Welcome back to Sustainability Solved, this time with a twist! Hosts Will Richardson and Charlie Luxton chat with Sam Hamilton-Turner, co-founder of Soundquake, a purpose-driven podcast production company (now making this very podcast!) . Sam shares the story of Soundquake's transformation from a conventional, transactional business into a company with a clear focus on sustainability and purpose. He discusses the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned along the way.

Problem

Soundquake initially operated as a generalist audio production company, taking on various projects without a focus or direction. This approach resulted in a lack of purpose, excessive travel, economic instability, and an unsustainable business model that conflicted with the founders' personal values, especially as they became more environmentally conscious.

Solutions

• Client Selection: The company began working exclusively with clients aligned with sustainability values, turning down projects that didn’t fit this criteria.
• Remote Work: They closed their Cardiff office and moved to remote working, reducing the need for travel and office-related emissions.
• Sustainable Procurement: Opted for high-quality, second-hand equipment to minimise electronic waste.
• Niche Focus: Specialised in purpose-driven podcasts, allowing them to become a go-to provider for other purpose-driven people.

Results

• Greater Alignment: The business is now fully aligned with the founders’ values, leading to deeper fulfilment and motivation.
• New Market Opportunities: Focusing on sustainability has attracted more suitable clients and opened up new business prospects.
• Environmental Impact Reduction: Remote work significantly lowered travel emissions, and using second-hand equipment helped decrease electronic waste.

Takeaways

• Align Business with Values: Choose clients and projects that reflect your organisation’s mission for a more meaningful impact.
• Niche Specialisation Drives Success: Focusing on a specific area can unlock unique opportunities and differentiate your brand.
• Saying No Can Lead to Better Opportunities: Declining projects that don’t align with your mission can open doors to more suitable and impactful work.
• Adopt Flexible, Sustainable Practices: Remote work and sustainable purchasing can improve both environmental impact and business efficiency.

Mentions & Resources:

• Hook Norton Community Land Trust
• The Ministry for the Future
• Clean Creatives
• SDG Action Manager

Green Element Group is an environmental management consultancy offering a range of bespoke sustainability services, products, and resources to accelerate the just transition to a stable climate. The Group consists of Green Element Limited, Compare Your Footprint

In this episode, we explore the world of sustainable housing design, highlighting award-winning projects and the innovative strategies driving the industry forward.

Hosts Will Richardson and Charlie Luxton are joined by special guests David Birkbeck, Managing Director of Design for Homes, and Richard Williams, Development Manager at VELUX.

They dive into the highlights from the 2024 Housing Design Awards, the UK’s longest-running awards program celebrating excellence in housing design. Discover how this year’s winning projects are pushing the boundaries of sustainability and community engagement. 

Sustainability in Housing

• Sustainability is now a core aspect of housing design, evolving beyond energy efficiency to include goals like biodiversity and biophilic design, which foster a deeper connection to nature.
• David Birkbeck explains how architectural awards are setting higher standards for daylight, outdoor spaces, and overall liveability, shaping industry practices.

Innovative Housing Projects 

• The Blenheim Estate’s Hill Rise development exemplifies a model that minimises car use and integrates green spaces, creating more pedestrian-friendly streets.
• A new project in Lewes focuses on shared mobility hubs to reduce individual car ownership and improve community spaces.
• Richard highlights the Alkerden Gateway project’s adaptable living spaces and the Appleby Blue Almshouses’ blend of outdoor spaces with community living for seniors.

Environmental Impact and Design Innovations

• Richard discusses the “Living Spaces” project’s success in lowering embodied carbon by using alternative materials and notes Denmark and the Netherlands as leaders in this approach.
• Velux reinvests 90% of its profits into health and environmental research, demonstrating a strong commitment to healthier living environments.

Future of Housing Innovation

• Innovative designs from smaller developers are increasingly being adopted by larger firms, showing a growing acceptance of high-quality, efficient housing solutions.
• Richard and David highlight the rising focus on mental health in housing design, emphasising the benefits of daylight and environmental quality as shown in recent award-winning projects.

