Sustainability Champions
176 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe highlight the people, ideas, and innovations protecting and healing the planet.
Here you will find our podcast episodes where we interview sustainability champions as well as articles about the many positive changes happening right now all over the world to make us more sustainable.
Sustainability Champions are the individuals, companies and organizations currently solving environmental challenges around the world. They are leaders and innovators and their numbers are growing.
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This company is making endlessly recyclable shoe soles from Mediterranean cork!
August 12, 2023 14:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBSeries 3, episode 14 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! Introducing David Even, the Co-Founder of PRIMAL Soles, a company that specialises in making circular cork insoles which are endlessly reusable. According to Circular Online, 23 billion pairs of shoes are made each year and 22 billion pairs are thrown into landfill. With sneakerhead and trainer consumption only growing every year - more of what goes into our shoes is just ending up in landfills. Shoes are one thing, but shoe ...
This company makes a more sustainable, resilient future for the tourism and hospitality industry.
August 09, 2023 14:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBSeries 3, episode 13 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! Introducing Julie Cheetham; Founding Member and Managing Director at Weeva - and Aimee Henning; Sustainability Manager at Weeva. Weeva is a company that specialises in making tourism more sustainable. From small actional steps within an organisation that can have a big impact on the surrounding area and environment it operates from. Weeva was designed by sustainable tourism experts from the ground up, using the latest scien...
This ‘Changemaker’ from Tomorrow University has developed an emissions reduction service as part of her studies!
August 05, 2023 16:53 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBSeries 3, episode 12 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! Introducing Eilecia Bovard - EU Climate Pact Ambassador and CEO & Co-Founder of The Perfect Farm. Perfect Farm is a company that specialises in helping farmers and corporations use their platform to enable EU livestock farmers to find funding, solutions providers and supplemental revenue channels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the new Industrial Emissions Directive, IED, 2027. To reduce emissions to meet...
This company is transforming discarded wood set for landfills and turning it into valuable products!
August 02, 2023 14:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBSeries 3, episode 11 of the Sustainability Champion's Podcast! Introducing Theo Hooker, Co-Founder of Cambium Carbon; a company that specialises in transforming fallen trees into valuable products with place-based impact! Put simply, the team at Cambium Carbon looks to source locally, save locally and reinvest in local tree planting. A circular economy model that creates new green jobs and funding support for urban canopy restoration in the communities that need it most. The problem tha...
This company has made affordable, low-cost and low-carbon heating systems!
July 29, 2023 14:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBSeries 3, episode 10 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! Introducing Tom McGee, Founder and Managing Director of X-Heat, a company that specialises in making affordable low-cost and low-carbon heating systems. X-Heat is a leading company, located in the U.K., operating within the commercial and leisure industries, specialising in developing heating applications using cutting-edge catalytic technology. Their flagship product, Nano-Heat, has been designed to revolutionise the way busin...
This tea company’s factory that runs on 100% renewable energy and gives back to the grid!
July 26, 2023 14:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBSeries 3, episode 9 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! Introducing Daniel Graham, Managing Director of Birchall Tea, a company that specialises in making fine teas with a focus on sustainability using plant-based tea bags. For those who watch our podcast weekly, you will know that our Host, Daniel Hartz, loves, as the British call it - a cuppa. In fact, per episode, Daniel will go through an entire pot of tea - so approximately 4 cups per episode. So when the opportunity came a...
This app is helping consumers reduce their emissions and live more sustainability - each purchase at a time!
July 13, 2023 01:19 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBSeries 3, episode 8 of the Sustainability Champion's Podcast! Introducing Sanchali Pal, Founder of The Commons Earth, a company that specialises in helping consumers measure and reduce their carbon footprint. For Sanchali, she saw first hand the impacts the climate crisis is having on people when working in Ethiopia and India. When returning to the US, Sanchali began tracking her carbon footprint in an excel spreadsheet, and through tracking her purchasing, and other activity, was able t...
This company is on a mission to reduce waste, and reliance on fossil fuels in the wool market!
