The Capitalist Hippie

By Marco Pimentel

Capitalist…Hippie. Two words that weren't meant to mix. One worships growth, disruption, and bottom lines. The other? Earth, equity, and a future worth believing in. For decades, they stood in opposit... more

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The podcast currently has 92 episodes available.

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May 31, 2023 Empowering You to Slash Your Own Carbon Footprint — with Jean-Louis Warnholz, Co-Founder and CEO of Future
Heatwaves in British Columbia deluges in Europe, pipes freezing in Texas. Our reality with climate change is collectively shifting and happening globally. Today's guest is Jean-Louis Warnholz, Co-Founder and CEO of Future, a fintech company that is encouraging carbon action as a smart economic choice by providing its members with incentives and five percent cashback for shopping secondhand, taking public transit, switching to EVs, and more. Jean-Louis knew he wanted to lower his household's carbon footprint when he saw firsthand the impact of climate change when he was working in Kenya and Ghana. Jean-Louis speaks with Marco on why planting trees is not what it's cut out to be, why climate action can start as an individual attainable shift using the FutureCard, and how a sustainable business can be built without relying on digital ads successfully. With over 20,000 users in the U.S. and counting, Future is showing us that the fintech industry can be disrupted one recycled plastic card at a time in favour of climate action.

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https://unlessbrands.com/episode-31-jean-louis-warnholz-future
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May 17, 2023 Giving Fast Fashion the Finger with Deadstock Textiles, Ethical Production, and Multi-Purpose Androgynous Looks — with Negin Izad, Owner of NOCTEX
Truckloads of our unwanted clothing are shipped to continents like Africa, disrupting their local economy and causing massive waste. Today's guest is Negin Izad, owner of NOCTEX, a slow-fashion clothing company that prioritizes form, utility, and ethical design. Negin grew up loving clothes and started sewing in high school. At age 17, the experience of working at a rag yard had Negin decide that she would work in the fashion industry only if she could do so ethically and with as little waste as possible. Negin speaks with Marco about how deadstock textiles became the backbone of her company, NOCTEX, how she built a brand with a loyal following based on solid ethics and transparency since her humble beginnings selling on Etsy, and how microtrends and fast fashion are contributing to unconscious and wasteful consumerism disconnecting consumers to the products they buy. With a warehouse now based in Los Angeles with the hope to have all of her operations based there to reduce even more waste, and core values in ethical production that are spearheading the future of fashion, NOCTEX is proof that slow fashion can be successful all while keeping our planet in mind.

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https://unlessbrands.com/episode-30-negin-izad-noctex
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May 03, 2023 Disrupting Food Packaging Standards with Shareable Stainless Steel Vessels — with Jason Hawkins, co-founder of Reusables
Only five percent of plastic gets recycled in the United States, with a large majority of bioplastic and compostables that cannot be adequately composted. Today's guest is Jason Hawkins, co-founder of Reusables, a zero-waste packaging platform offering a subscription-based for unlimited use of reusable packaging. Jason spent five years in scalable businesses like Rooted Foods Co., a farm-to-table venture that delivers food to students, worked for SPUD, Canada's largest online grocer, and from this experience, started a company that licensed circular e-grocery software to large grocery retailers like Carrefour in Europe, and Wal-Mart Canada. Jason talks to Marco about how Reusables began at the height of the pandemic as a zero-waste food delivery solution in partnership with Uber Eats and DoorDash, how eliminating barriers that prevent Reusables from being accessible is key, such as getting more locations to get on board as pick-up and drop-off stations, and how he sees shareable vessels becoming the default through the implementation of regulations, business practices or consumer preferences. With over 50 participating locations in Vancouver, Reusables is setting the stage for a new packaging system revolutionizing how we package food on the go.

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https://unlessbrands.com/episode-29-jason-hawkins-reusables
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April 19, 2023 Standing up to Systemic Exploitation of the Environment and People — with Colin Vernon, co-founder and CTO of Slow Factory
The system is built on oppression and keeps the wheels of exploitation turning, says today's guest, Colin Vernon, co-founder and CTO of Slow Factory, a New York-based environmental and social justice nonprofit organization. Colin has worn many hats over the years, from performer and musician to producer, community organizer, and self-taught coder, always with a key concern for social and environmental ethics. Colin speaks with Marco on building community power through open source education led by the global majority, producing and backing regenerative designs that are better for the environment, and on Slow Factory being for the builders, dreamers, and people who give a shit and who would instead choose transparency over profit. With over 400,000 followers on Instagram and hundreds of free and inclusive educational seminars, Slow Factory is showing us that leading structural change is possible, all while being economically and environmentally feasible.
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https://unlessbrands.com/episode-28-colin-vernon-slow-factory

