New Ventures Podcast

What makes rural business in climate friendly technologies so hard to build? Nancy Wimmer should know why. Thanks to support from Good Energies Foundation she has spent a decade in Bangladesh, a country that has built rural renewable energy businesses like no other. A few highlights of what she has learnt: It requires dogged determination . It requires specialized financing structures. It req...

Trailer - Nancy Wimmer and Sanjoy Sanyal of New Ventures

Gavriel Landau, the founder of Charm Impact, is developing a crowdlending platform for local clean energy entrepreneurs. Can crowdlending make access to finance more equitable? Gavriel Landau is certainly trying. Through Charm Impact he would like to make crowd funding accessible to teams run by entrepreneurs who have been neglected by institutional investors: local founders, women business owners...

Trailer Gavriel Landau by Sanjoy Sanyal

Should the construction industry care about sand? And, if so, how? In a carbon obsessed world of climate professionals, it is easy to forget about sand.   In his excellent book describing various solutions to avoid a climate disaster, Mr. Bill Gates says "concrete is even harder (to find a carbon friendly way of making). To make it, you mix together gravel, sand, water and...

Learning so much about a sustainability topic that you just have to share? In this podcast, Kiran Pereira tells me how her curiosity about a common (too common) natural product just kept her going. To write a Masters thesis, to contribute articles, to start her website and then to publish her book. If this is a dream you share too, as Kiran says, this podcast is a must listen. And do rea...

Trailer Kiran Pereira by Sanjoy Sanyal

Toby Hammond talks to Sanjoy Sanyal about building a global team and crowdfunding.

New Ventures first episode: This is Dr Sebastian Groh building a peer to peer grid in Bangladesh. Listen to his journey, what drives him and what his plans are for the future.