Sustainable Lens
Resilience on Radio
Head in the crowds

Samuel Mann with Marc Wilson [ 46:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
We talk with Prof Marc Wilson of Victoria University of Wellington. Why is there such a gap between science and people who don’t believe in climate change? Psychology. Marc says that what we believe, we believe for a reason, and in this case a lot of disbelief can be linked to views on hierarchy […]

programming to save the planet

Samuel Mann with Adrian Friday [ 50:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Adrian Friday is Head of Department and Professor of Computing and Sustainability at Lancaster University. Adrian Friday is Professor of Computing and Sustainability at Lancaster University talking about programmers power to create responsibly. I loved creating new things Vision for future (Can computing save the world?) Computing has a role to play – it […]

Service-led Leadership

Samuel Mann with Thomas Wynn [ 58:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Cook Islands communicator Thomas Wynn was in Dunedin to speak at the Otago Polytechnic Distinguished Alumni Awards. Talking points Good leaders have served, and served well – with a strong values base. How do we change the world? Do something. Our greatest successes happen around the kitchen table. Creating a space at the table […]

Computing for social responsibility

Samuel Mann with Alan Borning [ 52:36 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Alan Borning is Professor Emeritus at Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He is the founder of Solutions for Environment, Economy and Democracy (SEED). For the longest time, the things that I care about – sustainability, urban form – were not really connected to my day job, so I refocused my […]

Emotion and logic
art

Samuel Mann with Rachel Jacobs [ 57:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Dr Rachel Jacobs is an artist based in Nottingham and London. She founded the collective Active Ingredient. Rachel completed a PhD in 2014 entitled ‘The Artist’s Footprint: Investigating the distinct contributions of artists engaging the public with climate change’. We discuss many of Rachel’s projects, including A Conversation between trees (ACM), The Prediction Machine, and […]

Positive, responsible innovation

Samuel Mann with Helena Webb [ 58:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Dr Helena Webb is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. Helena explores how people interact with technologies in different kinds of setting and how social action both shapes and is shaped by innovation. We talk about responsible innovation, opportunities for positive change, and running ethical hackathons […]

rethinking impact

Samuel Mann with Lucy Pei [ 53:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Lucy Pei is a PhD student at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California Irvine. Lucy was volunteering at a literacy centre for resettled refugees and could see problems with the things she and others were doing – even though they we doing it properly. This led to […]

Green criminology
law

Samuel Mann with Paul Stretesky [ 58:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Paul Stretesky is a Professor at Northumbria University where he specialises in green criminology. We talk environmental justice and environmental crime. Both a crime and a created crime Race to the bottom The political-economic organisation of capitalism causes environmental destruction. Capital will move where it can to create profit, but pollution knows no boundaries. […]

golden thread: positive values

Samuel Mann with Kathy New [ 52:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Kathy New is a researcher at Lancaster University on the socio-digital sustainability team. With a background in ecology and teaching and in the charity sector, Kathy is interested in social justice in energy markets, particularly the links between food poverty and fuel poverty. If we’re looking for my golden thread, I would have to […]

Imagining how things could be different

Samuel Mann with Ann Light [ 57:38 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Ann Light is Professor of Design & Creative Technology at the University of Sussex and Prof of Interaction Design, Social Change and Sustainability at Malmö University, Sweden. Ann is a qualitative researcher specializing in design for social wellbeing, participatory design and social innovation, with a particular interest in creative practice for transformations to sustainability. […]

Artful Design

Ge Wang is the Artful Designer. Associate Professor in the Department of Music (and by courtesy in Computer Science) at Stanford University. His book Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime is a masterpiece of photocomic that hides a book on the nature, meaning, and purpose of design in this age of technology, […]

Rural imaginings

Samuel Mann with Valentine Cadieux [ 59:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Professor Valentine Cadieux is Director of Environmental Studies and Director of Sustainability at Hamline University in St Paul, Minnesota. She studies collaborative knowledge practices related to food, agriculture, and land in the context of settler society cultures in Canada, the United States, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Talking points. Incentivised to explore the woods behind […]

Messaging for change

Samuel Mann with Matt Lawrey [ 57:32 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Matt Lawrey currently serves the community as a second term Nelson City Councillor. He is also the creator of New Zealand’s popular cartoon on family life, The Little Things. We talk about he brings from his background in the media, and how he is working to achieve a thriving green society for his family. […]

Planting seeds

Samuel Mann with Cal Egan [ 54:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Cal Egan is a researcher at Edinburgh Napier University investigating intersections of permaculture and digital design and technology. He is developing Lions’ Gate as a regenerative ‘blended space’ as a space for exploring urban permaculture and as a place to explore the role of technology in a thriving future. I wanted to know why […]

being better at imagining better

Samuel Mann with Nandor Tanczos [ 57:53 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Nándor Tánczos describes himself as a Dad, social ecologist, educator, permaculturalist and a Whakatāne District Councillor. Others describe him as New Zealand’s first Rastafarian MP and one our our first Green MPs. We talk about what drives him, how he became socially active (radicalised in Darlington!), his new project – social permaculture, and our […]

building earth

Samuel Mann with Louise Shaw [ 49:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Louise Shaw describes herself as an earthbuilder, a teacher, a gardener, a mother (and new grandmother). She and her family live near Whakatane where we talk about building soil and regenerating ecological systems. We need to change our view of capital, a bigger picture, a longer picture – soil is our capital, we need […]

Living within system limits

Samuel Mann with Morgan Williams [ 58:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Dr Morgan Williams is Chair of the Cawthron Foundation, is on the NZ international councils of the WWF, the National Energy Trust. We discuss his background in ecological systems science, from Antarctica to Fiji, and from North Canterbury farm through being the second Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to his ongoing work. Talking points […]

inadvertent ecological engineer

Samuel Mann with Kelly Hughes [ 58:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Kelly Hughes of ATS-Environmental describes himself as a inadvertent ecological engineer. With baffles, ramps, ropes and fish-friendly flood gates, Kelly is reconnecting waterways around the world. Talking points Solving problems with technology The ecological world came to me with a problem – all I could hear was excuses. Creating environments where fish can move […]