The NatureBacked Podcast

By Tarmo Virki

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Episodes: 133

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Are you looking to understand the business of a better future? Welcome to NatureBacked. For three years and through more than 125 episodes, we've been on a mission to uncover how investors and entrepreneurs worldwide tackle climate change, from the complexities of emissions to the devastating reality of floods. We explore the personal choices and inspiring journeys driving this critical work. Join us to hear from the experts, innovators, and changemakers who are not just talking about change but actively creating it. As a top-three U.S. investment podcast and in the top 2.5% of all podcasts globally, NatureBacked offers the insights you need to navigate the evolving landscape of a sustainable world.NatureBacked was founded by Tarmo Virki, a passionate environmentalist who believes that nature has the solutions to many of the challenges we face today. In each episode, Tarmo or co-host Fiona Alston interviews a guest who shares their knowledge, experience, and vision on a specific topic related to nature and sustainability. We would love to hear from you, so feel free to email us at tarmo@naturebacked.com with your feedback, questions, or suggestions. Thank you for listening, and we hope you enjoy the show!Stay curious and stay green 💚

Episode Date
Beyond the Beach: Paige Roepers On How Ocean Ledger is Navigating Coastal Risk from Coral Reefs to Corporate Balance Sheets
Jun 25, 2025
The Green Revival Solution: From Invasive Weeds to Hydrogen & Beyond
Jun 17, 2025
Cracking the Code: How Shine is Bringing Solar to Every Apartment
Jun 10, 2025
Norrsken's Impact Mission: Fuelling Unicorns for a Billion People. Live from Latitude59
Jun 03, 2025
No Plastic Left Behind? Boyan Slat on The Ocean Cleanup's Grand Plan
May 27, 2025
Ecosia: The Search Engine That Plants Trees
May 20, 2025
Investing in Timberland: A Southeast Perspective
May 13, 2025
Ocean Winds & Energy Giants: Charting the Course for a Greener Future (Live from Impact Day 2024)
May 06, 2025
Navigating the Climate Investment Landscape: Insights from MUUS
Apr 29, 2025
Navigating the Future of Packaging with Elizabeth Corbett
Apr 22, 2025
What Can You Make From a Sunflower Seed? Sunfly's Surprising Answer
Apr 15, 2025
Transforming Agriculture: The Regenerative Approach of The Land Group
Apr 10, 2025
Navigating the Energy and Mineral Transitions with Anthony Milewski
Mar 31, 2025
Revolutionizing Agriculture: The Just Vertical Approach
Mar 18, 2025
Ecocide: A New Frontier in Environmental Law
Mar 11, 2025
Can We Buy Our Way to Sustainability? A VC's Perspective
Feb 24, 2025
Running Dry? Building a Climate-Resilient World With Alix Lebec
Feb 11, 2025
Beyond Bottled: Making Water From Thin Air with Jeff Szur
Jan 28, 2025
Profit Meets Purpose: The Future of Impact Investing with Nia's Kristin Hull
Jan 14, 2025
Is Nature the Next Big Investment? (And How to Profit Without Destroying It)
Jan 08, 2025
From Spotify to Impact Investing: Anna Lundin of Norrsken VC
Dec 31, 2024
Laughing Through the Climate Crisis with Stuart Goldsmith
Dec 25, 2024
Beyond Carbon: Native Launches Holistic Approach to Ecosystem Restoration
Dec 18, 2024
Unmasking Factory Farming: A Call to Action
Dec 09, 2024
From Space Ventures to Battery Recycling with tozero
Dec 02, 2024
The Forest's Secret Lab: A Conversation with Metsä's Erik Kolehmainen
Nov 19, 2024
Lithuania's Green Surge: A Deep Dive into the Nation's Thriving Green Tech Ecosystem
Nov 13, 2024
Behavioral Science: The Human Element in Conservation
Nov 05, 2024
Turning Off The Tap: Why Small Steps Won't Solve Climate Crisis, with Niklas Kaskeala
Oct 29, 2024
Creating Cities For People, With Bolt's Martin Villig
Oct 22, 2024
Balancing Conservation and Business With Larry Selzer from the Conservation Fund
Oct 15, 2024
