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James Longcroft, Founder and Managing Director CHOOSE Packaging.

CHOOSE – For A Plastic Free World

 Karen Potter, Director of sustainability hub and ideaXme sustainability ambassador interviews James Longcroft, Founder and Managing Director, CHOOSE Packaging. Plastic Free Packaging   CHOOSE is a packaging development company that is leading the move away from plastic bottling to environmentally friendly options. CHOOSE uses biodegradable materials that are 100% plastic free in all their packaging and is […]

Dr Merritt Moore ballerina and quantum physicist.

Quantum Physicist Ballerina Aspiring To Be An Astronaut

 Dr Merritt Moore, PhD, quantum physicist, ballerina and aspiring astronaut talks with Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme. Dr Moore has achieved what some would call ‘the impossible’: a career as a professional ballet dancer and as an academic quantum physicist.” – University of Oxford. She plans on adding another profession to her career roster […]

George Duffield, co-founder Blue Marine Foundation

Blue Marine Foundation: Protect The World’s Oceans

 Andrea Macdonald Founder ideaXme interviews George Duffield Co-founder, with Charles Clover and Chris Gorell Barnes, of Blue Marine Foundation (Blue). Blue is a global marine conservation charity based in London. Its objectives are to ensure the protection of at least 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030. With a team of only 30 people, they […]

Betsy Damon, founder Keepers of the Waters

Defending the World’s Water: Keepers of the Waters

 Xie Rong, Artist and ideaXme Eco Art Ambassador interviews Betsy Damon Artist, Environmental Activist and Founder, Keepers of the Waters. Please scroll down for the complete transcript of the interview. A journey with water The supreme goodness is like water. It benefits all things without contention. In dwelling, it stays grounded. In being, it […]

Frans Nauta, founder ClimateLaunchpad

Global Launchpad to Address Climate Change

Dr Renard Siew, Climate Change Advisor, Centre For Governance and Political Studies Kuala Lumpur and ideaXme Climate Change ambassador, interviews Frans Nauta, founder ClimateLaunchpad and Climate-KIC Accelerator. Climate-KIC Accelerator is the world’s largest support program for clean-tech startups. Over its 8 years of operation it has supported more than 1.500 startups, that have raised over […]

Professor Pieter Roelfsema, Director of Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience. Credit: NIN.

Breakthrough in Developing Technology to Restore Functional Vision for the Blind

Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Professor Dr Pieter Roelfsema Director of the Netherlands Instititute for Neuroscience Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:06:52] I’m Andrea Macdonald, the founder of ideaXme. Breakthrough towards developing technology to restore functional vision in the blind Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme [00:07:10] This episode concerns itself with a breakthrough towards developing a technology to […]

Tim Reichel ideaXme diversity ambassador

Promote Diversity to Optimise Innovation!

    Tali Ramsey, ideaXme guest contributor and writer specialising in contemporary art, internet culture and society, interviews Tim Robin Reichel, ideaXme’s new Diversity Ambassador. Diversity Mission “Everyone looks for something larger than themselves!” Tim Reichel is a student living in Berlin and studying English as well as Media and Communications. He is also an […]

Credit: Simon Anholt

Simon Anholt: How We Can Repair the World in One Generation

 Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, socio-digital researcher and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Simon Anholt, political scientist, policy advisor, and Founder of The Good Country. Amanda Christensen Comments The Information Age has quite literally brought the world to our fingertips, at a moment’s notice we’re now able to tap into major global events, like […]

Xie Rong performance artist and ideaXme Eco ambassador

ECO-echo by Xie Rong launches on ideaXme

Xie Rong, performance artist joins ideaXme as Eco Art ambassador. Subscribe to her ECO-echo interview series. ideaXme playlist: ECO-echo is an interview series that is rooted in socially engaged ecological art. ideaXme invites you to join well known Chinese performance artist Xie Rong’s memory branch. Her objective in conducting this series of ideaXme interviews is […]

Virginijus Sinkevičius EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries

Virginijus Sinkevičius EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries

 Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries. The EU Commission: The Commission helps to shape the EU’s overall strategy, proposes new EU laws and policies, monitors their implementation and manages the EU budget. It also plays a significant role in supporting international development and […]