HOT TAKE: Urban Legends - Sorting City Climate Facts from Fiction
As the climate crisis accelerates, our information ecosystem has become a critical battleground. Coordinated climate disinformation - driven by fossil fuel interests - is increasingly targeting cities...
6 Aug 29min
HOT TAKE: Can Cities Clean Up the Cloud?
As the AI boom drives an unprecedented rush for computing power, cities face a critical question: how do we support digital expansion, without derailing net-zero climate goals? Left unregulated, data ...
23 Jul 23min
The Shipping Forecast: Climate Edition
The winds of change are blowing through the world’s maritime hubs…despite some national governments’ efforts to the contrary. While the shipping industry carries 90% of global trade, it also leaves a ...
19 Mai 36min
Creating ecosystems of climate truth: How can cities defend information integrity?
From fossil fuel lobbying to coordinated political disinformation campaigns, vested interests have built a profitable disinformation infrastructure designed to spread confusion, polarize debate, and e...
5 Mai 32min
The Cloud vs the Climate? Lessons from Ireland on the data centre debate
As our lives become increasingly digital, the infrastructure powering them is sparking a global debate: we need data centres, but at what cost to the climate and our access to energy? These massive fa...
21 Apr 32min
HOT TAKE: One day, millions of journeys: Celebrating World Public Transport Day!
Ready for a ride? In this episode, we’re celebrating the inaugural World Public Transport Day, created by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), along with its global partners, and ...
16 Apr 19min
The Hidden Infrastructure of Urban Resilience
Cities aren’t just structures. They’re people. In the rapidly urbanising cities of the global majority, many of those people are migrant workers. They often work informally, with limited protection w...
7 Apr 31min
A Tale of Two Cities: A New Chapter
In this episode of Cities 1.5, we bring you another "Tale of Two Cities" - but this time, David sits down with two pioneering mayors from opposite ends of the globe. Despite their vastly different his...
24 Mar 32min
