Matthew Sawyer is the MD of SEE Sustainability, a sustainability consultancy helping SMEs improve their triple bottom line. Nigel Parkin is the owner of Institution is a multi-award winning boutique cafe located in the Georgian Market town of Bedale. In this episode, Matthew shares his experience working with Nigel and they chat about their experience turning Institution into a more sustainable business. Highlights: Understanding of SDG and getting the team on board “Within a period of 6 weeks we were able to reduce our waste bill by 60%.” Using social media to shout about sustainability campaign SDG 12.3 Reducing Food Waste Reducing coffee waste, sourcing more local produce and reducing packaging Closing the information gap between knowledge Biggest challenge of reducing carbon footprint Useful link: Nigel Parkin https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-parkin-b139bb159/ Institution Cafe in Bedale http://cafe.thisisinstitution.co.uk/ Matthew Sawyer https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-matthew-sawyer-mb-bsc-gradiema-66325110b/ SEE Sustainability https://seesustainability.co.uk/ Timestamp: [03:00] Understanding of SDGs [05:00] Improving waste management of the cafe [10:00] Environmental impact from the customer’s perspective [15:00] Asking questions of suppliers [20:00] What has been the biggest struggle? [25:00] Once piece of advice to audience

Ifeyinwa Kanu, founder of IntelliDigest.  Food waste and plastic waste are two global challenges attracting a worldwide concern. IntelliDigest is developing the world’s first intelligent, kitchen fitted and automated bio-upcycler (IntelliAD). IntelliAD could be deployed locally in food waste ‘hot spots’ such as restaurants, hospitals and schools. IntelliAD will take unavoidable food waste and convert it to high-quality bioresources that displaces the need for plastics thereby providing convenience, money saving and evidenced regulatory compliance to users. Highlights: challenge of waste treatment small scale anaerobic food digester for onsite waste treatment turning food waste into biodegradable packaging changing behaviour towards waste Useful link: IntelliDigest Ifeyinwa Kanu's Linkedin Subscribe to the Green Element Podcast

Woon Tan is the founder of Podcast Publishing, where they focus on helping impact businesses share their message through podcasts. Podcast publishing helps impact podcasters launch and scale their podcasts. Highlights: Why podcasting is growing How to get started in podcasting Woon's career from insurance into sustainability Are all financial companies as bad as everyone thinks Advise on getting involved in an impact career Influencing change using podcasts Sustainability, climate change and environmentalism in Malaysia Useful link: Podcast Publishing: http://podcastpublishing.help/ Subscribe to the Green Element Podcast

Alan Donnachie is the Head of Estates and Facilities at the Regents's University London. Highlights: challenges of greening a university that is part of the Crown Estates and within a Royal Park in central London installing BMS systems working with international students more  having effective windows in old buildings environmental efforts vs perception how to get more savings from sustainability efforts priority of reducing carbon emissions Useful links: Regent's University London - https://www.regents.ac.uk/  Subscribe to the Green Element Podcast

AdGreen exists to support the advertising industry’s transition to environmentally sustainable production methods; working in collaboration with trade bodies and other industry organisations to accelerate the adoption of best practice. Highlights Making production sets more sustainable Reducing production waste Challenge of lack of benchmark and measure Jo Coombes career in advertising Working with brands, agencies and production companies Why #greenproduction can't be left with showrunners Useful links: AdGreen - https://www.adgreen-apa.net/ AdGreen Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/AdGreenAPA/ AdGreen Twitter - https://twitter.com/AdGreenAPA Jo Coombes Linkedin - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jocoombes  Albert - http://wearealbert.org/  Subscribe to the Green Element Podcast

