Saving Tomorrows Planet

Alex Ely is founder and owner of Mae architects. Alex has been passionate for his whole career in pioneering ways to create new buildings and refurbish existing ones that minimise the impact on the planet. As an award winning architect he is both inventing new techniques and inspiring developers and public departments to commission buildings that use environmental design at its core. 

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Suzy Hutomo Santoso lives in Bali Indonesia and is an activist, environmentalist and entrepreneur.  Suzy is the franchise owner of The Body Shop across Indonesia and has built the company from one store to a top 5 country worldwide. More than that Suzy continues to set up new companies to turn her passions and ideas around recycling and environmentalism into action. Suzy is on the board of Green Peace Asia and is a fantastic spokesperson and representative of the campaigns. Don't miss how she is now making her own environmental tooth paste.

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Christina Dean has dedicated herself to taking action to save the planet. She runs Redress an organisation that both collects and recycles fashion clothing and educates the industry to be more sustainable. Christina reveals shocking facts that explain why so few items of clothing can be recycled. Why so little of the clothes we buy are sustainable. Why she is trying to make a difference. 

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Tania breaths the world of luxury. Starting as a jewellery buyer at Harrods she then ran her own luxury jewellery ecommerce business. An emerging passion for sustainability led Tania to be COO of a collective of sustainable luxury brands. Luxury goods made in a sustainable way can cost even more than those made normally which has led Tania to coin the phrase ‘A new type of luxury’.

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Zander Sebenius works for the Potential Energy Coalition. They are researching ways to improve the climate change messaging so that it leads to action. Zander shares the fascinating story of campaigns which repositioned their language to strengthen the support from American people and politicians. At present the language of "climate change" is too enormous for people to feel they can make an individual or collective impact. Changing the way we describe what climate change is, can change the way we behave towards solving it. 

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Jeremy Schwartz is host to the Saving Tomorrow’s Planet podcast and former CEO of The Body Shop - makers of vegan body lotion, skincare, hand sanitisers, body butters

Jeremy shares how, as CEO, he and his team turned The Body Shop’s 5 values into a single minded Company Purpose. Inspired by a trip in the Amazon jungle, the three word purpose, Enrich not Exploit, led to the cruelty free cosmetics campaign "Forever Against Animal Testing", doubling the fair trade ingredients and the "Bio Bridge", re wilding campaign to protect endangered animals and plants.

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Emily Penn shares her remarkable story sailing the Oceans of the planet panning for plastic mirco particles. Her shocking discovery that the sun and the waves breaks plastic down into its chemicals is new news. It is these plastic chemicals that can enter the flesh of fish and our own bodies that is most frightening and unknown before. 

Emily is bringing a smart and strategic approach to reducing plastic deposits in our seas by applying the science of chemical analysis to target the culprits - and it is actually shocking to hear, and yet inspiring too. I tracked Emily down because I wanted to get the facts following talking to Jo Ruxton on what was really happening to fish as a result of plastic in the sea.


[A longer episode but worth listening to] 

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We can all try our hardest to reduce our personal emissions but in the end there is one small law, that is the line between the mega companies collaborating to find brilliant new solutions... or being banned to do so. 
Grant Murray is an expert in competition law for Baker Mckinzie the largest global law firm. 
You see it is against the law for companies to collaborate to find incredible solutions to the climate crisis. Amazingly C-19 has forced Governments to suspend this law to allow the big pharmaceutical companies to collaborate to find a vaccine for us all. 
So what is this law?
How can we change it?
And don't switch off yet - it is really is interesting to know about 

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Max La Mana is a young cool American chef with a big social media following and a cook book to his name. The C-19 lockdown has made food preparation and eating a greater centre of attention for everyone. Max teaches us how to cook great recipes yet literally throw away nothing. He shares creative ideas for potato peals, yam seeds and carrot ends. Not only that he has smart ways to use those left overs that happen when we prepare a little bit more than we wanted to eat. With Government statistics saying we throw away 30% of all the food we buy this is a serious subject. 

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Kelly Drennan is one cool campaigner from Toronto Canada. Kelly founded Fashion Takes Action to convince Canadian consumers and the fashion industry to reduce the clothing waste and impact on the environment. Sales of clothing per person have increased by 60% since 2000 and with it the waste, microfibres and landfill that goes with it. Kelly has the 7 R's to reduce the impact of fashion and clothing on the planet.

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