The Change Makers Podcast

Robert Milder is a designer, an environmentalist and the founder of Van de Sant- a sustainable design furniture company that makes fully circular furniture using recycled plastic gathered from land and oceans.

Yet as sustainability gets more and more popular, the traditional furniture industry still uses more than two billion trees annually to make its products; trees cut legally and illegally. Van de Sant started with the mission to stop deforestation and plastic pollution.

More on Van de Sant here: https://www.vandesant.com/

In this episode we talk about responsible production and consumption, the challenges in the furniture industry, and the opportunity to shift towards full circularity.

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Agita Pasaribu is a child online protection enthusiast, cyberbullying policy analyst, and founder of bully.id - a future mobile app that combines psychology and law principles to proactively identify bullying & cyberbullying with an AI-analysis. 

Over a decade, she has been working closely with the UN, ITU, and WHO. 

Agita is a proud Fred. J. Hansen fellow, TEDx Speaker and Global Strategic Leadership Award 2019 “Social Cause Category" receiver.

In today’s episode we cover cyberbullying, regulations around bullying and harassment online, and its impact on mental health.

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Larissa Menocci is a communication professional, tech entrepreneur and human connection designer. She is an expert on how to use Design Thinking for team development. Since 2011 she has facilitated hundreds of workshops in three continents leading tens of teams to business success. Larissa is a Hyper Island alumni, partner of MakeTeamWork, co-founder of Teaming and she is continuously striving to make people work together better.

Teaming is an app designed for remote teams to build trust, alignment, and a healthy culture.

In this episode we talk about the future of work, team development, and designing for human connection.

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Alisha Bhagat is a senior strategist at Forum for the Future, a sustainability non-profit working globally with business, government and other organizations to solve complex problems. 

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In today’s episode, Alisha and I reflect on SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals. We discuss global solidarity in the midst of the global pandemic, we talk about the need to shift to long term oriented decision making at national and international levels and the need for global decision-makers to incorporate systems thinking in their processes.

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Pratik Parmar is a business developer at Build up Nepal, an organization empowering local people in Nepal to use local material to rebuild their own villages. Build up Nepal works as an implementation partner for INGOs, NGOs, and local entrepreneurs focusing on community-driven reconstruction and supporting local entrepreneurship.

More about the project here: https://www.buildupnepal.com/

In today’s episode, we talk about SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. We reflect on what makes a city sustainable, what are the major challenges in urban planning, and the changes needed in the way we build and manage our urban spaces.

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Jeremy Liddle, Christian Walter, and David Galipeau are founding partners at SDGx, a global technology venture capital and advisory group offering a full-service ecosystem to achieve the SDGs. SDGx does integral investments in deep tech startups, provides tech transfer venture building and consulting services as well as conducts research on the impact of technology in society. 

More on the work of SDGx here. 

In today’s episode, we discuss about impact investing, systems change, and building partnerships for a sustainable development ecosystem.

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Dorian Furlonger is a creative writer and explorer of ideas to enable EVERYONE to achieve a good quality of life, on a sustainable basis, treating our diversity of cultures and viewpoints not as a basis for conflict but as a rich knowledge resource that we can draw upon in mutually constructive ways. His books include “Quality of Life for All” and "It’s Time for Politics to Grow Up”.

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In this episode, we challenge the growth paradigm that has been guiding our political and economic decision making, we reflect on what is a good quality of life for all and the changes needed in our political and economic systems to achieve it.

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Chill Cole- Amber Lights

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Marianne Haahr is the executive director at Green Digital Finance Alliance- a private-public partnership between the UN environment program and ANT Financial to leverage digital technology to scale green digital finance. 

https://greendigitalfinancealliance.org/

In this episode, we discuss the challenges of the current financial system,  the current COVID-19 situation and the impact of this crisis on the economic and financial systems, we reflect on green finance and the need to scale it globally.

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Chill Cole- Amber Lights

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Sudebi Thakurata and Probal Banerjee are the co-founders of D.epicentre, a transdisciplinary design collecting that uses a diversity of skills and approaches in delivering a unique pedagogy and learning experiences.

D.epicentre has a vision about shifts in patterns of thinking, in looking at the bigger picture, connecting the dots and changing the way we see ourselves in relation to the world around.

For more info about their work, check Sudebi’s and Probal’s profiles:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudebi/

https://linkedin.com/in/probal/

In this episode, we talk about learning as a process of inquiry in experiential, immersive, participatory and contextual ways.  We reflect on the impact of the global pandemic on education and the opportunity to rethink the purpose and process of learning.

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Stayce Nimusiima is a freelancer and consultant working on innovation and communication projects that have the ultimate goal for behavioural change and social impact.

In this episode, we dive into Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. 

We explore what is decent work, and how the current COVID-19 pandemic is affecting it, we discuss the issue of unemployment, and the opportunities coming out of the current crisis, such as shaping the future of work.

Find out more about Stayce's work: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staycenimusiima/

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Chill Cole- Amber Lights

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