In this episode of the podcast, I speak to Thomas Mason. Thomas is a consultant at Metabolic, which is a consulting and venture building company based in Amsterdam. In their own words, Metabolic “uses systems thinking to tackle global sustainability challenges”. Thomas’s current work at Metabolic focuses on urban agriculture. He works with companies and …
This episode of Tangled features Dr Brian von Herzen. Brian is the founder and executive director of the non-profit Climate Foundation, and the inventor of marine permaculture. Brian is an ocean scientist, an engineer and an entrepreneur. He has spent decades doing academic research; working in Silicon Valley; and leading environmental projects around the world. …
In this episode of Tangled, I speak to Saumil Shah. Saumil is the founder of EnerGaia, a company based in Bangkok that develops technology and techniques for growing spirulina in confined urban spaces. You may be wondering what spirulina is and why you’d bother growing it in a city. Saumil talks about this in depth. …
This episode of Tangled features mycologist Dr Michael Taylor. Michael has spent years in academia doing research in public health, as well as looking at industrial and agricultural uses for fungi. Recently, he quit his university job to set up his own urban mushroom farm, where he is using agricultural waste to grow gourmet mushrooms. …
Arief Rabik is an Indonesian scientist, entrepreneur and conservationist whose expertise is bamboo. Arief wears a number of hats. He’s the director of the Environmental Bamboo Foundation, and the founder of Indobamboo, a company that makes innovative bamboo products for construction. He also runs a program called 1000 Bamboo villages, which works with Indonesian people …
The Tangled podcast will be an exploration of business models and mental models. An ongoing discussion with scientists, designers and entrepreneurs. People who are working out how to use resources more efficiently and effectively. The name Tangled is a reference to On The Origin of Species. In the book’s final paragraph, Charles Darwin describes a …