Mission 4: Working smart and living sustainably in the cities of the future

Mission 4: Working smart and living sustainab...

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Mission 6: Can we engineer our food to be better?

INCOMING TRANSMISSION Agents - according to Professor Susan Jebb, Professor of Diet and Population Health at the University of Oxford, “we cannot meet Net Zero targets without changing our diet”. To discover how responsible engineering can help grow the food of the future, we’ve ...  Show more

Mission 5: Cleaning up the skies and space

INCOMING TRANSMISSION Agents - intercepted communications show that travel accounts for around one-fifth of global CO2 emissions, while our obsession with space has put almost eight THOUSAND tonnes of waste into orbit! To learn how responsible engineering can clean up the skies a ...  Show more

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