Top 12 Sustainability Podcasts for You to Explore

Top 12 Sustainability Podcasts for You to Explore

Chances are if you’re reading this, you’re already a convert to all the benefits of sharing what we already have – goods, time, energy, money, foods, and skills. 

Sustainability, clean living, and kindness are no longer just buzz words; they are a way of life. 

We’ve taken a deep dive into the world of audio, to bring you 12 top podcasts in these areas. Bursting with knowledge, tips, tricks, and advice, find your next listen here.

Available wherever you get your podcasts.  

 

The Green Elephant Show 

Billed as the “show that likes to have fun with sustainability”, the Green Elephant 

takes sustainability, climate change, social and environmental issues and eats them, one fact at a time. The show is informative and fun and is all about inspiring sustainable habits.

It offers tips to make your life and business easier, featuring interviews with inspiring leaders of businesses with purpose. Current episodes focus on interviews with people in organisations that have chosen to work towards making themselves work better. 

 

The Organic Gardening Podcast 

Garden Organic's popular podcast - the Organic Gardening Podcast - gives you monthly tips, inspiration, and advice on how to grow, the organic way. 

Hosted by former Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins and Garden Organic's Chief Executive Fiona Taylor, this popular monthly podcast has been a huge hit for gardeners and growers and won the Gardening Media Guild 2020 Podcast of the Year. 

 

Topics include planting out, feeding, slugs, excessive grass clippings and seeds and weeds.

 

The Wardrobe Crisis podcast 

Wardrobe Crisis is a fashion podcast about sustainability, ethical fashion and making a difference in the world. 

 

Host Clare Press was the first VOGUE sustainability editor, and each week she interviews international guests about issues facing the fashion industry, covering topics such as digital and plastic fashion and plant dyes.  

 

The Kindness Economy  

The Kindness Economy podcast explores the new values driving businesses and the fundamental role they play in our lives. Each episode hears Mary Portas talk best practice with inspiring business leaders as they explore this exciting new value system. Think People, Planet, Profit – in that order.

Topics covered include repairing clothes and communities, using business to save the planet, inclusive beauty products and developing healthy food relationships. 

 

Green on the Go

Green on the Go is a podcast about learning to travel better. Seeing the world doesn't just open our minds and broadens our horizons, it’s good for our mental and physical health. It has a positive impact on local economies. 

 

But there’s no denying that to be sustainable, travel must change. So where do we start? Each episode, an industry-leading travel professional talks about what’s happening in their corner of the sustainable travel world. You’ll learn how travel and tourism are shifting and get expert tips on how to make your travel greener.

 

The Conscious Action Podcast 

The Conscious Action podcast explores topics that range from sustainability to well-being, and everything related to conscious living. The podcast brings you stories, knowledge, and conversations with thought leaders and change-makers.

Topics include how our habits impact our environment, the sharing and circular economies and what they mean for our future, the different waste streams that we contribute to as individuals, as well as ways to adopt a zero-waste lifestyle and have a positive impact in the world.

 

The Inventive Journey Podcast 

This podcast takes listeners on a journey with different entrepreneurs and inventors on their path to start-ups and small businesses to hear their ups and downs, their successes, and failures, and how their journey has been on the start-up road.

 

Hosted by Miller IP Law CEO, Devin Miller, who founded several multi-million-dollar start-ups, the show focuses on the journey rather than a pitch for the services/products the start-up/small business may offer. 

 

The Sustainable Minimalists Podcast

The Sustainable Minimalists Podcast is described as: 

“A lifestyle podcast for listeners who want eco-friendly tidiness without trash.”

 

The podcast helps mums to create eco-friendly, minimalist homes (without the extra work). Topics include responsible family travel, rebalancing, quick fix dinners and mental minimalism.

 

The Forensic Nutritionist Podcast

The Forensic Nutritionist Podcast takes an investigative approach into gut health, nutrition, skin care and wellbeing by Fiona Tuck, a nutritional medicine practitioner and yoga teacher. 

 

Topics include blood glucose, microbiomes, skin care and the perfect poo! 

 

Survival of the Kindest 

This new podcast ‘Survival of the Kindest’ has its roots in the international compassion movement that puts kindness at the heart of our lives, our towns, and our healthcare. 

 

Expert in compassionate communities and former palliative care doctor, Julian Abel, welcomes specialists each week to discuss the many ways to have a long and happy life, how to keep kindness at the forefront of our daily interactions, how connecting with others can keep loneliness at bay, and how compassionate communities are emerging all over the world. 

 

Green Alliance Podcast 

The Green Alliance Podcast covers the latest ideas, debate and insights on UK environmental policy and politics. Brought to you by Green Alliance - the charity and think tank focused on achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.

 

Episodes examine the role of city regions in reaching net zero and behavioural science and sustainable travel.

 

The Green Urbanist Podcast  

Hosted by Ross O'Ceallaigh, a planner and urban designer based in London, this show is billed as the podcast for urbanists fighting climate change.”

The show explores how architects, planners, policy makers and designers can make cities more sustainable and healthier. Episodes include Doughnut Economics Explained and What it Means for Cities and Primal City - Housing for Homo Sapiens.

 

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