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Our journey into the world of being a truly climate conscious business. Join us as we talk to fellow entrepreneurs, founders, marketing folks, and campaigners to help us build our new product, EcoSend: the climate conscious email marketing tool.
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Being a startup founder is not all private jets and parties. Truthfully, being a founder is a lonely, difficult, stressful, yet rewarding way to spend your life. James Gill started GoSquared with two friends from school in 2006, and in this podcast he shares his struggles, excitement, and everything in between with refreshing honesty.
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Marketers wield an incredibly powerful influence over the general public. But as our latest guest argues, this power must be coupled with a strong sense of responsibility, in order for Marketing to have a positive influence over people and planet. Sergio Fuentealba is Co-Founder of GrowBetter Agency, and is on a mission to turn Marketing away from …
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Even in 2025, awareness of the carbon footprint of Digital activity seems to remain in its infancy. As the world slowly wakes up to the reality of the Climate Challenge, many of us in the Digital space find that Sustainability efforts lag behind other sectors. But with over 250,000 new websites being created every DAY, the carbon impact of our onli…
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The use of AI has sky-rocketed within a very short space of time. And with this explosion of growth, comes many concerns around Ethics, Privacy, and Sustainability. With so many companies racing to implement AI-at-all-costs, many are concerned about the unknown implications of AI, and the many questions remain unanswered. Fortunately, there are som…
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It's episode two of Season Seven, and we're flying high with our latest guest! Sophie Zienkiewicz is on a mission to decarbonise the aviation fuel industry, and make 'Sustainable Aviation Fuel' (SAF) the new normal. With only 0.5% of the airline industry currently using SAF, Sophie and the team at CNF Energy are doing all they can to change that. A…
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We're delighted to be back for our Seventh Podcast Season! It's been a moment since we wrapped up Season Six last year, but we are thrilled to return with a Seventh Season of the show, and to welcome a new series of fantastic guest speakers. To kick things off, we are delighted to welcome Steven Collins, Founder of GreenPerks 💚 GreenPerks is a plat…
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Wow! We can't believe it's over already... somehow Season Six has shot passed, and we've reached the end of our guests for the series 😱 But as always, we like to keep our little tradition of a special, bonus wrap-up episode 🎁 And so we turned the tables to put James Gill in the hot-seat, to talk us through all the lessons he's learned from our rece…
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We can't believe we're somehow down to our last guest of Season Six! This series has absolutely belted by, but we were delighted to welcome a special guest for the penultimate session, and our first film-maker on the show... Welcome, Tristan Lochon! Film-maker and journalist, Tristan recently wrapped up his first full-length documentary; “Responsib…
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When it comes to Advertising, you're probably picturing Don Draper types, or perhaps that latest spammy pop-up you had to drive away from your screen. Advertising often gets a bad rep, especially for its deliberate drive towards Consumerism. But as our latest guest explains, it doesn't have to be this way! Enter Ollie Deane of 'The Good Net' - the …
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With 10 years experience working with purpose-driven businesses, our eighth guest of the season is not only an industry veteran, but a delightful human to welcome to the show! Dom Cooper is Director of Vu Digital, who deliver positive change for organisations and small businesses. Based in the UK's top 'Hippie Town', Totnes, Dom and his team work w…
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As Change-makers and Entrepreneurs for Good, we want to tell our story to the world, and inspire others to join or create their own mission. But when it comes to talking about Sustainability, or Ethical Capitalism, we live in constant fear of falling foul of the twin-evils of Greenwashing and Greenhushing. Fortunately, today's guests are industry-e…
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Having followed our latest guests for a long time on LinkedIn, we were absolutely delighted when he agreed to join us for Episode Six of our Sixth Season of The EcoSend Podcast 🙌 Carlos Terol is a leading voice in the Change-maker and Business for Good space. With a following of over 32,000 on LinkedIn, and an ever growing community at Goodripple.c…
