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OmnivoreEP 57: The Hottest Trends in Functional Foods, Upbeat About Upcycling, Welcome Gen ZDr. Liz Sloan, who has kept a close eye on functional food and beverage trends for decades, shares her take on what’s ahead for this market in the year ahead. Dr. Lara Ramdin, widely known as the Upcycling Queen, talks to Omnivore about how upcycling not only reduces food waste but also offers a chance to enhance nutrition accessibility, support circular economies, and provide sustainable solutions to food insecurity. Huy Nguyen, chief education and career development advisor at Intelligent.com, discusses what Generation Z brings to the workforce and how mentorship can he...2025-04-0741 min
In With the NewUpcycled Foods: Building a Better, More Sustainable Food SystemDr. Lara Ramdin is the Chief Innovation and Science Officer at Upcycled Foods Inc., which powers the B2B upcycled food economy with product development expertise, cutting-edge technology, and a growing portfolio of ingredient solutions. The company’s patented food upcycling technology creates proprietary ingredients that are delicious, versatile, clean-label, and nutritious from food that would have otherwise gone to waste. Upcycled Foods’ flagship product, ReGrained SuperGrain+®, is the industry-leading upcycled ingredient made from rescued brewer’s “spent” grain (BSG) that has already been cultivated, harvested, and used once but still has more to offer.2023-06-2129 min
The VentureFuel VisionariesRadical Collaboration – Upcycled Foods Inc. Chief Innovation & Science Officer Dr. Lara Ramdin10% of America is hungry, and 37% of Food made ends up as waste, equal to 140 billion meals of Food. Upcycled foods use ingredients that otherwise would not have gone to human consumption, are procured and produced using verifiable supply chains, and positively impact the environment. We discuss renovation vs. disruptive innovation, radical collaboration, and turning pineapples into Nikes.2023-06-2131 min
Electric Ladies PodcastYour Dinner From An Indoor Farm? - Jackie Roberts, AppHarvestCan Indoor Farming Save Our Food Supply From Climate Change? "A.I has enabled us to get very precise measures and give the plants precisely what the plans need...(So) The yields in our greenhouses are about 30x the traditional farm." and without any chemicals. Jackie Roberts on Electric Ladies Podcast (known as Green Connections Radio) What if we could grow our fruits and veggies without worrying about the weather? A new massive indoor farm called AppHarvest thinks they have found a way. Listen to Jackie Roberts, Chief Sustainability Officer of AppHarvest, describe...2022-12-2737 minElectric Ladies PodcastFood Design, Nutrition & Climate - Dr. Lara Ramdin, Dole Sunshine Foods”Think about food design as a system. We are innovating at the product end, but we’re also trying to innovate ….to get food that would be otherwise be wasted back into the food supply chain…(including through) canned (and frozen) fruit and vegetables, which are really good accessible nutrition,” especially in the face of climate change. Dr. Lara Ramdin on Electric Ladies Podcast We spend Labor Day weekend focused in part on food, from BBQs to picnics, to meals with friends and family. But our food supply is threatened by climate change – as we’ve seen with tons of f...2022-09-0646 min
You, Me, and Your Top ThreeCriss Cross the Desert (wsg Dr. Lara Ramdin)DR. LARA RAMDIN, Chief Innovation Officer at Dole, joins host Gregg Garrett to discuss the paths to careers in innovation. As a seasoned innovator in multiple industries, Lara also highlights how she has found a passion for tackling innovative solutions to battle food deserts. Of course, Lara speaks about her Top 3, including her former colleagues and bosses who saw things in her that she didn’t recognize herself, a college roommate turned educator that helped her recognize bravery, and a ride-or-die group of women who each instill a different and needed innovation trait. Namely, these women help Lara in Ta...2022-04-2858 minElectric Ladies PodcastScaling Women Climate Entrepreneurs - Zainab Salbi, Daughters For Earth“I co-founded Daughters For Earth, a collaborative effort between philanthropists and climate activists and women's rights activists to get together…to mobilize women and to put more resources into the hands of women. 70% of who is going to be impacted by climate disasters, such as displacement and food security, are women. Women are actually pivotal in two major solutions for climate change, which is to protect and preserve 50% of earth and to shift to regenerative agriculture…(but They are not being invited to the negotiating tables. As a matter of fact, not much is talked about women's pivotal role… and we a...2022-04-1258 minElectric Ladies PodcastEmpowering Rural Women With Climate Solutions – Rosemary Atieno, Women Climate Centers International“The question is, why are we having less food?...Why are we having too much floods? Why is the drought becoming too much?... What is the solution?... From these questions, then we have a dialogue with them and we start opening up their minds that you have other solutions that you can use towards mitigating these effects… That allows you to think through the challenges you're facing, think through the possible solutions to solve your challenge.” Rosemary Atieno on Electric Ladies Podcast This International Women's Day, we want to highlight local female climate activists in Africa who are quietly transf...2022-03-081h 01Electric Ladies PodcastGreen Consumers Products, Cosmetics - Boma Brown-West, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)Green Consumer Products & Cosmetics - Boma Brown-West, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) “When we talk about products, there's waste in terms of products too. Like what happens when… we're done using it, when it fails, when it's broken. Certainly there are things that consumer can do in terms of being more mindful of the types of products that they're purchasing… But at the end of the day, I think the two main issues…sustainable packaging and …sustainable products……many of the decisions about the functionality of the product and the packaging… those are business decisions.” Boma Brown-West on Electric Ladies Podcast 2022-02-1546 min
