Why It Matters

Why It Matters

By Luke MartirosBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Why It Matters episodes

  • April Mendez: How Nature Can Protect, Replenish, and Revitalize our Communities

    馃搷Minneapalis, Minnesota, USA. April Mendez is the CEO of Greenprint Partners and is scaling a concept called green infrastructure. The idea behind it is to supplement grey infrastructure, like pipes and sewers, with green infrastructure, like a garden. In this episode we talk about how green infrastructure is protecting communities, replenishing them with nature, and creating spaces for communities to gather.

    UN Sustainable Development Goal: 9 路 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, 11 路 Sustainable Cities & Communities

    33 min
  • Tanya Khotin: Impact Investing and Why Its A Trend That Isn't Going Away
    馃搷Catskills, NY, USA. With 25 years of impact investing experience, Tanya Khotin understands how the space operates. Traditionally investors have evaluated companies by measuring how the world impacts their company, but this is changing. Investors are now measuring how companies affect the world, and they're holding them accountable for it. This new era of investment analysis is being led by people like Tanya.聽
    UN Sustainable Development Goals: 4 路 Quality Education, 8 路 Decent Work & Economic Growth
    54 min
  • John-Paul Maxfield on Change, Decentralized Finance, and Climate
    馃搷Denver, CO, USA. The world is changing at its fastest pace ever. New technologies are emerging and growing while existing cracks in the system get bigger. How will these two trends combine to create a brighter future? In this episode, we explore how change is occurring today and the opportunity for systems like DAOs to support that change, especially in regards to supplementing institutional investments in climate change.
    UN Sustainable Development Goals: 9 路 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, 13 路 Climate Action
    43 min
  • Rastra Bhandari: Living in the Himalayas for 3 Months, and What It Taught Me About Climate Change
    馃搷Abu Dhabi, UAE. For three months, Rastra Bhandari lived in the Himalayan mountains, studying how the water crisis impacted the communities living there. The region provides water to over 2.5 billion people, and with more ice melting from climate change, there are emerging geopolitical tensions between superpowers like China and India. While the water crisis represents a challenge, it also presents an opportunity for us to collaborate through nature, a medium that all of us are connected to.
    UN Sustainable Development Goal: 6 路 Clean Water & Sanitation
    42 min
  • Jason Graham-Nye on the Circular Economy and Reinventing Diapers
    馃搷Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. Jason Graham-Nye, and he is reinventing how a diaper is made. Current diapers are unsustainable as they are made out of plastic and require one cup of oil to create one diaper. Jason discovered a way to make the same product with different materials. He co-founded gDiapers with his wife, which takes used diapers, composts them in soil, and uses that soil to create the materials for new diapers. Thus creating a circular life for his product.
    UN Sustainable Development Goal: 12 路 Responsible Consumption & Production
    51 min
  • Mandar Apte: The Formula for Creating Peace in Your Life
    馃搷Bombay, Maharashtra, India. Mandar Apte is the executive director of cities4peace. He is focused on building more peaceful and compassionate communities and does so by guiding individuals through deep inner transformations. By enhancing their mental and social wellbeing, the social connectedness of people within the community strengthens.
    UN Sustainable Development Goal: 16 路 Peace
    46 min
  • Dr. David Vik: The Story of How Zappos Created a Company Culture
    馃搷Los Altos, California, USA. As the former Head of Culture at Zappos, Dr. David Vik was on the ground floor when Zappos designed their company culture. Whether it was the chair shaped like a king鈥檚 throne for employees to vent or a policy allowing employees to give each other $50 bonuses, David created a place where people wanted to come to work. In this episode, he shares the secrets to creating strong relationships and connections within organizations.
    UN Sustainable Development Goal: 10 路 Reduced Inequalities
    35 min
  • Tim Leberecht: Making Business More Beautiful through Love and Romance
    馃搷Lisbon, Portugal. Tim Leberecht is the co-founder of The House of Beautiful Business, a global think tank on a mission to make business more beautiful.聽By drawing on the love and romance that comes from the arts and humanities, business can shift to become a way for people to feel alive through what they do, instead of being driven by an exchange of goods and services.
    UN Sustainable Development Goals: 4 路 Quality Education, 10 路 Reduced Inequalities, 16 路 Peace
    46 min
  • Dr. Harriet Fesq: It's Not the '80's Anymore, Business Has a New Relationship
    馃搷Sydney, Australia. The original role of business was to provide goods and services to a community. If they harmed the community more than they helped it, like a drug store selling deadly medicine, they would go out of business. Today, however, businesses can survive while being harmful to their communities, because the communities don鈥檛 have the same power that they used to have. This dynamic has led to many questions, like what should the impact of a business be? As co-founder of Impact Lab Global, Harriet is not only asking those questions, but guiding the people who are exploring them.
    UN Sustainable Development Goal: 17 路 Partnerships
    52 min

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