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Today, I had lunch with Hanna Grahn from Spotify, to whom I want to extend a big Climate 💚 for giving music rights to nature. In 1962, the legendary book "Silent Spring" was published. For 30 years, Bernie Krause has been recording sounds in his nearby park and, unfortunately, recent years have been just as silent as the book described. Our biodiversity is severely threatened, and with it, so are we! Listen for yourself: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/16/nature-silent-bernie-krause-recording-sound-californian-state-park-aoe?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHZ9necbE1t4r_4Zbod6ERO0g4wa21j1LU8Z6FhsQ_74gvPB-Vtj_w08clA_aem_AaD7qcRipqtqyzEdnoPYjj_KZrsau So why am I giving Spotify a Climate Love? They have just implemented something remarkable. They have granted "digital music rights" to the sounds of nature. This means that every time you play a nature sound, Spotify will pay royalties to nature preservation organizations instead of to record companies. By doing this, they are redirecting funds towards nature and its preservation! This could amount to a substantial sum. The artist "Nature" already has 2.8 million listeners. So, turn up the volume, play the sounds of nature, and hopefully, that will help ensure that the silence described in "Silent Spring" is reversed. Listen to "Nature" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/316cnprjdhyrzdm4rrd3thxhpyam What do you think about this initiative? Are there other companies out there that have also given nature rights to royalties? Share your thoughts and any other innovative examples you know of!
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Spotify has no public commitments to reduce corporate travel and does not report air travel emissions caused by Spotifys business trips. This is reported in this years review by the Travel Smart Campaign network. Spotify ended up at the bottom of all the ranked Swedish companies on the list. According to the Travel Smart Campaign network 88 percent of all companies neglect to take aviation's full climate impact into account in their reporting. These emissions account for two-thirds of aviation's total climate impact. Surely Spotify can do better? Read more(Swe): https://klimatgranskaren.se/spotify-samst-pa-att-minska-sina-flygutslapp/ Check the ranking out: https://travelsmartcampaign.org/ranking/?utm_source=T%26E+EEB+super+list&utm_campaign=63f9197287-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_03_12_02_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-63f9197287-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
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Let Spotify get motivated to do better..they have the potential.
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They can do better, it only takes the willingness to do the right thing and change where necessary.
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Considering the resources Spotify has, it can do way better than what they are doing now.
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Spotify is committed to being a part of the solution to the climate crisis. We understand that our business has an environmental impact which we have to reduce, and we are committed to reaching net-zero emissions. However, on the other hand, we are an audio powerhouse. Audio is our superpower, and to create positive impacts, we are sharing our superpower with others to amplify voices from around the world and bring new perspectives on how we together can engage and take action for a more sustainable future and a cooler planet. We use our platform to raise awareness of climate change globally and inspire positive action. This July, we broadcast three podcasts from our Spotify Climate Action Studios series from the STHLM+50 Climate Hub, during the Stockholm+50 UN conference. There, we amplified different voices and climate solutions that are playing a positive role in decreasing the negative impacts of climate change. For example, in our Food & Innovation podcast, our guests talked about insect-based pet products as an alternative to meat-based food for pets - who consume 25% of global meat consumption and have a huge carbon footprint. The participants were: Fanny Nachemson, Head of Foodtech Axel Johnson Pernilla Westergren, Founder & CEO Petgood Moderator: Hanna Grahn, Sustainability Lead Spotify Link to the Food & Innovation episode Another very interesting theme was Mindset & Transformation. Our guests discussed how mindset is key to bringing about transformation and how we also need inner development goals for this. Emotion and passion are key drivers, and both Elonroad and Cake are examples of innovations created this way. The participants were: Karin Ebbinghaus, CEO Elonroad Hannah Boman, Co-founder & Head of Operations The New Division Stefan Ytterborn, Founder & CEO Cake Moderator: Hanna Grahn, Sustainability Lead Spotify This podcast is available here. We were joined by Susie Tinker from Minecraft, indigenous climate activist Rahmina Paulette and the founder & CEO of We Don't Have Time, Ingmar Rentzhog, on our broadcast on Cities & Communities. We discussed living in peace with nature in cities, how communities could be involved in building cities, and how gaming could play a role in developing ideas for cities and communities. The participants were: Ingmar Rentzhog, Founder & CEO We Don´t Have Time Susie Tinker, Senior Business Program Manager Minecraft Rahmina Paulette, Youth Leader Moderator: Hanna Grahn, Sustainability Lead Spotify Listen to the Cities & Communities episode of Spotify Climate Action Studios. Climate Action Studios feature more podcasts. Here you will find them all with voices sharing solutions, actions, and information around the biggest challenge humanity faces. https://open.spotify.com/show/1tEMiFKer7YS2A6mhbmWE1
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Spotify is simply revolutionary...it has been a good medium of pushing change
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Spotify Climate Action Studio is a pod-series produced by Spotify itself where they invite interesting climate advocates recorded from different UN Climate conferences worldwide. I was invited as a guest in one of the episodes they recorded from the Stockholm+50 Climate Hub. Have a listen here: https://lnkd.in/eeMfQvNN Subscribe to the whole series here: : https://open.spotify.com/show/1tEMiFKer7YS2A6mhbmWE1?si=6c3bb2205c374249 many interesting episodes! Keep it up, Spotify! I hope you push out your climate content to all of your userbase. They need to hear it! https://youtu.be/AUqPY1o21RU
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Love it
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What are your podcast recs on climate?
