Blue Earth Podcast

This week on the podcast we hear from Xavier Baker, the Co-founder of the Isle of Wight Distillery - the home of Mermaid Gin, a proud sponsor of this year’s Blue Earth Summit. 

Xav grew up on the Isle…

Dan Macaulay is the founder and CEO at Brandwave, a sports marketing agency based in the South West of England. Dan grew up in Ireland, surrounded by some of the best surfing and windsurfing conditio…

Maxwell Ayamba is a journalist, academic and long-standing champion of countryside access for minority communities.

In 1996, Maxwell arrived in the UK from Ghana after being awarded a scholarship to s…

Given the choice, most of us would opt for a relatively easy life pathway and if your family business was not involved in servicing the needs of the many, then even better. Not so for the Walker fami…

At a time when studying for A Levels might be considered the most important moment in your education journey, Poppy is also in the middle of building a serious and high-profile activism career in the…

Welcome to our first speaker podcast for the 2nd summit, with the effervescent Mike Barry. Mike is a leader in sustainable change. One of the pioneers of green business in the corporate world he help…

Welcome to series 2 of the podcast and a warm welcome to your new host Laura Nesbitt, she’s got some serious outdoors creds being a competitive swimmer and currently in training to swim the Bristol c…

The youth of today are the climate’s biggest hope and climate-led youth activism is more prominent than ever.  

We have to shift the status quo, and to do this we must call out the everyday contributo…

Staying on top of your carbon footprint can be hard. Whether that’s monitoring utility bills or measuring business travel, keeping track of your impact isn’t necessarily as easy as it seems. 

Elliot C…

Modern environment-driven organisations intend to lead the way with a revolutionary new ideology, an ideology that regenerative business practises should be the new norm. From a biodegradable bubble …

Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard is a member of the Breitling Explorer Squad, he’s a psychiatrist and ambassador for clean technologies, and for him, the impossible doesn’t exist in reality, but in ou…

We’ve all been victims of greenwashing. It’s a sophisticated problem which, more often than not, we’re blind to. And why wouldn’t we be? Why not trust what we’re being told? Aren’t all companies tryi…

In this talk from the main stage at Blue Earth Summit 2021, find out how the power of psychology and the power of media is being used to influence ecological preservation.

To help us understand how co…

Documenting the climate crisis is a bittersweet thing. Whether it be capturing treatment of fish in salmon farms, or understanding the importance of habitat for leopard seals, travel to far flung loc…

Did you know chewing gum contains single-use plastic? Did you know boats can be eco-efficiently supercharged? Did you know fitness supplements can be created without damaging the earth? Did you know …

There’s been a huge transition over the last decade or so towards purpose. As consumers we would like to make better choices. However, there’s a divide between those choices we would like to make, an…

The UK coastline is a thing of beauty. As described by Jo Morley in this talk, it's our playground. But, it's beauty is in danger as it suffers the effects of plastic pollution

Head of campaigns at en…

In 2007, Rosie Stancer journeyed alone over the surface of the frozen Arctic Ocean for 84 days, travelling further than any previous attempts by women to reach the North Pole solo. She battled condit…

Documenting ecological crises around the world for TV and film is more important than ever, but doing this whilst having minimal impact on people and planet can be a struggle. As a result, practises …

Ashok Sinha of the London Cycling Campaign believes that in order to make the world an eco-safe setting, we must decarbonise our streets. With lethal levels of pollution in many places, Ashok intends…