Sustain Change Grow

Shall you trust your intuition and when? Should you take a prescribed medication is X%? How to distinguish facts from fakes? Can algorithms make better decisions for you? To what extent and when you should or not rely on artificial intelligence assistants? Do bigger and more complex models help economists make better predictions and implications about the world? What is the difference between risk...

Climate change is bringing significant changes to peoples’ lives and threatening existence of certain cultures. Summers become hotter, countries face more floods and with larger impacts, island countries risk disappearing due to sea level rise, etc. We hear more often about the need to spend more money on adaptation measures to get prepared to changing conditions and reduce death toll of extreme c...

People naturally simplify the world to make it easier to understand and make decisions. Economists create models that help governments and other economic agents make informed decisions. At which point economic models stop being just models and start defining the way we look at the world? How much economic models with their focus on GDP growth and liberal markets contribute to the problem of climat...

Listen to the episode to know what real-life problems were solved by replacing policemen by clowns in city streets. When you hear about creativity, do you think it is a particular quality that is reserved for artists? How creative would you consider yourself in your everyday life and at work? Do you necessarily have to write books or do painting in order to be creative? Creativity is an inner qual...

Clean energy investment must reach $4.5 trillion per year by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5°C according to the International Energy Agency report . That’s a significant amount of investment, though this reflects about 4.5% of the world GDP. While the technology for renewable energy exists and the capacity keeps growing, this energy still poses difficult questions. Renewable energy is still ex...

Can money be a force for good? Can investments bring well-being and empowerment? You would think that’s exactly what investments should normally do. Unfortunately, in the current liberal market economies investments very often extract benefits for investors, or capital holders, while people and communities as well as the nature suffer. However, there exist investors who are looking for making good...

Got a question about heat pumps? Never heard about it previously? In this episode, my guest Tom Gosling will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about heat pumps. To start with, heat pumps is a solution to reduce carbon emissions related to heating. As you may know, heating relies mostly on gas and sometimes on coal. Heat pumps use electricity but much more efficiently than electric heatin...

Wondering how these three topics are related? My todays' guest is Miyoko Schinner. Miyoko founded and lead until 2022 a $ 260 million brand of vegan cheese, called Miyoko Creamery. To a large extent, Miyoko re-invented vegan cheese and made it popular in the United States. What is key is that Miyoko is a true defender of animal rights and undertakes multiple actions to remove animals from the...

Food constitutes the most intimate relationship between us and nature. Though the food that we eat now can be almost called unnatural. Yes, it is full of calories but very poor in nutrients. And we can just imagine what effect has this unnatural food on our health. The way this food is produced has a huge negative effect on nature, climate and biodiversity. Luckily, solutions exist. Today, I am ta...

L'economie qui cherche a croitre sans cesse, le business qui cherche a avoir de plus en plus de profits, les consomatteurs qui cherchent a consommer de plus en plus, et tout cela en epuisant des resources naturelles et en d’etruisant la planete. Est-ce que cela a du sens? Comment on peut re-penser notre facon de produire et de vivre? Quel est le role du business et de chacun d’entre nous dans...

What is wildlife and why it matters? Elephants, tigers, monkeys, gibbons, bears and multiple other big and small species.  This is all wildlife. According to the WWF, in about 40-50 years, we have lost about 65% of the wildlife. The situation is dangerous all over the world with animals being poached and killed due to wild animal trade and nature-human conflicts. But animals are also withdrawn fro...

Forests play an essential role for humanity by providing a wide range of ecosystem services. To name just few, forests clean the air, filter water supplies, control floods and erosion, sustain biodiversity and genetic resources. Standing forests are powerful carbon sinks, but cut them and they will become carbon emitters. Currently, forests all over the world are in danger, putting in danger the w...

We don’t like seeing waste around us and, particularly, in the nature. At the same time, our modern way of living leads to production of more and more waste that we have difficulty to cope with, as an example, just think about ubiquitous plastic packaging that we are so familiar with. Waste is a big and complex problem for any country, but for a developing country the challenge is even greater. In...

