Maxine Bedat: Fashion Industry’s Impact On Climate Change- #313
I’m James Taylor and you’re listening to the super creativity podcast a show dedicated to inspiring creative minds like yours. This month witness cop 26 in Glasgow a summit that brings the world together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement, and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. To mark the occasion, we decided to record a special series of the super creativity podcast that will focus on sustainability and climate change. For this series, I’ll be joined by a co-host for the first time ethical futurist, lawyer, engineer, actor, jazz singer, and sustainability keynote speaker Allison burns. Together, we’ll be having conversations with leading thinkers on topics as diverse as sustainable food, fashion, and ESG. Those environmental, social, and governance issues affect business today. Our guest this week is Maxine Beda, the founder, and director of the new standard institute a think and do tank dedicated to turning the industry into a force for good. She is a former lawyer and the co-founder of the ethical fashion brand, ZD. She is also an ambassador at the Rainforest Alliance and has spoken at the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Her groundbreaking book unraveled chronicles the birth and death of a pair of jeans, and at the same time, exposes the fractures and global supply chains and our relationship to each other, ourselves. And the planet. Enjoy the show. So Maxine, fantastic to have you with us today.
Tony Milligan is an author and academic whose main research area is ethics with a particular focus upon otherness are the humans are the creatures are the places, and how the shift between here and there alters our sense of what matters. In addition to his books on space ethics, including the ethics of space exploration, and nobody owns the moon, his other writings have looked at the topic of animal ethics. He believes his work on space exploration is actually closely connected to an understanding of what it takes to be human, what it is like to see ourselves as part of a moral community, and the associated duties that we may have to humanity. He is currently a senior researcher in philosophy of ethics with the cosmological visionaries project at King’s College London. In addition to his own books, he has also been published in a number of academic and popular journals, including philosophy ratio, the Journal of Applied Ethics, think, and philosophy now, please welcome onto the show. Tony Milligan.
I’m James Taylor and you’re listening to the super creativity podcast a show dedicated to inspiring creative minds like yours. You’ve probably don’t realize this but every working day you replay and reenact complex dynamics and relationships from your past. Whether it’s confusing an authority figure with the parent avoiding conflict because of a past squabble with siblings, or suffering from imposter syndrome, because of the way your family responded to success when it comes to working, we’re all trapped in our own upbringings and the patterns of behavior we learned while growing up. In her debut book, The Man Who Mistook His Job For His Life fantastic title, business psychotherapist Naomi Sugai will make you reevaluate how you think about yourself and your working life. Naomi has more than 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist and family therapist in private practice and now specializes in helping businesses and individuals resolve psychological obstacles that cause work-related problems. As a freelance journalist, she has also written for the times the Guardian and since 2008, has been a regular contributor to The Financial Times where she writes predominantly quite psychological aspects of working life. Please welcome to the super creativity podcast, Naomi Shragai.
Now, we’re all told we need to embrace digital disruption to thrive in the 21st century. But how can legacy companies and new startups blend both digital and traditional business functions to achieve long-term competitive advantage? That’s the question my guest today set out to solve in his new book, The brains and brawn company, venture capitalist and Stanford Graduate School of Business lecture, Robert Siegel shows that while important digital is only part of the answer, it’s not never the only part the only answer. In fact, many, many large companies are successfully countering young upstarts in new creative ways while startups are learning a thing or two from the legacy businesses, Robert Siegel has done extensive research on companies such as Google Schwab ABN Bev stripe, and Survey Monkey. It’s my great pleasure to have him on the show today. Welcome, Robert.
This week sees the start of COP26 in Glasgow, a summit that brings the world together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. To mark the occasion we decided to record a special series of the SuperCreativity podcast that will focus on sustainability and climate change. For this series I’ll be joined by a co-host for the first time, Ethical Futurist, lawyer, engineer, actor, jazz singer, and sustainability keynote speaker Alison Burns. Together we’ll be having conversations with leading thinkers on topics as diverse as sustainable food, fashion, and ESG, those environmental, societal, and governance issues that affect business today.
Our guest this week is originally from Catalonia but is now a resident in the UK. Jordi Casamitjana is a vegan zoologist specializing in animal behavior, who has been involved in different aspects of animal protection for many years (working for organizations such as The Born Free Foundation, Wild Futures, The League Against Cruel Sports, CAS International, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and PETA UK). In addition to scientific research, he has worked as an undercover investigator and animal welfare consultant. Some of his professional achievements include the closure of several zoos, securing the first successful prosecutions of illegal hunters under the Hunting Act 2004, and his participation in the banning of bullfighting in Catalonia. Jordi, who has been vegan since 2002, recently become well-known for securing the legal protection of all ethical vegans from discrimination in Great Britain in a landmark legal case that was discussed all over the world. Jordi is also an author of a novel titled “The Demon’s Trial” under the pen name J.C. Costa in which he explores many of the dilemmas animal protectionists face. He is also the author of Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey To Change The World. In our interview, we discuss the future of plant-based foods, sustainable diets, and Jordi’s love of wasps!
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