Podcasts about carbonzero

Today on the Ether we have the AssetMantle community call number 9. You'll hear from sachinmatta.eth, Abhinav, carbonZERO, san Alicorn, Bilian BitBerry, and more! Recorded on August 18th 2022. If you enjoy the music at the end of the episodes, you can find the albums streaming on Spotify, and the rest of your favorite streaming platforms. Check out Project Survival, Virus Diaries, and Plan B wherever you get your music. Thank you to everyone in the community who supports TerraSpaces.

Today on the Ether we have a space hosted by Kleomedes discussing the finer points of validator specific airdrops. The devil is in the details! You'll hear from carbonZERO, Marco Rinaldi, Rarma, Kevin Garrison, null, Trigs.RVRS, and more! Recorded on August 11th 2022. If you enjoy the music at the end of the episodes, you can find the albums streaming on Spotify, and the rest of your favorite streaming platforms. Check out Project Survival, Virus Diaries, and Plan B wherever you get your music. Thank you to everyone in the community who supports TerraSpaces.

What is net zero and what are the implications for your organization? In this second Oracle Trending Topics podcast episode, hear Oracle's Doug Smith and Rich Kroes, Laurence Bellenguez from Accenture, and Nicola Peill-Moelter from VMware discuss the global landscape of carbon reduction, offering insights on the latest trends, and sharing examples to help you to develop your net-zero strategy and address your company's carbon footprint commitments. Watch the full discussion at oracle.com/trendingtopics Learn more: oracle.com/sustainability oracle.com/sustainability/green-cloud/ oracle.com/scm/sustainability/ oracle.com/performance-management/esg/ accenture.com/us-en/services/oracle-index cloud.vmware.com/providers/zero-carbon

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Dr Mathew Hampshire-Waugh is the author of Climate change and the road to net zero but doesn't describe himself as an environmentalist; the self-confessed ‘city boy' simply wants to give the climate change low-down to those people not already sold on it. His book has been described as; “Blowing away the entrenched idea that solving climate change is a trade-off between the economy and environment to reveal why a twenty-year transition to NET-ZERO is a win-win for all on planet Earth”. Mathew has a science background, which led to a varied career where he worked on improving building energy efficiency, and later with technology trend companies within the investment banking sector. His book describes how energy usage has affected civilisation over the centuries, the problem economists are now facing, and the impact inaction will have on our future. He chats to James and Mark about the path forward including how we need to adapt our personal and business lives, without compromising on quality, and the cost implications. The team discuss everything from the impact of fossil fuels and what transition plans businesses need to put in place, to the investment opportunities available for businesses. Mathew offers up alternatives and ‘swaps' that we can all make in our personal lives, and the personal actions we can all take, including buying green, and investing in renewables. He deep dives into how businesses need to lead from the front, and how the UK, as one of the world's richest economies, needs to take responsibility and act. There is something for everyone in this episode, whether you're in the know on climate change, or on the fence. Mathew even has an invaluable tip for how you use your boiler, which is not to be missed! Show notes: Mathew's website - www.net-zero.blog Mathew's LinkedIn Podcast - Cleaning Up – Leadership in an age of climate change #ENERGYTWITTER –- follow the hashtag to get academic research, news items etc. which are cultivated into streams, and you can gauge the conversation from right and left Jim Collins – The Hedgehog Concept Books: Climate change and the road to net zero – Mathew Hampshire-Waugh Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction – Dan Gardner & Philip E Tetlock GET IN TOUCH! Leave us a voice note here, we would love to hear your thoughts on today's episode, and you might even feature in our next episode! You can also email us on podcasts@larking-gowen.co.uk You can also watch us now on YouTube too! Click here to watch this week's episode. Thank you to our sponsors Larking Gowen, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors – check out their website to see how they could help your business www.larking-gowen.co.uk © Larking Gowen LLP

