Episodes

Jarkko Havas is my guest on Episode 104 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Jarkko leads the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Insights & Analysis work. I&A consists of the Data & Metrics Initiative with a focus on measuring company level circular economy performance (Circulytics), and teams working on upcoming focus topics for the Foundation, as well as the case study programme. Prior to joining the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Jarkko was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, based first in Tok...

Ken Meter is my guest on Episode 103 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Ken Meter is one of the most experienced food system analysts in the U.S., integrating market analysis, business development, systems thinking, and social concerns. Meter has worked for fifty years in inner-city and rural community capacity building. His local economic analyses have promoted local food networks in 143 regions in 41 states, two provinces, and four tribal nations. Building Community Food Webs was publish...

John Pickrell is my guest on Episode 102 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. John is an award-winning journalist, the author of Flying Dinosaurs and Weird Dinosaurs, and the former editor of Australian Geographic magazine. Currently the Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief for Nature, he has worked in London, Washington, DC, and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News and Cosmos. His articles also appear in National Geographic, Scientific American, Focus, BBC Future, The Gu...

Dr. Olle Olsson is my guest on Episode 101 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Olle is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), where his work is focused on socio-technical transitions, primarily in the fields of energy and climate change mitigation. His research looks at the interplay between technology, business models and public policy and how different factors across these areas need to align to make something a viable solution. One of his key interests at the...

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is my guest on Episode 100 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Professor Yunus is the father of both social business and microcredit, the founder of Grameen Bank, and of more than 50 other companies in Bangladesh. For his constant innovation and enterprise, the Fortune Magazine named Professor Yunus in March 2012 as “one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time.” In 2006, Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank were jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize. He is ...

Mathis Wackernagel is my guest on Episode 99 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. co-created the Ecological Footprint in the early 1990s with his Ph.D. advisor Prof. Rees at the University of British Columbia. Now he is President of Global Footprint Network which he founded in 2003 with Susan Burns. Together with its partners, Global Footprint Network focuses on bringing about a sustainable economy in which all can thrive within the means of our one planet. Since 2003 thi...

Margaret O’Gorman is my guest on Episode 98 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Margaret O’Gorman operates at the intersection of business and nature. As President of the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC), she helps companies find value in natural resources conservation and mainstream biodiversity across operations. She highlights the problems of too much planning and not enough action. She is a proponent of simplifying approaches to conservation and opening the door to efforts that restore br...

Margaret Kim is my guest on Episode 97 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Maggie is the CEO of the Gold Standard Foundation, whose standard ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’ allows climate and development interventions to quantify, certify and maximise impacts toward the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Maggie was previously the Head of Green Climate Fund Liaison in the Office of Director-General for the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), where she also served...

Dana Gunders is my guest on Episode 96 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Dana is a national expert on food systems and was one of the first people to raise the alarm about how much food is wasted across the country and the subsequent impacts on the environment, food security, and the economy. Dana has served as ReFED’s Executive Director since March 2020, and she has a long history with the organization having served as a founding board member when ReFED was established in 2016. For almos...

Karel J. Golta is my guest on Episode 95 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. In the age of artificial intelligence, digitization and machine learning being human is often neglected. For Karel therefore it is crucial that innovations are not only human- centered but rather make mankind - in unity with the entire ecosystem – the decisive factor in development. That this is something only design can do - that is not to be argued with the entrepreneur and convinced business-romantic. Unlike man...

Songwriter charts with global food systems reform Songwriter & Advocate for Sustainable Food Systems Reform Eva Keretic is my guest on Episode 94 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. If there’s one thing Eva Keretic has mastered in the half-century of her life, it’s to embrace an experience and create a story. Whether it be in song, or speech, or trying to save the planet. There she was at her first meeting with politicians and managing directors, hoping to finance an innovative vertical farm ...

Helena Norberg-Hodge is my guest on this Special Episode World Localization Day of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Helena is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.” She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future (2019). She ...

Emily Hennessee is my guest on Episode 93 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Based in Washington, D.C., Emily is a policy associate at The Good Food Institute and leverages policy to create a sustainable, secure, and just food system via alternative proteins in the United States and beyond. Prior to joining GFI, she worked on sustainable food efforts at Georgia Organics as the Farm to School Director and Director of Programs. Previously, Emily was the Sustainability Programs Coordinator at Em...

