Saving Tomorrows Planet

Pendragon Stuart is an associate director of Globe Scan, an environmental and sustainability strategy firm helping NGOs, governments and Companies.  Pendragon’s real passion for sustainability shines as he discusses all things RUBBISH. Who is responsible for the large amount of waste that is produced? Are we seeing a shift in companies taking responsibility for where their products' packaging...

Gary, 23, has dedicated his young life to stop the carpeting of Bali beaches to with plastic trash. Arriving as a child, 8, from France he started aged 14 campaigning to clear up the plastic covering the beaches of Bali. Now he has invented a grill to capture all the waste coming down the rivers but still needs $500k to cover every river, sort the plastic and turn it into usable items. And he want...

Christian Toennesen is a sustainability expert who has advised media companies to champion sustainability content. It is the responsibility of all media content producers to create and drive sustainability messages. He argues their greatest contribution to saving the planet is to change attitudes and behaviours of their audiences. He tells us about Sky, C4, ITV and BBC and how the competition betw...

Anne - Sophie Fontaine is the head of sustainability and corporate communication for Bonduelle a family owned French producer of chilled, frozen and canned vegetables.  We learn how we have to reeducate ourselves to increase the relative proportion of vegetables versus meat in our meals if we are to feel the global population and reduce global warming. Anne-Sophie proposes a simple action to put c...

Alex Ely is founder and owner of Mae architects. Alex has been passionate for his whole career in pioneering ways to create new buildings and refurbish existing ones that minimise the impact on the planet. As an award winning architect he is both inventing new techniques and inspiring developers and public departments to commission buildings that use environmental design at its core.    Subscribe...

Suzy Hutomo Santoso lives in Bali Indonesia and is an activist, environmentalist and entrepreneur.  Suzy is the franchise owner of The Body Shop across Indonesia and has built the company from one store to a top 5 country worldwide. More than that Suzy continues to set up new companies to turn her passions and ideas around recycling and environmentalism into action. Suzy is on the board of Green P...

Christina Dean has dedicated herself to taking action to save the planet. She runs Redress an organisation that both collects and recycles fashion clothing and educates the industry to be more sustainable. Christina reveals shocking facts that explain why so few items of clothing can be recycled. Why so little of the clothes we buy are sustainable. Why she is trying to make a difference.    Subscr...

Tania breaths the world of luxury. Starting as a jewellery buyer at Harrods she then ran her own luxury jewellery ecommerce business. An emerging passion for sustainability led Tania to be COO of a collective of sustainable luxury brands. Luxury goods made in a sustainable way can cost even more than those made normally which has led Tania to coin the phrase ‘A new type of luxury’.   Subscribe to...

Zander Sebenius works for the Potential Energy Coalition. They are researching ways to improve the climate change messaging so that it leads to action. Zander shares the fascinating story of campaigns which repositioned their language to strengthen the support from American people and politicians. At present the language of "climate change" is too enormous for people to feel they can mak...

Jeremy Schwartz is host to the Saving Tomorrow’s Planet podcast and former CEO of The Body Shop - makers of vegan body lotion, skincare, hand sanitisers, body butters Jeremy shares how, as CEO, he and his team turned The Body Shop’s 5 values into a single minded Company Purpose. Inspired by a trip in the Amazon jungle, the three word purpose, Enrich not Exploit, led to the cruelty free cosmetics c...

Emily Penn shares her remarkable story sailing the Oceans of the planet panning for plastic mirco particles. Her shocking discovery that the sun and the waves breaks plastic down into its chemicals is new news. It is these plastic chemicals that can enter the flesh of fish and our own bodies that is most frightening and unknown before.  Emily is bringing a smart and strategic approach to reducing...

We can all try our hardest to reduce our personal emissions but in the end there is one small law, that is the line between the mega companies collaborating to find brilliant new solutions... or being banned to do so.  Grant Murray is an expert in competition law for Baker Mckinzie the largest global law firm.  You see it is against the law for companies to collaborate to find incredible solutions...

Max La Mana is a young cool American chef with a big social media following and a cook book to his name. The C-19 lockdown has made food preparation and eating a greater centre of attention for everyone. Max teaches us how to cook great recipes yet literally throw away nothing. He shares creative ideas for potato peals, yam seeds and carrot ends. Not only that he has smart ways to use those left o...

{note: recording sub optimum quality due to internet connection}  Kelly Drennan is one cool campaigner from Toronto Canada. Kelly founded Fashion Takes Action to convince Canadian consumers and the fashion industry to reduce the clothing waste and impact on the environment. Sales of clothing per person have increased by 60% since 2000 and with it the waste, microfibres and landfill that goes with...

Mussafar is operations Director of a Road Runners, a local mini cab firm in Redhill, Surrey, UK. To Jeremy’s surprise, one of his newly purchased Tesla’s picked him up from Gatwick. Mussafar is buying Tesla’s, which are not cheap, because he believes they are the future and he is willing to put his money on the table to lead the way.   Subscribe to Saving Tomorrow’s Planet Podcast Apple Spotify

Jo Ruxton is an underwater film maker who was shocked by what she saw as a camerawomen filming for the BBC Blue Planet. amazingly Jo made the film Plastic Oceans (Netflix) to show us all the devastating effects that plastic waste is having the health of the oceans. Jo has made many personal sacrifices to bring this story to us all.   Subscribe to Saving Tomorrow’s Planet Podcast Apple Spotify

Richard is the Commercial Director of the UK’s largest BMW dealership. He is on the frontline of selling cars both electric vehicles and combustion engine cars. Since money talks he explains how the tax regime is motivating fleet buyers and individuals to switch to electric.   Subscribe to Saving Tomorrow’s Planet Podcast Apple Spotify

Charlie is head of strategy at KPMG and leads their 2030 Mobility team. He works with car manufactures, cities and Governments to envisage and plan a world where electric vehicles (EV’s) are the hub of an interconnected autonomous and low emissions transport system. We talk about how the revolution of electric and autonomous vehicles will help us Save the Planet.   Subscribe to Saving Tomorrow’s P...