Careers for the Planet: Finding Ways to Impace with Ludovick Bernier-Michaud from The Earth Foundation

​As part of a new series bringing you closer to the people behind The Earth Prize, Ludo opens the conversation with a look into his own path into climate work. It is a chance to get to know our team not just through our roles, but through the choices, pivots, and questions that brought us all here.

​What began with second-hand fashion and recycled plastics became a deeper search for where real leverage sits. In this session, Ludo shares how that journey led him from early circular economy ideas into supply chains, natural resources, and critical minerals - the materials backbone of the energy transition. It is a conversation about following the system, getting close to what actually moves the world, and building a climate career where the stakes are real. It is also a conversation about complexity, compromise, and what it means to work where change is not always obvious. Sometimes, making things better means stepping into industries or systems that feel uncomfortable, flawed, or politically complicated - not to defend them, but to help move them. Because if you want to change the machinery, at some point you have to get close enough to touch it. 

​This session is especially for anyone thinking about pivoting into climate work from somewhere that feels less obviously aligned. If you are already deep in another world - business, resources, logistics, supply chains - and wondering whether that experience is a detour or an advantage, this conversation is for you.

​A session about how to make your background count, how to find leverage in unlikely places, and how to move toward impact without having to start from zero.