Today we're joined by the Director of Morgan Green Advisory, Hayden Morgan. Hayden is an independent consultant with a mission to enable a sustainable, lower-carbon future. He has been pioneering sustainability within the finance sector for almost 25 years, and provides award-winning insights and solutions, focusing on transitioning to beneficial outcomes. Today we talk about sustainable finance and the work Hayden is doing with leading experts from over 25 countries to develop the new global sustainability standard for financial organisations ISO 32210... You'll learn What sustainable finance is and how it works. The best way to get involved with the ISO 32210 standard. The need for a standardised label for sustainable infrastructure. The benefits of implementing the new ISO 32210 standard. When ISO 32210 will be available for organisations to implement. The rise of climate risk strategies in financial markets. Resources Morgan Green Advisory Blackmores   In this episode, we talk about: [02:24] How Hayden got involved in working in global sustainability. [04:05] The work Hayden's been doing on the new sustainable finance standard. [04:56] How you can get involved with the new ISO 32210 standard. [06:48] Hayden's involvement advising the world bank around the development of a label for sustainable infrastructure. [10:42] The pilot projects taking part in a sustainable infrastructure label. [11:51] What sustainable finance is. [12:39] The principles of the ISO 32210 standard and how it complements other requirements. [15:30] The implementation guidance for ISO 32210's principles. [17:09] The best practice resources that will be available to help people implement the standard. [18:17] The benefits of implementing the ISO 32210 standard. [22:16] The plans for the standard and the expected launch date for the ISO 32210 standard. [23:41] The sustainable integration work and climate risk strategies Hayden works on at Morgan Green Advisory. If you need assistance with implementing ISO 32210 or another standard – Contact us! We'd love to hear your views and comments about the ISO Show, here's how: Share the ISO Show on Twitter or Linkedin Leave an honest review on iTunes or Soundcloud. Your ratings and reviews really help and we read each one. Subscribe to keep up-to-date with our latest episodes: Stitcher | Spotify | YouTube |iTunes | Soundcloud

Today we're joined by Paul Robinson, Managing Consultant at Blackmores. Paul is here to introduce the Energy Management Standard, ISO 50001, why it's important and give you an overview of its basic structure. What you'll learn: Why energy management is so critical in the current climate crisis The main purpose of ISO 50001 A summary of the clauses within ISO 50001   Why have an Energy Management Standard? There's a big focus on trying to maintain global warming to that 1.5 degrees increase. Right now, we're failing on that. In order to get this back on track we need to consider our current energy consumption. During COP26 we heard a lot about phasing out coal power, unfortunately there are some countries who are resistant to that and as a result have had the requirements watered down. Regardless, energy use continues to rise as does the demand. Energy Management is particularly relevant for organisations who want to measure their impact and put measures in place to reduce their environmental footprint.   Why is it so important to restrict Global Warming to 1.5 degrees? It's literally the difference between survival. We're at a tipping point now, failing to stick to this 1.5 degrees will result in rising sea levels and rising temperatures. Paul shares his experience working in Cyprus where it's not uncommon now for the temperature to reach 45 degrees. This isn't sustainable and it will get to the point where it's difficult for humans to survive if we keep going at this rate.    What is the main purpose of ISO 50001? ISO 50001 includes continually improving energy performance, energy efficiency, energy use and energy consumption. Building an energy management system will help you to understand, monitor and measure your use of energy, and like most other ISO's, continual improvement is at the heart of ISO 50001. Key factors it addresses are energy performance, energy efficiency and energy consumption.   What are the main clauses of ISO 50001? ISO 50001 went through it's latest revision in 2018, aligning it with the Annex SL format that many other ISO's use. The clauses are as follows: Clauses 1, 2 and 3 – These are all explanatory clauses, starting with the scope, then Normative References and lastly Terms and Definitions.   Clause 4 – Context of the Organisation: Here you would define the scope and boundaries of your energy management system and understanding the processes affected. This includes looking at your energy inputs and outputs. You'll also address any energy issues that affect you and interested parties involved.     