TFGL2020 - S1 - Ep6 - Climate
Tech for Good Live
English - March 02, 2020 06:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBSociety & Culture Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What is technology doing about the climate crisis? How is it making the Earth cool again? And what on earth is climate tech?
Joining host Hera Hussain are Greg Ashton and Open Data Manchesters‘s Sam Milsom..
And our guest this week is Claire Stocks, activist & exploramentor, who writes at Bee The Change and campaigns with Walk Ride GM.
This week’s topics…
Stat of the week:
10 million additional travellers to fly through manchester airport by the end of the decade
Charity news of the week:
Jeff Bezos just donated 10 billion to fight climate change, so what?
And why that won’t really matter.
Also, does offsetting work as a climate solution: offset.earth
Also...
Tech news of the week:
Quarter of all tweets about climate crisis created by bots.
A Rant or Nice of the week?
It heralds the airport as a line economic driver and hub contrary to eco crisis, how do we tackle the imbalance of economic growth and solving the climate crisis?
But will we see bold steps like in other cities across the UK.
And finally…
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