Join host Paul Shapiro as he talks with some of the leading start-up entrepreneurs and titans of industry alike using their businesses to help solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Nuclear energy was supposed to transform the world. Then came
Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima, and public trust
collapsed. But for 25 years, engineers across a dozen countries
have been quietly designing a new generation of reactors built to
fail safely without relying on human intervention
or...
Most founders assume that building a great product and serving
customers well will be enough to protect what they have built. Eric
Ries, author of The Lean Startup and the new book Incorruptible,
argues that the assumption is dangerously wrong.
In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with
Eric...
Every year, roughly a billion birds die from flying into glass
windows and buildings. The problem is massive, well-documented, and
largely invisible to the public.
In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro talks with
Dominique Waddoup, CEO and Founder of BirdShades, about how she
went from studying giant...
Right now, roughly 40% of global emissions come from the built
environment. Most of those emissions are hidden deep within the
materials themselves, in the concrete, steel, and plastics that are
mined or extracted from underground at enormous energy costs. What
if that model could be reversed entirely?
Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor but
support roughly a quarter of all marine life. They are dying fast,
and in many places, the physical structure of the reef itself has
already crumbled away. Without that foundation, coral larvae have
nowhere to land, and marine ecosystems cannot recover
on...
Join host Paul Shapiro as he talks with some of the leading start-up entrepreneurs and titans of industry alike using their businesses to help solve the world’s most pressing problems.