Clause 5 – Leadership: This refers to Top Management commitment, which is necessary if you want your energy management system to be successful. They will need to provide resources required to implement an energy policy, and to define roles and responsibilities.   Clause 6 – Planning: This is a central pillar behind every Energy Management System as it talks about strategic and tactical considerations. This includes high-level issues, the needs and expectations of interested parties and the risks and opportunities associated with them in an energy context.     This clause also includes an Energy Review, which will help you build a picture of your energy sources and current consumption. From that you can start setting your Objectives and Targets and actions going forward using energy baselines and energy performance indicators established from the Energy Review.   Clause 7 – Support: This clause talks about provision of resources, competencies, awareness, communication and documented information required for energy management.   Clause 8 – Operation: This is where operational controls are defined to help you manage your energy effectively. It also covers design and procurement, which means procuring of energy, consuming assets and having effective processes in place to ensure energy is a key consideration when making infrastructure changes.     Clause 9 – Performance Evaluation: ISO 50001 is very data driven and clause 9 states the requirements for monitoring and measurement of your energy use, which will be used to demonstrate your improvement in energy efficiency. This clause also covers Internal Audits and Management Review to ensure the Management System is performing effectively.   Clause 10 – Improvement: This clause talks about taking opportunities that drive continual improvement in the Management System, but also recognizing that sometimes things go wrong. It also addresses significant deviations and a structure to investigate and correct those deviations to keep the management system on track.   That's it from Paul this week! For further information on ISO 50001, visit our Standards page Here. We also have an ISO 50001 Handbook available to members of the isologyhub, sign up here to grab a copy. If you're just getting started with ISO, we do have a free ISO Blueprint available for download to help you to plan, create, launch and get certified to ISO Standards. We'd love to hear your views and comments about the ISO Show, here's how: Share the ISO Show on Twitter or Linkedin Leave an honest review on iTunes or Soundcloud. 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What does sustainability REALLY mean in practical terms for business, and what does the future look like? Mark breaks down what is currently happening in big business, and what still needs to be done at both corporate and SME levels. He's currently writing a paper on how his business (Larking Gowen!) needs to tackle sustainability, and his sources are steering away from the ‘trendy stuff'. His personal research aligns with the reports coming from COP26, that businesses play a key role in improving the environmental outlook. In making it his mission to improve practices in his own business, his eyes have been opened wider and his mindset has changed. How do businesses become more sustainable, when considering the energy they use each day, which includes transport, consumables and more? GDP and economic growth can be at odds with sustainability if we don't think smarter. Mark offers some great insights into how sustainability and profitability can really work together. If you are an expert in sustainability and the environment, particularly for business or know someone who is, we'd love to hear from you, with a view to inviting you to be interviewed on a future special guest episode. Speaking of experts, Mark asked David Attenborough to special guest on this episode. Did he get a polite yet resounding ‘No' or will Sir David provide this week's top tips…listen in to find out! We would love to hear from you - you can get in touch with us on podcasts@larking-gowen.co.uk. If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and whilst you are there, we would really appreciate a 5* review, as this helps other people find our podcast! Show notes Top tips • Energy use - 08:00 • Material efficiency - 16:13 • Accountability and B corporations - 22:00 Books Doughnut Economics – Seven ways to think like a 21st century economist Green Swans – The coming boom in regenerative capitalism The Ecology of Commerce Links Certified B Corporation – “Certified B Corporations are a new kind of business that balances purpose and profit. They are legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment” United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – “an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership.” larking-gowen.co.uk - Marks business! James and Mark do accountancy stuff too... (c) Larking Gowen LLP