Michiel Vos is the founder & CTO of Coco Pallet. He is a serial entrepreneur specialized in the Circular Economy and Bio Based products.  CocoPallets replace single-use one-way wooden export pallets; fewer trees need to be cut and shipped for these purposes. They buy the coconut husk from the farmers, creating extra income at the bottom of the pyramid. The farmers stop burning the coconut husks; which reduces the air pollution.  Highlights: Why a Linkedin post turned viral The problem with the current pellets market Carbon footprint of travelling to Asia and transporting from pallets Keeping track of pellets What it means to be a circular economy business Building a pellet factory Being data driven Useful links: CocoPallet - https://www.cocopallet.com/  Michiel Vos - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michiel-vos-29628418/   Subscribe to the Green Element Podcast

Alison Woods talks about her journey from charity work to the founding of Lilypads. Lilypads is a reusable sanitary pad made from natural material. Lilypads support vital work in rural Kenya tackling period poverty and stigma. They help girls access reusable sanitary pads so they do’t have to miss out on their education or turn to unsafe alternatives. Highlights: How solving a research problem lead to a much bigger problem. How to create a sustainable product and make the business model sustainable. Choosing to be a BCorp How Alison is iterating and getting feedback in developing the sanitary pad. How Alison is prioritising social media and face-to-face conversations Advise to entrepreneurs and people looking for more purpose Useful links: Lilypads - https://lilypads.org.uk/ Lilypads Twitter - https://twitter.com/Lilypads_UK Lilypads Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lilypads.uk/ Alison Wood’s Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonwood-lilypads/  Subscribe to the Green Element Podcast

Naeem Arif is the author of “Customer First” and MD of NA Consulting and United Carpets. In this conversation, Naeem shares his experience of advising large businesses on organisational culture,  managing multiple companies and treating customers first. Subscribe to the Green Element Podcast Highlights: Chasing happy customers is better than profits Working with employees and organisational culture Business transformation for large organisations Global village and diversity in the workplace Demand for sustainability in companies Millennials won’t sacrifice meaningful work for more pay How treating one customer with kindness lead to more customers Naeem Arif's Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/naeemarif/ Customer First - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Customer-First-Naeem-Arif-ebook/dp/B07PFKR6GP NAC Consulting -  https://www.naconsulting.co.uk/ High Profile Club - https://highprofileclub.com/ United Carpets & Beds - https://www.unitedcarpetsandbeds.com/ Sapiens - https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens/ B1G1 - https://www.b1g1.com/ B Corp - https://bcorporation.uk/ Sustainable Developement Goals - https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/  Subscribe to the Green Element Podcast  

Brendan Thompson is the co-founder of Renegade & Longton, the pioneers of elderflower and sparkling wines. We talk about sustainable packaging and the production of wine.Subscribe to the Green Element Podcast 

We are thrilled to be interviewing Jon Leland from Kickstarter. Jon Leland is the Senior Director of Strategy and Insights at Kickstarter, the world's largest platform for funding creative projects. He leads their Environmental Impact Group which is tasked with meeting their public benefit commitments to reducing the impact of their operations and ecosystem on the environment.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Natalie Jameson – C.E.O | MUM | Design Thinker | Tech4Good / Social Business Innovator | Speaker | Author| Educator The Heroworx is reimagining executive education in the digital economy with the world first Financial and Business Services intrapreneurial accelerator. They position women and underrepresented groups to thrive and drive exponential growth with quadruple bottom line values aligned to the UN SGDs. Natalie’s steered a multidisciplinary portfolio career and education through two children, four industries including Acquisitions Finance, Sustainable Interior Architecture, Start Up Healthcare and 5 countries (often as the only women). The final piece of the jigsaw for starting The Heroworx came as Head of Food and Beverage Finance in a digital transformation team at Siemens Plc. Inspired by the possibilities of and called to action by how underrepresented women and minority groups were. She believes there is magic at the intersection of women’s education, empowerment, digital innovation in Enterprise. Her central question is, what if business practitioners all thought like human-centred designers? Would our approach to work and life be purposefully diverse, creative and connected to humanity and the planet for meaningful innovation and sustainable industrial development?

