The Green Edge Podcast

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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To mark Green Careers Week 2025, this special episode of The Green Edge Podcast highlights how T Level industry placements offer opportunities for students to develop real world experience in sustainable practices, and makes the case for employers to host placements co-designed to meet both learner and organisational needs.

With guests:

* Karen Kelly, Strategic Associate at SDN-Mesma;

* Will Knox, Head of Years 12 and 13 at Ada Lovelace CofE High School;

* Sam Lewis, Director of Greenhatch Group.

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A few Hallowe’en-y things to chat about this week: SocEnv’s expanding list of apprenticeships mapped to its Educational Pathways programme; the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper (of course); and the political mood music increasingly pushing the green movement to justify its position.

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