One of the first steps towards becoming more sustainable is knowing where you currently stand in terms of your emissions. Calculating this may seem like a mammoth task, especially if you have multiple sites or assets such as company vehicles to keep track of. David Algar joins Mel today to discuss how to calculate your Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, starting from Establishing boundaries through to number crunching and quantification. What is the first step when embarking on quantifying your GHG emissions? One of the first steps is getting leadership commitment - This allows for quicker decision making and the allocation of roles and responsibilities, which really helps with the data collection Once you have this leadership commitment, the next steps is to start establishing boundaries. So how do you define your boundaries? There are 2 ways you define your boundaries as specified in ISO 14064-1: The first are your organisational boundaries, you'll need to outline which facilities are included within the quantification. It is not as simple as just saying ‘everything', you'll need to specify which sites, buildings, factories etc You can define your organisational boundaries via the control approach, so what facilities do you have financial or operation control over? Or the equity share approach, where you account for your portion of emissions and removals from facilities The next step is defining your reporting boundaries. This refers to activities and specific sources of GHGs. Emission sources are split up into 3 categories; Scope 1 – direct emissions from combustion, or leaks, normally at sources you own , Scope 2 – indirect emissions from imported energy, and Scope 3 – all other indirect emissions, these will be from sources you don't necessarily own or have much control over such as staff commuting, supply chains or emissions from the use of products you manufacture Depending on your organisation, Scope 3 will account for somewhere between 60-80% of your total emissions. How would you recommend going about collecting to data? ISO 14064-1 wants you to have primary data, i.e. data you have collected yourself. Some of the most common sources of the information you'll need to quantify your emissions include, utilities bills, expense claim, meter readings. What some organisations are doing is sending out simple surveys to staff to gather information on commuting habits or the mix of home and office working. In the real world all the information you need isn't going to be available, or at least it won't be available in the way you would like. it's important to have someone dedicated managing data collection as this may involve multiple sites or international locations. Ideally, you'd start setting a framework to use when going forward and to make sure you can collect the relevant data each year.           Selecting a base year   If this is the first time you have quantified your emissions, it will automatically become your base year. This will be the year you compare future emissions against, and track reductions against, whether they are absolute, or intensity based, such as tonnes of CO2e per employee or product sold You may have to re-visit your base year calculations if new data or more accurate methods arise. A base year review may also be required if there has been a change in organisational boundaries due to a merger or acquisition.   The Number Crunching At the end of the process, we want to see our levels of emissions for each of the Kyoto gases, this will allow us to see emissions as tonnes of CO2 equivalent when each gases' global warming potential has been taken into account. Some gases can have global warming potentials 200 times or 1,000 times or even over 20,000 times stronger than CO2 on its own, hence why even the smallest leak of can be important, say, from an air conditioning system. We calculate emission from specific sources by using conversion factors. In the UK we are very lucky to have emission conversion factors published publicly by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy every year going back to 2002 Other countries release conversion factors too, so if you have sites round the world, you should be able to find factors that can be applied. This may involve converting some units though. The data isn't always going to be available in the ideal format, so you'll need to spend a bit of time on Google identifying rates for specific areas and years if you don't have anything else to go on. Liaising with landlords and facilities management is always a good idea, not only to collect data, but to help with implementing initiatives that can reduce emissions in the future   Estimates, Assumptions, Uncertainties and Transparency You're going to have to make some assumptions as you go. In line with ISO 14064-1 you'll need to be as accurate as possible even if this means someone going through individual lines of expenses to estimate flight distances based on ticket costs or coming up with a system to represent your supply chain. Another important aspect of ISO 14064-1 is transparency. The best way to manage this is to simply make all your calculations visible, this way they can be reviewed and sense-checked but others. For each emission source you'll also need to assign it a level of uncertainty. For instance, expense claims are usually highly accurate as they show mileage from one location to another, and sometimes even record the specific vehicle, you could say this has an uncertainty of 2-5% for instance. At the other end of the scale calculating the emission from the life cycle of your products has a high degree of uncertainty as you don't know how a customer will use it, how long it will last, how it will be disposed of or if it will even be used at all. This could have an uncertainty of 30-40% for instance A positive outcome of managing all these uncertainties is that you will have a framework going forward for calculating specific sources.   Managing your Emissions Going Forward – Applications of Quantification Ironically it is often the biggest emission sources that businesses have the smallest amount of control over, but there will usually be some action that can be taken to reduce them. Quantifying emissions is also one the first, and arguably the most essential steps towards achieving carbon neutrality, as you can't get very far without knowing your emissions. PAS 2060 is the standard we use at Blackmores as part of our Carbonology service to help businesses achieve carbon neutrality, this is supported by quantifying emissions in line with the ISO 14064 methodologies we've mentioned In previous podcasts. Developing and implementing a carbon reduction plan to reduce emissions over subsequent reporting periods is another application of your GHG quantification and is an important part of working towards carbon neutrality. Further resources: Free Webinar - Targeting Carbon and Supporting Net Zero – hosted by Alcumus, David Algar will feature as a guest to help you understand your Carbon Footprint and provide a roadmap towards Carbon Neutrality. Register Here. We also have more information about our Carbonology service available Here. 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Today, we're joined by our resident Carbonologist David Algar to discuss the seven vital steps to Carbonology. If you're looking for a sustainability roadmap for your business and looking to address the climate emergency while also meeting your stakeholders needs you're in the right place. Over the last 2 episodes Carbonoloigst David Algar and Mel have been going through ISO 14064 the Carbon Verification Standard and PAS 2060 the Carbon Neutrality Standard. Today, David and Mel will be explaining how you can meet the requirements of both standards, gain verification, and demonstrate your business as carbon neutral. That's all going to be based on our game-changing route to sustainability, Carbonology. What makes Carbonolgy unique is rather than paying lip service to the climate change emergency, Carbonolgy provides a proven methodology for sustainable success, allowing businesses to become carbon neutral and to achieve ISO standards successfully. You'll learn The seven steps of carbonology. How to achieve carbon neutrality. Why it's cheaper to reduce your emissions rather than offset them. The importance of re-quantifying carbon emissions. How to prove you've offset your emissions. How becoming carbon neutral can benefit your shareholders. Resources Carbonology In this episode, we talk about: [03:12] The seven steps of Carbonology to achieve carbon neutrality. [7:54] The different options there are to verify that you are carbon neutral. [9:07] The different areas you need to define when starting off in your Carbonology journey. [11:45] How to quantify the emissions embedded in different products that you sell. [14:22] What's included in a Carbon Footprint Management Plan. [16:50] The importance of including working from home in your scope 3 emissions. [17:57] How long a reduction period lasts and what in involves. [19:27] The benefits or re-quantification and how it works. [21:14] How offsetting works as part of Carbonology. [23:31] How making a declaration of achievement of neutrality works. If you'd like a quote for Carbonology – Contact us! We'd love to hear your views and comments about the ISO Show, here's how: Share the ISO Show on Twitter or Linkedin Leave an honest review on iTunes or Soundcloud. Your ratings and reviews really help and we read each one. Subscribe to keep up-to-date with our latest episodes: Stitcher | Spotify | YouTube |iTunes | Soundcloud