Paul is Co-Founder and CTO of Remote and Code Assembly, working to empower purpose-driven teams to amplify their impact. He’s also a TEDx speaker, writer and music producer. Both organisations excel at automating systems that free you and your team to work within your individual talents to do the work you were born to do. His superpower is his ability to envisage and model systems in a holistic way that liberates innovation and human potential, with purpose at its core. Paul’s been leading technical teams to build online and mobile applications for nearly twenty years for tech startups, established enterprises and global corporations like Sony, Volvo and Volkswagen Group. His book ‘Purpose First’ will be published in the Summer; it shows us how we can put Purpose at the core of our own lives, to organise our business and teams to align with a common goal, and how to utilise exponential technologies to achieve positive global impact.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Nick Addison from Pro Earth Ltd. Pro Earth are specialists in environment protection and conservation through controlling pollution. We design spill control solutions for industry, including construction, airports, railways, mining, catering and manufacturing We also create purification systems that remove heavy metals, hydrocarbons and chemicals from waste water.

We are thrilled to be interviewing as a Podcast Extra; Kiko Matthews from Kiko Matthews ltd - A World record holder - fastest woman to solo row the Atlantic. She is passionate about the ocean and our environment, as well as education and adventure. She was a science teacher before being a environmental athlete. In May 2019 she will be cycling around U.K. 7200km and doing 76 beach cleans along the way. if you would like to get involved then please sponsor her - www.kikomatthews.co.uk. It is an amazing show and I hope you like it as much as us!

We are thrilled to be interviewing Tessa Tricks from Hubbub. Hubbub is a charity that creates environmental campaigns with a difference. There positive and design playful interventions that inspire people to make healthier, greener lifestyle choices, which more often than not help save money and bring people together. They concentrate on things people are passionate about and are relevant day-to-day, like fashion, food, homes and neighbourhoods. They keep things simple, offering practical and realistic solutions that help people to cut waste, make clothes last longer, save money and create cleaner spaces to live and work in. www.hubbub.org.uk Tessa has led Hubbub’s food campaigns since 2014.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Stephanie Johnson and Kristina Komlosiova from Pollen + Grace. They create innovative, healthy ready meals and snacks. They challenge the traditional marketplace by creating 100% natural, accessibly priced, genuinely delicious meals that just so happen to be vegan, as well as gluten, wheat and dairy free. Born in their home kitchen in 2015, they have grown from a niche lunch delivery service to one of the market leading Food-To-Go brands. Today, their products can be found on the shelves of retailers like Whole Foods and WHSmith; their meals are available nationwide through Ocado and since 2018, our branded products are stocked in offices such as Google, HSBC and Deloitte through Compass Group. they're currently crowdfunding! https://www.seedrs.com/pollenandgrace

We are thrilled to be interviewing Tim Dew from Games Without Frontiers. Tim started Games Without Frontiers to rapidly accelerate the way that people learn. It works on two key principles: 1. That the only way you can get someone to believe in an idea is to believe it was theirs in the first place and, 2. That we only learn through experience. Rocket, our first learning platform, teaches teams of people how to run a whole business in a single day. It's being hailed as the future of learning by qualification authorities. 26 weeks of trade happen in 26 minutes - it's fast and furious, fun and you'll learn more in a day than months attending traditional training courses. Their clients are using it for teambuilding, commercial education across wholse organisations and as method of winning new clients.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Anne Charlotte Mornington from OLIO. Anne Charlotte Mornington pursued a BA Hons in Fine Art and an MSc in Management where she wrote her thesis on the topic of food waste. While working for Tech City UK in 2015, she was introduced to OLIO and has been part of the team ever since. Her focus is on international expansion and business development. After instigating OLIO sharing communities in Sweden and California, she is currently working on community growth in Mexico City while overseeing other regions.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Anne Pleun van Eijsden from Paper on the Rocks. She started Paper on the Rocks in late 2015. After studying International Law, a bachelor in History and minor in Chinese she worked as an e-commerce marketeer. But from a young age she felt that she wanted to make a difference by becoming an entrepreneur who was 'doing good'. Then she encountered stonepaper. A beautiful alternative to traditional pulp paper. Almost overnight she started Paper on the Rocks - without a plan but with a very solid belief in the need for change. Now Paper on the Rocks is an internationally operating stationery business, we are a certified B Corporation and provide notebooks made from scaleable paper alternatives - such as our Rockbooks from stonepaper and our soon to launch Leafbooks from agricultural waste - to the B2B and B2C market.