Inside Outside InnovationEp. 248 - Dole Packaged Foods' Dr. Lara Ramdin, CIO and Barbara Guerpillon, Head of Ventures on Dole's Venture Fund, Open Innovation & NutritionOn this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with two innovators from Dole Packaged Foods, Dr. Lara Ramdin, Chief Innovation Officer and Barbara Guerpillon, Head of Ventures. We talk about Dole's new venture fund, its open innovation initiatives, and how it's tackling global issues from nutrition to sustainability. Let's get started.Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we...2021-12-2121 minElectric Ladies PodcastFood Design For Nutrition & Sustainability - Dr. Lara Ramdin, Dole Sunshine Foods”Think about food design as a system. We are innovating at the product end, but we’re also trying to innovate ….to get food that would be otherwise be wasted back into the food supply chain…(including through) canned (and frozen) fruit and vegetables, which are really good accessible nutrition,” especially in the face of climate change. Dr. Lara Ramdin on Electric Ladies Podcast As we commemorate Thanksgiving in the U.S., and do so on the heels of the huge UN climate conference COP26 when businesses and governments pledged “urgent action and investment” to shift to sustainable fa...2021-11-2355 min
SheVenturesDole-ing Out Proper Nutrition to 1 Billion People With Lara Ramdin and Barbara GuerpillonNearly 2 billion people lack access to nutritious food — a staggering number likely to increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lara Ramdin, Ph.D., and Barbara Guerpillon are trying to change that. These two global female executives are playing integral roles toward Dole Food’s corporate initiative: the Dole Promise Sunshine for All, the goal of which is to make nutritious foods accessible to 1 billion people by 2030. Ramdin, chief innovation officer at Dole Packaged Foods, has built her global research and development team to be made up of 60 percent women, demonstrating her advocacy for women and girls in STEM...2021-06-0743 min
Inside OutsideEp. 248 - Dole Packaged Foods' Dr. Lara Ramdin, CIO and Barbara Guerpillon, Head of Ventures on Dole's Venture Fund, Open Innovation & NutritionOn this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with two innovators from Dole Packaged Foods, Dr. Lara Ramdin, Chief Innovation Officer and Barbara Guerpillon, Head of Ventures. We talk about Dole's new venture fund, its open innovation initiatives, and how it's tackling global issues from nutrition to sustainability. Let's get started.Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we...2021-04-2721 min
The Heart of Innovation with Kym McNicholasCalling All Innovators: Dole's New Sunshine Fund Aims to Bear New FruitCovid 19 has shed light on the incredible inequities when it comes to access to nutritious foods. Food insecurity is a big factor when it comes to nutritional deficiencies that leave our bodies vulnerable to viruses and chronic illness – whether it’s covid, diabetes, heart disease, or peripheral artery disease. You can’t stay healthy without nutrition and you can’t heal without nutrition. Therefore, it’s a vicious cycle that needs to be broken. But Dole Asia Holdings and its subsidiaries are calling on all innovators to work together to break the cycle with its in...2021-03-2620 min
The Irish Film London PodcastWolfwalkers as a parable for an Irish environmentalism: Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart in conversation with IFLTomm Moore and Ross Stewart from Cartoon Saloon (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea) chat to Irish Film London's Lara Ramdin about their new Irish feature animation Wolfwalkers. They explore the film’s inspiration, some of their technical and story decisions, as well as disclosing some of their own guilty pleasure viewing, doom scrolling and tell us about a new short film for Greenpeace.
Thank you to the Irish Emigrant Support Programme, who've been a wonderful supporter of ours for a number of years, providing encouragement and vital support, including for this podcast. Go raibh míl...2020-11-1254 min
The Irish Film London PodcastHow We Made Herself: Clare Dunne and Phyllida Lloyd in conversation with IFLIrish writer/actress Clare Dunne (Spider-Man: Far from Home, Cynthia) and director Phyllida Lloyd CBE (The Iron Lady, Mamma Mia!), chat about their film Herself, which screened as part of the BFI London Film Festival 2020.
The duo discussed where the story came from, the importance of diversity and even gave some good advice about why you should never patronise a child actor!
Thank you to the Irish Emigrant Support Programme, who've been a wonderful supporter of ours for a number of years, providing encouragement and vital support, including for this podcast. Go raibh míle m...2020-11-1157 min