This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This week, we’re talking about: - How paint has saved the shipping sector $3bn in fuel savings (http://bit.ly/2oaCj8J) - Why big oil has joined the race to build sea-based wind farms (http://bloom.bg/2mS7DYI) - Which country tops the latest World Happiness ranking (http://bit.ly/2mxuE8b) - How and why the number of r...
Mar 24, 2017•12 min
A show title likely to get completely and utterly lost on our North American listeners, we appreciate….this time we’re with Jason Spitkoski, a man that has left his background as a tech developer behind to chase the dream of running a successful underwear business. He is the proud owner of Buddha Boxers, a company that is getting seriously comfortable that its raw material of bamboo is capable of blowing cotton out of the water as a sustainable material of choice in the 21st century.
Mar 20, 2017•37 min
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This week, we’re talking about: - The fact people want their cash ISAs to create more positive change in the world (http://bit.ly/2mCo5Nk) - A round-up of International Women’s Day from last week (http://bit.ly/2mWBYIY) - A woeful lack of effort to make use of recycled plastic by the world’s biggest drinks brands (ht...
Mar 17, 2017•13 min
As Fairtrade Fortnight kicks off, we speak with Sophi Tranchell, CEO of Divine Chocolate, a unique business majority-owned by the Ghanaian farmers at the end of its cocoa supply chain.
Feb 27, 2017•31 min
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This week, we’re talking about: - Heineken’s rampant growth while keeping emissions at bay (http://bit.ly/2meI20l) - 6 emerging trends on sustainability communications (http://bit.ly/2kS29gl) - Where in the world’s women’s workplace equality is best (http://bit.ly/2l36Pzj) - A new sustainable menswear range on the bl...
Feb 24, 2017•12 min
This week, we catch up with Natalie Grillon, co-founder and co-CEO of Project JUST, an online platform that wants you to seriously sort out your shopping habits out – and has Ivanka Trump's clothing line firmly in her sights.
Feb 20, 2017•33 min
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This week, we’re talking about: - Finance sector putting pressure on G20 to get out of fossil fuels (http://bit.ly/2m1uFMV) - Ivanka Trump’s untraceable clothing line (http://bit.ly/2lGlnGQ) - Trump’s latest effort to reverse the climate change efforts of EPA (http://bit.ly/2lqjPn7) - Walmart going down the science-b...
Feb 17, 2017•11 min
This week, we’re with the incredibly resourceful Alexie Seller, CEO and co-founder of Pollinate Energy, a genius start-up transforming the lives of those living in the slums of India by helping people to access clean energy solutions.
Feb 13, 2017•28 min
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This week, we’re talking about: - Unilever’s game-changing transparency on perfumes (http://bit.ly/2lqTiXa) - A new alternative to leather (http://kck.st/2kbj0d3) - New clean power exploding in Europe (http://bit.ly/2lqPBAs) - Business community’s response to Trump’s travel (http://bit.ly/2kzfWL0) - Waitrose’s 500-mi...
Feb 10, 2017•11 min
This week, we catch up with the brilliant Paul Lindley, founder of organic baby food business Ella’s Kitchen. “It’s about the why we do business, not necessarily the what we do business for. We must all find our why!”
Feb 06, 2017•36 min
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This week, we’re talking about: - Trump scrapping the Paris commitment (http://bit.ly/2k3aCNC) - adidas biodegradable shoes (http://bit.ly/2kkcBAA) - Deutchse Bank getting out of coal (http://bit.ly/2keLFQ3) - Tetra Pak the latest to adopt science based target (http://bit.ly/2k3sV4Y) - Why 98% of companies miss their...
Feb 03, 2017•10 min
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Jan 27, 2017•11 min
This week, we are with the exciting LanzaTech, a business using gas fermentation to take waste carbon from the atmosphere and turn it into biofuels – a move that might just shake up the entire renewable energy and transportation markets. Sean Simpson, co-founder of the business, joins us on Skype to tell us more.
Jan 23, 2017•25 min
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This week, we’re talking about - The World Economic Forum at Davos: So, what happened? (http://ind.pn/2iSarD7) - The Global 100 most sustainable companies (http://bit.ly/2iJc1fy) - IHG’s new trends report into what customers really want (http://bit.ly/2k8eV9O) - Natural branding on fruit and veg (http://bit.ly/2isKiz...
Jan 20, 2017•12 min
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This week, we’re talking about - Whether Trump will heed call of 600 businesses anxious about climate change (http://bit.ly/2j3Xtqk) - Greenpeace calls for internet giants to go green (http://bit.ly/1Iw3ZIu) - P&G’s zero-waste ambitions (http://bit.ly/2ioi2wx) - The top global risks as determined by the World Eco...
Jan 13, 2017•10 min
Happy new year! We are back, back, back with more great stories of sustainable business. This time, we are with Sprout, the promotional products business with a difference, giving pencils a second life and using the power of product to make serious messages about our throwaway culture easier to understand.
