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HAPPY PLANET

Abigail Carroll

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Can innovation, entrepreneurship and investment make the planet happier and healthier? Abigail Carroll thinks so. Known as Maine's Oyster Lady, Abigail sold her aquaculture and tourism business NONESUCH MAINE in 2021 and has since been advising and investing in high-growth start-ups in the US and Europe that seek to help solve some of the world's most pressing problems, all while turning a profit. Through conversations with founders, investors, and thought leaders, Abigail shares this though ...
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Hvis vi skal undgå at opvarme kloden mere end 2 grader inden 2050, har vi alle sammen travlt, siger de kloge. Men hvad har vi travlt med? Hvor skal vi hen, og hvilken vej skal vi gå? Vi udforsker måder at leve mere bæredygtigt på, stiller spørgsmål og deler vores rejse. Vi er ikke eksperter, men er ikke bange for at spørge eksperterne til råds. Mød AC og Sara i det første afsnit af Planet Happy Podcast og hør hvorfor de har startet Planet Happy og hvilken forskel de ønsker at gøre med Planet ...
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Happy Planet Wednesday! This week's guest, Elizabeth (Liz) Muller is Co-Founder of Deep Isolation. While living in France, was impressed by France's nuclear power program, which provides nearly 70% of the country's power, with zero carbon emissions. The problem was, and it still is, the waste. Today, over 490,000 metric tons of nuclear waste is loc…
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Happy Planet Wednesday! With all of the good work that oysters can do for the planet, filtering water, preventing erosion, reducing acidification, mitigating storm surge and more, entrepreneur George Birch wanted to see if an oyster living in the water doing all of those good deeds could be more valuable in terms of dollars or euros than an oyster …
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We are kicking off the season with the unstoppable Brian Skerry. Brian is a world renown photojournalist and film producer specializing in marine wildlife and underwater environments. He has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition no less than ELEVEN TIMES. He is a National Geographic Society Storytelling Fellow and author…
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Happy Planet Wednesday ! Before I introduce our guest today I want to thank you for your support over the past year. Because, yes, today’s podcast concludes our first year of programming! To celebrate we venture into Africa. We will be speaking with Klaartje (Klara) Scarde the Co-Founder of Mwani Zanzibar, a seaweed based cosmetics company based in…
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Happy Planet Wednesday! This week we are joined by Vincent Doumeizel, a French native from Burgundy who is Director of the Food Program for Lloyd's Register Foundation as well as an expert on everything seaweed. Vincent has spearheaded the Global Seaweed Coalition, which "is a global partnership established to support the safety and sustainability …
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Happy Planet Wednesday ! We are headed to Iceland today to meet Thor Sigfusson the Founder of Iceland Ocean Cluster, an innovation hub he founded in 2011 to focus on marine startups. Since then Ocean Clusters have been popping up around the world, including the New England Ocean Cluster right here in Portland, Maine. It’s a real delight to have Tho…
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Happy Planet Wednesday ! We've talked quite a bit about renewable energy on this podcast and we've also looked at old technologies that are coming back, often with a modern twist. Our guest today is starting a business that checks both of those boxes. Miles Keeney-Ritchie, founder of Aloft, aims to reduce ocean transportation carbon emissions by in…
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Today, we are hopping over the Atlantic to speak with Louise Skajem and Aura Murillo, two young, UK-based women designers who are innovating in a marine area I never imagined I would discuss on this show: funerary services. These young women are full of life and will challenge everything you have ever come to believe about funeral directors. Their …
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You may recognize today’s guest from episode 5. We’re here with Bernard Hidier, the French expat living in Maine who co-founded Finsulate the non-toxic antifouling solution that looks like velvet and mimics a sea urchin. Bernard is back with us because somehow he has managed to co-found and co-manage more than one company at the same time. “Kids do…
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We are going to kick off the fall season with a chat with Dan Watson, the UK-based founder and CEO of a fisheries startup called SafetyNet. I first met Dan through Harry Wright’s accelerator Bright Tide, where I am an advisor. Then I wound up on his mentor team for another accelerator run by Boston-based Sea Ahead. I can’t wait to see where our pat…
