AGILE Sustainability Yifeng Hou

Hello, and welcome to the second episode of Food Sustainability on AGILE Sustainability. In this episode, we are delighted to have William from Ezy Gardening share how to create your own home garden and grow more nutritious vegetables. More importantly, home gardens can serve as an additional food source for individual householders to increase food security, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when global supply chains are disrupted.The topics in this episode are:00m:40s: Motivation to start Ezy Gardening01m:47s: Hydroponics Farming and its advantages02m:35s: Kickstart home gardening with Ezy Gardening05m:00s: Available plants from Ezy Gardening06m:06s: Tricks to increase home garden productivity07m17s: Price differences between vegetables from home gardens and supermarketsOne of the highlights from William's sharing is the trick to increase the home garden's productivity. The trick is to reduce the influence of the surrounding environment. For example, if consumers want to grow more organic food, they could keep home gardens away from surrounding plants as much as possible. This is to avoid pests or accidental pesticide sprays from surrounding plants. If the influence from the surrounding environment is reduced, the grower machine from Ezy Gardening can more or less automate the growing process and generate higher yields.To learn more about William and Ezy Gardening, check out their website at ezy-gardening.com. Moreover, you can follow their latest updates on Facebook and Instagram.Find out the topics to be explored at https://www.agilesustainability.org/We would like to hear from you at podcast@agilesustainability.orgReach out to us for any questions or challenges you face in adopting sustainability solutions.Music by Wataboi from Pixabay

Hello, and welcome to the first episode of the new series Smart Cities and Sustainability on AGILE Sustainability. This episode will talk about the interesting activities to explore food sustainability in Singapore. You might find similar activities in your cities as well. The types of activities introduced are:


Online and offline discussion meetings organized by the National Library Board
Hackathons and Challenges like Singapore Design Awards
Local Farm Tours and Volunteer Events

Find out the topics to be explored at https://www.agilesustainability.org/We would like to hear from you at podcast@agilesustainability.orgReach out to us for any questions or challenges you face in adopting sustainability solutions.Music by Wataboi and Lesfm from Pixabay

Hello, and welcome to another episode on AGILE Sustainability.From the title of this episode smart city and sustainability, you might already notice something special about this episode. And you are right. I want to share a recent epiphany I had for sustainable development. It’s quite an interesting direction and I want to create a special series to explore more about it with you together.In this introduction episode, we will go through the motivation behind this series and the potential interesting topics we will explore.Find out the topics to be explored at https://www.agilesustainability.org/We would like to hear from you at podcast@agilesustainability.orgReach out to us for any questions or challenges you face in adopting sustainability solutions.Music by Wataboi and Lesfm from Pixabay

Welcome to Episode 9 of AGILE Sustainability. Today, our guest speaker Grace from Greenview will take us on a journey that traverses the complex sustainability landscape.Grace is the managing partner of Greenview. The Greenview team are passionate about exploring unexplored territories to bring the most useful and effective tools to help customers transition to sustainability. And they aim to improve their products iteratively with an Agile approach to address customer needs and feedback. Grace will tell us more about their innovative products and services today.The topics in this podcast are:00m:55s: Introduction to Grace and Greenview01m:40s: Motivations to start a business on sustainability02m:50s: Surprise findings after starting the sustainability business04m:30s: Changes in sustainability practices over the years07m:20s: Changes in customer needs over the years13m:14s: Greenview products and services on sustainability18m:03s: Suggestions for businesses embracing sustainability transitionsOne of the highlights from Grace's sharing is the modern software portal they developed to help customers gain transparency on their environmental and social impacts. The Greenview team is dedicated to ensuring the accuracy of the data intelligence and insights they provide their customers. Moreover, they implement an elegant way to handle missing data by giving the customers a preview of the existing data they have as well as alerting them to the missing data gaps they need to solve to get a complete report.To learn more about Grace and Greenview, check out their website at greenview.sg.Find out the topics to be explored at https://www.agilesustainability.org/We would like to hear from you at podcast@agilesustainability.orgReach out to us for any questions or challenges you face in adopting sustainability solutions.Music by Wataboi from Pixabay

Today, we are going to continue to put the puzzle pieces together for episodes 5 to 8.EP5: Academic: Business Experiments for Sustainability Innovations by Ilka from Leuphana University of LuneburgEP6: Business Transitions to Agile Practices by David VarvelEP7: Influencer Marketing and Sustainability by Carmen and Mercedes from the University of ZaragozaEP8: SHIFT consumer behaviours to be more sustainable by David HardistyI will use the following structure to do the recap. Firstly, I will do a brief introduction to the speakers and their background. Then, I will share the questions we discussed in the episode. Following that, I will elaborate on one highlight from the speaker’s sharing.Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

Today, we are going to put the puzzle pieces together. In the future, we will continue to have this putting puzzle pieces together session when we gather enough interesting content. I hope these recap sessions will help new listeners quickly find the episode that interests them the most.Let’s first start with episodes 1 to 4.EP1: Sustainability and Software Development by Ramji from A Better ConsultancyEP2: Balancing Profitability and Sustainability by Garima from Georgia State UniversityEP3: Digital Sustainability by Simon from Singapore Management University, Handprint and Global Mangrove TrustEP4: Sustainability Reporting by Kristjan from Copenhagen Business SchoolI will use the following structure to do the recap. Firstly, I will do a brief introduction to the speakers and their background. Then, I will share the questions we discussed in the episode. Following that, I will elaborate on one highlight from the speaker’s sharing.Music by Lesfm from Pixabay