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Send us Fan Mail In this episode we sit down with Hugo Straebler, Consulting Director at the DNS agency Sidièse, to explore what's trending and shifting for business leaders and sustainability professionals, as the conversation shifts from headline-grabbing commitments to concrete decisions that survive contact with reality. We get into their Sustainability Outlook 2027 report which reveals m...

Send us Fan Mail Walking. Possibly the most underrated climate action we can take on any random Wednesday. We sit down with Hana Sutch, co-founder and CEO of Go Jauntly, to talk about how a walking app can make sustainability feel doable, local and even fun.  Hannah shares her own late start with walking, from growing up without much connection to parks and green space to discovering the mental an...

Send us Fan Mail When a talented person holds back for years, it’s rarely because they can’t do the work. It’s because nobody ever showed them the unwritten rules, the real gateways . In this episode we’re joined by Lorna Fitzsimons, former Labour MP, entrepreneur, leadership adviser, and now co-founder and CEO of Project Ginger, to talk about human agency. We get into The Pipeline, the leadership...

Send us Fan Mail Have you stood over the bin holding a piece of packaging and wondered, “Where does this actually go?” Well here's your answer!  In this episode we're talking to Noemi de Santis, co-founder of Junker and the driving force behind DNA Ambiente, to unpack how waste sorting breaks down when rules change from one municipality to the next and information is hard to find at the...

Send us Fan Mail Design is not a “nice to have” creative extra. It is a £136.7 billion part of the UK economy, it supports 2.27 million jobs, and it quietly shapes how we live, buy, travel, heat our homes and interact with public services.  In this episode we sit down with Laura Casali, Head of Communications at the Design Council, to get behind the numbers and ask the bigger question: if everythi...

Send us Fan Mail Kelp is having a moment, but not for the reason most people think. It grows astonishingly fast, builds huge biomass, and pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as it grows. So far so good - the hard part is making sure that carbon does not simply bounce straight back into the carbon cycle.  In this episode we talk to Jorunn Skjermo, Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF, to unpa...

Send us Fan Mail Climate progress is not blocked by a lack of science, it is blocked by the stories we tell, about what matters and who belongs.  In this episode we sit down with Samuel Rubin, co-founder of  Entertainment + Culture Pavilion, and Utku Güven, co-founder of Esmiyor, a purpose-driven design studio, to make the case that culture isn't adjacent to climate policy; it is a delivery s...

Send us Fan Mail Your car? Probably one of the least efficient things you own. It costs a fortune in materials and carbon to build, then spends most of its life parked outside doing absolutely nothing.  So what happens when mobility stops being an object we own and becomes a service we use, and what if that shift could finally make the circular economy real in transport?  In this episode we chat t...

Send us Fan Mail So here's a big challenge: only 4.5% of staff in UK environmental charities identify as Global Majority, despite Global Majority people making up 18% of the UK working-age population.  That gap is a signal that something deeper than recruitment is broken. To achieve diversity in the environment sector we need to go much, much further. We sit down with Alison Coburn from Commo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we sit down with a guest from last year, Denise Auclair, Head of the Travel Smart campaign at Transport and Environment in Brussels, to explore new research that links the growth of air tourism to rising housing rents across Europe. The headline is hard to ignore: in countries facing intense aviation-driven arrivals, unchecked growth could push rents up by as much...

Send us Fan Mail Carbon removal: miracle fix or a dangerous distraction? Both takes miss what the science is actually telling us. We sit down with Christopher Neidl, Carbon Removal Lead for the Climate High Level Champions and co-founder of OpenAir, to pin down what carbon dioxide removal is, what it is not, and why it is an important part of the IPCC pathways. We unpack where CDR fits in the wide...

Send us Fan Mail If sustainability means working in Europe while other regions pay the price, is it really sustainability at all? We sit down with Suzanne Geisler, founder of the SERA Institute in Vienna, to connect the dots between sustainable construction, energy efficiency, and the global systems that quietly keep our lifestyles up and running.  We talk about why the building sector is such a h...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we sit down with Göker AvcI, founder of Alalëa Social to get a clear view on what serious carbon management looks like when you move beyond the headlines of a press release or linkedIN post.  If you work in sustainability, communications, procurement or finance, you will recognise the problem straight away: targets are rising fast, yet only a small share of organis...

