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Series 3, episode 14 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! 

Introducing David Even, the Co-Founder of PRIMAL Soles, a company that specialises in making circular cork insoles which are endlessly reusable.

According to Circular Online, 23 billion pairs of shoes are made each year and 22 billion pairs are thrown into landfill. With sneakerhead and trainer consumption only growing every year - more of what goes into our shoes is just ending up in landfills. 

Shoes are one thing, but shoe insoles themselves are contaminating the environment by emitting chemicals into the soil and groundwater. 

So, what is the solution to this problem?

PrimalSoles shoes believe they have the answer. 

PRIMAL Soles are CO2 negative and endlessly recyclable high performance cork insoles. The bottom of each insole is made from recycled cork and footwear waste. Made for a lifetime of maximum comfort without the environmental footprint.

What makes it even better is you can return your PRIMAL Soles and reuse the material endlessly. 

With Carbon neutral shipping on all orders, now that we at SC have discovered this brand, we will be using what David and his team have made in our shoes going forward. A small change with such a huge impact!

Learn more about PrimalSoles through the link below:

https://primalsoles.com

Follow PrimaSoles on social media through the links below:

https://www.instagram.com/primalsoles/

https://www.youtube.com/@primalsoles

Find out more about PrimalSoles and champions like them on our website: 

https://www.sustainabilitychampions.com

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Presented by: Daniel Hartz 

Produced by: Daniel Hartz & Peter Donnelly

Video Edit by: Abdallah Raddadi 

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Series 3, episode 13 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! 

Introducing Julie Cheetham; Founding Member and Managing Director at Weeva - and Aimee Henning; Sustainability Manager at Weeva. 

Weeva is a company that specialises in making tourism more sustainable. From small actional steps within an organisation that can have a big impact on the surrounding area and environment it operates from.  

Weeva was designed by sustainable tourism experts from the ground up, using the latest science to ensure our efforts translate into maximum impact. They focus on using sustainability to create more efficient and resilient businesses.

By bringing all this knowledge and information into one place, explained in simple language, and with clear instructions, their team has built something this industry has been waiting for: a 360° sustainability management platform.

Because that's exactly what managers and those in hospitality and tourism need – something to guide them to do better without the guesswork or the effort of searching for the right information.

Weeva is building a community of sustainability experts and people who work in tourism, to ensure we can meet every new challenge, together.

Whether you own or manage a single holiday apartment, a lodge in the wilderness or a multinational chain of hotels; Weeva is to help you make a meaningful difference.

Learn more about Weeva through the link below:

https://weeva.earth

Follow Weeva on social media through the links below:

https://www.instagram.com/weareweeva/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/weareweeva

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8O7m7RRP5McjhoWcZb6_TA

Find out more about Weeva and champions like them on our website: 

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Produced by: Daniel Hartz & Peter Donnelly

Video Edit by: Abdallah Raddadi 

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Series 3, episode 4 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast! 

Introducing Markku Koivisto, Chief Business Development Officer at Globhe Drones, a company that specialises in creating drones that collects imagery and information to offer a better understanding of our changing environment - in the effort to protect people and wildlife.

Globhe Drones mission is simple: they are focused on one thing - providing the best possible understanding of our planet. From Drone data, the team at Globhe have created one of the largest drone data platforms. 

Working with reputable organisations on climate change matters such as the United Nations, The World Bank and more - the team at Globhe are giving organisations and researchers the means and technology to collect data quicker, in the most remote parts of the world or areas that aren’t accessible. 

This week, we wanted to invite Globhe and Markku onto our podcast because with forest fires becoming more prevalent each year, climate change becoming more deadly to people in remote parts of the world, we wanted to understand what researchers and organisations are doing with this technology and the impacts this data is having on the ground. 

This week’s podcast guest features Markku Koivisto from Globhe Drones. 

