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Starvation Season in Northern Ghana: Yams, Cassava, and the Hidden Hunger Crisis

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

When Full Stomachs Still Mean Starvation Come to the field with me to explore food insecurity in northern Ghana’s dry season: yams, cassava, and the struggle for nutrition, resilience, and how biochar and protein crops like Bambara create hope for farming families.

Hope, Fungi, and Fighting for the Planet — Katie Critchlow’s Inspiring Sustainability Journey

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

From M&S Plan A to Nature Metrics and beyond, Katie shares lessons on building businesses that value nature, drive systemic change, and create hope for a living planet. In this wide-ranging conversation, sustainability leader Katie Critchlow joins Scott Poynton to share her journey from pioneering Plan A at Marks & Spencer to leading Nature Metrics and now co-founding Re-genus, a fungi-based regenerative agriculture startup. Katie reflects on the successes and frustrations of corporate sustainability, the limits of data and impact investing, and why reconnecting people with nature is...

Denis & Harriet: Humanitarian Leaders in Uganda's Sustainability Story

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

Meet Denis and Harriet, humanitarian leaders from Uganda's community empowerment initiative, Anyim Wa.

Biochar: Revolutionising Agriculture in Northern Ghana

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

Explore the transformative potential of biochar for smallholder farmers in Ghana as I share my firsthand experiences.'

Spiritual Leadership and Sustainability with Hugh Locke

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

Hugh Locke shares stories of his journey as a spiritual warrior and advocate for sustainability, focusing on empowering farmers worldwide.

One Tree Planted: Restoring Forest Landscapes for a Sustainable Future

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

Learn how One Tree Planted is revolutionizing sustainability by restoring forest landscapes worldwide.

Daring Dialogue #1: On Regeneration - A Quiet Chat Between Scott & Nadene

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

Nadene Canning is a facilitator, learning designer, coach, mentor and a very fine human being. She cares about others and has deep experience supporting people to travel their journeys. I had the privilege of meeting Nadene online in January 2024 and in person a month or so later. We got along like a house on fire. We're both fascinated by this notion of regeneration; yes, of soils and Nature, but in our case, most particularly the regeneration of the human spirit. We have committed to exploring the topic in a series of short (around 10 min) podcasts. This is our first episode and we look...

Gretha Oost - 1Million Mini Missions

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

Gretha Oost is inspiring. An inventor, an entrepreneur, a community member and a true believer that together, we can make the world a better place. Gretha has built a beautiful initiative called "1million mini missions" to help people to come together to do what they each can do. All on their own, these mini missions are beautiful, but together, they represent a catalyst to inspire social change from the ground up, by focusing on what's possible, that which binds us together, not what divides us.

Mark Bjornsgaard - Impact Entrepreneur

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

Mark Bjornsgaard is the Founder and CEO of Deep Green which decarbonises commercial and domestic heating. He invests in projects that help make the world a better place. Mark shares some of the lessons he's learned along the way to help new impact entrepreneurs make their impact.

Andrew Reeves

Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet

Andrew Reeves is Commercial Director of WhatIF Foods. WhatIF Foods is a 'planet-based' food company and a Pond Foundation member. Andrew discusses the development of WhatIF Foods as a company, centred around solving the world's 'Nutritional Paradox', where global food systems are far too reliant on very few crops, and food inequality is extremely widespread.

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