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Footprint Coalition's "Downstream Channel" is an exploration of the environmental challenges created by our industrial footprint led by Robert Downey Jr. and his co-host and Footprint Managing Director, Rachel Kropa. Together, they'll talk through some of the most pressing environmental issues facing the planet and enlist a panel of experts (including executives and founders from some of Footprint Coalition Ventures' portfolio companies) who are finding ways for us to walk a little lighter o ...
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Robert Downey Jr. and Sandeep Ahuja on Sustainable Building | Extended Interview
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Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss GEODESIGN with Sandeep Ahuja. The co-founder of Cove.Tool, Ahuja has developed software and services that use geospatial data to provide architects and developers with the most sustainable and energy efficient options for commercial building design. The technology has been used in over 11,000 projects in 2…
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Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Dangermond on Reshaping the World | Extended Interview
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Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss GEODESIGN with Jack Dangermond and Ryan Perkl. As the co-founder of ESRI, Dangermond has spent the last 30 years building a business that everyone from architects and urban planners to city, state and national governments use to understand and monitor the world. His colleague, Ryan Perkl is the head of the…
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Robert Downey Jr. and Bran Ferren on Designing the Future | Extended Interview
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Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss GEODESIGN with Bran Ferren. As the former President of research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering, Bran Ferren helped to bring movie magic into the real world. Now as the co-founder and chief creative officer of Applied Minds, Ferren is working on designing and building the future through partner…
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In Downstream’s third episode, FootPrint Coalition's own Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa explore the concept of geodesign and how we can harness technology to build better buildings and cities for a more sustainable future. Downey and Kropa take a walk through history and examine new technologies that architects and urban planners are using to m…
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Robert Downey Jr. and Eben Bayer Discuss Mushroom Bacon ?! | Extended Interview
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Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss MEATLESSNESS with Eben Bayer, an entrepreneur who's spent nearly 14 years proving the power of the humble mushroom as the world’s FIRST truly functional food. As the chief executive and founder of Ecovative Design, Bayer has made replacements for foam packaging, lamps and furniture, leather materials and i…
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Robert Downey Jr. and the Ageless Vegan Tracye McQuirter Discuss Meatless Diets | Extended Interview
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Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss MEATLESSNESS with Tracye McQuirter, an American public health nutritionist, vegan activist, author, and speaker. An advocate for plant-based diets, McQuirter is the author of "Ageless Vegan" and "By Any Greens Necessary" and is focused on making veganism accessible to all. Her latest initiative is 10,000 B…
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Robert Downey Jr. and Isha Datar Discuss Meatless Diets | Extended Interview
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Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss MEATLESSNESS with Isha Datar, a pioneer in cellular agriculture— the developing field of making animal products without raising or slaughtering animals. Datar’s served as a leader for multiple organizations in the revolutionary industry. She co-founded Perfect Day, which produces milk without cows, and Cla…
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In Downstream’s second episode, Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa tackle humans’ relationship with meat, and the impact that has on our planet. Downey and Kropa contemplate a future of meat that doesn’t rely on livestock farming with Isha Datar, a leading voice in cellular agriculture; break down the environmental, ethical, and dietary impact of m…
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Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss WASTE with Daniel Carraway, a leading authority on biopolymer development and commercialization. As co-founder and CEO of RWDC Industries, Carraway is leading the movement to create sustainable alternatives to plastic. Today, RWDC is producing Solon™, a PHA material that is 100% bio-based and biodegradable…
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Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss WASTE with Leland Melvin, a world-class athlete, astronaut, and educator. Following two successful missions on the Space Shuttle Atlantis, Melvin was appointed head of NASA Education and served as the co-chair on the White House’s Federal Coordination in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S…
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Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss WASTE with Juliet Schor, a highly decorated professor of sociology at Boston College whose research focuses on consumer culture, time use, and environmental sustainability. Schor is the bestselling author of The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure and Born to Buy: The Commercialized Chil…
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In the first episode Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa tackle trash. Through conversations with the celebrated academic and author of "Born to Buy", Juliet Schor; astronaut and former Detroit Lion, Leland Melvin; and serial entrepreneur and inventor Daniel Carraway, Downey and Kropa talk about the social forces that created our culture of consumpt…
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