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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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00:35:11

Greenpeace and Beyond

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/10/21

Put on your activism boots and join us on a journey from the Antarctic to Sweden and the Arctic, China, Lancaster and many places in between. We find out the differences between being an activist and an academic, how you go from being one to the other, and how experience as an activist gives you unique and invaluable insights for research. Frida Bengtsson describes her journey from growing up in a family where Greenpeace was an important presence, to being lead of the organisation’s Global

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00:34:05

How to Mine an Asteroid

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/10/14

We’re blasting off into space! Find out all you need to know to mine an asteroid – though be warned, it’s not that simple. Discover which laws you have to follow beyond Earth’s atmosphere, how we get to asteroids in the first place, and what this might mean for life here and millions of miles away. Dr Craig Jones joins Jan and Paul for an astronomical start to the new series. He specialises in asteroid mining and the myriad issues that arise when it comes to considering how it could be

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00:23:35

Your Questions Answered

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/08/12

We bring Season One of Transforming Tomorrow to a close with Jan answering some of the questions that have come up during previous episodes. Three big topics are covered.We take a deeper look at externalities, which have been mentioned several times. Jan explains what they are, and how (not a matter of when) they can be internalised. Jan lays out the case for business to know about externalities and do something proactive to address them before someone else internalises them for you. Jan

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00:32:16

What is the Future of Normal?

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/08/05

Paul and Jan return to Australia, as Professor Nick Barter, from Griffith University, takes us through ‘future normal’.Nick discusses the origins of the phrase from his time working with industry while completing his PhD with Jan at the University of St Andrews. And he dives into the eight questions to create businesses your children will be proud of that are the focus of his book. Covering topics from corporate direction-setting and vision to culture and language, learning from nature, and

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00:32:47

What Is Creative Evaluation?

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/07/29

It’s a full house in the studio as Jan and Paul welcome Dr Elisavet Christou and Violet Owen to enlighten them on the world of creative evaluation.They are co-authors of the Little Book of Creative Evaluation, and explain just what Creative Evaluation is, and how it can be used across many disciplines, giving examples of how they have seen it applied. Elisavet and Violet discuss their EViD tool, which helps people with their evaluation processes; the value of hearing from many different

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00:28:14

Shaping Corporate Sustainability and Behaviour

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/07/22

Linden Edgell – Inquisitor, Collaborator and Explorer extraordinaire – joins Jan and Paul from Perth, Australia, among her 150 mango trees.Linden is ERM’s Global Sustainability Director and is also a member of the Pentland Centre’s Advisory Board. Trained as a social scientist, Linden has worked in government and latterly in consulting, where she is seeking to bring about change in corporate behaviour. Linden explains how she works with executives on how they can change their operations and

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00:02:36

And Now, The End Is Near

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/07/18

As we approach the conclusion of Series 1 of Transforming Tomorrow, find out what is still to come on the remaining episodes.

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00:29:06

Hooked on Salmon Farming

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/07/15

Farmed salmon is the UK’s biggest food export – and Dr Josi Fernandes is obsessed!Josi joins Jan and Paul to talk about her work looking at salmon farming practices and sustainability in the UK and how her research in the area all started over a conversation in the pub. We discover what Josi has learned from speaking with salmon farmers, processors and retailers – though not everyone wanted to talk. We take in the differences between farmed and wild salmon; how farmed salmon came to be such

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00:34:54

Sustainable Finance

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/07/08

Jan and Paul welcome Professor Mark Shackleton to the podcast to discuss the world of finance and how it intersects with sustainability.They discover why the King can’t enter the City of London without permission; whether investors actually care about sustainability – or are only in it for the profits; how data can be used to influence ‘green’ investing; and the power of shareholders to instigate change. Among discussions of ethics and politics, they find the time to talk about physics and

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00:14:28

Sustainable Consumer Spending

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/07/04

Is it possible that consumers can change how businesses operate through buying more sustainable products?Jan and Paul welcome back Professor Dakshina De Silva, and Drs Anita Schiller and Aurelie Slechten to discuss the factors that influence consumer spending on green goods; different cultural attitudes towards green spending; how income levels affect these attitudes; and whether the future is carrying your own ice cream spoon around in your pocket. Read more about the team’s research into

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00:33:12

The Economics of Pollution

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/07/01

A crash of economists invades the studio to talk to Jan and Paul about how industrial pollution ties in with economics and sustainability.Professor Dakshina De Silva, and Drs Anita Schiller and Aurelie Slechten explain how economists view the world – how they analyse how people make choices – and how we can measure the social costs of pollution. Their work shows how communities with lower-income residents can be impacted more by pollution, but why does that happen, and can anything be done

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00:02:07

Coming in July on Transforming Tomorrow

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/06/27

Take a sneak peek into upcoming topics on Transforming Tomorrow - from salmon farming to the economics of pollution, sustainable finance, and more.

