In this episode Julia Mariasova, the host and the co-founder of 1.5º DAO, talks to Nick Valenzia, the founder of Leafr, the climate freelancers platform.  

In today’s episode we are exploring the rapidly growing need to connect climate professionals with the urgent need for the expertise in decarbonisation and sustainability. If you are a freelancer seeking opportunities in the climate space, or a business manager looking to harness the power of a freelance workforce, or simply curious about the vital connection between jobs and climate action, you're in the right place.

Climate communities that Nick has mentioned on the Podcast:

The training programme ⁠"Climate Change for Professionals"⁠. Use code “climatepodcast” to get a 30% discount to all courses. 

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This episode was produced by ⁠Julia Mariasova⁠ from Shortlisted Productions.

Music by Alex Kizenkov from Pixabay.

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In this episode, Julia Mariasova talks to Simon Nash, the founder of the Green Oil. Simon runs a business that is trying to address the environmental concerns of the lubricants industry.  He is just about to launch his new product, and in this episode,  we are talking not only about the history of his business and his upcoming Kickstarter campaign, but also about the issues caused by production and use of the petroleum-based lubricant products, the climate activism, circular economy and the role of small businesses in driving sustainability agenda.

Green Oil Kickstarter campaign - order your can of Gardioil or support the producer https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/makeitslip/gardinol-eco-friendly-diy-household-and-office-lubricant?fbclid=IwAR2omKCcSwEQ13RsyArfENvCl4UW9lUxLkTtczsH4-SKyWZAM1ZlolF2Qhk

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The training programme "Climate Change for Professionals". Use code “climatepodcast” to get a 30% discount to all courses.

This episode was produced by ⁠Julia Mariasova⁠ from Shortlisted Productions.

Music by Alex Kizenkov from Pixabay.

Feel free to contact us with the suggestions of topics and speakers. We would love to hear what you think about our podcast - please leave us a review.

#climatecommunity #climatechange #sustainability #environment #climateaction #climateactionnow #climatepodcast #climatetraining #climatecourses #courses #climateeducation #PTFE #lubricants #petrochemicals #petroleumbasedproducts #foreverchemicals

In this episode Julia Mariasova, the host and the co-founder of 1.5º DAO, talks to Siddharth Kaul, Global Lead of Carbon Projects at Alcom Carbon Markets, mainly about biochar technology and their biochar project in the Philippines. You will definitely learn everything you need to know about biochar, but we will also cover much more than that - things like voluntary carbon markets, carbon removals and carbon avoidance, farming and decarbonisation of the rice industry, biofuels and decarbonisation of aviation and shipping.

This podcast was recorded as part of the training programme "Climate Change for Professionals" . Use code “climatepodcast” to get a 30% discount to all courses. 

Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/1point5degreees-dao/

To contribute, support or join our climate community: opencollective.com/1point5_dao

Email us: [email protected]

This episode was produced by ⁠Julia Mariasova⁠ from Shortlisted Productions.

Music by Alex Kizenkov from Pixabay.

Feel free to contact us with the suggestions of topics and speakers. We would love to hear what you think about our podcast - please leave us a review.

#climatechange #decarbonisation #biochar #biofuels #engineeredsolutions #carbonremoval #carbonavoidance #carboncredits #carbonoffsets #offsets #GHGemissions #GHG #emissions #carbonmarkets #VCM #voluntarycarbonmarkets #carbonremovals #climateaction #climateactionnow #climatepodcast #decarbonization

Why do we need to restore forests and can forestry carbon offsets be a good thing for the planet?

Conversation with Thomas Duong, the CEO and founder of The Green Projects (TGP)

Forests are incredibly important for our existence, no wonder they are called the lungs of the planet.  They draw in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen, they store large amounts of carbon in their biomass and soil, they regulate water cycle and protect soil from erosion, they are the source of biodiversity which underpins our ecosystem and wellbeing.  Protecting and restoring forests is essential for mitigating the impacts of climate change, and in this episode we are exploring whether the system of carbon credits could play a role in this.  