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Fashion and smelly seaweed may seem like an odd pair but one company in North Carolina is spinning them together - quite literally! Our guest is Laura Hayes and she is the Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager at Keel Labs. Keel Labs makes a natural silky yarn that is composed of about 70% kelp! While they are not the first to try to make fashion f…
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Happy Planet Wednesday ! We are travelling to South America this week ! Our guest, Daniela Allerbon, is CEO of Aquit, a company specializing in natural proteins that can be used to replace antibiotics in fish farming. Aquit was founded by researchers in Chile and Daniela recently joined the team as CEO from Buenos Aires, Argentina. We learn a lot a…
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Happy Planet Wednesday ! Our guest today is Jeremy McKane, Founder of Ocean Currency Network whose mission is to create an ocean map with real-time ocean data. The goal is to map 30% of the ocean by 2030. Sound ambitious? It is. But as Jeremy say in the podcast, if we can’t see the problems, we can’t fix them. Getting real time data will give us th…
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Today we are going to dig into seafood with our guest Jennifer Bushman. She’s going to help us better understand how the bounty of the ocean fits into our diets as well as our national food security plan and a healthier planet. Jennifer Bushman is a sustainable seafood expert, communicator, and strategist who has been championing ethical aquacultur…
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This podcast marks our 30th episode which seems like something to celebrate! So thank you for tuning in! If you like what we’re doing here, please spread the word. We have traveled the world together on this podcast, but today’s guest is located right here where I am, in the great state of Maine! Stuart Davies joins us today to speak about ORPC or …
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Happy Planet Wednesday ! Many of you, especially those who love the Caribbean, are aware of what is now called the sargassum belt, a 5,000 mile long belt of floating sargassum seaweed mass that stretches from the Gulf of Mexico all of the way to Africa, hitting the South East coast of the United States along the way. In normal doses, sargassum is a…
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The fashion industry is at odds with the survival of our planet. Ten percent of total global carbon emissions derive from the fashion industry, as much as the whole European Union. The industry is polluting our rivers, streams, and oceans. Meanwhile some 80% of our discarded textiles are either incinerated or wind up in trash heaps each year, usual…
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You may recall that in Episode 12 we spoke about hydrogen fuel cell stacks. It was a very popular episode so I wanted to dig into the theme a bit more. As such, today we’re going to dig into green hydrogen itself. Just a reminder that GREEN hydrogen is hydrogen derived from a renewable-energy powered electrolysis process that splits water molecules…
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As I think you know by now, I believe technology can solve most things - but sometimes the right tech just can’t come fast enough, and in the meantime, the most innovative tool at our disposal may be good old fashioned dialogue. Such is the case in Maine where a dwindling population of the large and lumbering North Atlantic Right Whale has pitted l…
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Our guest today is Benjamin Sorkin, Founder of Flux Marine, a Rhode Island-based company innovating electric outboard motors. I was invited to visit Ben’s shop back in January following a conference organized by the Blue Venture Forum. I was impressed by what I saw. Ben and his team have taken electric propulsion technology a long way from when I f…
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Today we’re going to dive into the world of marine research. Our guest is Deborah Bronk, President and CEO of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, a Maine-based marine research institute specializing in ocean microbes like algae, plankton, viruses, and bacteria. Bigelow Laboratory is a relatively small institute but it's growing fast and having a…
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A number of listeners have reached out with questions about how to get involved in angel investing. So in this episode I speak to one of the most experienced and articulate angel investors I know. Our guest is Adam de Sola Pool, a Venture Capitalist by trade who now has over $1M in angel investments of his own. I met Adam through a blue technology …
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When you think about GOOGLE, ocean innovation may be the last thing that comes to mind. But Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy have been great friends to the ocean and climate, pouring millions into the sector through their Schmidt Family Foundation. Our guest today is Mark Schrope. He is the Director of Schmidt Marine Technology Par…
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This week’s podcast touches upon two themes that are close to my heart: my college town of New York City and oysters! Our guest today is Murray Fisher. He is the man behind two fairly recent, but already iconic, NYC institutions. In 2002, Murray founded the New York Harbor School, a public high school revolving around New York City’s river. Then in…
