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    The Plantbased Business Hour

    Focused on investing in the food systems transformation towards sustainability, tune into The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano to hear from venture capitalists, CEOs, investors, analysts, entrepreneurs, and start-ups who are launching new initiatives for sustainable and profitable foods. The world is set with a daunting task: make more food that is more nutritious and use fewer resources in a shorter amount of time while creating less planetary damage. What is the innovation that will get us there? Grab a front row seat to the profitable and solution-oriented business arena of Sustainable Food Systems on The Plantbased Business Hour.
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    Beyond Meat: Examining the Stock Surge and Sink After the Earnings Call

    Beyond Meat: Examining the Stock Surge and Sink After the Earnings Call

    On this episode of The Plantbased Business Hour, Elysabeth discusses the recent rise in stock price for Beyond Meat after their Q4 2023 earnings call

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    How to Raise Capital in this Economy: Jeffrey Harris of Green Venture Advisory

    How to Raise Capital in this Economy: Jeffrey Harris of Green Venture Advisory

    How can you raise capital for your start-up or existing company in this restrictive economy? It is what is on almost every founder's mind. Jeffrey Harris, CEO of Green Venture Advisory, joins Elysabeth today on the Plantbased Business Hour to talk about the three things you need to know.

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    How To Get Your Food Business Acquired with Yves Potvin

    How To Get Your Food Business Acquired with Yves Potvin

    Three-time founder, Yves Potvin, discusses the current state of Plant-based Innovation sector and how to grow a food business to be acquired. Having sold gardein to Conagra and Yves Veggie Cuisine to Hain Celestial, Yves is now championing Konscious Foods with a plan to be acquired. Learn from this ultra-successful pioneer on The Plant-based Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.

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    James Robinson: Who Is Eating Plant-based Options?

    James Robinson: Who Is Eating Plant-based Options?

    While traveling in India, Elysabeth asks her friend James Robinson about his plant-based journey and what products he enjoys to get insights into what consumers like him want out of the sector.

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    Biodiversity Loss Even In Sri Lanka

    Biodiversity Loss Even In Sri Lanka

    Elysabeth recaps her time visiting Sri Lanka. She discusses all the incredible animals she saw but also the devastating effects of biodiversity loss due to climate change.

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    Greg Steltenpohl, CEO of Califia Farms

    Greg Steltenpohl, CEO of Califia Farms

    When will plant-based milks be 50% of the milk category?  Greg Steltenpohl of Califia Farms calls it on the Plantbased Business Hour.  We also discuss 1) the necessary creativity in plant-based foods, 2) the hurdles he didn't see coming, 3) the synergy between plant-based production and the eco-system and 4) what he wished he knew 10 years ago. 

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    How Do We Fight for the Planet? George Monbiot Weighs In

    How Do We Fight for the Planet? George Monbiot Weighs In

    George Monbiot, author, journalist, and environmental activist, joins Elysabeth on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss how to best fight for the planet and how to take no prisoners when it comes to taking on the meat industry and its lobby.

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    Food Systems Predictions for 2024 with Sonalie Figueiras of Green Queen

    Food Systems Predictions for 2024 with Sonalie Figueiras of Green Queen

    Sonalie Figueiras, Founder of Green Queen, and I discuss sustainable food systems predictions for 2024: the good, the bad and the ugly. We get into it. Join us and bring your questions. The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano kicks off 2024.

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    2023 Recap and Beyond

    2023 Recap and Beyond

    This week on the Plantbased Business Hour, Elysabeth recaps 2023 and shares her predictions for 2024.

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    Can We Have A Sustainable Future? With Roger Spitz of Techistential

    Can We Have A Sustainable Future? With Roger Spitz of Techistential

    Roger Spitz (M.Sc., FCA, APF) is an international bestselling author, a celebrated futurist, the president of Techistential (Climate & Foresight Strategy), and the chair of the renowned Disruptive Futures Institute, based in San Francisco. On this episode of The Plantbased Business Hour we discuss how we can prepare for the disruption ahead and come out financially and consciously better. Vital information! Join us for this last interview of the year and get prepared for 2024.

