30. Exploring start-ups, business development, meteorology and great visions

Journey Visions - A Path towards Sustainability

After featuring many participants of the Journey, it's time to talk to hosts again. Together with Lars Reyes-Gjølme and Laura Riuttanen from the Northern Light Journey we dig into the world of visions and projects that address climate action and sustainability in Europe. His Bachelor in Theatre brings out the creative side of Lars, whose interest have moved on from "land to sea" as he frames it. With a Masters in Entrepreneurship and Business Development he continues to work with NTNU (Norwegian University of Sciene and Technology) and Climate KIC (Accelerator) to support and lead innovation projects for sustainable development. Laura, who has a PhD in meteorology is pointing out that weather affects everyone on this planet. Physics and cloud formation are her key interest and therefore, she really understands the changes in the climatic system.

In the episode, we feature several European projects such as CityXChange for sustainable urban development as well as (maybe the first!!!) church in the world with a carbon neutral strategy. We also hear about ocean pollution. Tune in to get to know some more!

EU project with NTNU, Trondheim and other European partners to co-create the future we want tolive in: https://cityxchange.eu/

The start-up Lars mentioned: https://www.ducky.eco/

The speech (pictures/video) that made Lars afraid of pollution as a kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B0np_o1VBg

Carbon Brief: https://www.carbonbrief.org/

Global Carbon Project: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/ (nice visualizations!)

The carbon neutral church 2030: https://evl.fi/documents/1327140/25840624/Ilmastoteksti_engl_2019.pdf/3ff35917-6bd7-6e86-2754-cb5885cf8ea8?t=1591868102539 and https://evl.fi/current-issues/news/2019/church-council-approves-church-climate-strategy