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In this episode, Andrew Griffiths, co-founder of the Carbon Accounting Alliance, sheds light on the Alliance’s mission to tackle sustainability challenges through collaboration. Backed by over 100 organisations and businesses, including Green Element and Compare Your Footprint, Andrew explains the Alliance's focus on promoting best practices and robust standards.

Interested businesses can easily join the Carbon Accounting Alliance by filling out a quick form. The process is open and accessible, aiming to create a supportive community without any current costs involved.

Highlights:

Carbon Accounting 101:

·     Andrew simplifies carbon accounting, likening it to financial accounting – but with carbon instead of money! He explains the process of measuring carbon, the significance of carbon factors, and provides insights into achieving net-zero.

·     Andrew discusses the Alliance’s primary objectives including policy alignment, standards, technical coherence, and communications to drive positive change.

·     As of last month, the Carbon Accounting Alliance had measured a staggering 587,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent and reported 6,000,000 tonnes of reductions.

Challenges and Solutions for Carbon Accounting:

• Andrew delves into data collection as a barrier for organisations looking to manage their carbon footprint. He discusses governmental policy recommendations and initiatives like Project Perseus for seamless and automated data gathering.
• The UK government has shown genuine interest in the Alliance’s proposals, signalling a potential bridge between business-led action and policy change.
• The Carbon Accounting Alliance plans to streamline data collection, analysis, and assurance using technologies like open banking but for carbon data.

Collaboration is Key:

• Andrew drives home the importance of collaboration in the industry and creating a safe space for professionals to connect, collaborate, and share experiences openly.
• For the Carbon Accounting Alliance, success in the next 12 months relies on collaboration, influencing policy makers, and engaging with standards like ISO and net-zero guidelines to drive change.

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Adam Hall is the head of sustainability at Internet Fusion, a group of online retailers that operate in majority outdoor sports, such as mountain sports, ocean sports, and action sports.

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Karli Hiscock works at Bates Wells, a full-service law firm established in 1970. They call themselves a city firm with a difference: they have a lot of positive impacts. They have significantly evolved since 1970 and embedded a much more outward-looking set of values. 

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Martin Rich is the cofounder of Future-Fit Business, a UK based charity, whose vision is the creation of a future-fit society. What do they mean by that? A society that protects the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on earth forever by being environmentally restorative, socially just, and economically inclusive. How do they achieve that? The objective of future Fit is to produce free to use open source tools that help businesses to become truly sustainable.

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Tim Wookey is the Cofounder and Managing Director of Amamus. As his business name tells 'we love' in Latin, Tim and his team are passionate about beautiful coffee. The company supplies speciality coffee to like-minded businesses setting new standards in quality, service and taste. Their ambition is to be innovative and disruptive within the coffee sector with the ultimate purpose of making moments more meaningful.

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Kathryn Luckock is a coach for social entrepreneurs. She set up Share Impact nearly three years ago with a vision to help social entrepreneurs measure and communicate the impact better, in order to run sustainable and profitable businesses.

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Cotswold Fayre is a wholesaler of artists on food and drinks who buys lots of nice food and drink products from producers all over, mainly the UK but also from outside. They sell those products to independent retailers in the UK, such as farm shops, delis, food halls, convenience stores, department stores, as well as some larger grocers. They are the connection point between small producers and small retailers, which are vital parts of the community.

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Catherine Manning is the Operation Manager from Social Value UK and Social Value International. Social Value UK is a national membership network with a professional body for people who are working in social impact or value. They are the national network of the UK, which is a part of social value International. They are working towards a shared global mission to change the way the world accounts for value.

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Jon Fletcher is the co-founder and managing director of Brakkn, a ‘profit with a purpose’ company who aims to make homes and businesses more affordable to run while having a positive social and environmental impact on the planet.

Brakkn have created online platforms ‘The Clean Switch’ and ‘Clean Energy UK’ to help both domestic and commercial clients make the switch to renewable energy, as simply as possible.

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Russ Avery, Dr Birgit Memminger-Rieve and Ingemar Hunold are the founders of Elodie, a sustainability and creative communications consultancy that puts purpose over profit. 

They bring together their research, education, consulting and marketing expertise to help organisations to follow in their footsteps to create a healthier, more sustainable planet.

