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AGILE SustainabilitySmart Cities and Sustainability: Build a Home Garden with Ezy Gardening and WilliamHello, and welcome to the second episode of Food Sustainability on AGILE Sustainability. In this episode, we are delighted to have William from Ezy Gardening share how to create your own home garden and grow more nutritious vegetables. More importantly, home gardens can serve as an additional food source for individual householders to increase food security, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when global supply chains are disrupted.The topics in this episode are:00m:40s: Motivation to start Ezy Gardening01m:47s: Hydroponics Farming and its advantages02m:35s: Kickstart home gardening with Ezy Gardening...2024-04-2609 minAGILE SustainabilitySmart Cities and Sustainability: Food SustainabilityHello, and welcome to the first episode of the new series Smart Cities and Sustainability on AGILE Sustainability. This episode will talk about the interesting activities to explore food sustainability in Singapore. You might find similar activities in your cities as well. The types of activities introduced are:
Online and offline discussion meetings organized by the National Library Board
Hackathons and Challenges like Singapore Design Awards
Local Farm Tours and Volunteer Events
Find out the topics to be explored at https://www.agilesustainability.org/We would like to hear from you at podcast@agilesustainability.orgReach...2024-04-2605 minAGILE SustainabilitySmart Cities and Sustainability: IntroductionHello, and welcome to another episode on AGILE Sustainability.From the title of this episode smart city and sustainability, you might already notice something special about this episode. And you are right. I want to share a recent epiphany I had for sustainable development. It’s quite an interesting direction and I want to create a special series to explore more about it with you together.In this introduction episode, we will go through the motivation behind this series and the potential interesting topics we will explore.Find out the topics to be explored at https://www...2024-04-2605 minAGILE SustainabilityPractitioner: Navigate the Complex Sustainability Landscape with Grace from GreenviewWelcome to Episode 9 of AGILE Sustainability. Today, our guest speaker Grace from Greenview will take us on a journey that traverses the complex sustainability landscape.Grace is the managing partner of Greenview. The Greenview team are passionate about exploring unexplored territories to bring the most useful and effective tools to help customers transition to sustainability. And they aim to improve their products iteratively with an Agile approach to address customer needs and feedback. Grace will tell us more about their innovative products and services today.The topics in this podcast are:00m:55s: Introduction to Grace and Gr...2024-04-2620 minAGILE SustainabilityLet's put puzzle pieces together: Episode 5 to 8Today, we are going to continue to put the puzzle pieces together for episodes 5 to 8.EP5: Academic: Business Experiments for Sustainability Innovations by Ilka from Leuphana University of LuneburgEP6: Business Transitions to Agile Practices by David VarvelEP7: Influencer Marketing and Sustainability by Carmen and Mercedes from the University of ZaragozaEP8: SHIFT consumer behaviours to be more sustainable by David HardistyI will use the following structure to do the recap. Firstly, I will do a brief introduction to the speakers and their background. Then, I will share the questions we discussed in t...2024-04-2607 minAGILE SustainabilityLet's put puzzle pieces together: Episode 1 to 4Today, we are going to put the puzzle pieces together. In the future, we will continue to have this putting puzzle pieces together session when we gather enough interesting content. I hope these recap sessions will help new listeners quickly find the episode that interests them the most.Let’s first start with episodes 1 to 4.EP1: Sustainability and Software Development by Ramji from A Better ConsultancyEP2: Balancing Profitability and Sustainability by Garima from Georgia State UniversityEP3: Digital Sustainability by Simon from Singapore Management University, Handprint and Global Mangrove TrustEP4: Sustainability Reporting by Kri...2024-04-2608 minAGILE SustainabilityAcademic: SHIFT consumer behaviors to be more sustainable by David HardistyWelcome to Episode 8 of AGILE Sustainability. In this episode, we will switch our perspective from business to focus on consumers for a change, as a business can't transition to sustainability properly without the buy-in from its consumers.The speakers for the podcast, David Hardisty and his co-authors Katherine White and Rishad Habib proposed a SHIFT framework that could serve as a toolbox for practitioners to form business strategies to influence consumer behaviours on sustainability.The SHIFT framework includes the following factors:
Social Influence
Habit Formation
Individual Self
Feelings and Cognitions
Tangibility
The topics in this podcast ar...2024-04-2619 minAGILE SustainabilityAcademic: Influencer Marketing and Sustainability by Carmen and Mercedes from University of ZaragozaWelcome to Episode 7 of AGILE Sustainability. Marketing is an important business activity. Therefore, it's useful for businesses to leverage marketing to serve corporate sustainability. To help our listeners explore this connection, we have invited Carmen and Mercedes from the University of Zaragoza to elaborate on this topic.Carmen and Mercedes investigated the correlation between different types of marketing and their ability to serve corporate sustainability. In specifics, Influencer Marketing and Relationship Marketing stand out as the more modern and effective channels to exert influences on sustainability.The topics in this podcast are:
