Tessa continues the conversation during the Corona lockdown, this time with global community builder and FinTech entrepreneur Ismail Chaib. Ismail is COO for TESOBE the Berlin-based company behind the Open Bank Project, an open source API platform that connects banks with active communities of developers and partners for innovation. But as 1,7 billion people worldwide are excluded from the benefits and entitlements provided by access to a bank account, Ismail talks about how money is in essence a social fiction that can and needs to be rewritten to include everyone and address poverty worldwide. Open banking is one way to start accelerating financial inclusion, rolling out universal basic income could be a second.

UN Sustainable Development Goal: No Poverty

Tessa takes the first morning of Corona lockdown in the Netherlands to speak with Funeral Director Susanne Duijvestein. They talk about the place death has in our society and how it influences the way we deal with nature. About the unethical and unsustainable industry and our last-act impact on the planet. Susanne realized that she needed to leave her job and took on a role serving a bigger system, our planet. She started her business Susanne Bij Afscheid embracing death as a part of life; looking at the healing beauty of reclaiming our own rites de passage and offering a different perspective/alternative for the conservative and money-making funeral industry.

UN Sustainable Development Goal: Life on Land

While in Paris, Tessa Wernink gets together with Solène Aymon, Head of Community at MakeSense, to learn about building communities and how listening to what people have to tell you can help us all take part in creating answers to bigger issues like education, migration, waste, woman empowerment or climate. MakeSense inspires and empowers citizens, entrepreneurs and organizations to build an inclusive and sustainable society together.

UN Sustainable Development Goal: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Tessa Wernink takes a train to Paris and speaks with Lucie Basch, co-founder of Too Good To Go. They talk about the collaborative economy and how linking people together creates horizontal power and accelerates impact. Too Good To Go is a global company that aims to inspire and empower everyone to take action and build a movement against food waste. Through a simple app, Too Good To Go connects stores to consumers who pay a small price and come to the stores to pick up food that would otherwise have been thrown away.

UN Sustainable Development Goal: Climate Action

Tessa Wernink speaks to Maayke-Aimee Damen and discovers that staying surprised by the world is a priceless asset. Maayke is the founder of Excess Materials Exchange - a digital marketplace that uses AI and blockchain to give waste a second life, offering companies practical solutions for the circular economy.

UN Sustainable Development Goal: Responsible Consumption and Production