For the last 17 months on 'The 17' podcast, host Kate Hutchinson (Founder - Yorkshire Sustainability Festival) has been talking to sustainability experts about the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. To celebrate our 17th episode, we're putting together a two-part 'Best Of' - featuring all our expert guests. The result is a powerful overview of the challenges facing the planet and the best ideas on how to progress.

This episode is Part 2.

Featured guests and SDG's in this episode:

Sustainability Pioneers:

Mike Berners-Lee (Carbon footprint expert)

Jo Fairley (co-founder of Green and Blacks, a pioneer of Fairtrade)

John Elkington (visionary author who coined many of the sustainability terms we use today)

Dr Alan James (future sustainable travel expert)

Sri Hollema (young eco-inventor)

SDGs and Episode Themes:

SDG 4 - Quality Education (Guest - UK and international education expert Nathan Atkinson)

SDG 5 - Gender Equality (Guest - Venture capitalist and employment charity Founder Helen Oldham)

Green Skills - Co-Founders of disruptive eco skills and employment consultancy Creaticity, Richelle Schuster and Martyn Long

The 17 is a podcast themed around the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. A new episode is published on the 17th of each month, and explores a different one of the 17 goals in detail or discusses a topic linked to sustainability.

The UN SDGs represent an all-encompassing plan to protect the future of our planet, it is our responsibility to know what they are, understand them, and make sure that we are doing our bit to help.

Help us grow this podcast. Please subscribe on your usual podcast platform, leave reviews and spread the word about the podcast. Thank you.

The 17 is produced by Bwlb - www.bwlb.co.uk

For the last 16 months on 'The 17' podcast, host Kate Hutchinson (Founder - Yorkshire Sustainability Festival) has been talking to sustainability experts about the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. To celebrate our 17th episode, we're putting together a two-part 'Best Of' - featuring all our expert guests. The result is a powerful overview of the challenges facing the planet and the best ideas on how to progress.

This episode is Part 1, with the second part to follow in September.

Featured guests and SDG's in this episode:

SDG 6 - Clean Water & Sanitation - Niki Roach (Planet Possible)

SDG 8 - Decent Work & Economic Growth - Tim Frenneaux (Economist)

SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure - Eve Roodhouse (Local Government Expert)

SDG 12 - Responsible Production & Consumption - Andrew Ostcliffe (Oxfam) and Josie Warden (Volans)

SDG 13 - Climate Action - Clover Hogan (Climate Activist) & Areeba Hamid (Greenpeace)

SDG 2 - Zero Hunger - Dev Sharma (Food Activist and Youth MP), interviewed by guest host and Digital Changemaker Lella Halloum

SDG 15 - Life On Land - Dr Wayne Visser (Nature Expert and Futurist)

The 17 is a podcast themed around the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. A new episode is published on the 17th of each month, and explores a different one of the 17 goals in detail or discusses a topic linked to sustainability.

The UN SDGs represent an all-encompassing plan to protect the future of our planet, it is our responsibility to know what they are, understand them, and make sure that we are doing our bit to help.

Help us grow this podcast. Please subscribe on your usual podcast platform, leave reviews and spread the word about the podcast. Thank you.

The 17 is produced by Bwlb - www.bwlb.co.uk

Kate Hutchinson is usually the host of this podcast but with the recent success of the Yorkshire Sustainability Festival, it's the perfect time for her to sit in the guest's chair.

Producer Andy takes over interviewing duties and we hear about the key themes from the festival including what high profile keynote speakers Mary Portas and Kevin McCloud had to say. Kate also talks about her own pivot towards sustainability. She explains how sustainability found her - as her company produced more and more events linked to green issues and equality, her interest grew. Then, a chance mention of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a conversation with a mentor led Kate to find out more, lean in to this roadmap to protect the planet... and the rest is history, including this podcast itself.

Kate launched Yorkshire Sustainability Week in 2023, then delivered an even bigger and better event - Yorkshire Sustainability Festival in the summer of 2024. In this episode she maps out her even grander plans for 2025 and beyond and talks inspirationally about how sustainability and business can work hand in hand to make the region, the country and the world... a better place.

The 17 is a podcast themed around the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. A new episode is published on the 17th of each month, and explores a different one of the 17 goals in detail or discusses a topic linked to sustainability.

The UN SDGs represent an all-encompassing plan to protect the future of our planet, it is our responsibility to know what they are, understand them, and make sure that we are doing our bit to help.

Help us grow this podcast. Please subscribe on your usual podcast platform, leave reviews and spread the word about the podcast. Thank you.

The 17 is produced by Bwlb - www.bwlb.co.uk