Be Better at sustainability with Illana Adamson

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Educator, science translator and sustainability queen Illana Adamson works with businesses and non-profits to introduce sustainability initiatives, actions and behaviours into their organisations – and all our lives. She’s a big proponent of if you can’t be perfect, just be better. And we need to be, or this human race is run. Illana chats to our Mick about real action over greenwashing, why women are so important in the work ahead, and how Mother Nature will always come out on top. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.8	Standard issue for all women. All right there, you lovely people. It is as this podcast hits
1:07.1	platforms Friday. Yes, please and thank you. Happy day. And what a week we have had so far on
1:13.5	standard issue. Hannah caught up with Baroness Tanny Gray Thompson to talk about the terminally ill
1:19.0	adults, brackets, end of life, close brackets, Bill, currently hitting the rocks in the House of
1:24.5	Lord Spurrer, really missing the mark on safeguarding.
1:33.8	Jen rapped at war for a natter with former G.B. Snowboarder turned TNT Sports Pundit, Amy Fuller,
1:38.6	and Chief Exec of G.B. Snow Sport, Mickey Gosling, ahead of the Winter Olympics.
1:40.3	Underdogs who now?
1:46.6	We are on the water, for this week's rated or dated, in which we're having an inexplicably lovely time watching 1996 Wet Beastie Adventure, Lottness. Hannah and I managed not to shove any
1:54.0	dangerous historical artifacts upon our backsides in yesterday's Bush Telegraph. I mean,
1:58.5	the temptation is not there for most people, thankfully.
2:03.0	And now today I am chatting with Sustainability Guru Ilana Adamson, who works extensively with
2:09.4	businesses and non-profits to introduce science-based sustainability initiatives, actions and
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