In an increasingly polarised world Albert music is looking forward with hope, learning and the capacity for change.

Albert’s singles have been played on BBC Radio 2 by Dermot O’Leary, BBC 6 Music by Tom Robinson and across the BBC Introducing network. His music has been streamed more than 100,000 times Worldwide.

Link:
Albert Jones

An important pledge you can take as a Citizen of Winter is to choose companies or resorts that prioritise an environmental ethos, but how can you see through the greenwash?

We chat with Al about how his chalet company AliKats has taken sustainability to the next level and how a consumer can assess a companies priorities.

We chat to the entrepreneurs Stephen Cousins and Charlotte Morley about their businesses and how they’re transforming the traditional shop model to make business a force for good.

Links:
The Little Loop
Bluebird Exchange

When we launched Citizen of Winter we asked you, the listener, what questions you wanted answering to help make your next snow-sports adventure more sustainable. The most popular answer was: to find out more about transformation within the industry, and whether sustainability in the mountains is a dream or a reality? With 141 podcast episodes, under his belt Matt is well placed to help us begin to answer this question.

Links:
Looking Sideways Podcast
Patagonia Type Two Podcast

The Last Glaciers is the most comprehensive film ever produced about the relationship between climate change, mountain environments, and glaciers. Filmed over four years in twelve countries, The Last Glaciers captures the fragility of the natural world, the impact humans have on our life support systems and the friendship, personal challenges and tragedies experienced by the explorers during their journey.

This film is a code red wake-up call that distills the dense science on climate change into an easy to understand and visual journey of the facts. A heart-wrenching story of discovery that takes the audience on a thrilling ride of extreme sports whilst sharing the camaraderie of the team as they confront personal challenges amongst the immense beauty of natural mountain environments. Shot on cinematic cameras, its message is simple: we must protect and restore our life support systems before they completely collapse.

Further reading:
UN Map X

Montagne Verte and One Tree have embarked on a mission to not only improve their backyards but also raise awareness to a wider audience. Through their monthly mountain climbing campaigns “Climb It for Climate”. We chat with Cecile and Martin to find out a bit more about the events and how they’re engaging a community.

Further reading:
Montagne Verte, why buy local?

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Gav and the team are focusing on upstream waste and creating products out of natural materials. As well as founding One Tree at a Time, Gav is also the owner of The Boot Lab and has been working on a project to create compostable, custom-made insoles for ski and snowboard boots. Here we find out more about the project and how you go about rethinking products.

Further reading:
Small Businesses Must Lead the Way to a Circular Economy
The Eco-Taxes Set to Reshape the Economy (and your ski holiday)

"Use your voice and use your power as a consumer, choose to shop at more sustainable brands, choose to go to a hotel that you know will be more sustainable. Ask those questions when you're there as well, don't just go passively as a tourist.. go and do your research and be quite activist about it.... you can be an activist and work in a large bank like I do, I don't think you necessarily need to completely go off grid... but you can influence change. You've got to tap into that and as a Citizen of Winter, you've got to put pressure on the companies that you like and the types of brands you buy."

Sarisher is the founder of the Sustainable Alpine Tourism Initiative (SATI) which aims to progress knowledge sharing and collaboration on sustainability in alpine tourism, with a focus on the circular economy as a lever.

Can we use the circular economy to transform our industry? How do circular economics work and what does it have to do with skiing?

Where to go for more information.

Click on the following link to register for SATI events:
https://sati-summit.com/event/events/...

For more information on the circular economy visit:
https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation....

SHOW LESS

Learn about the Cardrona Foundation, and how they’re using their position to advocate for worthy causes & support a stronger community. How they want to start a cycle of giving, well-being, & conservation that ripples through the community to make their place, people & future as good as they possibly can be.

Further Reading:
Cardrona

Millie from the One Tree team has compiled their latest annual report. Join her as she runs through this year’s achievements and find out if sustainability in the mountains is a reality.

Along the way you’ll find out about how One Tree is changing businesses and the community, and discover how you can apply these changes to your next snow-sports adventure.

Further Reading:
One Tree at a Time