Sustainable Growth: In Fashion, Food and Money, Tech is Emerging to Kill Waste and Enable Ideas

Stacy Flynn of Evrnu, Abhi Ramesh of Misfits Market, Adolfo Babatz of Clip

Speeds and feeds are great in tech, but there’s more to innovation than datacenter hardware and enterprise software. Like fashion and food.

This week I spent time with entrepreneurs who are using tech to tackle problems with the stuff we touch and taste. It’s especially timely because inflation and environmental challenges have us rethinking the cost of the status quo around the globe, literally and figuratively.

Adolfo Babatz, Clip CEO, on Empowering Small Businesses in LatAm with Fintech: CNBC Working Lunch

Fintech has a different impact in different parts of the world. In the latest Working Lunch on CNBC's Power Lunch, meet Adolfo Babatz, CEO of Clip, a startup bringing digital payments to Latin America in a way that reveals the category's global potential:

Keeping Fabric Out of Landfills: Evrnu CEO Stacy Flynn on Turning Old Clothes into New Textiles

Stacy Flynn learned to design and sew her own clothes as a kid, and to apply hard work to big problems. Today, as CEO of Evrnu, she’s trying to do for fabrics what Tesla is doing for cars: Offer a high-quality, environmentally friendly version that won’t trash the planet:

Affordable Groceries as Prices Spike? How Misfits Market is Beating Inflation With Fresh Food Others Overlook

Abhi Ramesh’s family used to eat fast food multiple times a week growing up, until his dad’s friendship with a distance runner inspired the family to dramatically change its approach to fitness and nutrition. Now the founder and CEO of Misfits Market is on a mission to make food more affordable by challenging conventional practices:

Should Twitter Push Elon Musk to Buy the Company? On the Other Hand

Twitter this week sued Elon Musk to force him to buy the company, after he announced Friday that he wants out. Should Twitter be trying to force Musk into a deal he doesn't want? I argue both sides in the latest On the Other Hand, on CNBC's Squawk Box:

Check out The Black Experience in America: The Course, an online educational resource I researched, designed and built. A free PDF download is available to bring the material to kids, and the online interactive experience is made for young people and adults. You can also take interactive courses at your own pace: