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]]> Wrishi Sutradhar and Carmine Fiume Buzzsprout-19311298 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:00:00 -0400 69 4 10 trailer false S4E10: The Week London Couldn’t Breathe S4E10: The Week London Couldn’t Breathe In this episode of Sustainability Forward, we introduce a new type of content: a story-led sustainability deep dive.

Instead of our usual conversation format, we step back into one defining moment in environmental history: the Great Smog of London.

For five days in December 1952, London was trapped under a thick, toxic blanket of coal smoke and fog. Streets disappeared. Transport stopped. Hospitals filled. Thousands of people died. And eventually, the disaster helped force a political and social reckoning that led to the UK’s Clean Air Act.

But this is not just a story about air pollution in the past.

It is a story about what happens when environmental harm becomes normalised. It is about systems that appear to work until their hidden costs become impossible to ignore. And it is about the role of policy, public pressure and leadership in changing what society is willing to tolerate.

As cities, companies and governments today confront climate change, air pollution, water stress, biodiversity loss and other sustainability challenges, the Great Smog offers a powerful reminder: sustainability failures rarely arrive out of nowhere. They build slowly, often in plain sight.

This episode asks a simple but urgent question: what are we breathing in today without noticing?

]]> In this episode of Sustainability Forward, we introduce a new type of content: a story-led sustainability deep dive.

Instead of our usual conversation format, we step back into one defining moment in environmental history: the Great Smog of London.

For five days in December 1952, London was trapped under a thick, toxic blanket of coal smoke and fog. Streets disappeared. Transport stopped. Hospitals filled. Thousands of people died. And eventually, the disaster helped force a political and social reckoning that led to the UK’s Clean Air Act.

But this is not just a story about air pollution in the past.

It is a story about what happens when environmental harm becomes normalised. It is about systems that appear to work until their hidden costs become impossible to ignore. And it is about the role of policy, public pressure and leadership in changing what society is willing to tolerate.

As cities, companies and governments today confront climate change, air pollution, water stress, biodiversity loss and other sustainability challenges, the Great Smog offers a powerful reminder: sustainability failures rarely arrive out of nowhere. They build slowly, often in plain sight.

This episode asks a simple but urgent question: what are we breathing in today without noticing?

]]> Wrishi Sutradhar and Carmine Fiume a0abfa7f-1ba8-42b7-a0b4-24005a557a6c Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:01:00 -0400 1190 4 10 false S4E9: Can Electricity Ever Be 100% Clean? 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% decarbonised?

In this episode of Sustainability Forward, Wrishi and Carmine explore what “100% clean electricity” actually means, and why the final stretch of decarbonisation is often the hardest. They discuss the role of wind and solar, storage, grid expansion, demand flexibility, firm clean power, geothermal, market design and public acceptance.

The conversation also looks at real-world examples, including Uruguay’s near-100% renewable electricity system and South Australia’s rapid shift towards high levels of wind and solar. The episode opens with a striking comparison between a proposed 9 GW AI data centre campus in Utah, the Boeing Everett factory, and the electricity consumption of the entire state of Utah — a reminder that the clean power challenge is not just about today’s grid, but the much larger grid of the future.

A practical, accessible conversation on whether 100% decarbonised electricity is possible — and what it would actually take to get there.

]]> 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% decarbonised?

In this episode of Sustainability Forward, Wrishi and Carmine explore what “100% clean electricity” actually means, and why the final stretch of decarbonisation is often the hardest. They discuss the role of wind and solar, storage, grid expansion, demand flexibility, firm clean power, geothermal, market design and public acceptance.

The conversation also looks at real-world examples, including Uruguay’s near-100% renewable electricity system and South Australia’s rapid shift towards high levels of wind and solar. The episode opens with a striking comparison between a proposed 9 GW AI data centre campus in Utah, the Boeing Everett factory, and the electricity consumption of the entire state of Utah — a reminder that the clean power challenge is not just about today’s grid, but the much larger grid of the future.

A practical, accessible conversation on whether 100% decarbonised electricity is possible — and what it would actually take to get there.

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