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00:34:47

Down on the Farm (Part Two)

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/06/24

Where’s Jan? Paul is left to fly solo after a car breakdown means Jan cannot make it to Orton, and the farm of Jim Beary.Luckily, Lake District Farmers Head of Purpose and Sustainability Phil Scott is able to help out as the trio discuss life at Gaythorn Hall, a farm in the far east of Cumbria, that actually falls within the boundaries of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. From his home among the flocks of sheep and herds of cows – as well as smaller numbers of pigs and chickens – Jim tells

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00:31:58

Down on the Farm (Part One)

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/06/17

Paul and Jan have finally made it to the farm! Continuing the series with Lake District Farmers, we are on Cartmel Fell, in South Cumbria, to meet Fiona Daley, who along with her husband Dave owns and runs Hodge Hill Farm. Fiona and Dave have a small herd of Belted Galloway cows and are members of the LDF network. LDF Head of Purpose and Sustainability Phil Scott joins everyone in the barn – where a newborn calf came into the world only a day earlier – to discuss key sustainability

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00:27:21

Towards Net Zero Meat Production

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/06/10

Dr Laura Giles, the Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate working with Lake District Farmers, comes in to join Jan and Paul to discuss her work – and tell us what her role means and how it operates.Laura is working with LDF to understand how livestock farmers in the Lake District can work towards Net Zero meat production (the project is not making wild claims of Net Zero meat). This takes in soil science, farming practice, and even accounting – to Jan’s delight. Discover the unique

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00:23:10

Farming and Sustainability

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/06/03

Jan and Paul are back at the Lake District Farmers’ base in Ulverston to talk with Phil Scott, Head of Purpose and Sustainability at LDF, about the organisation’s sustainability ambitions. As seagulls and buzzards circle, they look at how LDF think about sustainability in their own operations, the operations of the farmers in their networks, and the overall impact of their work. Phil explains it is more than carbon offsetting, but rather the efforts reflect engagement with their communities,

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00:21:25

Soil – It’s Alive!

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/05/27

Professors Jess Davies and John Quinton, from Lancaster Environment Centre, bring their expertise in soil into the studio. From the many different types of soil to its carbon storage properties – there is more carbon in soil than in the Earth’s atmosphere – and how human activity has changed soils over the centuries, there is much to explore. With a focus the work being done with the Lake District Farmers, Jess and John tell Jan and Paul, what effects do farmers have on their land – and how

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00:22:20

Lake District Farmers

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/05/20

We start our new series of episodes looking at meat farming in the UK’s Lake District by meeting the Lake District Farmers organisation. Jan and Paul travel to Ulverston – or Oolverston as Jan would have it – to meet LDF Head of Purpose and Sustainability Phil Scott and find all about the organisation and its work with farmers across the county of Cumbria. LDF work with a network of around 50 farmers who have native breed cattle, sheep, and pigs to process and selling high-quality meat. But

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00:03:52

Lake District Farming: A Preview

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/05/17

Over the next six weeks on Transforming Tomorrow, we will be taking a deep dive into the Towards Net Zero Meat Production project. This is a collaboration between Lancaster University - including the Pentland Centre - and the Lake District Farmers organisation. Jan and Paul will be speaking to experts in Lancaster, the Lake District Farmers, and farmers in Cumbria (on their farms) to find our more. Take a sneak peek here.

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00:30:17

What is the Anthropocene?

Transforming Tomorrow ·

2024/05/13

Professor Henrik Österblom, Director of the Anthropocene Laboratory at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, comes to the podcast with possibly the best job title so far. Henrik is one of Jan’s favourite super-scientists, and he joins Jan and Paul from Stockholm. But just what does Anthropocene mean, and how does it tie in with sustainability? How is the world changing due to human activity? How have we affected the behaviour of animals – do frogs really eat lightbulbs? What are the empirics

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