World Changing Ideas

James Vincent talks with Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky on stage at Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City

Last year, Talib talked with Brightseed Co-founder and COO Sofia Elizondo to chat about how her company has developed AI technology to find nutrients that can be used as preventative medicine.

Last year, Talib chatted with Food Rescue Hero CEO and Founder Leah Lizarondo about her app that acts like an Uber or DoorDash for surplus food.

Last year, Talib sat down with award-winning author Alexander Kielland Krag and Gyldendal Executive Vice President Tom Christian Gotschalksen to discuss “This Stays Between Us,” which might be the first long-form story natively written for Instagram Stories.

Last year, Talib talked with Source Global CEO and Founder Cody Friesen about how his company collects water by using hydropanels. They harness the energy of the sun to draw water vapor from the atmosphere. The company also received $7 million from Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital, to scatter the hydro panels across California’s Central Valley.

Last year, Talib sat down with Lonely Whale Executive Director Dune Ives about the NextWave Plastics initiative that comprises a group of multinational companies committed to reducing plastic waste. She’s joined by a couple of representatives from two of those member companies: HP’s Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer Ellen Jackowski and Jane Abernethy, the Chief Sustainability Officer...

Every company’s success is tied to its talent - recruiting and retaining the employees needed to deliver high-level customer experiences that support the bottom line. Yet rapid transformation has disrupted many things that organizations used to do to maintain great company cultures. So how can business leaders reimagine their employee experiences to meet the needs of their workforces? How does tha...

Last year, Talib talked with Vanessa Barboni Hallik, the founder and CEO of Another Tomorrow, an end-to-end sustainable design company to chat about technology-enabled transparency and a circular economy.

Last year, Talib sat down with hive CEO and co-founder Jenifer Willig to discuss her work on creating a video game that helps fight malnutrition. According to UNICEF, severe acute malnutrition threatens an estimated 16 million children worldwide and claims the lives of approximately one million more. One of the most common interventions by the UN is to provide Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food packets...

Last year, Talib talked with Mick Ebeling, the founder of Not Impossible, a social innovation lab and production company and his Managing Director Adam Dole, who is also the cofounder of Bento, a mobile platform they created to end hunger. They discussed why Not Impossible strives to solve the world's absurdities and how Bento brings dignity to those who experience food insecurity.

Hey everyone, as part of our continuing summer series, we’re looking back on some of our previous episodes. Last year, Talib sat down with Lia Diagnostics co-founders Bethany Edwards and Anna Couturier to discuss how they decided to revolutionize the home pregnancy test.

As part of our continuing summer series, we’re looking back on some of our previous episodes.  Last year, Talib talked with Adam Cronkright about of by for*, a non-partisan, non-profit organization he co-founded, which aims to replace politicians with everyday people.

We're taking a look back at some of our favorite moments over the past year and a half. This week we're going back to our conversation with Jelani Memory, the founder and CEO of A Kids Company About. Memory first wrote about his own experience with racism for his kids and then turned that into a multimedia business.

We're taking a look back at some of our best moments over the past year and a half. This week we're going back to our conversation with Beyond Meat Founder and CEO Ethan Brown about why he wants to see more people embracing a plant-based diet.

We're taking a look back at this season's innovations and ideas on climate change. Let us know which ones were your favorites! Also, don't lose hope! There are a few simple things we can all do on an individual basis to help curb climate change. Dr. Emily Fischer helped found Science Moms, an organization geared toward informing moms about what climate change is and how they can pitch in to help s...

We’ve talked about oceans and plastic pollution before but today we’re going to explore an unlikely connection between those two topics, and something that often gets overlooked: laundry. It might seem like a strange link to climate change because, you know, who really cares about laundry? But about 50 percent of the total greenhouse gas emitted over the course of a life of a tee shirt, for exampl...

How does one become an organic dairy farmer? Well, sometimes you just happen to stumble into it. Donald De Jong is the CEO of Natural Prairie Dairy and he was more surprised than anyone else when he delved into the world of organic dairy farming.

It’s World Oceans Day! And we’re celebrating our blue planet by talking about coral reefs.  Coral bleaching events are like 100-year flood events: ideally they're only supposed to happen once every 100 years but that's not the reality. In 2005, the U.S. lost half of its Caribbean coral reefs in one year due to a major bleaching event and this past March the Great Barrier Reef experienced its sixth...

Renewable energy comes in many forms: solar, wind, hydroelectric, biomass, geothermal, and wave energy. On this episode, we're focusing on solar energy and how more communities can gain access to and benefit from it. Clearloop Co-founder and CEO Laura Zapata talks about how she got involved in cleaning up the electricity grid in the U.S. Then we learn how solar can help generate a green form of hy...

As a follow-up to our episode on transportation, we're revisiting a conversation with Jennifer Wong, the head of sustainability at Convoy. The company is working on improving efficiency in the trucking business by saving money for shippers and increasing earnings for truck drivers, while also helping eliminate carbon waste.  

Global transportation is responsible for 24 percent of direct CO2 emissions from fuel combustion. The transportation sector in the U.S is responsible for roughly 29 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. First, we look at how Ford is remodeling its most popular vehicle and then learn about a unique way to solve climate change in the transportation industry. Haakon Brunell is the co-founder of Carbon...

A new study shows how quickly reducing animal farming could unlock ‘negative emissions’ by lowering the amount of methane and nitrous oxide from the air and allowing forests to regenerate. Talib and Avery discuss this development through the lens of their own dietary choices.

Deforestation is partially a result of traditional agriculture practices so we’re looking into alternative agriculture to find out how it can actually benefit the environment. We're focusing on two farming innovations, one of which doesn’t involve soil to grow plants and another that uses a machine to clean up cow manure. Stanley Janicki is the vice president of Sedron Technologies and Donald De J...

Last year Talib talked with Maisie Hughes from American Forests about tree equity and since it seemed like a good follow-up to our episode on reforestation last week, we’re going to share some highlights from that interview.

Because it’s Earth Day in two days, we thought, what better way to celebrate than by talking about the most iconic symbol of the Earth? Trees are nature’s first line of defense when it comes to fighting climate change, because of their capacity to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it. In this episode we’ll learn about two ways that will help forests keep doing the work they need to do. Y...