Learn more about Globhe through the link below:

https://www.globhe.com

Follow Globhe on social media through the links below:

https://www.globhe.com

https://www.youtube.com/@globhe

https://www.linkedin.com/company/globhedrones

Find out more about Globhe and champions like them on our website: 

https://www.sustainabilitychampions.com

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https://instagram.com/sustainabilitychampions 

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Presented by: Daniel Hartz 

Produced by: Daniel Hartz & Peter Donnelly

Video Edit by: Abdallah Raddadi 

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There is so much plastic waste from food packaging – whether it’s the plastic bag inside cereal boxes or plastic milk bottles, berry containers or yogurt cups – it begs the question, can we avoid all this plastic?

While the big scale supermarket chains are slowly catching on, a brand-new breed of shops has come to life: zero-waste supermarkets.

In this Episode of Sustainability Matters Today, I interview Catherine Conway, founder and CEO of Unpackaged, and a Champion of promoting a zero-waste lifestyle. Unpackaged sets up refill stations in stores around the UK, including Planet Organic and Waitrose, and customers bring their own refillable containers to fill them with products from the dispensers. This allows people to only buy the amount they need, limiting food waste while avoiding single-use plastics. Catherine also offers consulting services to help spread the idea of zero-waste stores as far as possible.

We discuss the challenges Catherine encountered when inventing the refill system, her history of advocating the zero-waste movement since 2006, and how mainstream supermarkets are slowly joining their cause and much more!

I hope you enjoy the episode!

In this episode, I interview Toby McCartney, Co-Founder and CEO of MacRebur: The Plastic Road Company, and a Champion of recycling plastic to improve roads. MacRebur takes plastic waste, destined for either landfill or incineration, and turns it into a strong and environmentally-friendly asphalt glue. This additive binder greatly increases road durability, while at the same time recycling plastic waste. A real win-win.

One kilometre of road built with MacRebur’s products, uses the equivalent weight of 684,000 bottles or 1.8 million single-use plastic bags! And amazingly, with their design, there is no chance of microplastics entering the water or air. Using plastic to build roads is literally paving the way for a better future.

Please make sure to subscribe to the Sustainability Matters Today podcast to learn more about other champions of sustainability like Toby McCartney and MacRebur.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Globally we emit over 36 billion tonnes of CO2 per year – a number so high, we can barely imagine its effect on our climate. While climate change awareness is reaching more and more people around the world, and we’re learning step by step how to avoid unsustainable lifestyles, it can be very difficult to imagine our own carbon emissions on a personal level. Do you know how much carbon you emit on a daily basis? Or the average person‘s emissions?

Today I interview Gilad Regev, CO-Founder and CEO of Kora App, and a #Champion of rewarding sustainable lifestyles. Kora is an ambitious start-up, aimed at creating an app that tracks your impact on the planet and rewards personal carbon reductions with Kora points. These Koras can then be spent in the built-in marketplace on offers from Kora partners and to support CO2 reduction projects.

Unlike the current flawed carbon credit system (also known as carbon offsetting), Kora wants to reward individuals for reducing carbon emissions, instead of punishing companies for emitting carbon. With a strong vision of partnering with cities and corporations, public transportation and even energy companies, Kora is truly innovating the way we see carbon emissions. Similar to airline miles, Kora’s Earth Loyalty Program’s point system is a unique way of first visualizing our levels of personal carbon emissions, and then reducing them.

Please make sure to subscribe to the Sustainability Matters Today podcast to learn more about other champions of sustainability like Gilad.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

In this episode of Sustainability Matters Today, I interview Habib Khan, Director and Founding Partner at Meristem Design and a Champion of Urban Greening for Cleaner City Air.

Meristem Design specializes in creating green solutions for grey urban spaces and is heavily involved with ‘greening’ London.

Providing green screens and plants to the most polluted schools across London, building parklets in neighborhoods, planting living walls in the city, and maintaining green infrastructure in landmark office buildings like The Shard, Meristem uses plants to purify the air and provide many health benefits to people.

Their parklets have won the Global Good Award for making sustainability and social impact. They have also picked up awards from the International Healthy Streets Summit in Glasgow in 2018.