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Ravinder and Sukhi are cofounders of Drinks Cubed, an inspiring company that produces reusable carton-bottled water. They’ve made it their aim to help shape consumer behaviour through the growing market for water and become the lowest carbon emissions drink brand by 2022.

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This month on the Sustainability Solved Podcast, our hosts Will Richardson and Charlie Luxton delve into the world of sustainable brewing. Joining them from Berlin is Roland Pahl-Dobrick, the Beer Market Manager from Pall Filtration, to shed light on the intricacies and challenges of sustainability in brewing.

Brewing Process and Impact:

-       Unlike wine filtration, beer filtration faces unique challenges due to its scale, volume, and sensitivity as a product.

-       The conversation highlights the staggering waste generated by filtration processes in the brewing industry, estimated to reach tens of millions of tonnes.

-       Traditional beer filtration using Diatomaceous Earth (DE), a fossilised algae, produces substantial waste, rendering it unfit for recycling or reuse, particularly problematic for large breweries.

Sustainability Challenges and Progress in Brewing:

-       Roland discusses the industry’s movement away from DE filtration toward membrane-based filtration, which significantly curbs waste production by over 90%, leading to substantial water savings and reductions in carbon footprint.

-       Advancements in brewing technology have notably slashed water usage by up to 80% from previous decades.

Future of Sustainable Brewing:

-       Brewing companies are increasingly adopting robust sustainability programmes aimed at minimising waste, enhancing operational efficiency, and prioritising environmentally friendly production processes.

-       Consumer preferences, particular amongst the younger demographic, are driving companies to embrace eco-friendly technologies, aligning with evolving market demands.

-       Roland explains how attention is also being directed toward addressing the environmental impact of packaging, including efforts to lightweight materials, explore reusable packaging options, and consider more sustainable transportation methods.

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Carl Pratt is the Founder of Future Planet, a community with a passion for purpose, personal fulfilment and the planet. Their purpose is to accelerate our transition into an inclusive sustainable future. FuturePlanet joins together intrapreneurs, innovators, investors and influencers. Through community, curated events, and online spaces, they empower you to provide support, solve challenges and create opportunities for each other.

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Dhiraj Sharma is the founder of 8mango where they create artefacts using a handful of domestic junk such as e-waste. Today, they have transformed more than 70 kgs of e-waste, plastic junk into artefacts for corporates and individuals.

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HSG UK (Hygienex) offers water conservation and washroom services. Lead by Simon Rice and Tom Rice, they are a father and son duo that created Ureco a water saving device for urinals and their clients and partners include Tescos, Pizzahut, Rolls Royce, NEC Birmingham, Boots and BT.

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Jae Cotterell is an author and architect, with experience in designing certified Passivhaus buildings. Passivhaus Homes helps build net zero carbon houses. They provide technical support to those building economically sustainable houses to a Passivhaus standard in an effort to combat climate change.

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Steve Pipe is a retired accountant, business author, speaker and strategist who is giving everything away to help create a better world. Steve is using B1G1 to create 100 million giving impact by 2026 and he is now personally made 5.7 million impacts. B1G1 or Buy1Give1 is a set of tools to allow anyone to make a giving impact.

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Camilla is the Founder of Ouroboros, an online global consultant supporting CEOs and Executives to develop their companies in a sustainable direction towards a circular economy. 

Based in Copenhagen and Oslo their goal is to help 1,000,000 companies in the transition towards a more profitable and resilient business model with integrated sustainability.

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Meet Amanda Weeks creator of Veles, the world’s first closed-loop and resource-negative multi-purpose cleaner. Amanda is the CEO and cofounder of Ambrosia, a New York-based company that combines waste management with closed-loop manufacturing for a sustainable future. Their first product Veles is an all-purpose household cleaner composed of water and common organic chemical compounds scientifically derived from food waste.

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Dr. Bruno Roque Cignacco (PhD) is an international business consultant,  international speaker and business coach. For over 20 years, he has advised and trained hundreds of companies on international trade  activities and international marketing. He is also a Principal Lecturer in Marketing at GSM London. In this episode we talk about his new book “The Art of Compassionate Business: Main Principles for the Human-Oriented Enterprise”

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Deanna Cook is the founder of Liya Collective a minimalist fashion brand for the modern women, sustainably made around the world.

