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The Unstoppable Energy Revolution with Chris Smith

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The Unstoppable Energy Revolution with Chris Smith

Chris has 35 years’ experience in the energy sector, cutting his teeth in a coal fired power station before moving on to hydro, wind, nuclear solar and BESS projects both in the UK and globally. We talk about transferable skills, the threat of blackouts, how economics are unfolding and Chris’s current mission: pushing back against […]

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Accelerating Low Carbon Growth with Lauren Juliff, Clean Growth Fund

This week, I’m joined by Lauren Juliff of the Clean Growth Fund. The fund seeks out early stage entrepreneurs with the potential to abate more than 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum and give them the money and guidance to bring their concepts to market. One of the themes of our discussion is that […]

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Wooden it be good: climate-friendly timber construction with Paul Brannen

Paul Brannen is a former Member of the European Parliament turned passionate advocate of the use of timber in construction and author of the book Timber! – How Wood Can Help Save the World. In this enlightening conversation, Paul explains the full climate benefits of using fast growing spruce as a construction material, how modern […]

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Gonna Be Elected (or Not) | The Sustainability Show Ep2

In this second episode of The Sustainability Show, I look at the last four weeks’ Sustainability news: the continuing Strait of Hormuz crisis, the remarkable fuss over RCP8.5 and the fallout from the UK’s local elections which turned into anything but. I also reflect on the last three interviews here on the pod and pull […]

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Cutting Through the Noise: Ketan Joshi on Climate Comms in the Disinformation Age

This week I’m joined by Ketan Joshi, climate communications wizard, to discuss how to talk about climate change and its solutions in a world of disinformation. We talk about Ketan’s formative experiences of so-called ‘wind turbine syndrome’ through battling algorithms, reply guys and AI slop to making some recommendations for Sustainability Professionals to help them […]

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The Race to Zero: Sustainability in Sport with Claire Poole, Sport Positive

This week I’m joined by Claire Poole, founder and CEO of Sport Positive, which seeks to help embed Sustainability into sport, from grassroots to the Olympics. We cover a huge amount of ground, most notably the What’s Stopping Us: Applying psychology to accelerate climate action in sport Report co-sponsored by Sport Positive which has some […]

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The Dire Straits of Hormuz | The Sustainability Show Ep1

Regular listeners may have noticed the normal rhythm of our episodes is three guest interviews followed by a solo effort by yours truly. I’m pleased to launch a new version of that fourth episode – a monthly round up of news, interviews and other reflections which I hope you will find useful if not inspiring. […]

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Does Sustainability Sell? with Prof Frédéric Dalsace, IMD

Today I’m joined by Frédéric Dalsace, Professor of Marketing at the prestigious IMD business school and co-author of a new book, Clean Winners. The book looks at where high profile corporate sustainability ventures have failed, notably Unilever, and sets out ‘Sustainability 2.0’ to address those shortcomings. As you’ll hear, we don’t agree on everything – […]

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