Sustainability Champions

Series 2, episode 8 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙

Introducing Amy Munro, Sustainability Officer at 11th Hour Racing, an organisation that was established to create strategic partnerships to promote collaborative, systemic change addressing environmental issues.

The organisation founded 11th Hour Racing to use the power of sport to restore a balanced relationship between people and the planet.

From working to eliminate single-use plastic at regattas, this organisation has evolved to integrate sponsorships, grantmaking and an ambassador program to champion collaborative, systematic change across the sailing and sports communities to benefit our ocean.

Although competing against other teams in ‘The Great Race’, this team's main goal is to integrate sustainability into the value of their organisation and inspire others to do the same across the entirety of their operation while educating, innovating and inspiring people with critical messaging of ocean stewardship.

A unique episode, this is the first sustainability champion our channel has highlighted and interviewed within the sporting world! This week, we speak with Amy Munro to learn more about the 11th Hour Racing organisation, their sailboat team, the Great Race their sailors are currently competing in and how this team is pioneering an environmentally conscious future - one degree at a time.

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Series 2, episode 7 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙

Introducing Ben Ridding, the Founder of Ulu, a company formed because of Ben’s love for the sea. Ulu makes waterproof backpacks and tow floats with the mission to make all of its products from 100% ocean-bound plastics.

So, why does the ocean matter?

When we think about the issues we face as a result of climate change, it’s important to remember that our oceans need to be clean and protected to avoid the most severe issues that climate change is causing globally.

Our oceans feed us, regulate our climate, and generate much of the oxygen that we breathe.

We sometimes overlook the need for a clean and protected ocean when we think about sustainability. But for many people, the ocean is their playground, where they go to escape life's challenges and reconnect with nature.

Ben does not necessarily consider himself a ‘Sustainability Champion,’ but rather someone who is eco-conscious, using common sense to make a small change to address a major crisis. In this episode, Ben discusses how he plans to make all of his products from 100% ocean-bound plastic.

This is how he and the team at Ulu ensure they are making a real difference when it comes to protecting the ocean from plastic.

In this episode we discuss the plastic pollution crisis, what brands and people can do to address this problem, ‘greenwashing’ - or falsely advertising a brand is sustainable - and how Ben is trying to create awareness by educating consumers, people and manufacturers.

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Series 2, episode 6 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙

Introducing Himanshu Gupta, the Co-Founder and CEO of Climate AI. Climate AI is developing a solution for those in the agriculture & food, finance, commodities, water risk management and climate risk management industries. He and the team are providing the world’s first Enterprise Climate Planning platform that offers risk intelligence to these industries that affect people, enterprises and governments.

The effects of climate change are already prevalent in the everyday lives for millions of people around the world. In fact, it was reported by ABC Australia at the start of 2023 that “Greenland temperatures the warmest in more than 1,000 years, new data show”.

Climate change accelerates volatility and escalates the risk of extremes, creating massive challenges for people, governments, and businesses around the world. Adaptation is a necessity — and the most important transformation of our time.

Himanshu and his team at Climate AI are on a mission to ‘climate-proof’ the economy while aiming for zero loss of lives, livelihoods and nature.

This week we speak with Himanshu Gupta, the CEO of an inspiring and innovative company to understand the AI technology that he and his team are developing and its benefits.

To learn more about Climate AI simply click the link:

https://climate.ai

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Series 2, episode 5 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙

Introducing the Zayed Sustainability Prize, the United Arab Emirates’ pioneering global award for recognising excellence in sustainability around the world.

Established in 2008, this prize recognises nonprofit organisations (NPOs), small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and high schools for their impactful, innovative and inspiring sustainable solutions across the categories of Health, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools.

With 96 winners across the world, the Prize has helped positively impact over 370 million people since the first awards ceremony in 2009.

In this week’s episode, we are showcasing two of this year’s winners from the 2023 ceremony in Abu Dhabi. The first of these winners is LEDARS (Local Environment Development and Agricultural Research Society). LEDARS is an organisation based in Bangladesh that integrates water resource management models to solve water scarcity issues in disaster-prone areas where water becomes unusable due to salinity and flooding.