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Mark Michaux Brown is an executive coach and author of “The Outward Bound Lessons - To Live A Life Of Leadership”

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Title: Breaking Down COP28: The Critical Climate Conference

Welcome to a special episode of the Sustainability Solved Podcast!

In this episode, we introduce a brand-new co-host, Charlie Luxton, an architectural designer and TV presenter well-known for his passion for the built environmental and sustainability, as seen on Homes By The Sea and Building The Dream. 

With COP28 just around the corner, we’ve invited guests with strong opinions to discuss one of the most significant events in the sustainability calendar. Our first guest is Georgia Elliot-Smith, environmental activist and the founder and managing director of sustainability consultancy Element Four. Joining us is Emma Littlewood, Strategy Director at Green Element Group, and creator of the comprehensive carbon footprinting platform, Compare Your Footprint. 

Tune in as we dive deep into the inner workings of COP28, explore the impact of industry and capitalism, and discuss the prospects of revitalising this pivotal event for a sustainable future.

This episode of Sustainability Solved is sponsored by Business Declares, a not-for-profit business network who inspire, encourage, and accelerate action within businesses to address the climate, ecological, and social emergency.

They are an active network of 100+ businesses who back our commitments to reach net-zero, restore and protect nature, and advocate for regulatory change.

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Highlights: 

COP28 Explained

• Our guests delve into what COP is, its evolution, how the agenda is developed, and key sustainability milestones like the Rio Summit in 1992, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement in 2015. 
• Georgia shares her experience as an observer at COP, telling all about the ‘green zone’ for businesses and public, and the ‘blue zone’ – the heart of negotiations. 

Oil and Gas at COP28:

• Emma exposes the staggering subsidies offered to the oil and gas industry and their involvement in COP28. 
• Concerns are raised about this year’s COP28 host, the UAE, and their connections to the oil and gas industry. 
• Georgia reveals that the UK have given £20 billion more to fossil fuels than renewables post Paris Agreement. 

Reviving COP:

• We discuss how the merging of industry and governments is problematic in climate discussions, with our guests pushing for strict rules to limit corporate influence at COP. 
• The guest’s desire for COP28 to fail to pave the way for a more effective future is...

Thalia Carr is a coach, trainer and facilitator helping sustainability professionals gain more confidence. Thalia work with individuals and teams from the Sustainability and the Purpose Driven Sector.

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Ben Carter is the New Business Development Manager at MiniBems. Minibems is a demand management system for complex heating systems that enables improved efficiency and fuel cost savings thanks to intelligent control and monitoring technology, paired with integrated billing.

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Taylor Gathercole is the Founder of Kindwood, a new business with the simple mission to provide people and planet kind warmth. They are transforming the wood fuel sector – turning it into an industry that provides comfort to our homes and regenerates our environment.

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Virginia Cinquemani is the Founder and Director at The Green Gorilla, where they empower sustainability professionals to make an impact through coaching and training.

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Ben Knowles is the founder of Pedal Me. Pedal powered passenger and cargo service in London.

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Sam Coggin is the MD and Head of Operations at The Coggin Group. They are office furniture suppliers, providing upcylced and remanufactured office furniture.

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Andy Middleton is the Founder and Chief Exploration Officer of TYF group.

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Andy Middleton is the Founder and Chief Exploration Officer of TYF group.

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Lauren Wiseman is the environmental manager at WWF - The World Wildlife Fund for Nature.

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Kate Strong is the world champion triathlete, entrepreneur, coach and sustainability business consultant on a mission to inspire and empower people to be the step up and realise their full potential.

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Two of the most pressing concerns of our generation are housing and the climate crisis. In the UK in particular, the housing stock is in desperate need of modernisation and improved insulation. But this problem isn’t limited to the UK; we need affordable housing that is better for the environment and more affordable to run. But how do we get there?

