Circularity, a new furniture system and Gen Z - Guest: Marc Richard

10/15/22 • 31 min

What is the problem with our existing way of selecting, buying and using furniture? Is there an alternative way?

Instead of the linear Take, Make, Waste economy, how can we create a circular Make, Use, Reuse economy?

How is Love Island encouraging Gen Z to fall in love with circularity?

I chat to Marc Richard, managing director of furniture brand Roger Lewis, co-founder of futurist and closed loop furniture brand Capxule and straight-talking Northerner.

Mark is the managing director and owner of furniture brand Roger Lewis. Roger Lewis is a British manufacturer of furniture for corporate and hospitality projects, which recently moved to a new factory in Frome, Somerset. Mark has also co-founded Capxule, a closed loop concept furniture brand.

The journey to understand what a furniture brand of the future could look like has ignited a passion in him to help drive structural change within the furniture industry. He grew up in Leeds where a passion for building relationships out of candid communication and integrity was baked into him. Mark lives with his wife and two sons in Bath.

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What is the problem with our existing way of selecting, buying and using furniture? Is there an alternative way?

Instead of the linear Take, Make, Waste economy, how can we create a circular Make, Use, Reuse economy?

How is Love Island encouraging Gen Z to fall in love with circularity?

I chat to Marc Richard, managing director of furniture brand Roger Lewis, co-founder of futurist and closed loop furniture brand Capxule and straight-talking Northerner.

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Sustainability, ESG and being mindful - Guest: Simone Mattar Altoe

''My mother was always saying "I am raising you not for myself, but for the world.'"

I chat to Simone Mattar Altoe - ESG Corporate Benchmarking Manager, sustainability lecturer, mother of two and a black belt in Shorinji Kempo to boot.

Simone Mattar Altoe is an old and very dear friend of mine that I met almost 20 years ago when I first moved to Amsterdam. Simone has a marketing and business studies background from Brazil; she then went home to do her PhD on sustainable agriculture at Hokkaido University in Japan.

After moving to Amsterdam, Simone worked as a marketing consultant for brands, such as Unilever and BP. She had consultant roles on sustainability in various firms, and later set up her own ESG consultancy company. She also worked as a lecturer in the University of Amsterdam, where she taught the business and sustainability course for exchange students.

Most recently, Simone has been working as a corporate solutions manager, providing analytical environmental, social, and governance (ESG) research ratings and data to corporations.

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Poetry in science, filmmaking and Sir David Attenborough - Guest: Eddie Frost

’There’s a lovely adage that ignorance is bliss. But in an increasingly complex world, knowledge may be your only means for survival and ignorance no longer becomes blissful.’’

Chris Hadfield (former commander of the international space station) in short documentary film Ice Alive, directed by Eddie Frost (2018)

I chat to director and series producer Eddie Frost about finding poetry in glaciology, shooting a documentary in the Arctic and how rock climbing as a kid and Sir David Attenborough helped shape his understanding of the natural world.

Eddie Frost is chairperson at Proudfoot Limited, a production company based in Clerkenwell, London. Ever since his childhood, he has been passionate about the natural environment and conservation. He has directed documentaries for British and international broadcasters well as for major brands and NGOs. He now runs a small but impactful team producing content gathered from all around the world. His work aims to shine a spotlight on those fighting for positive change, and to explain complicated solutions to our global problems for as wide an audience as possible. In 2018, Eddie directed a short film called Ice Alive, where glaciologist and data scientist Joseph Cook takes a closer look at the microbial life that can be found all over the planet's glaciers and ice sheets. This rich ecosystem affects the melt rates of polar ice and snow, and could be accelerating climate change.

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