Episode 11 – Will vegans be able to eat meat again soon? – 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...
read moreEpisode 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...
read moreEpisode 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...
read moreEpisode 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 example...
read moreEpisode 7 – Biodegradable Plastics From Waste – Jeff Beegle and Tony Bova, Mobius
Thanks in part to successful campaigns and thanks also to the visual and tangible nature of the problem. The environmental issue of non-biodegradable plastics is more well known that ever before. Despite efforts to recycle more of it a huge 91% of plastics still...
read moreEpisode 6 – How To Start Your Own Disruptive Environmental Business – Jay Clouse, Unreal Collective and Upside.fm
Happy New Year Everyone! For many people, the new year means new starts, new goals, trouser sizes...... I don’t know why we can’t just decide suddenly on a random Friday evening in front of the TV that we want to do something different but instead use an arbitrary...
read moreEpisode 5 – Values and framing – Targeting compassion over self-interest – Tom Crompton, Common Cause Foundation
There is a great misperception in our society that others place values of self-interest higher than values of compassion and care. Fixing this perception gap is massively important in the way we approach how we try and influence behaviours regarding environmental...
read moreEpisode 4 – Influencing Environmental Behaviours – Lessons From Trump and Brexit – Dr David Rose – University of East Anglia
Moving away from innovations this week and onto new perspectives, as I interview an academic who says we need to get down from our ivory towers, stop the finger pointing and start communicating better about environmental issues. This podcast series isn’t just about...
read moreEpisode 3 – Human waste and animal feed – doing the ‘dirty job’ – Mathieu Chaix-Bar, Weendle
The production of animal feed around the world has a huge environmental footprint. Which further adds to the already quite large footprint produced by simply rearing the animals themselves. Around 70% of the world's soya is fed to livestock and Soya has a huge...
read moreEpisode 2 – Using Dogs in Conservation – Louise Wilson, Conservation K9 Consulting
As we highlighted in last weeks episode global biodiversity is not doing very well at all. It is now becoming more desperate than ever to get data about endangered species and to track them down in order to move them away from dangers posed by...
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