YPO Planet Mavericks Series: Recent Episodes
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The YPO Planet Action Network is proud to introduce the PLANet Mavericks Series. In this series, we interview members of our network and their contribution towards our shared passion to preserve the earth, water, and air in our beautiful and fragile home.
Guided by a vision for sustainable and versatile building solutions, we have combined our expertise in timber-hybrid construction with an innovative spirit to refine the CREE system for large-volume building development. Working with CREE empowers you to create high-quality timber-hybrid office and residential buildings quickly and reliably, and with low risk.
Our collaborative model enables contractors to skill up their existing local partners to meet the exacting construction standards of today and the future. Explore the features of the proven, repeatable, and constantly evolving CREE system, and discover the applications most relevant for you. Together we can achieve better results, tailored to the needs of each local market.
In this episode we speak to Marisa Drew, Ron Gonen, and Mariano Gonzalez about how they use capital to generate profit and use it as a catalyst to create sustainability in business.
Topic: Finance / Investing
In this episode we speak to John Kim, an entrepreneur, musician, investor, and a teaching priest. He is talking about how he transformed his passion for sustainability into meaningful and engaging content.
Topic: Advocacy
Rob Kaplan, CEO of Circulate Capital, joins Tom Szaky, Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, to discuss how plastic waste poses a golden investment opportunity for businesses. |
Topic: Recycling
Christian Stammkoetter, Regional Vice President of Danone Waters, and Simon Michel, CEO of Ypsomed Holding, discuss alternatives to single-use plastics, while explaining how they’ve created sustainable business models.
Sven Seevers, Managing Director of Superseven, and Dan Pathomvanich, CEO of NR Instant Produce, discuss the benefits of exploring packaging solutions beyond plastic. They explain some of the benefits of moving toward recyclable, sustainable materials while examining which future technologies we’ll need to permanently reduce plastic waste.
Topic: Packaging
David Katz, Founder and CEO of The Plastic Bank, talks to us today about transforming used plastics from waste into a valuable commodity.
Topic: Collection/ Revolutionary Thinking
Caiman Ecological Refuge is part of a 130,000-acre ‘Pantaneiro’ (cowboy) cattle ranch, offering accommodation, activities, and tours in the heart of Brazil’s Pantanal region; one of the world’s most important wetlands. The first ecotourism operation in the Southern Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul, Caiman is named after one of the many species found on the refuge — the caiman crocodile — and is also home to jaguars, blue-fronted parrots, hyacinth macaws, giant anteaters, and howler monkeys. Besides being committed to wildlife conservation projects, Caiman is a pioneer in sustainable livestock ranching and sustainable land management.
The Water Institute is a not-for-profit, independent applied research and technical services institution with a mission to help coastal and deltaic communities thoughtfully prepare for an uncertain future. Through an integrated and inter-disciplinary approach, their work helps to create more resilient communities, thriving economies, and a healthy environment. The Institute works with cities and communities in Louisiana, across the Gulf of Mexico, and around the world.
Dharsono (YPO Indonesia) is the CEO of PT Rimba Makmur Utama, an Indonesian based company developing a 149.800-hectare peatland forest restoration and conservation project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
The Katingan Mentaya Project is currently the largest Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) approved REDD+ project in the world, which generates an average of 7.5 million triple gold certified carbon credits annually; equivalent to taking 2,000,000 cars off the road each year.
I hope you enjoy this interview are motivated to contribute to restoring our planet.
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BirdLife International is the oldest and largest International Civil Society Partnership for Nature. Our science foundation enables us to be the World Bird Authority for the IUCN Red List and a key leader of information provision for conservation planning. Our unique Partnership model helps us promote nature conservation through 122 local conservation organization in 120 countries around the world, while building their capacity to become the conservation leaders in their own countries. By using birds as the ambassadors for nature, BirdLife identifies the most important places for birds and biodiversity on the planet and works to protect directly an important portion of them.
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Australian-born, Jason the co-founder and CEO of gDiapers has turned his commitment to making the planet greener and healthier into an environmentally friendly hybrid diaper company. One diaper, two options: reusable cloth and a biodegradable disposable. Jason launched gDiapers with his wife Kim in 2005 and has been nurturing the company into a growing success every year since. After the birth of their first son, the impact of diapers on the landfill astounded them. So, after doing a lot of research, they moved from Sydney, Australia to Portland, Oregon and launched gDiapers. Before long, American parents across the country were buying a biodegradable, compostable diaper and a revolution was born. And today, gDiapers offers a diverse product line of baby products, including both biodegradable and cloth diaper options, colorful little gPants, wipes and a line of gEssentials. At heart, gDiapers is about people and the planet, especially children. Grounded in the Australian expression, fair dinkum, meaning being genuine and real with everyone you encounter, gDiapers applies that philosophy towards business, people and the planet.
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