July 05, 2023 15:49 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBSeries 3, episode 7 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! Introducing Claire McGovern, Founder of Rhyme studio, a company that specialises in advisory, interior design and design manufacturing of high quality, customisable, responsible, and healthy sustainable furnishings that includes; carpets, tapestry & textile collections. In many of our recent podcast episodes, we have discussed the textiles industry widely and the issues textile materials have on the environment. So we are alwa...
This brand is positively impacting society with clothing through transparency and education.
June 28, 2023 14:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBSeries 3, episode 6 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! Introducing Josh Gelder, Founder and CEO of The Fision, a company that specialises in making fashionable T-Shirts with a purpose. When our team was introduced to The Fision all we could think was ‘Looking good never felt so good’. On our channel we have been showcasing a number of fashion brands who are specialising in a circular approach, or waste reduction, to their brands' clothing. Fast fashion and the fashion industry ar...
This company is on a mission to prevent 1 billion tonnes of CO2e emissions by 2030!
June 21, 2023 21:24 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBSeries 3, episode 5 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! Introducing Louis Potok, Co-Founder & CEO at Recoolit, a company that specialises in, put simply, fighting the most neglected problem in climate change. The planet is burning, and we need as the team at Recoolit put it “all hands on deck”. Summer after summer, we are seeing more extreme forest fires all over the world. With extreme weather changes, drought in regions and extreme rainfall in others, we need companies to innovate...
This company is using drones data to offer a better understanding of our changing environment!
June 21, 2023 19:09 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBSeries 3, episode 4 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! Introducing Markku Koivisto, Chief Business Development Officer at Globhe Drones, a company that specialises in creating drones that collects imagery and information to offer a better understanding of our changing environment - in the effort to protect people and wildlife. Globhe Drones mission is simple: they are focused on one thing - providing the best possible understanding of our planet. From Drone data, the team at Globhe ...
This company is on a mission to create sustainable and long-lasting electronic products!
June 07, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBSeries 3, episode 3 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! Introducing Fabian Hühne, Co-Founder of Syllucid, a company that specialises in creating sustainable electronics that are good for the planet and look to reform the mining industry for the better. Fabian and his team use products as magnifying glasses in the electronics industry. By researching their supply chains, they show us what challenges the industry is facing. What problems the current supply chains cause and what we mus...
This company creates their cleaning products from 100% natural biological and plant based liquids!
May 31, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBSeries 3, episode 1 of the Sustainability Champion's Podcast! Introducing Nick Winstone, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Biovate Hygienics, a company that is pioneering the migration to sustainable cleaning products for the past decade, using the power of nature’s biological cleaning activities. The team at Biovate Hygienics is on a mission to develop products from the ground up - so that their products are not only good for the planet but for the people who use them too! Using the la...
This company is helping homeowners live in safer, more sustainable spaces!
May 24, 2023 14:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBSeries 3, episode 1 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast! Introducing Jen & Rusty Stout, Co-Founders of Healthier Homes, a company that was ‘born out of necessity’’. To understand the story of Healthier Homes, is to know the background for the inspiration behind Jen & Rusty’s work. In 2009, when working on her MBA, Jen discovered her health was deteriorating. The cause—hidden black mold in the walls of her new Dallas apartment. The results from this were catastrophic on Jen’s healt...
This woman is an ambassador to conservation organizations to help preserve our natural environment!
April 29, 2023 14:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBThe final episode—episode 8—of our Women In Sustainability series features wildlife photographer, cinematographer, environmentalist and business owner, Shannon Wild. When planning this podcast series, ‘Women In Sustainability’, Shannon was one of the guests we wanted to feature because her work defines a Sustainability Champion. While championing real change to protecting endangered animals and educating audiences on wildlife preservation and conservation in Africa and around the world, Sh...
This former Miss Universe Netherlands is using her platform to tackle plastic pollution!
April 26, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBSharon Pieksma Copy for Anchor. Headline: This former Miss Universe Netherlands is using her platform to tackle plastic pollution! Women In Sustainability Series, episode 7. Introducing Sharon Pieksma, former Miss Universe Netherlands 2019, environmentalist and artist, who is on a mission through her work to address the global plastic pollution that is affecting our environment. Our current series ‘Women In Sustainability’ is about showcasing the work of female led organisations and ...
These authors have created a complete guide to small-scale homesteading!
April 22, 2023 14:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBWomen In Sustainability Series, episode 6. Introducing Stephanie & Michelle, the Authors of the book ‘Small-Scale Homesteading’. With over thirty-five years of combined experience, homesteaders Stephanie Thurow and Michelle Bruhn have taught thousands of people across the globe how to garden, preserve food, tend backyard chickens, cook from scratch and care for their families with natural home alternatives. Now, their homesteading knowledge and instructions can be found in one place in ...
This blogger serves up easy and budget-friendly plant-based recipes to inspire readers to go vegan!
April 19, 2023 14:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBWomen In Sustainability Series, episode 5. Introducing Toni Okamoto, Food Blogger and Author of the vegan recipe book, ‘Planet-based and on a Budget: Quick & Easy’. What if we could help the environment while eating delicious and healthy meals that save both money and time? Toni’s new cookbook makes this possible! With 100 recipes that show how easy and affordable it is to cook decadently without meat, eggs, diary—‘Planet-based and on a Budget: Quick & Easy’ is full of helpful advice w...
This woman is making sustainability mainstream as a sustainable model, consultant and investor!
April 15, 2023 14:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBWomen In Sustainability Series, episode 4. Introducing Teresa Moore, Sustainability Consultant, Investor and Sustainable Fashion Model. Teresa’s modelling career took off when she was a teenager after appearing on the covers of W, Elle, and Shape magazines. She established herself as a model early on in her career, working with Pamela Hanson and Ellen Von Unwerth, and working with clients like L’Oréal, Diesel, Ralph Lauren, to name but a few. Whilst modelling, Teresa was interested in ...
This woman repurposes old garments and materials to make hand-made luxury pillows!
April 12, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBWomen In Sustainability Series, episode 3.🎙 Introducing Cate Brown, Founder of Cate Brown Design, a design studio located in New York that creates sustainably sourced, hand-selected objects of finery to make luxury pillows for clients around the world. The team at Cate Brown Design are offering an alternative to the fast-fashion approach to homewares and celebrating reclaimed luxury craft. You might ask ‘Why is it essential to repurpose or reuse materials, especially for pillows?’ In th...
This women’s cosmetics brand is cruelty free and vegan!
April 08, 2023 14:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBWomen In Sustainability Series, episode 2.🎙 Introducing Christina Flach, the Founder and CEO of Pretty Girl MakeUp and Beauty Expert on NBC. Christina’s brand, Pretty Girl MakeUp, was founded in 1996 as she looked to create a better product for both herself, her clients, and customers. She could never find a high quality lip gloss that would last after application throughout her busiest days. Every gloss she tried and was referred to would seemingly disappear within an hour of applicatio...
This brand is on a mission to do something about the damn plastic in our environment!
April 05, 2023 14:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBWomen In Sustainability Series, episode 1.🎙 Introducing Victoria, Co-Founder at Damn Plastic, a franchise and online store that sells plastic free products like edible straws, bowls, spoons, biodegradable ear swabs and bamboo toothbrushes! Based in Austria, the founders of Damn Plastic are on a mission to make sustainability more mainstream by selling products that reduce the amount of single use plastics. Founded in 2018, the idea for Damn Plastic originated when Co-Founders Victoria ...
This PR firm helps designers and textile organisations be seen by their target audience!
March 30, 2023 14:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBIndustry professionals Interview series on the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙 Introducing Andrew Joseph, the Founder & CEO at Andrew Joseph PR or ‘AJPR’ for short. AJPR is an all-in-one marketing and public relations firm that offers marketing support for clients in the textile and home furniture/manufacturing industry. Founded in 2012, AJPR is a New York-based firm that collaborates with and represents a number of high profile clients from the Sustainable Furnishings Council (SFC),...
This sales trainer has mentored over 25,000 sales professionals, guaranteeing sales growth!
March 29, 2023 14:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBIndustry professionals Interview series on the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙 Introducing Steve Bussey, Founder, Sales Coach, Mentor and Consultant at Salestrong, one of the UK’s leading sales training providers and sales consultancy. Salestrong is a sales performance consultancy that works with a range of clients in a variety of industries. Steve and his team at Salestrong have an approach to sales training that is built around two key areas: Building capability within a sales tea...
