Vegan Interior Design + Animal-Inclusive SDGs

Episode 454, original air date November 3, 2021, on Unity Online Radio. Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. Please note that the 475 Main Street Vegan Episodes are archived by date behind the newer episodes of the Victoria Moran Podcast. We hope you’ll enjoy both.

In this episode I speak with Alice Duerr, founder of Australian design studio and educational platform Vegan Interior Design. Her company educates both international interior design students and established businesses on how to create sustainable, cruelty-free materials and finishes. Here we discuss her new book, the aptly titled Vegan Interior Design(winner of the PETA Vegan Homeware Award), just in time for the first annual Vegan Interior Design Week. 

You can learn more about Aline and Vegan Interior Design at https://veganinteriordesign.com. You can also follow her on Instagram at @vegan.interior.design.

In the second half we feature Claire Smith, vegan entrepreneur and impact investor. Claire created investment platform Beyond Investing, which designs cruelty-free programs in public equity markets. She invests venture capital in vegan and plant-based protein businesses with Beyond Impact. She is co-founder of Beyond Animal, a networking and funding service designed to drive the growth of a thriving vegan economy. And she is President of Beyond Cruelty Foundation, formed to campaign for zero animal exploitation and to fund safe havens for animals. Today we’ll be discussing Beyond Cruelty’s campaign for SDG18 – Zero Animal Exploitation.

You can learn more about Claire Smith and Beyond Cruelty’s SDG18 – Zero Animal Exploitation campaign at https://www.beyondcruelty.org, on Facebook, and on Instagram at @beyond_cruelty.