Sustainability, communication, and practical change.
GoodGeist is a sustainability interview show with an eye for how ideas travel in public life. Its conversations move from plastic pollution and political trust to clean mobility projects serving communities outside traditional energy systems.
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GoodGeist is a sustainability interview show about environmental change and the stories that help it move. It treats communication as part of the work, not a layer added afterward. The conversations are global in scope, but they stay anchored in projects, public research, and specific social problems. Plastic pollution becomes a discussion about industry narratives, regulation, and the comforting fiction that every bin solves the problem. Green spaces become a way to talk about political anger, local pride, and whether practical improvements can rebuild trust. Clean energy access becomes visible through electric two-wheelers in Uganda and mobility work in Zimbabwe. The show is calm, curious, and professionally conversational. It is not a shouty climate program. Guests are given time to explain how their work fits across science, policy, public engagement, and community needs. That makes the show useful for listeners who want sustainability in context: not only what is happening, but why people respond to it the way they do. GoodGeist often circles back to creativity and language. The recurring interest is how an idea becomes public, persuasive, and useful enough to change behavior or policy. Its best moments come when familiar terms are made strange again. Recycling, parks, clean energy, and transport all become richer subjects once the show asks who benefits, who is left out, and what message the public has been handed. The tone is friendly, with flashes of dry humor. It remains serious about the stakes. GoodGeist suits sustainability professionals, communicators, policy-minded listeners, and anyone who wants sustainability conversation grounded in practice rather than performance.
Made for: GoodGeist is for sustainability professionals, communicators, policy watchers, and sustainability-curious listeners who want grounded conversations with people doing the work. It also suits listeners interested in how public trust, language, and creativity affect environmental progress.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating sustainability and communication as inseparable. Its guests connect environmental science and clean energy projects to public opinion, political trust, behavior, and the stories institutions tell.
A podcast on sustainability, hosted by Damla Özlüer and Steve Connor, brought to you by the DNS Network. Looking at sustainability issues, communications, and featuring global guests from a wide variety of sectors such as business, NGOs and government.
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A clear look at how plastic recycling became a greenwashing story.
Good Geist examines the politics of plastic through Sedat Gundogdu, using the interview to show how recycling language can push waste away from consumers while leaving producers at the center of the problem.
Parks, politics, and practical improvement give this sustainability discussion its footing.
Good Geist treats sustainability as a practical story about parks and green spaces, not an abstract slogan. Chris Ennus of More in Common draws on focus groups across the country to show that people, whatever their background, often point to local parks and green space as the…
Good Geist hosts Damla Özler and Steve Connor interview Susanne Geissler, founder of the Vienna-based Sierra Institute, about sustainable construction, energy efficiency, and global justice.
Good Geist hosts Damla Özler and Steve Connor interview Gamze Çelik Yılmaz about her path from chemical engineering and biotechnology to climate policy.
Good Geist hosts Damla Özler and Steve Connor interview Susie Wang, Climate Barometer's co-founder, about public opinion on climate change and its communication.
Jason Williams, the "Cloud Gardener," turned a south-facing glass balcony on the 18th floor of a Manchester block into a garden after moving in March 2020, once his first plants "unalived themselves." He is now head judge and ambassador for the National Trust Sky Gardening Challenge, which started as a Manchester pilot about two years earlier and is now open across the UK for 2026.
Good Geist hosts Damla Özler and Steve Conner interview Richard Scott and Polly Moseley of the Northern Flowerhouse about turning Liverpool's derelict land into wildflower meadows.
Sedat Gündoğdu says plastic is "fossil fuel but in solid form" and links 11% to 13% of greenhouse gases to production and consumption.
Chris Annous discusses More in Common's "Pride in Place" research with Damla Özler and Steve Conner, using focus groups in Grimsby, Birmingham, Wakefield, and Scunthorpe.
This episode features interviews with Claire Bakhita from Gogo Electric in Uganda and Lisa Mare from Mobility for Africa in Zimbabwe, discussing their work on clean energy and electric mobility solutions in Africa as part of London Climate Action Week.