For the last 17 months on 'The 17' podcast, host Kate Hutchinson (Founder - Yorkshire Sustainability Festival) has been talking to sustainability experts about the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. To celebrate our 17th episode, we're putting together a two-part 'Best Of' - featuring all our expert guests. The result is a powerful overview of the challenges facing the planet and the best ideas on how to progress.

This episode is Part 2.

Featured guests and SDG's in this episode:

Sustainability Pioneers:

Mike Berners-Lee (Carbon footprint expert)

Jo Fairley (co-founder of Green and Blacks, a  pioneer of Fairtrade)

John Elkington (visionary author who coined many of the sustainability terms we use today)

Dr Alan James (future sustainable travel expert)

Sri Hollema (young eco-inventor)

SDGs and Episode Themes:

SDG 4 - Quality Education (Guest - UK and international education expert Nathan Atkinson)

SDG 5 - Gender Equality (Guest - Venture capitalist and employment charity Founder Helen Oldham)

Green Skills - Co-Founders of disruptive eco skills and employment consultancy Creaticity, Richelle Schuster and Martyn Long 

The 17 is a podcast themed around the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. A new episode is published on the 17th of each month, and explores a different one of the 17 goals in detail or discusses a topic linked to sustainability.

The UN SDGs represent an all-encompassing plan to protect the future of our planet, it is our responsibility to know what they are, understand them, and make sure that we are doing our bit to help.

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