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There has never been a more exciting time to be alive: From technology to travel, from food to fashion, we are overwhelmed with choice and opportunity but for a conscientious consumer who cares about the environment it can be difficult to negotiate the challenge of choice.

At work or at home how do you ensure you are choosing products that don’t cause environmental damage, are sourced sustainably, are cost effective, affordable and are what you want? We look at everything from technology to teabags…

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Planet Pod on Green Buildings

July 20, 2018 Amanda Green Buildings 00:45:22 0 Comments

Our host Amanda Carpenter (Achill Management) talks about green buildings with guests Helen Heathfield, environmentalist and lead with the Islington Sustainable Energy Partnership, and Julie Hirigoyen, Chief Executive of the UK Green Building Council. We talk about green homes, green buildings and the associated challenges in between.

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Planet Pod and the Great Food Debate

July 6, 2018 Amanda Behaviour, Consumerism, Food 00:45:00 0 Comments

Our host Amanda Carpenter (Achill Management) talks about sustainable food and food production with our expert guests: Paul Newnham, head of the SDG 2 Advocacy Hub, Helen Munday, Chief Scientific Officer at the Food And Drink Federation and science policy briefs; Julia Porter, National Supply Chain Manager at Bio Bean.

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Planet Pod on Pro Bono

June 29, 2018 Amanda Pro Bono 00:45:00 0 Comments

In this episode Amanda Carpenter (Achill Management) talks about pro bono support with guests Olga Hancock, who leads the pro bono...

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Presenters

The team at Planet Pod are passionate but not pious – we don’t preach. While we don’t have all the answers we aim to bring you insights and ideas from people who do.

Amanda Carpenter

Amanda has a lifelong passion for the planet having been an active member of conservation groups at school and University, she spent time as a volunteer at Friends of the Earth before moving into wider conservation fields and then back into sustainability with her consultancy Achill Management. For the last 25 years she has worked with organisations of all shapes and sizes across all sectors trying to help them be more sustainable operationally, financially, strategically and environmentally.

Steve Malkin

Steve is a passionate and enthusiastic advocate of sustainability and of business being a power for good. As founder of The Planet MarkTM, which is delivered in partnership with the Eden Project, Steve helps organisations across the UK and internationally to make positive impacts on the environment and society. His work brings him into contact with people who are making tangible contributions across society and he witnesses first-hand the benefits of change. He helps share these uplifting stories through the media, events and through Planet Pod.

Jim Haywood

Jim is an ex-Royal Navy nuclear submarine engineer with engineering and technology in his veins (as well as a touch of salt!). He also has many years’ experience in the private, public and charitable sectors leading environmental and sustainability programmes. His career has included blue chip multinational corporates, the Environment Agency and Business in the Community (leading that charity’s environmental campaign on behalf of HRH The Prince of Wales). Jim is now an independent sustainability consultant and works alongside Amanda as part of Achill Management.

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Partners

Organisations that support and sponsor Planet Pod.

Achill Management

Founded by Amanda, Achill Management work with organisations of all shapes and sizes to be more sustainable in everything they do - from their environmental footprint to people and resource management. Achill Management work with charities, businesses and local government to get the best from people, place and planet.

The Planet Mark

Founded by Steve, the Planet MarkTM combines measurement, engagement and communication and uniquely embeds relationships with the Eden Project and Cool Earth, award-winning charities that deliver positive social and environmental impacts around the world. The Plane MarkTM has been successfully adopted by organisations of all sizes across the UK and internationally. Holders of The Planet MarkTM share a common commitment to deliver positive social and environmental impacts.

Guests

Check out some of our latest guests here.

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Caroline May

Caroline is a Partner at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and heads up the London Environment, Health& Safety practice. An advocate for women in organisations and for the environment she is a powerful voice within environmental legal practice, she also sits on the executive of the Legal Sustainability Alliance, and is a Freeman of the City of London
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Frances Scott

Founder of 50:50 Parliament a pressure group campaigning for gender balance in parliament. As a passionate advocate of equality she leads the #askhertostand campaign modelled on the US initiative to encourage more women to run for government and inspired by Hilary Clinton.
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Anne Johnstone

A partner at Malcolm Hollis, commercial building surveying consultancy, where she holds responsibility for Environment at board level and Chair of UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA). Anne is a shortlisted finalist for 2018 Women in Construction & Engineering Awards.
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Martin Turner

Martin is Partnership Manager at The Woodland Trust. He is passionate about supporting partners to achieve their UK environmental sustainability objectives in a creative, innovative way connecting with their local communities, customers, employees and stakeholders.
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Paul Gisby

Paul combines his passion for the environment with his love of diving and as an instructor with Oyster Diving he spends his team encouraging schools and companies to embrace and understand the issues of pollution, and change their approaches to prevent constant abuse of our oceans. LEARN TO DIVE is Oyster Diving’s message: witness at first hand the remarkable water world within our planet and then you will truly respect it.
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Daianna Karaian

Daianna is the founder of Thoughtful Works, a social enterprise harnessing creative talent to make things that make a real difference. For 20 years she’s helped people make better decisions about the things they make, do and buy, working with brands like IKEA, Lego, M&S, EDF Energy, Unilever and Pearson. She's the editor of Thoughtful Magazine.
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Michelle Johnson

