Conversations with the author of this week’s Green Edge guest post, Simon Lightman, as well as our old friend Martyn Poessinouw.

No Green Edge podcast next week, but we’ll be back with our January Digest postings at the very beginning of next month.

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Happy New Year from The Green Edge! We open the year with our Top Read from December 2025, together with a couple of interesting Editor’s Picks.

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In our final update of 2025 we present our Top Three Reads, selected from our year’s monthly Top Reads listed in yesterday’s post.

Compliments of the Season and see you in 2026!

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Our Editor’s Pick from the November Digest Update takes us round the world: from cocoa in West Africa to waste in Sweden; from fertilisers in Brazil to workforce planning in Singapore. Drivin’ home for Christmas soon…

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A slightly different update this week, focusing on one of our top reads from November, Workforce Planning for Clean Heat. With James Fotherby of Aldersgate Group and Joe Ahern of WPI Economics.

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A quick debrief on COP30—specially the Just Transition part, to see how close it got to the pre-conference recommendations. Plus a chat about a book on one of our favourite topics, wine.

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A wee chat round the edges of our Third Thursday podcast on Seagrass and Jewels with our guest Charlotte Cornelius. Plus some interesting stuff going on at Greenworkx.

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What does it mean to make something truly sustainable in a world built on preciousness, rarity and desire? Designer and jeweller Charlotte Cornelius is proving that luxury can have a conscience, and that craftsmanship might just be the greenest thing of all.

In this Third Thursday episode of The Green Edge Podcast, we talk to Charlotte at her boutique and workshop in Southsea and learn a few good things about sustainability in the world of precious metals and gemstones—oh, and seagrass.

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Crises - What Crises? Those of the existential type it seems, reportedly at least. together with COP30 opening in Brazil, open letters on education and sustainability, and reports telling us that hiring for green talent continues to grow at twice the pace of skills in the workforce.

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Following up on this week’s Digest Update, First Thursday Top Read, and Special Podcast; plus, V’s and A’s—what would you do?

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