Best Puro.earth Podcasts (2024)

Where should your business focus its efforts to have the biggest environmental and social impact? As Christina points out in this interview, often the answer is not always obvious. Tune in as we discuss how to find areas to focus on to drive meaningful impact. Christina Lampert is the Director of Growth & Innovation at HowGood, the world's largest …

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Sustainability 101 With Jack O’Donoghue | Senior Manager At Deloitte For Sustainability & Climate Change 41:09

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Jack is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Sustainability & Climate Change team, based in Sydney. Jack works with organizations of all shapes and sizes to develop and embed sustainability strategies in order to improve their social and environmental impact. This covers everything from developing ESG targets, sustainability reporting and disclosure, emi…

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What It Means To Become A B Corp With Andrew Davies | CEO of B Lab 48:38

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Andrew Davies is the current CEO of B Lab in Australia and New Zealand. B Lab is the not-for-profit that supports B Corporation Certification. Their mission is to help transform the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. As Andrew shares in this episode, businesses today are facing three challenges, the pandemic, a clima…

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Removing Carbon From Our Atmosphere With Antti Vihavainen | CEO Of Puro.Earth 39:47

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Carbon removal is an essential strategy to tackling climate change, yet the industry remains small. How can businesses play an important role in helping to grow the availability of carbon removal projects, and reduce the legacy load of CO2 already in our atmosphere? This legacy load of Greenhouse Gases will continue to warm our planet for decades i…

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Business Models For The Enterprise Of Tomorrow With Gunter Pauli | Author of The Blue Economy 1:01:57

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Gunter Pauli has published over 40 books, including his most famous, The Blue Economy. He is an economist, serial entrepreneur, Ted talker and founder of ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives). Gunter was the first person to register ‘Zero Emissions’ as a trademark and recently won the 2021 Goi Peace Award for his contribution to society. H…

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Re-Engineering The Fashion Industry For Good With Zoltan Csaki | Co-Founder Of Citizen Wolf 50:58

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In this episode, I chat with Zoltan Csaki about a business he co-founded called Citizen Wolf, a sustainable fashion brand that produces made-to-order garments that use 48% less C02 than fast fashion. The fashion industry is faced with huge environmental challenges if it is to become sustainable, Citizen Wolf is an example of how businesses can crea…

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Becoming The Spotify Of Sustainability - How To Scale Impact With Elliot Coad | CEO & Founder of Ecologi 43:18

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Elliot Coad is the Founder and CEO of Ecologi a subscription-based service that helps businesses and individuals take action on the climate crisis via funding climate projects and planting trees. To date, they have planted over 18 million trees and removed over 430,000 tonnes of CO2. Elliot has built an amazing movement and growing movement with ov…

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How To Communicate Purpose To Drive Growth With Rachel Whitworth | Founder Of The House Of Eden Studio 41:05

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In this episode, I chat with Rachel Whitworth Founder of House of Eden Studio, a Social Enterprise Marketing Agency born out of a mission to use business, and marketing as a tool to change the world for the better. Rachel is a strong advocate for social entrepreneurs with a passion for helping cause-driven businesses find a way to increase sales an…

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Launching A Social Enterprise With Tom Dawkins | CEO & Co-Founder Of StartSomeGood 1:10:11

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In this episode, I chat with Tom Dawkins CEO and Co-Founder of StartSomeGood, a crowdfunding platform that boasts the highest project success rate in cause crowdfunding. Given the success of those launching their projects on his platform, I chat with Tom about his advice when it comes to launching a social enterprise on a crowdfunding website, and …

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Changing The Rules Of Business With Bertie Stephens | CEO Of Clean Planet Energy 40:04

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In this episode, I chat with Bertie about his journey from selling his prior company, an eCommerce website, to heading up Clean Planet Energy (CPE). CPE's mission is to provide solutions to both the plastic & carbon crises by converting non-recyclable waste plastic into ultra-clean fuel. In 2020, Clean Planet energy won the top 10 cleantech award i…

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The Missing Link For A Green Business Case With Lindsey Boyle | Founder Of Circular Citizen 51:35

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In this episode I chat with Lindsey Boyle, the founder of Circular Citizen and Senior Associate at OneEarth, about why it is important companies go beyond the 'green' niche stereotype when forming company strategy. In particular, we discuss research Lindsey helped conduct with OneEarth and Sitra, that uncovers consumer motivations for circular good…

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Trees: why they’re amazing, and how they’re threatened 37:34

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We did a tonne of tree-search ( 😜 ) and are excited to share what we learned about different tree species around the planet, the past and current threats to Earth's trees (including climate change itself), and the fascinating potential of trees to help us mitigate and adapt to extreme conditions and events that result from climate change.…

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The Texas snowstorms: what really happened and why? 33:14

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In this episode of The Climate Fix Discussion Circles, our co-hosts - Amelia, Asim, Marketa, and Tim - will discuss the situation in Texas together and tease out some specific threads, like the technical/scientific truths, the social aspects (from disinformation to disproportionate effects on people), and the possible paths forward from here.…

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Transitioning heating to hydrogen w/ Professor Averil Macdonald OBE 49:50