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I like the Climate Optimism by Christiana Figueres. It is a lot of good pods out there but I have limited time to listen to them
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Wow! Good work!
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Spotify and @Planethon have released two riveting audio short stories about the climate crisis. The audio dramas are based on research data and future scenarios from Andrew Merrie, PhD and Head of Futures at Planethon. - We have brought together researchers and creators to highlight the climate crisis in a new format and show humanity’s ability to affect our future. Absorbing climate science can be hard, but we are hoping that with these audio short stories, we can make it more accessible and create engagement in a target group that is interested in culture, says Karin Bäckmark, Nordic head of podcasts at Spotify. The stories bring us 50 years into the future and under the name of TWENTY SEVENTY-TWO. The first two episodes were released as Spotify Originals in connection to the Stockholm+50 conference, the environmental conference that marks the 50-year point after the first and historic UN conference on the environment was held in 1972. The third episode will be released in August. Listen to the first two episodes in English now: https://open.spotify.com/show/4mmdd7o9fXYNYkIv9cNGFw Or in Swedish: https://open.spotify.com/show/65YVqqVz3ezZvOrvjO1RAz?si=358cd32bc1ac474c&nd=1 Episode summary: Episode 1: Ragna Written by Henrik Björn and read by Gizem Kling Erdogan Liv lives in the great primeval forest with her grandfather who teaches her everything he knows about the world around them. But one day he takes her on a journey that will completely turn her world upside down. When everything is revealed, she must start making new difficult choices about the future. Episode 2: Wild City Written by Tuva Novotny and read by Edvin Ryding In one of the new wild cities - which is green through urban cultivation and climate-smart alternatives - a family of several generations lives. They plan to celebrate their grandmother, who turns 85, with a trip to the neighborhoods of her childhood that are no longer inhabited. When they arrive, it suddenly does not go as they intended.
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Fantastic, definitely worth the listen.🌿😊
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Cool and soothing.. like it!
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Great use of good storytelling!
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Spotify are finally joining the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and #UNRacetoZero to collaborate further on climate-conscious solutions and use their platform to spread awareness and amplify climate action. “Climate change is one of the most pressing global issues of our lifetime,” says Gustav Söderström, Spotify’s Chief R&D Officer. “Spotify has a responsibility to combat the effects of climate change, which is why we’re aiming to reach net zero emissions within the next decade.” Read more: https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-09-28/spotifys-next-step-on-our-path-to-net-zero-emissions/
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Great news!
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Very encouraging!
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Dear Ingmar Rentzhog Your climate love has received over 50 agrees! We have reached out to Spotify by email and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! To reach more people and increase the chance of a response, click the Share button above to share the review on your social accounts. For every new member that joins We Don't Have Time from your network, we will plant a tree and attribute it to you! /Varsa, We Don't Have Time
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I'm inspired by their commitment to environmental sustainability and hope other companies will follow suit.
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Waoh this is great initiative, thenks @spotify for this great commitments to give nature rights to royalties