Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

In this podcast, Scott interviews Emma Gallagher, cricket manager at Cricket Victoria. Emma discusses how sport shaped her idea of family, identity, and community in Australia; and how these experiences affected her wellbeing over the course of her life.

In this podcast, Scott talks to Josh Beaumont, a Club and Competitions Specialist at Cricket Victoria. Josh describes how he ended up in his position, and how he works with the sport and the local community.

In this podcast, Scott discusses his experience with Geeta learning to become a forest therapy guide. Geeta also shares her story, explaining how she became a forest therapy guide and the philosophy and practice behind it. 

Ben Page is a Forest Therapy Guide and Trainer with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. He's just published his first book, "Healing Trees," has Founded a School and thinks deeply about his and all human relationships with the Earth. Scott was inspired to interview Ben after completing his own Forest Therapy Guide training.

In this podcast, I share my perceptions and actions on climate change, one of the most pressing issues of our time. I discuss how each of us can cope with it and take action as individuals.  We need to combat governmental and corporate inaction on climate change, which can come from each and every one of you.

Natasha Mahendran is an Australian, currently based in Malaysia. She works in Human Rights and International Development and is currently with the Earthworm Foundation on the supply chains of many big companies.

Chris Langwallner is the Founder and CEO of WhatIF Foods - The company addresses the paradoxical existence of hunger, obesity, micronutrient deficiencies and the destruction of our planet – what is known as the Nutritional Paradox. Chris and Scott discuss WhatIF Foods, the Nutritional Paradox, and life in general.

Tina Talbot is a children's author who is based in the UK. Her stories are based around nature and the environment, where she aims to "give nature a voice". In this podcast, Tina describes how she became an author, and why she writes about nature.

Boris Gojanovic is a sports doctor at the Swiss Olympic Medical Centre in Geneva. Boris talks us through his life, his journey to becoming a doctor, and his relationship with wellbeing.

Scott Poynton and Julien Troussier have a conversation about a new community that they have set up, The Pond. Welcome to The Pond, what does The Pond mean to the co-hosts, and what can it do to help you?

Manoj Krishna is the founder of the Human Wisdom Program, based in the UK. The project aims to transform individual lives and make the world a better place, by enabling people to understand themselves and how their minds work, since so many problems first begin in our thinking.

Michael Fischer, a very good friend of mine, is the country manager at the Movember Foundation in Europe. Today, Michael tells us about the Movember Foundation's role as a change-maker, and how they go about making changes to the face of men's health.

Heloise Buckland is co-Founder and CEO of Husk. Husk, working out of Cambodia, improves small farmers' livelihoods by transforming rice husk into biochar products to regenerate soils, increase yields and capture carbon.

Florian Reber, a Swiss-German political scientist, sustainability advisor and climate change specialist left the office and discovered true innovation in climate change on two wheels, riding thousands of kilometres across the Alps and in the US. 

Jacques Nollet is a Senior Exec in a French Tech firm. He works crazy hours and struggles to find time to wind down. Jacques came on the Big Walk in August 2019 and here, in French, shares his impressions of how time in the trees helped him get back to himself.

Alban joined me on the Big Walk across Switzerland in August 2019. There he learned again to slow down, to hear the rain falling on the leaves of trees, to breathe, to marvel at the beauty of the small things. He was reminded that what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Tony Rinaudo is a humble Australian who has changed, for the better, millions of people's lives. He stumbled upon a way to get trees back into the dry, barren landscapes of Sahelian Africa and 20 years on, he's been responsible for the reforestation of more than 5 millions hectares in Niger alone.

Dr Kat Bruce, is the Founder and CEO of NatureMetrics, mixing the rigour of science with the drive of being a young entrepreneur. Kat shares the story of her journey to science and everything about NatureMetrics' funky new technology to help protect biodiversity.

John Watkin had a great job and belonged. He was doing what he loved, had great purpose and was well rewarded which included being sponsored to do a study tour to Harvard Business School. Then he was made redundant. John joined me on a Big Walk across Switzerland in August 2018 and here recounts how the ten day walk in the mountains helped cleanse his heart and soul.

Anne-Marie Hunsaker is an inspiring and truly courageous human being deeply connected to Mother Earth. She shares her battle with shame, growing up in a conservative religious community and finding her way after a terrible experience.

Scott Williams discovered the joy of running in his 20s and since then hasn't looked back. He's now run almost 100 marathons and ultra-marathons and here speaks of his philosophy of life and what it means to get to the starting line.

We're failing to end deforestation. Blaming companies isn't working. We need to speak to each other, to work together.

A follow up to the "Broken Boys" Podcast which I did in February, which reminded me of the stories my youngest son, Luca, wrote for some of his school projects. Here are his stories.

Roisin Mortimer, a TFT colleague, completed a Masters of Agro Ecology in 2017. Her thesis explored the role of values in the origination, formulation and implementation of No Deforestation Policies (NDPs). She presented her intriguing findings at TFT HQ a