Podcaster : Writer : Engagement Specialist
I’m the producer and co-host of one of the UK’s best loved, silliest, and longest-running podcasts about the planet: Sustainababble. It’s been running since 2015. I set it up with my friend and then-colleague Ol, because we a) liked podcasts b) liked the sound of our own voices and c) wanted to make a programme about doing something about climate …
A report about why one should, and how one could, put a tax on plastic. Commisioned by Zero Waste Europe and written for an EU policy audience. This report turned out to be a big hit in Germany. I was shipped over to the Reichstag to present it to German MPs. In German. Which I don’t really speak. Which was …
When the parks dried up and it hadn’t rained for over a month, I wrote about how strange it all felt to have it dawn on you that this is climate change. https://medium.com/@powellds/in-praise-of-mild-discombobulation-because-christ-what-else-have-we-got-bb3e7d648fb0 Ecological philosopher Timothy Morton argues that our brains are wired to generally not notice most things until they try to bite us or start behaving a bit strangely. Then …
How might you overhaul finance so it serves people and planet? I wrote a #longread about it for Friends of the Earth back in 2016. (FOE’s website appears to have set fire to anything that was written before a week last Tuesday, so luckily I reproduced it on my Medium blog. If you’re wondering why there isn’t more of my …