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My guest today is David Henzel, CEO of UpCoach, an online coaching platform, and founder of TaskDrive, LTVplus, and Shortlist. David is personally passionate about fighting climate change, which led to intriguing conversations around these topics:

  • David’s personal lifestyle of veganism — “I heard someone say once, which makes a lot of sense to me…in 30 years we’ll look back at eating animals the same way we looked back at slavery … like how could we do something that cruel”. 
  • The theory of conscious capitalism: businesses can do good while still making a profit such as Whole Foods. 
  • Debate around for profits versus non profits.
  • The opinion humans are starting to ‘wake up’ and make climate change focused decisions in their personal lives. 
  • A call to action on starting the climate conversation in David’s organizations.
  • David and his wife’s eco village project with the goal of providing sustainable food and living in their local community. 
  • David’s entrepreneurial journey and why he decided to focus on a coaching software.

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My guest in this episode is Eduardo Gómez, Co-Founder and CPO of Emitwise, an AI-powered software company that helps companies achieve carbon neutrality.

In our conversation we discussed:

  • Eduardo and co-founder Mauro Cozzi’s brainstorming conversation that led to Emitwise
  • Eduardo’s personal passion for fighting climate change
  • Distinguishing the 3 scopes of emissions
  • Current discrepancies between companies’ carbon emission tracking and reporting versus the actual carbon emissions
  • Process of working with investors and fundraising for Emitwise

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My guest today is Richard de Nys, founder and CEO of Award Force, an Australia-based, remote software company.

In our conversation we discussed:

  • Richard’s background as a product designer and how AwardForce came about
  • The issues around planned obsolescence and consequently how designers have a direct impact on sustainability
  • How remote or distributed teams can be climate positive
  • AwardForce’s attempts and drive to be a carbon neutral operation

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Jordyn Bonds is co-founder and CEO of TallyLab. I got to know of her after my interview with James Christie. When I saw that she had given a talk about the web’s energy (in)efficiency I had to speak to her as the carbon footprint of the web an elephant in the tech industry’s room that is largely ignored.

Our conversation touched on a number of issues including diversity, privacy, and how certain key infrastructural choices in how the web and web apps are designed can have an order of magnitude’s difference to energy consumption and efficiency.

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In this episode I speak to Tom Greenwood, founder and CEO of Wholegrain Digital, a London-based WordPress agency who’s built a reputation and business around sustainable web design.

Wholegrain is itself a registered B Corp — meaning that they hold themselves accountable to balancing profit with purpose. Apart from talking through the company’s journey and experience of going through this process we also discuss what exactly is involved in creating a more sustainable website, and what personal and political actions we can all take to advance climate emergency solutions.

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I was so stoked to get Cennydd on the show. As a former designer myself Cennydd was always someone I looked up to. Not just because of his design chops, but also because he always came across as a very principled designer.

When I looked him up recently in researching guests for the show I was therefore thrilled to see that he’d completely shifted focus to evangelising ethical and future design.

My conversation with him did not disappoint.

On the practical level we cover some specific approaches to how designers can do their job better from a climate point of view. But we also discuss how these topics can lead to personal burnout and down periods and how to deal with them.

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Natalie is the co-founder and CEO of WildBit, a remote software company that produces tools for software developers. Natalie came across my radar after my interview with Peldi who suggested I reach out to her as somebody who might be interested in the topic.

He was right.

Because while she personally doesn’t have the time to learn about the issue deeply her company, like Hotjar, had made a commitment to becoming carbon neutral.

Besides discussing her personal views on the matter in the episode you’ll hear how this came about and how WildBit is approaching it.

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Frankly, if you work in software marketing or sales and haven’t heard of Steli Efti you’ve not been doing your job right. He’s an accomplished salesperson and negotiator who’s become deservedly famous for openly sharing his expertise for free.

I was lucky to work directly with Steli for a few months at Close but even so I was in two minds as to whether he’d be at all open to discussing this topic.

Turns out I was right to reach out to him. Like Peldi, despite not being an expert on the topic he is personally concerned and we had a fruitful conversation. More importantly (to me) he shared his thoughts on why and how activists in the area struggle with “selling” the problem and what approaches we can all take to do better.

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I reached out to Oli on the Tech Impact Makers Slack group last year after I came across his Forge The Future newsletter.

After a brief intro chat I knew I had to get an interview with him because his story seemed pretty unique to me at the time: an experienced and well-paid engineer took a self-imposed twelve-month sabbatical to educate himself on the climate emergency and work out what he could do to help.

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Simon Galbraith runs a twenty-year old software company called Redgate. I had the good fortune to work for Redgate, and directly with Simon, for a number of years. I don’t say “good fortune” lightly because Redgate was, and by all accounts still is, a great place to work. A lot of care is taken to provide genuine customer value and a safe and fulfilling environment for employees.

Unsurprisingly though, climate and sustainability haven’t featured highly on the company’s priority list. So I wanted to ask Simon why.

Simon is very direct in his views, which don’t always chime with mine or the mainstream climate views. But to me that’s all the more important in my journey to understand how tech can help with the climate emergency.

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