The Capitalist Hippie

In this week's episode, we welcome Jonathan Shieber, Chief Editor and Venture Partner at FootPrint Coalition, a venture capital firm founded by Robert Downey Junior that prioritizes investment in high-growth companies that have a strong focus on sustainability. FootPrint Coalition brings together a community of supporters by entertaining, informing, and mobilizing the public with original and curated content that features the people, policies, and companies working toward planetary restoration. The company works with entrepreneurs and investors and backs them up with their own capital and media support and has opened its investments for its audience to get involved. Jonathan has 15-plus years in climate tech reporting and has previously worked at TechCrunch as their climate editor, contributor editor, senior editor, and writer. At FootPrint Coalition, Jonathan uses the power of storytelling to advance FootPrint Coalition's mission and to spread awareness about companies and their people who are doing what's right for our planet. Follow us on Instagram @someonelikeyoupodcast.

In this week's episode, we welcome Sahar Sam, Co-Founder and CSO at Solaires Entreprises Inc. Sahar holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master's in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Victoria. She has over 15 years of managerial experience in the industrial and academic environment and is the inventor of the fabrication process for transparent conductive films and thin-film solar cells at Solaires Entreprises Inc. The company is developing the next generation of solar cells to make solar energy more accessible, with the goal to help Canadians achieve zero gas emissions. The revolutionizing technology is light, flexible, and highly efficient and can be installed and absorb solar energy from anywhere such as on windows, electric cars, and phones, and can even absorb light from light bulbs. Solaires technology also cuts down emissions of solar panel production by 40%. Follow us on Instagram @someonelikeyoupodcast.

In this week's episode, we welcome Jackie Prince, Co-Founder of Guests on Earth, a brand of eco-friendly home care products that aims to restore the balance between people and the planet. Jackie is an established marketing professional with fifteen-plus years of experience as a creative strategist for brands like TikTok, Facebook, Neutrogena, L'Oréal, and more. Like many of us at the beginning of the pandemic, Jackie found herself cleaning her home more frequently. Cleaning felt like a chore and although the result was rewarding, the process was anything but, not to mention toxic. This inspired Jackie and Co-Founder Liz Drayton to design a brand of home care products that would elevate daily cleaning as an enjoyable sensory experience, blending intentional design and sustainability, and offering biodegradable plant- and mineral-base concentrated cleaning formulas and hand soaps presented in refillable aluminum containers. Follow us on Instagram @someonelikeyoupodcast and visit https://unlessbrands.com/podcast.

In this week's episode, we welcome Kelly Erhart, President & Co-Founder of Project Vesta. The mission of Project Vesta is to advance the science of Coastal Carbon Capture — the ocean's equivalent of planting trees to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Coastal Carbon Capture harnesses the power of the oceans to accelerate the earth's natural long-term carbon dioxide removal process and can be accelerated by taking carbon-removing olivine sand and spreading it in coastal areas. Kelly is a repeat co-founder with a passion for our planet committed to reframing complex issues into applied solutions. In July, Project Vesta launched their very first field project in the town of Southampton, NY, where olivine was spread on North Sea Beach. Follow us on Instagram @someonelikeyoupodcast and visit https://unlessbrands.com/podcast.

In this week's episode, we welcome Miguel Calatayud, a social entrepreneur in the alternative proteins, agriculture, food, tech and nutrition industry and CEO and director of iwi, an innovative and sustainable algae-based nutrition company. Iwi produces a microscopic algae strain rich in omega-3 with 50% more absorption of omega-3 than fish and krill oil. Iwi uses saltwater and the sun for minimal environmental impact and grows algae on non-arable land, creating jobs in the rural communities of Texas and New Mexico. Dubbed as "The New Farmers," iwi is reinventing the wheel of farming by reaping the benefits of nature without doing any harm to the environment; and as a reward, producing nutrient-dense food with more essential amino acids and vital nutrients using fewer resources per acre than traditional farming.

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In this week's episode, we welcome Lucy Hargreaves, Head of Public Affairs and Policy at Patch, a platform that powers climate action with a mission to reach giga-tonne scale carbon sequestration. With its application programming interface —or API— and marketplace, Patch enables people and businesses to seamlessly purchase as little as a gram to giga-tonnes of carbon removal from reputable and trusted carbon removal projects. Lucy is a seasoned leader, strategist, and operator with twenty-plus years of global experience focused on climate action and sustainability in rapidly growing startups, politics, the OECD, and private foundations.

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In this week's episode, we welcome Julie Poitras-Saulnier, CEO and Co-founder of Loop Mission, a food waste fighting powerhouse that reduces food waste by repurposing unwanted fruits and veggies into juices and smoothies, probiotic sodas, beers, spirits, handcrafted soaps and more. Based in Montreal, Julie and her partner and co-founder David Côté both worked in the food industry, and with that experience and their deep passion for the planet, they launched Loop Mission together. Loop Mission's ultimate goal is to eventually get every food manufacturing business to source raw ingredients and materials through a circular economy model, which in turn, would create a lasting positive impact on the environment.

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In this week's episode, we welcome Janna Bishop, Co-founder and CEO at Flourist, a premium Canadian dry goods company with a mission to protect Canadian farmlands and create food security for future generations. While Janna worked as an apparel designer at Mountain Equipment Co-op, she started a side hustle selling chickpeas, lentils and wheat from her family's Saskatchewan farm to Vancouver restaurants and retail outlets. In 2014, Janna connected with co-founder Shira McDermott to officially launch Flourist. Now in its seventh year with its flagship bakery located in east Vancouver, Flourist has earned a reputation for transparency, community building and quality ingredients.

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In this week's episode, Marco Pimentel is joined by Paul Long, founder and designer at ANIÁN, a circular fashion company based on the west coast of Canada. Paul is passionate about the outdoors and the environment, and passionate about creating change in the retail and textile industry and boosting the local economy. The collections at ANIÁN are inspired by time spent in nature, designed to withstand its elements and made with natural fibres such as recycled Melton wool used for their very popular Modern Melton wool shirts. With 90% of textiles that end up in landfills, in 2019 alone, ANIÁN managed to take over 60,000 pounds of post-consumer textile waste. With stores now in Victoria and Vancouver, ANIÁN is a leader in circular fashion and continues to inspire us towards a greener more, sustainable future.

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In this week's episode, Marco Pimentel welcomes Ann Radil, Head of Carbon Reduction at Neutral, an ex-NASA funded scientist and fifth generation rancher who is incredibly passionate about climate-friendly initiatives. Neutral is the first carbon food neutral company in the United States on a mission to radically reduce the carbon footprint of agriculture, starting with dairy farming. Neutral milk is certified carbon neutral, pasture-raised on family farms, certified organic with no GMOS, no synthetic hormones, no toxic pesticides, and no antibiotics. Neutral works with farmers on new innovative research projects that help to reduce the amount of carbon that is released through sequestration, regenerative farming practices, manure management and the change in the cows' diet. Neutral is fortunate enough to have received funds from Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Mark Cuban, Lebron James, musician John Legend, and more.

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