Chasing Sustainability

"One half breath we take comes from the forest of sea and one half breath we take comes from the forest of land"

Join us in our conversation with Bodhi Patil. Bodhi is a youth activist leader that focuses his work on the ocean-climate. He is also a second year student at University of British Columbia doing the BA+MM program. Tune in to learn more about youth leader and ocean-climate with Bodhi.

"We need to find a way to get the minerals out of the ground in a way that doesn't harm the environment, and we have the ability to do that."

"Sustainability shouldn't be just a sector of business, it should be embedded in all businesses."

Join us in our conversation with Professor Fernanda, a lecturer and researcher in the UBC Faculty of Forestry who has extensive knowledge in ecological communication - a critical component to consider when framing the issues that we care about.

“Sustainability applies to every industry in the future, it is not a single industry. Sustainability is more like a lens.”

Learn how Anastasia build a company that focuses on reducing food packaging waste, especially for takeout food packaging. Anastasia is one of the co-founders at Reusables.com, a company that offers its members a reusables takeout food packaging that can be used when buying food from Reusables business partners. Anastasia likes to step outside of her comfort zone and make an environmental impact. She has lived in multiple countries before, which makes Anastasia has a very broad knowledge of sustainability. This experience has had a big influence on her point-of-view towards sustainability and how she builds her own business. Tune in to learn more about Anastasia and her business called Reusables.com

"Get involved and don't tolerate people spoiling the planet for you, your children, and your grand-children, because you are going to inherit this"

Want to learn how the agriculture industry evolves to become more sustainable-friendly? Come and join us in our conversation with Daphne Preuss. Daphne is the CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of CarbonBook. CarbonBook is a software company that provides an app that allows indoor farms to track and record their carbon footprint to move toward a more sustainable agriculture industry. In this opportunity, Daphne will talk more about how the agriculture industry could improve its practices to become more sustainable-friendly in the future and how we as the young generation could contribute to that.

"The small actions we make and every conversation we engage in, will change our mindset about Sustainability"

Tune in to our conversation with Laia Shpeller, Chair of the conference on Sustainability in Engineering and final year student in Biomedical Engineering

"Sustainability is not the strict purview of a sustainable director, but it is really an attitude, it is a viewpoint"

Curious to learn more regarding the future of sustainable planning and how to set up a sustainable mindset? Join us in our conversation with Alastair, he is a faculty associate from Royal Roads University and also the Co-Founder of Greenwoorks Building Supply. In this episode, we will talk about sustainable urban planning, sustainable consumer products, and developing a sustainable mindset. Alastair also talks about the real situation with the movement into a more sustainable future and what are the challenges that keep slowing down this trend. Excited to hear more? Tune in now

"Electric Vehicles (EVs) has a big upfront cost with it, but in long term, it has a very big benefit to going towards EV"

Join us in our conversation with Reece from the UBC Formula E club to learn more about their project and the future of Electric Vehicles (EV)

“The small things we can do that have a massive impact are wasting less food and thinking differently about the food that we have”

Learn how to tackle food waste issues in our society. In this episode, we have a conversation with Sarah Soteroff, PR Manager at Too Good To Go. Too Good To Go is an app that allows users to buy and pick up waste food in a package that is still in good condition and sourced from local businesses. In this conversation, we discuss with Sarah the current situation of food waste globally and locally in Canada. Sarah also talks about how the business grow since day one and their considerations for expanding this business to a new city. Listen now to know how consumers could make an impact by buying food waste from local businesses.

"The way that the world is changing now, every single field is going to have to deal with sustainability, you can't ignore it at this point"

Learn more about the Environmental Engineering program at UBC and the North America Youth Parliament for Water

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"NEW GREEN HORIZON"

Do you Know: according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 8 million tons of plastic winds up in our oceans every year, threatening marine life and polluting ecosystems all over the world. The Center for Biological Diversity estimates that plastic waste will outweigh all the fish in the sea by the year 2050.It’s time for a sustainable business to save us again: The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch Marine protection organization, is continuing its mission of ridding the world of ocean plastic by catching garbage before it makes its way to the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup Interceptors is a garbage Interceptors that can remove larger amounts of debris more efficiently and at a lower cost.The trash Interceptors are moored to riverbeds and use river current to snag debris floating on the surface. Then they direct the trash onto a conveyor belt that shuttles it into six large onboard dumpsters. The Interceptors run completely autonomously day and night, getting power from solar panels.It’s one of the most self-sufficient solutions to the problem. The Ocean Cleanup has set a goal to collect 500,000 football fields worth of plastic debris from oceans and rivers. As of now, it's reached half that goal, mostly with the interceptors in rivers. Obviously, more support is needed, and we hope new technologies joined will help us say goodbye to all marine garbage earlier!