Over half the world’s population now live in cities. With the United Nations predicting that figure will rise to a whopping 68% in the coming decades. Existing cities have been...
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We are all so used to seeing futuristic images of cityscapes, they don’t even really shock us anymore. They’ve been common in sci-fi films for decades with bright neon lights and massive...
This week we are talking about the blockchain. Could the technology behind Bitcoin help us tackle some of the worlds biggest environmental problems? There are many issues with trust in today's...
Today I take a deeper look into the human psychology behind climate change. Is there any way we can change tactics to convince the denialists?…..or are there more important battles we should be...
It is now pretty common knowledge that cutting down on meat consumption is one of the best things we can do individually for the environment…. but globally we just keep eating more of it. So is...
Episode 10 – Could computer games help us save the planet? – Dr Umran Ali, University of Salford
As of 2019, 1 in 3 people now identifies themselves as a ‘gamer’. The gaming industry is now 1.5 x bigger than the movie industry and 5 times bigger than the music industry. So it is probably...