Sustainability Solved

Kalopsia Collective is a textile batch manufacturing company which began with an aim to challenge the way textile was seen. Totally aware of the social impact of design and production, they strive to minimize the environmental impact of the business. This is by considering everything and everyone affected by their business. In this episode, Adam will share with us the challenges they're facing as...

Ben Battell visited two beaches with completely different ocean life. One was completely clean while the other was holding on to its life from the amount of waste in it. This prompted Ben to start a business where he could reduce the amount of plastic that finds its way to the ocean. Did you know that if you spend 80 years in life while changing your toothbrush every three months that would be 240...

In this episode, we’re joined by Andy from Simplicity Cars. Andy is not your typical car salesman. He is truly passionate about cars and his business and I’m sure you’ll be able to tell that from listening to the show. He makes the journey of buying a car as easy as possible for you and given that he only gets his payment from the suppliers, you’re sure of getting it at a fair price. He shares how...

Gut healing is reemerging as the key benefit to having better health, and a longer and happier life. When Catherine Farrant fell pregnant, she started researching on ancient ways in which people nourished their bodies. She found out that food was used as medicine as opposed to today where we’re taking medicine as food and that's how Ossa Organic was born. Ossa Organic is a BCorp Certified company...

Today, it’s my pleasure to interview Sam Brennan who is the owner of Fresh Car Valeting. Sam believes in having a connection with people and more so his employees. He feels having happy employees subsequently translates to having happy customers. With a team of 9 employees, Fresh Car Valeting is changing how car valeting business works. It is a high-end mobile car valeting company and this comes w...

Fellow Bcorp and Manchester-based Brew Tea Co. join us for this fascinating interview all about Sustainable Business, the technical side of Tea drinking and the triple bottom line. Deirdre McNally discusses the challenges involved in being a consumer-focussed company committed to doing business as a force for good as well as how building a loyal community has really helped them provide a better se...

The Kind Living Salon is set up to be a unique and modern brand that offers Vegan, eco-friendly and organic products, alongside ethical and socially conscious treatments and services. In this interview, founder Lizzie Salter tells us why she set up this new business and the eco-hub she aims to achieve to promote a more ethical and sustainable approach to wellbeing, self-care and nutrition. Lizzie...

Linklaters is a leading international law firm committed to environmental responsibility. In this interview we speak with Leilani Weier who is their in-house Sustainability Consultant. There's a lot you can take away from this episode, especially if your staff and supply chain are asking questions around sustainability and environmental responsibility. Leilani talks about their Best Green Law Firm...

Did you know that 80% of your environmental impact is decided at the design stage? Matt Hocking is a superhero lover, proud and committed BCorp owner and planet optimist, In this interview he talks about how becoming a BCorp helped him increase his turnover by 40% in the first year, how he's engaged his staff, suppliers and customers with his sustainable business agenda and how Leap is doing busin...

Leah talks about her journey building an ethical and vegan 'sweet treat' brand from scratch and how The Hardihood has used Instagram to accelerate their business growth. There's lots of tips and advice about starting an ethical brand, addressing the challenge around plastic packaging and also what it takes to get your product into popular retailers like Selfridges, Planet Organic, WholeFoods and D...

We are delighted to be joined by Adam Huttly who is the founder of Red-Inc. Company. Red Inc. is a B Corp certified company and is an office supplies re-seller. Adam founded his company in 2008 based on three principles which are cost, environmental impact, and reducing human effort. Mentioned in this episode: Apply now Book a call with me now

Our second interview is with Ravinol Chambers from Video Production Company, Be Inspired Films. Rav talks about what it's like to run a business on his own, how to communicate through your company values and what it means to be a BCorp.  Rav offers great advice to companies wanting to stand on their own feet and make a significant impact in the world. This is a great interview and we're honoured t...

To start our new podcast we thought it would be helpful for you to understand a bit more about Green Element so Charlie stepped in to do this interview.  Green Element was founded by Will Richardson in 2004 with a mission - to change the world.  14 years later Green Element is growing and making an impact. Will talks about why he founded the company, why we decided to start this podcast and how Gr...

This podcast has been set up to inspire businesses to become more environmental and sustainable. We've been planning this podcast for a while now and we're really excited to launch. This is the introduction episode to our weekly podcast which will feature interviews with other sustainable businesses to inspire, empower and support businesses that want to be more environmental and sustainable. Ment...