The Green Edge Podcast

Editor’s Pick again this time round, with a chat about four from the peloton of last month’s Green Edge Digest . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

In April 2025, we devoted a full episode of The Green Edge Podcast to Andy Burnham’s Institute for Government speech on English devolution, place-based growth and the five foundations of life: shelter, safety, mobility, opportunity and support. At the time, Burnham was speaking as Mayor of Greater Manchester, arguing that the mayoral combined authority model could unlock a more coherent, preventat...

A load of rubbish being written and talked about here this week. Plus a preamble on Enginuity’s forthcoming SME Snapshot Survey — more about that next week. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

In our Editor’s pick from the May Digest , we’re talking about food (perhaps no so) glorious food. See also this month’s Top Read post . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

With 50% of small businesses suffering a cyber incident every year , cybersecurity is irrevobally bound up in any consideration of supply chain resilience. Discuss. We do, of course. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

Our Editor’s Pick this month finds a few odd couplings that didn’t make our Top Read but are still worth a ruminate over. See the rest of our top reads—and our reviews of the rest of the crop—in this month’s Green Edge Digest . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

A special Third Thursday episode to talk about our work going in to the next iteration of Enginuity’s Future Skills Hub . With our guest Ellie Wallace of Enginuity. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

Editor’s pick from the March Digest this week, to go alongside this month’s Top Read post . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

A sideways chat around our Third Thursday post this week. Plus a quick look at AoC’s Green Skills Conference and the potential for astrotourism . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

It’s a foodie episode this week, with three Editor’s Picks from this week’s additions to the Green Edge Digest . Read our post on this month’s Top Read here . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

Back from travels and back in the saddle, with a few thoughts on what it takes to move from situational awareness to industrial readiness. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

Is Net Zero A Zero-Sum Game? It certainly shouldn’t be, we’d argue in our Editor’s Picks this month. Plus our Top Read from January. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

Conversations with the author of this week’s Green Edge guest post , Simon Lightman , as well as our old friend Martyn Poessinouw . No Green Edge podcast next week, but we’ll be back with our January Digest postings at the very beginning of next month. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscr...

Happy New Year from The Green Edge! We open the year with our Top Read from December 2025, together with a couple of interesting Editor’s Picks. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

In our final update of 2025 we present our Top Three Reads, selected from our year’s monthly Top Reads listed in yesterday’s post . Compliments of the Season and see you in 2026! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

Our Editor’s Pick from the November Digest Update takes us round the world: from cocoa in West Africa to waste in Sweden ; from fertilisers in Brazil to workforce planning in Singapore . Drivin’ home for Christmas soon… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

A slightly different update this week, focusing on one of our top reads from November, Workforce Planning for Clean Heat . With James Fotherby of Aldersgate Group and Joe Ahern of WPI Economics. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

A quick debrief on COP30—specially the Just Transition part, to see how close it got to the pre-conference recommendations . Plus a chat about a book on one of our favourite topics, wine . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

A wee chat round the edges of our Third Thursday podcast on Seagrass and Jewels with our guest Charlotte Cornelius . Plus some interesting stuff going on at Greenworkx . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

What does it mean to make something truly sustainable in a world built on preciousness, rarity and desire? Designer and jeweller Charlotte Cornelius is proving that luxury can have a conscience, and that craftsmanship might just be the greenest thing of all. In this Third Thursday episode of The Green Edge Podcast, we talk to Charlotte at her boutique and workshop in Southsea and learn a few good...

Crises - What Crises? Those of the existential type it seems, reportedly at least . together with COP30 opening in Brazil, open letters on education and sustainability , and reports telling us that hiring for green talent continues to grow at twice the pace of skills in the workforce . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, v...

Following up on this week’s Digest Update , First Thursday Top Read , and Special Podcast ; plus, V’s and A’s—what would you do? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe

To mark Green Careers Week 2025 , this special episode of The Green Edge Podcast highlights how T Level industry placements offer opportunities for students to develop real world experience in sustainable practices, and makes the case for employers to host placements co-designed to meet both learner and organisational needs. With guests: * Karen Kelly, Strategic Associate at SDN-Mesma ; * Will Kno...

A few Hallowe’en-y things to chat about this week: SocEnv ’s expanding list of apprenticeships mapped to its Educational Pathways programme; the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper (of course); and the political mood music increasingly pushing the green movement to justify its position. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episo...

Focusing on DESNZ’s new Clean Energy Jobs Plan: a podcast to accompany this week’s bonus Top Read post . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.substack.com/subscribe