
A BRAND NEW SEASON
In this new season, N8 rides an electric dirt bike, we go check out a green building, we stress test a coral in a lab, talk to a company that makes fashion out of old basketballs, and we learn what it means to invest in renewable energy.Welcome to Waste Not Why Not, a climate podcast from Ghost Island Media. Debuted on Earth Day in 2019, it's hosted by Nature N8 (Nate Maynard), a sustainability consultant working on energy, ocean and waste.Recognized by SITRA Fund as a circular economy solution (2021).
Media Partner of AAAS Annual Meetings (2020, 2021).
This season, we're onto green buildings, electric vehicles, coral, renewable energy investments, and the circular economy.
Featuring:
Vivian Loftness, former head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, National Board of the US. Green Buildings Council.
Azizi Tucker, co-founder of XING Mobility and founder of e-bike maker Graft EV.
Mark Oei, founding managing partner at Redwood Coast Capital and adjunct lecturer at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
Shashank Keshavmurthy, post-doc researcher at Academia Sinica’s Biodiversity Research Center in Taiwan.
Angela Fang, Roy Huang, co-founders of Taiwan's upcycling startup Double Dribble.
Aining Ouyang, COO of circular economy consultancy REnato lab.


鬼島之音(Ghost Island Media)元老級的英文 PODCAST ——《Waste Not Why Not》以詼諧逗趣的風格包裝全球環境議題,並透過專家訪談、田野採訪、及新聞動態與評論,提升聽眾對永續發展的想像與知識。
與「美國在台協會」AIT 攜手合作
世界共有 134 個國家已宣布「淨零排放」,其中,美國與台灣政府也打造了實現 2050 年淨零排放的藍圖。節能減碳不只是能延長地球的未來,更能提升人類的生活品質,永續之路須有跨界的參與,需要政府、企業、及大眾一同實現跨產業及跨世代合作,起身落實於家園、工作以及生活中。今年五月,鬼島之音及AIT送上斬新的迷你系列,眼於五種主圖:綠色建築、電動越野車、珊瑚礁海洋生態、再生能源投資、與循環經濟,他們跳脫舊有思維,賦予產業新生命。
來賓各各大有來頭
Vivian Loftness - 前卡內基美隆大學建築學院院長、美國綠色建築委員會董事
Azizi Tucker - 台灣行競科技共同創辦人、Graft EV 創辦人
Mark Oei - 美國 Redwood Coast Capital 資本創辦人、西北大學凱洛格管理學院講師
Shashank Keshavmurthy - 台灣中央研究院生物多樣性研究中心博士後研究生
方瑞彣、黃唯彧 - 台灣新創二次運球 Double Dribble 共同創辦人
歐陽藹寧 - 台灣循環經濟公司 REnato Lab 營運長
創造台灣被聽見的每一刻
《Waste Not Why Not》於4月22日世界地球日歡慶 3 歲生日,在開播的三年期間建立了許多的里程碑:連續兩年擔任2020及2021年美國科學促進會(AAAS Annual Meetings)的年會媒體夥伴;於2020年亦受到芬蘭芬蘭創新研究發展基金(Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra)公開表揚節目在廢棄物與循環經濟方面的教育性,以及主持人 Nate Maynard 有趣又不失內容性的敘述風格,讓聽眾得以理解何謂幫助環境的最佳解決方案。
主持人 Nate 又稱為「Nature N8」自然八
節目主持人 Nate Maynard 是一名駐台的環境顧問,長期研究再生能源、海洋生態以及循環經濟最佳實踐等議題,擁有超過六年於公共和私營部門工作經驗,現任香港商銳思碳(RESET Carbon)的高級管理顧問,曾擔任台灣中華經濟研究院 CIER 的研究員,負責 RE100 計劃和政府資助的循環經濟項目;也協助私人公司制定可再生能源採購戰略、促成機構之間的國際合作協議等。節目製作人則由鬼島之音共同創辦人、2020 台灣卓越新聞獎「PODCAST 新聞節目獎」提名製作人吳怡慈(Emily Y. Wu)製作。


鬼島之音(Ghost Island Media)是一個 PODCAST 聲音內容創意品牌,旗下共有十一檔原創節目,內容包含環境、大麻、女力、文化、外交、中國、紀錄片、台灣、時事。自從 2019 年開播以來,鬼島之音的節目已榮獲 2021 KKBOX PODCAST 風雲榜「最佳主持人獎」、入圍 2022 KKBOX PODCAST 風雲榜「最佳新進節目」 、2020 台灣卓越新聞獎 「PODCAST 新聞節目獎」、2021 全球華人永續報導獎。鬼島之音的所有的節目都可以在全球及台灣各大 PODCAST 平台免費收聽。
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the "waste not why not" library
Further reading (and watching! or playing!) as recommended by Waste Not Why Not and its guests.
WEBSITES
ARCHITECTURE - "Biophilic Design Initiative" by International Living Future Institute.
NATURE - "BBC Earth" by BBC.
NATURE WRITING - "The Willowherb Review" edited by Jennifer J. Lee.
POLICY - "The lines that shape our cities" by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond.
SCIENCE - "Science Journal for Kids and Teens" by Science Journal for Kids. (FOR KIDS!)
TV SERIES
NATURE - "Elinor Wonders Why" by Jorge Cham on PBS Kids. (FOR PRE-SCHOOL!)
NATURE - "Planet Earth", "Human Planet", and "The Mating Game" by BBC.
PODCAST
ANIMALS - "Koala Explorer" by Arya. (FOR KIDS!)