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1/3 of the UK's emissions are from heating, also in the UK most housing has a supply of gas, not something common in other countries. This opens the door for some interesting decarbonization options including replacing natural gas with hydrogen. We speak to Professor Averil Macdonald OBE about this and much more.…

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Solving for SMEs w/ Dr. Ariel Edesess 55:54

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99.9% of all businesses in the UK have fewer than 250 employees and produce 60% of all the commercial sector emissions. Big companies get the headlines, but how do you help transition this long tail of businesses to a lower-carbon future? That's what Dr. Ariel Edesess is focussing on as a postdoctoral researcher with the Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory.…

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Industrial carbon removal w/ Elba Horta from Puro.Earth 58:44

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When you turn Trees to Timber, you make it more worthwhile to keep that carbon locked up instead of burning it. We can't guarantee a forest won't be destroyed, but we can be pretty sure the timber from a forest will be used and not destroyed. This is how Puro Earth thinks of industrial carbon removal. They focus on scaling verified industrial proce…

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Personalising climate risk w/ Iggy Bassi from Cervest 50:40

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The world is not short of climate solutions, it's short of climate decisions. This week we speak to Iggy Bassi founder of Cervest about asset-level climate risk, how this closes the psychological gap, and makes climate more personal, triggering positive climate decisions.

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Helping cities become green w/ Mathieu Carlier from Everimpact 56:09

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Cities are responsible for 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. City governments are important agents of action because of their close relationships with local businesses and citizens. Everimpact is making it easier for cities and companies to measure greenhouse gas emissions, identify opportunities to reduce emissions, and finance needed invest…

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Unlocking investment for renewables w/ Phillip Bruner from Enian 41:30

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Planning for a renewable energy plant is a hot mess! Lots of google searches, map queries, phone conversations, and ad-hoc data sets glued together with spreadsheets. It makes it hard for insurance companies to evaluate your risk and banks to lend you money which means less renewable sites get built. ENIAN has built a platform that makes it easier …

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Purifying water for 2 billion people w/ Johan Jensen from SolarSack 40:51

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2 billion people currently do not have access to safe drinking water. SolarSack uses the sun's energy to purify 2000 litres of contaminated water for just $2.

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Sleeping on bamboo w/ Phoebe Yu & Kat Dey from Ettitude 35:41

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Textile production is the number 2 most polluting industry in the world. Cotton takes up just 3% of croplands but accounts for 24% of pesticide and 11% of insecticide use globally, as well as being incredibly water-intensive. Ettitude create textiles from a much more sustainable product, CleanBamboo™.…

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Measuring carbon intensity w/ Olivier Corradi from Tomorrow 49:27

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How green is your electricity? What is the carbon cost of everything you do? These are questions that Tomorrow is trying to answer and I spoke to its founder Olivier Corradi to find out more.

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Building cities using engineered bamboo lumber w/ Troy Carter from Rizome 56:11

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Bamboo grows 10x faster and is 2x stronger than wood. It has 2.5x the tensile strength of steel and if we can engineer it into a construction-grade material, it has the potential to reduce our overall carbon footprint by 1%.

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Making transport cleaner w/ Natalia Peralta Silverstone from Octopus Electric Vehicles 47:52

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Octopus Electric Vehicles are one of the UK's leading providers of electric vehicles. In this episode, I speak to Natalia Peralta Silverstone about how Octopus EV are working hard to make transport cleaner in the UK.

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Moving events online w/ Dave Schools from Hopin 28:12

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I spoke to Dave Schools, Head of Marketing at Hopin, the first all-in-one interactive live online events platform. We spoke about the environmental impact of events, how Hopin is trying to solve that as well as the founding of Hopin and what keeps him motivated every day.

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Financing green innovations w/ Jonny Page from Cyan Finance 38:11

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Look, to fix the climate, we're going to need resources and money is how we're going to pay for them. I interview Jonny Page from Cyan Finance to find out how the green finance industry works, what the challenges are, the different players involved and how to get money to where it can be most effective.…

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Reforesting the planet w/ Elliot Coad from Offset Earth 1:03:02

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Offset Earth gives you a simple way to fund the world's best climate crisis solutions and reforest the planet and they do this at a much-reduced cost than by using technology.

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Connecting capital to impact w/ Iulian Circo from Proof Of Impact 32:28

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Proof Of Impact is revolutionizing the way people fund and experience impact by connecting the people who are making a difference on the ground with the people who want to be part of the solution.

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Urban mining & bio-leaching w/ Jean-Marc Jefferson from N2S 38:05

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There is more gold in a ton of mobile phones than a ton of gold ore. In this episode, Jean-Marc talks about bio-leaching as the best method to recycle printed circuit boards. It involves bacteria breaking down the board or the glue that holds metal to the boards allowing for the extraction of the rare metals.…

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Combatting climate misinformation w/ Harriet Kingaby from C.A.N. 39:21

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Harriet brings to light the dark underside of the digital advertising world and the measures that need to be taken to ensure that authentic journalism is funded while fake news is starved, allowing for a better-informed society.

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Reversing climate change using blockchain w/ Paul Gambil from Nori 33:46

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In this episode, we speak to Paul Gamble, CEO of Nori (a carbon removal marketplace). Paul brings to light the flaws that previous marketplaces have suffered from and believes he has found a way to allow for genuine change to take place.

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