Today we are joined by two guests who are taking very different approaches to sustainable housing. Carl Gish is from Aro Homes, a US startup looking to replace existing dilapidated housing stock with new energy-efficient homes built off-site to Passivhaus standards. Marion Baeli is an architect, author, and board director of UK Passivhaus Trust. She has written about residential retrofits, and as a partner of Studio PDP, she worked on Princedale Road, the first Victorian residential retrofit in the UK to be certified in the Passivhaus Standard.

Highlights:

Retrofitting existing homes vs. creating new sustainable homes

· Marion explains how retrofitting existing homes addresses inefficiency, reduces energy demand, and supports the transition away from fossil fuels.

· Carl highlights the benefits of building new sustainable homes, including eliminating constraints associated with retrofitting.

· Carl emphasises the importance of constructing environmentally sound homes, given that around 23% of global carbon emissions come from single-family homes.

The net-zero challenge: balancing energy and emissions

· Achieving net-zero status for homes involves reducing embodied carbon, improving energy efficiency, and harnessing renewable energy sources.

· Both guests discuss the need for a unified approach to net-zero construction.

Cost considerations: retrofit vs. new construction

· Carl highlights how new constriction can offer efficiency advantages and cost savings.

· Marion discusses how step-by-step retrofitting is an option to spread costs over time and align with budgets.

· Marion emphasises the need for government policies and financial incentives to drive retrofitting initiatives on a larger scale.

Behavioural barriers and new technology

· Both guests highlight the importance of addressing behaviour as a barrier to retrofitting and the need to motivate homeowners to undergo disruptive home improvements.

· Carl introduces the concept of hydraloop technology, which recycles water in homes to reduce water wastage.

Resources: Passivhaus Standard Aro Homes Studio PDP Princedale Road; first Victorian residential retrofit in the UK Climate Change Committee Hydraloop Technology

April Sotomayor is the senior sustainability manager at iiE

Investors in the Environment (iiE) is a national environmental accreditation scheme. IIE support organisations to achieve environmental certification and provide them with the tools, training, and resources to do so.

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Garçon Wines are the London-based inventors of eco, flat wine bottles; sustainable packaging for a 21st century world. 

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Will helps leaders and their organisations thrive through the power of Purpose. He’s a consultant, coach and speaker.

Will started his career at Mars Inc, where he performed a variety of marketing roles across Europe. In 1999 he joined web-publishing pioneer Moonfruit as Marketing Director. After a period spent consulting, in 2008 Will joined Unilever as VP Marketing Strategy.

He led the design and rollout of the ‘Crafting Brands for Life’ Way of Marketing – equipping Unilever’s 6,000 marketers to bring social purpose to their brands and achieve digital excellence.

In 2014 Will founded Collectively, a digital media and collaboration platform created to accelerate the shift to sustainable ways of consumption. Originating in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Collectively partnered with more than thirty companies including M&S, BT and Google, and a wide network of NGOs and social entrepreneurs.

Will is a B Leader, an Ambassador for the Positive Innovation Club and a Fellow of the RSA. He’s a proud father of three daughters and loves his road bike way more than he should.

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Tara Button is the founder of BuyMeOnce, which is on a mission to change the way the world shop forever.

The BuyMeOnce team find the longest lasting and most sustainable products on the planet and do all the research so shoppers don't have to. It started as a small passion project but soon went viral. It’s now had over 3 million visitors.

There are now also over 2000 products on the site. Some of the highlights include: Socks with lifetime guaranteePans with a multi-CENTUARY warrantyA football that never deflatesA pen that never runs out of inkAnd sustainable clothing brands committed to fixing their clothes for life.

Tara has now written a book, A life Less Throwaway, which explains the philosophy behind BuyMeOnce. About how buying once and buying well is the secret to a calm mind, clean planet and a permanently uncluttered home.

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Grant Thornton is one of the world’s leading organisations of independent assurance, tax and advisory firms. More than 50,000 Grant Thornton people across 135 countries, are focused on making a difference to clients, colleagues and the communities in which we live and work. Karen Higgins is Head of Sustainability at Grant Thornton UK LLP.

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James is co-founder and co-Chairman of COOK, a certified B Corporation. He is a Founding Partner of Snowball LLP, a multi-asset impact investment manager. He is co-founder of B Lab UK and a board member of B Lab UK and B Lab Europe.

