Podcast – Page 3 – Innovate Eco

Episode 19 – Circular Economy Fashion – Redesigning The Clothing Industry – Mart Drake-Knight, Rapanui

:Fast fashion focuses on speed and low cost delivering new ‘collections’ of clothing for every season of every year inspired by the latest catwalk looks or celebrity styles. But as we know cheap...

Episode 18 – Biomimicry – Taking Inspiration From Nature To Solve Environmental Problems – Megan Shuknecht, The Biomimicry Institute

Many people think that great ideas and solutions to big problems come from a Eureka moment. Archimedes sitting in a bath or Newton sitting under an apple tree for example. But most of the time the...

Episode 17 – Taking the Train to China – The Climate Academic Leading by Example by Refusing to Fly for Work – Dr. Roger Tyers, University of Southampton

Although this podcast often focuses on disruptive innovation and technology that is helping to tackle environmental problems. I also like to do the occasional episode that focuses on a broader...

Episode 16 – Small Farming Robots – Rethinking Food Production to Help Restore the Environment– Ben Scott-Robinson, Small Robots

The agricultural impacts of farming are vast. And these impacts come in all forms from initial land use change and the loss of habitat and wildlife that comes with that to the impacts of fertilisers...

Episode 15 – Vertical Forests – The Benefits of Creating Buildings for Trees and Humans Together – Stefano Boeri

Over half the world’s population now live in cities. With the United Nations predicting that figure will rise to a whopping 68% in the coming decades. Existing cities have been...

Episode 14 – Electric Flying Cars – Ready For The Skies, But Will It Be Good News For the Environment? – Akshat Kasliwal, University of Michigan

We are all so used to seeing futuristic images of cityscapes, they don’t even really shock us anymore. They’ve been common in sci-fi films for decades with bright neon lights and massive...