Microbes and Wellness: Urbanization's Hidden Health Costs
Oct 08, 2024
Towards a Regenerative Crop System With NuCicer's Chickpeas
Oct 01, 2024
Redefining Activism: Clover Hogan on Climate Action and Communication
Sep 13, 2024
Innovating Sustainable Water Solutions with Mott Corp's Pat Hill
Sep 05, 2024
Making Sustainability Sexy with Impact Day's Erkki Kubber
Aug 30, 2024
From Recycling to Organic: Deyan Angeloev's 20-Year Journey to a Sustainable Future
Jul 31, 2024
1MTN's Bamboo Revolution: Building Trust, Opportunities in African Voluntary Carbon Market
Jul 24, 2024
Navigating Impact: Venturebeam's Journey to Fund the Future of Sustainable Innovation
Jul 16, 2024
Data-Driven Green: Gerald Leonard on Composing a Sustainable Future for Business
Jul 11, 2024
Biomaterials Revolution: Nature2Need's Quest for Negative Emission Plastics
Jun 18, 2024
Compassiviste Unveiled: Starting To Change The World With Ali Horriyat
Jun 10, 2024
Revolutionising Materials: Arkio Unveils Robust Cellulose Monomaterial for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Jun 04, 2024
Turning Air To Water With Aquaria's Brian Sheng
May 28, 2024
Harvesting Hope: How HeavyFinance Is Cultivating a Greener Future
Apr 30, 2024
From Deserts To Dividends: Innovo's Martin Kelly Talks About Profits and Algae
Apr 23, 2024
Growing Beyond Gardens: The Global Impact of Native Plants with Garden for Wildlife
Apr 15, 2024
Revolutionizing Spaces: Gregory Dewerpe Aims To Change The Future of Construction and Real Estate with A/O
Mar 25, 2024
Cutting Down on Carbon in Concrete, with Alex Hall from Concrete.ai
Mar 11, 2024
Saving Pandas (and the Planet) with Jana Budkovskaja from Beamline
Mar 04, 2024
How to Use AI and Programming Language to Heal Yourself (and the World)
Feb 19, 2024
Looking Into Promising Year With Practica's Helery Pops
Feb 05, 2024
How To Fix Carbon Markets, With Kenny Kaluiji
Jan 29, 2024
Cleaning Soils With Novobiom's Fungi
Dec 19, 2023
Making Batteries From Fungi With Jens Sørensen
Dec 12, 2023
Delving Into B Corp Trend with Sarah Garcia
Dec 05, 2023
When Green Is Not Enough: Talking About Blue Economy With Gunter Pauli
Nov 21, 2023
Making Sustainability Leap In Food Chain with Enifer's Simo Ellilä
Nov 14, 2023
Diamonds Are For Everyone: Changing Diamond Industry with Adamas One's Jay Grdina
Nov 07, 2023
Helping Cities Solve Climate Challenge
Oct 31, 2023
How Nature Can Guide us to Build Sustainable and Innovative Businesses
Oct 25, 2023
Upcycling Plastic Waste With The Ocean Package's Joshua Linn
Oct 17, 2023
From Entrepreneurs to Impactful Startups: Greta Monstavice talks about her work with Katalista Ventures
Oct 11, 2023
Carbon Removal: It's Not Just Planting Trees, With Antti Vihavainen From Puro.Earth
Oct 03, 2023
Biodiversity Brigade: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned with Zoe Peden from Ananda
Sep 26, 2023
Protecting Ancient Woods with Sengire Fondas
Sep 20, 2023
Changing the World with Tom Bosschaert from Except
Sep 13, 2023
Cleaning Wastewater with Nano Bubbles
Sep 05, 2023
Pulling the Carbon Out of the Sky with CUR8's Marta Krupinska
Aug 28, 2023
Deepdive to Life, Growth and Sleep, with Digital Nomad Danny Flood
Aug 21, 2023
Sustainable Aviation Fuels, Battery Sector in Focus, Says PTT's Nick Piromsawat
Aug 14, 2023
Gamifying Nature Protection With Arch from Wildchain
Aug 01, 2023
NatureBacked meets Startup Tank
Jul 27, 2023
Establishing ClimateTech in South East Asia with Djoann Fal
Jul 18, 2023
Disrupting ESG: The Need for Transparency and Openness with Frank Meehan from OpenESG
Jun 03, 2023
Tapping Booming Demand for Microgrids with Rod Matthews
May 22, 2023
Turning Investment Portfolios Green With Peter Krull
Apr 19, 2023
Carbon Negative Bitcoin Mining?! With Sazmining
Apr 10, 2023
Going Local with Adam Beaumont
Mar 27, 2023
Turning Europe Towards Web3 With Armin ZadakBar
Mar 20, 2023
Creating 100 Thousand Million Sustainable Cities
Mar 13, 2023
