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Transforming Tomorrow

The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business

Sustainability is a key consideration for any contemporary business, from biodiversity to modern slavery, seabeds to factory floors. On Transforming Tomorrow, we’ll guide you through the complex, ever-changing and often exciting (yes, really!!) world of sustainability in business. Alongside members of the Pentland Centre, academic experts, and business leaders, we cover the theory and practice of mainstreaming social and environmental sustainability into purposeful business strategy and

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00:28:01

Hosting Green Events

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2025/03/10

Can a big in-person event be sustainable? Or do all events need to move online? Do you spend your time at parties wondering how sustainable it is – and how it could be better? Hilary Barraclough oversees events organisation across Lancaster University, and she and her team try to make them as sustainable as possible. From promoting sustainable travel to and from venues, to ensuring lower levels of food waste from catering – and increasing the amount of vegan and vegetarian food being served,

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00:40:31

Who are the Ocean 100?

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2025/03/03

What do businesses get up to in the two-thirds of the world’s oceans outside national jurisdictions?Professor John Virdin has always loved the ocean – despite growing up hundreds of miles from the sea. As Director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Programme at Duke University Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions in North Carolina, he has a job title too long for his business card, but a long-term dream of better protection and management of the way we use ocean to provide more

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00:45:47

Leading Sustainable Transformation

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2025/02/24

What can you do to transform your business? What actions can you take to help it be more sustainable? How can your operations be part of the overall sustainability solution and shaping a better society – and how can this ensure your own success?Professors Julia Binder and Knut Haanaes from IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland, are here to discuss their new book Leading the Sustainable Business Transformation, and the many topics it addresses. There are many positive examples of

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00:48:37

A Global Plastics Treaty

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2025/02/17

The law is back in town! How can you legislate for plastic pollution all around the world? Is it possible to get close to 200 countries to agree on the way forward? What will such a treaty include? Dr Alexandra Harrington is an environmental law specialist in Lancaster University Law School who has been part of the negotiations for a proposed international plastics treaty as a UN-accredited observer. It has not been straightforward – hence the lack of an agreement so far. She takes us behind

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00:39:48

5,000 Giraffes of Plastic

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2025/02/10

There are around 144,000 people in the district of Lancaster – from the city itself to Morecambe, the villages and rural areas beyond. They produced 8,998 tons of household recycling in 2023.So, why do these residents only recycle 36% of their plastics? What could you as a resident do to improve your habits? And what happens to the plastic that is recycled when the council collects it? It’s time to bring an end to our investigation of the Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives project – and we

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00:44:44

Urgh! Bin Juice!

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2025/02/03

Do you know what happens to your plastic recycling after your bins are emptied?As we continue our journey through the plastics pipeline, we encounter bin juice and the Mafia. Lancaster University’s Dr Clare Mumford and the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM)’s Richard Hudson take the Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives project to the final stage of its process – how plastic waste is dealt with. It turns out plastic is not very sociable – one type does not get along with

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00:36:02

Shopping for Plastics

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2025/01/27

Listening to this episode can change your shopping habits!Do supermarkets care about the planet? What actions are they taking to reduce waste? How are they changing their packaging to address the plastics problem? The team hit the road to speak with Katie Gwynne and Jane Routh, from Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives project partners Booths, about how the supermarket chain thinks and acts around plastic packaging, and how they are looking to change their own behaviours and those of their

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00:46:57

Better Plastics Behaviour

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2025/01/20

How do you treat plastic waste in your home? Are you a good consumer? A good recycler or a wishcycler? And is recycling the first thing you see when you open the door to your house?Professors Alex Skandalis and James Cronin bring their marketing and consumer culture expertise to the Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives project – and to the podcast – to analyse consumer behaviours around plastic. But are they just making up all of the language and concepts they mention? From the Aztecs to the

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00:37:25

Rethinking Plastic Packaging

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2025/01/13

It’s not just consumers who need to change their attitudes and behaviours around plastics.Packaging manufacturers and retailers need to take action too. Professor Linda Hendry makes a return visit to the podcast, explaining how her work on supply chains unites her interests in plastics as part of the Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives (PPiPL) project and on modern slavery. We look at how food producers, packaging manufacturers and retailers decide how to package and transport food before

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00:39:36

Is Plastic Fantastic?