00m57s: Comparison of In...2024-04-2623 minAGILE SustainabilityPractitioner: Business Transitions to Agile Practices by David VarvelWelcome to Episode 6 of AGILE Sustainability. This is a very special episode as we are going to dive deeper into the Software Agile Practices and explore the implications of Sustainability Transitions for businesses. David Varvel, who's a super-experienced software practitioner on Agile practices, will take us on the journey of transforming businesses with Agile practices. He has abundant experience in applying Agile methodology in startups and large enterprises. In these projects, he witnessed the challenges that businesses faced while adopting Agile and how to overcome these challenges. Similar to Agile practices, sustainability introduces disruptive changes to business models and...2024-04-2622 minAGILE SustainabilityAcademic: Business Experiments for Sustainability Innovations by Ilka from Leuphana University of LuneburgWelcome to Episode 5 of AGILE Sustainability. In this episode, we will talk about leveraging business experiments to derisk sustainability innovations with Ilka Weissbrod.Ilka is a sustainable innovation expert and researcher. She works closely with both academic researchers and business practitioners. One of her research elaborated on the benefits of business experimentation in facilitating sustainability transitions. Given the time sensitivity around sustainability transitions, business experiments can serve as a useful tool to derisk the business innovations on sustainability and iteratively polish the transition plan based on feedback from the experiments.The topics in this podcast are:
00m08...2024-04-2622 minAGILE SustainabilityAcademic: Sustainability Reporting by Kristjan from Copenhagen Business SchoolWelcome to Episode 4 of AGILE Sustainability. In this episode, we invited a very experienced speaker on Sustainability Reporting, Kristjan Jespersen.Kristjan collaborated closely with the palm oil sector to build sustainability reports that demonstrate the sector's commitment to maintaining a sustainable environment. This collaboration experience gave him valuable first-hand information on how sustainability reporting evolved over the years in response to changes in external regulations around sustainability. Now he is generous to share those valuable insights with our listeners, who want to start building or improving their sustainability reporting to align with their business strategies.The topics in...2024-04-2628 minAGILE SustainabilityAcademic Entrepreneur: Digital Sustainability by Simon from Singapore Management University, Handprint and Global Mangrove TrustWelcome to Episode 3 of AGILE Sustainability. In this episode, we invited a very experienced and protean speaker on Digital Sustainability, Simon SCHILLEBEECKX.
Simon seamlessly consolidates academic research and business practices. He is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management from Singapore Management University. He is also an entrepreneur who founded a social enterprise called Handprint and an NGO called Global Mangrove Trust. His strong background in both the academic and business world makes his insights on Digital Sustainability all the more incisive.
The topics in this podcast are:
00m49s Introduction on Simon and his research a...2024-04-2630 minAGILE SustainabilityAcademic: Balancing Profitability and Sustainability by Garima from Georgia State UniversityWelcome to Episode 2 of AGILE Sustainability. In this episode, we are lucky to have an academic on business sustainability research Garima with us.Garima is an Assistant Professor at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, at Georgia State University. One of her research focuses is to study how businesses balance profitability and sustainability. She has worked closely with businesses to understand how they act, think and make decisions around social and profit goals. And she is kindly sharing her insights for people who find balancing profit and sustainable goals challenging.
The topics in this podc...2024-04-2627 minAGILE SustainabilityPractitioner: Sustainability and Software Development by Ramji from A Better ConsultancyWelcome to Episode 1 of AGILE Sustainability. In this episode, we are pleased to have a business practitioner on a sustainability project Ramji with us.Ramji is the co-founder of A Better Consultancy providing Agile software services. Recently, Ramji and his team delivered a software product on sustainability, and he is willing to share the learnings and advice for people who want to transition to a more sustainable business. The topics in this podcast are:
00m08s: Introduction to Ramji and ABC
01m52s: Prior experiences in Sustainability
03m25s: Challenges on Businesses to Adopt Sustainability
08m50s: E...2024-04-2621 min
AGILE SustainabilityIntroduction to AGILE SustainabilityAGILE SustainabilityBecome more sustainable with AGILEFind out the topics to be explored at https://www.agilesustainability.org/We would like to hear from you at yhou@vreamer.spaceReach out to us for any questions or challenges you face in adopting sustainability solutions.Music by Wataboi from Pixabay2024-04-2601 min