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HAPPY PLANETBuilding an Ocean Community. Paul Holthus, Founding President, World Ocean CouncilSend us a text Today's guest is Paul Holthus. Paul is a blue economy visionary. He is the founding president and CEO Emirati of the World Ocean Council, affectionately called the WOC. Founded in 2008, long before anyone was talking about the blue economy, WOC's aim is to unite ocean industries in order to support cooperative corporate ocean responsibility. Paul discusses his path to founding the WOC, the organization's role and priorities, where are the big ocean opportunities, and the new challenges presented by a challenging political landscape. https://worldoceancouncil.org/https://www...2025-07-0746 min
HAPPY PLANETWhen renewables provide a strategic advantage. Philipp Stratmann, Ocean Power TechnologiesSend us a textHappy Planet Wednesday! This will be our last podcast until 2025 and I want to thank you for tuning in this year! It's been an exceptionally interesting journey for me and I hope you've been enjoying the podcasts. If you have feedback, please do not hesitate to share it. This week we head to New Jersey to speak to Philipp Stratmann, CEO of Ocean Power Technologies. Followers of penny stocks may recognize the name. They are a public company listed under the ticker OPTT. Mind you, we are not making...2024-12-1138 min
Real Leaders PodcastEp. 508 Brad Black, Founder and Co-CEO of EO ProductsBrad Black is the Founder and Co-CEO of EO Products, a certified B-Corporation based in Marin County, CA who has been making plant-based skincare products with a higher purpose in mind: to make personal care products that care for the whole person and the planet.
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HAPPY PLANETIs the future of fashion cyclical? William Calvert, Return to VendorSend us a textWelcome to Happy Planet! Our guest this week is William Calvert, co-Founder and CEO of the NYC based startup, Return to Vendor. William is a fashion designer and entrepreneur who has lived in Paris, and Italy and designed for the likes of Balenciaga before getting the fashion-tech bug about 10 years ago. His first foray into the field led him to create fabric out of down for an Italian company and now he's 100% focused on 100% circularity. He and his partner are recycling abandoned nylon fishing nets (and thereby helping to cl...2024-07-1028 min
HAPPY PLANETCan two Norwegians Establish a Fish Farm "up country" in Maine? Marianne Naess, CEO Katahdin Salmon.Send us a textHappy Planet Wednesday! The weather has been so beautiful in Maine lately that I am going to bring you all here to my home state. Today we’re going to speak to Marianne Naess, a Norwegian native living in Maine who, with her husband, has co-founded Katahdin Salmon, a soon-to-be scaled salmon aquaculture farm that intends on bringing Norwegian quality salmon to the Northeast corridor, without the carbon footprint. As Maine is known for its seafood, Marianne and her husband assumed setting up their fish farm along the coast woul...2024-06-1929 min
HAPPY PLANETCan SafetyNet Save Our Fisheries?Send us a textWe are going to kick off the fall season with a chat with Dan Watson, the UK-based founder and CEO of a fisheries startup called SafetyNet. I first met Dan through Harry Wright’s accelerator Bright Tide, where I am an advisor. Then I wound up on his mentor team for another accelerator run by Boston-based Sea Ahead. I can’t wait to see where our paths next cross!One of Dan’s most talked about solutions is designed to prevent bycatch. Bycatch refers to unwanted fish that are inadvertently caught in com...2023-09-1240 min
HAPPY PLANETCan Natural Proteins Reduce our Dependency on Antibiotics in Fish Farming?Send us a textHappy Planet Wednesday !We are travelling to South America this week !Our guest, Daniela Allerbon, is CEO of Aquit, a company specializing in natural proteins that can be used to replace antibiotics in fish farming. Aquit was founded by researchers in Chile and Daniela recently joined the team as CEO from Buenos Aires, Argentina.We learn a lot about antibiotics and fish farming in this podcast, but we also get a fascinating window into the startup ecosystem in South America and strategies that companies outside of the U...2023-07-2628 min
HAPPY PLANETCutting Edge Ocean Research: Deborah Bronk, CEO of Bigelow LaboratorySend us a textToday we’re going to dive into the world of marine research. Our guest is Deborah Bronk, President and CEO of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, a Maine-based marine research institute specializing in ocean microbes like algae, plankton, viruses, and bacteria.Bigelow Laboratory is a relatively small institute but it's growing fast and having a global impact. Under Deborah's leadership, interdisciplinarity reigns. Deborah believes in removing silos in ocean research and encouraging the interaction and cooperation of researchers from different disciplines. Even the layout of their laboratory is designed to re...2023-05-0337 min
HAPPY PLANETCan Venture Philanthropy Close the Critical BlueTech Funding Gap?Send us a textWhen you think about GOOGLE, ocean innovation may be the last thing that comes to mind. But Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy have been great friends to the ocean and climate, pouring millions into the sector through their Schmidt Family Foundation. Our guest today is Mark Schrope. He is the Director of Schmidt Marine Technology Partners, an offshoot of the Schmidt Family Foundation. Schmidt Marine Technology Partners is dedicated to what they call “venture philanthropy” in the marine sector. In other words, without taking equity, they fill an im...2023-04-1934 min
HAPPY PLANETSpiny Lobster Aquaculture for Pharma: Christophe MaierSend us a textThis week’s guest, Christophe Maier, Founder and CEO of Lagosta. Christophe was raised in Switzerland, on lake Geneva, but once he discovered the Mediterranean he couldn’t get enough of salty waterbodies! Fast forward to adulthood and Christophe raises spiny lobsters, not for the European luxury food market as he originally expected, but for the pharma market which is turning out to be a very lucrative pivot. And he doesn’t even harm the lobsters. Instead, he up-cycles spiny lobster by-catch, grows them ou...2023-02-2133 min
