Mats & Alexander räddar världen

Mats & Alex reflect on the recent Swedish election, where environmental / sustainability issues seemed to matter less to voters than in a long time.

We talk about this year’s terrible drought. Adaptation and climate change mititgation.

After months of unexplicable absence, we're back! Together with our guests Sara and Courtney, possibly influenced by the Blood Moon, we have a loose and somewhat giggly talk about a serious blood topic.

In this very technical episode we talk about biochar, a way to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it safely in the soil. Or…?

How do you best get rid of something bad? Does tax incentives beat outright bans when it comes to encouraging sustainability. We elaborate.

Stock market crashes and a downturn of real estate prices makes us ask the question if we are resilient enough to handle the next economic crisis. We talk about specialist vs. generalists society and about World Economic Forum.

The third and final episode about Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens. We talk about perhaps one of the biggest revolutions in human history: the invention of our relentless trust in the future.

We continue the book club on Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens. This episode is about empires and the conundrum of “development”.

We begin another round of book clubbing by discussing the captivating Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. First up: The cognitive and agricultural revolutions!

Yet again there is a meeting on climate change. What has happened since Paris? Is USA really going to pull out?

It's hurricane season! And this year the Caribbean has seen more of the worst kind than usual. We dive into what creates hurricanes and make them so devastating. And ponder, sometimes silently, what the heck can be done about it.

We get spiritual in this episode, leaving the city and technology behind to immerse ourselves in nature. We both confess to being touched by the wilderness and we get something sentimental over us when talking about forest walks and mountain hikes.

This episode is about the bad ideas that we usually don’t talk about because, well they’re just not good enough. In reality we talk mostly about geo-engineering, a technological way to fix climate change.

We discuss the importance of trust in society – and this is another crucial ingredient to solve our grand sustainability challenges

Permaculture is taking over the world and Amazon has bought Whole Foods! There are some major things going on in the organic food market, and that is what this episode is all about.

We dive into biogas, a topic we have only touched lightly before. The discussion also leads ut to challenge the "Reduce, reuse, recycle" paradigm. And to challenge milk.

We dive into biogas, a topic we have only touched lightly before. The discussion also leads ut to challenge the "Reduce, reuse, recycle" paradigm. And to challenge milk.

We are talking about the consequences of USA leaving the Paris Agreement. It sounds like Alexander is saying that the global CO2 emissions are 15 billion tons, 23:15 min into the talk, but he is actually saying 50 billion tons…

We take a deeper look at what Alex is up to these days. It became a talk about working in a tool-intense business without a call, feeling well and planning for the future.

In this episode about the need for innovation to create a sustainable world, the boys seem to agree that research should be focused on disruptive technologies that can take us beyond just doing less harm.