Saving Tomorrows Planet

Gabrielle takes us on her tremendous journey of how she co-founded the Momentom Collective. An artist residency held across Central America for like-minded individuals to come together and create 'alternative realities'. The Covid-19 pandemic led to a shift in these residencies, to now have a focus on permaculture and provide an educational incubator for community, sustainability and art. Gabrielle and Jeremy further discuss the power of listening to the nature around us and how this can help guide us to saving tomorrows planet.   

More about Gabrielle:
 
Gabrielle Bonneville is a circus artist, lucid dreamer, community builder and creative entrepreneur. Co-Founder of Momentom Collective, she has established artist residencies in Indonesia, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Dubbed ‘alternate realties”, these residencies host up to 50 humans who are game to undergo significant training in mind, body and self-development in dreamlike settings, cultivating radical artistic energy to find solutions to global challenges. A mix between retreat and summit, these experience are based on circus culture and prove that humans can achieve the extra-ordinary. 

Please check out the following relevant links: 
The Green Residency: https://www.momentomcollective.com/residencies/costa-rica/ 
Gaby's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaby_boop/ 
Momentom Collective's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momentomcollective/

More about Jeremy:

Your host, Jeremy Schwartz, is a CEO, family man and adventurer. With a career spanning The Body Shop, L’Oreal, Coca-Cola and Pandora he knows the power of corporations to do good. Founder of this podcast, he is set on a mission to talk to pioneering people, around the world, taking action to save the planet.

Jeremy's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyschwartz2021-ceo-coo
Saving Tomorrow's Planet website: www.savingtomorrowsplanet.com
 
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 Are we heading for a mass nature extinction? Nature is in a massive decline, and we, as a society, have become too disconnected from nature to even notice the drastic changes. Listen to James and Jeremy discuss how to become more aware of these changes happening around us and even better – what is being done to help prevent it. Can the collective power drive the change needed to reverse the way we are heading? listen now to find out.

James talks us through his career and work with WWF and lets us into where his passion for saving tomorrow’s planet comes from. This reveals a story about how James rediscovered a bird species that was once thought to be extinct. The episode goes on and explains the #VoiceForThePlanet coalition and #TheRaceIsOn campaign. Both outstanding initiatives James has co-founded to create a nature positive world by 2030. To finish, they discuss how YOU can make a difference to make sure WE win this race.

More about James:
James is a Director of FutureAgenda.org, an open-source think tank and advisory delivering foresight, strategy and innovation to some of the world’s leading organisations (e.g. Amazon, BP, Mastercard, WWF). James leads the Strategy practice where recent work includes leading whole organisation strategy development for WWF and Which?

He is also a co-founder of #voicefortheplanet, the coalition aimed at securing a global deal for nature in 2021, launched at the World Economic Forum in 2019. Through #VoiceForThePlanet he has acted as a co-convenor of #TheRaceIsOn to secure a nature positive world by 2030. He was previously a co-founder and Executive Director of Zopa and a Strategy Director at Egg during its high growth phase. He has been an advisor to a number of innovative finance payers including Seedrs, Tandem, Loot and LandBay.

Please check out the following relevant links:
 
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/theraceison-start-now-we-all-lose-james-alexander/
https://voicefortheplanet.org/
https://www.leaderspledgefornature.org/theraceison/ 


More about Jeremy:
Your host, Jeremy Schwartz, is a CEO, family man and adventurer. With a career spanning The Body Shop, L’Oreal, Coca-Cola and Pandora he knows the power of corporations to do good. Founder of this podcast, he is set on a mission to talk to pioneering people, around the world, taking action to save the planet.
Jeremy's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyschwartz2021-ceo-coo
Saving Tomorrow's Planet website: www.savingtomorrowsplanet.com
 
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In this episode, Xavier and Jeremy discuss the opportunity for a more energy-efficient future. 

Xavier reveals some shocking truths about where energy is currently being lost and shares the incredible sustainability-focused work the team at Schneider Electric are doing.  Xavier is a true expert when it comes to energy efficiency and this podcast covers some key areas of improvement such as workplace buildings, data centres and household usage. Xavier and Jeremy also touch on the advancement of technology and how it can be implemented to make for a more sustainable tomorrow. 

