Journey To Regeneration

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Ted Castle, founder of Rhino Foods, and Rooney Castle, the company's CEO, about how businesses can strengthen their performance by investing in the people who make their success possible. Based in Vermont and known for its longstanding partnership with Ben & Jerry's on the company’s iconic cookie dough ice cream, Rhino Foo...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Natalie Nicholles of the Capitals Coalition about a fundamental blind spot in how businesses measure performance: the value of nature, people, and communities that conventional financial accounts largely overlook. While companies increasingly collect environmental and social data, much of that information remains...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Roel van de Weijer, co-founder of Johnny Cashew, about what it takes to redesign a global commodity supply chain so that more value remains where a product is grown. African cashews have traditionally travelled thousands of kilometres to Asia for processing before reaching European consumers, a system that separates farmer...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with John Salzinger, entrepreneur and inventor behind portable solar lighting company Haven, about building a commercially viable solar business around the challenge of energy poverty. Salzinger explains a distinctive model in which the same product sold to mainstream retail customers is made available to NGOs at lower margins...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Eric Edelson, CEO of Fireclay Tile, about what it takes to scale an American manufacturing business without abandoning craftsmanship, employee participation, or environmental responsibility. Edelson traces Fireclay's evolution from a struggling 19-person artisan tile company to a vertically integrated manufacturer with rou...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Caroline Reid, Senior Director of Sustainability at Oatly, about what it takes for a company to move from reducing its own environmental footprint to challenging the system in which it operates. Drawing on more than fifteen years of sustainability work at IKEA and an engineering background, Reid contrasts the efficiencies...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Dr. Helen Crowley, Co-Founder and CEO of Nature Matters, a conservation biologist whose career has taken her from field-based biodiversity work with the Wildlife Conservation Society to corporate sustainability leadership at Kering and, more recently, nature-focused advisory and education. Crowley explains why addressing b...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Ton Goedmakers, CEO of Vebego, a third-generation family-owned facility-services company employing around 40,000 people, about what it means to build social inclusion into the operating model of a business. Goedmakers discusses Vebego’s commitment to creating meaningful work for people who face a “distance to the labor mar...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Esther Welles, co-founder of We Are Stewards, an organization advancing steward ownership as a new approach to business governance and long-term purpose. Steward ownership challenges the assumption that companies must ultimately be controlled by financial owners seeking maximum returns. Instead, it separates voting rights...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Michel Scholte and Claire van den Broek from True Price, an organization working to transform how businesses and societies understand value by accounting for the hidden social and environmental costs embedded in products and supply chains. We discuss the concept of true pricing — a methodology that identifies impacts such...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Brontie Ansell, Managing Director and co-founder of Lawyers for Nature, about how legal systems can be transformed to recognize nature as more than an object of regulation. Brontie explains the foundations of the rights of nature movement, arguing that traditional environmental law has often focused on human interests rath...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Chris Marquis speaks with Hans van den Broek, founder of The Shore, a surf school and organic café in Scheveningen, and a participant in the Netherlands’ Sleipnir network of steward-owned businesses. Van den Broek traces The Shore’s unlikely development from a tiny seasonal surf operation into a valuable year-round beach business, explaining how public p...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Miren Oca, founder and CEO of Ocaquatics Swim School, a Miami-based company that has taught more than 3.2 million swim lessons while building a business around safety, employee development, environmental responsibility, and community access. Oca reflects on how a company she began in survival mode as a 19-year-old student...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Ruth Andrade, Earth Care Strategy Lead at Lush, about how one of the world’s most recognizable ethical cosmetics companies translates an aspirational purpose—leaving the world “lusher than we found it”—into operational choices across sourcing, product design, packaging, ownership, and culture. Ruth explains why Lush uses t...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Hans Stegeman, Chief Economist and Group Director of Impact and Economics at Triodos Bank, about the role finance can play in transforming the economy rather than simply greening the status quo. Drawing on his journey from conventional economics and Rabobank to Triodos, Hans argues that money is never neutral: it is always...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Sophie Dembinski, Head of Norrsken House Brussels and former policy lead at Ecosia, about how climate action moves from individual companies into wider systems of capital, policy, technology, and market design. Drawing on her background in international relations, European policy, and climate entrepreneurship, Sophie refle...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Basil Demeroutis, Managing Partner of FORE Partnership, about why real estate must be understood not simply as a financial asset class, but as a powerful system shaping environmental outcomes, social life, and long-term value. Drawing on his background in engineering, finance, and impact investing, Demeroutis explains how...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Louisa Ziane, co-founder of Toast Brewing, a UK-based craft beer company that uses surplus bread to replace virgin barley in the brewing process. Drawing on her background in accounting, sustainability consulting, marketing, and food-system advocacy, Ziane explains how Toast grew from an experimental project into a circula...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Tim Christophersen, author of Generation Restoration and a leading voice in global ecosystem restoration. Drawing on more than two decades of experience across the European Commission, IUCN, the UN Environment Programme, and now Salesforce, Christophersen argues that the nature crisis is fundamentally a relationship crisis...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Ken Pucker, former COO of Timberland and one of the most thoughtful critics of modern corporate sustainability. Drawing on his experience helping build Timberland into one of the earliest high-profile examples of responsible business, Pucker reflects on the evolution of sustainability over the past two decades. The convers...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Jennifer Stucko, founder and CEO of Prota Fiori, a sustainable luxury footwear company working at the intersection of circular materials and Italian craftsmanship. Stucko explains how Prota Fiori emerged from a desire to rethink the environmental impacts embedded within traditional footwear supply chains while preserving t...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Frieda Gormley, co-founder of House of Hackney, about the company’s evolution from a design-led interiors brand into a business grounded in regenerative principles. Drawing on her background in fashion and her growing engagement with ecological thinking, Gormley reflects on the limitations of traditional sustainability mod...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Jeffrey Hollender, co-founder of Seventh Generation and a leading voice in sustainable business, about the evolution—and limitations—of purpose-driven companies. In his new book “Built for a Better World: How Seventh Generation Pioneered a Movement That Changed the Purpose of Business,” Hollender reflects on building a bra...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Les Szabo of personal care company Dr. Bronner’s, a long-time leader in regenerative and purpose-driven business, about the limits of philanthropy and policy in addressing systemic challenges and the need for business itself to take responsibility for its full impacts. Drawing on Dr. Bronner’s evolution—from organic sourci...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Galahad Clark, co-founder of Vivobarefoot, about rethinking business through the lens of human health, natural systems, and regenerative design. Drawing on a two-hundred-year family legacy in shoemaking shaped by Quaker values, Clark reflects on how industrialization and shareholder capitalism disrupted earlier models of p...