After last week's solo episode, I've got something a little different for you again this week! Because more change and uncertainty is what we all need right now yes..?!!

This week’s episode is a live recording done from the virtual podcast stage at Future Fest, an amazing online event from Pebble Magazine that happened at the beginning of November about the solutions and the people who are going to drive the change to net zero.

It took me a while to work out what I wanted to talk about, and who I wanted to chat too, but then in an actual (low carbon LED) lightbulb moment, I realised it was you guys.
It can be all too easy to feel like the solutions and the people who are going to drive the change to net zero are somehow super human people – those who are setting up amazing circular fashion businesses, or pioneering new technology. It’s very easy to over-look the fact that you and me, ordinary knackered people, juggling ordinary jobs, and kids and laundry and cooking endless meals, that we also play a huge role in creating a different future.

So I put a post in the Knackered Mums Eco Clubhouse (my annual membership) asking for volunteers to come and chat with me about their experiences of getting started with Sustainable(ish) changes, their successes and their failures. I wanted it to feel like we were sitting around my kitchen table (albeit via Zoom and with people watching!) with a cuppa and sharing our stories, our challenges, having a laugh, and hopefully inspiring some other people to get started too.
Because it’s so important that we recognise that we are part of the solution. That people making changes are ordinary people like us. There’s no secret superhero breed that are secretly wearing special green pants that give them extraordinary powers. There’s just normal people, who’ve dared to care, who are bumbling along like the rest of us, making one change at a time. And that we can learn from each other, and we can inspire each other. And that that matters.

Enjoy.

• Pebble Magazine
• Future Fest
• The Knackered Mums Eco Club
  - On Facebook
  - On Instagram
  - Details of the Clubhouse (membership)
• [065] - Periodical with Lauren Derrett from Wear 'em out pads (podcast episode)
• Kind 2 shampoo bars
• Who Gives a Crap loo roll
• Uranus Wiper loo roll
• A beginners guide to switching to a renewable energy provider (blog post)
• Make your money matter (all about moving your money to ethical providers) (blog post)
• Good With Money - guide to good pensions
• Terracycle toothbrush recycling scheme
• Georganics electric toothbrush
• Yaweco - regular toothbrush with removable head
• Sky diamonds
• A greener life by B
• Giki Zero
• My Green Pod
• Ethical Consumer
• Sustainable(ish) Facebook group

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