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Switch
by Ashna and Lydia
Welcome to Switch! We want to connect real people to topics they care and are curious about, but without the jargon or BS. Join us as we chat about all things sustainability-related and how they intersect with our daily lives - from eating out, to what we wear, to the latest technology and more. We also bring in guests doing cool things for people and the planet.
Episodes
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S3 E6: How to embed sustainability into a business, with Lola's Cupcakes
Today we talk about building sustainability into your business, with special guests Adam Doffman and Zac Huddart from Lola’s Cupcakes. Lola's is iconic in London and UK-wide for their fresh, handcrafted and delicious cakes. Lola's didn’t start out with sustainability at its core, but is now doing…
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S3 E5: Physical Activity: How Your Movement Could Support A Movement
Today we discuss physical activity and the links it has to social impact. We start by discussing the intersection of yoga, yoga philosophy and social impact, as there are links there which Lydia, as a yoga teacher, has come to realise through her training. We then move to other ways in which...
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S3 E4: Mental health: How do mental health and sustainability relate?
Today we haven’t chosen an easy topic, but it's an extremely vital one: Mental Health. We are grateful that this topic is not new, as over the past few years mental health is slowly coming into the everyday conversation (from workplaces addressing it, to parents and children communicating about…
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S3 E3: Finance: Making your wealth do good
We've talked on the show about spending power and the impact that buying more sustainable products can have on the planet and society. However, what about the impact of our 'wealth', i.e. the money we hold in bank accounts, investments, pensions, etc? Our wealth has a significant impact on carbon...
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S3 E2: Relationships: How to have a conversation on values
The reason we started Switch is that we want sustainable living to be mainstream. The podcast acts as a small piece in the puzzle towards this goal by opening up the conversation on sustainability, helping people to feel more positive, empowered and effective in how they can improve the planet…
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S3 E1: Careers: How to Get A Career in Sustainability / Social Impact
Welcome back to Switch Podcast. This new season we are exploring our core foundations and how sustainability intersects with them. In season 1 & 2 we put a spotlight on some of our biggest environmental challenges such as plastic waste, food systems, fast fashion; and brought in guests who were...
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Ep 48 #ItsCoolToBeKind, with TALA
This week we’re joined by Sarah from TALA, which makes sustainable active/casual-wear that is super stylish! We’re actually in love with this brand… They are inclusive. Their collections are for every body, designed to make everyone feel comfortable and empowered with high-performance designs and...
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Ep 47 Ecofeminism: Why The Patriarchy & Climate Change Are Linked
Right now, it feels like marginalised groups across the globe are demanding respect, justice and equal rights and are finally being heard - from the Black Lives Matter movement to trans-gender rights activism. People will not stand oppression by patriarchal power structures any longer. But in…
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Ep 46: Switch x The Wise Consumer: Coming Together
Hello! Welcome to the first in a series of collaborative episodes with Switch and The Wise Consumer. Madeleine (AKA The Wise Consumer) uses her podcast to sit down and chat with entrepreneurs from all walks of life whose mission it is to use their businesses as forces for good. A woman after our...
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Ep 45: #Goals, with the Conscious Fashion Campaign
How do you get a whole industry to change its practices? This week we’re so excited to be joined by Kerry Bannigan, Founder of the Conscious Fashion Campaign which engages global fashion industry events - e.g. trade shows, fashion weeks, conferences - to commit to the achievement of the UN's...
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Ep 44: Giving Food Another Life, with City Harvest
This episode we’re joined by Laura Winningham, CEO of City Harvest London. City Harvest puts surplus food to good use in a sustainable way. While thousands of Londoners go hungry each day, safe, healthy, usable food is being disposed of. City Harvest collects this from all segments of the food...
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Ep 43: Hitting reset with The Food Waste Project
Today we are with The Food Waste Project, which is a consultancy service dedicated to advising the hospitality sector with a particular focus on corporate offices, on food waste prevention and reduction strategies. We have spoken endlessly about food waste both from the consumer side and business...