We are thrilled to be intervieing Joseph Kennedy from Content Pathway, The UK's #1 Environmental Copywriter & Interviewer. The environment can't speak for itself, that's why we have to produce regular and engaging content that sparks discussion, encourages action, and inspires people to make decisions on its behalf. That's where I come in. With a background in recycling, waste management, sustainability and journalism, and with a client base ranging from electric supercar manufacturers to local house clearance companies, I have the versatility, creativity and industry knowledge to communicate for your business. Since 2016 I have been a creative support and content innovator for the environmental industry, and have now built a loyal team around me to help drive this mission forward.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Robin Pointon, Go Travel Solutions is a specialist consultancy for sustainable transport, serving employers, public bodies and travel providers founded in 2008. The enterprise currently employs five staff members with offices in Leicester and Bristol. The organisation is focused on bringing together the best in transport, environmental and marketing practice. Go Travel Solutions works in collaboration with leading transport consultants, local authority partners, operators and support agencies to tailor solutions to the requirements of customers.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Marco Karman who is the owner of Be More You. Be More You is a company that helps people be more mindful, compassionate, and illuminated. Their target market are children over 10 years and old people over 60 years but have an opening market for people in the working field. In this episode, Marco explains how people do a lot of things subconsciously and have knee jerk reactions because their minds are already programmed to a certain kind of thinking. His company will help you be more aware of your environment and how to handle different situations.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Peter Elbourne, Managing Director of Supply & Operations at SHORE The Scottish Company. They aim to be the UK’s leading seaweed company. They hand harvest organic seaweed from the remote and rugged shores of northern Scotland. Sustainability is central to what they do. No-one else offers their range of organic seaweed at wholesale scale in the UK. To achieve volume sales, they have developed a range of seaweed-based products to sell into retail under our brand SHORE – the first of which is their Seaweed Puffs. Seaweed is the star ingredient, but their healthy snacking products also deliver on taste. In the coming years we want to expand our harvesting operations and introduce cultivation for key commercial species. They will also diversify beyond food into new markets for seaweed.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Joel Solomon from Renewal Funds. Want to understand what a serial impact investor sounds like, what should you look for? How do you know they want the same as you? Listen to this episode and understand more about investment. Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at $98m assets under management. Investing in Organics and EnviroTech in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, recognized as ImpactAssets “Top 50 impact fund managers.”

We are thrilled to be interviewing Nick Molden from Emissions Analytics, a business that is trying to educate us on what the actual emissions are for the vehicle you drive. The government is trying to get us to stop driving Diesel vehicles what if you were to understand that the new diesel vehicles are greener and cleaner than the new petrol ones? The government is a few years behind the actual emissions. Nick is busy testing vehicles from all around the world and letting us know the actual emissions of your vehicle! It turns out some of their customers are the car companies themselves! Listen and enjoy - it blew my mind! I hope it blows yours!

We are thrilled to have and be interviewing Adam Garfunkel from Junxion Strategy, a strategy and communications consultancy dedicated to helping leaders build the success stories of the next economy – one that is fair, inclusive and sustainable. They do that by helping organisations articulate their purpose, plan for impact, share their stories and measure and report on the difference they have made. Adam has spent thirty years as a sustainability consultant, writer and activist working with organisations of all sizes including the United Nations, global businesses, NGOs and social enterprises.

