Pioneers

Louisa Ziane co-founded Toast Ale with Tristram Stuart in 2015, and is now the company’s global brand and sustainability director. Toast brews beer using waste bread, recycles its hops as garden [...]

Mike Muldoon is Head of Business Development and Marketing at Alstom, UK & Ireland. Alstom is the maker of the Coradia iLint, the world’s first hydrogen powered train. It hit the tracks in [...]

Alongside his friend Celia Pool, Alec set up Dame in 2015 to provide organic, plastic- free period products, including what it claims is the world’s first reusable tampon applicator. Alec had [...]

Justin Francis is founder and CEO of activist travel company Responsible Travel. It has strict policies on everything from turtle hatcheries to artificial snow, to ensure its holidays embody the [...]

Nowadays, it’s hard to be certain that you’re making socially and environmentally positive purchases, even for the most conscious of consumers. That’s where CoGo can [...]

Leo Murray is the director of Riding Sunbeams, a social enterprise which connects solar panels directly to rail routes in the UK to help power trains and cut emissions. The project is jointly [...]

It’s official, we have entered the age of plastic. Scientists have confirmed that plastic pollution could mark the start of the Anthropocene, the geological period in which human activity [...]

After a career which has taken in roles at both waste and recycling body WRAP and conservation group the Avon Wildlife Trust, Bevis Watts returned to sustainable bank Triodos as managing director [...]

Paul Miller is CEO of Bethnal Green Ventures, which he co-founded in 2012. The leading early-stage venture capital investor supports companies using technology to tackle social and environmental [...]

After a 20-year career working on environmental policy, Guy Thompson became managing director of EnTrade last year. Entrade is an offshoot from Wessex Water Group which operates an online market [...]