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Ep 42: A Good Company in a 'Bad' World
Another brilliant international friend of ours, based in Sweden, A Good Company creates elegant, thoughtful and sustainable everyday products - from stationery to personal care items. Simple and beautiful! They don’t take shortcuts, thinking about every step in the journey of their products, from...
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Ep 41: Changing for change with Hubbub
This week we’re joined by Sarah Divall from Hubbub, a foundation helping provide inspiration and practical actions that are good for you and the environment. They believe that to create positive environmental change at the scale and speed needed, we need to get everyone on board. So they design...
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Ep 40: Cracking On With Easter
In our 40th episode we are super egg-cited to bring you a light-hearted conversation focused on Easter. Sadly, we're still not with each other due to the Coronavirus lockdown here in the UK, but that’s the beauty of podcasts - we can do them online if we need to! During this time, we want to keep...
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Ep 39: We're in this together
This week, as we figure out our new 'normal', we ask ourselves whether and how sustainability can still feature in daily life. Can we ensure things continue to move in a positive direction rather than a destructive one? In what ways can we support sustainability, even at a time like this? We…
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Ep 38: Gone Viral
Amidst the current crisis of COVID-19, we are dealing with new challenges we haven't really faced before. Lock-downs, washing hands for 'happy birthday x 2', stockpiling toilet paper, business uncertainties, and so on. We don’t want this episode to be another conversation about how terrible this...
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Ep 37: Gather Round for Zero Waste
We are joined by wonderful guests Tash and Laura today, founders of Gather. Gather is a zero waste store and ‘refillery’, here to make it easy for you to live a life of less waste. They work to help the world know that living sustainably can be easy (and even fun - we can attest to this!). Gather...
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Ep 36: It’s Too Good To Go
Today we are recording from the Too Good To Go UK office with co-founder Jamie Crummie. Too Good To Go, for those of you who don’t know, is an app connecting users to surplus delicious food from bakeries, restaurants, supermarkets, hotels and more. Too Good To Go is rescuing 1 meal every second -...
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Ep 35: Are we greenwashed out? With Amirah Jiwa
Today we’re joined by Amirah Jiwa, a Social Impact Strategist. She helps brands create and communicate impact. She is excited by products and experiences that deliver and inspire positive change - for consumers, producers, employees, the environment, and society at large. Amirah has experience...
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Ep 34: Ecological Grief...it's actually a thing
Research shows that people increasingly feel the effects of planetary changes and associated ecological losses in their daily lives, and that these changes present significant direct and indirect threats to mental health and well-being. It’s termed ‘ecological grief’. Melting glaciers, coral reef...
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Ep 33: Products with a purpose on Social Supermarket
Today we are back together and joined by Jamie from Social Supermarket. Social Supermarket was created to connect every-day consumers with social enterprises who sell high quality products that tackle important social and environmental challenges. From handbags made from decommissioned fire…
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Ep 32: The A-Z of Ethical Fashion with Ruth MacGilp
NEW YEAR, NEW EPISODE. Happy new year, Switch listeners! Looking to have a more sustainable 2020? (Us, too!) We have the episode just for you... This week we cover fashion. We, like many, are suckers for a bargain, and like to dress well (bar those baggy jeans circa 2001). But does it all have to...
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Ep 31: Dreaming of a Green Christmas
We are super excited to do a holiday special, because it is one of our favourite times of year, but similar to our summer and vacation episodes: Christmas and the holiday season is a time people’s habits change all of their great sustainable practices get left at the door. This episode we want to...
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Ep 30 Coffee: Boy, do we love it.
This week we’re joined by very special guest Mahdi Nazar, who is also Lydia’s boyfriend, to discuss coffee. From the bean, to the milk, to its packaging, the environmental impact of our daily caffeine hit is real. This episode we unpick some of the issues around coffee, telling you what’s what.…
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Ep 29: Snacking sustainably with Nibs etc
Today we have special guest Chloë with us. Chloë is founder of nibs etc, probably the most sustainable granola company in the world. They are fighting food waste, have plastic-free packaging, it’s refined sugar-free, high in fibre… the list is a long one! They make their products from juice pulp,...