SCIENCE - "Brains On" by American Public Media. (FOR KIDS!)
GAME
GENERAL INTERESTS - "Wordle" by the New York Times.
OCEAN - "Subnautica" by Charlie Cleveland.
MOVIES
CLIMATE DENIAL - "Don't Look Up" by Adam McKay (2021).
ENERGY - "The Saint" by Phillip Noyce (1996).
WASTE - "Wall-E" by Pixar/Disney (2008). (FOR KIDS!)
ENVIRONMENT - "Blade Runner 2049" by Denis Villeneuve (2017).
ENVIRONMENT - "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" by Hayao Miyazaki (2004). (FOR KIDS!)
ENVIRONMENT - "The Lorax" by Chris Renaud (2012). (FOR KIDS!)
DOCUMENTARIES
ANIMALS - "Enigma: The Chinese Crested Tern" by Chih-de Liang (2021).
ANIMALS - "Eyes of the Orangutan" by Aaron Gekoski (2021).
ANIMALS - "Happy Feet" by George Miller (2006). (FOR KIDS!)
ANIMALS - "The Cove" by Louie Psihoyos (2009).
ANIMALS - "The Elephant Queen" by Deeble & Stone (2018).
ANIMALS - "Bird Without Borders" by Dean Johnson on Taiwan Public TV (2009).
ARCHITECTURE - "Kiss The Ground" by Josh and Rebecca Harrell Tickell (2020).
BIODIVERSITY - "Spirits of Orchid Island" by Nick Upton on Taiwan Public TV (2008).
ENVIRONMENT - "A Life On Our Planet" by Sir David Attenborough (2020).
ENVIRONMENT - "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore (2006).
ENVIRONMENT - "Before The Flood" by National Geographic (2016).
ENVIRONMENT - "The 11th Hour" by Nadia and Leila Conners (2007).
ENVIRONMENT - "The Human Element" by Matthew Testa (2018).
ENVIRONMENT (FUTURISTIC) - "2040 (Movie)" by Damon Gameau (2019).
FISHING - "Artifishal" by Josh Murphy (2019).
LIFESTYLE - "No Impact Man" by Justin Schien, Laura Gabbert (2009).
NATURE - "Typhoon Island" by Nick Upton on Taiwan Public TV (2004).
OCEAN - "A Plastic Ocean" by Craig Leeson (2016).
OCEAN - "Cashing Coral" by Jeff Orlowski (2017).
OCEAN - "Mission Blue (Biography of Sylvia Earle)" by Robert Nixon, Fisher Stevens (2014).
BOOKS
FICTION - "Dune" by Frank Herbert (1965).
FICTION - "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss (1971). (FOR KIDS!)
FICTION - "The Man with the Compound Eyes" by Wu Ming-Yi (2015).
POETRY - "All We Can Save" by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Dr. Katharine Wilkinson (2020).
NON-FICTION BOOKS
ACTIVISM - "No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference" by Greta Thumberg (2019).
ARCHITECTURE - "Nature Inside: A Biophilic Design Guide" by William D Browing, Catherine O Ryan (2020). BIODIVERSITY - "Biodiversity" by E. O. Wilson (1998).
ENVIRONMENT - "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need" by Bill Gates (2021).
ENVIRONMENT - "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson (1962).
ENVIRONMENT - "The Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells (2019).
ENVIRONMENT - "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman (2007).
NATURE - "Design with Nature" by Ian McHarg (1969).
NATURE - "The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain" by Lynne Cherry (1990).(FOR KIDS!)
NATURE - "The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild" by Enrique Salas (2020). ("Listen to our episode.")
NATURE / TAIWAN - "Two Trees Make A Forest" by Jessica J. Lee (2019). ("Listen to our episode.")
OCEAN - "Blue Hope: Exploring and Caring for Earth's Magnificent Ocean" by Sylvia Earle (2014).
OCEAN - "Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World" by Mark Kurlansky (1998).
OCEAN - "Dive!: My Adventure in the Deep Frontier" by Sylvia Earle (1999). (FOR KIDS!)
OCEAN - "Hello, Fish!: Visiting the Coral Reef" by Sylvia Earle (2001). (FOR PRE-SCHOOL - 3!)
OCEAN - "Jump into Science: Coral Reefs" by Sylvia Earle (2003). (FOR PRE-SCHOOL - 3!)
OCEAN - "Sea Critters" by Sylvia Earle (2000). (FOR KIDS!)
WASTE - "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" by Michael Braungart (2002).
WASTE - "How to Give Up Plastic: A Concious Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time" by Will McCallum (2018).
WASTE - "See Inside Recycling and Rubbish (Pop-Up)" by Alex Frith (Illustration by Peter Allen) (2011). (FOR PRE-SCHOOL!)
鬼島之音(Ghost Island Media)是一個 PODCAST 聲音內容創意品牌,旗下共有十一檔原創節目,內容包含環境、大麻、女力、文化、外交、中國、紀錄片、台灣、時事。自從 2019 年開播以來,鬼島之音的節目已榮獲 2021 KKBOX PODCAST 風雲榜「最佳主持人獎」、入圍 2022 KKBOX PODCAST 風雲榜「最佳新進節目」 、2020 台灣卓越新聞獎 「PODCAST 新聞節目獎」、2021 全球華人永續報導獎。鬼島之音的所有的節目都可以在全球及台灣各大 PODCAST 平台免費收聽。
Ghost Island Media Limited Company © 2022. All rights reserved.
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