Net Hero Podcast – With Sumit Bose

Gaia Says No! Episode 5 - Authority

Thanks as ever for listening in to our new series “Gaia Says No!” – exploring the nature of human activities on the planet.
In the fifth episode environmental campaigner Angus Forbes, analyst Alex Milward and I are joined by a very special guest, Cindy Forde. She’s an educationalist, UN advisor, campaigner and rebel! Following last week’s episode we continue the disussion around the creation of an authority to help protect our planet.

Gemserv: ‘If we don’t deliver net zero we are looking at a fundamentally different world’

‘If we don’t deliver net zero we are looking at a fundamentally different world’.
That’s the suggestion from Alex Goody, CEO of Gemserv, who spoke to future Net Zero Founder Sumit Bose about why the professional services firm has become a future Net Zero partner, and as its boss, what he thought about the 2050 target.

Gaia Says No! Episode 4 – Global governance

In this episode we ask if we are facing a global problem of biosphere destruction, shouldn’t we have a global body which has power over all nations to safeguard our planet? Can we the public get together and make this happen?

Energy Institute President Steve Holliday on the state of the sector

Almost 90% of energy professionals say the UK is currently off track for net zero by 2050 - but Steve Holliday, President of the Energy Institute is here to tell us what needs to happen to turn this around.
The former CEO of National Grid spoke to future Net Zero News Editor Jonny Bairstow following the release of the Energy Institute’s latest Energy Barometer report, which surveyed more than 350 UK professionals from across the sector.
 
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Gaia Says No! Episode 3 – The Nexus

Listen to episode 3 – The Nexus. We have reached the point where humans are in the driving seat with Mother Nature. So what direction will we take our planet?

Gaia Says No! Episode 2 - The Tipping Point

In episode 2 of our new series Gaia Says No! The question being asked is have we reached the Tipping Point? Will we need to act now to save our future and does it matter if don’t? After all isn’t it a global problem?

British tomato grower’s fruitful relationship with biomass heat

In this podcast, Michael Gibilaro of Villa Nursery and Mark Tarry, CFO of AMP Clean Energy, explain how, through an energy supply agreement, the nursery benefits from discounted heat and power. The nursery grows Jolly Tom tomatoes for Tesco, as well as British salads and specialty peppers, all under glass.
 
In addition to cost and carbon benefits, Villa Nursery has become more competitive, providing environmentally friendly British produce to UK consumers. Only 30% of tomatoes sold in our supermarkets are grown in the UK with the rest being imports.

Gaia Says No! Episode 1 – We’re all bas***ds!

The first of a new series of podcasts exploring our effect on the planet in terms of energy, over consumption and downright negligence. Join future Net Zero founder Sumit Bose as he discusses our human effect on the Earth along with former banker turned environmentalist Angus Forbes and EY Partner and oil and gas expert Alex Milward.

‘We will be net zero for our whole supply chain. That’s absolutely massive!’

Nigel Holden heads up Co-op’s Power division and he says the organisation’s goal is bold when it comes to net-zero.
Why? Because sustainability and ethics are at the heart of the Co-op’s values and history.

Global IT energy use ‘will be as big as USA by 2040’

Kevin Brown, is a smooth talking American. We chat on zoom in a relaxed manner but the Senior VP of Schneider Electric’s Secure Power Division drops a bombshell at the start of our conversation.
“By 2040 edge computing alone might be 3200 TWh (Terawatt Hours) of energy consumption, that’s like 275 million households bigger than the US, so it’s massive challenge in managing the carbon footprint that’s coming,” he says.