Nature gives us everything, from shelter to food for our bodies, to pleasure and healing for our mind. Forest bathing is a simple way of connecting with nature and benefiting from it to feel better both physically and mentally. Next time you are in the forest, just take some time to be aware of the environment, of observing trees and feeling the life in them. As simple as it sounds, serious scient...

The modern society consumes too much, certainly much more than needed. This focus on acquiring material things entails environmental problems but it also stiffens our life and diverts our attention from things that really matter and make us happier like relationships and experience. In this episode we discuss with Stephanie Severian sustainable minimalist lifestyle, how to declutter, how to consum...

Have you ever thought of the footprint you leave on the Earth, the carbon footprint? In this episode, Tom Gosling talks about his experience to compute and halve his family’s carbon footprint in ten years. He shares easy wins and how to overcome the difficult bits. We go through various aspects of life, from food to air transportation and sustainable investments; and we turn my stones in this conv...

There is an intricate relashionship between climate change and human psychology. First, though not primarily and regularly mentioned, climate change is having and will have even stronger impact on human well-being and mental health. Second, despite a general appreciation and positive effect of nature on most people, there is a lack of true connection with nature and lack of concrete actions to pro...

Biodiversity has often been mentioned recently, particularly, with respect to the unprecedented loss of biodiversity, called the sixth mass extinction of species on Earth that is driven by human activity. What is the biodiversity? What threat to humanity comes from the loss of biodiversity? What role nature plays in our everyday life? How cut of Amazon forests in Peru affects people’s lives in Eur...

Welcome to the Sustain Change Grow podcast. This podcast is for you - whether you feel worried about climate change and wondering how you can contribute to protect nature and the planet, or maybe you want to exercise more, reduce sugar consumption, or watch less series on Netflix. Powerful insights from guests  in a range of different fields, from entrepreneurship, activism to psychology, wil...

Climate change brings significant losses to the economies and financial systems. These losses can come with disasters such as wildfires and floods where infrastructure and property are destroyed or damaged. Other disasters like heatwaves and droughts can affect river levels and water transportation, reduce harvest or impact people’s health and productivity. Such losses can put significant pressure...

Welcome to the Sustain Change Grow podcast. This podcast is for you - whether you feel worried about climate change and wondering how you can contribute to protect nature and the planet, or maybe you want to exercise more, reduce sugar consumption, or watch less series on Netflix. Powerful insights from guests  in a range of different fields, from entrepreneurship, activism to psychology, wil...

Welcome to the Sustain Change Grow podcast. This podcast is for you - whether you feel worried about climate change and wondering how you can contribute to protect nature and the planet, or maybe you want to exercise more, reduce sugar consumption, or watch less series on Netflix. Powerful insights from guests  in a range of different fields, from entrepreneurship, activism to psychology, wil...

Welcome to the Sustain Change Grow podcast. This podcast is for you - whether you feel worried about climate change and wondering how you can contribute to protect nature and the planet, or maybe you want to exercise more, reduce sugar consumption, or watch less series on Netflix. Powerful insights from guests  in a range of different fields, from entrepreneurship, activism to psychology, wil...

Welcome to the Sustain Change Grow podcast. This podcast is for you - whether you feel worried about climate change and wondering how you can contribute to protect nature and the planet, or maybe you want to exercise more, reduce sugar consumption, or watch less series on Netflix. Powerful insights from guests  in a range of different fields, from entrepreneurship, activism to psychology, wil...

Welcome to the Sustain Change Grow podcast. This podcast is for you - whether you feel worried about climate change and wondering how you can contribute to protect nature and the planet, or maybe you want to exercise more, reduce sugar consumption, or watch less series on Netflix. Powerful insights from guests  in a range of different fields, from entrepreneurship, activism to psychology, wil...