The second is Neurotech, winner of the Zayed Sustainability Prize in technology. Based in Jordan, this organisation has developed Al-based algorithms with a blockchain-based transaction system to bring reliable energy access to refugee camps and underdeveloped areas.

Both of these sustainability champions are making positive, real-world changes to the most vulnerable in society who are impacted most by the changing climate.

This week, we speak with Mohon Kumar Mondal from LEDARS and Abdel Rahman Al Khalaileh and Omar Asad from Neurotech, in collaboration with the Zayed Sustainability Prize.

To learn more about the Zayed Sustainability Prize, click this link:

https://zayedsustainabilityprize.com

To apply for the Zayed Sustainability Prize 2024, click the link below:

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To learn more about our guests, click the links below:

https://www.ledars.org

http://neurotechjo.com

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Series 2, episode 4 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙

Introducing Joe Lipman: Co-Founder & CEO of NAME APP, an app founded by university students who are on a mission to make scrolling meaningful and shopping sustainable & stylish.

Having only recently launched their app, NAME APP was started because the founders felt that our favourite online habits were becoming increasingly meaningless.

The team at NAME APP sees the world slightly differently. They believe that as consumers, our everyday lives and habits can be improved for the better.

Through their app, the team of young students are working to make NAME APP mainstream so their users feel good while scrolling. This is done by featuring short, entertaining videos with experts discussing major topics in society and environmental sustainability.

In this series of our podcast, we wanted to showcase and highlight a range of sustainability champions. It is inspiring to see young entrepreneurs, who are finishing their studies at university in the UK, take the skills they are learning in class and apply them towards an online platform that has meaningful and purpose-driven content.

In our second episode of this week, we speak with Joe Lipman on the fourth episode of series 2 to discuss their sustainable, content-driven platform and their plans for the future of NAME App.

To learn more about the NAME App simply click the link:

https://nameapp.co.uk

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Series 2, episode 3 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙

Introducing Katharina Hellmann, certified Life Coach & Climate Change Coach, who specialises in turning climate anxiety into empowered action, from helping individuals reduce their carbon footprint, live more sustainability and become happier than ever before!

After reading in the 2018 IPCC report that humanity had a mere 12 years left to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, Katharina became crippled with climate anxiety, questioning everything including her dream to have a family.

It was only after she found life coaching that she learned how to manage her emotions in a healthy way and how to transform our minds so that we can create the change we want to see in the world. 

She shook off her paralysis, reclaimed her power to act and embarked on an ongoing journey to slash her family’s carbon footprint without any sacrifice to their quality of life. And this journey has been so transformative that she decided to become a Life Coach for the sole purpose of putting the most powerful tools into the hands of people who are done watching the world go up in flames without doing anything about it.

Today, she helps eco-conscious people turn climate anxiety into empowered and effective action and actually implement a sustainable low-carbon lifestyle that maximises their quality of life.

The term eco-anxiety has only recently become mainstream and it was in an attempt to combat people's fear of the environment and overcome eco-anxiety that our Founder Daniel Hartz and our team here at Sustainability Champions started this channel.

In our first of two episodes this week, we speak with Katharina Hellmann on the third episode of Series 2 to discuss her work and how she is helping individuals.

To learn more about Katharina simply click the link:

https://katharinahellmann.com

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Series 2, episode 2 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙

Introducing Michelle Benavides, Executive Director at the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, or ISSP for short, an organisation that is set up to empower sustainability professionals across the workforce and around the world.

ISSP is the world's leading professional association of sustainability practitioners. A member-driven organisation, the ISSP moves the sustainability profession forward by empowering each other and defining professional excellence. Regardless of your area of specialisation or the sector you work in, ISSP is a leading partner in driving change.

The ISSP's mission is to collaborate with its members by providing opportunities for sustainability professionals to share ideas and resources through an online, member-only ISSP community platform. Through collaboration, capacity building and partnering toward goals, the ISSP facilitates dialogue among professionals to continuously clarify and update the Sustainability Professionals in its network.

Helping to define the standards of excellence for its professionals allows for the ISSP to properly educate the capable workforce that plays a critical role in driving true sustainability.