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April 05, 2023 Crushing the food waste crisis with global food sharing app — with Tessa Clarke, co-founder and CEO of OLIO
Globally, a third or one trillion US dollars of all our foods gets thrown away every year. Tessa Clarke is today's guest and the Co-founder and CEO of OLIO — a food-sharing app aiming to reduce household and food waste by connecting neighbours with spare food or household items to others nearby. Growing up on a dairy farm in the UK, Tessa developed a keen appreciation of the value of food early on and a strong distaste for any food being wasted. Tessa speaks with Marco about how her smuggling of non-perishable foods at the bottom of her packing boxes sparked the idea for OLIO, what the name OLIO means, and its clever representation of the circular economy and the difference OLIO is making by empowering people to become part of the solution. With now seven million people using the app, this certified B Corp is re-inventing our consumer habits and demonstrating that building a carbon-negative company is achievable.
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March 22, 2023 Powering Hollywood and more with the next generation of portable power stations — with Mark Rabin, founder and CVO of Portable Electric
The 7 billion dollar energy market remained undisrupted…until Mark Rabin, today's guest, and founder and CVO of Portable Electric, came along. Mark founded Portable Electric in 2015 — a clean tech company that is kicking gas and diesel generators to the curb with their noise- and emissions-free portable power stations. A self-professed energy nerd, Mark started working on the oil rigs as a 20-something, and couldn't wrap his head around the wasteful drilling industry. Soon after, he got chummy with books like « The End of Oil, » and subsequently dubbed the energy transition to be the single greatest opportunity for humanity to transform and build a greener future. Mark speaks with Marco on his humble beginnings in portable power systems in South Africa and Namibia, how Portable Electric made money from day one leasing equipment, and reasons the film industry became an early supporter of Portable Electric clean energy e-generators. Now available in 14 countries around the globe, with nearly 700 units in the field, Portable Electric is paving the way for the next generation of clean mobile power, and demonstrating that the future is electric and here to stay.

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https://unlessbrands.com/episode-26-mark-rabin-portable-electric
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March 08, 2023 Jenn Harper, Founder and CEO — Cheekbone Beauty
In this week's episode, we welcome Jenn Harper, CEO and Founder of Cheekbone Beauty. Cheekbone Beauty is a sustainable and socially conscious beauty brand with a mission to help Indigenous youth see and feel their enormous value in the world while creating sustainable cosmetics. Cheekbone Beauty is known for creating clean, vegan, and sustainable colour cosmetics using Indigenous wisdom. The brand uses the concept of Life Cycle Thinking in the brand's ethos and developing products, maintaining a high level of sustainability efforts, transparency, and integrity within the company. In 2020, Cheekbone Beauty launched SUSTAIN, a less-waste line of lipsticks with the vision to significantly impact Indigenous youth's lives while leaving less of an impact on our planet. Jenn regularly speaks to university and high school students about social entrepreneurship, empathy, and the history of her Indigenous family. Follow us on Instagram @someonelikeyoupodcast. https://unlessbrands.com/episode-25-jenn-harper-cheekbone-beauty/
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February 22, 2023 René Gauthier, Founder — Ecologyst
In this week's episode, we welcome René Gauthier, founder of the sustainable fashion lifestyle brand, Ecologyst. René knew he wanted to change the system. But turning away from the successful business he had already built, whose manufacturing and supply chains relied on traditional models, was no easy feat. It meant completely reshaping how the company did business. At Ecologyst, René and his team are committed to a greener future where we buy less, buy better, and build a lasting relationship with our clothing. All of Ecologyst's apparel is made in Canada and the U.S. which supports local jobs and creates the highest quality product made of all-natural biodegradable materials like organic cotton and merino wool. Carbon off-set, future-focused and wearable, Ecologyst's goal is nothing less than the death of fast fashion and a fundamental shift in how we wear, care, and love our clothing. Follow us on Instagram @someonelikeyoupodcast. https://unlessbrands.com/episode-24-rene-gauthier-ecologyst/ Quick LinksGet Embed PlayerDownload Audio File
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45min
February 08, 2023 Lee Reitelman, Co-Founder and CEO — PlantPaper
In this week's episode, we welcome Lee Reitelman, an entrepreneur working at the intersection of health and sustainability and CEO and co-founder of PlantPaper, a tree-free, toxin-free toilet paper company. PlantPaper was founded to radically change our current toilet paper industry and hygienic practices. Currently, 27,000 trees per day are flushed down the world's toilet, and over a gallon of bleach, formaldehyde, and other chemicals are included per roll. The toilet paper at PlantPaper is made of FSC Certified organically grown bamboo pulp with absolutely zero chlorine or formaldehyde and other toxic chemicals. Being one of the world's fastest-growing plants and capable of growing up to three feet in 24 hours, bamboo is an ideal alternative for the production of environmentally-friendly toilet paper. Bamboo requires very little water, and no fertilizer, and regenerates on its own after cutting. In fact, the more regularly bamboo is harvested, the faster it grows. Lee is a long-time educator, a graduate of Princeton University, and is also the co-author of the Greenhouse Cookbook: a Guide to Recreational Juicing, a best-selling book of plant-based recipes. Follow us on Instagram @someonelikeyoupodcast.
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58min
January 25, 2023 Steph Speirs, Co-Founder and CEO — Solstice
In this week's episode, we welcome Steph Spiers, voted 2022's New England Entrepreneur of the year. Steph is co-founder and CEO at Solstice, an enterprise dedicated to radically expanding the number of American households that can take advantage of clean energy using community-shared solar farms. Solstice's mission is to work towards greater energy equity and a future in which clean energy works for every American household, regardless of income level, credit score, or any other factor. More so, Solstice has developed « The EnergyScore, » for a more inclusive solar future. Steph is an entrepreneur and community builder with management experience in the middle east, south Asia, and the United States. She believes in deliberate innovation leading to social progress and, through her work at Solstice, wants struggling families to access the same opportunities she's been fortunate to have. Follow us on Instagram @someonelikeyoupodcast.
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FAQs about The Capitalist Hippie:

How many episodes does The Capitalist Hippie have?

The podcast currently has 92 episodes available.