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There's no doubt we live in a time of crisis. Day after day, we read news and stories about the worsening climate challenge. Yet little do we hear stories of hope. And not just theoretical hope, but the pragmatic, "rolled-up sleeves" kind of hope. But that is exactly what this week's guest's work and book is all about. And so we are delighted to we…
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"Money at the expense of People and Planet is a structural failure." We were really honoured to welcome a very special guest for Episode 4 of our Sixth Season of the EcoSend Podcast. Running a successful business as an entrepreneur is hard, even in the best times. But not only has our latest guest done that, but all the while creating innovative pr…
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It's Episode 3, and we're back this time with Tim Maiden of Green Small Business! At EcoSend, we're committed not only to reducing the carbon footprint of email, but of our own footprint as a business too. But it's hard to know where to even start with measuring a company's carbon footprint. Especially for startups and SME's already juggling too ma…
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Hot off the heels of a cracking first episode of Season 6, we're back this week with our new Season's second episode! Since the (relative) return to normality in a post-Covid world, the Events industry has largely gone back to business as usual. But most Events, our latest guests points out, offer limited value to attendees and are far too mono-foc…
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And we're back! 💚🙌 Just three weeks after rounding off Season Five, we're delighted to return with a brand new Season Six of The EcoSend Podcast! We've got some fantastic guests lined-up this season, and who better to kick us off than a real expert in Ethical Email Marketing, Yuval Ackerman! Rated a 'Top Marketer to watch in 2024', Yuval embodies t…
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We're delighted you joined us for the fifth season of The EcoSend Podcast! Thank you so much for joining us on this journey, which we started all the way back in November 2022 with our first episode. Feels like a lifetime ago now! To recap the past season, we had some amazing guests including: S5E10 with Michelle Miles S5E9 with Chrysta Sto S5E8 wi…
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We can't believe we're already down to our final guest of Season Five! We've been truly blessed with so many amazing speakers, and our final guest is no exception. Welcome to the show, Michelle Miles! Michelle is CEO at the 'Sustainable Wedding Alliance', and has made it her mission to integrate Sustainability into the heart of the Wedding industry…
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Our goal here with The EcoSend Podcast has always been to provide genuine value to our audience, and to hold positive-impact as our number one outcome. We see this as a core tenet of human-centred Marketing, and so we were absolutely delighted to welcome a real expert in the field of human-centric Podcasting, Chrysa Sto! For nearly six years Chrysa…
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Will Kinchin has been a good friend of the EcoSend team for a long time, so we were delighted to welcome him for episode eight of our Fifth Season. Will runs a boutique creative design Agency, working with purpose-driven brands and charities. But this episode wasn't just a chance to learn from Will's extensive experience as an Entrepreneur for Good…
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With years of experience driving Strategy for Nissan and Virgin Atlantic, as well as a background in Politics, Helen Neal is a force to be reckoned with. And since founding HN Communications, a certified B-Corp in 2017, Helen has been at the frontlines of helping businesses integrate Sustainability into their ethos and strategy. Moving beyond seein…
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"We can't become marathon runners overnight... but we can become 'someone who goes to the gym'." A quote which sums up our latest guests' wonderful philosophy towards Sustainability. A philosophy which holds the antidote to avoiding the trap of perfection-paralysis, and leveraging small-wins overtime to bring about long-standing identity change. We…
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We're halfway through Season 5 already, and we're delighted to be back with another Sustainability Veteran! This guest has 20 years' experience in Digital Strategy, including roles guiding global mobile strategy at Unilever, and as Head of Strategy at Infosys. She has then moved from the corporate world to Entrepreneurship, founding 'Halo by Design…
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We're taking a trip down-under for Episode 4, with our latest guest hailing all the way from New Zealand. It's Tim Jones, aka The BCorp Bloke! Tim is on a mission to help businesses simplify and fast-track their journey to BCorp status; with a healthy dose of puns and humour along the way! Since quitting his job in the Medical Devices Industry afte…
