What's Giving Us Hope?

Can The Climate Crisis Actually Be... Funny?

If our biggest problem in the climate space is communication, then maybe climate scientists doing stand-up are the messengers we need. In this episode of Funny Old World — the podcast that looks the climate crisis in the eye and tries to stay light-hearted — Juliet Kinsman has a gentle, soothing, serious chat with the refreshingly real Dr Matt Winning: climate-policy academic at UCL and stand-up comedian, and quite possibly the only person whose research has been cited by the IPCC and whose jokes have been heckled in a comedy club. WHAT IS SOLASTALGIA? We talk about Matt's show Solastalgia at Soho Theatre during London Climate Action Week — solastalgia being the grief caused by environmental loss, a concept Juliet has written about for Condé Nast Traveller. Matt is also a closing speaker at the Nature in the City event with LORE Group and The Long Run at Sea Containers London on Sunday 21 June. Dr Matt Winning has a PhD in climate change policy, has advised the UK Committee on Climate Change, and was formerly Head of Climate Research at Oxford Economics. He knows his stuff — and he wants us to think about how we might make people think about that, and laugh about it. We cover nominative determinism, why milk in your coffee doubles your carbon footprint, and why climate solutions need reframing: "What people want is a menu of climate solutions, but actually we need to give them a list of ingredients." "Be curious, be creative, make your action part of your community… Everybody can do something." PODCAST RECOMMENDATION WILD with Sarah Wilson — New York Times bestselling author, activist and former journalist. FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM Juliet Kinsman: instagram.com/julietkinsman [http://instagram.com/julietkinsman] Dr Matt Winning: instagram.com/mattywin85 [http://instagram.com/mattywin85] Funny Old World is supported by The Long Run — a global community of nature-based tourism businesses united by the 4Cs Framework: Conservation, Community, Culture and Commerce.

Food, Farming & Ploughing through the BS

Funny Old World | Food, Farming & Ploughing through the BS 🌱 What are we actually eating — and what does it cost the earth? This bite-sized episode digs into ethical food systems, regenerative farming, and what all of us as consumers can actually do. It covers politics, environmental hard truths — and yes, it ends on an erotica note. You've been warned. Star guests this episode: 🍺 Geetie Singh-Watson — founder The Bull Inn in Totnes and the UK's first certified organic pub. Co-founder of the Riverford Field Kitchen. The poster human for hospitality which can genuinely heal land and community. → bullinntotnes.co.uk 🌾 Ed Faulkner — founder Sapling Spirits. Environmental policy meets award-winning spirits made with regenerative agriculture and minimum waste. (Did you know what's in your glass matters as much as what's on your fork?) → saplingspirits.com Your host: Juliet Kinsman — journalist, author, broadcaster, Bouteco founder — sharing stories that inspire impact. → bouteco.co/podcasts Brought to you by The Long Run — the membership organisation for tourism businesses committed to positive impact. → thelongrun.org 📍 MEET US IRL — 21 June 2026, Sea Containers, London, Nature in the City is a live event during London Climate Action Week. Come and continue this conversation with Geetie, Ed and Juliet — with food, drink, and proper debate. Ticket proceeds support Farms for City Children on their 50th anniversary.  🎟 eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-in-the-city-at-sea-containers-london-tickets-1987679926166 Next up: Dr Matt Winning (comedian, environmental economist, BBC Radio 4) and Shakira Mobarak, nature-positive storyteller at The Datai Langkawi.

What's Giving Us Hope?

