Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living

86. World Centric: 100% certified compostable food packaging provider channelling 25% of profits to grassroots impact projects and carbon emissions offsetting.

World Centric's compostable packaging is made from annually renewable resources like bamboo and plant fibre, as well as sustainably sourced paper and bio-plastics. The grassroots projects they support target communities experiencing extreme poverty, providing basic needs and economic development opportunities, while beneficially impacting the environment.

83. Willamette Falls Paper Company: innovating and reimagining the way to wood free sustainable paper production.

Willamette Falls Paper Company is on a mission to be the leader in sustainable environmentally-friendly paper production. This trailblazing company offers products made from not only recycled post-consumer waste but most inspiringly, from non-traditional fibres like agricultural waste, like wheat pulp and hemp.

85. Shared-X the world’s first impact farming company, breaking the poverty cycle for smallholder farmers in emerging markets.

Shared-X shares knowledge and empowers through experience gained on their own farms, which grow high-quality crops using regenerative techniques, alongside small farmers, enabling these farmers to increase their income using environmentally sustainable practices plus assisting with the market access. And Shared-X generates strong shareholder returns.

84. Miyoko’s creamery leading the way in the animal-free future of dairy with mouth-watering healthy and planet-friendly vegan butter and cheese products.

Described as ‘the Tesla of the natural food industry’ by Roots Market Founder Jess Kaufman, Miyoko’s Creamery envisions an animal-free dairy food system, one that is kinder, greener, healthier and tastier. They craft mouth-watering people and planet-friendly vegan butter and cheese products.

82. SocialCapital generates long term compounding financial, social and environmental returns through empowering the entrepreneurs solving the world’s hardest problems.

SocialCapital is about advancing humanity by solving the world’s hardest problems. The idea is to reinvest the 30+% returns to scale impact across current investment sectors such as environment, healthcare and financial services.

81. Real Leaders authoritative sustainable business and leadership magazine inspiring 25,000+ CEOs from 130+ countries with the stories of those doing well by doing good.

Real Leaders aims to inspire ‘better leaders for a better world’ by sharing the stories of problem-solving action-taking brands, CEOs, celebrities and citizens. Since 2019 the Real Leaders Impact Awards has been honouring the top impact companies who are finding profitable business solutions which positively impact people and planet.

80. Tony’s Chocolonely on a mission to eradicate slavery from the global chocolate industry by demonstrating it’s possible to make slave-free commercially successful chocolate.

When Dutch investigative journalist Teun (Tony) van de Keuken launched an investigation for a consumer report show in the early 2000s who was shocked to discover the rampant slavery in the chocolate industry, most especially child slavery. In 2005 he decided to lead by example, producing 5,000 Fairtrade chocolate bars.

79. GOGO Events design and manage fabulously memorable events while providing jobs for people experiencing homelessness.

This B Corp certified social enterprise is committed to creating the WOW beyond the now. In 2018 the GOGO Foundation was founded to support both the work of GOGO events and the vision of an inclusive workforce by ensuring the successful transition to work for the at-risk team.

78. Playa Viva regenerative boutique hotel on the beach in Mexico where luxury and sustainability co-exist.

As a regenerative resort, Playa Viva is dedicated to creating a hospitality ecosystem that positively impacts all participants. They are focussed on the social and environmental impact inside the community where they exist. Guests are offered opportunities to volunteer, meet and give back to the local population.

77. How AuREUS is upcycling crop waste and transforming skyscrapers into vertical solar energy farms.

The AuReus System won The James Dyson Sustainability Award (2020). This game-changing innovation addresses a limitation of current solar panel technology which relies on visible light. AuReus uses organic compounds in food waste to harvest the power of invisible UV, converting it into visible light and then electricity by solar panels and films.