The Net Zero Business Podcast

Delivering Sustainability is far from easy and takes its mental toll on practitioners. In the final Words of Wisdom compilation episode of this summer, we look at the mental aspects of delivering Sustainability with these fantastic contributions:

• Eco-anxiety and me – Anna-Lisa Mills, Smart Carbon
• How declaring a climate emergency saved me from jail – James Dixon, Newcastle Hospitals Trust
• Pessimism, optimism and faith – Amir Sokolowski, CDP
• Meditation, innovation and Sustainability – Mark Shayler, Ape

The full interviews can be heard by clicking the links.

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During August, we are publishing a series of compilation episodes featuring the best bits of our interviews on a particular theme. This time we are looking at that most controversial of topics, offsetting aka voluntary carbon credits. Does it work? Is it a distraction? Is it greenwash? Before you make up your mind, check out these contributions:

• The state of play in offsetting – Nic Alexander of Thallo (full interview here)
• The hidden risk of relying on offsets – Mel Blackmore of Blackmore's (full interview here)
• Alternatives to offsetting #1: insetting – Alex Herridge of Skanska/Anglian Water (full interview here)
• Alternatives to offsetting #2: social offsetting – Olli Jones of Cundall (full interview here)

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During August, we are publishing a series of compilation episodes featuring the best bits of our interviews on a particular theme. This time I've collated four clips about the different aspects of the supply chain which I think are very insightful:

• The state of play in Supply Chain Sustainability – Shaun McCarthy OBE, Supply Chain Sustainability School (full interview here)
• Collaborating with competitors to improve Supply Chain capacity – Alex Roberts, Vistry Group (full interview here)
• Turning a disgraced supply chain around through radical change – Aida Greenbury (full interview here)
• How the supply chain is choking the EV industry – Prof Colin Herron (full interview here)

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During August, we are publishing a series of compilation episodes featuring the best bits of our interviews on a particular theme. As the old cliché goes, we won't fix climate change and other environmental problems with the same thinking that created them, so this episode is all about design and innovation. The clips I have picked are:

• The importance of design from Alex Herridge of Skanska/Anglia Water (full interview here)
• Eco-design and cost from Rich Deaville of Balfour Beatty (full interview here)
• Biomimicry: The Factory as a Forest by Lisa Conway of Interface (full interview here)
• Insect protein in an industrial ecology-style cluster by Tobias Webb of the Innovation Forum (full interview here).

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During August, we are publishing a series of compilation episodes featuring the best bits of our interviews on a particular topic. First up is the crucial area of engagement, featuring the following contributions:

• Engaging the public on the BBC - Lucy Siegle
• B2B green marketing - Russ Avery of Avery & Brown
• Internal engagement using Green Jujitsu - Elisa Gasperini of Ahsell
• Gamification: making Sustainability fun - Dr Paula Owen

Click on the links to get the full interview in each case.

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In this episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast, I run through the 3 most common failures that lead to a Net Zero Strategy failing. For each, I explain how I avoid these elephant traps when I'm developing Net Zero Strategies with my clients.

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In this episode of the Net Zero Business Podcast, I talk to Russ Avery of the Avery & Brown marketing agency about his Sustainability career, his views on green marketing and other interests, notably AI. Here's the highlights:

• Purpose driven business

• How clichéd images betray an inability to tell a story.

• Avoiding greenwash, greenhushing and the danger of big numbers

• Becoming a BCorp as a small business

• AI for good

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This week I speak to Nic Alexander of Thallo about Sustainability's most controversial topic, offsetting. We talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the current market for voluntary carbon credits (to use offsetting's Sunday name) and what is being done to address the weakness. Along the way we bust some of the lazy myths of offsetting and talk about why more businesses are embracing it.

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In this week's edition of the Net Zero Business Podcast, I talk to Anna Krotova, co-author of a great new book entitled How to be a Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO). As I say, this is one of the best books I've read on Sustainability and Leadership (second only to my own Green Executive 😉). Watch and learn all about the hot new role in Sustainability.

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This week's podcast is a long version of a response I gave to a client in a workshop recently. I lay out how I open every workshop I do with a new audience to bring them on board and my subjective assessment is that it works 99%+ of the time! Like all my change management for Sustainability, I employ approaches that take into consideration human psychology - one of my maxims is that the biggest barrier to Sustainability is just six inches wide, the space between our ears.

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