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Shaken Not Burned
Shaken Not Burned is the podcast that helps you make sense of sustainability. We unpack the big debates shaping climate, business, food, and society: debunking myths, clarifying trade-offs, and sharing ideas you can actually use to think, decide, and act in a changing world.
Episodes
129 episodes
The price of uncertainty: who pays when risk becomes reality?
Insurance is supposed to protect us from risk. But what happens when the risks themselves are changing?Risk doesn't disappear because we fail to recognise or price it. Decisions that make sense individually — pumping more groundwa...
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How do you make the future insurable? With Convex Insurance
What makes something insurable — and what happens when the risks change?This week on Shaken Not Burned, Felicia talks to
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When insurance isn’t enough: WWF and the insurance protection gap
When disaster strikes, insurance may pay some of the bill. But who pays the rest?This week on Shaken Not Burned, Felicia Jackson ...
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Water, risk and the economy: when sensible decisions add up to disaster
We rely on water for pretty much everything: growing food, manufacturing goods, building cities and sustaining everyday life. But what happens when the systems we've built around it start to reach their limits?
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Managing disruption: climate risk, trust and the future of resilience
As extreme heat and wildfires sweep across Europe, the gap between recognising climate risk and responding to it is becoming harder to ignore. The good news is that the evidence, expertise and many of the solutions we need already exist. Why, t...
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Infrastructure: built for yesterday, needed for tomorrow
Describing infrastructure as boring was a compliment. A building used to have a relatively straightforward job: keep the weather out and the people inside reasonably comfortable. Roads moved traffic, power systems supplied electricity and facto...
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Sustainability is now operational, with IFS
For years, sustainability has been associated with targets, reporting and disclosure. While those remain essential, they're starting to take a smaller part of the picture. As organisations operate under growing pressure from agein...
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Rethinking buildings with Johnson Controls
For decades we've largely thought about buildings as fixed assets: we build them, maintain them, and expect them to provide the spaces where everyday life happens. But what if that's only part of the story? The built e...
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What makes a city work, with Bentley Systems
Modern cities appear to function effortlessly. We switch on the lights, turn on the tap, catch a train, connect to the internet or walk into a hospital without giving much thought to the systems that make it all possible. Beneath that apparent ...
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Fashion, efficiency and the problem of too much
Welcome to the final episode in our arc on the fashion industry, where we ask an uncomfortable question: are we trying to make fashion more sustainable, or are we mostly trying to manage the side effects of a system that produces more clothing ...
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The realities of circular fashion with Rifò, Empire Apparel
Fashion is often described as one of the world's most polluting industries. The scale can be difficult to grasp as it feels so personal, but every year, billions of garments are produced, sold, worn briefly and discarded, with consequences that...
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Fashion’s fragile supply chains with the Business and Human Rights Centre
The clothes you're wearing have travelled a remarkable distance before reaching your wardrobe.A typical garment may spend months moving through a global network of farms, mills, factories, suppliers, logistics providers and retailers. Ra...
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When climate risk hits fashion’s bottom line with Apparel Impact Institute
For years, sustainability in fashion has often been discussed almost as a parallel conversation to the business itself. Some brands publish reports, set targets and talk about responsibility, while others turn their sustainability credentials i...
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The AI conversation we should be having
AI is no longer just a technology issue, it’s starting to reshape how whole systems operate. Yet we’re not paying enough attention to that yet: most of the focus on AI is on what it can do, with individuals and organisations alike ...
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The trust layer: AI and the future of identity with alongID
As AI systems become more autonomous, the conversation is shifting from capability toward something much bigger: trust, legitimacy, identity and participation in digital systems.In this episode of <...
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If AI can build your business, who's in control? With DeepWisdom
Generative AI promised to transform how we work, while Agentic AI is beginning to transform how businesses themselves are built. In this week’s episode of Shaken Not Burned,
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AI is powerful, but why is transformation so hard? With University of Exeter
AI is becoming one of those topics where the scale of the claims can make it surprisingly difficult to work out what is actually happening.We are told it will transform business, unlock extraordinary productivity gains, reshape jobs, an...
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The mining paradox: a clean future built on a dirty industry
This is the final episode in our mining arc. Rather than revisiting what we’ve already covered, we step back to ask a different question: what does mining actually teach us about how change happens in complex systems?Across the series, o...
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How modern mining must start with trust, with Mokwateh
Welcome to the latest episode in our mining arc! In the previous two episodes, we covered the geopolitics of criti...
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Do we need deep sea mining? With Seas At Risk
Welcome to the second instalment of our mining arc. After covering the geopolitics of critical minerals (check out the episode
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The geopolitics of critical minerals with Minefield Consulting
Once a somewhat niche industry, critical minerals are now dominating headlines, influencing geopolitical trends and driving international trade. These materials are core components of technologies crucial to the energy transition an...
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Why the world feels unpredictable – and what's really going on
The world is starting to feel unpredictable in ways that are difficult to pin down.Not just because of individual events, but because of how many different pressures are building at the same time. Climate impacts are becomi...
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Season 6: sustainability and resilience, one sector at a time
Two years on, we have reached season 6!We have explored a wide range of topics, from the just transition to the planetary boundaries, through the circular economy and climate risk. Now, it's time to delve even deeper into our quest to h...
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What happens when agriculture stops guessing? With Agzen
The food system underpins our entire society. Its stability is crucial: when it starts to wobble, prices rise, availability becomes uncertain, and stress travels quickly from farms to household. Yet, much of modern agriculture still...
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Climate decisions hidden in plain sight with Verdical Group
Buildings shape much of our daily lives, but their environmental impact often goes unnoticed. Yet the built environment accounts for nearly 40% of global energy-related carbon emissions, from the energy used to heat and power buildings to the m...
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