Designing a Climate-Friendly Food Company, with Julia Collins

New Food Order

What would it look like if we completely re-designed the food system, product by product?

In this week’s episode, we speak with Julia Collins, Founder and CEO of Planet FWD, a carbon management platform for consumer companies to bring climate-friendly products to market.

Through her work with Planet FWD and more than a decade of experience leading food companies, Julia also founded Moonshot Snacks, a cracker brand that she designed from the ground up with the goal of ensuring a carbon neutral supply chain from farm to fork. In our conversation, she offers amazing insights and advice for large and next-generation food companies about how to adopt a regenerative mindset.

We speak to Julia about:

• How businesses can decarbonize
• Soil health and regenerative agriculture as a climate mitigation strategy
• A regenerative approach to product development, marketing, leadership, and organizational design
• Using data and software tools to understand, reduce and neutralize brands’ carbon footprint and get on a path to net zero emissions.
• How building a climate-friendly brand can create a deeper relationship with your customers
• What messaging resonates most with eaters around climate-friendly food products

Links & Resources:

• Planet Forward https://www.planetfwd.com/about
• Moonshot Snacks https://moonshotsnacks.com/

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This series is sponsored by Foodshot Global & New Hope Network

New Hope Network

New Hope Network is a media, events and business intelligence company, covering natural products trends, industry insights and marketplace data that educate the industry about key issues, like regenerative agriculture, sustainability, responsible sourcing and more. Visit newhope.com.

FoodShot Global

FoodShot leverages resources from investors around the world to provide non-dilutive, equity, and post-investment capacities to innovators. Find out more at foodshot.org.

New Food Order is brought to you by AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect. Visit agfunder.com and foodtechconnect.com to find out more.

And a huge thank you to everyone who helped us bring this podcast to life:

Production: Cofruition, Anna de Wolff, Pamela Rothenberg

Audio Editing: Mercy Barno

Original Music: Rodrigo Barbera

Art: Lola Nankin & Rekai E. Campbell

Project Management: Patrick Carter