We are thrilled to be interviewing Tamma Carel from Imvelo limited, an environmental consultancy and training business that helps companies best understand environmental management and sustainability in the easiest way possible. Being an IEMA approved service provider, she has been able to integrate environmental management with different parts of a company through cohesive courses. She is an incredible human being with lots of energy and passion to educate. Tamma has been running the business for 3 years, and still has the same zeal and enthusiasm as ever.

Today we are delighted to be joined by Peter Gilheany, the Director of Forster Communications, a social change PR agency. It’s a company that is devoted to working with businesses and non-profit organizations with the goal of accelerating social change and has been in business for about 22 years. They help their clients protect and improve their lives.

This is a great episode about a phenomenal and inspiring lady that set up ‘networking’ and ‘communications’ solution that helps us increase awareness and reduce the environmental impact within organisations. Hermione Taylor is founder of Do Nation, an online platform designed to help people form healthy, environmentally friendly habits. Through Do Nation, she’s worked with over 100 organisations, from Nando’s to Network Rail, Ella’s Kitchen to Edinburgh University, helping to engage their employees in sustainability. Do Nation was born out of Hermione's non-profit project whereby individuals can raise support for marathons, cycle rides, or even weddings in the form of action instead of cash. Instead of donating £5, supporters pledge to try out a new carbon-saving action – e.g. cycle to work, use less plastic, or avoid unsustainable palm oil.

Martin Baxter Chief Policy Advisor IEMA – (Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment) Martin works in the UK and internationally to support the transition to a low carbon, resource efficient and sustainable economy. Martin leads IEMA’s policy and external engagement activity with government and business. He has national and international experience in developing and negotiating global and European standards, and developing capacity for effective and widespread implementation. Martin is head of the UK delegation to the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) on environmental management and chairs the EMS committee. He is also a Board member of IEMA and SocEnv.

Today we are delighted to be joined by Tom Greenwood who is the managing director of Wholegrain Digital. He and his wife begun the company back in 2007. It is a web and design agency whose mission is to use design, digital technology and business to help create a sustainable world.

Dave Faulconbridge, one of the founders of WF Glazing Protection Ltd, is here with us today discussing window films. The company helps and gives you the freedom to use your offices and rooms all year round through their window film coatings. Having been in operation for 12 years as well as previous employees of 3M, they sure do have the required experience and are proud to be environmental friendly while at it.

Today, we are glad to be joined by Richard Fuller, the managing Director at County Battery Services Ltd. It’s a company that was founded by his father in 1974. They deal with different types of batteries that is for cars, alarms, battery-operated toys, cordless phones and digital cameras. The batteries are both rechargeable and non-rechargeable.

Today I had a chat with Myles Hopper, one of the founders of Mindful Chef. Mindful Chef is a health-focused food box company that was founded in 2015. They started the business with their customers as friends and family only and they now try to treat all their customers like that. They have grown incredibly. He gives us their story of how they practically sold nothing for 9 months and how they were able to grow from that.

Today we are delighted to be joined by Danny Witter a co-founder of Work for Good. Work for Good is a social enterprise that purposes in getting business to give a little bit more to charity. Their mission is to create a channel that enables philanthropic funding for the charity work. They use this platform to invite both businesses and charities to sign up thereby enabling businesses to get to the charities easier.

Kalopsia Collective is a textile batch manufacturing company which began with an aim to challenge the way textile was seen. Totally aware of the social impact of design and production, they strive to minimize the environmental impact of the business. This is by considering everything and everyone affected by their business. In this episode, Adam will share with us the challenges they're facing as a company, especially with fabric, a load of advice to anyone looking to start a sustainable business, and much more.

Ben Battell visited two beaches with completely different ocean life. One was completely clean while the other was holding on to its life from the amount of waste in it. This prompted Ben to start a business where he could reduce the amount of plastic that finds its way to the ocean. Did you know that if you spend 80 years in life while changing your toothbrush every three months that would be 240 toothbrushes in a lifetime? These small but significant changes is what Ben from Bahasa of the Sea is trying to make. Listen in to find out how.

