50: Thinking Long-Term & Constructive Disruption | Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is joined from Cardiff Wales by Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales.  Sophie and Prof. Bhattacharya discuss: 🚇 How using a public health lens to imagine solutions for transportation challenge can spur decarbonization. 📓 How a holistic approach to education and a public safety net can can provide for ethical, fulfilled, global citizens while saving money. 💬 Why businesses benefit from long term government goals to operate across boundaries to create public/private partnerships, and more…  This week we are joined from Cardiff by Sophie Howe, the Future Generations Commissioner of Wales, the first person to hold this globally unique position.   During her term, Sophie successfully got the Government to redirect funds toward public transportation solutions, away from roadway development, including a 10-fold investment in cycling and walking routes, targeted at neighborhoods with the highest air pollution and lowest life expectancy. Her office has championed the voice of young people with a new future fit school curriculum in Wales and extended voting rights to those as young as 16. Sign up to receive weekly episodes right to your inbox: bit.ly/csbpodcastemail Submit your "Sustaining Sustainability" feedback and/or questions: bit.ly/csbpodcastfeedback This episode was researched, recorded, edited, and produced by Prof. CB Bhattacharya and CSB Team of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business: www.sustainablebusiness.pitt.edu Music: "Lively" by Dee Yan-Key From the Free Music Archive CC BY NC SA creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcod