Future Planet Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this episode, we welcome Simon Dawes, a driving force behind the Environment Agency's push towards sustainability, with over two decades of experience in the environmental sector. 

Currently, Simon is the Head of Sustainable Business Strategy, where he led the development and integration of a Net Zero delivery plan for a complex £1.3bn organisation. 


He also spearheaded the creation of an expansive Carbon Literacy training program for 11,000 staff, fostering a culture of innovation and sustainability at every level.

Simon is a key player in the UK's journey to Net Zero, representing the Environment Agency on task forces and acting as a Sustainability Ambassador.

Beyond his sustainability role, Simon is driven by a zest for adventure and challenge. A keen snowboarder and supporter of protecting our winters. His passion has led him to conquer the towering summits of Europe's Mt. Blanc and Africa's Kilimanjaro, alongside testing his endurance in triathlons at the Olympic distance. 

Simon's story is one of passion, leadership, and a relentless pursuit of a better future for all. 

We explore:

🌱 Simon’s vision for the future of the UK

🌱 The role of a regulator and how to be inclusive and progressive 

🌱 How to accelerate change through collaboration in the construction sector

🌱 The business reasons to embracing the circular economy


🌱 That the circular economy and net zero are intrinsically interlinked

🌱 Water, rivers, pollution and Climate adaptation 

🌱 …and the projects Simon is working on as part of the UK environment agency

Listen to the end to hear about Simon's campaigning passion with Protect Our Winters and the role sports can play in creating a better world for all. 

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Let's get into it. 

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In this episode, we welcome Andres Roberts, Founding Partner for the Bio-Leadership Project. A place where a new story of leadership is growing, working with the rules of life: cycles, connection, regeneration, reciprocity and love.


The vision for the Bio-Leadership Project is to help a global ecosystem of people to grow this new story all over the world.


Five kinds of Bio-Leadership stories are redefining human progress. The work is about helping these stories connect up and grow. 

🌱 New forms of purpose and progress connected to nature.

🌱 New organisational forms that work like nature.

🌱 New ways of working as ecosystems, inspired by nature.

🌱 New, regenerative models of organisation and society.

🌱 New cultures that reconnect to nature and the web of life. 

Andres, Ella and Javi believe that to grow new forms of leadership, we need to grow new forms of knowledge. 

And to navigate complex and urgent times, we need to cultivate human capacities for resilience, connection, adaptability, systemic awareness, and care for things greater than ourselves. 

Bio-Leadership is about working with nature to grow these qualities as individuals, communities, businesses and society.

This is a rich and emotive conversation. Listen to the end to hear an exploration of nature and a desire to rekindle that worldview of nature's our home as well. 

Let’s get into this.

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In this episode, we welcome Thrivability Maven, an author of Age of Thrivability, Michelle Holiday.  It was such a pleasure to connect and co-create this episode with Michelle.

The focus of Michelle's work is helping people shift from a mechanistic, reductive, extractive worldview to a regenerative heart-centered one.


 Together we adventure through:

• how our worldview needs to bring nature to the heart of it
• how feelings and the words we choose will guide us in the world we co-create
• how Michelle has supported farmers to transition how they relate to the land
• how tourism organizations can shift how they see their role in communities and the land they bring people to
• constellations or clusters of connections within organizations 
• the power of trust in our collaborative relationships 

...and so much more


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Who is Michelle Holliday

Over two decades, Michelle Holliday has elegantly woven her vision of “Age of Thrivability” into her role as a writer, presenter, and consultant. 

Her mission? To help people feel truly alive, connect deeply, and make their work serve life in the most impactful way.

Michelle began in brand strategy for giants like Coca-Cola and H.J. Heinz. Later, she focused on employee engagement in Washington, DC. Today, she’s the heart behind Montreal's Cambium Consulting, guiding a community of purpose-driven souls.

With degrees in International Marketing and Russian Studies, Michelle's journey took her across 19 cities – from Moscow to a quaint Scottish town. Now, Montreal is home, where she cherishes time with her husband and two kids.

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In this episode, we welcome Timothée Parrique, a pioneering proactivist, passionate about degrowth. Timothée is a researcher, economist, and scientist who focuses on questions about de-growth, post-growth, and post-capitalism. 

We explore:

• what degrowth is
• how it can be defined
• why it needs to exist
• what it means in practice
• what practical policies we can adopt
• and examples where they are working.

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Who is Timothée Parrique

Timothée Parrique is an economist, originally from Versailles, France. He is currently a researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden).

He holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University, Sweden). Titled “The political economy of degrowth” (2019), his dissertation explores the economic implications of degrowth.

Tim is the author of Ralentir ou périr. L’économie de la décroissance (September 2022, Seuil), a wide-audience book adaptation of his PhD dissertation.

Tim frequently writes about green growth and decoupling; he is the lead author of “Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth” (2019), a report published by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).

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In this episode, we welcome Philippe Birker, co-founder of Climate Farmer-- visionary and adventurous--on a mission to scale regenerative agriculture through a community of practice for farmers and carbon.

We dive into: 

• what is regenerative farming
• soil health
• the role that farmers play in maintaining healthy ecosystems
• it's not the cow, it's the how
• the need for a better subsidy framework
• more transparent pricing through the supply chain and more value being passed to farmers for their hard work
• the challenges of the availability of land
• and the need to create a movement of future farmers for our future generation

Philippe is deeply knowledgeable and it was a pleasure to receive his hard-earned insights, which I'm now happy to share with you. Let's get into it.


Who is Philippe Birker

Philippe Birker is a regenerative farmer and leader, committed to helping humanity transition toward a regenerative future. 

Philippe is on a mission to support regenerative farmers in Europe and experiments with regenerative culture and leadership. He believes that regenerating our soils through climate farmers is crucial for a sustainable future.

If you are interested in compensating your CO2 emissions through regenerative agriculture or implementing regenerative culture in your organization, Philippe is the person you want to talk to. 

He has also worked for five years in business and community development for different impact start-ups, including Peerby, Fairphone, and Ritual technologies.

Aside from his work in regeneration, Philippe holds the world record for simultaneous fire breathing since 2009. He is also a member of Ashoka's Changemaker community, the BMW Foundation's Responsible Leader network, Viva con Agua, and the Love Foundation, which he co-founded in 2013.

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In this episode, we welcome Sir Jonathon Porritt - a renowned environmentalist, sustainability campaigner, writer, member of the British Green Party, and founder-director of Forum for the Future.


We talk about intergenerational justice and intersectionality. We explored citizen leadership and civil disobedience and the blocker that is the indifference of so many people.


We adventured politics and political funding, the juxtaposition of oil investment and climate action, nuclear power, EV, energy and energy efficiency and Jonathan's book, Hope in Hell (A Decade To Confront the Climate Emergency).


My heart is wide open for Jonathan and I am deeply grateful for the encouragement and support he gave at the very beginning of the Future Planet.  This is why it's a great pleasure to bring this conversation to you at the start of our journey together.


Who is Jonathon Porritt, CBE

Sir Jonathon Porritt is an eminent writer and campaigner on sustainable development.

For the last 30 years, Jonathon has provided strategic advice to leading UK and international companies to deepen their understanding of today’s converging environmental and climate crises.

He is also focused on intergenerational justice, supporting young people in their activities around sustainable development issues as they face a future defined by the twin crises of the Climate Emergency and Biodiversity Emergency.

He is President of The Conservation Volunteers and is involved in the work of many other NGOs and groups.

In 1996, he co-founded Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainable development charity, working with business and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future.

Jonathon was formerly Co-Chair of the Green Party (1980-83) and Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90). He stood down as Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in 2009, after nine years of providing high-level advice to Government Ministers, and served a ten-year term as Chancellor of Keele University (2012-2022).

Jonathon was awarded a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.

His latest book, Hope in Hell (Simon & Schuster, 2020, revised 2021) is a powerful ‘call to action’ on the Climate Emergency.

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In this episode, we welcome Catherine Howarth who has been pioneering systems change for over a decade with ShareAction.

ShareAction coordinates civil society activism to promote responsible investment across Europe. 

We explore the critical role that finance, pension funds, asset managers and big banks have in transitioning to a low carbon future and that there is no space in our carbon budget for further investment in fossil fuels.

Catherine talks about their formula for successful campaigning, the need for us to be a movement for change and influence our pension funds and how that can happen and a vision for a sustainable financial system that serves society instead of being so self-serving.

You can support the work that ShareAction does by visiting https://shareaction.org/ 

Who is Catherine Howarth 

Since 2008, Catherine has been the Chief Executive of ShareAction, an organization that coordinates civil society activism to promote responsible investment across Europe. 

In addition to her role at ShareAction, Catherine is a board member of the Scott Trust and serves on the HM Treasury’s Asset Management Taskforce.

She also holds a First Class BA in Modern History from Oxford University and an MSc in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics. 

Catherine's expertise in corporate governance has not gone unnoticed, as she was named a 'Rising Star of Corporate Governance' by Yale University's Millstein Center in 2011, and recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2014.

When Catherine finds the time for herself, she loves heading up to Scotland to spend some time in the mountains and by the sea.

Of course, her two boys keep her occupied at home, but she still manages to sneak in some runs around the East End of London when she can. 

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In this episode, we welcome Vibhati Bhatia, the founder of South Asians for Sustainability and managing consultant for social sustainability at Energise.


She is also the co-partner of Race Report UK-- part of Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS)-- and advisory board for Catalyse Change, which focuses on helping 18 to 25 females or non-binary people getting into sustainability. 

This is a heart opening adventure through inequality, injustice, and the inspiring story of how a pioneering pro activist is intentionally doing something about it. 

Together we explore:

🌱 How a family experience of the Punjab floods deepened her empathy and emboldened  her to act with greater intention and intensity

🌱 The community of South Asians for Sustainability which Vibhati founded

🌱 The transformation we need to see in diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, and the loss and damage fund

And so much more… 


Listen to the end to hear ideas on how we can co-create a more empathetic and connected approach to how we transform our organisations, our roles in them and the communities and projects that we support. 

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Lets get into it. 

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In this episode of the Future Planet Podcast, we adventure with Hermione Taylor, the visionary founder and CEO of Do Nation. Hermione is an early pioneer in promoting sustainable actions and living.

Her journey began in 2009 with an inspiring cycling trip from London to Morocco, a challenge not just for her but for those around her.  Instead of seeking financial support, Hermione urged her friends and family to commit to sustainable actions. 

What started as a personal challenge quickly transformed into a global movement.

Under Hermione's leadership, Do Nation has collaborated with over 500 organizations in 100 countries. Nearly 60,000 individuals have made pledges, collectively saving an astounding 16,500 tonnes of CO2 annually. 

This achievement is equivalent to offsetting over 42,500 flights from London to Morocco, a testament to the power of collective action. And no, that doesn’t mean that we can now take those winter holidays without careful thought about our personal carbon budget. 

In this episode you will hear:

🌱 Hermione's pioneering journey to empower everyday actions 

🌱 How COP and CSRD are creating urgency and driving change 

🌱 Collaboration, when it works, where its edges are and the opportunities it creates

We also explore how the movement has changed. And how with more people joining and creating solutions, which is wonderful, that also creates a need to evolve.

Listen to the end to hear us explore: 

• the very real challenge of money, finance and allocation of resources to supporting the people and solving the challenges we face

• a curious link to how our approach could be different if we adopted the successes of a pilot project that helped people into work  

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Brad Vanstone is the Founder of Willicroft, a plant‑based cheese producer making planet‑proof cheese for dairy cheese lovers. Inspired by Brad’s family's dairy farming roots dating back to 1957, Willicroft was re‑imagined as a plant‑based cheese company in Amsterdam in 2018.

This is a journey of an inspiring story of passion, tenacity and commitment to doing the right thing.


In this episode, we hear the story of how Brad:

🌱 Grew up in his Grandparents' dairy farm

🌱 Started from humble beginnings experimenting with recipes in a flat, where he had an attic full of hundreds of kilos of nuts and various other ingredients.

🌱 Had to completely rebuild the product and business, as they discovered that the original recipe nuts had a higher impact than the legumes that they now use.  A brave example of commitment to planet -first innovation

🌱 Put Mother Nature  as CEO, to place the planet's future front and centre behind every decision they make.

Listen to the end to hear us explore regenerative farming financing, subsidies, taxes as incentivisation - and disincentivization - and some of the blockers and solutions to truly transforming farming and food. 

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About Brad Vanstone


Fuelled by concerns about the future of our planet, Brad Vanstone began eating a mainly plant-based diet on moving to Amsterdam. He found the transition easier than he’d imagine with the exception of cheese. Unable to find many plant-based cheese alternatives in the supermarket, Brad started making it at home. Months of experimentation later, and with some basic knowledge of dairy cheese making from time spent growing up on his Grandparents’ dairy farm, Brad founded Willicroft in 2018.

The name originates from Willicroft Farm in Devon founded by his grandparents in 1957. Brad is reimagining how we consume cheese combining age-old techniques with a more planet-friendly ingredient base. With Mother Nature as their CEO, Willicroft is placing the planet's future front and centre behind every decision they make.

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