Greentech Innovation podcast

Extract a natural resource, produce, consume, throw it away. What if the circular economy could put an end to an outdated model?

To break the deadlock, the circular economy aims to change everyone’s behavior: replacing instead of throwing away, transforming waste into a resource, to (finally!) reduce the exploitation of non-renewable and endangered natural resources.

In this episode of Greentech Innovation, meet Grégoire Bleu, President of Upcycle, a company that aims to democratize compost, enabling companies and local authorities to recycle their biodegradable waste in large quantities. Meet Floriane Addad, president and founder of MyTrocPro, a platform that enables companies to recycle their waste in all its forms, from ink cartridges to containers.

Public procurement has an impact on every aspect of our daily lives (schools, housing, healthcare, transport, etc.). In 2021, public procurement will account for 8% of French GDP. In this episode of the Greentech Innovation podcast, discover how public procurement adapts and operates to accelerate innovation for the green transition.

Also meet Ecov, a start-up that creates car-sharing lines in sparsely populated areas, responds to public orders and works with local authority buyers.

Will tomorrow’s buildings be sustainable? Messina Guikoume, founder of Messibat International, and Quentin Dubrulle, founder of Unéole, are convinced.

With Messibat, Messina Guikoume brings an age-old building process up to date, using raw earth to transform it into self-locking bricks or adobe walls to build any type of building on site, without transport and without pollution.
As for Quentin Dubrulle, he adorns city buildings with mixed-energy platforms combining wind turbines and solar panels to enable everyone to produce their own energy in an urban environment. Both are convinced that tomorrow’s buildings will be eco-constructed and sustainable, or they won’t be!

Water and wind. Movement. Anything can become a source of energy!

In this new episode of the Greentech Innovation podcast, dive into the heart of the elements to make innovation the driving force behind the energy transition!

We meet people for whom the energy transition is a question of action. Whether on a cargo sailboat crossing the Atlantic, with TOWT, who want to reinvent maritime transport; or a stone’s throw from home, thanks to VH Quatrevingtreize’s tidal turbines, which are transforming our waterways into electricity resources.

Is waste inevitable?

Not for Kikleo and Circouleur! To combat food waste, the former have taken up the challenge of understanding what we throw away in order to throw less. Students Vincent Garcia and Martin d’Agay invented a camera capable of analyzing the bottom of our plates to detect what we leave behind.

With Circouleur, Maëlys Grau is tackling another type of waste, the bottoms of our paint cans. She has created an entire recycling chain to reclaim an unavoidable waste product: the paint we don’t know what to do with after repainting the living room.

Everyone’s doing their bit to use innovation to reduce waste.

Faced with the global challenge of water conservation, two start-ups decided to do their bit.

One has turned to biological innovation and a plant with ancestral virtues, bamboo; the other has opted for technical innovation and the possibilities offered by robotics. In this episode, discover Bamboo for Life’s bamboo wastewater treatment plants and meet Acwa, a start-up that has decided to “dive into the heart of our drains”. Both share the goal of preserving our most precious common asset: water.

In this episode, we take you to the heart of “Greentech”, innovation at the service of ecological transition. Greentech is also an ecosystem of entrepreneurs, decision-makers, facilitators, private and public players… who share the vision of sustainable entrepreneurship, where everyone acts for the planet. In this world, we prototype, we challenge, we pitch, we market.

The urgency of climate change is central: we are committed to society through the innovation we deploy.

The textile industry is in full transition. Entrepreneurs and collectives committed to the fight against fast-fashion are pushing for strong legislative changes to ensure that all players are involved. These same players are being helped by innovative start-ups developing “traceability” solutions for textile production, and public authorities are setting up an environmental labelling tool…

Here begins the story of our more sober, more sustainable clothes. Clothes for a respected planet.

In the rich and surprising world of the circular economy, nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed.

In this episode, we take you to meet Sparéka, a startup that fights against programmed obsolescence by offering the right spare part to repair your household appliances. With the Alchemists, we discover the amazing “fertile diapers” for babies: used diapers that are composted to become fertilizer.

What if the automotive industry went green?

This episode takes you to Grenoble, to the workshops of young start-up Phoenix Mobility, where “retrofit” is practiced… In other words, engine conversion. Here, we explain how to transform a petrol or diesel vehicle into an electric vehicle in an industrial way.

Grades are not just for school!

For this episode, we’re off to Paris to meet Marie-Thérèse Gässler, a passionate young farmer, and Quentin Sannié, founder of Greenback (soon to be renamed Genesis), a global rating agency for the ecological health of soils.

Would you replace your beef steak with an insect steak?

Join us as we explore the “fly factory” of Innovafeed, a biotech company specializing in insect breeding for animal and plant feed.