Transforming Tomorrow Episode Transcripts

Professor Jan Bebbington and Paul Turner standing back to back smiling at the camera.

This page contains links to downloadable PDFs with the transcripts for most episodes of Transforming Tomorrow. We are working on making transcripts for all episodes available - please check back regularly if you're looking for an episode that isn't here.

Season 1

  1. Trailer (no longer available)
  2. Introduction to the Pentland Centre
  3. The Sustainable Development Goals
  4. Business and Biodiversity
  5. Modern Slavery and Sustainability
  6. Trailer (no longer available)
  7. Digital Inequalities
  8. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Sustainability
  9. Sustainability Benchmarking
  10. How do sustainability and accounting go together?
  11. Trailer (no longer available)
  12. Local Sustainability Policy
  13. Keeping it in the Family
  14. COP28 and Business (a bonus episode)
  15. Modern Slavery Reporting and Regulation
  16. An Ocean of Issues
  17. The Wonders of Sand!
  18. Trailer (no longer available)
  19. Universities and Sustainability
  20. Entrepreneurs and Sustainability
  21. Fairy Tales and Mermaids
  22. Waste and the Circular Economy
  23. Scotland and Sustainability
  24. Trailer (no longer available)
  25. The Blue Economy
  26. Corporate Responsibility
  27. Environmental Law
  28. Going Glocal (a bonus episode)
  29. Wicked, Clumsy and Post-Normal
  30. Stewardship, and Responsible Leadership
  31. Trailer (no longer available)
  32. Don't Be A Greenwasher
  33. Data and Trust
  34. The Power of Solar
  35. The Lancaster Environment Centre
  36. Connecting with Nature
  37. Trailer (no longer available)
  38. Inspiring Business Sustainability
  39. The Problem of Insecure Work
  40. Modern Slavery in the UK
  41. What is the Anthropocene?
  42. Trailer (no longer available)
  43. Lake District Farmers
  44. Soil - It's Alive
  45. Farming and Sustainability
  46. Net Zero Meat?
  47. Down on the Farm (Part One)
  48. Down on the Farm (Part Two)
  49. Trailer (no longer available)
  50. The Economics of Pollution
  51. Green Consumer Spending
  52. Sustainable Finance
  53. Hooked on Salmon Farming
  54. Trailer (no longer available)
  55. Shaping Corporate Sustainability
  56. What is Creative Evaluation?
  57. The Future of Normal
  58. Grilling Jan

Season 2

  1. How to Mine an Asteroid
  2. Greenpeace and Beyond
  3. Good or Evil in Business
  4. B-Corps, Brands, and Business
  5. Nature Restoration
  6. A Taskforce for Nature
  7. Who'd Be A Sustainability Manager?
  8. Ranking Business Schools
  9. Tackling Inactivity
  10. Turning Ideas Into Norms
  11. B-School to ESG School
  12. The Bay (With Fewer Murders)
  13. Is Plastic Fantastic?
  14. Rethinking Plastic Packaging
  15. Better Plastics Behaviour
  16. Shopping for Plastics