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Charities with too little, on the lookout for stock. Business with too much, on the lookout to offload. What if a platform existed to connect the two together? Fulfilling Charities' need for items, without having to spend their funding. Giving businesses the opportunity not only to offload unwanted items without paying for removal fees, but also th…
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We're back with Episode Two! We often talk about the importance of Climate Sustainability, but what about the importance of Business Sustainability? As our latest guest tells us, the longevity of a purpose-driven business must be as much of a focus as its Sustainability efforts. At the end of the day, the world's best Sustainability strategy is no …
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We're delighted to be back with Season FIVE of the EcoSend Podcast! 🎉 To kick-off the new series, we welcome Richard Boon from Webmart - a true veteran of the budding-field of Digital Sustainability. From a serendipitous 'Dragon's Den' pitch at the age of eighteen, to an apprenticeship, to his current position as Board Advisor, Richard has been in …
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We're delighted you've joined us for the fourth season of our Podcast! We hope you enjoyed the wisdom, insights, and stories from our wonderful guests as much as we did! 4️⃣ For Season Four of The EcoSend Podcast we welcomed: S4E10 with Ryan Laird from Green Orbit Digital S4E9 with Maddy Cooper from Flourish Agency S4E8 with Julien Massiot from Wil…
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When it comes to talking about Sustainability, we always think about here 'on the ground' on Planet Earth. But what about that vast, infinite Universe sitting above our heads? Space! What role can Space and satellites have in Sustainability? Can we use Space Technology to build a better future for ourselves, or will it end-up yet another contributi…
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More and more brands these days are self-censoring their Sustainability efforts, due to fear of being called out for Greenwashing. But as today's guest Maddy Cooper explains, this "paralysis of Greenhushing" is incredibly damaging for the success and momentum of the Sustainability movement. Since struggling with her own climate anxiety, Maddy took …
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Advertising often gets a bad rep in Sustainability circles, and that can be for good reason. Too often, Adverting is used as a tool to manipulate people into purchases they don't need, or to divert attention away from or 'greenwash' companies' Sustainability credentials. This was the dilemma Julien Massiot faced many years ago, when he realised he …
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No hierarchy? No Managers?? Employees who choose their own salary??? It may sound like a Venture Capitalist's worst-nightmare, and a business doomed to fail, but Anne-Cécile and the team at 'Jobs That Make Sense' are proving them all wrong! Established over 10 years ago and boasting a team of 150, 'Jobs That Make Sense' is paving the way not only i…
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For our sixth episode of Season Four we were delighted to host a vital partner to our mission here at EcoSend - Treeapp, our tree-planting powerhouse! Since June 2023 we have entrusted Treeapp and their projects across the world with planting our clients' trees to absorb the carbon emissions of their email campaigns, reforest devastated areas, and …
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Cornwall may be best-known on the Sustainability map for its expansive Eden Project site, but nestled just down the road from Eden Project sits another trailblazing site for a better future. Caroline Stephenson's journey to building 'The Meadow Barns - An Education Centre for Climate Hope', started back in the 90s and her mother's mission to instal…
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We're very privileged on The EcoSend Podcast to be inspired by so many change-makers leading innovation and solving problems. And Carina Jandt is high up on that list! Carina is a fantastic example of a change-maker who saw a problem in her industry, a problem which her industry chose to ignore, and took it upon herself to do something about it! A …
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It's all very well to hold values 'on paper', but when those values are tested by business decisions, many change-makers find themselves sadly making compromises. That can involve agreeing to work for clients who you know don't match with your mission. But the financial incentives can be hard to say no to, especially for freelancers in the Sustaina…
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With his passion for technology, and fond memories of a childhood growing up in rural Denmark, Michael Andersen seemed destined for a career in Digital Sustainability. Since building his first website at the age of 12(!), Michael has been fascinated with problem-solving and using technology for a better world. This led Michael to found 'Sustainable…
