Arthur Kay - Founder of Skyroom
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John Higginson is joined by Arthur Kay - the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Skyroom, an urban development initiative installing sustainable and affordable homes on building rooftops to help tackle the housing crisis in cities. Arthur is also Founder of bio-bean, a clean tech company that manufactures advanced biofuels and biochemicals out of waste coffee grounds; and Founder and Chairman of Fast Forward 2030, a think tank focused on using business to solve the world’s biggest problems. This is the seventh podcast in a series of episodes by Higginson Strategy’s Nature 2030 campaign - a movement aiming to smash the silo culture that hampers humanity’s efforts to respond to the challenges global nature is facing. The series is focused on how to save the world from environmental disaster.
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