The UK’s leading trade mark house is helping brands discover and protect their intellectual property
March 28, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBIndustry professionals Interview series on the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙 Introducing Oliver Oguz, the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Trade Mark Wizards, a UK based trade mark law firm that specialises in protecting all aspects of their clients brands including trade marks, designs, copyright, domain names and cyber law. Based in London, Oliver is a chartered trade mark attorney and intellectual property consultant who has worked with brands in London, across the UK, and intern...
This woman's affordable clothing brand reduces fashion waste through inventive upcycling!
March 22, 2023 15:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBSeries 2, episode 13 of the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙 Introducing Sumedhaa Kothari, Founder of By.Sume, a clothing brand that is challenging fast fashion by making clothing from upcycled materials at affordable prices. Based in the US, Sumedhaa attended the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a degree in Cognitive Science. Starting her career at Google, and continuing her career at the FinTech company Stripe, Sumedhaa decided to launch her own circular-bas...
This company is changing everything we know about the insurance industry!
March 15, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBSeries 2, episode 12 of the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙 Introducing Nina Rauch, Senior Social Impact Lead at Lemonade, an insurance company that is changing everything we know about the insurance industry and making a real impact in our society, having partnered with over 100 organisations and causes that support the environment, LGBTQ+ and much more. Lemonade is an insurance company that offers incredible prices for monthly subscriptions and bundle discounts on everything for rente...
This VC fund invests in founders addressing the most pressing challenges to our environment!
March 08, 2023 15:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBSeries 2, episode 11 of the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙 Introducing Jon Dishotsky, Investment Partner at Giant Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in purpose-driven founders and organisations on a mission to offer real-world value while addressing the most pressing challenges for our environment. Giant Ventures champions tech founders who are creating a more sustainable, equitable and resilient planet. The partners at Giant Ventures believe that the biggest companies of th...
This company’s technology converts organic waste into nutrient-rich compost within 24 - 72 hours!
March 01, 2023 15:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBSeries 2, episode 10 of the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙 Introducing Tanner Farrow; the CEO of BioCoTech Americas, a company that specialises in diverting food and other organic materials from landfills. BioCoTech’s technology is the Biospeed solution that creates a full-circle waste management system, which eliminates the need to transport waste and transforms organic waste into nutrient-rich compost. With BioCoTech Americas solution, businesses and organisations of all sizes can mak...
This company is addressing global drought by reducing the amount of water farmers need for crops!
February 22, 2023 15:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBSeries 2, episode 9 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙 Introducing Jeff Ciudaj, the Founder and CEO of Deep Root Irrigation, a company that specialises in making a water irrigation system for farmers that reduces the amount of water needed for harvests. The team at Deep Root Irrigation created this solution to address the need to conserve water and reduce the amount of water used in the agriculture industry. In fact, agriculture uses approximately 70% of the world’s freshwater; this...
This organisation uses the power of sports to restore the relationship between people and the planet
February 15, 2023 15:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBSeries 2, episode 8 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙 Introducing Amy Munro, Sustainability Officer at 11th Hour Racing, an organisation that was established to create strategic partnerships to promote collaborative, systemic change addressing environmental issues. The organisation founded 11th Hour Racing to use the power of sport to restore a balanced relationship between people and the planet. From working to eliminate single-use plastic at regattas, this organisation has evolv...
This man is on a mission to make his products from 100% ocean-bound plastics by the end of 2023!
February 11, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBSeries 2, episode 7 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙 Introducing Ben Ridding, the Founder of Ulu, a company formed because of Ben’s love for the sea. Ulu makes waterproof backpacks and tow floats with the mission to make all of its products from 100% ocean-bound plastics. So, why does the ocean matter? When we think about the issues we face as a result of climate change, it’s important to remember that our oceans need to be clean and protected to avoid the most severe issues that...
This company offers valuable insights so people and industry can ‘climate-proof’ our future!
