The Green Edge Podcast

Our Editors’s Pick for October 2026, with the durability of EVs, renewing renewables, the UK’s scrap gap, unemployment in Victorian Britain and fine Islay malts all on the agenda. Find our write-ups of them all (except the whisky, unfortunately) 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...

An early ruminate over The Green Edge’s progression into 2027. Plus, a question over HM Gov’s new Construction Jobs Plan . 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

Crisis? What Crisis? With a deferential bow to the music of the great Supertramp, we chat through our Editor’s Pick for September. Oh, and let’s not forget the rest of 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 follow-up chat to yesterday’s post about Michael’s new book: The Green Skills and Jobs Guide: Driving the Net Zero Transition . Available now at all good booksellers! 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

Playing with tags today and chatting about the human infrastructure of the green transition: our Editor’s Pick from the August Green Edge Digest . 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

Hot on the heels of our July Top Read post , our Editor’s Pick from last month’s Green Edge Digest takes its cue from recent announcements made by the PM on technical education . 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 conversation with Dr Rachel J Wilde about her recent Green Edge Top Read publication Green Jobs for the Future? Opportunities and Challenges for Young People in Coastal Communities . 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 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