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This week we’re going to address the planet’s plastic problem. These petroleum-based materials only became mass produced after WW2 but as we heard from our very first guest Bill Curtsinger, as early as the 60s micro-plastics were already being identified as a concern in the remote waters of Antartica. It was about that time that the 1967 movie, The…
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I am really excited to introduce you all to Steven Fox, a founding Partner of Propeller VC, a new early stage venture fund that invests in and builds ocean-climate companies that use science and technology to address the climate crisis. Propeller is the brainchild of Hubspot Founder Brian Halligan and it was designed to be the venture partner for W…
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There are a few things that separate winning startups from those that crash. Some of them are pretty obvious: Good leadership. A Good Market Fit. Sufficient Cash on hand to grow. But you also need a good story. And that’s not always easy for entrepreneurs to formulate, especially in an increasingly crowded field like climate or blue innovation wher…
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This week we meet Edwina Tanner and Jill Storey of Whale X, an Australian company competing for Elon Musk’s X Prize, a multi-year competition resulting in the awarding of $100M to the best carbon removal project. Whale X’s solution? Fertilize the ocean with synthetic whale poop. Before you write that off as silly, know that they are currently in 60…
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This week we are going to speak with Rob Cobbold, COO of Beach Collective, a company that is building a digital platform that merges some of the most abstract and immaterial aspects of the web, like Cryptos and NFTs with some of the most tangible and physical activities on the planet, like community building, ocean conservation, and trash pickup. B…
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This week’s guest, Christophe Maier, Founder and CEO of Lagosta. Christophe was raised in Switzerland, on lake Geneva, but once he discovered the Mediterranean he couldn’t get enough of salty waterbodies! Fast forward to adulthood and Christophe raises spiny lobsters, not for the European luxury food market as he originally expected, but for the ph…
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We’ve spoken to a lot of entrepreneurs from around the world in the past few months and there is one thing they all have in common - a corporation. The precise structures of corporations will vary from company to company and country to country but a relatively new corporate certification is working its way around the planet and creating a global st…
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Watch out NEMO there’s a new clownfish in town and he’s a lot smarter than you are! Today we are talking to Liane Thompson, co-founder and CEO of Aquaai (Uh-qu-why)- which merges the words aqua and the term AI together. Liane has an incredible bio including stints in war reporting and television producing. And she knows a good thing when she sees i…
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This week’s guest, Tore Enger, Founder and CEO of the group TECO 2030, is pioneering the fuel cell stacks designed for green hydrogen in trucking and shipping, industries traditionally reliant on diesel fuel. After speaking with Tore, my worldview on renewables started to broaden. I’d love to know what you think after you listen to the episode. Ple…
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This week I am delighted to introduce you to the entrepreneur who inspired this whole podcast, Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda, Founder and CEO of Urchinomics. I met Brian through our last interviewee, Harry Wright. Brian was participating in one of Harry’s accelerator programs in the UK. I knew Brian was on to something when I met him. And apparently so hav…
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Today we cross the pond and speak with Harry Wright, Founder of Bright Tide, a UK-based consultancy helping businesses achieve their milestones and sustainability goals through hackathons, accelerator programs, and advisement. Harry is particularly interested in fostering the nascent blue carbon market where carbon sequestration can be much more im…
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This week we meet Nanette Medved-Po, a Philippine entrepreneur who began her career as an actress and became a regional celebrity thanks to her role as the local version of Wonder Woman. Since then she has employed her education, smarts, and star power to help others and the planet. Nanette is a board member of the WFF Asia and was named one of For…
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As promised, Happy Planet is kicking off 2023 with an interview with Patrick Breeding, the young founder who says he’s building Maine’s next “unicorn.” And he’s doing it with a lobster based skincare product that is flying off the shelves. His company is Marin Skincare, a Maine-based company founded by couple Patrick and his girlfriend Amber Boutie…
