LSESU Sustainable Futures Society Podcast Initiative

This week we will be joined by an entrepreneur who tells us about some of the challenges small sustainable fashion brands face.

This week we will be joined by a sustainability analyst who works for an online luxury fashion retailer. We will be asking her what trends the past year has shown and whether luxury fashion can ever truly be considered sustainable.

For this episode we recorded a discussion between two veteran student activists and the campaign manager of SOS UK’s invest for change campaign. The discussion focused on civil disobedience, institutional change and the track record of different universities when it comes to sustainable investing. The event was hosted by The Sustainable Futures Society and The LSE Divestment Alliance.LSE is still invested in fossil fuels and armaments. To help change this please sign our call for action here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnVq0W1oWKATHX2jpjeOJ-bTjWN-ZiTt5UfP5cJJqTt9YA/viewform?usp=sf_link

In this podcast episode for LSE’s Sustainable Futures Society MSc Environmental Policy + Regulation students Ella Chippendale and Tash Cohen will explore how the sustainable fashion industry has adapted in the Covid era. Many believe that there has been a shift towards sustainability in the wake of Covid-19 but are the trends this simple? By talking with Rosemary Pickering, a sustainability analyst at Farfetch, Megha Shah, a businesswoman and founder of ethical webshop Uhuru London, and Besma Whayeb, blogger and founder of Curiously Conscious, we will seek to unpack these trends. By drawing on three diverse perspectives – information, business, and communication, we will seek to paint a holistic perspective of changes that have taken place in the sustainable fashion industry over the past year.

In this episode, we deconstruct the concept of 'natural disasters' and the vulnerability narrative to understand who is left behind and who is made more marginalized by these narratives. We will look at the Disaster Risk Reduction field to examine how the DRR narrative only works for a certain group of people in society - leaving behind those that are most marginalized due to disability, gender, or class.

In this episode, we examine the common narratives of climate change and the potential implications that this has for leaving those most marginalized behind. We aim to understand how environmental problems and mitigative solutions are not distributed evenly and look at ways that adaptation is practiced in the development field.

In this episode, we dive into trendy environmental narratives and fads like veganism, greenwashing fashion, and the Netflix original movie, Seaspiracy. We unpack the responsibility these narratives place on individual consumerism vs the systemic causes of climate change.

Sustainability Teammates Scarlet Prentice (Sustainability Engagement Officer) and Charles Joly (Head of Sustainability) talk about the School’s carbon targets and approach to carbon offsetting, as well as explaining some of the common terminologies within these conversations!

Today we spoke to Jess Rimoch, the founder of Jarr Market, a zero waste store in Stockwell, London. As someone who has been on a zero waste journey for 3 years, she shares her experience and gives tips for those interested in reducing their own footprint. Jess touches upon zero waste In relation to convenience, affordability, social relationships and more!Check out Jess’s store: jarrmarket.co.uk

Today we spoke to Jess Rimoch, the founder of Jarr Market, a zero waste store in Stockwell, London. As someone who has been on a zero waste journey for 3 years, she shares her experience and gives tips for those interested in reducing their own footprint. Jess touches upon zero waste In relation to convenience, affordability, social relationships and more!Check out Jess’s store: jarrmarket.co.uk