More about Xavier – Xavier is currently the Senior Vice President, Sustainable Business and Operations at Schneider Electric. His background contains 27 years of experience within strategy and management consulting as well as sustainable strategies and transformations. For the past 15 years, his focus has been on the design and implementation of sustainable growth strategies.  For further information please visit the Schneider Electric website at: 

Website - https://www.se.com/uk/en/

To connect with Xavier:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavier-houot-baba34/

More about Jeremy -  Your host, Jeremy Schwartz, is a CEO, family man and adventurer. With a career spanning The Body Shop, L’Oreal, Coca-Cola and Pandora he knows the power of corporations to do good. Founder of this podcast, he is set on a mission to talk to pioneering people, around the world, taking action to save the planet.

Jeremy's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyschwartz2021-ceo-coo
Saving Tomorrow's Planet website: www.savingtomorrowsplanet.com

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In the most western part of Ukraine, Michel has dedicated his life to maintaining the biodiversity of the wild Carpathian Mountains. His work includes running a livestock farm, managing an NGO and producing buffalo mozzarella cheese. He is a true believer in traditional, sustainable farming and he helps to support and educate those seeking to live in a simple, natural, alternative way from the dominant western culture. 

In this episode, Michel and Jeremy discuss what drove Michel to move and live in the Carpathian Mountains over a standard city lifestyle. Michel speaks about the extraordinary work he is doing to save the Carpathian water buffalos, he further explains the value and benefits of small-scale farmers and traditional farming over large-scale industrial farming. The true taste and art of buffalo mozzarella are broken down and Michel explains why he values his buffalos’ cheese so highly that he does not want to sell it to just anyone.

Michel Jacobi is a German Ecologist who has fallen in love with the Carpathian Mountains and lived there for 11 years. Please visit his website and Facebook to learn more about him and his work.
Michel's website: www.karpaten-bueffel.eu/en.html
Michel's Facebook: www.facebook.com/SATrans/

Your host, Jeremy Schwartz, is a CEO, family man and adventurer. With a career spanning The Body Shop, L’Oreal, Coca-Cola and Pandora he knows the power of corporations to do good. Founder of this podcast, he is set on a mission to talk to pioneering people, around the world, taking action to save the planet.
Jeremy's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyschwartz2021-ceo-coo
Saving Tomorrow's Planet website: www.savingtomorrowsplanet.com

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Peter Schelstraete is the co-founder and CEO of Ubuntoo, an environmental solutions platform promoting sustainable economic growth. Previously, Peter’s career span 19 years at The Coca-Cola Company, within a variety of roles including Global VP Digital and Assets for and CMO for the Asia Pacific. 

Within this episode, Peter and Jeremy discuss how Ubuntoo is connecting individuals, entrepreneurs and large corporations to aid the collective power of change. Peter explains how everyone can be a changemaker and the importance of collaboration in achieving the sustainable change of tomorrow.  

They speak further about Ubuntoo’s greenhouses which are online collaboration spaces where communities can bring ideas to life to achieve specific sustainability goals. Ubuntoo has seen competitors come together to focus their efforts on achieving sustainability advancements together.  

Listen now to find out how you can join the ‘airbnb’ of environmental solutions. 

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Pendragon Stuart is an associate director of Globe Scan, an environmental and sustainability strategy firm helping NGOs, governments and Companies. 

Pendragon’s real passion for sustainability shines as he discusses all things RUBBISH. Who is responsible for the large amount of waste that is produced? Are we seeing a shift in companies taking responsibility for where their products' packaging ends up? What are the costs of these large amounts of rubbish? Pendragon breaks down the current issues we have with waste and explains the new legislation that could soon be in place to help this problem.

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Gary, 23, has dedicated his young life to stop the carpeting of Bali beaches to with plastic trash. Arriving as a child, 8, from France he started aged 14 campaigning to clear up the plastic covering the beaches of Bali. Now he has invented a grill to capture all the waste coming down the rivers but still needs $500k to cover every river, sort the plastic and turn it into usable items. And he wants to meet the new Minister of Tourism who should have the money to save this precious tourist paradise. 

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Christian Toennesen is a sustainability expert who has advised media companies to champion sustainability content. It is the responsibility of all media content producers to create and drive sustainability messages. He argues their greatest contribution to saving the planet is to change attitudes and behaviours of their audiences. He tells us about Sky, C4, ITV and BBC and how the competition between them has pushed the agenda for the front. 

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Anne - Sophie Fontaine is the head of sustainability and corporate communication for Bonduelle a family owned French producer of chilled, frozen and canned vegetables.  We learn how we have to reeducate ourselves to increase the relative proportion of vegetables versus meat in our meals if we are to feel the global population and reduce global warming. Anne-Sophie proposes a simple action to put cooking back on the education agenda in schools so that children are taught how to cook and like vegetables and pulses as the alternatives to meat. 

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