SHOW NOTES

Episode 10 explores the role of investors – who secure public funds, underpin multinational companies and enable startups to connect and...

Throughout The Oblique Life Global Goals Season 1, we have partnered with Treepoints, a UK-based social enterprise that helps businesses...

In episode 9, we zoom in on waste. Many countries – regardless of their level of industrialisation – are still dumping or incinerating...

In episode 8, we discuss the journey from farm to fork, and its many hurdles, diversions, paradoxes and opportunities. One-third of food...

If the speakers in episode 7 have a common thread (pun intended), it is that fashion must move to a “less and better” paradigm, from...

In this episode, we focus on consumer electronics – any product with a battery or plug. Thanks to them, we work, connect, clean clothes...

The notion today that our planet has infinite resources is as outdated as the 16th century notion that the Earth was flat. Shailendra...

Episode 4 explores the critical, and at times unenviable, role of policy in production and consumption. Buildings and construction...

The word ‘consumption’ is associated with exhausting resources. For as long as civilisations have revelled in materialism, it has equally...

How and how much we produce are under increasing scrutiny, and that is what we explore in episode 2. Agriculture, mining and...

Our first episode investigates how consumerism is causing many of today’s global economic, social and environmental problems. We uncover...