The Samuele Tini Show - where business, innovation, and sustainability converge

Nadia Ahmad is an author, attorney, law professor, and environmental justice advocate. She has spent her academic career focusing on frontline communities who are the most vulnerable to energy production. 

She is a Visiting Associate Professor at Yale Law School and an Associate Professor at Barry University School of Law. She teaches environmental law, property, and business organizations. She has presented her research on the law and policy of advanced biofuels in Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Cambridge, Doha, Denver, New York, and San Francisco. Her over 45 scholarly publications focus on the intersections of energy siting, the environment, and sustainable development and draw on international investment law and corporate social responsibility.

Fixing the talent leaking pipeline. 1/3 of women in the US do not return to work after having a baby. In other countries the percentage is up to 80%.  We look today at the social angle of a sustainable work place with Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD.

Lori believes in inspiring and empowering working parents.  She is the founder and CEO of Mindful Return, author of Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave, and co-host of the Parents at Work Podcast.  She is mama to two wonderful red-headed boys (ages 9 and 11) and is a health care lawyer in private practice.  Her thought leadership has been featured in publications including Forbes, Fortune, The Washington Post, New York Times Parenting, Thrive Global, and The Huffington Post.  

Nuclear – a friend or a foe? With coal-fired power still over 30% worldwide (IEA) and the need for mass electrification,  there is a debate on the various alternatives to reach Net Zero in  2050.

Business leaders as Bill Gates in his book and countries like France are now again calling for nuclear power as an ally in our fight against climate change and to deliver a carbon free economy.

We have spoken with nuclear expert Alice Cunha da Silva and Sophie Zienkiewicz.

They are member of the Nuclear Institute Young Generation Network. Their message? “NetZero needs nuclear”

Do you agree? Listen, comment and share

Waste is a global challenge.  How can we solve it?

In our latest episode, Richard Swannell, International Director at WRAP, discusses how.

WRAP is a charity working with governments, businesses, and citizens around the globe to create a world in which resources are used sustainably.

WRAP focuses on food and drink, plastic packaging, clothing and textiles, and collections and recycling sectors.

Its 3 main priorities are

• Putting more countries on track to halving food waste by 2030, in line with Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3.

Listen to Richard and the initiatives around the world and how you can act.  

Adrian Gershom, Chair of B Local Illinois, takes us through 4 wonderful examples of businesses with purpose.

Mightybytes,   KeHE, Flowers for Dreams, and WasteNot Compost have inspiring stories of change and purpose, living up to the ideals of the B Corp movement.

Four stories of successful businesses of very different sizes, who are bringing inspiration and joy since "when you approach the work of social and environmental justice and sustainability, with a sense of joy In your heart, you're going to accomplish much more."

"There's always a blind spot in every strategy of social support and risk reduction". 

In the episode Tuga discuss about insurance, gender and resilience. 

Tuga Alaskary is an Advisor at the Secretariat of the InsuResilience Global Partnership (IGP) and Lead of the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions. IGP is a global initiative striving to foster climate and disaster risk finance and insurance. Prior to this she worked for the World Food Programme, Asian Development Bank and African Risk Capacity, where she was engaged in the design and deployment of disaster risk financing and insurance initiatives across Africa and Asia. A British and Iraqi national, Tuga has a B.A. honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Essex and an MSc in Development Studies from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.

Ethan Brown is the host of the Sweaty Penguin, part of Peril and Promise, a PBS/WNET public media initiative on climate change.

The podcast is a blend of humour and science. This unconventional approach helps The Sweaty Penguin cut through the noise and the doom-and-gloom of the climate conversation with late-night-comedy-style monologues and in-depth conversations with leading global experts on various environmental issues. Through a nonpartisan approach, The Sweaty Penguin makes environmental issues less overwhelming and politicized and more accessible and fun, especially for the young generations. The Sweaty Penguin: Antarctica's Hottest Podcast

“We're never giving a voice to communities because they have a voice and have a very strong voice. We're using our privilege to amplify and make sure these voices are being heard”

Episode 29, with Tara DePorte and Darien Castro. Tara is the founder and executive director of the Human Impact Institute. She founded it in 2010 to serve as a home for experimenting with how we can be creative in building a more just future.

Darien is an activist from Ecuador, fighting for indigenous communities in his home country. He participated at COP26 and spoke on behalf of youth non-governmental organizations https://unfccc.int/cop26/speeches-and-statements 

“my message,  challenging assumptions, and building radical partnerships to really drive climate justice forwards.”

Katerina Elias Trostmann is a leading expert in sustainability with a successful career spanning from not-for-profit to finance and banking.

In the episode, she tackles climate justice, finance, and the Amazon rainforest. 

The opinions  and views expressed are personal.

Nicoletta Batini is a Lead Evaluator at the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF, and she has covered different roles since joining the Fund. She is a leading expert in the design of macroeconomic strategies to deal with the climate change/public health nexus, focusing on land use and food systems. She is also the author of The Economics of Sustainable Food, published by Island Press and IMF.  Previously, she was Advisor of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey, and Director of the International Economics and Policy Office of the Treasury in Italy.

In the episode, she describes the actual cost of food for people and the planet. And the solutions.