Amanda and Kim are back with more dig downs into the super trending world of conscious consumerism and sustainable products.
But first they talk about trends happening in their own homes.
Amanda has caught the homesteading bug as she moves to a farmhouse into the Pennsylvania farmland. She has a great podcast recommendation here:
The Daily - New York Times Podcast
Listen on Apple HERE.
Kim is jumping deep into the Mushroom trend that has permeated fashion, Interiors, consumer goods + food and beverage trying out
Four Sigmatic Mushroom instant coffees and lattes to add focus but lessen the caffeine load.
They also discuss the trend of upgrading your home interiors and difficulty of finding home goods in stock. Kim’s white whale is a lamp. She is sniffing around some
Noguchi sculpture lamps to bring some light and serenity into her home space as she moves into fall.
Getting into the meat and potatoes....
As a quick reminder that of the 50% of plastics that even make it in the right bin - only 9% of any plastic recycled actually gets recycled. So we have this insane amount of plastic just ending up at landfills and in oceans even if you do your part and recycle.
Amanda gives some great facts on glass and aluminum (not to mention paper) as an alternative that has their recycling game figured out.
Kim gets down and dirty with a few newish green
cleaning kit brands that tackle the issue of reducing single use plastics as well as moving away from toxic chemicals exploring
Cleancult this (most universally appealing and a good Mrs. Meyers replacement),
Blueland (great for value but not a sensory experience) and
Supernatural>> (Goop customer and more of a premium priced aromatherapy model) for all your home care needs - weighing the pros and cons of each.
She also advises to check out
Grove Collective a multi brand webshop offering a selection of non-toxic, effective, sustainable, and cruelty-free with an angle for monthly shipments and carbon neutral approaches.
Kim takes a bite out of the conscious consumer trends in the Grocery and Food Supply industries. She starts with a look at the food wasted epidemic estimated at 30-40% of our food supply - and new business models formed to approach this like
Imperfect Foods and
Misfits Market - both offering online shopping experiences and that killer subscription model we talked about earlier. Amanda SWEARS by Imperfect Foods - so you know it’s gotta be good!
She also shares the app
Olio which connects neighbors with each other and volunteers with local businesses, so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. If you love food, hate waste, care about the environment or want to connect with your community,
OLIO is for you.
Spinning away into actual food production -
Patagonia Provisions is working to disrupt the current problematic agriculture & fishing industries.
Barn2Door>> is connecting Farms straight to customers - it is based on locality and offers pickup, delivery and shipping of farm made goods, produces, meats, grains and CSA’s.
The seafood industry is also getting revamped - she explores both
Sea2table and
Wild Alaskan Company - both taking on Big Fish and offering a more sustainable way to obtain local seafood. For an extra treat she even slips in a little trend in fish skin snacks - particularly from the brand
Good Fish.Finally - Kim takes a deep look into the problematic and harmful animal meat industry - but offers some great new alternatives on the market
beyond Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger who have admittedly really put in the work to pioneer the current mainstream natural of the meat-alternative market even fighting against
toxic masculinity to achieve social acceptance. She presents some cool fungi and fermenation based startups like
Prime Roots,
Meati and
Natures Fynd, plus
Perfect Day heating up the ice cream market partnering with
Brave Robot and
Smitten for some truly unique vegan alternatives.
She finishes with trends in cultivated or cell-based meat companies that grow food from animal cells including
Memphis Meats>> &
BlueNalu>> for fish.