We produce a lot of clothing – and a lot of waste along with it. Our #TransformingTomorrow episode Waste in the Textile Industry looks at production waste: buff.ly/bvtrlM6 The Sustainable Game? explores football shirts and the impacts of producing kit: buff.ly/Xsr0Dds @thepaulturner.bsky.social
The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business
@pentlandcentre.bsky.social
Research centre at Lancaster University, working towards a 🌍where business understands, acts upon, & furthers sustainability. www.lancaster.ac.uk/pentland/ Home of the Transforming Tomorrow podcast. https://podfollow.com/transforming-tomorrow
Across #TransformingTomorrow, we’ve explored forced labour and modern slavery challenge from different perspectives: Human Trafficking: buff.ly/t7xoGGz. The EU, Sustainability Regulations and the Green Deal: buff.ly/e1i87tK. AI as a Force for Good in Modern Slavery Reporting: buff.ly/quUxUoU.
REMINDER - Nature Tools and the Tool Stack Webinar by Dr Neytullah Ciftci on Tues 6 Oct 2026 will explore the nature tool stack and how businesses can select & combine tools for assessment, decision-making and reporting. Two identical sessions at 08:00 and 16:00 BST Booking & info: buff.ly/rM42I1z
Greenhushing is putting sustainability messaging back in the spotlight. Revisit our #TransformingTomorrow episode The Persuadables: Better Sustainability Messaging, on how sustainability language shapes engagement. 🎧 buff.ly/TMDxLn4 Spotify playlist: buff.ly/ZpjbVLl @thepaulturner.bsky.social
SEMINAR: Join us on Tues 20 Oct 14:00–15:30 in InfoLab C60b/c or Teams for Safer Ocean Industries: Defining social sustainability expectations with Mahmoud Gad, Ophelia Chidgey and Hesham Yousef and chaired by Jan Bebbington All welcome Registration required-More information: tinyurl.com/pc-c4safe
REMINDER: Nature Tools and the Tool Stack Webinar by Neytullah Ciftci on Tues 6 Oct will explore the nature tool stack and how businesses can select & combine tools for assessment, decision-making and reporting. Two identical sessions at 08:00 and 16:00 Booking info: www.trybooking.com/uk/GUQD
With Reuters highlighting how slowly many companies are responding to biodiversity risks, it is a timely moment to revisit our #TransformingTomorrow episode on Nature Corridors and Connectivity. 🌿 🎧 pod.fo/e/37ba5d Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2bU... @thepaulturner.bsky.social
Did a wildfire alert appear on your phone at the weekend? #TransformingTomorrow offer different perspectives on what sits behind climate change: Tracking Climate Change and the Weather: pod.fo/e/361e13 The Psychological Threat of Climate Change: pod.fo/e/44f303 thepaulturner.bsky.social
Do you know where your clothes come from and what they're made of, and why does this photo of @thepaulturner.bsky.social in an array of colourful shirts remind you of fruity chews? Follow the threads in his new blog. buff.ly/dyTRCzx #TransformingTomorrow
In this week's #TransformingTomorrow episode Jan and Paul wrap up season 3 by reflecting on the the range of topics that have been explored in the studio. Find out more about how ideas and ideals have come together and what next year might bring. #ICYMI Listen to the full episode: buff.ly/MhinXYt
Nature Tools and the Tool Stack Webinar by Dr Neytullah Ciftci on Tues 6 Oct 2026 will explore the nature tool stack and how businesses can select & combine tools for assessment, decision-making and reporting. Two identical session at 08:00 and 16:00 BST Booking & info: www.trybooking.com/uk/GUQD
This week we're wrapping up season three of #TransformingTomorrow, thepaulturner.bsky.social and Jan consider how vast the range of subjects our guests have brought into the studio are and attempt to tie these topics together. Listen here: buff.ly/0MNRL3Y
In this week's #TransformingTomorrow episode Dr Mahmoud Gad joins Jan Bebbington and thepaulturner.bsky.social to discuss his work developing an AI platform that can analyse companies’ modern slavery statements both accurately and quickly. #ICYMI - Listen to the full episode: buff.ly/of2n5Fo
This year we have taken a slightly different approach to Reporting on Nature, focusing on the foundations upon which our understanding of nature is built, and the corporate responses needed. Read Nature and Business: What Next for Business Reporting now! www.lancaster.ac.uk/pentland/res...
