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Send us Fan Mail This week we're talking to Georgia Yexley, founder of Loud Mobility, who joins us to challenge everything you thought you knew about how we move around, including feeling joyful about sustainable journeys!  Georgia's journey tracks from a Beijing-based bike-share pioneer to founding her fourth micromobility startup and reveals someone who understands that meaningful chan...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Dr. Victoria Harvey as she takes us deep into the conflicted heart of the advertising industry, where creative professionals increasingly find themselves torn between profit-driven briefs and our shared and planetary future.  Our conversation with Viki comes just two weeks after she published an expert briefing as part of a UK parliamentary debate on ban...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when we stop viewing clean energy projects in Africa as charity and start seeing them as critical infrastructure investments? In this thought-provoking conversation, Isona Shibata, Head of International Programmes at Ashden, the climate solutions charity, challenges our fundamental understanding of sustainability finance. Drawing from her fascinating journey from arch...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Jodie Wu, a pioneering clean tech entrepreneur in Africa who reveals for us the transformative power of sustainable innovation. When Jodie graduated from MIT and packed her bags for Africa, she thought she'd be gone for six months. Sixteen years later, she's still there, having built multiple successful social enterprises that are revolutionizing access to clean ene...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to two remarkable women who are helping to revolutionise transportation across Africa, proving that climate solutions can be powerful economic engines when communities are put at the centre of innovation. Claire Bakhita from GoGo Electric is transforming Uganda's massive motorcycle taxi industry, where 1.5 million riders form the backbone of daily mobi...

Send us Fan Mail Our sustainability and communications experts from across Europe gather for a special Good Geist roundtable discussion at the offices of our Rome agency, Silverback.  We talk about our relationship with the natural world,  how traditional economic models fail us and about the frameworks that place planetary boundaries as the foundation upon which our societies and economies must o...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a fascinating conversation with Thomas Coombs, human rights communicator, founder of Hope-Based Communications and former Head of Brand at Amnesty International.   "We were ticking all those boxes," Thomas reflects on his early career in cause-based media relations. "Getting huge amounts of media coverage, but where was the compassion and empathy?"...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when art meets activism? Can creativity truly change the world? These questions are all part of our conversation with Yana Buhrer Tavanier, co-founder and executive director of Fine Acts—a groundbreaking global nonprofit creative studio for social impact. Yana's remarkable journey begins with frustration. Despite a decade as an award-winning investigative journal...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Shehnaz Kıymaz Bahçeci, a gender equality activist from Berlin, and Constanza Pauchulo, a human rights lawyer specialising in feminist economics from Malaysi. They help us to explore vital feminist economy questions through their work on the Gender Equality and Macroeconomics (GEM) Starter Kit. Their unique perspectives shaped by research and activism of...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when passion for sustainability combines with culinary creativity? Meet Corin Bell, Executive Director of Open Kitchen, who is busy revolutionising how we think about food waste, sustainability, and community wellbeing. With a team she describes as "wizard-level chefs" playing "the culinary equivalent of jazz," Open Kitchen creates ever-changing me...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Sophie Zinkevich, who has a refreshingly practical approach to one of climate action's most challenging puzzles: how do we keep flying without destroying the planet? As co-founder of Carbon Neutral Fuels, this chemist-turned-entrepreneur is pioneering sustainable aviation fuel that could transform how we think about air travel emissions. The power-t...

Send us Fan Mail What if architecture focused on touching as many lives as possible, rather than creating exclusive spaces for the privileged few? Becca Thomas, Creative Director of New Practice (part of Civic Group), brings this refreshing perspective our latest episode. "A building isn't anything until you put people in it," says Becca. This simple yet profound statement encapsula...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're talking once again to Thomas Kolster, founder of Goodvertising and author of "The Hero Trap," who joins us to discuss groundbreaking research conducted with the WARC consultancy. WARC have analysed ten years of data around award-winning ad campaigns and their themes to look at how many of those campaigns were about ethical or progressive issues...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're chatting to Danielle and Vicky Heward, the founders of Optimo, a consultancy that's on a mission to help progressive organisations work smarter, not harder. They look holistically at the four pillars of successful operations: people who are engaged and motivated, clear processes everyone understands, technology that supports (not dictates) those pro...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Josh Wheeler, the founder of BeBroadcast and author of a recent report that has tracked an astonishing 45,000 mentions of climate change in the UK broadcast media over six months, uncovering patterns that help explain why public engagement remains challenging despite growing climate impacts. We talk to Josh about climate coverage that employs alarmist la...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Allison Kopf from TRACT, a revolutionary platform mapping and tracking global commodity supply chains to create greater transparency across the world's food systems. From her physics studies at Santa Clara University to pioneering indoor farming in North America, to data-led innovation for sustainability, Alison's journey demonstrates how techn...

Send us Fan Mail What does wealth truly mean beyond basic safety and security? Nina Hoas, Head of LGT Philanthropy Advisory, takes us on her journey exploring this question through the eyes of those inheriting unprecedented fortunes during what has been described as the largest wealth transfer in human history. We talk to Nina about her humanitarian work in conflict zones for the UN, and her under...

Send us Fan Mail This week we're talking to Solange Tremblay, the president of Interdecom, where she has united communications professionals and researchers from approximately 50 countries through the International Declaration of Communications Professionals and Researchers for a Healthier, Viable, Better World. Her journey began in the early 1990s after the Brundtland Report's release,...

Send us Fan Mail This episode we talk to Filiz Bekman, of Constellations for Change and a passionate advocate for meaningful social impact through philanthropy. We learn how an earthquake in Turkey became the catalyst for discovering her true calling in philanthropy and social change. We look at Filiz's take on 'trust-based philanthropy' -- a revolutionary approach that focuses not...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Nur Febriani (Febri), whose organisation Yayasan Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) is revolutionising how we think about protecting biodiversity by connecting human wellbeing directly to forest and planetary health. As Director of Resource Mobilisation at ASRI, Febri brings her public health background to tackle an ambitious challenge: saving Indonesia's cr...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Veronika Mikos, a former economist who became the driving force behind the Healthy Seas Foundation, an organisation that works on marine litter clean ups across the world, tackling one of our oceans' most invisible threats—ghost nets. As Veronika explains, these abandoned nets represent just one aspect of the marine litter crisis facing our oceans....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're talking to the climate crisis firebrand, Sam Nicholson, who is the Director of Manchester's Climate Change Agency and Deputy Chair of the City's Climate Change Partnership. Our chat kicks off with Sam's first steps into environmentalism through vegetarianism and ends up looking at the huge scale of global urbanisation and what it means for...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a sparkling conversation that dives into land rights, women's rights and sustainability in Tanzania, with the hugely inspiring Payne Mako from the Ashden Award-winning Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT).  Her journey encompasses the profound challenges faced by communities in northern Tanzania, battling the impacts of climate change while striving for justice a...

Send us Fan Mail Discover the powerful connection between gender equality and climate justice with our latest guest, Janna Araeva, Programme Coordinator of Bishkek Feminist Initiatives in Kyrgyzstan. Janna shares her unexpected journey into gender-positive development and highlights the critical need for gender-sensitive content in media representation. We talk about the harsh realities faced by w...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're at the intersection of personal happiness and climate solutions, but starting in a Californian vineyard. We're talking to renowned sustainability scientist Professor Kimberly Nicholas from Lund University about her  journey from her roots in a Californian vineyard to advocating for climate action on the global stage. Kimberly brings her unique persp...