HAPPY PLANETCan getting a B in Business be an A+ Move? B Corps with Ben AndersonSend us a textWe’ve spoken to a lot of entrepreneurs from around the world in the past few months and there is one thing they all have in common - a corporation. The precise structures of corporations will vary from company to company and country to country but a relatively new corporate certification is working its way around the planet and creating a global standard for how businesses should behave. It’s the B Corp Certification and it’s gaining ground. Ben Anderson, a B Corp Leader, and former CEO and Co-Chair of Boar...2023-02-1539 min
HAPPY PLANETCan Nemo's Smarter Twin Save our Waterways? Liane Thompson, Co-Founder AquaaiSend us a textWatch out NEMO there’s a new clownfish in town and he’s a lot smarter than you are! Today we are talking to Liane Thompson, co-founder and CEO of Aquaai (Uh-qu-why)- which merges the words aqua and the term AI together. Liane has an incredible bio including stints in war reporting and television producing. And she knows a good thing when she sees it. She put Alan Bordain on TV. Today she has been named one of 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology and I can see why. The unabbreviated list o...2023-02-0840 min
HAPPY PLANETPropelling Green Hydrogen Forward with Tore Enger of TECO2030Send us a textThis week’s guest, Tore Enger, Founder and CEO of the group TECO 2030, is pioneering the fuel cell stacks designed for green hydrogen in trucking and shipping, industries traditionally reliant on diesel fuel.After speaking with Tore, my worldview on renewables started to broaden. I’d love to know what you think after you listen to the episode. Please feel free to email me with your thoughts. One note about this episode, I break down the basic mechanics of green hydrogen in the introduction - what it is, how it wo...2023-02-0128 min
HAPPY PLANETSave the Planet the Delicious Way: Eat Uni.Send us a textThis week I am delighted to introduce you to the entrepreneur who inspired this whole podcast, Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda, Founder and CEO of Urchinomics.I met Brian through our last interviewee, Harry Wright. Brian was participating in one of Harry’s accelerator programs in the UK. I knew Brian was on to something when I met him. And apparently so have a lot of other people since then. Fast forward a few months and Brian was speaking at DAVOS!Brian is growing sea urchins for the uni market. But that’s ju...2023-01-2538 min
HAPPY PLANETCan Lobster Heal our Skin? 🦞 Patrick Breeding, CEO, Marin SkincareSend us a textAs promised, Happy Planet is kicking off 2023 with an interview with Patrick Breeding, the young founder who says he’s building Maine’s next “unicorn.” And he’s doing it with a lobster based skincare product that is flying off the shelves. His company is Marin Skincare, a Maine-based company founded by couple Patrick and his girlfriend Amber Boutiette who met at the University of Maine and whose lives changed when they got hooked up with The Lobster Institute. In this episode we learn:How a personal tragedy can lead to...2023-01-0436 min
HAPPY PLANETUshering Seafood into the Digital Age : BlueTraceSend us a textMeet Chip Terry, Founder and CEO of BlueTrace, a Maine based software company aiming to digitize the seafood industry where the vast majority of tagging, tracing and reporting is still done with pen and paper. Smart and funny, Chip was a lot of fun to interview. But his story also resonates with many entrepreneurs because the problem he is solving now is not the one he set out to solve originally. A couple years in, he made a full pivot and in doing so transformed his potential customer base from a s...2022-12-2137 min
HAPPY PLANETInnovating a Post-Antibiotic World with Griffin O'DriscollSend us a textIn Happy Planet’s third episode we meet Griffin O’Driscoll, the young CEO of Organicin Scientific. Griffin joined forces with his professor Dr. Margaret Riley to commercialize her 25+ years of research on bacteriocins, anti-microbial proteins that kill bacteria in a targeted way. Organicin is now creating products for the aquaculture industry, both to keep seafood safer for consumption and to reduce mortality in farming. That’s just the tip of the iceberg of what they think they can do….Learn how antibiotics became standard issue, giving rise to big Pharma, and how...2022-11-1637 min
The Maine QuestionHow can teaching innovation fuel Maine’s economy?Innovation fuels entrepreneurship in Maine. In recent years, several small business startups with novel ideas for products have created and sold them at a global scale. For more than a decade, the University of Maine Foster Center for Innovation has collaborated with students, faculty, staff, startups and established organizations, and offered courses and other resources on how to innovate. It also serves as a hub for commercializing and developing businesses from university research.
In the final episode of Season 6 of “The Maine Question,” Renee Kelly, assistant vice president of innovation and economic development at UMaine, discusses how innovation occurs, what make...2022-04-2832 min
Honest Ecommerce170 | Sell Your Products Yourself First | with Laurie O'HaraLaurie O’Hara is the Founder and CEO of OLITA, a San Rafael, CA based brand of eco-friendly, healthy sun care. In the market since 2015, Laurie has grown OLITA from its original Beach Be Gone product line, expanding to REEF SAFE mineral sunscreens, soothing SPF lip balms and nourishing After Sun body serums. OLITA’s mission is to create clean products that are safe on skin and safe on the planet. Prior to launching OLITA, Laurie had over 20 years experience in marketing and acquisitions of credit products and microloans, having worked as a Directo...2022-04-2532 min
Between The LinesEverything It Means To Be A GirlChristina is the CEO of Pretty Girl Makeup, a celebrity makeup artist, a board member at LAFACE Skincare, and a fashion commentator. She is also a sepsis awareness advocate, as well as a mom, divorcee, widow, and so much more. Christina grew up in Marin County, California. She spent her childhood riding horses, playing tennis, and playing with makeup.
When she was young, her mom was diagnosed with brain cancer. Her mom was a beautiful woman, but the cancer treatment left her feeling bad about her appearance, in addition to making her sick. Christina wanted to make her...2020-03-0232 min