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The NatureBacked Podcast

Are you looking to understand the business of a better future? Welcome to NatureBacked. For three years and through more than 125 episodes, we've been on a mission to uncover how investors and entrepreneurs worldwide tackle climate change, from the complexities of emissions to the devastating reality of floods. We explore the personal choices and inspiring journeys driving this critical work. Join us to hear from the experts, innovators, and changemakers who are not just talking about change but actively creating it. As a top-three U.S. investment podcast and in the top 2.5% of all podcasts globally, NatureBacked offers the insights you need to navigate the evolving landscape of a sustainable world.NatureBacked was founded by Tarmo Virki, a passionate environmentalist who believes that nature has the solutions to many of the challenges we face today. In each episode, Tarmo or co-host Fiona Alston interviews a guest who shares their knowledge, experience, and vision on a specific topic related to nature and sustainability. We would love to hear from you, so feel free to email us at [email protected] with your feedback, questions, or suggestions. Thank you for listening, and we hope you enjoy the show!Stay curious and stay green 💚

Science Business News Business News Investing Earth Sciences
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
31 minutes
Episodes
134
Years Active
2022 - 2025
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Turning Europe Towards Web3 With Armin ZadakBar

Turning Europe Towards Web3 With Armin ZadakBar

Nascent European Web3 Organization is seeking to connect the web3 community on the old continent, starting with education and information-sharing projects, said Armin ZadakBar, one of the founders of…
00:31:45  |   Mon 20 Mar 2023
Creating 100 Thousand Million Sustainable Cities

Creating 100 Thousand Million Sustainable Cities

Next year, 100 Thousand Million aims to start building the world’s first truly sustainable city in northern Chile, and several countries are keen to see the next project’s on their soil, said founder…
00:46:27  |   Mon 13 Mar 2023
Web3 Deepdive In The Midst Of Crypto Winter, With Sam Kamani

Web3 Deepdive In The Midst Of Crypto Winter, With Sam Kamani

Sam Kamani, VP of Growth at web3 tools maker Cookbook, said he was looking ahead optimistically despite crypto winter in the episode where we delved deep into the world of Web3 and decentralised auto…
00:35:34  |   Mon 06 Mar 2023
Creating Green Currency With Beach Collective's Robert Cobbold

Creating Green Currency With Beach Collective's Robert Cobbold

It will be a long road to broad adoption of new currency BEACH, but living well should not cost us the planet, said Robert Cobbold, head of operations at Beach Collective, a blue circular economy pla…
00:27:07  |   Mon 27 Feb 2023
Solving Governance Challenges With DAO and INO

Solving Governance Challenges With DAO and INO

Transparency and trust built into Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) should be an example for any corporation, said founders of Internet Native Organisation (INO). "The future of organisat…
00:39:06  |   Fri 24 Feb 2023
Tokenising Green Energy Investments With Reneum

Tokenising Green Energy Investments With Reneum

Reneum seeks to boost solar and wind farm investments by tokenizing renewable energy certificates. “It’s a vehicle to bypass traditional capital market failures or inefficiencies to reach the corners…
00:23:11  |   Wed 22 Feb 2023
Battling Plastics: From Surfboards To Packaging With Cruz Foam's John Felts

Battling Plastics: From Surfboards To Packaging With Cruz Foam's John Felts

To solve the challenge of increasing plastic waste in oceans, we need to go to the source and find alternative materials to the plastics, said John Felts, CEO and co-founder of California-headquarter…
00:30:39  |   Mon 20 Feb 2023
Saying NO To Water Bottles with TAPP Water's Magnus Jern

Saying NO To Water Bottles with TAPP Water's Magnus Jern

Barcelona-based TAPP Water seeks to change consumers’ habits and fights against billions of dollars spent on marketing bottled water through its filter systems for tap water, said Magnus Jern, founde…
00:25:37  |   Mon 13 Feb 2023
Tapping Into Shift of Wealth to Green Millenials With Raise Green

