The Green Times - Redefining Success

In this episode, we speak with Elmar from Africa Collect Textiles. An organization dedicated to turning textile waste into opportunity while creating social and environmental impact. Africa Collect Textiles’ story started with a simple but powerful idea: what if discarded textiles could become a resource instead of waste? By collecting, sorting, and transforming used clothing and footwear, they gi...

Today I speak with Denis Karema, the founder of SokoFresh: a Kenyan agritech company providing solar-powered cold storage and logistics services for smallholder farmers. What makes this story personal is where it starts. Denis’ grandma was a farmer. He saw firsthand how hard people worked on the land, yet how little progress was made over time. Later, through his work across accelerators and innov...

In this episode of The Green Times Redefining Success, we talk to Joseph Nguthiru. Joseph, 2025 winner of the UN Young Champion of the Earth award, is the founder of HyaPak, a circular economy solution that converts invasive water hyacinth into biodegradable packaging. This simultaneously tackles plastic pollution, manages invasive species, and improves livelihoods for affected communities. HyaPak...

The stories we tell shape the systems we live in. Welcome to The Green Times - Redefining Success. We believe that impact entrepreneurship is the most exciting and defining business model of our time and much needed.  My name is Kiki Boreel. I'm a fashion model turned circularity expert and transition lover. And in this podcast, I'll be talking with innovative founders that are reshaping...