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Transition Islands podcast explores ideas for transition to clean and regenerative island communities. Broadcasting from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, Sasha Kazantseva-Miller and Jon Buckland bring to you the economic, social, environmental and political viewpoints that embrace sustainable island development where people, profits and planet thrive together.
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Green Growth Policy: lessons from South Korea with Eun Joo Yi from World Bank
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South Korea's Green Growth program success has been an inspiration for dozens of countries around the world, who have worked with World Bank to replicate its lessons. Eun Joo Yi, World Bank manager of the Korea Green Growth Trust Fund (KGGTF) share with us the reasons for taking a stand on sustainable development, the importance of developing new e…
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Energy Transition with Alan Bates, CEO Guernsey Electricity
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"Powering life today and tomorrow" is the Guernsey Electricity motto. Such a simple phrase encapsulates the ethos of sustainable development - to enable wellbeing and life on the planet while leaving the conditions fit-for-purpose for them to thrive in the future. While energy underpins the rise of human civilisations, the unsustainable use of foss…
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Let's Talk About Food with India Hamilton
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The episode is an attempt to deep-dive into food systems and regenerative agriculture. Very quickly, we learn that defining "regenerative agriculture" and "sustainable food systems" is not an easy task or a black and white answer. For India, sustainable food systems are those that help "build communities while distributing equity along the supply c…
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Entrepreneurial State and Risk-Taking with Martyn Dorey
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Economic theory and modelling are all-pervasive in our modern life. We explore the fallacies behind modelling assumptions and talk about "first principles" that one could use to design models for post Covid-19 recovery. We discuss the heavy reliance of island communities like Guernsey and Jersey on the State, given that majority of infrastructure i…
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Food Waste and Activism with Elis Joudalova
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Up to a third(1) of all food produced is wasted in the process of food growth, harvest, supply chain, binning by supermarkets and household waste. If only a fraction of this "wasted" food was salvaged it would be enough to eliminate hunger and malnutrition. As our population keeps growing and land use changing to support more and more intensive agr…
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Green Recovery and Green Growth with Estelle Levin-Nally
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The need for economic recovery stimulus packages post Covid19 pandemic is indisputable. But the decision to act is the easy part. What should these packages look like, what kind of recovery should they support, what conditionality may they need attached? In this episode, we explore the idea for a Green Recovery underpinning future Green Growth with…
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Partnership for Recovery with John Hollis
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Governments around the world are committing to launching Covid19 economic recovery packages. In this episode we explore ideas for the successful design of recovery packages, the need for building urgency and decentralisation and for governance structures that enable engagement with the wider community and business. In this interview with John Holli…
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Transition Islands Podcast: Ideas for a Regenerative Future
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Welcome to the first episode of the new Transition Islands podcast, broadcasting from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Learn about the reason for launching the podcast as part of the wider Transition Islands initiative. In conversation with co-hosts Sasha Kazantseva-Miller and Jon Buckland, they explore: the need and opportunity for transition to c…
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