Saving Planet A: Recent Episodes
Gizem Eren
A podcast for families on sustainability, climate change and jobs that help save the planet.
In every episode I chat to a planet saver: experts with environmental careers, activists or simply people who put sustainability at the heart of what they do.
We talk about how they got here and what inspires them to keep going. My aim is to inform and empower young people who want to pursue environmental-related degrees or careers that are connected to even just being a small part of a solution.
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Saving Planet A is produced and hosted by Gizem Eren, with music from freeSFX.
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My guest is the brilliant lawyer turned activist Julia Davies, once described by The Guardian as ''the millionaire rewilding the countryside, one farm at a time''.
Julia is a true impact investor, lawyer, philanthropist, and environmental campaigner.
She's dedicated to catalyzing action to tackle the climate and environmental crises and interconnected social issues. She does this under the banner of environmental fund We have the POWER, with power standing for ''Protect Our World, Educate, Restore''.
Julia's philanthropy is focused on taking urgent action to tackle the multiple crises we face. It includes funding climate litigation and using philanthropic loans to catalyze acquisition of land for nature restoration by charities such as the Wildlife Trusts.
Julia has a particular mission to turn down the tap on new and set up the reuse collective for that reason. It's a collective of young and innovative businesses focused on making single use waste and overproduction of new goods a thing of the past and helping the shift to a circular economy. She's also a member of Patriotic Millionaires UK, a network of British millionaires campaigning for tax on high level wealth.
Tune in to be inspired!
Useful Links:
An interview with Julia in the Guardian
Guardian Opinion by Julia
Doughnut Economics Action Lab
The Spirit Level by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate E. Pickett
Revolution-ZERO reusable medical textiles
Open Planet
Byway Travel
Again
Connect with Julia:
We Have The POWER
Patriotic MIllionaires UK
Connect with Gizem:
Instagram @saving_planet_a_podcast
Twitter @Saving_PlanetA
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Who is the ocean for? If we find home in the ocean, will we be able to better protect it?
Meet the real-life Ariel, ‘’The Black Mermaid’’ Zandile Ndhlovu, who is changing the perception of the ocean in her Cape Town community since 2016, when she fell in love with freediving.
Zandi is South Africa's first black female free diving instructor and the founder of the Black Mermaid Foundation, an organization seeking to create diverse representation in the ocean spaces. Her work centers around enabling access to ocean spaces to local ocean facing communities.
She hopes to diversify ocean spaces recreationally, professionally and in sport while creating a new generation of ocean guardians. As a diversity and inclusion consultant, she has contributed to global topics that include ocean conservation, climate change, coastal justice and capacitating the youth to participate in the Blue Economy.
In partnership with WaterBear, she’s released a documentary which seeks to encourage people of colour to consume more content that pushes them to get involved with reclaiming the ocean and, ultimately, protecting it.
Tune in as we talk reclaiming the ocean, plastic pollution, wise grandmothers and more.
Useful Links:
An interview with Zandi in the Guardian
Condé Nast Traveler Interview
The original documentary ''The Black Mermaid''
Connect with Zandi:
Instagram @zandithemermaid @theblackmermaid_foundation
Twitter @Blackmermaid_F
The Black Mermaid Foundation website
Connect with Gizem:
Instagram @saving_planet_a_podcast
Twitter @Saving_PlanetA
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The secondhand clothing market has grown in recent years – and is expected to grow 16 times faster than the retail industry by 2026, reaching a value of $84bn by 2030.
I chat to Francesca Sieler, global marketing director at vintage retailer Beyond Retro and used clothing broker Bank and Vogue. We talk secondhand clothing, luxury fashion, being on the right side of history and more.
Francesca has over 13 years' experience in marketing and branding. Before Bank and Vogue she worked with high street and luxury brands, including All Saints and Lulu Guinness and sustainable clothing brand Thought clothing.
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Every second, the equivalent of a rubbish truck load of clothes is burnt or buried in landfill.
How can we build a circular fashion industry that prioritises balance instead of growth?
What is the true environmental cost of the clothes we easily discard?
I chat to Ana Carneiro, a sustainability manager who campaigns for a circular economy.
We talk renting clothes, the value of the stuff we own, carving your own path as a woman and more.
''Sustainability is simply really considering all our actions in terms of the impact on the planet. If we carry on at the rate that we're doing, we need three planets to sustain our current lifestyles. The equivalent of three planets' resources, just to do what we're doing at the moment.''
I chat to Heinz Richardson, award-winning architect, Royal Society of Arts fellow, teacher, mentor and industry commentator. Join us as we talk about rocketing energy prices, sustainable, low-energy homes and the time Heinz cycled across America from west to east coasts.
’There’s a lovely adage that ignorance is bliss. But in an increasingly complex world, knowledge may be your only means for survival and ignorance no longer becomes blissful.’’
Chris Hadfield (former commander of the international space station) in short documentary film Ice Alive, directed by Eddie Frost (2018)
I chat to director and series producer Eddie Frost about finding poetry in glaciology, shooting a documentary in the Arctic and how rock climbing as a kid and Sir David Attenborough helped shape his understanding of the natural world.
What is the problem with our existing way of selecting, buying and using furniture? Is there an alternative way?
Instead of the linear Take, Make, Waste economy, how can we create a circular Make, Use, Reuse economy?
How is Love Island encouraging Gen Z to fall in love with circularity?
I chat to Marc Richard, managing director of furniture brand Roger Lewis, co-founder of futurist and closed loop furniture brand Capxule and straight-talking Northerner.
''My mother was always saying 'I am raising you not for myself, but for the world.' ''
I chat to Simone Mattar Altoe - ESG Corporate Benchmarking Manager, sustainability lecturer, mother of two and a black belt in Shorinji Kempo to boot.