Michelle is a London-based journalist with a passion for storytelling and new media. She's digital editor at Tempus Magazine – a leading luxury lifestyle publication read by a high net worth audience – launching the brand's new website in 2017.
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Julie Flower

Julie Flower is a management and organisational development consultant, facilitator and coach who helps leaders and teams to change and thrive. She runs The Specialist Generalist, a consultancy which focuses on the general skills needed to succeed in complex systems and a rapidly-changing working world. These include leadership, collaboration, creativity and behaviour change. Her clients include large public sector bodies.
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Leilani Weier

Leilani Weier is a Senior Manager at Linklaters, a leading international law firm with 30 offices in 20 countries. In a global role, Leilani leads the firm’s environmental sustainability programme, manages commercial contracts and oversees the health and safety team. In the last 10 years she has led new programmes and implemented major change projects in offices across the world. Check out Leilani's Good Bad and Ugly video here http://worldenvironmentday.global/
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Graham Simmonds

Graham is managing director and founder of Green Rewards, the company that operates the employee and student engagement scheme, JUMP, and the household reward scheme for recycling, Local Green Points. He was founding chief executive of Trees for Cities and is a leader in the sustainability field he has won an UnLtd Social Entrepreneurs Award and a Bank of America Neighbourhood Builders Award. Graham chairs the RG Foundation which aims to make the world a better place to work by supporting projects that enable people to work safely, with fairness and equality.
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Paul Druckman

Paul is a passionate global leader in capital market reform, including corporate governance, reporting, accounting and sustainability. He led the International Integrated Reporting Council as CEO for five years. Paul’s career has included being a successful software entrepreneur, President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and Chair of The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) Executive Board. He has a variety of roles currently from chairing Clear Insurance Management to being a Board member and chairing the Corporate Reporting Council of the UK Financial Reporting Council, the independent regulator of the United Kingdom responsible for promoting transparency and integrity in business.

Michael Mainelli

Michael is a qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist, and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, he gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. He began his career as a research scientist in aerospace & cartography. His biggest technical claim to fame might be the first commercial digital map of the world, MundoCart, crucial to the foundation of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. He has led Z/Yen from creating smart ledgers (aka blockchains) through the Financial £aboratory, Taskforce 2000, Long Finance, Global Financial Centres Index, Global Green Finance Index, and Global Intellectual Property Index. He is a non-executive director of two listed firms and a regulator, Alderman of the City of London for Broad Street, Emeritus Professor & Trustee at Gresham College, Fellow of Goodenough College, trustee of several charities, and Master of the Worshipful Company of World Traders.
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Jessica Fries

Jessica has overall leadership responsibility for A4S. She sits on the board of the Natural Capital Coalition and was also responsible in establishing and running the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). Previously, Jessica has held a number of roles at PwC, most recently leading global activities around integrated reporting. She has worked with a wide range of companies, governments, investors and not-for-profit organisations to help them integrate sustainability into core business processes and activities. She has extensive experience developing capability frameworks and designing training courses on a range of topics. Jessica is a chartered accountant, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, has an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
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Louise Scott

Louise is the COO for PwC’s Global Sustainability Network and is leading the firm’s work in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals. Louise has had a wide ranging career with PwC, and extensive international experience and networks, built through her 26 year career with PwC. She has spent the past 7 years working within the Sustainability and Climate Change team, including developing the SDG Navigator diagnostic tool and its public online version the SDG Selector, together with guidance materials such as the SDG Guide for Business and also the recent SDG Reporting Challenge. . Louise has recently co-authored the UNPRI SDG Investment Case, and has also worked with the team supporting the UNGC/GRI Action Platform on the SDGs and its publication of the Business Reporting on the SDGs: An Analysis of the Goals and Targets.
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Carolina Karlström

Carolina runs her own independent sustainability consultancy, Jade Advisory Ltd. – creating space for change in organisations and communities, through strategic interventions and people engagement. Carolina has a broad knowledge of sustainability, which is the result of over 20 years of experience in the sustainable energy sector and in leading strategic and professional sustainability roles. She is a regular blogger with edie.net and an Associate of Ecoed Life, the first environmental education and behavioural change initiative that is fun, interactive, and utilises practical methodologies (including our Ecoed gaming app) to bring about a more sustainable way of living.

Hubbub

the charity that helps all of us at work and in our daily lives be greener - whether it is Fashion Food Home or Neighbourhood Hubbub have practical advice and solutions that don't cost the earth. Alex Robinson MD Hubbub Enterprise joined us for Everything Plastic

A Plastic Planet

The campaign to ensure we get plastic free in all our supermarkets. Sian Sutherland co-founder joined us for PlanetPod in our Everything Plastic episode.

Cawston Press

Cawston Press is made by people who have a love and understanding for creating delicious tasting drinks that you can feel good about drinking. Our journey of pressing fruit began over 30 years ago with the humble apple and has grown from there.

Bywaters

Bywaters is one of the UK’s leading providers of material management solutions. Whether you need help with waste collections, organising recycling programmes or educating your staff on environmental awareness, we’ve got the tools and expertise to make it happen!

This is Rubbish

This is Rubbish - a campaigning charity working to reduce industry and supply chain food waste in the UK and beyond, using policy camapigns, education, the arts and public events

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