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Rural Handmade connects Rural Craftsperson or Makers to the Global consumer market with Data and Design. A transparent supply chain powered by Technology, A global platform for handmade that is leading the democratisation for rural artisans through technology, Data driven and innovative approach by driving 1.2 billion potential customers worldwide. Rural Handmade is a High impact*, one stop, sustainable, direct-to-business brand for Living and Giving sector.

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Bio-Bean is the world's largest recycler of coffee grounds. They recycle spent coffee grounds into a broad spectrum of efficient, sustainable products for a range of markets, both consumer and industrial. We speak with Matt Keniston Commercial Head of bio-bean elements and renewals.

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Javed Khattak is the CEO of Zisk Properties a property crowdfunding platform to make property investments more accessible to everyone.

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Sian Conway is an ethical marketer working on behalf of Mother earth. Ethical Hour works with impact entrepreneurs on marketing strategies to grow their income and impact.

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Title: Striking a Chord for the Planet: Music's Journey to Sustainability

Story:

Welcome to an exciting episode of the Sustainability Solved Podcast, where our spotlight falls on an industry renowned for creativity and innovation: the music industry. The music industry has the power and influence to make huge strides in the environmental movement, but who is responsible for leading the change?

Our guests today have certainly struck a chord in the music industry for their leadership in sustainability: Lewis Jamieson, co-founder of Music Declares Emergency (MDE) and Hannah Cox, founder of Better Not Stop and author of the “More Than Music” report on sustainability at music festivals.

Together we explore how the music industry, artists, labels, fans, and governments hold key roles in steering the industry towards a more eco-conscious path.

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Highlights: · Lewis sheds light on the motivations behind Music Declares Emergency, an initiative uniting artists, labels, and fans to address climate challenges. · Hannah, founder of Better Not Stop, discusses the “More Than Music” report on sustainability at music festivals. She explains her inspiration and the challenges music festivals face in adopting sustainable practices. · Lewis and Hannah discuss Coldplay’s groundbreaking eco-friendly world tour. They highlight the significance of Coldplay’s efforts in advancing discussion around sustainability in the music industry.

· The conversation delves into the idea of virtual concerts as a potential solution to reduce carbon emissions.

· Lewis candidly discusses the challenges of securing funding for climate-related initiatives in the music industry. He emphasises the lack of commitment to sustainable causes.

· Music festivals often take place in remote areas, posing challenges for government-driven public transport improvements. Lewis and Hannah discuss solutions to these challenges.

· Sustainability is more than just a cost: Hannah highlights the advantages of adopting sustainable frameworks and what to include.

· Spotlight on trailblazers making a significant impact on sustainability within the music industry like EarthPercent, Vision 2025, and Blue Dot Festival.

· Uncover the concept of “Climate Shadow”, revealing that individual actions extend beyond personal consumer choices.

Resources: Music Declares Emergency Better Not Stop More Than Music Report Coldplay’s eco-friendly tour Kendall Calling Festival EarthPercent Vision 2025 Green Events Code Blue Dot Festival

Good Citizen turns single-use bottles into eyewear. They make 100% recycled sunglasses where each sunglasses is made from one recycled plastic bottle. Good Citizen is a father and sons team on a mission. We speak with Nik Robinson who set up the business with his two kids aged 6 and 8.

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This episode is hosted by Will Richardson - connect with Will on Linkedin or Twitter 
This episode is produced by Woon Tan of Podcast Publishing

Russ Avery is the sustainability marketing guy. Russ is a serial eco entrepreneur, having founded several startups including Happy Orangutan, Renewabilitee, and upcoming sustainability and communications consultancy Elodie.

For more information go to Green Element Podcast
This episode is hosted by Will Richardson - connect with Will on Linkedin or Twitter 
This episode is produced by Woon Tan of Podcast Publishing

Kiran Gill is the cofounder of Bloom and Grace. Their missions is to eradicate poverty through working with artisan communities and educating local communities.Working with Buy1Give1 (B1G1) they are making an impact with every piece of jewellery they sell.

For more information go to Green Element Podcast
This episode is hosted by Will Richardson - connect with Will on Linkedin or Twitter 
This episode is produced by Woon Tan of Podcast Publishing