Episode 7 – Biodegradable Plastics From Waste – Jeff Beegle and Tony Bova, Mobius
Thanks in part to successful campaigns and thanks also to the visual and tangible nature of the problem. The environmental issue of non-biodegradable plastics is more well known that ever before. Despite efforts to recycle more of it a huge 91% of plastics still...
Episode 6 – How To Start Your Own Disruptive Environmental Business – Jay Clouse, Unreal Collective and Upside.fm
Happy New Year Everyone! For many people, the new year means new starts, new goals, trouser sizes…… I don’t know why we can’t just decide suddenly on a random Friday evening in front of the TV that we want to do something different but instead use an...
Episode 5 – Values and framing – Targeting compassion over self-interest – Tom Crompton, Common Cause Foundation
There is a great misperception in our society that others place values of self-interest higher than values of compassion and care. Fixing this perception gap is massively important in the way we approach how we try and influence behaviours regarding environmental...
Episode 4 – Influencing Environmental Behaviours – Lessons From Trump and Brexit – Dr David Rose – University of East Anglia
Moving away from innovations this week and onto new perspectives, as I interview an academic who says we need to get down from our ivory towers, stop the finger pointing and start communicating better about environmental issues. This podcast series isn’t just about...
Episode 3 – Human waste and animal feed – doing the ‘dirty job’ – Mathieu Chaix-Bar, Weendle
The production of animal feed around the world has a huge environmental footprint. Which further adds to the already quite large footprint produced by simply rearing the animals themselves. Around 70% of the world’s soya is fed to livestock and Soya has a huge...
Episode 2 – Using Dogs in Conservation – Louise Wilson, Conservation K9 Consulting
As we highlighted in last weeks episode global biodiversity is not doing very well at all. It is now becoming more desperate than ever to get data about endangered species and to track them down in order to move them away from dangers posed by humans. Detection dogs,...
Episode 1 – Conservation bootstrapping, seeking out bats with a drone – Tom and Tom, Project Erebus
In the very first episode of the Disruptive Environmentalist podcast we are starting with a huge environmental issue, biodiversity loss. One of the keys to tackling this major problem is by having up to date reliable data on the trends of endangered species across...
