Podcast
The Sustainability Communicator
The podcast exploring the intersection of corporate sustainability and storytelling.
Join Mike Hower—author of Sustainability Storytelling, former GreenBiz journalist, and advisor to leading global brands—as he explores one of the toughest challenges in corporate sustainability today: how to talk about sustainability in ways that are compelling, credible, and compliant—and fit cultural and reputational context. Through interviews with practitioners and insights from his own work in the field, Mike digs into greenwashing, greenhushing, and the risks and opportunities most sustainability professionals face—but few can talk about out loud.
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Ep. 7: How the owners of Grand Theft Auto communicate sustainability
To better understand how the video game industry is approaching sustainability storytelling, Mike connected with Neil Patel, Senior Director of Sustainability at Take Two Interactive Software — owner of Rockstar Games, which produces the popular Grand Theft Auto Franchise.
Ep. 6: What the SEC’s climate rules mean for sustainability communication
To better understand what made it into the final SEC climate rules, and how this impacts sustainability communication moving forward, Mike caught up with Derek Young, VP of ESG at the REIT CBL Properties.
Ep. 5: Navigating the uncertainties of sustainability storytelling, with Allison’s Whitney Dailey
In this episode, Mike brings in the expertise of a fellow sustainability communications expert — Whitney Dailey, Executive Vice President, Purpose at the global public relations firm Allison Worldwide — to better understand how companies can navigate sustainability storytelling in 2024.
Ep. 4: The fundamentals of effective sustainability writing
In this episode, Mike discusses key learnings from over a decade as a writer and editor in the corporate sustainability space that form the fundamentals of effective sustainability writing.
Ep. 3: Why your sustainability story sucks
In this episode, Mike explains common reasons why businesses struggle to tell good sustainability stories - and how to do better.
Ep. 2: 2024 sustainability communication trends
In this episode, Mike takes a crack at some key sustainability communication trends to keep an eye on in 2024.
Ep. 1: Rethinking the role of sustainability communicators
In this inaugural episode of The Sustainability Communicator, Mike discusses how the increased risks and rewards of bad and good sustainability communication, respectively, are calling for a new type of sustainability communications professional capable of translating between marketing and sustainability departments.