Transforming Tomorrow
af The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business
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Sustainability is a key consideration for any contemporary business, from biodiversity to modern slavery, seabeds to factory floors. Transforming Tomorrow guides you through the complex, ever-changing and often exciting (yes, really!!) world of sustainability in business.
Alongside members of the Pentland Centre, international research experts, and business leaders, we cover the theory and practice of mainstreaming sustainability into purposeful business strategy and performance.
Whether you are leading change in your business, or just want to know more about how space weather, human trafficking or architecture may influence the future of sustainability, Transforming Tomorrow is the show for you.
Taking you through it all, hosts Jan and Paul bring insight, perspective, and more than occasional disagreement to their topics.
Professor Jan Bebbington is the Director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business at Lancaster University. Jan is an expert on accounting, benchmarking (to her co-host’s annoyance), and how business and sustainability intersect. She loves nature and wants to protect it – and hopes she can change the world (ideally for the better). She is also motivated to address inequality wherever it is found and especially to eliminate forced, bonded or child labour. Transforming Tomorrow is one small step on that quest.
Paul Turner is a former sports journalist who now works promoting the research activities in Lancaster University Management School – a poacher turned gamekeeper as his former colleagues would have it. He has always been interested in nature and the natural environment – it comes from growing up in Cumbria – and has been a vocal proponent of the work of the Pentland Centre since joining Lancaster University. He does not like rankings and benchmarking, and is not afraid to say so.
Join us every Monday to uncover new insights and become a little more inspired that you can make a difference in sustainability.
Episoder
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- Decent Work and Labour Exploitation · 41 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 3Would you know if you or a colleague were being exploited at work? How would you describe decent work, and would you recognise if you weren’t in it? Labour exploitation is not…
- Green Software and AI · 41 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 2The software and aviation industries have similar carbon footprints globally – and that was the case even before AI became the behemoth it is now. So, we really need to know more…
- Conflict, Climate Change and Migration · 47 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 1‘Conflict is costly’ – yet we see it arising around the world on a constant basis. And climate change can create the conditions for conflict and violence. So, just how many of…
- Global Tipping Points 2026: AI and HI · 33 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 49We cannot expect the technology of tomorrow to be better than the humans of today. So, if we want Artificial Intelligence and other tech to be better, then we need to improve as…
- Global Tipping Points 2026: The Power of a Good Story · 34 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 48We know language is key to getting the message across on climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and tackling global tipping points. So what do we need to talk about? Said…
- Global Tipping Points 2026: Positive Tipping Points · 29 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 47Not all tipping points are negative – and not all of them relate to the climate. So, what are positive tipping points? And how about social tipping points as well? Dr Steve…
- Global Tipping Points 2026: Finance and Governance · 29 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 46How can we build infrastructures to be climate and nature resilient? Do we sometimes focus too much on safeguarding and not enough on improvements when it comes to action? In…
- Global Tipping Points 2026: Nature and Business · 28 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 45How does nature fit into the tipping points framework? With so much focus on the climate in debates, nature can be forgotten. In the second part of our series from the Global…
- Global Tipping Points 2026: An Introduction · 26 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 44What are the global tipping points? What are positive tipping points? How can the world work together to stop one and produce the other? We are at the Global Tipping Points…
- From Climate Change to Politics, Ideas, Ideals, Badgers, and more · 35 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 43As we wrap up season three of Transforming Tomorrow, we consider how the vast range of subjects out guests have brought into the studio are and attempt to tie these topics…
- AI as a Force for Good in Modern Slavery Reporting · 36 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 42We’re not the biggest fans of Artificial Intelligence on Transforming Tomorrow, but are our minds about to be changed? We are ready to discover how AI is being used to make a…
- The Psychological Threat of Climate Change · 36 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 41It’s easy to let climate change get us down. To allow political tide of anti-sustainability rhetoric to carry you away. But while it is easy to feel despondent from time to time…
- Entrepreneurship as Survival and Empowerment · 47 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 40How can marginalised people find a new identity through entrepreneurship? How do women help their families survive in foreign lands by undertaking new endeavours? And all of this…
- Responding to Humanitarian Crises · 54 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 39There are always humanitarian crises somewhere in the world. We just don’t know about all of them. Lancaster University’s Dr Nonhlanhla Dube, an ‘accidental humanitarian’ turned…
- Farming and Carbon: An Update · 41 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 38Step into the Transforming Tomorrow time machine, as we head back to look at the work between Lancaster University and Lake District Farmers on working towards net-zero meat…
- Waste in the Textile Industry · 38 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 37How much waste is produced then your clothes are manufactured? And it there anything that can be done to reduce that? The Pentland Centre’s Dr Madiha Ahmad joins us to talk…
- Understanding Citizens’ Assemblies · 54 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 36What do the public think about climate change? How do they think governments should act? These are the people who will often be most affected by policy and action, so how do we…
- Regional Development, Inequalities and Entrepreneurship · 44 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 35How can businesses – and business schools – have a positive effect on their regions? And do we need to reconsider the connections between us all? Ellie Hamilton is Professor…
- The Net Zero Healthcare Mission · 49 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 34How can healthcare achieve net zero? Where do sustainability considerations stand in the long list of priorities for England’s National Health Service? And could your anaesthetic…
- How To Be a Socially Responsible Company · 48 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 33What can companies do to better look after their workers? What makes an ethical employer? And how can businesses do more to care for their communities? These are all things we…