If businesses aren't talking about COVID-19, they are discussing how to become carbon neutral. To show their commitment to protecting the environment, companies are often claiming to be carbon neutral, but the issue is…where is the actual proof? Where is the credible framework that demonstrates that carbon verification? Today we're excited to share how to get started with introducing ISO 14064 (the carbon footprint verification standard). So, if you're looking for a sustainability roadmap for your business and are wondering where to begin, then you're in luck as we're going to be providing you with information on that over the next couple of podcasts! We're delighted to be joined by David Algar, our resident Carbonologist at Blackmores, over the next few podcasts as he's going to share with you information about the international standards that everybody's talking about when it comes to demonstrating your carbon neutrality. This includes ISO 14064 for carbon footprint verification and PAS 2060 on carbon neutrality. So, in this episode, let's kick off with ISO 14064 and find out what's it all about! What you'll learn: What is ISO 14064? What are upstream and downstream emissions? Certification methods Benefits of ISO 14064 How Carbonology helps meet ISO 14064 requirements   ISO 14064 is a specification with guidance at the organisational level for the quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and their removals. So, essentially, ISO 14064 is a standard for an organisation of any type, size, quantity, or location globally to quantify its emissions of greenhouse gases, with the end product of this being the creation of a greenhouse gas inventory. Now, let's find out where we would begin with ISO 14064… In ISO 14064, the standard begins with defining  the organisational boundaries and the reporting boundaries. So essentially what you're covering in your greenhouse gas inventory and what the reporting boundaries are. This will also include any exclusions you decide to make i.e. elements of your business that will not be have their associated GHGs quantified. An organisation embarking on its sustainability roadmap could carve out part of the business. So, for example by year one the UK operations, and then have a roadmap in place so that they include other locations and services as time goes on.   David expands on the greenhouse gas inventory by highlighting that this is where you would document all your emission sources. So, they are divided up into scope one, scope two, and scope three sources. Scope one is the direct ones, so for example stationary or mobile combustion, or anything your organisation directly burns. Then it goes into scope two, which is your purchased energy (the electricity, steam, heating and cooling that you would use in the building that you own or lease). Finally going into scope three can be a bit more complicated. This would be your other indirect sources, upstream and downstream. For example, if you are a manufacturing company, the upstream emissions would be the emissions associated with activities, for example, before your products are delivered to your manufacturing or warehouse. So that would include the extraction of the raw materials, the processing, packaging, and then the transport and distribution. The upstream emissions associated with a vehicle, for example, include putting it in a cargo ship and shipping it across the world. So, once  it leaves your warehouse or plant, it would then go off to the customer. This is where you are looking at the downstream emissions, including emissions associated with the product's use The greenhouse gas inventory does split the scopes up for you, so you don't have to worry about memorising every single little part of the scopes! It is very useful in that aspect and it lays it out in a list for you. Let's take a quick dive into the vertification options for ISO 14064… If you do decide to go for a third-party vertification from a certification board, the chances are that they're going to ask you questions on why you decided to include and exclude certain things within your greenhouse gas inventories. For example, certain operations in your business or why you have made certain exclusions. Another key element of producing greenhouse gas inventories is that you must use emission factors. These are how you quantify and convert, for example kilowatts, into tonnes of Co2 equivalent. So, the certification body may ask you why you've chosen to use a certain metric. That's why it would always be a very good idea to document these choices, as you may be asked about them. So, in essence, this provides complete transparency on your carbon emissions across the organisation because you've justified the reason for including or excluding them. Now, moving on to some of the benefits of ISO 14064… Because it's an ISO standard and internationally recognised, it provides a reliable and proven framework for quantifying your emissions. So as a result of this, this helps identify individual sources of emissions and enables you to identify the biggest source of emissions, energy usage, and vehicle usage. Therefore, you can use it to identify areas for improvement by setting targets. However, the result of going down this road is that once you've implemented those improvements, it can actually save you costs in many instances, for instance through lower energy usage. Another benefit is that it helps demonstrate your public commitment to environmental protection. This is excellent for your corporate image and CSR. Combined with third-party verification, it really does help show you are committed to environmental protection, and you're not just pursuing this activity for greenwashing purposes. It can also be a tendering requirement for a lot of new businesses as it can support a lot of governmental requirements. So, it can be a framework to help you support any mandatory reporting of emissions, such as the SECR (Streamline Energy and Carbon Reporting) and ESOS (Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme) which are requirements essentially based on quantifying emissions and energy usage. So, if you've implemented ISO 14064, you've (almost) already built that framework to help you with the data collection and data presentation that you'll need for the SECR and ESOS reporting. One thing which makes ISO 14064 very different from any of the ISO standards that we have implemented over the last 15 years at Blackmores is the fact that you don't actually get certification to this standard. It's classed as a verification, which has options for self-verification and third-party verification. There are three main tiers to it, let's find out what they are. The first tier is the self-verification method, where you essentially pour over the data yourself and decide internally within your company that you're happy to publish this publicly. Although, this is slightly less credible because your company is essentially verifying itself. The second level to that is a second-party verification, where you get an external body (such as Blackmores) to go over the data and essentially audit you on it. But what is generally regarded as the most credible is a third-party certification, the third tier. This would be done through a UKAS accredited certification body (such as BSI, or NQA). This method demonstrates confidence to all your stakeholders that the verification has been done properly because an independent third party has approved it. Unlike certificates to management system standards like ISO 14001 (where they're valid for three years). This is just valid for the period that you've actually defined within the scope. So, that could be a period of 12 months, then you would have to go through the re-verification process. We do have a podcast coming up on Carbonology which focuses on the process to meet the requirements of ISO 14064 and PAS 2060 to be carbon neutral…so, let's get a sneak peek and find out how Carbonology might help with meeting the requirements of ISO 14064. Carbonology is based on a seven-step process to help an organisation become carbon neutral. The first step of Carbonology is the Quantify stage. This is where ISO 14064 comes in because this is where you would essentially quantify and document all your greenhouse gas emission sources for scope one, two, and three. So, essentially, ISO 14064 really does form the bedrock of the Carbonology service. That's it for today, watch out for our future blogs as we'll be joining David on the next podcast where we'll be talking all about the next stage in your journey to becoming carbon neutral.