Send us Fan Mail A greener city is not just about planting more trees. It is about making nature easy to reach, hard to ignore, and emotionally meaningful in everyday life.  In this episode we chat to ecologist and horticulturalist Jacques Sognon, former director of Green Spaces and Environment for the City of Nantes and vice president of France’s Conservatoire for Special Plant Collections. We ex...

Send us Fan Mail Nature is infrastructure, and we keep paying the price for forgetting it. In this episode we’re joined by Professor Anusha Shah of Plan for Earth, as she launches the Nature Is Growth campaign, a rallying cry for the built environment, to stop treating nature as a constraint and start treating it as an engine of climate resilience, public health and long-term prosperity. We get pr...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're chatting to Gamze Çelikyılmaz, Vice Chair of Climate Academy Global and a long-time climate change policy specialist, to make sense of where the global energy transition actually stands and why the picture is so uneven across regions.  With Gamze we go from the big global picture to the local human reality of a just transition. For communities built arou...

Send us Fan Mail Has the public has “moved on” from climate change as some commentators might like us to believe? The data tells a different story. We sit down with Dr Susie Wang, climate and environmental psychologist and co-founder of Climate Barometer, to unpack what UK voters and MPs actually think about net zero, renewable energy, and climate action, when you track attitudes over time instead...

Send us Fan Mail Is your balcony the most overlooked piece of green space in your life? It might also be the easiest place to start changing how you feel, day to day. We sit down with Manchester garden designer Jason Williams, known online as The Cloud Gardener , who lives in an 18th floor apartment and turned a glass-fronted, south-facing balcony into an oasis that’s part pantry, part wildlife st...

Send us Fan Mail Wildflowers can feel like a “nice extra” until you see what they do to a street, a skyline, and the way strangers talk to each other. In this episode we’re joined by Polly Moseley and Richard Scott from Scouse Flowerhouse, to explore how Liverpool’s wildflower gateways and brownfield meadows create real, measurable change: more biodiversity, stronger pollinator corridors, and a re...

Send us Fan Mail A new global day is being launched for something no city or region could  function without: public transport. We sit down with Mohammed Mezgani, Secretary General of UITP, to unpack the story behind World Public Transport Day on 17 April 2026 and why a simple celebration can become a serious lever for sustainable transport and better urban mobility. Mohammed takes us from his chil...

Send us Fan Mail Nuclear power: the sensible, grown-up answer to the climate crisis? Once you look past the slogan of 'carbon-free', the story becomes harder to sell and impossible to keep local. We sit down with Pinar Demircan, coordinator of nuclearfree.org, to unpack the risks and reality behind the nuclear industry's pitch that promises so much but that could cost the Earth.  We...

Send us Fan Mail Plastic waste is not just something we step over on the street or on a beach. It is a material that has quietly rewritten ecosystems, economics, and even human biology and once you notice that, it becomes impossible to treat something like “marine litter” as a simple tidy-up job. We sit down with Sedat Gündogdu, a marine biologist and environmental researcher whose work focuses on...

Send us Fan Mail If you're feeling a bit beaten up by the relentless negative news coverage on net zero and climate action, guess what? The data tells a more complicated and more hopeful truth. We sit down with Becca Massey-Chase, Head of Citizen Engagement at IPPR, to unpack their new research on public opinion, media narratives and the real risks to climate progress. If you care about clima...

Send us Fan Mail The world is  changing, and the tricky question is whether business is shaping that change or sleepwalking into it. We sit down with Sam Baker, a director at Business Declares, to talk about the 'polycrisis' of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, widening inequality, and the way these shocks reinforce one another in daily life, markets, and politics. We find out how Sa...

Send us Fan Mail What if we treated wetlands, rivers and forests with the same seriousness as bridges, tunnels and treatment plants? We sit down with Prof Anusha Shah, the engineer, former ICE President, and founder of Plan for Earth, to explore how putting nature at the heart of decisions can transform cities, infrastructure and public health. Anusha shares the personal path from the lakes and la...