# Why are we making pizza boxes out of endangered trees?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2023
- Speaker: Nicole Rycroft
- Year: 2023
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Engineering, Earth and environment, Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/nicole_rycroft_why_are_we_making_pizza_boxes_out_of_endangered_trees)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

If we're going to solve the climate crisis, we need to talk about supply chains, says biodiversity champion and 2023 Audacious Project grantee Nicole Rycroft. Her organization, Canopy, partners with key industry leaders to overhaul their base materials in favor of more sustainable alternatives. Learn more about how they're shifting production of everything from T-shirts to the Harry Potter book series out of the world's ancient and endangered forests -- and how solutions for every sector are closer than we think.

## Lectures

1. [Why are we making pizza boxes out of endangered trees?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/nicole_rycroft_why_are_we_making_pizza_boxes_out_of_endangered_trees/42aaa23bb6ed), 9 min (TED's player)