This week we speak with Michelle Benavides on the second episode of our new series to discuss in more detail the need for a professional community within the world of sustainability.

To learn more about the ISSP simply click the link:

https://www.sustainabilityprofessionals.org

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Series 2, episode 1 of the Sustainability Champion’s Podcast 🎙  

Introducing Dr. Thomas Funke, CEO and Co-Founder of Tomorrow University, the first fully state-accredited European university to be founded by a Tech-Startup.  

Tomorrow University has been educating learners through its revolutionary approach to education since 2020, with a strong focus on sustainability and technology.  

When the pandemic hit, Thomas and his co-founder, Christian Rebernik, quickly realised that our current education systems are not prepared to take learning into the 21st century. Traditional classrooms were simply taken online, resulting in highly ineffective learning through endless Zoom lectures and little peer interaction.  

Seeing this as an opportunity to radically change education for the better, the two founders created Tomorrow University: a remote-first university allowing students to learn from anywhere in the world at any time, and forming a real-time community in a virtual campus.  

Tomorrow University offers students the opportunity to acquire 21st-century skills in sustainability, technology and entrepreneurship through its challenge-based learning model. Learners tackle real-world problems and scenarios and devise strategies to solve them. They can choose from a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, an Impact Degree in Green Tech, or participate in one of the regular Open Challenges to discover a new way of learning.  

This week, we speak with Dr Thomas Funke on the first episode of our new series to discuss their higher education courses and their approach to education in sustainability.   

To learn more about Tomorrow University simply click the link: https://www.tomorrow.university 

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Series 1, episode 15 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙

Introducing May Al-Karooni, Founder & CEO of Globechain, a company that is a leading ESG data reuse marketplace connecting enterprises with non-profits, small businesses and people to redistribute unneeded items.

Globechain generates ESG data on your impact, helping you reduce waste costs and achieve your sustainability and SDG targets.

May Al-Karooni realised no one had digitised the waste industry when the bank she worked for moved offices across the road. Rather than moving their office furniture, most of which was in perfect condition, they disposed of it all and purchased brand-new furniture.

Seeing this immense waste was a revelation; she knew there were charities and people that needed these items, and that her bank had also incurred high fees for both the disposal and repurchase of the furniture.

This revelation resulted in the birth of Globechain!

In February 2022, our founder Daniel Hartz interviewed May as she was scaling Globechain into new markets and its marketplace was beginning to be used by more users. Today, Globechain is the biggest reuse marketplace worldwide, with over 10,000 members operating in the UK, Spain, the UAE and New York.

We brought the Sustainability Champion's Podcast series back in September of this year, and Globechain has helped us facilitate this series by sponsoring our episodes! A champion we featured in 2020, two years later is now helping us showcase more champions from the world.

A truly inspiring sustainable champion, this week we speak with our series sponsor Globechain and their Founder May Al-Karooni!

To learn more about Globechain simply click the link:

https://globechain.com

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Series 1, episode 14 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙

Introducing Som Ray, The CEO & Founder of CLIP, a company that specialises in making a portable propulsion device that is designed to transform any standard bike into an e-bike instantly!

Transportation is responsible for 24% of global direct CO₂ emissions, road vehicles account for nearly three quarters of transport emissions, and these numbers are not decreasing. On top of the unsustainable levels of carbon emissions that are ruining our planet’s climate, road vehicles are polluting our air at unprecedented levels.

Therefore, we will need much more cycling if we are to combat climate change!

This is what inspired Som, the CEO & Founder of CLIP Bikes to create an electronic solution for biking. CLIP's powerful friction drive delivers smooth power on demand to make any urban commute easy as the breeze.

Many of our team here at Sustainability Champions own an e-bike and we know e-bikes are expensive and they get stolen a lot! So, what if you could simply detach the ‘e’ from your bike to carry it inside?

Just detach & GO!

CLIP is as light as a laptop, fits in your backpack & looks great charging on your desk.

A truly inspiring sustainable champion, this week we speak with the CEO  & Founder of CLIP; Som Ray

To learn more about Invisible Company simply click the link:

https://www.clip.bike

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