The 49ers who first came to the San Francisco Bay Area during the Gold Rush needed supplies. …

One of the most popular Business for Good podcast episodes is Number 81 from January 2022, in which author and Juicero founder Doug Evans came by to share what he learned from that perennially popular Silicon Valley topic: adversity. A start-up star is born Doug was already an accomplished CEO…

Microbes that turn methane into meat? It’s not magic, alchemy, or science fiction. It’s exactly what Dr. Ezhil Subbian and her team at String Bio are working on. They could just repurpose one of the major drivers of climate change — methane — into an appetizing animal-free meat product. Dr…

We all know that consuming excess sugar isn’t healthy, but we’re hardwired to love sweet tastes and the energy boosts they provide. After all, we used to run from — or after — woolly mammoths, right? …

When Field Roast and Lightlife were acquired by Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf Foods several years ago, some vegans weren’t too pleased. The same happened when Daiya was bought by Japanese pharmaceutical behemoth Otsuka at the same time, and the same with Gardein, now owned by ConAgra. …

Vaporize rocks with microwaves to bust out some clean, and much-needed, geothermal energy? It sounds like 1950s science fiction, but if Quaise Energy is on the right track, it could be 2020s science fact. Recently Quaise CFO and head of corporate development Kevin Bonebrake (was there ever a better name…

As a child, Molten Materials founder and CEO Shelly Zhang loved tinkering on projects with her father, a self-taught inventor. She learned how to weld, build electrical circuits, and a host of other skills. …

In 2021, David Breslauer, co-founder and chief scientific officer at Bolt Threads, joined me on the Business for Good podcast to talk about his company’s advancements with non-animal, nature-based, bioengineered textiles. In 2009, Bolt Threads was a student-led start-up hoping to score some government grants. A dozen years later, it…

In 2021, executives from Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf Foods appeared on the Business for Good Podcast to talk about how a meat company thinks about the animal-free movement. Maple Leaf acquired the Lightlife and Field Roast Grain Meat Co. brands in 2017, and it is now doing business under…