It’s a broken system David Benzaquen is the founder of Mission Plant, a company dedicated to advancing the development of non-animal protein products. His work centers around the profound and widespread impact of food choices on various aspects of life,…
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What If Instead? Podcast – A conversation with Trevor Vaughn and Hunter Buffington
Prioritizing Climate, Ecosystems, and Communities in Our Approach to AgricultureIn this two episode conversation as part of the What if Instead? podcast, Hunter Buffington and Trevor Vaughn represent the convergence of farming policy, sustainability, innovation, and technology. Buffington, an industrial…
What If Instead? Podcast – A Conversation with Ben Soltoff
Bringing Biodiversity to the Innovation EcosystemIn the eighth episode of the “What if Instead?” podcast, cohosts Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Mim Plavin-Masterman interview Ben Soltoff, the ecosystem builder-in-residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. Soltoff focuses on guiding…
What If Instead? Podcast – A Conversation with Melisa Baez
The Invisible Barriers to Going “Green” In the new episode of “What if Instead?,” cohosts Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Mim Plavin-Masterman welcome Melisa Baez, co-founder and CEO of Elume, a company dedicated to helping small businesses integrate sustainable practices into…
What If Instead? Podcast – A Conversation with Dalia Najjar
Everyone is Living in Different Parts of the World, but There’s Something That Attached Us All together In the sixth episode of the “What if Instead?” podcast, cohosts Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Mim Plavin-Masterman are joined by Dalia Najjar,…
What If Instead? Podcast – A Hundred Thousand Small Experiments with Sebastian Groh
To solve climate, bet on people close to problems As the planet boils, SOLshare’s Sebastian Groh says we’ve got to stop looking to the usual suspects to get us out of our predicament. In the new episode of What if…
What If Instead? Podcast – The Two Way Street with Nico de Klerk
The Two Way Street: Creating Mindset Change is the Way to Fight In the third installment of the “What if Instead?” podcast, cohosts Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Mim Plavin-Masterman are joined by Nico de Klerk, founder and CEO of the…
What If Instead? Podcast – Who Gets to Have a Voice with Bermet Suiutbekova
Building Connected Spaces Where Local Problem Solvers Derive Globally Needed Solutions In the second installment of What if Instead? podcast’s “for us, by us,” series, co-hosts Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Mim Plavin-Masterman interview Bermet Suiutbekova, design thinking program coordinator at…
Build an Army of Climate Entrepreneurs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P04U9Qjl_DE It’s a simple but radical prescription. In a 5-minute speech before COP28, SOLshare founder Sebastian Groh lays out what we would need to do to meet the moment. Addressing the delegation of 150 ministers from around the globe, he…
Two Teams of Bangladeshi Innovators Create Valuable Social Change
The success stories of Project Safety Net and Roots teams show us that anyone anywhere in the world can be empowered to innovate with the right tools and support. Technology is here to stay and we have the power to use it to connect rather than divide us. We have the privilege to finally learn from each other’s different life experiences and points of view, and technology tools like RebelBase can be bases from which we can make innovation knowledge accessible to everyone.