Welcome back to Wicked Problems. It’s been quite a week and we’re not even halfway through yet. So on Halloween
did some reporting at Day One of the Business Green Net Zero Festival.This episode offers you some excerpts of some of the best conversations from the day, as well as some chats with those intrepid folks working the booths. You’ll hear from
James Murray, editor of Business Green
Lucy Siegle, writer, broadcaster and environmentalist
Alex Scott, E3G
Solitaire Townsend, Chief Solutionist at Futerra
Leo Hickman, editor of Carbon Brief
Jake Dubbins, MD of Media Bounty
Pamela Stathaki, Dentsu
Matthew Winning, environmental economist and stand-up comic
and Alastair Campbell
we also caught up with
Paul Bains, supply lead at The Felix Project
Paul Gosling - director of Sustainability & Environment at Hays Recruitment, who mentioned his Sustainable Futures - Career Conversations pod
Julie from the Woodland Trust, who hooked us up with a very cool VR tour of woodlands
Faye from the Community Massage Project (communitymassageproject.co.uk). If you’re hearing this on your way to Day Two of the Net Zero Festival do go check them out.
We also caught the moment when an Extinction Rebellion protestor crashed one of the panel discussions and was calmly and respectfully handled by James Murray. You can have a look at the whole exchange:
BG Net Zero Festival