Episode 17 – Taking the Train to China – The Climate Academic Leading by Example by Refusing to Fly for Work – Dr. Roger Tyers, University of Southampton
Although this podcast often focuses on disruptive innovation and technology that is helping to tackle environmental problems. I also like to do the occasional episode that focuses on a broader topics and puts the spotlight on individuals or groups leading the...
Episode 16 – Small Farming Robots – Rethinking Food Production to Help Restore the Environment– Ben Scott-Robinson, Small Robots
The agricultural impacts of farming are vast. And these impacts come in all forms from initial land use change and the loss of habitat and wildlife that comes with that to the impacts of fertilisers and pesticides. Then you have the state of our farm soils which is a...
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 constructed in concrete and steel and this has come at a price, and that price...
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 weird shaped skyscrapers everywhere…… And there is one thing that...
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 society and around environmental concerns, this is no different. How...
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 fighting first? I interview Dan Rubin PsyD, a clinical psychologist from...
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 there another way we can greatly reduce this impact and without going...
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 worth paying at least some attention to. This podcast is about leaving no...
Episode 9 – Where’s My Water Fountain? – The Problem of Bottled Water – Justine Rose, Water For London
Plastic waste has got a lot of press lately due to it being quite a tangible environmental problem. It is much easier to imagine the impact of plastic floating about in the ocean than an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But the one source of plastic that...
Episode 8 – The Food Sharing Revolution – Tessa Clarke, Olio
Summary Food waste is a huge environmental issue and one that often doesn’t get as much attention as it perhaps deserves. We often look to shift the blame to producers and supermarkets but actually, we may be more to blame than you think. Here in the UK for...