Jan 09, 2017•26 min
This week, we are joined by five of our previous guests who give us their personal highlights from the past 12 months, an assessment of the most significant moments from 2016 (not least the shock victory of The Donald) and their hopes for the year to come. Plus, I give you my top 9 highlights from 2016. Thanks to everybody for listening to the show this year and being a part of such a fantastic community of better business makers. Happy Christmas and here's top an excellent 2017 one and all.
Dec 19, 2016•32 min
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This week, we’re talking about - Amazon, the good…. (http://bit.ly/2gRqJQN) - …and the bad and ugly of everyone’s favourite online retailer (http://bit.ly/2gtn5fC) - A quick review of David Attenborough’s Planet Earth II (http://bbc.in/2eaKxx4) - IKEA’s push for new sustainable materials (http://bit.ly/2hrjoqc) - Kit...
Dec 16, 2016•11 min
Charitable giving has exploded in the last 12 months, with more than $168m donated on Giving Tuesday, a 20% jump on last year. But as our guest on this week's show says, there is more to giving than just cash donations. Hermione Taylor is the founder of Do Nation, an online platform which encourages people to give by changing their lifestyles and behaviours to help ease the burden on our beloved planet. Check out www.betterbusiness.show for more stories like this one.
Dec 12, 2016•29 min
Tune in to the Better Business Show Friday Five, our new-ish show coming to you at the end of every week to digest the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days. This week, we’re talking about - Why big brands are failing to display recycling labels on their products (http://bit.ly/2gfYb2V) - The company turning waste fat into renewable diesel (http://bit.ly/2fvxVj5) - Britain’s most disruptive business (http://bit.ly/2hsOE4J) - A nifty sustainable gift g...
Dec 09, 2016•12 min
Imagine a business set up with the sole intention of getting older people working. Well, that's what this week's guest business, Wooln has done. Find out why and how this New York-based fashion brand has made it happen. Also, this week, Gareth Kane gives us his Top 10 Sustainability Mistakes – and how to learn from them.
Dec 05, 2016•34 min
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, our 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 week, we’re talking about: - London’s new hydrogen buses (http://bit.ly/2fKUKMC) - WWF-labelled green and lean meals (http://bit.ly/2gu6Wpc) - Why New York’s trees are worth hundreds of millions of dollars (http://bit.ly/2h1OFjP) - Cool Effect’s ‘Save Our Snowman’ campaign (http://bit.ly/2gg3Guw)...
Dec 02, 2016•9 min
This time we are with Hugo Spowers, the brains behind Riversimple, the new car maker keen to rip up the rule book when it comes to how vehicles are powered and 'owned'. He has spent the last 16 years creating a business fit for the 21st century as people will ultimately be forced to banish their combustion engines completely.
Nov 28, 2016•38 min
This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, our 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 week, we’re talking: - adidas and its amazing new trainers - MPL, the Indonesian logger up to no good - why Marks & Spencer says human rights is the 'next big thing' - a round up of sustainable shopping campaigns - why recyclable stuff isn't being recycled Don't miss our two Better Business S...
Nov 25, 2016•14 min
In our information age full of concepts and stories, how do you make your ideas stick? According to this week's guest, comedy doesn’t just make people laugh. It makes them think. Belinda Raffy works with people with a passion for something – and a need to communicate that passion – to help them be funny. She says people can use comedy or improvisation to circumvent ingrained perspectives and challenge business as usual thinking – and it works.
Nov 21, 2016•41 min
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 week, we’re talking: - Palm oil pragmatism, at last - The new Veg Curious social movement - Investors waking up to climate change - Green Friday, a perfect antidote to Black Friday - Alaskan Airlines timber-powered flight Don't miss our two Better Business Show episodes a week by signing up...
Nov 18, 2016•11 min
This week we meet the rather brilliant Laura Thomson, a workplace learning expert who spends her time training people to maximise their potential. Laura has been closely monitoring the rise of robots in the workplace and is confident that the value of humans – in our creativity, our curiosity, our ability to care and empathise, and the way in which we can collaborate with each other - should not be ignored or underestimated in the face of the smarts and efficiency offered up by robots.
Nov 14, 2016•42 min
This time we're with Rob Webbon, a man on a mission to rip up the fast fashion rulebook with his sportswear brand. From the circular materials used in the production, to his philosophy to manufacture local, there are plenty of takeaways from Rob's vision for Grn Sportswear. Elsewhere, we talk COP22 and Trump v Clinton.
Nov 07, 2016•31 min
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 week, we’re talking: - The Paris Agreement, which has finally come into force - The fitness gear made from used coffee grounds - Tesla and its new solar roof tiles - Crispy Creme - giving free donuts to encourage people to vote in the US. - Millennials - those pesky youngsters that will soo...
Nov 04, 2016•14 min
More and more investors want to pour their money into making a positive contribution to society and the planet – but they don't really know where to start. As Good Money Week kicks off, we use this week's show to question how ethical investing can be used as a force for good and what people can do to make a real difference. You also get my review of Leonardo DiCaprio's new film, 'Before the Flood'.
Oct 31, 2016•24 min
