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May 18, 2026

S4E9: Can Electricity Ever Be 100% Clean?

Electricity is becoming the backbone of the modern economy — powering transport, heating, industry, cooling, digital infrastructure and increasingly, AI. But as demand grows, can we really build a power system that is 100% de...

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May 5, 2026

S4E8: Change in Motion with Jennifer Motles

In this episode of Sustainability Forward , we speak with Jennifer Motles , Chief Sustainability Officer at Philip Morris International , about what sustainability leadership looks like inside a complex global business underg...

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April 21, 2026

S4E7: Retrofitting the Future

In this episode of Sustainability Forward , we turn our attention to one of the most practical — and often underestimated — parts of the climate challenge: buildings . After previously exploring the carbon footprint of indivi...

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April 7, 2026

S4E6: The New Logic of Clean Resilience

In this episode of Sustainability Forward , Wrishi and Carmine explore the new logic of clean resilience . Against the backdrop of the current Middle East crisis, they examine why the implications go far beyond oil prices. Th...

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March 24, 2026

S4E5: AI, Cloud & Sustainability: Reality vs. Hype

AI is everywhere in sustainability right now — but what’s genuinely changing on the ground, and what’s still hype? In this episode of Sustainability Forward , hosts Wrishi Sutradhar and Carmine Fiume sit down with Carlos Silv...

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March 10, 2026

S4E4: Growing Food Where Community Happens

What if the modern version of a UK allotment isn’t a patch of land—but a classroom? In this episode of Sustainability Forward , we speak with Alex Tyink , co-founder and CEO of Fork Farms , whose unlikely journey from opera s...

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Feb. 23, 2026

S4E3: When AI Becomes a Teammate

As energy systems become more complex and data intensive, organisations face a critical challenge: how to scale reliability, throughput, and decision quality without proportionally scaling headcount. In this episode of Sustai...

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Feb. 9, 2026

S4E2: The Era of Water Bankruptcy

What happens when the world doesn’t just face water scarcity — but water bankruptcy? In this episode of Sustainability Forward , we unpack a stark new warning from the United Nations: many of the world’s freshwater systems ar...

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Jan. 20, 2026

S4E1 Your Biggest Climate Impact Is Not What You Think

We often think individual climate action is about small, visible choices — what we eat, what we recycle, or whether we switch off the lights. But do those actions really matter most? In the first episode of the new year, Wris...

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