Foresight with Greg Williams

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Designed as an extension of WIRED’s long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

  1. 11.04.2024

    From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November

    DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment. Listen to and follow WIRED Politics Lab here.Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.Listen to and follow WIRED Politics Lab here.Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    14 мин.

  2. 24.04.2023

    The Circular Bioeconomy

    In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Mathieu Flamini, CEO and co-founder of GFBiochemicals, a leading sustainable biochemical company with the mission to end chemical pollution by finding safer and more sustainable alternatives to the harmful petrochemicals commonly found in everyday products. They discuss decarbonising the chemical industry and building the circular bioeconomy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    44 мин.

  3. 17.04.2023

    Humanity, the Economy and Climate Change – Can We Fix Things?

    In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg cstches up with Lubomila Jordanova, Co-Founder and CEO of Plan A talk about how we make the connection between climate change and the state of the economy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    45 мин.

  4. 11.04.2023

    Sowing the Seeds for a Better Food System

    Indoor agriculture promises to massively reduce the water and land needed to support crops. But at the moment, it only works for a tiny percentage of foods. In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Arnavaz Schatten, director of sustainability at the Berlin-based vertical farming firm InFarm dicuss how vertical farms can massively reduce the environmental impact of our food system. "What could possibly work on Mars could be hugely beneficial on Earth today. We don’t need to wait for the Mars scenario. We need this kind of farming on Earth now,” said Arnavaz when speaking at WIRED Impact in November 2022. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    37 мин.

  5. 03.04.2023

    Making Better Climate Policy

    To create better outcomes we have to create the right governmental and legal frameworks. So how do we make better policy and implement it effectively? In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Alyssa Gilbert, the Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute. Alyssa builds real-world impact by connecting relevant research across the university with policy-makers and businesses. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    37 мин.

  6. 27.03.2023

    The Case For Climate Led Investing

    In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Evelina Olago, the Managing Director, Client & Strategy at Just Climate, part of Generation Investment Management — the sustainable investment firm co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore. They discuss how Evelina is working to find new ways to deploy capital in ways that will have outsize impact for the climate and enable us to transition to net zero effectively. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    41 мин.

  7. 20.03.2023

    Using Nature for Packaging

    In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Insiya Jafferjee the CEO and cofounder of UK biotech startup, Shellworks that aims to replace plastic with materials based in nature. It is estimated that UK households throw away a staggering 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging a year, averaging 66 items per household per week. In this episode, Insiya discusses how her interdisciplinary team is innovating in material science in order to be able to scale products that after use, will be consumed by microbes that are abundant in soil and marine environments. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    34 мин.

  8. 13.03.2023

    Green Energy Will Be Bigger Than The Internet

    In the second episode our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Greg Jackson the CEO of Octopus Energy Group to discuss how we’re at the early stages of dramatic growth in green energy – one that has parallels in the explosive growth of the internet of the past twenty years. They also touch on how we're going to get to net zero, the challenges of getting renewable energy onto complex grids, EV infrastructure, national security and more. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    40 мин.
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    2022 - 2024
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