In this episode, we’re joined by Andy from Simplicity Cars. Andy is not your typical car salesman. He is truly passionate about cars and his business and I’m sure you’ll be able to tell that from listening to the show. He makes the journey of buying a car as easy as possible for you and given that he only gets his payment from the suppliers, you’re sure of getting it at a fair price. He shares how he runs his business, interacts with his clients, and what happens in case your car is delayed. In a world where ethics and car dealership cannot be put in the same sentence, it would be a pity to miss listening to this podcast.

Gut healing is reemerging as the key benefit to having better health, and a longer and happier life. When Catherine Farrant fell pregnant, she started researching on ancient ways in which people nourished their bodies. She found out that food was used as medicine as opposed to today where we’re taking medicine as food and that's how Ossa Organic was born. Ossa Organic is a BCorp Certified company that has products made using high-quality organic ingredients based on ancient recipes. Catherine shares with us how she runs the company, what inspired her to start it, and ways in which you too, can join the organic foods movement.

Today, it’s my pleasure to interview Sam Brennan who is the owner of Fresh Car Valeting. Sam believes in having a connection with people and more so his employees. He feels having happy employees subsequently translates to having happy customers. With a team of 9 employees, Fresh Car Valeting is changing how car valeting business works. It is a high-end mobile car valeting company and this comes with a load of challenges. He gives us the ins and outs of his business but most importantly, he shares the challenges he’s facing being a high-end business.

Fellow Bcorp and Manchester-based Brew Tea Co. join us for this fascinating interview all about Sustainable Business, the technical side of Tea drinking and the triple bottom line. Deirdre McNally discusses the challenges involved in being a consumer-focussed company committed to doing business as a force for good as well as how building a loyal community has really helped them provide a better service.

The Kind Living Salon is set up to be a unique and modern brand that offers Vegan, eco-friendly and organic products, alongside ethical and socially conscious treatments and services. In this interview, founder Lizzie Salter tells us why she set up this new business and the eco-hub she aims to achieve to promote a more ethical and sustainable approach to wellbeing, self-care and nutrition. Lizzie discusses common challenges small business face when it comes to setting up a sustainable business and how she's overcome most and working on others.

Linklaters is a leading international law firm committed to environmental responsibility. In this interview we speak with Leilani Weier who is their in-house Sustainability Consultant. There's a lot you can take away from this episode, especially if your staff and supply chain are asking questions around sustainability and environmental responsibility. Leilani talks about their Best Green Law Firm global chat group which was set up to engage global employees around the companies sustainable agenda and how Linklaters is responding to client requests around the topic of sustainability. 

Did you know that 80% of your environmental impact is decided at the design stage? Matt Hocking is a superhero lover, proud and committed BCorp owner and planet optimist, In this interview he talks about how becoming a BCorp helped him increase his turnover by 40% in the first year, how he's engaged his staff, suppliers and customers with his sustainable business agenda and how Leap is doing business as a force for good. There are lots of lessons learned in this episode too so be sure to have a pen handy!

Leah talks about her journey building an ethical and vegan 'sweet treat' brand from scratch and how The Hardihood has used Instagram to accelerate their business growth. There's lots of tips and advice about starting an ethical brand, addressing the challenge around plastic packaging and also what it takes to get your product into popular retailers like Selfridges, Planet Organic, WholeFoods and Daylesford. It doesn't matter if you're just starting out on your own business venture or you've been doing it for years - there is lots to learn and take-away from this fascinating interview with Leah - a 29year old entrepreneur that started her journey at 25.

We are delighted to be joined by Adam Huttly who is the founder of Red-Inc. Company. Red Inc. is a B Corp certified company and is an office supplies re-seller. Adam founded his company in 2008 based on three principles which are cost, environmental impact, and reducing human effort.