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Meet Chip Terry, Founder and CEO of BlueTrace, a Maine based software company aiming to digitize the seafood industry where the vast majority of tagging, tracing and reporting is still done with pen and paper. Smart and funny, Chip was a lot of fun to interview. But his story also resonates with many entrepreneurs because the problem he is solving …
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Meet Lisa Scali of Ocean’s Balance, a seaweed-based food startup specializing in staple pantry items. This is a particularly fun episode for me because Lisa and I met in graduate school at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) many years ago. Since then our paths have crossed again and again with us both ending up …
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In this week’s episode of Happy Planet we meet Bernard Hidier, Co-Founder of Finsulate. The serial impact-entrepreneur shares his story of how the sea urchin inspired his company’s totally unique approach to marine anti-fouling. Bernard is a French-born entrepreneur living in the US. He’s a brilliant, energetic serial entrepreneur who is as philoso…
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This week we speak with Blaine Grimes, the woman behind Gulf of Maine Ventures, the investment arm of Gulf of Maine Research Institute. I really enjoyed my conversation with Blaine. She has a broad perspective on the ocean economy as well as a take-charge attitude. During her tenture at GMRI, Blaine realized that important innovations were sometime…
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In Happy Planet’s third episode we meet Griffin O’Driscoll, the young CEO of Organicin Scientific. Griffin joined forces with his professor Dr. Margaret Riley to commercialize her 25+ years of research on bacteriocins, anti-microbial proteins that kill bacteria in a targeted way. Organicin is now creating products for the aquaculture industry, both…
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Meet Nicholas Sullivan, author of Blue Revolution, who helps debunk some of the myths around wild caught seafood versus aquaculture and tells us about new blue technologies that will make both industries fare better. Nicholas is a Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School’s Council on Emerging Market Enterprises and a Senior Research Fellow at its Marit…
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Meet Bill Curtsinger, a pioneer of underwater sea photography. He has many “firsts” to his name including being the first to photograph a narwhal. Bill was also my neighbour growing up in Maine and his stories and photographs made a life-long impression. I wanted to reconnect with Bill to frame our ocean series discussion. In addition to uncovering…
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Welcome to Happy Planet where we speak with entrepreneurs, investors and thought leaders driving the impact economy. I am your host, Abigail Carroll. For a long time I was best known as Maine’s oyster lady; now I work with other mission-driven start-ups pursuing both profit and planetary health.. This work is so exciting and hope-inspiring that I d…
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"Jeg tror ikke på at tro kan flytte bjerge, men hvis der er noget der kan, så er det kapital" - Niels Fibæk, Matter Sara har taget en snak med Niels og Nete fra Matter - en fintech virksomhed med en bæredygtig pensionsordning, som også bruger deres teknologi til at hjælpe andre virksomheder og investorer med at gøre deres formuer mere bæredygtige. …
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I denne episode snakker vi med Mathilde Jacobsen, som er co-founder i Fresh.Land, sammen med sin kæreste Felipe Leal. Fresh.Land er en online platform hvor du, som forbruger, kan købe dine fødevarer direkte fra landmanden. Fresh.Land sørger for, at springe op mod 5 led over i den konventionelle fødekæde, hvilket gør at du, som forbruger, får levere…
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TechTest: Madspild og en ineffektiv fødekæde Vi tror begge på at vi alle sammen kan gøre en forskel, når det kommer til bæredygtighed - men også på, at hvis vi rent faktisk skal rykke os som samfund, så skal det også være nemt. Derfor starter vi nu en serie af "TechTests" - podcasts, hvor vi ser kritisk på nye løsninger og virksomheder, der tackler…
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I denne episode snakker vi med Pelle Pedersen, som er Head of Impact hos DoLand. DoLand er en helt ny platform for bæredygtige investeringer. En platform, hvor man kan sætte sin opsparing til at gøre verden til et bedre sted, samtidig med at man kan få et finansielt afkast. Et af de største steder vi kan sætte ind når det handler om bæredygtighed, …
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Vidste du, at der er et led i vores mads rejse fra jord til bord, som rigtig ofte bliver glemt i en madspildsdebat? Det vidste vi ikke en radisse om, for vi mødte Motatos - en platform, hvor du kan købe varer, der ellers bille være gået til spilde. I denne episode kan du møde Kasper Stærk, som er Country Manager hos Motatos. Vi er begge kæmpe fans …
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