Best of Earth911 Podcast: HowGood Product Sustainability Data Could Unlock a Regenerative Revolution

Best of Earth911 Podcast: HowGood Product Sustainability Data Could Unlock a Regenerative Revolution

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Alexander Gillett, chief govt officer at HowGood, discusses the 15-year effort that produced the biggest database of product sustainability knowledge. HowGood introduced a brand new spherical of funding at present, and Alex shares how they may use the funds to broaden their protection and allow firms to get insights into the Scope 3 CO2 emissions related to their provide chains. The Stone Ridge, N.Y.-based firm’s HowGood Latis platform covers greater than 33,000 substances, chemical compounds, and supplies together with sourcing data — the place and the way the product is grown or made — and the environmental impacts related to meals and different merchandise. With that sort of data at our fingertips, consumers are in a position to make absolutely knowledgeable choices about what we purchase primarily based on the way it contributes to local weather progress and the rise of a regenerative meals provide.

Alexander Gillett, CEO of HowGood
Alexander Gillett, CEO of HowGood, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Awareness concerning the rising impression of local weather change has reached a vital mass, and most of the people now perceive it’s essential to behave. The query is how? Choosing low-carbon and low-environmental impression merchandise, particularly meals, which accounts for a 3rd of human greenhouse gasoline emissions in accordance with the United Nations, might help shoppers take essential steps that shield the setting. HowGood data is at present out there to shoppers via the HowGood app for iPhone and to product producers, retailers, eating places, and different companies that use it to seek out extra sustainable choices for making new merchandise. You can be taught extra about HowGood at howgood.com.

This podcast initially aired on May 18, 2022.