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Aug 31, 2022 • 16min

Flashback: How Can We Create Water from Thin Air?

Last year, Talib talked with Source Global CEO and Founder Cody Friesen about how his company collects water by using hydropanels. They harness the energy of the sun to draw water vapor from the atmosphere. The company also received $7 million from Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital, to scatter the hydro panels across California’s Central Valley.
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Aug 24, 2022 • 14min

Flashback: How Can We Make Our Furniture More Sustainable?

Last year, Talib sat down with Lonely Whale Executive Director Dune Ives about the NextWave Plastics initiative that comprises a group of multinational companies committed to reducing plastic waste. She’s joined by a couple of representatives from two of those member companies: HP’s Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer Ellen Jackowski and Jane Abernethy, the Chief Sustainability Officer at Humanscale.  
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Aug 22, 2022 • 25min

FROM FRESHWORKS AND FAST CO. WORKS: What is the future of the employee experience?

Every company’s success is tied to its talent - recruiting and retaining the employees needed to deliver high-level customer experiences that support the bottom line. Yet rapid transformation has disrupted many things that organizations used to do to maintain great company cultures. So how can business leaders reimagine their employee experiences to meet the needs of their workforces? How does that translate into better customer experiences? In this thought-provoking podcast episode, FastCo Works will hear from Freshworks CMO Stacey Epstein as she shares some of the latest industry best practices and learnings for companies navigating these work culture shifts.
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Aug 17, 2022 • 13min

Flashback: How Can We Make Clothing More Sustainable?

Last year, Talib talked with Vanessa Barboni Hallik, the founder and CEO of Another Tomorrow, an end-to-end sustainable design company to chat about technology-enabled transparency and a circular economy.
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Aug 10, 2022 • 13min

Flashback: How Playing Video Games Could Help Feed Hungry Children

Last year, Talib sat down with hive CEO and co-founder Jenifer Willig to discuss her work on creating a video game that helps fight malnutrition. According to UNICEF, severe acute malnutrition threatens an estimated 16 million children worldwide and claims the lives of approximately one million more. One of the most common interventions by the UN is to provide Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food packets.
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Aug 3, 2022 • 17min

Flashback: How it's Not Impossible to Fix the Absurdities in the World

Last year, Talib talked with Mick Ebeling, the founder of Not Impossible, a social innovation lab and production company and his Managing Director Adam Dole, who is also the cofounder of Bento, a mobile platform they created to end hunger. They discussed why Not Impossible strives to solve the world's absurdities and how Bento brings dignity to those who experience food insecurity.
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Jul 27, 2022 • 19min

Flashback: How this Pregnancy Test Protects Your Privacy and the Environment

Hey everyone, as part of our continuing summer series, we’re looking back on some of our previous episodes. Last year, Talib sat down with Lia Diagnostics co-founders Bethany Edwards and Anna Couturier to discuss how they decided to revolutionize the home pregnancy test.
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Jul 20, 2022 • 17min

Flashback: How We Can Borrow from the Greeks and Improve Our Democracy

As part of our continuing summer series, we’re looking back on some of our previous episodes. Last year, Talib talked with Adam Cronkright about of by for*, a non-partisan, non-profit organization he co-founded, which aims to replace politicians with everyday people.
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Jul 13, 2022 • 19min

Flashback: How This Author Turned One Book into a Multimedia Business

We're taking a look back at some of our favorite moments over the past year and a half. This week we're going back to our conversation with Jelani Memory, the founder and CEO of A Kids Company About. Memory first wrote about his own experience with racism for his kids and then turned that into a multimedia business.
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Jul 6, 2022 • 20min

Flashback: How Beyond Meat is Putting Plants at the Center of the Plate

We're taking a look back at some of our best moments over the past year and a half. This week we're going back to our conversation with Beyond Meat Founder and CEO Ethan Brown about why he wants to see more people embracing a plant-based diet.

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