Build, Repeat. (A Paces Podcast)

For Thanksgiving week, a bit of background on my climate journey and how Carbotnic came about! ------If you want to support the podcast there are two amazing ways!Subscribe to the Carbotnic patreon  Rate 5 stars on AppleThanks so much! JamesPaces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?

Really interesting to get into compostable plastics with Tony Bova,  CEO and founder of Mobius, a startup developing compostable plastics. We discussed how plastic use goes up with regenerative farming which makes compostable plastics an essential part of a sustainable food system, how plastics fit into circular economy, the careful consideration they gave the plastics value chain when deciding their go to market strategy, what universities can do to encourage more startups, how he balanced starting a startup with finishing a PHD and more!------If you want to support the podcast there are two amazing ways!Subscribe to the Carbotnic patreon  Rate 5 stars on AppleThanks so much! JamesPaces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?

Inspiring chat with Marcia Woods, founder and CEO of FreshSpoke, a marketplace that makes it easy to source local food by sustainability tapping into excess logistics capacity. We discussed why “local” is the future of food, the importance of logistics data to sustainable supply chains, how they managed multiple company pivots and what that meant for the types of investors who were most interested, how to balance supply and demand when the marketplace has more than 2 sides how to build an amazing founding team, where her passion for sustainability and entrepreneurship came from and more!---------------------------If you want to support the podcast there are two amazing ways!Subscribe to the Carbotnic patreon  Rate 5 stars on AppleThanks so much! JamesPaces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?

Really interesting podcast with Shadi Bakour, the CEO and Co-Founder of Pathwater, a company whose aluminum water bottles are designed to be refilled and reused infinitely unlike single use plastic water bottles. We discussed the importance of balance customer expectations and sustainability, how many times the typical path water bottle is reused and what its carbon footprint is, what it takes to expand a product across multiple countries, how celebrity association has been a game changer, responding to demand with multiple product lines, and more!------If you want to support the podcast there are two amazing ways!Subscribe to the Carbotnic patreon Rate 5 stars on AppleThanks so much! JamesPaces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?

A great chat on the importance of expanding our diets into a broader range of plants with Marc Diaz, SVP of Business Development at TerViva, a company which uses the Pongamia tree to create new food products and sequester soil carbon. We discussed the reasons why Pongamia has been under-utilized up to now, the important role soil can play in sequestering carbon, the recent revolution in plant based foods, the changing investment landscape for future of food companies, the importance of balancing technologies focused on both the mitigation and adaptation of climate change and more!------If you want to support the podcast there are two amazing ways!Subscribe to the Carbotnic patreon Rate 5 stars on AppleThanks so much! JamesPaces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?

Dived deep into supply chain sustainability with Allyson Quijano, Chief Sustainability Officer at Bext360, a SaaS platform to manage supply chain traceability and sustainability. We discussed how sustainability and risk management intersect at enterprises, how the team’s experience in the Congo drove the development of Bext360, how circular economy can affect traditional supply chain models, why blockchain technology is an amazing opportunity for green finance, how COVID has effected the understanding of supply chains and more!------If you want to support the podcast there are two amazing ways!Subscribe to the Carbotnic patreon Rate 5 stars on AppleThanks so much! JamesPaces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?

Really interesting chat with Peter Majeranowski, CEO of Tyton Biosciences which uses biotechnology to recycle cotton and polyester for nearly complete re-use in fashion. We discussed how Tyton started as a develop of biofuels, how their technique differs from conventional fabric recycling, how regulators are thinking about the new circular economy, the ways celebrities can have a positive impact on sustainable fashion, whether we should have carbon labeling of fabrics, how Peter’s background as a US naval officer was the beginning of his passion for sustainability and more!Paces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?

I became a cellular meat convert while chatting to Jalene Anderson-Baron! She is the co-founder of Future Fields, a biotech startup enabling cheaper development of cellular ag. We discussed how Future Fields is working to get cellular meat to price parity with conventional meat, how large food companies are reacting to cellular meat, whether the future kitchen includes a desktop meat maker, what it is was like attending YCominator’s first remote cohort, their plans for 2021 and more!------If you want to support the podcast there are two amazing ways!Subscribe to the Carbotnic patreon Rate 5 stars on AppleThanks so much! JamesPaces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?

Learned so much speaking with Connie Bowen, Director of Innovation and Investment at AgLaunch a network that connects farmers and startups as well as the cohost of the End of Agriculture podcast. We discussed the importance of diversity in both farmer networks and startup teams, the different types of investment opportunities in agriculture, why Irish butter doesn’t get the sustainability credit it deserves, the opportunities for sustainability minded farmers to go direct to consumer, why labor issues in agriculture are such a major and under-discussed aspect of agtech and more!------If you want to support the podcast there are two amazing ways!Subscribe to the Carbotnic patreon Rate 5 stars on AppleThanks so much! JamesPaces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?

Really interesting conversation with Manik Suri, CEO of CoInspect who build checklist and refrigeration monitoring solutions for food safety and sustainability. We discussed the importance of pivoting to find product market fit, how insight from their software product pointed them to a massive opportunity which they are meeting with their new product Therma, why first generation IoT cooling measurement tools failed, why making “clean cooling” cool is key to scaling decarbonization, where the biggest opportunities to reduce loss are in food supply chains, views on the Checklist Manifesto and more!------If you want to support the podcast there are two amazing ways!Subscribe to the Carbotnic patreon Rate 5 stars on AppleThanks so much! JamesPaces helps developers find and evaluate the sites most suitable for renewable development. Interested in a call with James, CEO @ Paces?