With the new sustainability disclosure regulations such as SFDR in the EU and SDR in the UK, European companies are encouraged to calculate and report their carbon footprint, which might boost the market for carbon offsets. However sustainable a business is, there will be always some unabated e missions, which a company might want to offset with carbon credits. 

But can we trust carbon offsets?  Carbon offsets have a bad reputation at the moment.  They are often associated with the greenwashing, as many companies use carbon credits as a license to avoid decarbonisation. We have also seen scandals, where the journalists uncovered significant problems with the carbon credits that were certified by Verra, one of the world's main organisations approving carbon offset projects.  Can we restore trust in these instruments? 

Today we are talking with Thomas Duong, whose company aims to raise awareness about deforestation problem that goes beyond Amazon forests.  They work with IoT, AI and Blockchain technologies to create high-quality forestry carbon credits that motivate local farmers in Vietnam and other locations to scale up afforestation and reforestation efforts. 

To contribute, support or join our climate community: ⁠opencollective.com/1point5_dao⁠  Email us: ⁠[email protected]⁠

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This episode wad recorded for the training course Blockchain Applications in Climate Change which you can find here.

Produced by ⁠Julia Mariasova⁠ from Shortlisted Productions.

Music by Alex Kizenkov from Pixabay.

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#climatechange #deforestation #forestry #afforestation #reforestation #biodiversity #carboncredits #carbonoffsets #offsets #GHGemissions #GHG #emissions #carbonmarkets #blockchain #iot #machinelearning #climateaction #climateactionnow #climatepodcast

Sustainability in Fashion Industry - Interview with Tansy Hoskins, an award-winning author and journalist

In this podcast we dive into the subject of Sustainability in the Fashion industry, or rather the lack of thereof. Fashion industry generates more emissions than airline and shipping industry combined. According to UNEP, it is responsible for 10% of annual global emissions. While the global population of our planet has reached 8 billion people, we produce more than 100 billion items of clothing every year, most of which end up in the landfill within a year. The industry generates a huge amount of pollution, uses vast amounts of water and is a major cause of social injustice. 

Huge thanks for Tansy Hoskins, an award-winning author, journalist, independent researcher and social justice campaigner, for this insightful interview, where she also talks about potential pathways to address the current situation. This interview was recorded for an upcoming training course Sustainability in Fashion which will be published by the end of April 2023.

You can buy books by Tansy Hoskins here: ⁠https://tansyhoskins.org/my-books/⁠

Our next free webinar: ⁠"The role of the luxury fashion sector in fostering inclusion"⁠

11 April 2023, 7pm GMT

Dr Dina Khalifa, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Dina has a PhD in luxury brand marketing with a focus on consumption consumer responses to identity threats and social exclusion. She has supervised master and PhD dissertations on various topics such as status, envy and inequalities, the meaning and significance of the Hijab identity in the age of Islamophobia and the impact of influencer marketing on luxury consumption and consumer well-being.

To contribute, support or join our climate community: opencollective.com/1point5_dao 
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This episode was  produced by ⁠Julia Mariasova⁠ from Shortlisted Productions.

Music by Alex Kizenkov from Pixabay.

Huge thanks to ⁠Sands Films⁠ for permission to record the interview at their premises.

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#climatechange #pollution #fashion #fastfashion #humanrights #livingwage #GHGemissions #emissions #socialjustice #waterpollution #newmaterials #sustainability #waste #garments #shoes #climateaction #climateactionnow

This is a recording of the webinar organised by the climate community 1.5° DAO (https://1p5dao.xyz). The presentation slides for this talk are available to members only.

In this episode you will learn what defines the social tipping points that shift the social behaviours and norms to a new paradigm.

We invited Victoria Spaiser, the Associate Professor in Sustainability Research and Computational Social Science at the University of Leeds (UK), to talk about her research and to teach us how to become the social tipping point creators.

The session is facilitated by our co-founder Anna Pechurina⁠ , the Associate Professor in Sociology at Karlstad University in Sweden.

To contribute, support or join our climate community: opencollective.com/1point5_dao 
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This episode was  produced by Julia Mariasova from Shortlisted Productions.

Music by Alex Kizenkov from Pixabay.

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