What if you could help your home planet 🌳 by simply sitting on your bum, enjoying a beer🍺? That's the good idea behind Hawke's Brewing.

Started as a crazy conversation between two mates asking each other who they'd most like to enjoy a beer with, Hawke's Brewing is not just a great beer, it's a great way to fund nature too - and one that came from Bob Hawke himself.

Here's a sad stat: according to Suncorp 2019 Australian Youth Confidence Report around half of teenage girls stop playing sports by age 15 and confidence is one of the main reasons why.

It's not just teens either. New mums often find sports clothes don't fit like they used to, and even twenty somethings who don't fit the 'model' body simply come to believe some sports just aren't them - skiing and snowboarding included.

Maria Baker✌🏽 Baker has a good idea 💡 to do something about it.

After splitting her snow pants she founded Nobody's Princess to make high quality, technical snow gear to empower females of all shapes and sizes to hit the slopes with confidence.

You may have read the news stories: in 2025 renewables ⚡️🌞 overtook coal as the world's #1 energy source, for the first time ever.

This is clearly good news, but how good? 🤨 And why is it happening and what does it mean for the future of climate and life on our home planet? 🌏

If anyone knows, it's probably Bill McKibben.

As co-founder of 350.org, founder of Third Act, creator of Sun Day and author of over a dozen books on climate and the environment including his latest, Here Comes the Sun, Bill is the Godfather of the modern movement and I was lucky to talk to him about the latets state of the climate.

What would you do if the kids came home and accused you, well all adults, of trashing our home planet?

Nik took it as a call to arms, putting together a pitch to wife Joss and, in doing so, started the ball rolling one what has to be one of the most impressive family business stories ever. 

From a globally coveted display in the window of Selfridges to a feature in Forbes to becoming Australia's most awarded eyewear, Good Citizens is a true tale of how inspiration and perspiration can make the seemingly impossible come true. 

Payment gateways might not sound sexy, but when you consider that we Australians make 23 million financial transactions everyday, that's a crazy big opportunity to find a way to help our home planet in a huge way. 💰👉🌏

Maddi and Glenn have a good idea. 

By building a system that's as good as or better than the one businesses use today, then giving 50% of profits to nature projects, they have found a big solution to the big problem of deforestation and the destruction of our natural world. 

Growing your own food is awesome 🥦🍓🫑. 

It's good for you, good for community and good for the planet 🌏. So why isn't everyone doing it? 

Turns out many of us think don't have the space, don't know how, or don't want that awful feeling of 'I tried, it died'.

Paul West, Darryl Nichols and Andrew Valder have a good idea and this episode is here to tell you all about it.

If you're a male under 50, the thing most likely to kill you is you.

It's a sobering statistic, and one that has a lot of it has to do with feeling trapped, alone and like they have no-one to talk to. 

When Ben Akers lost his closest childhood friend, Steve, to suicide it started a journey that co-created Talk Club, a simple idea to get men talking more - and harming themselves less. 

Talk Club is now all over the world helping Ben deliver on his goal of saving the next Steve. 

It’s been said that convenience is the enemy of sustainability. And if ever that was on display in a big way, disposable coffee cups have to be right up there.

While plenty of re-useable cups exist, and some of us even go to the effort of using them, for most people the ubiquitous disposable cup is just too easy. You grab it, drink it and throw it away. Only for it to go into landfill where it stays, pretty much forever.

In fact it’s so easy that, in Australia, we go through a whopping 1.8 billion cups a year while worldwide, that figure is as high as 500 billion. Yes, every single year.

Fortunately, Saxon Wright has a good idea to help solve it–reusable coffee cup system Borrow by Huskee. 

Chances are you’ve owned a pair of leather shoes, but have you ever stopped to consider their—excuse the pun—footprint?

As we all know, leather comes from cows and cows contribute to climate change through their burps and farts and the deforestation that often occurs to give them land to live on.

If that’s not enough, the tanning process causes damage too, using chemicals with nasty names like chromium and aldehyde which, in many parts of the world end up in the soil and rivers, which then leach into the food system and yes, into us.

Alt.Leather founder Tina Funder is on a mission to change all this by creating a whole new kind of leather from nothing but plant materials.

How much stuff have you got in your life?

According to the LA Times, the average US home contains around 300,000 items. Most of us don’t need most of it, but we still buy more, using up our home planet’s resources in the process.  

For 10 years the Garage Sale Trail has been swapping consumerism for community and making it more fun to buy second hand than new. In this episode we learn all about why it works and hear stories from the frontline of making sustainability fun and social.

It has been said that all change starts with mindset.

And that to solve the environmental challenges of this world, we first need to people to believe that the environment does matter, a better world is possible, and all those excuses for why renewable energy or protection of our wild places can't happen are just that excuses.

Natalie Kyriacou is making it her life's work to just that. Her latest creation is 'Nature's Last Dance', a book that adventures into the wonders of our planet and makes the environmental fascinating and fun.