Future Planet Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome Simon Dawes, a driving force behind the Environment Agency's push towards sustainability, with over two decades of experience in the environmental sector.  Currently, Simon is the Head of Sustainable Business Strategy, where he led the development and integration of a Net Zero delivery plan for a complex £1.3bn organisation.  He also spearheaded th...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome Andres Roberts, Founding Partner for the Bio-Leadership Project. A place where a new story of leadership is growing, working with the rules of life: cycles, connection, regeneration, reciprocity and love. The vision for the Bio-Leadership Project is to help a global ecosystem of people to grow this new story all over the world. Five kinds of Bio-Leaders...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome Vibhati Bhatia, the founder of South Asians for Sustainability and managing consultant for social sustainability at Energise . She is also the co-partner of Race Report UK-- part of Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS) -- and advisory board for Catalyse Change , which focuses on helping 18 to 25 females or non-binary people getting into sustaina...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Future Planet Podcast, we adventure with Hermione Taylor, the visionary founder and CEO of Do Nation. Hermione is an early pioneer in promoting sustainable actions and living. Her journey began in 2009 with an inspiring cycling trip from London to Morocco, a challenge not just for her but for those around her.  Instead of seeking financial support, Hermione...

Send us Fan Mail Brad Vanstone is the Founder of Willicroft, a plant‑based cheese producer making planet‑proof cheese for dairy cheese lovers. Inspired by Brad’s family's dairy farming roots dating back to 1957, Willicroft was re‑imagined as a plant‑based cheese company in Amsterdam in 2018. This is a journey of an inspiring story of passion, tenacity and commitment to doing the right thing....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we adventure with the pioneer of zero waste, Catherine Conway. Catherine's is an inspiring story of persistence, commitment, and resilience – values that all founders need.  Catherine's instincts lead her to be truly collaborative and, like all great impact pioneers, she prioritizes impact and doing the right thing.  We adventure through circular economy...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome human rights activist and environmentalist Kumi Naidoo. Kumi was the International Executive Director of Greenpeace International (from 2009 through 2016) and Secretary General of Amnesty International (from 2018 to 2020). Kumi served as the Secretary-General of CIVICUS, an international alliance for citizen participation, from 1998 to 2008. He’s also t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome the inspirational Adam Read, Chief Sustainability and External Affairs Officer for SUEZ UK, a leading global provider of environmental solutions. Adam is a policy expert, pioneer and influencer for positive change in an industry that is connected to everything we do and our whole way of life. Themes include cross-value chain collaboration, circular econ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome Simeon and Anne from Dream Quickly. What a dream team! I had so much fun with these two beautiful humans, exploring how they co-created a project to put nature on the board at Faith in Nature, and then created a toolkit so you can do the same. Together we will explore: - How Anne’s love of nature was a seed that grew - How to give Nature a voice in deci...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we adventure with David Carlin, Head of Climate Risk and TCFD for the UN Environment Programme's Finance Initiative. Together we will explore: David's vision for an equitable and just future How finance is both an enabler of the challenge and the solution 3 blockers to unlocking a flowing river of finance  The need to create intentional networks of indiv...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome Thrivability Maven, an author of Age of Thrivability, Michelle Holiday.  It was such a pleasure to connect and co-create this episode with Michelle. The focus of Michelle's work is helping people shift from a mechanistic, reductive, extractive worldview to a regenerative heart-centered one.  Together we adventure through: how our worldview needs to...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome Timothée Parrique, a pioneering proactivist, passionate about degrowth. Timothée is a researcher, economist, and scientist who focuses on questions about de-growth, post-growth, and post-capitalism.  We explore: what degrowth is how it can be defined why it needs to exist what it means in practice what practical policies we can adopt and examples where...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome Philippe Birker, co-founder of Climate Farmer-- visionary and adventurous--on a mission to scale regenerative agriculture through a community of practice for farmers and carbon. We dive into:  what is regenerative farming soil health the role that farmers play in maintaining healthy ecosystems it's not the cow, it's the how the need for a bett...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome Sir Jonathon Porritt - a renowned environmentalist, sustainability campaigner, writer, member of the British Green Party, and founder-director of Forum for the Future. We talk about intergenerational justice and intersectionality. We explored citizen leadership and civil disobedience and the blocker that is the indifference of so many people. We adventu...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we welcome Catherine Howarth who has been pioneering systems change for over a decade with ShareAction. ShareAction coordinates civil society activism to promote responsible investment across Europe.  We explore the critical role that finance, pension funds, asset managers and big banks have in transitioning to a low carbon future and that there is no space in our...