…SOLUTIONS-LED STORYTELLING IN TRAVEL is giving us hope. In this new episode of a new format, Juliet Kinsman — sustainability expert and solutions-led storyteller — shares lightbulb moments from a 30-year career in journalism and why she believes storytellers are the keystone species for a better world… Radically honest, as ever, in her talk given for the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Better World Symposium in London, she makes the case for solutions-led storytelling over greenwashed marketing spin, for authentic human authority over AI-generated content, and for a kind of travel writing that doesn't just document the world — it advances the narrative and cultivates empathy. Just watch out for those Passport Bros… What are those? Listen in and find out… A must-listen if you’re anyone sharing stories from your travels. Follow your host Juliet http://instagram.com/julietkinsman/ founder or Bouteco http://bouteco.co For more information, this episode features: https://www.thedatai.com/sustainability/ https://www.andbeyond.com/ https://uxua.com http://fogoislandinn.ca http://shorefastinstitute.org https://www.instagram.com/mandalaire_finca http://asylumspeakers.com https://www.inntravel.co.uk/getmedia/dcc19a67-2875-4ca9-8d6a-5bdfcb0c70e6/travel-writers-manifesto-spread.pdf Topics covered: sustainable travel · biodiversity · keystone species · solutions-led storytelling · regenerative tourism · the future of journalism · authentic brand communications · impact reporting · the Datai Langkawi · coral bleaching · deforestation · Fogo Island · asylum seekers · Ikigai · AI and human connection

The Earth Month Special. Sharing Stories to Inspire Impact

Your Funny Old World hosts — Juliet Kinsman and Simon London — return with special guests from Campaign for Nature and Asylum Speakers to explore the transformative power of exponential storytelling at the nexus between nature and climate justice. They don’t shy from some of the toughest topics — managing to elicit a little laughter along the way. Recorded in Dover Yard at 1 Hotel Mayfair in London.Special guests Katy Roxburgh from Campaign for Nature — helping to protect 30 per cent of the planet by 2030.Giel Malual of Asylum Speakers — model, law student, advocate for refugee rights, South Sudanese speaker.Discover why…Biodiversity is so important in the climate conversation. The water crisis is one of our most urgent challenges today.Better gender equality benefits everyone.Migration and the movement of people affect us all. …And why Juliet has a climate denier to thank for bringing home one of the most important messages: how can we help humanise those people already at the sharp end of the climate crisis? Thanks to Andy Hughes for audio editing. 1 Hotel Mayfair, 3 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DL Asylum Speakers — buy the book and listen to the podcast by Jaz OHara which takes you on a journey across the world… without you having to go anywhere. Event produced by Bouteco | Follow @JulietKinsman

Wild, Water, Women, Wit — WTF?

Welcome to this special What the…? LIVE episode of the climate-solutions podcast with stories from sustainable travel recorded in Marrakech at PURE 2024 with Juliet Kinsman, journalist and founder of Bouteco, who returns with broadcaster Simon London who plays quizmaster in this entertaining interactive 40-minute session from Open House at the trade show in Morocco, September 2024.  Key climate topics are tackled: the importance of biodiversity, water solutions, and gender equality in the context of the power of sustainable travel to do more good, and how to harness the power of comedy and storytelling for impact — with lots of stats, science and heart-tugging stories and a little much-needed laughter along the way. Experts include Portia Hart, founder of Blue Apple in Colombia and Intrepid’s Zina Bencheikh, a big supporter of the charity Education for All which is what Bouteco’s 2019 documentary Changing Worlds in the Atlas Mountains is all about. Intriguing and inspiring sustainability studies from hospitality in relation to The Datai Langkawi in Malaysia, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, Rio Perdido in Costa Rica which features in Small Luxury Hotels’ Considerate Collection, For more episodes and full information, go to http://bouteco.co/podcasts What To Do And How To Think in a Crisis https://www.bouteco.co/sustainable-luxury-travel/2023/11/17/guidelines-for-action-after-a-disaster Make My Money Matter https://makemymoneymatter.co.uk/ Comedy clip from Mark Maron https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ug6py7PoHR8 Cartoon by Tom Toro from The New Yorker https://www.insidehook.com/culture/story-tom-toro-new-yorker-climate-cartoon Please listen, subscribe, review — and catch up with our first series of Funny Old World — spread the word to help us up climate awareness in a way that we hope also inspires a few smiles. Edited by Jon Weeks. Sound Engineer Andy Hughes. Published by Mark Machado of 11-29 Media. Thank you to http://purelifeexperiences.com — Serge Dive, Eve Browning, Isabella Carington, Ariella Durban, Sarah Nevard and all the passionate hoteliers and travel professionals that make PURE such a special place to spark more two-way conversations.