The Seaweed Jam Session
Season 3: Episode 12
What would you do if climate change changed your life? Would you go back to what you were doing before or fight back as every fraction of a degree mattered?
Mathilda D'silva joins Eric to share her journey from a TV celebrity and professional athlete to an ocean activist at her organization, the Ocean Purpose Project. She discusses how her illness from pollution gave her a new purpose in life to promote ocean conservation through bioremediation, plastic to fuel, and behavior change. All of this she does creatively and with passion. From solar DJs to seaweed jams, Mathilda is saving our oceans as every coral reef matters.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsAbout our guest
Mathilda D’silva is known in Singapore as a Singapore Idol contestant and TV Producer with Mediacorp and Radio DJ. She moved into social media in 2014, becoming the Head of Community for Mediacorp, and the Head of Community and Customer Advocacy for StarHub.
Today Mathilda is the Founder and CEO of the Ocean Purpose Project and uses her talents in the following ways:
- Sustainability & Social Media Strategy
- Plastic Pyrolysis (Plastic to Fuel) Advocacy
- Community Management Coaching
Mathilda is also an avid paddling enthusiast who dragon boated competitively for 7 years till tragedy struck. She lives by the beach and still loves the ocean, trying to save it through her company.
Her life changed when a fateful dragon boat race in the idyllic yet polluted waters of Boracay, Philippines set her life on a journey of finding purpose through sickness. She aims to right the wrongs of water pollution by creating multiple-purpose projects focused on ocean conservation and reducing water pollution.
Mathilda can speak on a wide range of topics, namely on how social entrepreneurship needs to work in partnership more than ever and disrupt itself with the latest technology.
On the web
linkedin.com/in/mathildadsilva
linkedin.com/company/ocean-purpose-project
Drawdown solution(s):
Find more about how to teach climate design in your classroom at www.climatedesigners.org/edu
Music in this episode
Nature sound effect by bbc.co.uk – ©2023 BBC
Theme music by Casual Motive
Design Team
Consulting
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
