Today I chat with Jennifer Ballen. She is the Head of Global Markets at Indigo Ag. Jennifer got her start on Wall Street at Morgan Stanley working on impact investing. She started a blog called The Sustainable Investor where she writes about the intersection of sustainability and business. She spent time in Brazil training to be a climate leader at Al Gore’s climate course. She then transitioned out of Wall Street and went to get her MBA at MIT. After that Jennifer worked at Anheuser-Busch on packaging. Anheuser-Busch is the worlds largest buyer of glass and second largest buyer of aluminum. Jennifer is currently at Indigo Ag , which is working to harness nature and technology to better feed the planet. Indigo Ag works with farmers to improve profitability and pair farmers with carbon buyers for carbon offsets.  We discuss the trend of plant based diets and how 87% of Americans are looking to incorporate plant based protein into their diet. We also talk about the consumer pressure to force companies to focus more on the triple bottom line and greenwashing. Jennifer caps off the episode with some great career tips!

You can reach out to Jennifer on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-ballen-6a2aa527/

You can check out here website the Sustainable Investor: https://www.thesustainableinvestor.net

And you can learn more about Indigo Ag here: https://www.indigoag.com

*Please note I mention how Denver does have compost. So I looked into it more and they do for single family homes, but my apartment complex does not have composting*