#TransformingTomorrow Dr Mahmoud Gad returns to talk to Jan and thepaulturner.bsky.social about the AI platform he's built to analyse companies' modern slavery statements and what UK businesses need to do to report and mitigate modern slavery in their supply chains. Listen here: pod.fo/e/4c24a7
#TransformingTomorrow - Dr Nadine Andrews joins us to discuss how #climateanxiety is a natural response to the climate crisis and how understanding psycho-social factors can help us navigate difficult emotions. #ICYMI - Listen here: buff.ly/PAO2vwE
📢 New blog from Dr Neytullah Ciftci on how to make sense of the plethora of nature reporting tools available. If you're a #business that impacts or depends on #nature, this is an essential read. buff.ly/g0LrQ5M
#TransformingTomorrow - Dr Nadine Andrews, an Honorary Researcher at the Pentland Centre, joins Jan Bebbington and @thepaulturner.bsky.social to talk about the psychological toll of climate change, from the values-action gap to burnout among sustainability professionals. Listen here: pod.fo/e/44f303
#TransformingTomorrow - Dr Sophie Alkhaled from Lancaster University Management School joins Jan and thepaulturner.bsky.social to discuss how #entrepreneurship is a means of survival and empowerment for Syrian women who were forced to flee their homeland. #ICYMI - Listen here: pod.fo/e/4486df
Trying to be sustainable introduces a lot of decision-making into our lives, which can be hard when we're also dealing with other factors such as cost and other pragmatic considerations. @thepaulturner.bsky.social reflects on this in his newest blog for us. 👀 buff.ly/AEMnHsB
Decisions, decisions, decisions... - Lancaster University
Transforming Tomorrow co-host Paul Turner on the plethora of decisions that face us all on sustainability issues.
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#TransformingTomorrow - Dr Sophie Alkhaled from Lancaster University joins Jan and thepaulturner.bsky.social to talk about the lives of refugees in camps and communities outside their homelands and how women there have discovered business to help their families live. Listen here: pod.fo/e/4486df
#TransformingTomorrow - Dr Nonhlanhla Dube joins Jan and thepaulturner.bsky.social to discuss humanitarian crises in world, how our knowledge can be limited by what the media in our home countries reports on and where there might be ‘hidden’ issues we don't think about. Listen here: pod.fo/e/442935
#TransformingTomorrow - Dr Nonhlanhla Dube from @lancasteruni.bsky.social joins Jan Bebbington and @thepaulturner.bsky.social to fill in the gaps in our knowledge on the humanitarian sector, disaster relief and refugees. Listen here: podfollow.com/transforming...
#TransformingTomorrow - Dr Laura Giles joins Jan and thepaulturner.bsky.social to talk about the varied benefits of having more carbon in the soil, from food production to flood prevention; shares the results of the surveys and how they varied across farms. #ICYMI - Listen here: pod.fo/e/43c557
#TransformingTomorrow - Dr Laura Giles from University of Dundee – joins Jan Bebbington and thepaulturner.bsky.social to update us on the final outcomes of a partnership that looked at carbon stocks in farm soil and carbon accounting across several holdings in Cumbria. Listen here: pod.fo/e/43c557
#TransformingTomorrow - Dr Madiha Ahmad joins Jan and thepaulturner.bsky.social to talk about the fabric waste and how this is both a natural part of the standard manufacturing process but also something that could be tackled with a different weaving method. #ICYMI - Listen here: pod.fo/e/4367d6
#ICYMI: Join us on 30 June 14:00-15:00 at LUMS LT14/online for a seminar by Jan Bebbington on Corporate biosphere stewardship to know how corporations act as biosphere stewards to address transnational challenges in the Anthropocene All welcome Registration required, info here: tinyurl.com/sem-CBS
#TransformingTomorrow - Dr Madiha Ahmad joins Jan Bebbington and @thepaulturner.bsky.social to talk about her PhD research at Heriot-Watt University, in Edinburgh, which involved looking at sew-free woven garment manufacturing that dramatically reduce fabric #waste. Listen here: pod.fo/e/4367d6
#TransformingTomorrow – Dr Andy Yuille (University of Manchester) joins Jan and thepaulturner.bsky.social to discuss what actions do governments take on assembly recommendations? Do assembly members ever find out why their suggestions are (or are not) taken up? #ICYMI listen here: pod.fo/e/430dc4
📢 New blog from @thepaulturner.bsky.social - he doesn't consider himself to be an entrepreneur, but he's spoken to many of them, and can see the connection between being entrepreneurial and sustainability in business. Read it here - www.lancaster.ac.uk/pentland/new...