Podcast – Page 3 – Innovate Eco

Episode 15 – Vertical Forests – The Benefits of Creating Buildings for Trees and Humans Together – Stefano Boeri

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...

Episode 14 – Electric Flying Cars – Ready For The Skies, But Will It Be Good News For the Environment? – Akshat Kasliwal, University of Michigan

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...

Episode 13 – Cryptonature – Using Blockchain Technology to Tackle Environmental Problems – Pete Howson, Nottingham Trent University

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...

Episode 12 – Human psychology and climate change – Forgetting the deniers and having useful conversations – Dan Rubin PsyD, Clinical Psychologist

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...

Episode 11 – Reducing the environmental cost of meat production (without going vegan) – Shir Friedman, SuperMeat

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...