Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living

96. Inspired Musings: life as a generous teacher, inviting self-reflection and inspired actions for shifting perspectives.

Insights shared from a recent conversation that helped me learn more about myself and gifted me with inspired empowering actions I can take to interrupt some disempowering patterns to help myself shift to a more empowered point of view.

95. LIVEKINDLY Collective: 3 food brands and a lifestyle media platform unite to inspire change through mouth-watering veg-based food.

The description on theLIVEKINDLYco.com website sums it up wonderfully, ‘A collective of activists on a mission to make plant-based living the norm’. All the brands are mission-aligned to make a more sustainable food system a reality. It’s about creating delicious animal-free plant-based food that do not deplete our natural resources.

94. Apeel: helping fruits and vegetables stay fresh longer by turbo-boosting their natural preservation ability.

Apeel is using food to preserve food. Their edible coating that enables fruit and vegetables to stay fresh twice as long (even up to 5 times as long) is derived from plants! It keeps moisture in and oxygen out. This means reduced food waste, as well as other positive sustainability impacts, like reduced GHG emissions and water savings.

93. Forward Fooding: redesigning a better more sustainable global food system by fostering food tech.

Forward Fooding helps connect food and foodtech entrepreneurs with the most relevant partners for their ventures. They stand for collaborating towards a more sustainable future that addresses the challenges of our current food system, by providing data access, consulting services and startup networking initiatives. Plus they are the presenters of the FoodTech 500.

92. Wasteless: sustainable innovation that helps retail food stores waste less, and sell more by optimising discounts based on expiry dates.

Wasteless helps supermarkets and online stores sell more and waste less by providing a dynamic pricing solution which allows for discounting of products, based on how close they are to their expiration date. Great for stores, their suppliers, their customers and the planet.

91. Klean Kanteen: pioneering reusable containers designed for the health of people and planet.

In 2004 Klean Kanteen were the first to sell a BPA stainless steel bottle in the US. Today their stunning range of reuseable items, made using stainless steel and food-grade silicone, champion the bring your own movement and the reduction of single-use plastics. Plus this B Corp is climate-neutral certified and a member of 1% for the planet.

90. CoolCap: mission-driven to end poverty for smallholder farmers in Africa by providing modern equipment in a simple, scalable, and sustainable way.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, poverty drops by 7% for every 10% rise in crop yields. CoolCap’s goal is to get the right tools into the hands of emerging dedicated farmers through farmer-friendly financing. The CoolCap method involves identifying high-potential farmers through wholesale buyers, and offering financed CoolCap vetted income-generating equipment, that pays for itself through its use with payment terms linked to harvest time.

89. Elevate Packaging: your revolutionary one-stop-shop for compostable packaging solutions, including compostable labels.

Elevate Packaging is on a mission 'to end the use of landfills while also re-enriching the soil to ultimately renew the planet’ by revolutionizing the packaging and adhesive label industry, with real market compostable, recycled and recycle-friendly solutions that assist brands in achieving full-circle sustainability. Their exclusive PURE Labels™ are the first and only certified compostable label in North America.

88. Keap: People and planet loving scented candles made from sustainable materials and inspired to help us reconnect.

Keap makes masterfully scented, virtually zero waste candles using the most sustainable materials. They have been designed to help us reconnect to life, ourselves, others and nature by founders committed to a regenerative economic model.

87. Kehe: employee-owned natural, organic and speciality food distribution company passionate about their partners, their people and those in need.

Kehe is an independent, employee-owned B Corp unwaveringly committed to the success of their retail and supply partners. They have many inspiring programs, such as their CARE Trade initiative which promotes a set of brands who are advancing a higher purpose and their philanthropic arm, KeHE Cares® Foundation which receives 10% of their profits and is overseen by the employees.