All too often, farmers and food producers are portrayed as villains on climate change. While there is work to do, the industry's positive stories too often go untold. The co-op umbrella organisation SAOS say it is time to change that. They also want to spearhead an industry-wide collaborative push to cut emissions and ramp up sequestration. For the first of a number of climate change episodes with SAOS, Anna is joined by:Tim Bailey - SAOS chief executiveEmma Patterson Taylor - SAOS policy manager focused on climate change. Angela Porchez of the fruit growers co-op Angus GrowersJonny Williams from meat marketing co-op Farmstock

The Chrises get the notebooks out and scribble down ecological restoration suggestions from Captain Planet himself, Scott Atkinson. The John Hopkins Environmental Sci & Policy master's student teaches listeners about forest fire suppression, the relation to the current Northern California wildfires, and the importance of cleaning up fuel sources. After recently pulling up his britches and operating a chainsaw to help clear a friend's fire threatened property, Scott is potentially qualified to be a full-time farmer. Looking to capitalize on the animal cam trend, Scott set up a video recorder inside his owl box perch despite one minor issue— a nighthawk has yet to pay the Atkinson family a visit. His daughter and future Forest Ranger, June, swoops in and steals the show with a brief appearance that sparks a new merchandising idea to sell QWTChrises branded slippers (link in bio coming soon). Scott, a 37-year-old father with a 9 to 5, forgoes a pro surfing sponsorship to train for WSL Mavericks, and he can officially hold his breath longer than the Chrises as a recent recipient of a free diving certificate. Part-Time Beekeeper and activist for all, Scott sends The Chrises home with some lavender honey, books on trees, and a donation to The Chrises' No Hair For Care GoFundMe campaign to help support children's cancer camp, Okizu [https://www.gofundme.com/f/no-hair-for-care].

Lance Sheppard joins us from New Zealand to update us about the how the deescalation is rapidly progressing there, positive views for the Pacific area for the latter half of this year, and what a difference working with Ecostore can make to the sustainability of a superyacht. With a background in both yachting and enviromental focused projects,Lance talks about developing the marine side of Ecostore. With their own #carbonZero certified factory and renewable sugar plastic packaging, as well as utilisation of ocean plastics, their biodegradable plant and mineral-based effective cleaning solutions are well designed for yacht life, compatible with greywater systems and marine life and tested for over 20 years for their effectiveness.