Web3 Deepdive In The Midst Of Crypto Winter, With Sam Kamani
Mar 06, 2023
Creating Green Currency With Beach Collective's Robert Cobbold
Feb 27, 2023
Solving Governance Challenges With DAO and INO
Feb 24, 2023
Tokenising Green Energy Investments With Reneum
Feb 22, 2023
Battling Plastics: From Surfboards To Packaging With Cruz Foam's John Felts
Feb 20, 2023
Saying NO To Water Bottles with TAPP Water's Magnus Jern
Feb 13, 2023
Tapping Into Shift of Wealth to Green Millenials With Raise Green
Feb 06, 2023
New Age of Investor Activism, with Grünfin's Alejandro Jimenez
Jan 30, 2023
Eating Construction Waste with MycoCycle
Jan 23, 2023
Building Climate Change Resilient Crops with ClimateCrop
Jan 16, 2023
Turning Plastics Greener and Cheaper With Applied Bioplastics' Alex Blum
Jan 09, 2023
Beyond COP15: Much Needed Solutions for Biodiversity
Dec 20, 2022
Stirring Up Coffee Industry, with Green Coffee Company and Coffee Cloud
Dec 19, 2022
Emerging Consumer Demand Will Drive ClimateTech, With James Vincent
Dec 12, 2022
Fixing Electricity Production with Scale Microgrid's Tim Hade
Dec 05, 2022
Death of a Client: Beautiful endings with Joe Macleod
Nov 28, 2022
Tackling the Biggest Opportunity with Matt Ward
Nov 21, 2022
Looking for Solutions with Anders Wijkman
Nov 14, 2022
Curing Climate Anxiety with Firstime’s Itamar Weizman
Nov 07, 2022
Flabbergasted by Cultivated Meat, with Meatable's Daan Luining
Oct 31, 2022
Moving the Needle with Climentum's Yoann Berno
Oct 24, 2022
Looking For Big Impact in Changing Resource-Intensive Industries with Norselab
Oct 03, 2022
Climate Tech Investments Accelerating Further, Says Extantia
Sep 26, 2022
Taking Cows Out of Dairy Industry with Those Vegan Cowboys
Sep 19, 2022
A Good Climate Tech Hype with At One Ventures
Sep 12, 2022
Fastscaling Startups with Patrick Flesner
Sep 05, 2022
Nordic Deeptech Unicorns In Sight, Say Butterfly Ventures
Aug 29, 2022
Scooters and Carbon Accounting Win Major Share of Climate Investments, Say OpenOcean
Aug 22, 2022
Boosting Carbon Impact Startups in Food, Agriculture with Startup Wise Guys
Aug 15, 2022
Evergreen Climate Investments With Kiko Ventures' Arne Morteani
Jul 25, 2022
Tokenising Nature's Work in Special Episode with Single.Earth
Jul 18, 2022
Investing in Sustainable Technologies With Futury Capital
Jul 11, 2022
Exploring Infinite Games of Family Offices With Alex Felman
Jul 04, 2022
Tapping Climate Mitigation Opportunities with Bethnal Green Ventures
Jun 27, 2022
How To Invest A Billion In Climate? With Giant Ventures
Jun 20, 2022
Great Time For Deep Tech Investing With Outsized Ventures
Jun 13, 2022
New Materials, Food Innovations in Focus for Inventure
Jun 06, 2022
Climate Focus Brings Best Results, says World Fund's Alexis Caporale
May 30, 2022
Chasing Uncompromising Impact Unicorns with Norrsken VC
May 23, 2022
Speedinvest Looks For Further Climate Tech Investments
May 16, 2022
Fixing the Mess We Created, Tackling Climate Emergency with Carbon13
May 09, 2022
Sustainable Transformation in Focus for Japanese New Nordic Fund Nordic Ninja
May 02, 2022
Why Old-School VCs Struggle to Get Into Climate Investing? With Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz
Apr 25, 2022
Unhooking Europe, Led by Baltic Founders with Change Ventures' Yrjö Ojasaar
Apr 18, 2022
Finding Radical Climate Solutions with Pale Blue Dot's Hampus Jakobsson
Apr 11, 2022
Deepdive of East Europe Startup World with Flashpoint's Alex Konoplyasty
Apr 04, 2022
Urgency of Tackling Climate Change with Balderton's Shikha Ahluwalia
Mar 28, 2022
Big Game of Energy Transition with Helen Ventures' Terhi Vapola
Feb 28, 2022
Looking into Climate Fintech World with Octopus Ventures' Natasha Jones
Feb 21, 2022
Building GreenTech Ventures with Brainforest's Leo Caprez
Feb 21, 2022
Jumping on Climate Change Opportunities with Icebreaker.VC's Aleksi Partanen
Feb 21, 2022
Valuing Ecosystem Services with Single.Earth's Co-founder Andrus Aaslaid
Feb 21, 2022