{"podcast":{"title":"Gresham College Lectures","slug":"gresham-college-lectures-4610199","podcast_index_feed_id":4610199,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1904814.rss","website_url":"https://www.gresham.ac.uk","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/rhi5hazp8ymt091jqok99ms1tjvy?.jpg","author":"Gresham College","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T02:21:07.784958+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gresham-college-lectures-4610199"},"episode":{"title":"The Price of Pixels: Unmasking the Environmental Impact of Our Digital Lives - Ian Mudway","slug":"the-price-of-pixels-unmasking-the-environmental-impact-of-our-digital-lives-ian-mudway","published_at":"2026-02-27T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gresham-college-lectures-4610199/the-price-of-pixels-unmasking-the-environmental-impact-of-our-digital-lives-ian-mudway","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gresham-college-lectures-4610199","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1904814/episodes/18761078-the-price-of-pixels-unmasking-the-environmental-impact-of-our-digital-lives-ian-mudway.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1904814/episodes/18761078-the-price-of-pixels-unmasking-the-environmental-impact-of-our-digital-lives-ian-mudway.mp3","summary":"Our digital world's convenience masks a heavy environmental cost. This lecture explores the destructive rare earth mineral mining powering our devices, the vast energy consumption of data centres fuelling climate change, and the toxic e-waste contaminating our environment and harming human health. From resource extraction to digital consumption, we'll uncover the environmental trade-offs of our tech-dependent lives and discuss pathways towards a sustainable digital future that minimizes degra...","meta_description":"Our digital world's convenience masks a heavy environmental cost. This lecture explores the destructive rare earth mineral mining powering our devices, th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3464,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gresham-college-lectures-4610199/episodes/the-price-of-pixels-unmasking-the-environmental-impact-of-our-digital-lives-ian-mudway/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gresham-college-lectures-4610199/the-price-of-pixels-unmasking-the-environmental-impact-of-our-digital-lives-ian-mudway.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}