Topic

sustainability

Podcast

Kendra Pierre Louis: Motivated by obligation – Well Made E151

Climate reporter Kendra Pierre Louis's bylines follow the impacts of climate change in all forms — from caterpillar plagues to wildfire season. To solve climate change, she's shifting the lens from consumers to companies and regulators.

Podcast

Tyler Mincey, Bolt: Taking things apart – Well Made E147

Tyler Mincey is a Partner at Bolt where he's always thinking about the long view of new products. With a decade of product experience, he's envisioning a future of tech that's more integrated and ambient than ever before.

Opinion

Slash Packaging: Earth needs progress not perfection

Why something is better than nothing. Reflections on the first year of Slash Packaging.

Podcast

Kevin Kelly: Becoming good ancestors – Well Made E145

As a futurist, purveyor of tech tools, and the founding executive editor of Wired, Kevin Kelly has spent a lot of time thinking about the future. But his latest project is a 50-year visual anthology that cherishes the past while bringing a more long-term vision into focus.

Podcast

Jeremiah McElwee, Thrive Market: Sourcing more patiently – Well Made E144

As the natural food market has boomed, Thrive Market's Jeremiah McElwee has learned that scaling a healthy, sustainable supply chain takes patience and a constant pursuit of perfection.

Podcast

Kristy Caylor, For Days: Keeping clothing out of landfills – Well Made E141

On average, each person in the US sends 70 pounds of textiles to a landfill each year. For Days founder Kristy Caylor is building a textile recovery stream to close the loop and build a supply chain fueled by fashion waste.

Video

Unboxing Native (2021)

What's missing from this plastic-free deodorant packaging is the most impressive thing about it.

Podcast

Alden Wicker: Impressing the eco-nerds – Well Made E139

Sustainability is not binary. Returning guest reporter Alden Wicker is breaking down what we talk about when we talk about sustainability and exposing common red herrings.

Podcast

Ian Montgomery, Guacamole Airplane: Getting comfortable with trade-offs – Well Made E138

Ian Montgomery, founder and Creative Director of Guacamole Airplane is merging environmental science and design to push the limits of how we think about sustainable packaging.

Podcast

Caspar Coppetti, On Running: Subscribing to a shoe – Well Made E137

What does it take to make a shoe recyclable and how do you get customers to recycle it? Caspar Copetti and his team at On are testing their hypotheses with a whole new supply chain for a subscription based shoe.

Roundup

Holiday Gift Guide 2020

For your holiday gifting, we curated 50 brands that have joined the Slash Packaging movement.

Podcast

Wylie Robinson, Rumpl: Aspiring to ubiquity – Well Made E135

What does it take to be the first big blanket brand in the past couple centuries? Fresh off his Shark Tank pitch, Wylie Robinson is sharing his plan to make Rumpl a household name.

Podcast

Andy Fallshaw, Bellroy: Designing for longevity – Well Made E133

Bellroy CEO and Co-founder Andy Fallshaw is debunking status quo for profit, purpose and product design, and evolving to meet the needs of our planet.

Advice

How Seventh Generation designed their Zero Plastic cleaning line

We're talking to the Seventh Generation packaging team about their new plastic-free, water-free line of cleaning products.

Podcast

Carl Rivera, Shopify: Building direct relationships – Well Made E131

When Shopify acquired Tictail, Carl Rivera took the lead on Shop — Shopify's shopping app that boosts brand discovery and lowers acquisition costs.

Podcast

Céline Semaan, Slow Factory: Unlearning and reeducating – Well Made E129

Céline Semaan, founder of Slow Factory, is bringing us up to speed. This episode is a lesson on unlearning the systems we know and getting familiar with the discomfort of change.