This week’s episode features a fascinating exploration of regenerative buildings with David Cheshire, UK Sustainability Director of infrastructure consultants AECOM and author of Regenerative by Design: Creating living buildings and cities published by RIBA. We dig into what a ‘net positive’ building would look and feel like, how they work in practice and how the […]
Read MoreThoroughly enjoyed this chat with Solitaire Townsend, Founder and Chief Solutionist of Futerra, and author of the fab new(ish) book, The Solutionists. We discuss what a Solutionist is, positivity vs doom, greenwash, creativity and engaging leaders in Sustainability. Don’t miss this one! More the Net Zero Business Academy 2025 early bird offer here. Podcast branding […]
Read MoreEver since the 1992 Earth Summit, we have been urged to “Think Global, Act Local”. All too often this slogan has manifested itself in small scale projects, but what about creating sustainable cities? In this episode I talk place-based Sustainability with Florian Wupperfeld, world-leading placemaking/social sustainability expert and CEO of LCD Ventures, a UK-based data-driven […]
Read MoreManagement Peter Drucker said “culture eats strategy for breakfast” and nowhere is this more true than in Sustainability. You can have the best strategy in the world, but if people aren’t bought into Sustainability then nothing will change. Here I explain why so many people fail to engage with Sustainability and why standard engagement techniques […]
Read MoreIn this episode, I’m joined by two hugely experienced doctors and Sustainability champions Matt Sawyer and Mike Tomson who have edited a new book, Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care. Our discussion takes in the huge and complex overlap between healthcare and planetary care, how to engage busy people and the challenges/opportunities for small businesses to embrace […]
Read MoreWith booming numbers of reporting regimes – CSRD, EU Taxonomy, Double Materiality, SFDR etc – Sustainability teams increasingly find themselves slogging in the data mines rather than delivering the Net Zero wins they actually want to report on. Given the sudden blossoming of AI, can this new technology alleviate the reporting burden and, if so, at […]
Read MoreFrankly, I’m struggling to sum this episode up! Brendan May of Robertsbridge has been one of the leading voices on Sustainability for decades and in this conversation we cover the current UK political context, the difficulties with transition, the threat of culture war populism, the unintended consequences of not doing things (eg offsetting, nuclear, palm […]
Read MoreIn this episode, I lay out what I call the Litmus Test of Sustainability. No spoilers, you will have to listen to hear what it is! If you want help to pass the test, please check out my Executive Coaching programme. Branding courtesy of Avery & Brown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Read MoreKeir Starmer’s Labour Party won a crushing victory in July’s UK General Election on the back of a ‘green growth’ economic strategy, but how is this measuring up in practice? Fresh from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, Fiona Harvey, the Guardian’s multi-award-winning Environment Editor, joins me to run the rule over the new Government’s […]
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