This episode is sponsored by Ecotricity - New Zealand’s only carboNZero certified electricity retailer. Join Ecotricity now! 30 Personality testMyers Briggs test or Strengths Finder 29 Personal Time Voucher Either volunteer hours or quality time. What’s your skill set – tailoring, mending, IT, jamming doors, painting, proofing. 28 Ebooks / vouchers 27 Give a goatWorld Vision , Tear Fund, Oxfam 26 Restaurant vouchersEspecially local, small, seasonal – organic. 25 DIY Garden giftsIndoor potted plants, second-hand pot, home-grown seedlings, home-made ready to go compost, or worm castings. 24 Take away cupor Keep cup. 23 Get out on the harbourSailing on harbour or Ferry trip to island, protected bird sanctuaries like Tiri Tiri Matangi. 22 Magazine gift subscriptionThe gift that keeps on giving. 21 Mason Jar Cake mix (stripy)Soup mix, slices, biscuits, seed bread. Need to add instructions and list what wet ingredients are needed, great for zero waste vegans. 20 Colour analysisGetting your colours done. And personal style analysis 19 Massage VoucherShout out to Auckland’s NiceTouch 18 Make a mixtapeOr Spotify playlist. 17 Bake something 16 Hand-drawn family tree 15 Frozen meals 14 Fruit and vegetable bagsSee Rubbish Free website, bags for shopping. Think about the materials, see article. 13 Toiletry packIntroduce people to some new products, dental floss, go bamboo toothbrush, or eco-comb/hairbrush. 12 Organic MenswearBarkers have an organic range. 11 ChocolateSpecifically, fair trade and organic available at supermarkets including Huckleberry or your local organic shop. Bennetto, Green & Blacks are good brands. Watch the packaging! 11A Good quality kitchen equipmentNo motors, no plastic, good gifts for under 20s. A mortar and pestle, stainless steel measuring cups, spoons, mixing bowl, wooden chopping board. 10 LessonsSinging, guitar, mountain bike skills, cooking. 9 ShowsThe ballet, live stand up comedy, theatre, dance shows. 8 ExperiencesDining in the Dark and Escape Rooms. 7 LumosityPurchasable as a gift for others, great for the brain. 6 Customisable calendarsSuch as Snapfish (paper based). 5 Civil Defence PacksA gift that people really need. Getaway Kit or Emergency Survival Items... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode is sponsored by Ecotricity - New Zealand’s only carboNZero certified electricity retailer. Join Ecotricity now! This episode is about how to ditch landfills. Landfills don’t work. We all hate them. We don’t want them in our backyards. They are getting further away from our cities – Dome Valley (between Warkworth and Wellsford). They produce tonnes of methane and an eternal leachate problem which you don’t want in waterways. So burning all this waste to generate energy is a great idea, right?! Waveney’s been researching expert opinion and data from both sides and presents a far more complex picture of waste to energy than you may know. This includes four different kinds of W2E: Incineration, Gasification, Pyrolysis and Anaerobic digestion (aka bio-digestion). W2E is an attractive alternative to landfill: It creates energy; It could reduce the need for landfills; It reduces the volume of rubbish; It creates new jobs when plants are opened and it doesn’t mean that all the rubbish has to be gobbled, we can still recycle or repurpose useful items. HOWEVER, that leads us to the five big issues with W2E. It isn’t a very efficient way to make energy. The toxic ash and filters need to go somewhere (often landfills). It doesn’t vanish waste, it creates a very dangerous concentrated end product. It’s the lowest waste jobs creator (1 job for 10,000 tonnes vs landfill’s 6 jobs, recycling’s 36 jobs and waste recovery’s 200-300 jobs). It’s very expensive, which creates a dependency of waste generation long-term, making it incompatible with zero waste goals. Sign the petition against incineration for Aotearoa. Have a listen and please share with your friends who are passionate or just curious about waste to energy solutions. Thank you to the following people who helped with this episode; Michael from Sierra Energy, Hannah and Liam from the Rubbish Trip, Val from the Zero Waste Network, Trish A for your winning question on our Facebook page. LINKS, RESOURCES AND REFERENCES https://www.mfe.govt.nz/climate-change/state-of-our-atmosphere-and-climate/new-zealands-greenhouse-gas-inventory https://orders.wastemanagement.co.nz/media/files/DFNews%20Draft%20Aug%2017.pdf https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/109411303/bold-new-waste-energy-plant-concept-proposed-for-huntly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/biogas/wastetoenergy-plant-to-be-built-in-new-20190715 https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/energy-production/sweden-is-great-at-turning-trash-to-energy.htm

