Written by Pia Hettinger and published on DGNB Blog 2022–03–31 End poverty, protect the climate, and equality, leaving no one behind. The content of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sounds just right, but how do you get there? Many have racked their brains over this, including Marc…

Golden Nymph gong for climate film — Written By Susan Robertson Susan is the co-founder of Innovators Magazine and a consultant for OnePoint5 Media. Susan is also a member of the UNFCCC-led Resilience Frontiers Nexus group and co-chair of the APOPO Foundation UK board. Documentary film NOW — about young climate activists — has been named as…

If you fail we will never forgive you! — NOW If you fail we will never forgive you! Marc Buckley’s NOW trailer from wfilm, a Starhaus production, and Director Jim Rakete. “NOW” a Climate Documentary I am in directed by Jim Rakete is out at the Film Festivals since April 2nd but because of COVID-19 not in Cinemas until…

When talk on tv turns to the economy people quite sensibly look for the quickest escape route to keep their ears from getting toothache. That’s because commentators like to reach for the esoteric, the dystopian, the never ending set meal of tired old tropes and warnings that remind people they…

Daniel Christian Wahl on Inside Ideas On the iconic BBC radio show Desert Island Discs guests are asked for one book they would take with them if they were cast away on an island. Anyone choosing Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl would return to their real world, with…

Stephen Buchmann on Inside Ideas — Most of us know bees are important but what else do we know about them? To find out more I spoke with Stephen Buchmann, a pollination ecologist specialising in bees. Stephen, the author of What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees, is also an adjunct…

Learn how to become a good gardener — My guest today on Inside Ideas, the wonderful Chris McLaughlin, is your goto person for anything and everything relating to gardening. Her latest book: The Good Garden: How to Nurture Pollinators, Soil, Native Wildlife, and Healthy Food — All in Your Own Backyard, is the perfect guide for the green…

The truth about climate conferences. The 12 unsung heroes building a better world — Heroes of Environmental Diplomacy Profiles in Courage Edited by Chris Spence and Felix Dodds Global climate conferences are typically met with scepticism by a public struggling to see them as anything more than a bastion of empty promises. But a new book asks us all to look again, at the detail, and specifically to the people shifting the needle of progress towards the symbiotic…

How to make clothes a better fit for the planet — My guest today on Inside Ideas is the journalist and author, Lucianne Tonti. The fashion editor of The Saturday Paper, she is also a regular contributor to The Guardian where she writes the weekly series Closet Clinic; her writing also appears in Australian Vogue. Lucianne’s first book Sundressed: Natural Fabrics…