The Green Edge Podcast

Plenty of leftover goodies from this week’s Third Thursday podcast on the Bloxham Sustainability Challenge . Plus news of the winners of this week’s RenewableUK Global Offshore Wind Awards 2025 . 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

The Bloxham Sustainability Challenge (BSC) began as a classroom project at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire in 2023 and has evolved into a much wider educational initiative, through which schools can meet policy goals while equipping students with the skills, values and experiences needed for a sustainable future. The BSC for 2025 has over 30 participating schools from across the UK participating. In...

Shooting the breeze on what we’ve been seeing in the world of sustainability over the last 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

Hot on the heels of this month’s Green Edge Digest and our First Thursday Top Read , we present our Editor’s Pick. Plus our first opinion on the announcement of the Government’s (ahem) ‘new towns’ . 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

The green transition needs people and skills, not just policies and technology. Should we be building those people and skills in Britain, or borrowing them from abroad? Discuss. 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

Plenty to talk about this week again, this time from our Third Thursday audio post on a question of place, featuring Jim Coleman of WSP . Plus—mentioned only in passing but well worth a read to get one thinking—try this piece from the Architects’ Journal . 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/su...

The UK Government’s latest housing ambition is to build 12 new towns in England. But what exactly are they planning to build? Just lots of houses? Or fully functioning places with lives, economies, and identities of their own? In this Third Thursday episode of The Green Edge Podcast, we talk to Jim Coleman , Head of Economics at WSP , about what’s needed to realise this ambition—and what we risk i...

A second Thursday burble about what took our interest this week, including where skills land in the recent government reshuffle and an interesting report from the Standard Life Centre for the Future of Retirement . 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

We aren’t talking about our Top Read post and audio this week, but instead are taking an Editor’s Pick through the rest of our August Digest . Plus news of the upcoming World Design Congress , to be held at the Barbican Centre in London (and online) on 9-10 September. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greenedge.sub...

Our 150th weekly update! We mark it with a retrospective of what we’ve learned over the last three years and what we’d like to see in the next three. If you’d like to read our additional scribblings on the subject, see our subscriber bonus post 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/subscri...

Plenty to talk about from our Third Thursday podcast this week, before a well-earned (we would claim, others may not) break for The Green Edge next week. Back again at the end of August! 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

RenewableUK is the UK’s trade association for renewable energy, representing over 500 companies across wind, solar, wave and tidal energy, green hydrogen, and energy storage. It plays a key role in shaping energy policy, supporting innovation, and driving investment in the technologies powering the UK’s transition to Net Zero. From offshore wind to emerging clean power solutions, RenewableUK champ...

Talking about our Top Read post this week on EVs and the art of hiring. Plus, a chat with Luke Moss of Exeter College on the progress of the Green Skills Advisory Panel (GSAP ). 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

Getting ready this week for the August rush (not!) and chatting about upcoming additions to our growing list of special Green Edge podcasts . Plus news of Germany at the tipping point (for heat pumps, that is). 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

This week we talk with Tom Cheek , Education Relationship Manager at the Society for the Environment (SocEnv), about SocEnv’s apprenticeship mapping work and its upcoming Entry Level Environmentalist (ELEnv) register, and more besides. Plus, a rather frustrated piece we read recently from our friend David Warnes of Chelmsford College. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with ot...

A follow up to our Third Thursday special podcast on the rebranding of IEMA to the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals ( ISEP ). Plus a dive into the weeds of the Modern Industrial Strategy . 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

From 17th July 2025, https://www.isepglobal.org/ —the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals. The Green Edge wishes it all the best with its new name. In this special episode of The Green Edge Podcast, we talk to Martin Baxter , Deputy Chief Executive of ISEP about what’s behind the rebrand, as well as some of ISEP’s major initiatives going forward. Follow the conversation by...

A dip into the pot of luck brings out news of a pair of recent regenerative agriculture events from Carbon Calling and Groundswell . Plus a letter to the FT and the Bloxham Sustainability Challenge . And for anyone who may be interested in the Anglo-Saxon translation… Eorþwis eorlas, | feldes freondas, Ne hergiað hæþen, | ac healdað þa soðe. Swā clæne cræft, | swā cynnwīs sibb, Sēam under sunnan,...

Chat about our Top Read post this week on the Design Council’s new Skills for Planet Blueprint . Plus, a new green jobs matrix Michael’s been working on. 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

On the agenda this week, the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 2025 . Plenty for us to mull over there, including whether it enables a green economic framework for the future. Something to speculate on, at least. 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

Global responsibility and Engineers Without Borders UK ’s Competency Compass are on the agenda for our Third Thursday post and our podcast this week. Plus we’ve been out and about at Anglia Ruskin University ’s recent Sustainable Futures Conference. 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

Engineers Without Borders UK (EWB-UK) is part of a global movement of over 30 Engineers Without Borders organisations united in the belief in engineering as a catalyst for positive change. EWB-UK is committed to putting global responsibility at the heart of the profession by tackling the critical challenges facing higher education and industry. EWB-UK’s Global Responsibility Competency Compass poi...

A pot pourri episode this week, ranging from The Design Council’s new Skills for Planet Map and the National Retrofit Hub’s policy recommendations for a National Retrofit Workforce Strategy , to locust steepchasing. Don’t ask, just listen. 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

Chatting about our Top Read post this week. Plus news about upcoming events in Engineers Without Borders’ Systems Change Lab — register now ! 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

News this week of the announcement of the full Board of Skills England —plenty for us to chew overe there. Plus an announcement from us about future Green Edge offerings. 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