Podcast Episodes
‘Fashion Made of Food’. Tina Funder tells the story of Alt.Leather, the startup bringing us the world’s first 100% plant-based leather.
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.
‘Community is the Antidote to Consumerism’. Andrew Valder, Barbara ‘Babs’ Gill and Barry Du Bois on the story of the Garage Sale Trail.
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.
‘The Art of Making the Environment Fun’. Natalie Kyriacou and her latest book, Nature’s Last Dance.
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.
‘Ocean Plastics into Ocean Toys’. The story of Rikki Gilbey and Lucy Jackson, WAW Handplanes.
Plastic is a global problem. Since 1950 it’s estimated that together we humans have produced over 9 billion tonnes of the stuff - and half of that in the last 13 years alone. So how can we get it out of nature and manufacture it into new products?
Husband and wife team Rikki Gilbey and Lucy Jackson are doing just that, starting with the WAW Badfish, a bodysurfing handplane that turns ocean plastics into ocean toys.