This episode is sponsored by Ecotricity - New Zealand’s only carboNZero certified electricity retailer. Join Ecotricity now! To mark Buy Nothing Day (Friday 29 November) we're joined by special guest Suzanne McFadden talk about her one year challenge to buy no clothes except for essentials. Suzanne is also the founder of the online women’s sports hub The Locker Room – who are doing a great job of raising the profile of women in sport in Aotearoa. Suzanne rocked her year, she even nailed the Media Awards in an op-shop find. Buy Nothing Day combats Black Friday, the day of hyper commerce after Thanksgiving - It's the biggest shopping day of the year in the US when stores drop their prices to work up a buying (crowding crushing) frenzy. It started off as an American tradition but now is undertaken around the world, including New Zealand. Shout out to two other Buy Nothing kiwi heroes: Kristy Lorson and Chris Morrison - both making their living out of selling stuff but would rather you didn’t buy it. Kristy is the guru behind zero waste hub Earth Savvy and Chris is the co-founder of Aotearoa’s most successful fair trade businesses Karma Cola and All Good Bananas. When asked what the one thing people could do to save the planet is, Chris said “buy less.” Kristy boldly took her shop off line for Black Friday / Buy Nothing Day last year. If you don’t get why you can’t buy as much fair trade, organic, plastic free “STUFF” as you want then listen on. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode is sponsored by Ecotricity - New Zealand’s only carboNZero certified electricity retailer. Join Ecotricity now! Te Radar joins us, fully wired and caffeinated to share some incredible developments about the future of farming. Radar is a NZ broadcasting icon and has been making TV and radio programmes for decades about sustainability and our relationship to the environment. He comes from a farming family and has travelled the world meeting agriculturalists from all over the planet who are doing things differently. We discuss the difficulties of treating trees as a total solution for offsetting carbon, moving people from a free hold mentality regarding land to a lease hold mentality (nature being the leaseholder) and much more. Radar also shares his optimism about the future, the younger generation and vertical farming. Links and ResourcesAlanna Mitchell’s book, SeasickChina has culled 100m pigsAI-assisted pig farmingTech advances in Chinese supermarkets increasing trackability of farm-to-table food journeys40% of US Farmers' 2019 income will come from government subsidies and insurance See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode is sponsored by Ecotricity - New Zealand’s only carboNZero certified electricity retailer. Join Ecotricity now! We chat to Māori academic Raaniera Te Whata (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, te Whānau a Apanui), who is currently completing his PhD, ‘Now. Then. Next. Whakapapa on Ancestral Landscapes in Tautoro, Te Tai Tokerau’. His doctorate looks at current issues and capturing the history of his homeland in Northland. Raaniera discusses the indigenous New Zealand perspective regarding our environment and our natural resources, the effects of Māori urbanisation on rural areas and the Māori creation story and its foundation for the concept of kaitiaki (or stewardship) over the landscapes in which we live. He also takes us through some of the challenges local iwi face when dealing with local government when it comes to resourcing issues and explains a water rights negotiation happening in his home of Tautoro, as an example. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode is sponsored by Ecotricity - New Zealand’s only carboNZero certified electricity retailer. Join Ecotricity now! Waveney and Tim have decided it's time to celebrate some environmental successes. We discuss Colmar Brunton's recent polling that shows pretty much all groups in New Zealand (except white middle class men) are prioritising Climate Change as a TOP issue. The tide of public consciousness is changing - rapidly!We also dig into the success of defeating Acid Rain, a terrible coal-caused phenomenon that dominated news cycles and the public imagination through the 1970s, 80s and 90s before scientific research and good old diplomacy actually got on top of it!Lastly, we celebrate Happen Films - a kiwi film production house that exclusively make environmental documentaries that are solutions-focused, inspiring and hopeful. Their latest title, Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is the amazing story of botanist Hugh Wilson who regenerates forests in the south island using the much hated 'weed', gorse! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the final instalment of our special climate series, we're finding out how we need to change to save the planet. Helen-Ann Smith takes on the challenge of cutting her carbon footprint. If we're all going to have to change our lifestyles, how easy is it going to be?

Sudesh is a New Zealander who was living "sustainability, accessibility and culture" as a way of doing business way before it was fashionable. A Be Accessible Fab 50 member and recipient of numerous awards, he has set his sights on scaling the business with family origins. Here he discusses his journey. Born in the former Burma to Indian parents. He spent his childhood in Kathmandu and Hong Kong where his business career began. His grandfather, who started life as an accountancy clerk in Burma, began the family dynasty when he started his own company three years after that initial job. Two generations on our guest runs the New Zealand arm of the enterprise - a significant part of the family business - with the next generation in the wings preparing to carry it on. And the business runs with sustainability and longevity to the fore. Sudesh completed a degree in business administration in Southern California and came to New Zealand for the first time on honeymoon with his wife. They both loved the country and vowed to make it their home in both residency and business. Today he can be described as a business owner, a property investor, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist and a practicing environmental advocate. One of the few hotel owners and developers based in New Zealand he is a sought after speaker in tourism and won the prestigious Environmental Tourism Award in 2017. Under his direction Sudima Hotels now includes three hotels with another three under development from Auckland in the north to Christchurch in the south. The group currently has other hotels under development including a new development in Kaikoura. All the group’s hotels have been rated bronze to gold for accessibility as you would expect from a Be Accessible business leader. With a community focused ethos and an emphasis on sustainability with the country’s only carboNZero hotels, this is an industry leader who is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion, and who provides free breakfasts for school children.  

Ifti Hussain, Sudima Christchurch Airport Hotel Manager, talks to Chris Lynch about Sudima Christchurch Airport's efforts to fight for the planet by being named carboNZero

Ifti Hussain, Sudima Christchurch Airport Hotel Manager, talks to Chris Lynch about Sudima Christchurch Airport's efforts to fight for the planet by being named carboNZero

Ann Smith of Landcare Research talks to us about the carboNZero programme and what it means for wine.