#032 Josh Tetrick: on Eat[ing] Just - is the world read for cell-based meat? And solving the worlds urgent problems

In this episode, we are speaking to Peggy Chan, WFPB Chef-Restaurateur, social entrepreneur, systems educator and Executive Director at Zero Footprint Asia. Previously she ran the most successful plant-based restaurant in Hong Kong - Grassroots Pantry. She’s on a mission to scale traceable, regenerative and circular food systems in Asia. Over the years Peggy has emerged as one of the region’s most authoritative voices on organic sourcing and systems thinking design. She is an alumni of Global Shapers Hong Kong, World Economic Forum, an active member of the Chefs' Manifesto SDG2 Advocacy Hub, a two time Ted X speaker, and a HK Environmental Excellence Awardee in the service sector. We talk about the industrialised food system, transitioning to regenerative and circular systems, the importance of education and so much more.  Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.  Stay connected with Peggy: Website: https://www.zerofoodprintasia.org/  Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-chan-a15a1649/  Stay connected & support the show Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake  Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake Reach out: [email protected]

In this epsiode, we are speaking to Lilly Gilbert, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mandala Club and the co-founder of the Circular Community Singapore and UK.   Lilly is a sustainability professional and impact investor with over 15 years of experience in the private sector and for NGOs across Europe and Asia.  She advises on on carbon, waste and sourcing strategy, and helps companies develop their sustainability agenda, embed it in operations and communicate it to customers. We talk about true cost accounting,  the challenges and opportunities in feeding a growing global population, why we need to be more optimistic and solution orientated in the climate conversation and so much more.  Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.  Stay connected with Lilly: Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilly-milligan-gilbert-61182718/  Stay connected & support the show Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake  Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake Reach out: [email protected]

In this episode, we are speaking to Dan Sherrard-Smith the Founder & CEO of MyMotherTree, the world's first money carbon calculator. They help businesses and individual to maximise their impact by greening finances - so that we can fund the future we want.  This is such an important topic because when we include financial emissions, the average carbon footprint for an SME doubles! Previously Dan built Look After My Bills that achieved the best-ever deal on Dragons' Den.  We talk about how we can decarbonise businesses and individuals money carbon, which pockets of money and investments hold the power, how we can address the unconscious challenges and blocks to moving money, and so much more.  Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.  Stay connected with Dan: Website: https://www.mymothertree.com/  Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-sherrard-smith/  Stay connected & support the show Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake  Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake Reach out: [email protected]

In this episode, we are speaking to author, activist, and changemaker Osprey Orielle Lake. She is the founder of Women's Earth and Climate Action Network( WECAN), sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. She works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean energy future. We talk about the legal system we need to protect nature, why indigenous people are scientists, how we can heal our separation from nature and so much more.  Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.  Stay connected with Osprey: Website: https://ospreyoriellelake.earth   Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osprey-orielle-lake-4286bb12/  Stay connected & support the show Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake  Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake Reach out: [email protected]

This week we have a special episode, a fireside chat I moderated during our recent Conscious Festival in Singapore with the ever-inspiring Arizona Muse on the topic: fashion as a climate solution.  Arizona Muse, credited as the new face of American fashion nay Vogue, has graced the cover of over 40 international Vogue magazines.  But through the glitz and glam, she has kept her feet on the ground, figuratively and literally—in the  soil—and has found that that has resonated the most.  Her life’s mission is to raise awareness about the climate emergency and climate solutions, which lead her found DIRT charity.  She is also an Oceans Ambassador for Greenpeace, Advisory Board Member of The Sustainable Angle, and Advisory Board Member of The Biodynamic Demeter Alliance.  In this conversation, Arizona will tell us all about why regenerating soil is one of the most crucial pieces to saving the world, why fashion can and should be a climate solution and so much more.  It’s time to live wide awake.  Stay connected with Arizona: Website: https://www.dirt.charity/ | https://www.arizonamuse.earth/ Social media: https://www.instagram.com/arizona_muse/ Stay connected & support the show Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake  Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake Reach out: [email protected]

Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world. Today we are speaking to Angela Sim and Lynn Yeo the founders of Cloversoft. Founded in 2014, Cloversoft is committed to creating and producing toxin-free and eco-friendly daily consumables for sustainable living at affordable prices for all. The two are both prestige 40 under 40.  In this episode, we talk about how the duo went from banking to creating toilet paper, and a sleuth of sustainable household products after, the toxic load of products, why there are polar bears on their products, why we need to make eco-friendly choices convenient and so much more.  Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.  Stay connected with Cloversoft: Website: https://cloversoft.com.sg/  Social media: https://www.instagram.com/cloversoft/  Stay connected & support the show Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake  Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake Reach out: [email protected]

This is a special episode, a panel discussion I moderated during our recent Conscious Festival in Singapore on changing the narrative on climate futures. We had an all-star, all-female panel with:  > Minister Grace Fu - Minister for Sustainability and the Environment > Esther An - Chief Sustainability Officer of City Developments Limited - one of TIME 100 Climate, an SDG Pioneer in 2018, Vice Chair of the World Green Building Council Corporate Advisory Board among many others.  > Dr. Darian McBain - CEO of Outsourced Chief Sustainability Officer Asia and previously the first Chief Sustainability Officer for the Monetary Authority of Singapore. She was also a UN SDG Pioneer 2021 for a Sustainable Ocean Economy and listed as one of Fast Company Most Creative People in Business in 2020. > And MJ Kong - co-fonder of Just Keep Thinking, a leading edutainment platform for all things science and nature in South East Asia. With over 235k followers on Instagram, 149k followers on Facebook, 124k followers on TikTok - they are experts in taking complicated topics and explaining them with simplicity and ease. We talk about how every decision we take today has a ripple effect on our future, where we are on climate narratives and actions through the difference lenses, and where we might see ourselves in the future.  Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.  Stay connected & support the show Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake  Reach out: [email protected]

In this episdoe, we are speaking to Tez Steinberg who was the first person in history to row across the Pacific Ocean alone from California to Hawaii with no prior rowing experience. The journey took 71 days and 2,700 miles, powered only by sheer will and two oars. Tez was named one of the "50 Best Young Minds in the World" by the World Economic Forum and you can see why. Hearing his story of resilience, determination and simple yet precise wisdom blew me away.  We talk about the comfort crises, finding our ocean and the courage to cross it, death as a beautiful teacher and misconceptions around the ocean plastic crises.  Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.  Stay connected with Tez: Website: https://unitedworldchallenge.org/ | https://teztalk.com/ Social media: https://www.instagram.com/tezsteinberg/?hl=en | https://www.instagram.com/unitedworldchallenge  Stay connected & support the show Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake  Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake Reach out: [email protected]

In this episode we are speaking to Alina Truhina, CEO and Managing Partner of The Radical Fund,  an early-stage VC fund investing in founders who are delivering climate resilience for Southeast Asia. Alina is also the Co-Founder of Founders Factory Africa, the pan-African venture studio and VC Fund, where she raised over US$140million from LPs and investors. Before that she helped scale over 76 tech ventures in 9 countries across East Africa and South Asia. And spent seven years at the World Bank. We talk about the inclusive climate transition and the unfair advantage of Silicon Valley, the importance of mitigation and adaptation ventures, what it means to be radical and the importance of relearning.  Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.  Stay connected with Alina: Website: https://www.theradicalfund.com/  Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinatruhina/  Stay connected & support the show Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake  Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake Reach out: [email protected]

In this episode, we are speaking to the incredible Dr Loretta Chen, co-founder and CEO of Smobler Studio, a leading virtual architecture firm building in The Sandbox. An acclaimed creative director, a Straits Times bestselling author and a respected professor, Loretta is hailed as “a force of nature” and “Asia’s Anna Wintour. She was also shortlisted as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore and is an International Consultant to the investment arm of the Royal Government of Bhutan.  We talk about being a multi-hyphenate, why creativity and conflict are more similar than they are diverse, finding grace in adversity, the metaverse and a decentralised future and so much more.  Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.  Stay connected with Loretta: Website: https://www.drlorettachen.com/  Social media: https://www.instagram.com/drlorettachen/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-loretta-chen-56262723/  Stay connected & support the show Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake  Reach out: [email protected]