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Speaking of Sustainability is a podcast focusing on biodiversity and sustainability. Over the next few episodes we will be discussing these themes with special guests educated in environmentalism, either through education or first hand experience. The Trust for Sustainable Living is a charity working to help achieve a sustainable future through global education and empowerment. The Trust runs the annual TSL International Schools‘ Essay Competition and Debate, the Sustainability Challenge video competition, and Partner Power Summit involving over 12,000 schoolchildren and teachers in 80 countries. The Trust also runs The Living Rainforest visitor and education center in Berkshire, UK, featuring over 850 tropical plant and animal species to bring the rainforest to life and explore global sustainability challenges, for more than 100,000 visitors annually, including 25,000 children on school trips. The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Speaking of Sustainability podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of the Trust For Sustainable Living and its employees. The primary purpose of this podcast series is to educate and inform. This podcast is available for private, non-commercial use only. Advertising which is incorporated into, placed in association with, or targeted toward the content of this podcast, without the express approval and knowledge of TSL is forbidden. You may not edit, modify, or redistribute this podcast.
Episodes
Sep 6, 2021
Sep 6, 2021
26 min
This week, we'll be talking to Tobi Odiachi about the differences between how we treat the environment between England and Nigeria, environmental problems, and the best environmental books to help you get started for National Read A Book Day.
Find Tobi on instagram at instagram.com/bintinlaye
In other news, we were selected to be part of Feedspot's Top 25 Sustainability Podcasts, a great achievement in our first few months of broadcast. You can read the article here: https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_sustainability_podcasts/
You can find us on twitter at @TSLed4SustDev or on our Facebook page, Trust For Sustainable Living, or go to our website at trustforsustainableliving.org.
Aug 31, 2021
Aug 31, 2021
21 min
On this week's episode, we'll be discussing better ways that we can help educate our youth on sustainability and environmental issues. Our guests this week are Alieu J Pusah, Kehkashan Basu, and Pragna Vasupal of the Green Hope Foundation, and Cornelia Krug of the Zurich University.
You can find us on twitter at @TSLed4SustDev or on our Facebook page, Trust For Sustainable Living, or go to our website at trustforsustainableliving.org.
Aug 23, 2021
Aug 23, 2021
20 min
In today's episode, we'll be discussing how we can keep the youth of today inspired to get involved with the environment and sciences that go along with it, including how to further their career in those areas. Our guests this week are Prosanta Chakrabarty, Rosetta Blackman and Saheed Adebisi.
You can find us on twitter at @TSLed4SustDev or on our Facebook page, Trust For Sustainable Living, or go to our website at trustforsustainableliving.org.
Aug 16, 2021
Aug 16, 2021
14 min
“The scientists try to find opportunities to improve the current situation, getting inspired by the nature and finding solutions by just observing how the nature works; how we have disturbed the nature by the current system that we have, and then bio-economy, and using bio-based bio-degradable materials, is principally getting inspired by nature and trying to repeat.”
On this week's episode, we'll be talking to Dr. Pouya Samani on bio-based bio-degradables, based on his panel talk at the TSL Partner Power Summit.
You can find us on twitter at @TSLed4SustDev or on our Facebook page, Trust For Sustainable Living, or go to our website at trustforsustainableliving.org.
Aug 10, 2021
Aug 10, 2021
47 min
In this weeks episode of Speaking of Sustainability, we'll be once again talking to panellists from Trust for Sustainable Living's Partner Power Summit, discussing how we can fund biodiversity projects in a time when money is being spent elsewhere. Today's guests are Ronny Jumeau, former ambassador from the Seychelles; Rafael Ortiz Fabrega, ambassador for Costa Rica and Christian Schwarzer, from the Future Earth Organisation.
You can find us on twitter at @TSLed4SustDev or on our Facebook page, Trust For Sustainable Living, or go to our website at trustforsustainableliving.org.
Aug 2, 2021
Aug 2, 2021
13 min
Today's episode, we'll be talking with Dr. Emma Taylor on the topic of biodiversity from space, after her presentation on it at the TSL Partner Power Summit.
You can find us on twitter at @TSLed4SustDev or on our Facebook page, Trust For Sustainable Living, or go to our website at trustforsustainableliving.org.
Jul 26, 2021
Jul 26, 2021
12 min
In our third episode of Speaking of Sustainability, we'll be talking to Stuart Ratcliffe, a high school teacher in Indonesia who's entry into our 2021 video Sustainability Challenge competition came first, and the inspiration behind it.
You can find us on twitter at @TSLed4SustDev or on our Facebook page, Trust For Sustainable Living, or go to our website at trustforsustainableliving.org.
Jul 19, 2021
Jul 19, 2021
21 min
In our second episode of Speaking with Sustainability, we're talking with Alicia Valasse-Polius, a poet and non-fiction writer from St. Lucia in the Caribbean, about turtle preservation and sustainable living.
You can find us on twitter at @TSLed4SustDev or on our Facebook page, Trust For Sustainable Living, or go to our website at trustforsustainableliving.org.
Jul 6, 2021
Jul 6, 2021
30 min
In our first episode of Speaking with Sustainability, we're talking to Vijo Varghese, founder of the OurLand organisation in Thailand. OurLand believes in cohabitation with animals and humans, and doing what they can to protect the animals and help them get to water without danger.
You can find us on twitter at @TSLed4SustDev or on our Facebook page, Trust For Sustainable Living, or go to our website at trustforsustainableliving.org