Latest Indianamerican Podcast Episodes
Eden Green Technology - Everyone Deserves Nutritious, Fresh, and Safe Food.
Mindful Businesses - May 07, 2024 13:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn the United States, 90% of the lettuce is produced and shipped from California to the rest of the country. When we combine the impact of this long journey on the environment, cost and 30% loss in farm produce - makes vertical farms close to consumption a viable alternative. In this episode, we...
Imani Collective - Global Social Enterprise Empowering Artisans
Mindful Businesses - March 26, 2024 13:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAfrica with its rich arts and crafts have so much to offer to the world. We are excited to find online or in a nearby store a unique, one of a kind piece from a land far away. But we should pause to think as to how much of what we pay actually goes back to the artisans and their communities. Tod...
Ajiri Tea - Creating a Sustainable Cycle of Employment and Opportunity in Kenya.
Mindful Businesses - March 19, 2024 13:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWhat does it take to start a business several thousands of miles away, and that too when you were just 19. Kate Holby co-founded Ajiri tea with her sister Sara Kolby, to create a full cycle of sustainable aid. Because education is a sustainable investment, 100% of the net profits go back to Keny...
Swahili Coast - Worker-Owned, Worker-Managed, Worker-Financed Fashion
Mindful Businesses - February 27, 2024 14:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSwahili Coast partners with artisans in East Africa to craft ethically handmade, fair trade, adventure-ready accessories.It connects them to global markets using principles of fairness, dignity, and respect. Swahili Coast strives to support the creation of worker-owned cooperatives and provide c...
Synthica Energy- Renewable Natural Gas
Mindful Businesses - January 11, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsNatural gas used to heat our homes, cook our meals and sometimes even to move our cars comprises mainly of Methane - a know greenhouse gas. While we go on this journey to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels and green house gasses, there needs to be a sustainable alternative to conventional natur...
Trustrace -Tracing For Fashion - Episode 2 of 2
Mindful Businesses - November 21, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe like to check in with some of our previous guests to see how their business has changed, what goals were achieved and the ones that were not. How they may have pivoted or continued the path they had chosen. It is a pleasure to have Shameek Ghosh, CEO of Trustrace -Tracing for Fashion. He joi...
Fiber 52 - Working With Nature For Sustainable Cotton
Mindful Businesses - October 31, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsCotton fiber and fabric is considered to be one of the most natural material. Given that, who would have thought that the process of manufacturing cotton fabric uses materials and techniques that cause environmental damage. Cotton needs to be cleaned and the “trash” removed for the cotton to bec...
Open Water - More Ocean Less Plastic
Mindful Businesses - October 10, 2023 13:29 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs we open our kitchen faucets and fill a glass with drinking water, we probably don’t realize that around 2 billion people globally do not have access to clean and safe drinking water. Clean and safe potable water is such a basic necessity but is still inaccessible to one-fourth of the populati...
Sakhya - South Asian Fashion Resale
Mindful Businesses - September 26, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFriendship and support is what creates a community and a sense of belonging. That is exactly what our guest Priyasha Shah, Founder of Sakhya wanted to create amongst the women who love South Asian fashion and styles. She started the platform Sakhya where sellers could post their pre-loved saris...
RODE Architects - Transformative Design Through Collaboration
Mindful Businesses - September 12, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode we chat with Ben Wan, Principal at RODE Architects about the roles architects can play in reducing the impact of climate change on our planet. Given that over 40% of all energy produced is used to run the buildings, how can architects reduce the energy consumption of these struct...
CRDC Global - Building a Better World
Mindful Businesses - September 05, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsMost consumers are aware of the numbering 1 to 7, embedded in the recycle symbol under plastic items and they diligently put them in recycling bins. The numbers denote the type of plastic so that they may be recycled appropriately. The truth of the matter is that only the number 1 and 2 are easi...
Amor Perfecto - Decolonizing Colombian Coffee
Mindful Businesses - August 29, 2023 13:05 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsMet up with one our favorite guests Luis Fernando, Founder of Amor Perfecto, for breakfast in Bogota, Colombia. During our recording we had hoped to share our love for coffee over a cup of coffee in Bogota and we are happy that we were able to meet and catch-up. We loved learning about what the ...
Reuse Action - Reclaimed and Surplus Building Materials
Mindful Businesses - August 15, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsUrban flight in America in the 1960s resulted in downtowns having empty abandoned buildings and structures. The city governments had to eventually demolish these structures and their debris ended up in the landfills. Our guests Michael Gainer and Ian MacDonald of Reuse Action, who live in Buffa...
Spot Detergent - Eco-Friendly On a Budget
Mindful Businesses - August 09, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSustainable products are priced out of reach of most Americans. They cost the consumers more due to a variety of reasons - higher costs of inputs and innovation, demand is higher than supply and sometimes…just because.. people are willing to pay more. If we are on this global journey to make our...