Sandra Goldmark is my guest on Episode 92 of Inside Ideas. Sandra is the founder of Fixup (formerly Pop Up Repair), an innovative social enterprise in New York City. She is also a theater set/costume designer, a leader in the field of sustainable theatrical design, and director of the Sustainability and Climate Action program and associate professor of professional practice at Barnard College. She has an AB in American literature from Harvard College and an MFA in theatrical design from Yale Un...

Alan Moore is my guest on Episode 91 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Alan Moore, author of the bestselling Do Design: Why beauty is key to everything, has written a new and timely business book for our post-Covid world. Business is changing. The single pursuit of ‘profit at any cost’ has been replaced by a desire to build companies that create a better future - and enjoy commercial success. In Do Build, Alan Moore draws on his years of research into some of the most pioneering and progress...

Adah Parris is my guest on Episode 90 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Adah is a Futurist, Systems Thinker, Storyteller and Artist. Chair of Mental Health First Aid England (MHFA UK). Currently Artist in two Residence at The Design Science Studio (Buckminster Fuller Institute) and the Emergent Media Lab, The University of California Irvine. An enthusiastic curator of people, patterns and stories. Adah's current interest lies in the anatomy of transformation and innovation, from ancient wisdom,...

Sarah Greenfield Clark is my guest on Episode 89 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Sarah is a passionate change-maker and advocate for people power and radical collaboration. With Liam, she co-founded Climate 2025 as an evolutionary not for profit focused on agility, pace and system change. She is committed to lifelong-learning and finding new ways to platform the voiceless amidst the climate, ecological & humanitarian crises. Prior to Climate 2025 Sarah helped birth Extinction Rebellion with...

Dr. Christine Lemaitre is my guest on Episode 88 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Christine is a real pioneer in sustainable building. As CEO of the DGNB German Sustainable Building Council she sets the course for a better planning and building culture in Germany for almost a decade. She was born in Gießen, Germany and studied structural engineering at the University of Stuttgart. After working in the USA, in 2003 she started working at the Institute of Lightweight Structures Design and Const...

Andrew Winston is my guest on Episode 87 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Andrew is the founder of Winston Eco-Strategies a globally recognized expert on how companies can profit from solving the world’s biggest challenges. His views on strategy have been sought after by many of the world’s leading companies, including 3M, DuPont, HP, Ingersoll Rand, J&J, Kimberly-Clark, Marriott, PepsiCo, PwC, and Unilever. Andrew's book, The Big Pivot was selected as one of the "Best Business Books" by Stra...

Torsten Kriening is my guest on Episode 86 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Publisher of SpaceWatch.Global (a ThorGroup GmbH brand) and CEO Torsten Kriening is a business development executive with academic and professional experience in space management, satellite communications, and broadcast technology. He has an electrical and telecommunications engineering background and studied information technology and computer science at the Technical College Berlin. Torsten began his career as a so...

Dr. R. Bruce Hull is my guest on Episode 85 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Bruce writes and speaks about organizations, communities, and leaders constructing sustainable development in the face of converging demographic, environmental, governance, and market transformations. He is most excited when learning and sharing lessons about innovative leaders who are forging collaborations among government, business, and civil society. He is a Senior Fellow in the Center for Leadership in Global Su...

Sanjay Rawal is my guest on Episode 84 of Inside Ideas. Sanjay is a James Beard Award-winning filmmaker, Sanjay made FOOD CHAINS (EP Eva Longoria, Eric Schlosser) which chronicled the battle of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a small group of Oaxacan and Chiapan indigenous farmworkers in Florida, against the largest agribusiness conglomerates in the world. The film was released theatrically in a number of countries (Screen Media in the US) and won numerous awards - including citations from ...

Robert Egger is my guest on Episode 83 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Robert founded the D.C. Central Kitchen, the Campus Kitchen Project, and the L.A. Kitchen, which has collectively produced over 40 million meals and helped over 2,000 individuals attain jobs. In Washington, he was the founding Chair of the Mayor's Commission on Nutrition, and Street Sense (Washington's homeless newspaper). In addition, he is a Founding Board member of The World Central Kitchen with Jose Andres, Robert was...

Wilhelmina Jewell Sparks is my guest on Episode 82 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Jewell is a global executive who has worked in both Corporate and Startup environments for over 20 years preparing markets and launching innovative products and services in science, technology, retail, and food industries. She is the founder of UNITED17 Venture Lab and the CEO of BiTHOUSE Venture Group which is a global business development cultivator fostering collaboration and innovation culture amongst corp...