The Fabric of Value with Carl Warkentin
The FOV Podcast is a series of deep dive conversations with investors, entrepreneurs and experts in the field of circular textiles and consumer climate tech. We talk about how to invest in the next innovation, how to evaluate a company and its market opportunity and what it takes to build a company in the circular economy.
Host Carl Warkentin has spent over a decade building companies, successfully exiting them and creating ecosystems that allow regenerative business models to scale.
The Fabric of Value Podcast was previously called LOOPED IN with Carl Warkentin.
The Fabric of Value with Carl Warkentin
Latest Episodes
The Unexpected Role of China in Scaling Climate Tech - with BioFluff CEO Luke Henning
The textile industry has spent the past decade producing an extraordinary number of new materials, recycling technologies and manufacturing concepts. The challenge is increasingly no longer whether these technologies can work, but whether they ...
Making Sustainability Human: Storytelling, Systems Change and Nature with Breitling CSO Aurelia Figueroa
Security is the word everyone is using right now, but the surprising truth is that it keeps pointing straight back to sustainability. Carl sits down with Aurelia, a chief sustainability officer and systems thinker, to map where sustainability s...
Mapping the Circular Fashion Transformation with Tiina Nyman
Secondhand is everywhere, but the mechanics behind circular fashion are messier and more interesting than most headlines admit. We sit down with Tina Newman, a Finland-based circular fashion journalist and consultant behind Circular Fashion New...
Dissolver: The Modular Technology Removing the Hidden Chemicals from Textile Waste with Founders Ditte & Charlotte
Textile recycling sounds simple until you touch real post-consumer waste. It’s not just cotton and polyester. It’s elastane blends, heat-transfer logos, dyes, heavy metals, and PFAS that can derail downstream processing and destroy product qual...
Reinventing Vinyl: Sustainable Records with Good Neighbor Music Co-Founder Tim Anderson
Vinyl is back, but the way we make records is stuck in an older industrial playbook. Carl joins us from our LA studio to explain how a booming physical format collides with modern climate expectations, from PVC-based materials to shrink wrap an...