Tapping Into Shift of Wealth to Green Millenials With Raise Green

U.S.-based green investment platform Raise Green is looking to drive more capital into climate solutions, boosting entrepreneurship in the sector, said founder and CEO Franz Hochstrasser. “We take a …
00:37:10  |   Mon 06 Feb 2023
New Age of Investor Activism, with Grünfin's Alejandro Jimenez

New Age of Investor Activism, with Grünfin's Alejandro Jimenez

Teaming up with other investors to push for a change towards greener and healthier products from global firms is gaining traction, and industry behemoths like Unilever and Nestle are listening, said …
00:36:31  |   Mon 30 Jan 2023
Eating Construction Waste with MycoCycle

Eating Construction Waste with MycoCycle

Mushrooms will open a new nature-backed market for turning construction waste into new raw materials, said Joanne Rodriguez, founder of MycoCycle. “There is no waste in nature - that’s a manmade cons…
00:23:20  |   Mon 23 Jan 2023
Building Climate Change Resilient Crops with ClimateCrop

Building Climate Change Resilient Crops with ClimateCrop

Making potatoes and other crops more resistant to climate change and growing them faster using gene-editing techniques is the challenge ClimateCrop is looking to solve over coming years, said Yehuda …
00:24:48  |   Mon 16 Jan 2023
Turning Plastics Greener and Cheaper With Applied Bioplastics' Alex Blum

Turning Plastics Greener and Cheaper With Applied Bioplastics' Alex Blum

A trip to a refugee camp in Bangladesh led to a documentary and sowed the seeds for a material startup, which promises to cut plastics production costs and emissions using cellulose, said Alex Blum, …
00:32:06  |   Mon 09 Jan 2023
Beyond COP15: Much Needed Solutions for Biodiversity

Beyond COP15: Much Needed Solutions for Biodiversity

United Nations’ biodiversity summit COP15 finished with a historic deal earlier this week in Montreal. At NatureBacked, we discussed the essence of the agreement and how protecting biodiversity will …
00:55:29  |   Tue 20 Dec 2022
Stirring Up Coffee Industry, with Green Coffee Company and Coffee Cloud

Stirring Up Coffee Industry, with Green Coffee Company and Coffee Cloud

There are numerous opportunities for a revolution in the coffee industry, said guests at Naturebacked’s holiday-season coffee episode. We talked first with Josh Ziegelbaum from Miami-based private eq…
00:38:03  |   Mon 19 Dec 2022
Emerging Consumer Demand Will Drive ClimateTech, With James Vincent

Emerging Consumer Demand Will Drive ClimateTech, With James Vincent

Pressure from consumers will likely be the key driver pushing climate tech towards the mainstream over the coming years, said James Vincent, co-founder of brand advisory and investment firm FNDR. “We…
00:40:52  |   Mon 12 Dec 2022
Fixing Electricity Production with Scale Microgrid's Tim Hade

Fixing Electricity Production with Scale Microgrid's Tim Hade

Surging growth in distributed energy production, driven by innovations in solar and battery technologies, is helping the energy sector to cope with climate change, said Tim Hade, COO and co-founder o…
00:44:20  |   Mon 05 Dec 2022
Death of a Client: Beautiful endings with Joe Macleod

Death of a Client: Beautiful endings with Joe Macleod

Industries have too often left the control over the end of the product lifecycle to individuals at a time when it could open many opportunities for the reuse of materials, said Joe Macleod, founder o…
00:35:59  |   Mon 28 Nov 2022
Tackling the Biggest Opportunity with Matt Ward

Tackling the Biggest Opportunity with Matt Ward

Climate investing and the climate, in general, is the biggest opportunity we’ve ever had, said Matt Ward from early-stage climate investment syndicate 4WARD.VC. “Either we pull it off and succeed or …
00:30:14  |   Mon 21 Nov 2022
Looking for Solutions with Anders Wijkman

Looking for Solutions with Anders Wijkman

A universal basic dividend that would distribute some of the profits generated by corporates in industrialized countries to the citizens in low-income countries would be a step forward in the current…
00:27:01  |   Mon 14 Nov 2022
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