Planting the Seeds of Inspiration - Ep55: Elizabeth Wathuti

Planting the Seeds of Inspiration - Ep55: Elizabeth Wathuti

Elizabeth Wathuti is a Kenyan environment and climate activist and founder of the Green Generation Initiative, which nurtures young people to be environmentally conscious and has planted 30,000 tree seedlings in Kenya. She grew up in Nyeri County, which has the highest forest cover in Kenya, planting her first tree at the age of seven and establishing an environmental club in her high school. She was part of the leadership of Kenyatta University Environmental Club (KUNEC) where she led tree plantings, clean ups and environmental education and education on climate change. She is a recipient of a Wangari Maathai Scholarship award for her outstanding passion and commitment to environmental conservation. She is also a full member of the Green Belt Movement, which was founded by the late Professor Wangari Maathai who is Wathuti’s role model and a big inspiration and influence. In 2019, Wathuti was awarded the Africa Green Person of the Year Award by the Eleven Eleven Twelve Foundation, and named as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans by the Africa Youth Awards. She has also been featured on the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust website.

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Extreme Electrochemistry for a Sustainable Future - Ep155: Prof Donald Sadoway

Extreme Electrochemistry for a Sustainable Future - Ep155: Prof Donald Sadoway

Michael returns to talk with legendary educator and inventor, Donald Sadoway, Professor Emeritus of Materials Chemistry at MIT. After earning his PhD in chemical metallurgy in 1977 at the University o...

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Green Heat (And Cooling) Under Our Feet - Ep154: Tamsin Lishman

Green Heat (And Cooling) Under Our Feet - Ep154: Tamsin Lishman

Tamsin Lishman joins Bryony this week to talk heat pumps. Tamsin is CEO of Kensa Group, a Cornwall-based manufacturer and installer of ground source heat pumps. Kensa is the UK's only manufacturer of ...

14 Helmi 202447min

Shedding Light on Energy's Dirty Secrets - Ep153: Lauri Myllyvirta

Shedding Light on Energy's Dirty Secrets - Ep153: Lauri Myllyvirta

Michael sits down this week with Lauri Myllyvirta, co-founder and lead analyst at CREA - the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. After working as a campaigner and then as an analyst at Greenp...

7 Helmi 20241h 10min

Can We Have a Habitable Planet? - Ep152: David Wallace-Wells

Can We Have a Habitable Planet? - Ep152: David Wallace-Wells

This week, Bryony is back, this time to talk to David Wallace-Wells. David is an American journalist and author who often writes about climate change. His 2017 article "The Uninhabitable Earth" for Ne...

31 Tammi 20241h 13min

Redesigning Mining - Ep151: Mark Cutifani

Redesigning Mining - Ep151: Mark Cutifani

This week, Michael's guest is Mark Cutifani, chairman of Vale Base Metals and formerly CEO of South African gold mining company, Ashanti, and British mining company, Anglo American. He was born and gr...

24 Tammi 20241h 11min

Selling Sustainability - Ep150: Solitaire Townsend

Selling Sustainability - Ep150: Solitaire Townsend

Bryony returns in Season 11 this week, sitting down with her longtime friend Solitaire Townsend. Solitaire is Co-founder & Chief Solutionist at Futerra, and Trustee of the Solutions Union. She is a re...

17 Tammi 20241h 2min

Material World - Ep149: Ed Conway

Material World - Ep149: Ed Conway

Kicking-off 2024 and Season 11 is Ed Conway. Ed is the Economics editor at Sky News, covering major UK and international economics, business and political stories. He is also economics columnist for T...

10 Tammi 20241h 15min

The Second Coming of the Lord Turner - Ep148: Lord Adair Turner

The Second Coming of the Lord Turner - Ep148: Lord Adair Turner

For a second consecutive year-closer, Michael welcomes Lord Adair Turner of Ecchinswell back to Cleaning Up. Lord Turner has combined careers in business, public policy and academia. He chairs the Ene...

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