Maddy Savage
Journalist and Broadcaster at Freelance
Contributor Foreign Correspondent and Producer at Times Radio
Documentry Producer and Presenter at BBC
🎙️British/Swedish journalist. Podcasts, video, words. @BBC @TimesRadio @monocle_radio @Naudio_app @TIME @NPR 🔎 Summer 2024: career break in Arctic Circle
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1 week ago |
impactloop.com | Maddy Savage
You’ve worked in impact for more than 17 years – what was the scene like when you started? "I started my career as a journalist and then helped establish the German Renewable Energy Agency before co-founding DWR eco in 2012. When I started, less than five percent of energy in the grid was renewable. At the time, renewables were still seen as bit "alternative" – sort of like people wearing Birkenstock sandals and eating organic food!"So how has the energy sector evolved in Germany since then?
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2 weeks ago |
impactloop.com | Maddy Savage
What happens to car, bus and truck tyres when they're worn down and unsafe to use? Tyre graveyards are typically giant landfills, where tyres are either dumped or burned in cement kilns – neither of which are good for the environment. In fact, whole tyre disposal is banned in the EU and the UK, so millions of tyres are shipped out to countries with fewer restrictions, often in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Norwegian startup Wastefront is tackling the problem.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Maddy Savage
This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. Yellow diggers are shoring up mounds of Earth, as construction workers prepare to lay the foundations for three new buildings at Maria 01, a nonprofit hub for startups that opened in 2016 and is partly funded by local taxpayers. It's a key part of Finland's ambition to be at the heart of Europe's startup culture. "Right now we are the largest startup hub in the Nordics," said chief executive Sarita Runeberg.
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3 weeks ago |
impactloop.com | Maddy Savage
Have impact-driven businesses and investors become too hungry for profits and exits? Are so-called impact companies actually making enough of an impact? And what does impact even mean at a moment when companies in sectors from defence to mining are now aligning themselves to the sector? These questions have been circulating within the impact sector for some time.
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3 weeks ago |
impactloop.com | Maddy Savage
You’ve almost completed a year as CEO at Wave Ventures. What’s been your biggest learning so far on this journey? "Getting a new fund off the ground. In a way, the money was the easy part, then there were lots of practicalities – everything from the legal aspects to building and structuring our durable non-traditional VC model, which includes a rotating team."Wave Ventures launched in 2016, and that new €7m fund is Wave Ventures' third fund which was announced last month.
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🎧NEW PODCAST: Before Spotify, there was The Pirate Bay. I got the chance to interview co-founder Peter Sunde for @bbcworldservice’s Witness History podcast, to discuss his fascinating and complex legacy. Listen: https://t.co/4L4zbR3SvM #sthlmtech #internetpiracy #thepiratebay https://t.co/8xjsqlXkik
Spent some time in #Uppsala this week getting reaction to the triple shooting at a hair salon on Tuesday. Police have arrested six people suspected of being connected to the killings #Valborg
Young men were getting a haircut ahead of a festival - then they were shot dead https://t.co/4cmJzKEG9g
Three confirmed dead in shooting in #Uppsala, a Swedish university city. If you want to know more about the spring festival taking place there this week, this piece I did a few years ago has some useful background #Valborg #Walpurgis @uppsalauni https://t.co/Rw2kCe2RZN
