#182 – Jesse Henry | Heartland – Sustainable Material Innovation in Automotive
Future of Mobility
English - November 19, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MBTechnology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jesse is the founder and CEO of Heartland, a leader in high-performance carbon-negative materials. Heartland’s drop-in additives help brands and suppliers reduce the cost, weight, and carbon footprint of the materials they use every day.
Key topics in this conversation include:
The importance of materials for sustainability
Why Heartland chose to provide carbon-negative additives rather than complete materials
Why tracking Scope 3 emissions is so difficult, but so critical
How Heartland’s additives ended up in automotive packaging
How sustainability can be embedded in our lives, outside of transportation
Links:
Show notes: http://brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/jessehenry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessehenryofficial/
https://www.heartland.io/
https://yuka.io/
https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessehenryofficial/
Bio
Jesse is the founder and CEO of Heartland, a leader in high-performance carbon-negative materials. Heartland’s drop-in additives help brands and suppliers reduce the cost, weight, and carbon footprint of the materials they use every day.
Previously, Jesse was a National Speaker for Tony Robbins and Chief of Staff at Intersection Capital. Earlier in his career, he wrote a book titled “The Millennial Merger: How to Sell, Manage, Empathize, and Communicate in a Multi-Generational Workforce.” He also did a TEDx Talk titled “The Theory of Success.” Jesse graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Entrepreneurship and Sales from Florida State University.
Heartland Bio
Heartland is a material science company that manufactures hemp fibers as additives for plastics. Their team helps manufacturers reduce their scope 3 emissions by using high-performance carbon-negative additives in raw materials and packaging. As an industrial hemp material processor, they work with farmers and manufacturers to ensure the product consistency of natural fibers that can be used across raw material supply chains. Heartland's materials help companies manufacture stronger, lighter, cheaper, and more sustainable products.
Future of Mobility:
The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, effective, and accessible mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields.
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