.