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2025/01/06

“I just want to say one word to you. Just one word… plastics.”We don’t have Dustin Hoffman, but we do have a journey into a fascinating world as we take a deep dive into the Plastic Packaging in People’s Lives (PPiPL) project. Dr Alison Stowell and Professor Maria Piacentini join us as we discover how consumers think and behave when it comes to plastic food packaging, and how PPiPL hopes to change the attitude-behaviour gap. Discover how the project researchers have engaged with

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00:39:52

The Bay (With Fewer Murders)

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/12/23

Take a moment to consider what your local area. Do you feel connected to it? Does it feel like a real home? Morecambe Bay is a natural marvel. Stretching from Fleetwood in the south to Barrow-in-Furness in the north, it encompasses Lancaster, Morecambe, and many small towns and villages along the Lancashire and Cumbria coastlines. And Paul feels right at home as he and Jan welcome Carys Nelkon and Dr Beth Garrett to reveal the wonders of the Morecambe Bay Curriculum to them. The curriculum

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00:26:01

B-School to ESG School

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/12/16

How can business and management schools help to shape the leaders the world needs? It’s time to examine how we operate, and how we can change to better suit the businesses of the future. Dr Marian Iszatt-White becomes our first return guest as she talks to Jan and Paul about her work on the B-School to ESG School project. Her latest work is looking at how Environmental, Social and Governance should be at the heart of a business school’s operations. Discover how we can help to ensure our

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00:39:41

Turning Ideas Into Norms

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/12/09

What is normal now was not always so. People used to smoke in bars and offices; junk food used to be advertised during children’s TV programmes; drivers and passengers used to travel in cars without seatbelts – but not now, and for some people it feels it has always been this way.Professor Carlos Larrinaga, from the University of Burgos, talks us through the process by which new ideas spread and become norms – both with and without regulation in place. With a focus around Carlos’s expertise

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00:39:44

Tackling Inactivity

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/12/02

Jan is a joy rider. And that’s just great.Not everyone is an elite athlete, but we should all be active. The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) is doing important work with some of the biggest names in their sector to help make this a reality. Emma Zwiebler, a World Championship and Commonwealth Games badminton player who is now CEO of the WFSGI, explains how the trade association body operates and how they have put this mission at the core of their activities. We

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00:39:14

Ranking Business Schools

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/11/25

It’s Paul’s worst nightmare – a whole episode about ranking and accrediting business schools!Learn how business schools build sustainability into their operations; why accreditation bodies – whose backing schools rely on for their prestige – take the issue so seriously; and how important the topic is when it comes to rankings. Rose White, External Accreditation Manager at Lancaster University Management School, comes ready for Paul to rant about whether rankings should be important to

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00:37:02

Who'd Be A Sustainability Manager?

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/11/18

Jan’s considering a new career – should she become a sustainability officer?Chief Sustainability Officers are among the fastest growing jobs in the UK – but who are these people, what do they do, and does anyone actually listen to them? Dr Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs, from the University of Strathclyde, brings gifts from her allotment to the studio as well as an avid interest in all things sustainability that started in childhood in Washington state, USA – where she was surprised to learn not

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00:34:52

A Taskforce for Nature

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/11/14

Bring back the accountants – and the taskforces! It’s time to look at how companies identify and report on nature-related impacts and opportunities. We make an investigation of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and its work with the Pentland Centre’s Dr Neytullah Ciftci – Neo to his friends – who works with Jan on that very topic. Discover how companies can change nature; how these changing ecosystems could be a risk to your business; and the importance of

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00:31:54

Nature Restoration

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/11/11

How can businesses have a positive impact on nature? We hear a lot about the negative effects organisations have on the planet, but they can also be a force for good. By helping to restore nature, firms big or small, local or global, can help themselves and their operations – and maybe all of us. But what are they actually doing, and why can it be so hard for them to tell us? Dr Tim Lamont, a marine biologist in Lancaster Environment Centre, explains his work on corporate reporting around

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00:26:30

B-Corps, Brands, and Business

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/11/04

What do big companies do to positively contribute to sustainability efforts, and to wider society? What does your employer do? Is it enough, and could they do more? Brands and brand values send messages and have their own sustainability identities, so it’s time to look at how this affects their actions. Kaeisha Gibson, Head of Corporate Responsibility at Pentland Brands, discusses how brands including Speedo, Canterbury, Endura, Mitre, and more, approach their strategies towards

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00:41:53

Good or Evil in Business

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/10/28

The battle between good and evil comes to Transforming Tomorrow. What is good? What does ‘good’ mean in the context of how you do business?We look at how companies can balance profit with doing right in the world, why it doesn’t necessarily take as long as you think to move to a new way of thinking and working, and whether the world needs to be in crisis to force corporations to act. Professor Steve Kempster explains his work on Good Dividends, and how he has worked with businesses to see

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