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What kind of materials come to mind when you think of climate-conscious clothing? 🤔 We'll bet Seaweed wasn't the first on your list, but as our friend Dirk Eschenbacher explains, Seaweed kelp is the ultimate "Climate Tech Material" and the perfect antidote to today's culture of 'Fast Fashion' and clothing waste. Dirk is a fascinating character, wit…
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We can't believe we've reached the end of Season Three of The EcoSend Podcast already, but we're delighted you've joined us for this past season, and we're incredibly grateful for all the wonderful guests we've recently invited on the show. As a recap, this past season we welcomed to the podcast: François Burra from Product for NetZero Rebecca Heap…
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"Product Managers hold both vertical and horizontal influence to instil positive change within organisations and businesses" 🚀 We're down to our last guest of Season Three of the EcoSend Podcast, and it's a cracker with François Burra - who is leading the way in educating Product Managers to drive positive change. François has over 12 years experie…
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"Consumerist society has all of it, but Nature, Nature has no Marketing budget." 🌳 We were thrilled to welcome Rebecca Heaps for the penultimate episode of the EcoSend Podcast with our host, James Gill. Rebecca is a fantastic advocate for the Regenerative Business movement, and is pioneering the sharing economy with her platform Tentshare - also kn…
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"Is the world a better place because my business exists?" That's the question Russ Avery has asked himself ever since he made his first steps entering into the Sustainability sector, without any prior experience of qualification. Since then, Russ has spent years driving sustainable Marketing projects across purpose-driven businesses, from SeaWeb, t…
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Some days it can be hard to keep up motivation. That's why we're so grateful to welcome guests like Loïc onto the Podcast, who blend such a powerful mix of enthusiasm and pragmatism. Each episode always leavse us fired-up, and ready to take on our challenges once again. Loïc was no exception - he really brought the heat! Loïc Vandermeeren is a Chem…
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We are delighted to offer you another episode with a real veteran of Digital Sustainability - Tim Frick from Mightybytes! Tim has been campaigning for Sustainability and Accessibility in web design since way back in 1998, and holds the honour of being the 435th official BCorp in the world! If you want to learn about how the BCorp certification can …
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It's not often you meet someone qualified to talk to you about Sustainability, Philosophy, and Evolutionary Psychology - but Richard Dickson is one of those few! We were delighted to welcome Richard to the hot-seat for Episode 5 of the EcoSend Podcast, and what a jam-packed episode this proved to be! Get ready for a deep-dive through everything whi…
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It's Episode 4 of our third season here at The EcoSend Podcast, and we've got an episode to share with you which is guaranteed to warm your soul! The team at EcoSend have known Tom Hardy, founder at Manifesto Studios, for many years now, and we were delighted to welcome him onto the hot-seat. Tom gave us a fantastic episode and opportunity to share…
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Episode 3 of Season 3 is upon us! We're racing through the Series so far, and this week we welcome another two superstars in the Sustainability space; Anje and Robert from Dazzle! Anje & Robert are on a mission to embed Sustainability into the core of every organisations' decision-making processes, and to fill a major gap in the market for business…
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We've got a fantastic show for you for Episode Two today, with two guests from the company who quite literally wrote the book on Sustainable Web Design; Tom & Marketa from Wholegrain Digital! With 15 years of experience, Wholegrain Digital are trailblazers in the Digital Sustainability space, as well as early adopters of the highly-coveted BCorp Ce…
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We're so happy to back with the third Season of the EcoSend Podcast! And who better to kick off the new Series than our good friend Raoul Boström, CEO at Tyve. Raoul has really seen it all - from running product teams at high growth startups, to his latest work at the helm of Tyve; Raoul offers rich insights for anyone interested in the Tech for Go…
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Phew... Season Two has whipped past! It seems we've barely had a chance to catch breath since we wrapped up Season One of the EcoSend podcast, and we're amazed how much has changed in the world in just six months! It's always important to take time to stop and reflect. Especially with the world moving at a seemingly ever-increasing pace. So in this…
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