Brave New Girls - Healthy Life, Healthy Planet Lou Hamilton

How can we as individuals start to transform the world with more sustainable lifestyles?If you are interested in learning how to live a more sustainable life listen to this week’s guest Shila Wattamwar founder of Sustainable Me! - a platform for turning sustainability into a lifestyle. By making impactful changes not only can we make a difference, but we can be the difference.Shila shares how Sustainable Me! benefits the lives of people and the planet by promoting behaviours that help us...

How can we achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2050?If you’re interested in being part of the challenge to reach Net Zero Emissions by 2050 listen to my guest Dr Reem Swidah Phd a post-doctoral researcher at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology whose work aims to harness the exceptional evolutionary abilities of synthetic yeast strains to produce biofuels as a potential replacement for fossil fuels. Dr Reem won a L’Oréal UNESCO For Women In Science award for her work 2024. She has always ...

How can we transform our home environments into biophilic sanctuaries that restore our bodies, help us to keep us more focused and boost our immune system?If you’re interested in designing a better environment for your life and wellbeing listen to this week’s guest Nina Rowland Interior Designer and co-creator of The Water Shed, whose home and eco-retreat they created, was featured on Grand Designs TV show and went viral on Cool Stays with over 7 million views. Nina shows us how to desi...

Are perennial crops the future and can they help soil, climate, nutrition and biodiversity all at the same time! If you’re interested in future food security and growing your own veg that you put in the ground once and reap the rewards year after year tune in to this week’s guest Mandy Barber, co-founder of Incredible Vegetables, an experimental vegetable growing project and a research space dedicated to useful perennial edibles and future food crops.Mandy was a successful artist in Lond...

How can we stop seeing plants as simply a “green blur” and take an interest in their conservation?If you’re interested in the natural world around us and how we can conserve it for the future, listen to my guest DR Erin Zimmerman Phd evolutionary biologist, science writer, botany illustrator and author of Unrooted. She argues for the need to save plant species as part of helping preserve the rich ecosystem of the planet. Her story to address two parallel losses she saw occurring that she...

How can we help people make better choices when they travel, while helping them heal before, during and after their holiday? If you’d like to explore the hidden gem that is Cornwall listen this week to Nadia Macer-Wright founder of Cornish Gems. Proudly independent and B-corp certified, they curate memorable holiday experiences in Cornwall. With sustainability and community at the heart of everything they do, they offer unique experiences that take you deep into the Cornish way of l...