Episode 78: Interview with Dr. Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown, on the next-steps for this pathbreaking project
Two years on from the book’s publication, the Drawdown team have got their sights on how they can turn their groundbreaking research into action. In this interview, we talk...
Episode 77: Interview with Mark Campanale, Founder of Carbon Tracker Initiative
In this interview with Mark Campanale, we discuss divestment from coal, oil and gas and the carbon bubble. Mark asks the important question, if we can’t even burn all the...
Episode 76: Interview with Eva Garen, Director of Environmental Leadership Training Initiative
In this episode we speak with Eva Garen, Director of ELTI, Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative. ELTI focuses on capacity development in human-dominated mosaic landscapes, primarily in Latin America and Indonesia,...
Episode 75: Interview with Professor Herman Daly, the dean of ecological economics, on the Steady state economy
As a society, we constantly hail growth as the mark of progress and solution to our problems, whether it be poverty or inequality. In doing so, we ignore that...
Episode 74: Interview with Caroline Lucas, Green Party member of UK House of Commons
In this interview with Caroline Lucas, the first Green Party Member of Parliament, we discuss how “green” the UK is, and what progress – if any – is being...
Episode 73: Interview with Thomas Lovejoy, “The Godfather of Biodiversity”
Biological diversity and climate change are two incontrovertibly intertwined issues. Destroying and degrading ecosystems releases huge amounts carbon into the atmosphere, and in turn, increasing carbon in the atmosphere...
Episode 72: Interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of Transition movement
People feel defeated when they hear the grand cost of achieving carbon neutrality. But what if some of the solutions were to be found in revitalising the collective imagination,...
Episode 71: Interview with evolutionary biologist, Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris
In this interview with Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris, we explore the Gaia hypothesis or metaphor of a living earth, integrating physics, biology and spirituality. Indigenous cultures have long viewed the...
Episode 70: Interview with Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth Systems Science, UCL, author of The Human Planet
The scale of human impact on our planet is not easy to engage with – even scientists often have a narrow focus on the specific problems they’re trying to...
Episode 69: Interview with Marc Ventresca and Michele Scataglini
Solutions to many of the major problems in the world have been identified in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, funding these SDGs remains an immense challenge, in the region...
Episode 68: Interview with Rachel Dreskin, US Executive Director at Compassion in World Farming
Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) (www.ciwf.com) is a leading international charity working to improve farmed animal welfare around the world. Its mission is to end factory farming and advance...
Episode 67: Interview with Ann Pettifor, director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME)
Since the 1970s, credit has become increasingly easy to acquire. We have become a consumption-based society driven by our wants, supported by credit, rather than a sustainable society driven...