The Sustainable Jungle Podcast
Society & Culture
Dipesh is quite the eco-leader and one of the founders of the Flipflopi Expedition, a remarkable plan to build a 60ft dhow out of recycled plastic and sail it from Lamu, Kenya to Cape Town South Africa ('just' 5,250km!). More on Dipesh: "Having lived on the Kenyan Coast for seven years, Dipesh became addicted to trash. He was obsessed with what else one could do with all the flip-flops and discarded bottles that he picked off the beach. For a few years, he had a lot of fun building giant size sculptures (have a look at Mfalme the Whale) from thousands of flip-flops as well as houses, water tanks and other structures from plastic bottles. Alas, his children, he was told, could not spend their lives picking trash, and school fees had to be raised, so he and his family left the coast and moved up country where he currently runs an outdoor adventure company near Mt Kenya where it's far too cold to wear flipflops."
We visited Dipesh in Nairobi, Kenya and shortly after, visited dhow maker Ali in Lamu where we got to see the "small" plastic pilot dhow for ourselves! In this wide-ranging discussion with Dipesh, we cover Dipesh's varied but mission-driven career path, the Flipflopi Expedition's key messages and the power of individual choice in changing the world.
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Find the show notes here
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72 · MEG CARNEY · FOREVER CHEMICALS & THE OUTDOOR MINIMALIST
71 · DR. SALEEM H. ALI · ALUMINUM AND THE QUEST FOR INDUSTRIAL SUSTAINABILITY
70 · KATE FLYNN · MAKING PLASTIC-FREE, HEALTHY FOOD MORE ACCESSIBLE
69 · DAPHNA NISSENBAUM · PIONEERING COMPOSTABLE FLEXIBLE PACKAGING
68 · CARL GISH · TECH DRIVEN, CARBON NEGATIVE HOUSING
67 · JENNY HU · FEMALE FOUNDED TECH FOR SUSTAINABLE FASHION
66 · STEPHANIE DEVINE · BOTANIC CIRCULARITY & THE VERY GOOD BRA
65 · ERIN MEEZAN · LEADING BEYOND MISSION ZERO @ INTERFACE
64 · SAMUEL LEROUX · CHANGING TIME(S) @SOLIOS
63 · GAUTAM SHAH · GROUNDBREAKING TOOLS FOR CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT WITH WILDLIFE
62 · ADAM LOWY · REDUCING FOOD WASTE AND FIGHTING HUNGER @ MOVE FOR HUNGER
61 · NOEL KOK · CREATING A PATH TO CONSERVATION THROUGH THE NEXT GENERATION OF FILMMAKERS
60 · SIMON GRIFFITHS · WHO GIVES A CRAP?
59 · MEERA JAIN · GREEN HOLIDAYS WITH THE GREEN MUM
58 · GEORGINA WILSON-POWELL · IS IT REALLY GREEN?
57 · CARLEE JACKSON · MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES
56 · ALFRED ADJABENG · SCHOOL FARMS IN GHANA
55 · WONG SIEW TE · SAVING SUN BEARS
54 · NDÉYE MARIE AÏDA NDIÉGUÈNE · LEADING WITH SOLUTIONS & ACTION IN SÉNÉGAL
53 · TAMSIN CHISLETT · IN WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW @ ONLOAN
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