EPISODE 14: We’re Officially “Air Heads”
Verda is excited to finally talk with someone in the art world! Air Copeland is a surfer, an award winning indie writer, producer and director. He's also worked at 5gyer,
EPISODE 13: Design From Scrap
Jon and Verda talk with Royce Epstein, with Mohawk Group and Rebekah Matheny, of The Ohio State University. Rebekah is our first educator, and they are educating the new student generation about the value of Life Cycle Focus.
EPISODE 12: The Missing _Ink!
Scott Fulbright, founder of Living Ink, has harnessed algae, a byproduct of water pollution, to replace ink made from fossil fuels.
EPISODE 11: The Concrete Culprit
Amanda Kaminski, founder of Building Product Ecosystems shows us how to maintain a circular economy by giving a new life to hard to salvage building materials like gypsum board. A
EPISODE 10: Pandemic Podcasting
Our dynamic duo, in an effort to stave off climate catastrophe, decided to celebrate their tenth episode by re-visiting why they think podcasting is important now…
EPISODE 09: The Aesthetics of Ethics
Join us as we talk with Russell Greenberg, founder of RUX Studios. They are a design hub looking to create a better world, one company at a time.
EPISODE 08: Carbon Takes a Seat
Jon and Verda break some dishes in episode 8 with Josie Abate, Sustainability Officer at Keilhauer, a gentle, earth kind Canadian furniture company that can design and manufacture elegant, contemporary carbon neutral furniture. What? A carbon neutral chair?
Episode 07: Carbon’s New Kryptonite
Verda and Jon have a bright, young and energetic person on this episode who's doing some amazing work around the globe right now. Can we break him down? Can he melt our brains with chemistry formulas we haven't thought about since our high school chemistry days?
Episode 06: Carbon Has a Hot Body!
In our sixth episode, Jon and Verda talk with Lisa Conway, VP of Sustainability for Interface Carpet. Interface, under the leadership of founder Ray Anderson, has led the way in the conversation around embodied carbon.
Episode 05: Everybody Needs a Lonely WHale
Stop sucking with The Lonely Whale Foundation! Jon and Verda get to talk to Dune Ives, NGO trailblazer and CEO of The Lonely Whale Foundation about individual action and corporate responsibility.
Episode 04: The Surfrider Foundation and the “Bag Monster”
Break some damn dishes on this episode with Jon, Verda and Chad Nelsen, CEO of Surfrider Foundation. We'll talk about the power that surf communities have in driving legislation.
Episode 03: Forensic Design is a thing
In our third episode, Jon and Verda spend some time with Jane Abernethy talking about the toxic ingredients in product that need to be removed, and what this means to your supply chain.
Episode 02: One man’s fishing net is another man’s skateboard
In our second episode, Verda and Jon talk with David Stover, one of the founders of Bureo, a Ventura, California company that takes discarded fishing nets, cleans them and recycles them into nylon pellets which are then manufactured into products.
Episode 01: Who said packaging can’t be sexy and smart?
Bad design is bad for the planet. In today's episode we talk to Oliver Campbell, who runs packaging for DELL Computer.
Episode 0: Trailer
Break Some Dishes Podcast upends traditional design solutions by looking outside the status quo to those places where radical change and transformation are happening.