Please make sure to subscribe to the Sustainability Matters Today podcast to learn more about other champions of sustainability like Habib.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

In this episode of Sustainability Matters Today, I interview Steve Horton, founder of Baker’s Field Flour and Bread and #Champion of Local and Sustainable Wheat and Grains.

Working with flour every day to create a variety of artisan quality breads, Steve has a refined appreciation for the fundamental role fresh flour plays in great bread. This led him to start Baker’s Field Flour and Bread where he and his team use freshly milled local flour to bake their naturally-leavened breads. A three-time James Beard Awardee, Steve connects farmers, millers, and bakers to create exceptional flour and bread made from unique grains that are cultivated using sustainable and organic methods.

Please make sure to subscribe to the Sustainability Matters Today podcast to learn more about other champions of sustainability like Steve.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Resources:

Other resources:

Watch the full episode: https://sustainabilitym.at/Steve-Horton-Youtube

Read the transcript: https://www.sustainabilitymatters.today/steve-horton-transcript

In this episode of Sustainability Matters Today, I interview Sara Bogdan, Manager of Sustainability and Environmental Social Governance at JetBlue and a Champion of Carbon-Neutral Airlines. 

JetBlue is the sixth-largest Airline in the US in terms of passengers carried, operating over 1000 flights a day.  Being part of the aviation industry, that’s responsible for 2% of the world's carbon emissions, JetBlue has a unique philosophy for its sector: “Sustainable planning is essential to our success—if we aren't thinking about solutions and working to achieve them it's not good business.”

While on the one hand climate change awareness has led to flight-shaming all around the world, Jetblue is taking huge steps towards carbon-neutral flying. Electric passenger planes might still be years in the making, but the company offers several solutions to make flying more environmentally friendly. Their strategy includes reducing emissions, by voluntarily retiring older airplane models, and replacing them with more efficient models, offsetting carbon emissions when possible and developing sustainable and renewable jet fuel. Both in the air and on the ground, they’re committed to developing solutions that are both good for the environment and financially beneficial.

To find out more on how JetBlue is working on perfecting every step of the way, listen to this episode!

Make sure to subscribe to the Sustainability Matters Today podcast to learn more about other champions of sustainability like Sarah and JetBlue!

Enjoy the episode!

Resources:

• JetBlue Website: https://www.jetblue.com
• Climate Leadership: https://www.jetblue.com/sustainability/climate-leadership
• JetBlue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBlue
• Sustainability Reporting: https://www.jetblue.com/sustainability/reporting
• Sustainable Operations: https://www.jetblue.com/sustainability/sustainable-operations

Other Resources:

Watch the full episode: https://sustainabilitym.at/Sara-Bogdan-JetBlue-Youtube

Read the transcript: https://www.sustainabilitymatters.today/sara-bogdan-jetblue-transcript

In this episode of Sustainability Matters Today, I interview Dorry Price, Sustainability Consultant and #Champion of Contributing FutureReady Solutions to Corporate Sustainability.

Working to create innovative solutions and a thriving environment for communities across the UK, Dorry is a sustainability consultant and a steering group member of The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) Futures, which is a networking group for students, graduates, and young professionals who want to work in the sustainability field.

With her specialization in corporate sustainability solutions and services, Dorry wrote an article called “For the Record”, where she discusses the role blockchain could have in helping the UK transition to a low-carbon economy.

Please make sure to subscribe to the Sustainability Matters Today podcast to learn more about other champions of sustainability like Steve.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Resources

• House of Fraser: https://www.houseoffraser.co.uk
• Nordstrom: https://americanaatbrand.com/shopping/nordstrom
• Farmdrop: https://www.farmdrop.com
• Dorry's Article, "For the record": https://transform.iema.net/article/record
• Materiality Assessment: https://us.anteagroup.com/en-us/blog/7-basic-steps-conducting-successful-materiality-assessment
• Greenwashing: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greenwashing.asp
• JP Dallman's episode in SMT: https://www.sustainabilitymatters.today/jp-dallmann-smt

Other resources

Read the transcript here: https://sustainabilitym.at/Dorry-Price-Episode

Watch the full episode here: https://sustainabilitym.at/Dorry-Price-YouTube