February 08, 2023 15:00 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBSeries 2, episode 6 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 Introducing Himanshu Gupta, the Co-Founder and CEO of Climate AI. Climate AI is developing a solution for those in the agriculture & food, finance, commodities, water risk management and climate risk management industries. He and the team are providing the world’s first Enterprise Climate Planning platform that offers risk intelligence to these industries that affect people, enterprises and governments. The effects of climate c...
This prize celebrates and acknowledges the work of sustainability champions from around the world!
February 02, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBSeries 2, episode 5 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 Introducing the Zayed Sustainability Prize, the United Arab Emirates’ pioneering global award for recognising excellence in sustainability around the world. Established in 2008, this prize recognises nonprofit organisations (NPOs), small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and high schools for their impactful, innovative and inspiring sustainable solutions across the categories of Health, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Sch...
This student-founded platform is on a mission to make your daily habits online more sustainable!
January 28, 2023 15:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBSeries 2, episode 4 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 Introducing Joe Lipman: Co-Founder & CEO of NAME APP, an app founded by university students who are on a mission to make scrolling meaningful and shopping sustainable & stylish. Having only recently launched their app, NAME APP was started because the founders felt that our favourite online habits were becoming increasingly meaningless. The team at NAME APP sees the world slightly differently. They believe that as consumers, o...
This Climate Change Coach helps people overcome eco-anxiety by taking action in their daily lives!
January 25, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBSeries 2, episode 3 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 Introducing Katharina Hellmann, certified Life Coach & Climate Change Coach, who specialises in turning climate anxiety into empowered action, from helping individuals reduce their carbon footprint, live more sustainability and become happier than ever before! After reading in the 2018 IPCC report that humanity had a mere 12 years left to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, Katharina became crippled with climate anx...
This organisation is empowering sustainability professionals across the workforce and around the world
January 18, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBSeries 2, episode 2 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 Introducing Michelle Benavides, Executive Director at the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, or ISSP for short, an organisation that is set up to empower sustainability professionals across the workforce and around the world. ISSP is the world's leading professional association of sustainability practitioners. A member-driven organisation, the ISSP moves the sustainability profession forward by empowering ea...
This startup-founded university is on a mission to educate and empower the change makers of tomorrow
January 11, 2023 15:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBSeries 2, episode 1 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 Introducing Dr. Thomas Funke, CEO and Co-Founder of Tomorrow University, the first fully state-accredited European university to be founded by a Tech-Startup. Tomorrow University has been educating learners through its revolutionary approach to education since 2020, with a strong focus on sustainability and technology. When the pandemic hit, Thomas and his co-founder, Christian Rebernik, quickly realised that our current...
This company is on a mission to divert 100 million tonnes of waste from landfill by 2025!
December 21, 2022 15:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBSeries 1, episode 15 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙 Introducing May Al-Karooni, Founder & CEO of Globechain, a company that is a leading ESG data reuse marketplace connecting enterprises with non-profits, small businesses and people to redistribute unneeded items. Globechain generates ESG data on your impact, helping you reduce waste costs and achieve your sustainability and SDG targets. May Al-Karooni realised no one had digitised the waste industry when the bank she worked fo...
This company made a device that makes a bike ‘e’ instantly!
December 14, 2022 15:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBSeries 1, episode 14 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙 Introducing Som Ray, The CEO & Founder of CLIP, a company that specialises in making a portable propulsion device that is designed to transform any standard bike into an e-bike instantly! Transportation is responsible for 24% of global direct CO₂ emissions, road vehicles account for nearly three quarters of transport emissions, and these numbers are not decreasing. On top of the unsustainable levels of carbon emissions that are...
This company has created a compostable and landfill biodegradable packaging solution!
December 07, 2022 15:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBSeries 1, episode 13 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙 Introducing Devana Ng; The Co-Founder of INVISIBLE COMPANY, a company that specialises in providing alternative packaging to different fashion brands, e-commerce, logistics and retails to replace the conventional packaging. Their solution is water-soluble, compostable and landfill biodegradable packaging which is called #INVISIBLEBAG. This packaging doesn’t contain PP, PE, PS, PVC plastic and is Non-toxic to the environment! T...
