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Danielle was a guest today with Kerry Lutz on The Financial Survival Network, talking about recent developments in the world economy and markets. Here is a direct video link.

Join Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate, social entrepreneur, banker, and economist, as he discusses the need to redesign the current system of financial institutions to alleviate poverty around the world. Yunus further explains that people need to encourage and fund social businesses.

Here is a direct video link.

Many of the products and materials currently in use, only make economic sense when we do not count all of the waste, pollution, environmental and health costs which they leave in their wake. Smarter, clean, non-petroleum based solutions are everywhere, when thinking minds look.

A UK company has created a biodegradable alternative to plastic bottles which is currently crowdfunding on crowdcube.

The product is a blob of water that’s made from a seaweed extract, which is actually cheaper than plastic to manufacture.

It was created by Skipping Rocks Lab, who have a goal to create waste-free packaging and stop 1 billion plastic bottles reaching the ocean each year. The blobs have been sold from pop-ups around London but creators hope to take them global.

Here is a direct video link.