Green Growth Policy: lessons from South Korea with Eun Joo Yi from World Bank
Transition Islands
Eun Joo Yi, World Bank manager of the Korea Green Growth Trust Fund (KGGTF) share with us the reasons for taking a stand on sustainable development, the importance of developing new engines of growth, stakeholder engagement, partnership with the private sector and having a national vision. We talk about specific technological innovations such as smart-grid, fuel cells vehicle-to-car technologies and get inspired about turning problems into opportunities.
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Energy Transition with Alan Bates, CEO Guernsey Electricity
Transition Islands
Episode Seven of the Transition Islands podcast explores the need to accelerate transition to sustainable energy systems, achieving net-zero, smart grid, failing fast and cheap. Alan Bates, Chief Executive of Guernsey Electricity, leaves us with the key message that there is no "Doing Nothing" scenario.
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Let's Talk About Food with India Hamilton
Transition Islands
Episode Six of the Transition Islands podcast explores the complexity behind food systems and attempts to define regenerative agriculture with chef and social entrepreneur India Hamilton. We explore the embeddedness of food systems in communities, the distinction between local and localism and get inspired about the story of the Jersey Sustainable Co-Operative. We are moved to action to learn more about where our food comes and to play a role in creating a vision of food resilience for our own communities.
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Entrepreneurial State and Risk-Taking with Martyn Dorey
Transition Islands
Episode Five of the Transition Islands podcast explores the role of the State in enabling innovation, unpicks issues with modelling and highlights risk-taking as essential to #BuildBackBetter.
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Food Waste and Activism with Elis Joudalova
Transition Islands
Up to a third(1) of all food produced is wasted in the process of food growth, harvest, supply chain, binning by supermarkets and household waste. If only a fraction of this "wasted" food was salvaged it would be enough to eliminate hunger and malnutrition.
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Green Recovery and Green Growth with Estelle Levin-Nally
Transition Islands
Episode Two of Transition Islands podcast explores the opportunity to embrace sustainability in Covid-19 economic recovery plans with Estelle Levin-Nally, Jon Buckland and Sasha Kazantseva-Miller.
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Partnership for Recovery with John Hollis
Transition Islands
Episode three of Transition Islands podcast explores the need for urgency, importance of design and partnership approach for Covid-19 recovery packages.
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Transition Islands Podcast: Ideas for a Regenerative Future
Transition Islands
Episode 1 explores the motivation and purpose behind the launch of Transition Islands podcast in conversation with co-hosts Sasha Kazantseva-Miller and Jon Buckland.
info_outlineGovernments around the world are committing to launching Covid19 economic recovery packages.
In this episode we explore ideas for the successful design of recovery packages, the need for building urgency and decentralisation and for governance structures that enable engagement with the wider community and business.
In this interview with John Hollis, an economist and former Accenture Global Partner, we deep-dive into ideas behind Public-Private Partnerships as a way to design post-pandemic recovery in a collaborative fashion.
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