Why should we solve the climate problems, instead of just analysing them? Leo Rayman, founder of EdenLab

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Leo Rayman argues why it is both a moral duty and a career advancement opportunity to come up with sustainability solutions, why the atmosphere of a climate tech conference is different to a sustainability conference; how the ability to control the local things will lead to controlling the big stuff; why innovation should not be a dilemma but the fundamental focus and why putting a degrowth in the diary of company management will never work.

Leo is the founder & CEO of EdenLab (edenlab.co) and the former CEO at Grey Consulting. His main focus is to make sustainability something that leaders and customers want to do, and to how, through communications and marketing, sustainability can be made more engaging and exciting. He is working with company managements to reinvent their businesses successfully.

Highlights of the Episode

2:40: EdenLab: https://www.edenlab.co/whoweare

24:45: why sustainability communication often fails and how it could be made to stick.

25:55: John Marshall pioneering simple climate messages: https://www.ted.com/speakers/john_marshall

26:30: why we should be talking about energy security and comfort, instead of grid flexibility and kilowatt hours

30:47: the innovation dilemma of large companies, as explained by Clayton Christensen, https://www.christenseninstitute.org/theory/disruptive-innovation/

31:20: what the food system will be like in 2036?

31:55: living the new frugal experience and on future back thinking

36:30: Rapid-fire quiz of the day: thoughts about the key words with the 6th letter of the alphabet, ‘F’:

• Fossil fuel
• Fast fashion
• Full cost pricing

37:12: living off the back of ancient sunshine instead of today's sunshine

37:30: reframing fashion through vintage

38:48: the National Bureau of Economic Research on the real cost of carbon:  https://www.nber.org/papers/w32544

The social cost of carbon: https://www.rff.org/topics/scc/

https://www.energymonitor.ai/features/could-the-global-cost-of-climate-change-really-be-six-times-worse-than-thought/

39:26: proposed carbon take back obligation: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/12/fossil-fuel-producers-must-be-forced-to-take-back-carbon-say-scientists

42:06: living in the period of ‘in the Meanwhile’

42:50: ‘Power Station’ film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38567062/

44:42: Copmitment, 52 video threads of climate positive actions: copmitment.com/actions

47:20: the importance of thinking of an abundant positive future

48:52: why individual regenerative resets make a difference

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