• AI vs The Planet: Who Will Win?
    Jun 4 2025

    A.I. Two letters on everyone's lips. It's revolutionising, well, everything, and changing our lives for better or worse. Dr Neil Saunders demystifies AI and gives us the gory details on just how much damage our digital companion is causing to the environment.

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    This podcast is brought to you from the Creative Futures research centre and the Sustainability Development Unit at the University of Greenwich.

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    Host - Diva Wareing
    Producers - Faz Ahmed & Diva Wareing
    Sound engineer - Ken Conroy
    Editor - Harshul Narang

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    52 mins
  • How Bicycle Powered Washing Machines Can Build Sustainable Communities
    Jun 3 2025

    PhD student, Fred Preston, talks all things creativity with us. He discusses how effective use of creative design can help us to develop a world that not only helps the planet and reduces our emissions, but generates a sense of community and wellbeing for ourselves. Listen to Fred discuss his bicycle-powered washing machine, his PhD which will take him to the arctic, and how if everyone embraced a little more of their creative side then we might just have a healthier planet and communities.

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    Producers - Faz Ahmed & Diva Wareing
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    Editor - Harshul Narang

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 04. Slow Down In Nature With Us
    Apr 15 2025

    Listen to Dr Hannah Lammin and Anushka Athique Winterbottom discuss their practice-based research, using bodies, movement and slowing down to connect with nature. In this episode, we invite you to experience your own embodied practice in nature by listening in a natural setting and hopefully, by the end you will feel more connected to nature too.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 03. Rethinking Cities: What Needs To Change?
    Apr 1 2025

    Today we're joined by Dr Emilio Costales, Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, who discusses gentrification in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, what exactly a "smart city" is, and how the way we design our cities can either strengthen or weaken the communities that live there.

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    Producers - Faz Ahmed & Diva Wareing
    Sound Engineer and editor - Ken Conroy
    Consultant - Fakhar Raza
    Marketing - Hang Duong & Diva Wareing



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    59 mins
  • 02. The Water Crisis: Earth and Beyond
    Mar 18 2025

    In this episode we speak with Benz Kotzen, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Nature Based Solutions. Benz discusses how his early career in fine art, growing up in apartheid South Africa and studying desert plants have all played a pivotal role in developing his “forever career”. Benz he explores the water crisis and how his research could be used in the first human missions to Mars.

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    Host - Diva Wareing
    Producers - Faz Ahmed & Diva Wareing
    Sound Engineer and editor - Ken Conroy
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    53 mins
  • 01. Are We At War With Animals?
    Mar 3 2025

    Join us as we chat with Professor Stacy Banwell about her book The War Against Non-Human Animals: A Non-Speciesist Understanding of Gendered Reproductive Violence. She explores the connections between modern farming and war, challenging the way we think about our use of animals.

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    Producer/Host - Diva Wareing
    Producer - Faz Ahmed
    Sound Engineer and editor - Ken Conroy
    Consultant - Fakhar Raza
    Marketing - Hang Duong

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    1 hr and 2 mins