Ryan McPherson - University of Buffalo Climate Action Plan
Mindful Businesses - August 01, 2023 12:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsToday we talk with Ryan McPherson, Chief Sustainability Officer at University of Buffalo. He heads the Climate Action Plan at the university. The University has the goal of climate neutrality by 2030. They plan to achieve this goal by having 10 strategies to achieve it. Strategies such as “Not a...
Suta - Woven Uninterrupted Simplicity
Mindful Businesses - July 19, 2023 13:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis episode was originally aired on February 18, 2020 We talk with co-founders Sujata and Taniya (Su and Ta) who decided to quit their well-paying jobs and put their hearts and souls into spreading love through traditional hand-woven sarees. They have a family of 1400 weavers. The process of w...
Palm Straw - Biodegradable Plant Based Straws
Mindful Businesses - July 05, 2023 13:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe firsts in our lives have a special place in our life experience. May it be the first job, first business venture, first car and even your first podcast episode. Today we wanted to re-air on the 4 year anniversary, our first episode Palm Straw. It was a startup in 2019 which my mentor at that...
Junobie -Eco-friendly Reusable Breast Milk Storage Bags
Mindful Businesses - June 28, 2023 13:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs formula companies’ productions are limping back to normal, after the recall, a question some people ask is why can't mother "just" switch to breastfeeding their infants. As most mothers know that it is not that easy to make that switch. Breastfeeding a baby can be hard - it needs support from...
The Tool Library - Borrow Tools. Build Community
Mindful Businesses - June 20, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe practice of manufacturing for planned obsolescence seems to be what most manufacturers in the present time follow. This means to make an item that will break down sooner than their earlier versions, lack of how-to-fix information or tutorials and even make it impossible to be repaired. The d...
Sagent - Know What Your Network Knows
Mindful Businesses - June 13, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsRepairing an item is an achievable and straightforward path to achieve sustainability goals. This "concept" is becoming more and more apparent with Right to Repair legislations being passed as laws in some states in the US and countries worldwide. In January 2023, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Di...
Re - Air Pass the Honey - It's Absurdly Good
Mindful Businesses - June 06, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings"No Mow May..." in Buffalo and Western New York, was a cooperative effort by neighbors, municipalities, and counties to stop residents from mowing their lawns for a month to help pollinators such as bees survive and help their population grow. Pollinators are an integral part of the global food ...
Ehlers Estate - Sustainable Winemaking
Mindful Businesses - May 31, 2023 12:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWith summer fast approaching, sipping a glass of wine, we wondered about the practices of vineyards - a highly competitive and commercialized industry. Around the same time we were pitched by Ehlers Estate for an interview with their General Manager and Winemaker. In our conversation with severa...
Circular Design Consultants - Net Zero Homes
Mindful Businesses - May 23, 2023 12:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWhen Jodi Bakst and Cor Rademaker, co - founders of Circular Design Consultants had the opportunity to develop oa piece of land in North Carolina, they had the vision to make it North Carolina’s first net-zero neighborhood. They put this vision to pen and paper to create Array Sustainable Design...
Re- Air Trustrace - Platform For Product Traceability
Mindful Businesses - May 17, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe talk with Shameek Ghosh, co-founder of Trustrace a platform that brings traceability and transparency to the fashion brands such as #Adidas, #Decathalon, and #FjällRaven. It all started when one of his coworkers/friend decided to return to India from Sweden to take over his ancestral property...
Loop And Tie - Gifting That Gives Back
Mindful Businesses - May 09, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsReceiving a gift makes people happy, incentivizes and motivates employees, and builds corporate morale. Businesses give gifts for various reasons - a promotion, to say thank you, reaching a milestone or even”just because”. The businesses try their level best to match the gift to the employees ta...
Our Sustainable Home - Eric Corey Freed; Foundation and Windows
Mindful Businesses - May 03, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe cement industry puts out 8% of the world’s CO2 emissions, but having said that, it is very durable and technically made with natural materials. As we go along this journey to build a sustainable home, we look into options to reduce the consumption of cement and therefore concrete in our home...
eAgronom- Transforming Voluntary Carbon Offset Markets
Mindful Businesses - April 25, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsCarbon cycle occurs naturally in nature during photosynthesis. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen and when animals consume the plants they release the carbon dioxide that is again absorbed by the plants. Human activities put out more carbon than nature can handle. We have to use eve...
FabScrap - Recycling and Reusing Textile Waste
Mindful Businesses - April 19, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsMajority of the conversation around fashion waste revolves around finished products that end up in the landfill. But around 12 % that is around 6.3 million tonnes per year is sent by brands to the landfill in the design and development stage. These would be sample booklets with swatches and unu...
Re-air of FabScrap - Recycling and Reusing Textile Waste
Mindful Businesses - April 19, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsMajority of the conversation around fashion waste revolves around finished products that end up in the landfill. But around 12 % that is around 6.3 million tonnes per year is sent by brands to the landfill in the design and development stage. These would be sample booklets with swatches and unu...
Re-air of RheEnergise - High Density Hydro
Mindful Businesses - April 11, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we revisit an episode on innovative pumped energy storage with RheEnergise! _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Energy systems need to decarbonise to prevent climate change. There are many solutions to generate energy without...
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