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Ep 28: Packaging? That’s noissue.
This week we have special guest Ben Conard from noissue, the online platform for designing and ordering custom, sustainable packaging for your business or brand. Due to laminated inks and dyes, the majority of tissue paper will end up in landfill sites. For these guys, that’s noissue though, as...
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Ep 27: Smells good, with Coconut Matter
Today we have a special guest - Diane van Zwanenberg - who founded Coconut Matter, a beauty brand which aims to enable customers to enjoy healthy and sustainable living. CM creates handcrafted cosmetics and personal care products based on the health benefits of coconuts and CM’s passion for…
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Ep 26 Fairtrade Foundation: Buy Fair. Give Fair. Live Fair.
This week is a big one. We’re talking to Cat Rayner from the Fairtrade Foundation. For those of you who don’t know, the Fairtrade Foundation is that certification you typically come across when you buy your bananas or coffee - that iconic sticker on many products (actually around 6,000 of them!)....
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Ep 25: Fash Hun: Garments with a purpose, with Gung Ho
In our very first episode we talked all about Ethical Fashion, what it means, why care and how we are seeing it make a mark on the red carpet. Today we are with Sophie, founder of Gung Ho. Gung Ho is more than just an ethical fashion brand, its a brand that educates through design and tells a…
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Ep 24: The Food Sharing Revolution, with OLIO
On this week’s episode we have special guest Tessa Clarke, co-founder of OLIO - the food sharing app which connects people to share surplus food. A third of the food we produce globally is thrown away, and households are responsible for over half of all food waste in the UK. The average family...
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Ep 23 Working Out: Is It Sustainable?
On this episode we address working out. Both of us love to sport and staying fit - it’s part of our weekly routine. So we wanted to explore whether there are ways we could apply our sustainability minds to it. We know that exercising (in moderation) is good for your longterm health and wellbeing,...
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Ep 22 Transport: Planes, Trains & Automobiles
This week we talk transport. Whether it’s our daily commute, a weekend trip, or travelling abroad, we all depend on transport to get us from A to B. According to WWF’s carbon footprint calculator, travel makes up a whopping 35% of the average person’s environmental footprint. So what can we do to...
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Ep 21: Drinking with Mutha Nature, with MOJU Drinks
Today we have special guest Rich, co-founder of MOJU, with us. MOJU creates performance drinks designed by Mutha Nature. They are powerful, punchy, cold-pressed juices and shots made from natural ingredients. Their ethos revolves around harnessing the power of ‘Mutha Nature’, rather than…
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Ep 20: Oddly Delicious with Oddbox
This week we are with Emilie Vanpoperinghe, co-founder of Oddbox - a subscription-based wonky fruit and veg box delivery which brings you fresh fruit and veg from around the UK that would have otherwise been wasted. One of our favourite things about getting a box is getting the story that comes...
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Ep 19 Beauty: Time For A Mak-‘eco’-ver
This week we’re talking about all things beauty. The cosmetic industry is worth around $600bn USD globally and has a huge impact on the planet - from the packaging to the use of palm oil, water and animal testing. Even for a small product like lipstick or facial scrub, the impact can be…
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Ep 18: Staying Curiously Conscious with Ethical Influencers
Today we are with Besma, founder of Ethical Influencers, a digital community doing good. From sustainable storytellers to honest podcasters, ethical fashion instagrammers to zero waste vloggers, EI’s members are collectively working towards a better world. EI supports a diverse range of creators…
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Ep 17: Turning Up The Heat: Summer Q&A Special
On this special episode we answer some of your summer questions from what sunscreen you should use, some swimsuit brands we think are great, and how to plan a fun BBQ. We also want to do this special episode to thank you all for your love and support. Please do continue to share the podcast so we...
