The Sustainability Agenda

The Sustainability Agenda


Latest Episodes

Episode 87: Interview with Dr. Keir Milburn on generational politics, and Public-Commons Partnerships
February 13, 2020

Today we speak with Dr. Keir Milburn about the ongoing shift of young people to the left in the UK. In this interview, Keir notes how the material interests of older people are aligned with the performance of the financial sector and real estate wherea...

Episode 86: Interview with Professor Colin Mayer on corporate purpose
January 29, 2020

In today’s episode with Professor Colin Mayer, we look at the role of corporations in society. Colin believes that corporations must evolve from a focus on profit maximisation to embrace purposeful goals as being positive contributors to society.

Episode 85: Interview with Professor Maisa Rojas, COP 25 scientific coordinator
January 17, 2020

Today we talk about the expectations and outcomes of the COP 25 climate summit with Professor Maisa Rojas, COP 25 scientific coordinator. Professor Rojas hopes that this will be be a time for mobilization and turning scientific reports into action.

Episode 84: Interview with pioneering linguist, social critic, and political activist on the environmental crises we are facing
December 27, 2019

Described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” Noam Chomsky is a pioneering American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called “the father of modern linguis...

Episode 83: Interview with Nate Hagens on energy and sustainability
December 11, 2019

In this wide-ranging interview, Nate highlights the vital, and oft-overlooked, role that a systems synthesis plays in our understanding of the human predicament. Integrating human behavior, energy, money, economy,

Episode 82: Interview with Unai Pascual, Ecological Economist
November 26, 2019

We are living in a very vulnerable, unprecedented situation–an ecological crisis which is as social as it is environmental. The way we look at technology and economic systems, and the way we interact as social beings in a globalized world is often as i...

Episode 81: Interview with Dr. Robert Romanyshyn on Frankenstein, technology and climate collapse
November 16, 2019

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Robert Romanyshyn, a retired emeritus professor of clinical psychology. Prof. Romanyshyn is an internationally recognized scholar in depth psychology, which attends to how unconscious dynamics shape human behavior.

Episode 80: Interview with Brian Von Herzen on Marine Permaculture
November 05, 2019

With over half of CO2 recaptured from the atmosphere going into the world’s oceans, they are by far the world’s largest carbon sink. Regenerating the oceans both for the benefit of the climate and the millions of people who rely on them for their livel...

Episode 79: Interview with Peter Head, resilience champion
October 14, 2019

With the growing reach of climate change-induced extreme weather events and increasing urbanization, it is becoming more and more important to be deliberate about the way we build our cities. In this episode,

Episode 78: Interview with Dr. Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown, on the next-steps for this pathbreaking project
October 06, 2019

Two years on from the book’s publication, the Drawdown team have got their sights on how they can turn their groundbreaking research into action. In this interview, we talk to Drawdown Executive Director Dr.