This team is helping organisations repurpose and reuse old lab equipment for the circular economy
November 30, 2022 15:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBSeries 1, episode 12 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 Introducing brothers Ryan and Justin Andrews, the co-founders of REUZEit, a company that specialises in redistributing used lab equipment from companies in the life science sector that no longer need it. REUZEit repurposes this equipment for people and organisations who can make good use of it. Not only is REUZEit good for the environment, but it is also helpful for innovation because entrepreneurs can start working on their i...
This team aims to demystify the circular economy and design.
November 26, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBSeries 1, episode 11 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 Introducing Michael Hirschhorn, CEO and Founder at Mebl Furniture & Scarlette Tapp, Executive Director at The Sustainable Furnishings Council. Michael & Scarlette work together to create and publish The Circular Design Glossary, a glossary of terms that provides definitions on specific language used in the circular economy. The idea is to help the furniture industry move towards circular thinking and design of furniture produ...
This company created an entire product line of condiments that are made from quality ingredients from organic farmers!
November 24, 2022 14:16 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBSeries 1, episode 10 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 In life only two things matter: Food & love. Well, that's according to the team at Curtice Brothers! Introducing Mario Bauer, Founder of Curtice Brothers and Simon Korn, Production Manager at Curtice Brothers. Curtice Brothers is a company that created an entire product line of condiments made from quality ingredients from organic farmers! The team at Curtice Brothers cooked, experimented with the wildest recipes, tasted th...
This company is changing everything we know about wind turbines!
November 16, 2022 15:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBSeries 1, episode 9 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙 Introducing Cheryl and Chris Moore, the Co-Founders and inventors of Harmony Turbines, a company that was founded with the idea to create a simple, efficient and affordable residential wind turbine that could meet the needs of most homeowners. Founded in August 2020, Harmony Turbines have the goal of developing a wind turbine solution that can achieve mass adoption in the residential marketplace by addressing the deficiencies th...
This company is improving water efficiency to prevent over-consumption in water-scarce areas
November 09, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBSeries 1, episode 8 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 Introducing Yasmine Ben Miloud, the Co-Founder and Head of Marketing at Water-Sec. At present; Tunisia is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. In 2017, 367 cubic metres (m3) of water were available per capita to almost 12 million inhabitants, compared to a regional average of 526 m3 and a global average of 5,700 m3. This lack of access to water has meant many Tunisians live with water curfews in the south and ...
This woman’s company empowers people to discover brands that align with their values!
November 05, 2022 15:00 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBSeries 1, episode 7 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 Introducing Maryclaire Manard, the Founder and CEO at Cluey Consumer. So what is Cluey Consumers? Cluey exists to solve the modern-day dilemma for impact-conscious consumers who want to align their purchases with their values & enables those consumers, through the collective power of the free market, to change how corporations impact people, the planet and even politics. So how is Cluey making a difference? Cluey makes a diffe...
This company saves 96,000 hides from landfill by turning waste into leather for upholstery!
November 02, 2022 15:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MBSeries 1, episode 6 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙 What is the environmental cost of producing leather? Is it ethical to wear leather? Is leather considered sustainable? The leather industry is one of many industries that brings about much conversation surrounding its ethics, its practices, its environmental impact and whether it is a material that is actually sustainable. As a channel, we always want to meet new people and showcase their innovations and activism to a wider au...
This company is removing harmful carbon from the air with the aim to get the world to net zero and keep global warming below 1.5°C
October 26, 2022 14:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBSeries 1, episode 5 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙 Climeworks has been on a journey toward a solution that would empower everyone to take climate action. Founded in 2009 by two Co-Founders Jan and Christoph, who met on their first day of university at ETH Zurich. Sharing a passion for alpine sports and spending time in the Swiss Alps, they experienced the effects of climate change first-hand. Shocked by the retreat of the glaciers, they vowed to do everything they could to tack...
This man diverted 850,000 KGs of waste from landfill; aims to prevent 1M kgs in 2022!
October 19, 2022 14:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBSeries 1, episode 4 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙 Introducing Anthony Levy, Founder & CEO of Circularity First a company that specialises in helping businesses design, build, manage and quantify IT infrastructures with a circular mindset. Circularity First Group have been working across sustainable IT for over 14 years. At their origin, they knew that systematic change was required. As the wider business community assesses its carbon footprint, others are realising it too. Num...