Decarbonizing Advertising with Anne Coghlan Co-founder and COO, Scope3

In this episode, join Keith Anderson as he meets and learns from today's guest, Mike Robinson, who is part of the founding team of The 8th Notch, a software platform helping retailers and carriers essentially do what they already do, but more effectively and cost efficiently--incidentally, reducing emissions in profound ways. Together they discuss the outlook on the future of delivery in e-commerce, touching on a report by the WEF, and what The 8th Notch brings to the table in this area. With more than 25 years of leadership experience in the retail industry, Mike shares his thoughts and outlook in this episode of Decarbonizing Commerce.

Keith’s guest this week is Julia Marsh, the co-founder and CEO of Sway, a biomaterials company replacing plastics with regenerative materials made from seaweed. As a designer, Julia spent over a decade building brand and packaging systems for consumer goods companies, tech startups, and design studios, winning the Closed Loop Partners Beyond the Bag Challenge in 2021, and a finalist for the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize in 2022. Join this conversation as Sway announces a $5 million in fresh funding, and Julia brings an incredible perspective on the role of design in packaging and solving problems in sustainability, why seaweed is such a high potential alternative to petroleum-based plastics, the state of and outlook for composting infrastructure, where Sway's packaging works best, and what's next for Sway.

Join Keith Anderson and Santiago Navarro, founder and CEO of Packamama, a company reimagining wine packaging to lower emissions while winning at the shelf and preserving tradition. This episode is an interesting case study covering the importance of packaging from a transit perspective, the unavoidable risk of breakage, and the consumption experience of wine. Learn how Packamama has approached creating a package for the future with those and other considerations in mind.

This week Keith talks to Irina Gerry, CMO of Change Foods and a sustainable foods industry thought leader, using precision fermentation to commercialize a new way of producing real milk proteins and dairy foods with biotech. Irina's also a founding member and vice chair of the board of the Precision Fermentation Alliance. Together they walk through her interesting (and in some ways improbable) career in grocery and CPG marketing with a background at iconic plant-based brands, including Silk and So Delicious at Danone. Tune in to meet and learn from Irina about the world of Precision Fermentation and Biotech in food.

Introducing Mike Newman, founder and CEO of Returnity Innovations, a partner to retailers and brands for reusable packaging, Keith Anderson talks to Mike about his venture and lessons he’s learned. With a blend of entrepreneurship as well as environmental science and policy experience, Mike has a practical view of the immediate impact that reuse can have in commerce. You'll learn about some of the reasons that the internal logistics leg is one of the most viable places for reusable packaging in commerce today, and some of the challenges and barriers and opportunities and what would have to be true for reuse to be economically and operationally viable in some of the other consumer-facing areas that we continue to see interest and innovation.

Today’s guest is David Kat, SVP Business Development for Wasteless, which is using AI to dynamically price and mark down perishables, helping grocers sell what they otherwise might have wasted. This episode has something for everybody. AI, dynamic pricing, electronic shelf labels and 2D barcodes. David has an informed perspective on the challenges and the opportunities of using dynamic pricing and markdowns to help mitigate food waste in brick and mortar grocery in a way that is really accretive to earnings.

In this episode, Keith Anderson interviews Kari Morris, co-founder of Martie, a venture-backed online surplus discount store specializing in shelf-stable groceries. Kari shares the company's inception, emphasizing its mission to address surplus in the food industry. The conversation explores Martie's rapid evolution, its retention mode, and the strategic balance between discount and higher AUR items. Kari also discusses customer engagement through live shopping events, the role of influencers in their model, and Martie's unique approach to capturing a new customer base.

Today's guest is Francesca Hahn, vice president for digital commerce, U.S. At Mondelēz, the multinational snack leader. Francesca is responsible for the strategy, vision, execution, covering everything about how Mondelēz brands are discovered, shopped for, purchased, fulfilled online, including two direct to consumer sites. Before Mondelēz she had roles of increasing responsibility in category management and sales, at Britax, Colgate-Palmolive (including the Hills Pet e-commerce team), Acosta Sales and Marketing, PepsiCo, & Diageo. Mondelēz recently added sustainability as its fourth strategic pillar, and Francesca is a sponsor of the sustainability team for the U.S. In this episode we discuss introducing sustainability across such a large enterprise, the intersection of sustainability and climate work and e-commerce.

Keith speaks to Catherine Conway, is Director and Reuse Lead for GoUnpackaged, one of the UK's leading consultancies specializing in reuse and refill packaging. Catherine has been working in the reuse refill space since 2006. We discuss her work with the Refill Coalition, which is a group of UK based retailers that are working together to develop a standardized, but also modular and adaptable approach to reusable and refillable packaging.We also talk about some of the drivers and barriers as it relates to reuse, refill and some of the pending legislation in Europe and beyond.

In this installment, host Keith Anderson sits down with Danielle Jezienicki, Founder of Impact FWD, a consulting practice specializing in sustainability and impact. Danielle brings a wealth of experience, having previously served as the Vice President of Sustainability for Grove Collaborative, a pioneer in plastic-neutral retail. During this insightful conversation, Danielle shares her remarkable journey from an MBA program to leading sustainability programs at renowned brands like Williams Sonoma and Grove. Together, they delve into the intricacies of sustainability in the consumer packaged goods industry, addressing pressing issues such as the plastic crisis and discussing the transition from Sustainability 1.0 to Sustainability 2.0.