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Ep 16 Eco-Luxe: Pillow Talk with Tutaka
This week we speak to Alex and Franzi, co-founders of Tutaka. With a background in design and the hospitality industry, these two women created Tutaka as a result of being frustrated with how much waste was produced by hotels. Tutaka is a partner for hosts in the hospitality industry dedicated to...
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Ep 15: Bleed red, think green - with DAME
On this week’s episode we speak with Alec Mills, co-founder of the world’s first reusable tampon applicator and biodegradable, chemical-free tampons. 100 billion period products are thrown away every year. Most contain plastic but cannot be reused or recycled. Instead they break into tiny pieces...
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Ep 14 Nutrition: Health foods can be dull, let’s be Onist
This week, we talk to Mary Lynch, previous senior nutritionist for Jamie Oliver and founder of Onist Food. We met Mary at an event where she spoke about nutrition, sustainable diets, and Onist - her answer to the fad-riddled, often dishonest food industry she’d experienced as a nutritionist. We...
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Ep 13: #OnePlanetPlate with Food Made Good
This week we speak to special guest Pete Hemingway of the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) - an organisation that brings together key players in the food service industry (suppliers, restaurants and consumers) to focus on improving the industry's sustainability. The SRA has shifted the...
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Ep 12: Eating more plants with allplants
On this week’s episode we talk to allplants - a UK-based company delivering delicious, plant-based, fresh-frozen meals to your door. allplants makes it incredibly easy for you to switch up your diet sustainably, without compromising on time or flavour. Their mission is to better our planet, by...
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Ep 11 Festivals: Leaving Less Mess with Simon Heppner
Festival season - we all love it. Lots of fun, lots of music, lots of... mess. From plastics, to glass, to tents, less than a third of this waste is recycled, however, over the last few years many festival organisers have been taking steps to minimise their environmental impact. Even @glastofest...
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Ep 10 Travel: Is sustainability on your packing list?
As holiday season is soon approaching we wanted to address a big question, do people consider sustainability when they go on holiday? Is sustainability something you only consider in your day to day? Do your values you have in your everyday life transpire to when you are on holiday? 87% of...
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Ep 9 Sustainability: Better Than Sex? With Ourgoodbrands
What is the power of positivity? By turning sustainability into a solutions-focused, accessible conversation, as opposed to all doom and gloom, what impact is that having on our behaviour changes? This episode, we talk to Maxime Dücker, co-founder of @ourgoodbrands, about how her digital media...
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Ep 8 Activism: What I stand for is what I stand on
Firstly, what is activism? It’s the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change. Activism isn’t new. But we’ve seen activism, rather than being laughed at, being taken more seriously recently - for example Extinction Rebellion, and Greta Thunberg and…
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Ep 7 Is sustainability unisex? With Atlas & Ortus
From reusable bottles, bags and cups to bamboo toothbrushes, dental floss and reusable face wipes, A&O has everything you need to make the switch to a more sustainable lifestyle. It’s eco-friendly and ethical essentials for the everyday adventure. On this week's episode we learn all about how A&O...
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Ep 6 Palm Oil: It's Aping Us Crazy
In this episode, we address the issue of 'palm oil'. As a controversial ingredient, we want to understand where it comes from, what it is used for, what products contain it and exactly why it's got a bad reputation. Palm oil makes up 35% of the vegetable oil market, but what about it is actually...
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Ep 5 The Cheeky Panda: Your number 1 for your number 2
We have Chris with us, Co-Founder of The Cheeky Panda (TCP). TCP is an innovative company offering a sustainable and health conscious tissue alternative. Bamboo tissue is free from harsh chemicals found in regular tissues and saves thousands of trees and animal habitats around the world. Start to...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Switch! We want to connect real people to topics they care and are curious about, but without the jargon or BS. Join us as we chat about all things sustainability-related and how they intersect with our daily lives - from eating out, to what we wear, to the latest technology and more. We also bring in guests doing cool things for people and the planet.
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Ashna and Lydia
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