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Sustainable Living
I am a climate change and sustainability professional with over 13 years of experience working on some of the world’s most pressing climate challenges. But for me, the work has never been just professional—it’s also personal.
Because I spend my career tackling climate change on a global scale, I also felt a responsibility to live sustainably in my own life. Over the years, friends, colleagues, and even strangers began asking me: “How do I actually live more sustainably—without feeling guilty, overwhelmed, or like it’s impossible?” My answer was always simple: I shared what I was already doing in my own life. Step by step, people began seeing that sustainability doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive—it can be practical, empowering, and long-lasting.
Then in 2024, everything changed.
I had a near-death experience (you can watch the full story in the video) that forced me to reflect on what legacy I wanted to leave behind. While hospitalized, I started creating my legacy course—a guide that could live on even if I didn’t. I wanted to leave behind more than professional publications and policy reports; I wanted to leave people with the tools to actually live in harmony with the planet.
Thankfully, I survived.
Today, I’m channeling that experience into something bigger: hosting workshops and building an online course that breaks down sustainable living into clear, actionable steps. No guilt. No overwhelm. No unrealistic ideals. Just a proven, practical way to live sustainably that works for real people, in real life, and even saves money along the way.
For me, this is more than teaching—it’s about leaving a footprint of good in the world, and helping others do the same.
If you are interested in the course, you can message me by completing the Sign Up form or booking a call at the link below.
Sustainable Living Webinar
Testimonials:
“The session was FANTASTIC i am sharing your website with several friends tonight and telling them to look at your qualifications. Very impressive but even more is your heart!”
“First let me compliment you…you struck me as someone really coming at this topic really thoughtfully and carefully. And so I really appreciated that, about your presentation. I could tell you had done a lot of thinking about this…and the integrity of the approach that you have.”
The Bespoke Sustainable Lifestyle Programme: a personal-to-systemic sustainability transformation framework
Learning Outcomes:
Track and understand your unique lifestyle and carbon footprint.
Define what sustainability means to you and align it with your daily life.
Build lasting habits for a satisfying sustainable lifestyle and wellbeing.
Engage confidently in advocacy and systemic change.
Sustain your journey with clarity, peace and contentment.
Programme Overview:
MODULE 1 — Baseline Sustainability & Carbon Footprint Log: Track lifestyle choices
MODULE 2 — Analyse Your Data: Pinpoint impact areas
MODULE 3 — Define Sustainability for You: Values-mapping
MODULE 4 — Behaviour Change Made Simple: Incorporating your values into daily living
MODULE 5 — Systemic Change & Advocacy: Championing change
MODULE 6 — Delving Deeper: Progressing and sustaining your sustainable lifestyle journey.
“It is very beautiful what you do! Please keep doing it to change the life of other people.”
Features:
Virtual training modules for convenience: 20–40 minutes per module with lifetime access.
1:1 bespoke and weekly live support calls: practical, tailored, interactive Q&A.
Lifetime access & community: online support and updates with the latest information.
Publications
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Joint First Author: Measuring environmentally sustainable health care: a scoping review (The Lancet Planetary Health, 2024).
Summarizes global approaches to measuring environmental sustainability in health care, highlighting gaps and future research needs.
Read hereFirst Author: Overview of screening methods for fatty liver disease in children (World Journal of Hepatology, 2012).
Reviews available methods for detecting fatty liver disease in pediatric populations.
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Review Editor, USGCRP 5th National Climate Assessment 2023, Health Chapter.
Contributed to the U.S. government’s authoritative assessment of climate change impacts on health.
Read hereEditor, Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health 2022, US Brief.
Edited the U.S. policy brief outlining climate change and health indicators for decision makers.
Read hereContributor, World Bank Group, COVID-19 and Climate-Smart Health Care Report.
Explored how climate-smart health care can strengthen pandemic preparedness and resilience.
Read hereContributor, World Bank Group, Resilience Rating System.
Introduced a framework to track and evaluate resilience to climate change in development projects.
Read hereCreator, World Bank Group, Climate Change and Health eModule.
Developed an interactive training resource for integrating climate and health into World Bank projects.
Access hereContributor, Trust for America’s Health, Climate Change and Health: Assessing State Preparedness 2020.
Assessed U.S. states’ readiness to protect health from climate change impacts.
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Author, Johns Hopkins Global Health NOW.
Commentary on the urgent need for international preparedness for climate refugees.
Read hereAuthor, Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health (University of Oxford).
World Bank Blogs.
Contributions on climate, health, and resilience in development contexts.
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Acknowledged in: Novel ex vivo approaches distinguish effective and ineffective single agents for reversing HIV-1 latency in vivo (Nature Medicine, 2014).
Read hereAcknowledged in: Ex vivo analysis identifies effective HIV-1 latency–reversing drug combinations (Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2015).
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Speaker
John’s Not Helpful Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-X0IEnPbT4
De Montfort University lecture on sustainability
Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Sustainability Views from the Global South and COP 29 panellist: https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events/adaptation-vs-mitigation-sustainability-views-global-south-and-cop-29
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health lecture on climate change and health
Madras Christian College lecture on planetary health
Generation Mental Health (GenMH) climate change and mental health panellist https://www.generationmentalhealth.org/2020-conference
