Anthesis

In Episode 16 of Activating Sustainability, host Chris Peterson is joined by Anthesis’ Claudia Amos, Technical Director of Waste Infrastructure & Commercial Due Diligence in the UK and special guest Paula Luu, Director at the Center for the Circular Economy – Closed Loop Partners’ innovation center. In this episode, Paula and Claudia break down the basics of advanced recycling of plastic waste, and the diverse drivers, solutions and challenges in the circular economy for plastics.

This podcast introduces Infinite Sustainable Packaging, a unique end-to-end solution for sustainable packaging design. Host Dean Sanders is joined by Anthesis’ Debbie Hitchen, Director for Sustainable Products, Circularity and Chemistry, and Mike Webster, Director of 3D Structure & Experience at 1HQ, to hear about how the new partnership came about and the importance of packaging in driving real sustainable behaviour change for consumers.

In Episode 15, our host Chris Peterson is joined by Marta Lacruz Sobré, Director of the Education division at Anthesis Lavola to discuss environmental education and the importance of teaching children who may go on to be future policy decision makers and consumers.

Key highlights include:

- The evolution – over decades – of environmental education

- Keys to effective teaching

- Adapting communication styles in the era of COVID

- Capturing moments to engage and deepen understanding of sustainability.

Useful resources:

Anthesis’ Education + Culture services - https://www.anthesisgroup.com/what-we-do/education-culture/

‘Invest in Early Childhood Development’ by James Heckman - https://heckmanequation.org/resource/invest-in-early-childhood-development-reduce-deficits-strengthen-the-economy/

In Episode 15, our host Chris Peterson is joined by Marta Lacruz Sobré, Director of the Education division at Anthesis Lavola to discuss environmental education and the importance of teaching children who may go on to be future policy decision makers and consumers.

In episode 14, our host Chris Peterson is joined by colleagues Ben Lynch, Director & Energy Systems Lead and Huw Blackwell, Principal Engineer to discuss the current trends, key drivers, challenges and opportunities in the built environment. They discuss the missed opportunities for greater impact, the low hanging fruit, and the long term benefits of embedding sustainability into the built environment.

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Useful links to learn more about sustainability and the built environment:

World Green Building Council: https://www.worldgbc.org/

UK Green Building Council: https://www.ukgbc.org/

Anthesis’ built environment consulting services: https://www.anthesisgroup.com/what-we-do/cities-environments/

Survey findings on returning to the workplace: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/05/uk-office-workers-slower-to-return-to-their-desk-after-covid

In episode 14, our host Chris Peterson is joined by colleagues Ben Lynch, Director & Energy Systems Lead and Huw Blackwell, Principal Engineer to discuss the current trends, key drivers, challenges and opportunities in the built environment. They discuss the missed opportunities for greater impact, the low hanging fruit, and the long term benefits of embedding sustainability into the built environment.

Innovation has provided much of technology and expertise we have to deal with much of the emissions, if applied correctly. However, with more of the world’s investors realising the risk and opportunity associated with building a Net Zero economy, in discussion with Anthesis CEO Stuart McLachlan, we look at the role Anthesis Ventures is playing in bringing new ways of thinking and ground-breaking technologies to the market.

Energy efficiency and renewable energy form big parts of any organisation’s Net Zero strategy. But heat and embodied carbon in materials are two aspects of Scopes 1, 2 & 3 greenhouse gases that can be challenging to overcome. In this episode, our host Tobias Parker talks to Ben Lynch, Anthesis UK Director, about the new trends that are emerging for low carbon heat.

It is increasingly recognised that organisations are likely to continue to emit residual emissions from operations and their supply chains. But to achieve a Net Zero position, action must be taken which balances this out through off-site mechanisms through removing or avoiding emissions elsewhere. In this episode, our host Tobias Parker talks with Nadège Trocellier, Anthesis Lavola Climate Change Manager, about insetting and offsetting carbon emissions as investment vehicles for reducing risk, and improving value chain performance.

The best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to avoid them in the first place through better design and smarter decision-making. We talk with Sara Telahoun, Senior Consultant in Anthesis UK to explore how cities and governments are moving towards Net Zero by utilising digital platforms such as Anthesis’ SCATTER tool to explore pathways for decarbonising at the city scale.