Toasted Earth

This is a special episode focused on the future generations that will inherit the earth. In it Michelle speaks with a member of Gen Z, Aneesh Mather the Founder of Locally Universal, about his views on the environment, how he's learning about it and how he hopes to make a difference.
Locally Universal is a group of students based in Northern Virginia that is dedicated to spreading awareness and taking action on environmental and animal rights issues. He and the Locally Universal members host events to clean up their community and recycle.

Michelle and Aneesh discuss why he feels the need to get involved with helping our environment, what changes he'd like to see from adults to feel confident that these problems will be solved and how anyone can jump in and take small actions toward a better planet.
Instagram: @locallyuniversalorg

This episode features Tim Davenport, one of the early team members and a Solutions Architect at Digital Humani. Digital Humani is a non-profit organization that provides a simple and easy to use API to help connect websites and mobile apps to trusted reforestation organizations to have trees planted.

Tim was looking for a way to use his skills to help the environment when he came across the organization and joined founder Jonathan Villiard during the early days. Since then their distributed team has grown into the double digits, spanning several countries and has enabled the planting of over 50 thousand trees with Digital Humani.

Michelle and Tim discuss why trees are important for the planet and how e-commerce and other companies can use the Digital Humani API to make it easy to plant trees when their customers take an action online.
Relevant links:
https://www.digitalhumani.com
https://sproutd.co/digital-humani

This episode features Rachel Kois, the Founder and CEO of Simple Switch. Simple Switch is an online marketplace for ethical and impactful shopping. Every one of the 3,000+ products sold on Simple Switch has a positive social or environmental impact and they aim to shift some of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent online this year to products that support orphan care, planting trees, combating climate change and more.

Rachel believes deeply in the power of entrepreneurship to solve some of our most serious global problems and started Simple Switch to bring ease and convenience to ethical and impactful online shopping.

Michelle and Rachel discuss how her internship in South Africa sparked her desire to support entrepreneurs doing good, why it's difficult for the everyday consumer to discover and purchase from these ethical businesses and how Simple Switch will make it easy.
Discounts:
Use the coupon code "TOASTEDEARTH" for 20% off your first purchase.
Relevant links:
https://www.simpleswitch.org/
Contact info:
[email protected]

This episode features Christoph Hantschk the founder and CEO of goodbag. Goodbag is a smart, reusable shopping bag that makes it fun and rewarding for people to reuse their bag and allows them to track their own positive impact on the environment in real-time. Every time a customer brings their goodbag to a store they can choose to plant a tree against climate change, clean plastic waste out of the ocean or receive a discount as a reward.

“ I hope we are able to not take more than the earth is giving to us, so we can make sure that our generation and future generations can really live in balance with nature.” - Christoph

What You Will Learn:

· [1:03] Christoph on his sustainable upbringing plus how he came up with the reusable bag idea.

· [3:28] He explains why the goodbag idea is their go-to-market strategy for other actions.

· [6:08] How to buy and use the goodbag worldwide plus the impact you make.

· [9:20] How goodbag provides a unique customer experience as a service.

· [11:35] Why they chose causes in planting trees and cleaning plastic off the ocean.

· [14:31] The screening process they used to choose what organization to support.

· [17:15] Christoph on the five sustainable development goals they have at goodbag.

· [21:34] The efforts to increase the amount of donations made towards goodbag causes.

· [26:06] Why collecting ocean plastic is way cheaper than planting trees.

· [27:18] The different ways that goodbag as a business makes money.

· [28:33] The magic of social entrepreneurship - making money while impacting.

· [31:38] How they measure their carbon footprint and strive to become carbon neutral/positive.

· [36:27] Goodbag’s vision to expand and to continue impacting.

· [41:25] Christoph on the importance of balancing innovation and impacting the environment.

Relevant Links:

Website: https://www.goodbag.io/

Enduring Planet provides hassle-free growth capital to climate entrepreneurs. They help entrepreneurs working on the reduction of carbon emissions, removal of carbon from the atmosphere or resilience to climate change access non-dilutive capital quickly.
Michelle and Dimitry discuss what the current funding landscape is like for climate entrepreneurs today, what entrepreneurs should consider when deciding what types of funding to seek and how Enduring Planet can help close the gap on the multi-trillion dollars of funding needed to achieve the world's climate goals.
Relevant links:
https://enduringplanet.com