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    COP28: A Focus on Food Systems Shift

    COP28: A Focus on Food Systems Shift

    In this episode, Host Elysabeth Alfano recaps her time at COP28. This was the first COP to focus on food systems transformation, connecting the food system to climate change. Elysabeth shares all the highlights throughout the week, focusing on the finance discussions of blended capital to further meaningful change. She ends the week talking to Raphael Podselver from ProVeg International about their predictions for future COPs.

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    What is the BioP2P Network? With Mathias Cousin of Monitor Deloitte

    What is the BioP2P Network? With Mathias Cousin of Monitor Deloitte

    Managing Director of Monitor Deloitte, Mathias Cousin, shares the advancements of the BioP2P network that is ensuring the health of the bio-manufacturing sector for sustainable food systems transformation. It's another fascinating episode of The Plantbased Business Hour.

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    Protecting Biodiversity with Glenn Hurowitz, Founder of Mighty Earth

    Protecting Biodiversity with Glenn Hurowitz, Founder of Mighty Earth

    Glenn Hurowitz of Mighty Earth shares one of the best ways to protect the earth's biodiversity: alternative proteins. How? Why? When? We get into it all on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.

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    Recap of Retuers' Food Transformation USA 2023

    Recap of Retuers' Food Transformation USA 2023

    This week Elysabeth recaps Retuers' Food Transformation USA 2023 conference. This small conference of around 120 people included those from many legacy food companies and pharmaceutical companies discussing food and farming. Regenerative agriculture and farming was a hot topic and Elysabeth dives into it all.

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    Plant Transformation: What Is It and How Will It Impact Your Food? With Mary Fernandes

    Plant Transformation: What Is It and How Will It Impact Your Food? With Mary Fernandes

    Mary Fernandes, President of Solis Agrosciences, discusses, Plant Pipeline as a Service (PPaaS), plant transformation, gene editing and the future (or the now?) of food on today's episode of The Plantbased Business Hour.

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    What Happened to Beyond Meat and Oatly Stocks? With Dr. Sasha Goodman

    What Happened to Beyond Meat and Oatly Stocks? With Dr. Sasha Goodman

    Dr. Sasha Goodman, Chief Investment Officer of VegTech Invest, joins Elysabeth Alfano, CEO of VegTech Invest to discuss what has happened to the Beyond Meat and Oatly Stocks and, conversely, the large landscape of Plant-based Innovation companies in the public markets that are thriving.

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    Decarbonizing Fashion: Lewis Perkins from Apparel Impact Institute

    Decarbonizing Fashion: Lewis Perkins from Apparel Impact Institute

    Lewis Perkins, President of the Apparel Impact Institute discusses decarbonizing the fashion industry on the Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.

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    Dan Buettner of Blue Zones Connects Food to Longevity

    Dan Buettner of Blue Zones Connects Food to Longevity

    What food will add four years to your life?  What are the top five foods everyone should eat?  What do all recipes for longevity have in common?  From the Four Seasons-Santa Barbara, Blue Zones Founder and author of The Blue Zones Kitchen, Dan Buettner sits down with Elysabeth Alfano to dish on how Americans are forgoing 10-14 years of healthy longevity and how to fix this.

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    Thierry Duvanel of Buhler Shows Us What Sustainability Looks Like

    Thierry Duvanel of Buhler Shows Us What Sustainability Looks Like

    Thierry Duvanel, Director of Innovation at Buhler gives real-world examples of sustainability goals being met and measured in scopes 1, 2, 3 by the Buhler Company. A beacon for other supply chain companies to meaningfully contribute to positive planetary change, Buhler is leading in cleaning up the food systems supply chain. Thierry explains how.

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    The Download from the Good Food Conference

    The Download from the Good Food Conference

    In this episode Elysabeth gives a recap on the Plant Based World Expo 2023 and the Good Food Conference 2023. In the last half of the episode she is joined by Founding Partner at Alwyn Capital, Heather Courtney. They discuss the plant-based sector and the latest conferences.

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