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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.

Aug 1, 2026

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...


Jul 15, 2026

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...


Jul 1, 2026

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...


Jun 15, 2026

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?
 
In this...


Jun 1, 2026

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...