This week, we meet Auro Foxcroft, a man with a vision to turn a derelict pocket of East London into a living, breathing creative hub for start-ups across the capital. The disused Tube carriages on the roof are just part of this truly inspiring story of perseverance, determination and passion. Step inside Village Underground. For more great Better Business Show stories head to the website: www.betterbusiness.show
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, our brand new show coming to you at the end of every week – digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This time, we're talking: - why Tyson Foods is buying into the vegan market - the big HFC climate deal - Timberland's new boots made from recycled plastic bottles - the Disney-Dole deal to get kids eating more healthy food Don't miss our two Better Business Show episodes a week by signing up to ...
With 95p of every £1 spent in big supermarkets leaving the local economy, clearly they are no good for local communities. This week's guest business is proving that its social enterprise model can be applied to the often brutal supermarket sector. Meet HiSbe, a community-first food store that wants to built better relationships with customers, staff and suppliers. We also check in with the Global Alliance on Banking Values to explore how a group of banks are using finance to positively effect ch...
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, our brand new show coming to you at the end of every week – digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This time, we're talking: - Nespresso’s mission to kick-start South Sudan’s coffee industry continues - Companies are failing to consider the boundaries of the planet when setting targets - H&M’s new TV ads – and why everyone’s losing their minds over them - A boom in electric vehicle sales ...
What’s the point of banking? What can financial institutions – with all their power and influence – do to help create a better, fairer and more sustainable world? This week, we spend some time with Bevis Watts, the UK managing director for Triodos Bank, a company which believes that banking can be a powerful force for good: serving individuals and communities as well as building a more sustainable society.
Welcome to the Better Business Show Friday Five, our brand new show coming to you at the end of every week. This is your dedicated 10-minute news round-up, digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This time, we're talking: - Palm oil abuse - The shameful steel industry - Leonardo DiCaprio's new documentary - The stigma of mental health in the workplace - And the Paris Agreement Don't miss our two Better Business Show episodes a week by sig...
This week, we meet Campbell Murray, the brains behind Takestock - an online platform based on the principles of eBay, to connect buyers and sellers of unwanted food. With 600,000 tonnes of food thrown away every year – at a cost to the UK economy of £1bn, here's a company trying to get to the heart of the age-old problem with supermarket-farmer relationships. For more episodes, head to www.betterbusiness.show. And don't forget to check out our new Friday Five show, digesting all the best sustain...
Welcome to the very first Better Business Show Friday Five, our brand new show coming to you at the end of every week. This is your dedicated 10-minute news round-up, digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This time, we're talking: - Palm oil giant IOI and a tough new campaign from Greenpeace - Brooklyn's new rooftop winery, Rooftop Reds - BMW's new energy storage facility built from used EV batteries - How the most sustainable dress in ...
Jonathon Porritt does not like to describe himself as a ‘greenie’ – not least because his work over the past 40 years has been as much about tackling economic, social and strategic issues as anything else – but he continues to bang the drum for progressive thinking, in politics, business and beyond. And, as you’re about to find out during our extensive and wide-ranging interview this week, he continues to despair at the lack of government intervention in supporting companies of all shapes and si...
What makes somebody give up their €100k salary and CEO position to launch a start up at the age of 26? Well, that’s what our guest this week has done. His company is HomeTree, a UK based tech start-up focused on alleviating the hassle too often associated with buying energy-saving equipment for your home. Plus, this week's news round up features Nike's all-singing, all-dancing distribution centre, the problem with CEO salaries and why the world's biggest food companies still aren't taking defore...
This week, we meet Shaz Umbreen, a women on a mission to empower women through her high heels business. By channelling funds to support education programmes in the developing world, she believes the empowered women buying her shoes can inspire women everywhere to take control of their lives. For more episodes, check out www.betterbusiness.show
This week, we meet the founder of Honest Tea, Seth Goldman to find out what its like selling your baby to a corporate giant like Coca-Cola, something he did back in 2011. "We didn't set out to create a model of change; we wanted to be a driver of change," says Seth – something the deal has allowed him to do. Plus, check out our 10-min news round up, this week featuring Apple's tax avoidance, ink made from pollution and China's latest green skyscraper.
When does a charity become a business? This week, we're with the brilliant Toast Ale, a London-based company taking surplus bread that would have been thrown out and using it to make great tasting beer. Plus, this week's news round up features flying taxis, an app to grab cheap food, a Kickstarter-type platform with some real kick and the awesome Library of Things.
This week, we're in the company of Tom Robinson, a man on a mission to create healthier buildings with with his bio-composite alternative to traditional plasterboard. "Our products act as a set of lungs, absorbing the moisture when we cook and clean and then, when we sleep, breathing it back out." Plus, this week's news round-up features Rio's real Olympic legacy, the Premier League football sustainability quiz, the non-compliance naming and shaming debate, and Waitrose new pasta packaging.
Meet the man at the helm of Hubbub, a charity that knows how to get people excited about environmental issues. And it has the projects to prove it. Plus, our news round-up including stories on Toyota, Impossible Foods, timber and nano-farming.
This week we’re in the company of Rob Drake-Knight, co-founder of the super ethical and fully traceable t-shirt business Rapanui. How does this Isle of Wight-based manufacturing company continue to innovate, using the power of technology to boost its impact in the world. We also have an incredibly exciting announcement to make – which sees The Better Business Show launch its very own business with Rapanui’s off-the-shelf ethical supply chain. Check it out.
Gregor Gomory hopes to leverage the 'perfect storm' brewing as ocean waste hits the mainstream of environmentalism. His business, ByFusion, makes building blocks out of ocean plastic waste – and he wants to open source how they might be used in communities everywhere. Elsewhere this week, Vikki Knowles helps digest the week's happenings from across the better business world. And Joss Tantram concludes his 'Big Ideas' series. Enjoy.
From old decommissioned fire hose and parachute silk, to tea and coffee sacks and show leather scraps, Kresse Wesling has made it her lifetime mission to rid the world of waste, one small step at a time. And she’s doing it, all the while running a luxury goods business bringing stunning items to market. Find out the hows, whys and wherefores during this week’s show. Elsewhere, our news round-up features Ford’s decision to make plastic components from tequila, a damning new report on anti-corrupt...
Andy Middleton gives a resounding 'yes' in response to the question posed in today's show – can play help to create a better world? Through his organisation TYF – an adventure and activities-based business located on the Welsh coast – he believes getting people away from their desks in towns and cities and better connecting them to the natural world is the best way to encourage innovative, creative and sustainable thinking. Andy shares with us his vision for connecting the rules of nature to the...
There's a problem with plastic – from the way it is made to the way it is disposed of. But there is a better way. There is a better way of creating plastics by sucking nasty greenhouse gases out of the air, combining it with oxygen and forming pellets that can be used to form a range of plastic products. Meet Mark Herrema, CEO of New Light Technologies, a company truly shaking up the manufacturing sector. Plus, this weeks news round-up, featuring Norton Point, bioplastic tents, the new Hubbub we...
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 diffe...
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.
This week, we catch up with some of the world's best environmental and business journalists to find out what companies and start-ups are getting them most excited right now? Plus, all the latest sustainable business news with Vikki Knowles, including adidas, Marks & Spencer, China's wacky new buses and the UK's Brexit debate.
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.
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 bre...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 restaurant...
