Sustainability & Climate Action with Dr Tara Shine & Madeleine Murray

“Don’t create another committee. Talk to people where they
already gather. Share ideas and that ripple effect will build and
build and build.”


 Our guests on this episode of The Happy Pear Podcast
is the amazing duo of Dr Tara Shine & Madeleine Murray, of
Change by Degrees.


 Tara and Madeleine are wonderful humans. Tara has spent 20
years as an international climate change negotiator and advisor
to governments and world leaders on environmental policy, most
notably as a Special Advisor to the Mary Robinson
Foundation-Climate Justice.  Madeleine brings a multifaceted
background and is expert in employee sustainability engagement
and helping businesses create and tell their sustainability
stories. Together, they run Change by Degrees, an organisation
dedicated to delivering strategic sustainable advice, employee
engagement and specialised sustainability comms. 


 Tara and Madeleine are powerful women, helping create the
future we aspire towards.  Climate change as we all know is
the major topic of our time which isn’t going away and learning
practical digestible steps from experts can really help us
continue to take the necessary action needed to bring our world
more into balance. 


We loved the simplicity of these 3 steps we need to take
collectively:
Reduce our emissions (no power and fuel to come from fossil
fuels and all to come from renewables)Store more carbon in our
natural environment (through looking after nature; planting more
trees; restoring our biodiversity and moving towards better
agricultural practices that build our soils)Adapt to living with
more storminess - climate change is real and will change things; we
need to prepare for these events (the reality of more flooding,
higher sea level rise and to create a more equitable and inclusive
society for all as we move forward).

 In this episode, we hear about the importance of societal
action on the “Climate Emergency’; the importance of effective
communication in climate action; the incredible value beneath our
feet in our soils.


The girls bring to life the opportunity for incredible innovation
within climate action.  They give us some very practical
daily sustainable and environmentally friendly actions that each
of us can take and the powerful ripple effect this can
play.  They weave not only personal action we can take but
also how critical it is for businesses to bake sustainability
into the very core of what they are about so all business units
know and own goals in relation to it.


Being mothers themselves, they explain how they navigate
parenthood.  We loved how they asked us all to have
conversations with our kids on this topic - ask them to describe
what a sustainable world looks like to them and by so doing we
encourage them to use their voice and spread their vision.


 Be sure to check out changebydegrees.com and Tara’s book -
“How to Save Your Planet One Object at a time” which is available
at all good bookstores.


 This episode is a fantastic listen - we learnt so
much.  This podcast was an honour to bring remembrance and
more light to this topic and we really hope you enjoy it and take
practical nuggets from it.


 Big love, 


 Dave & Steve





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