Episode 21 – Building Roads With Plastic Waste – Toby McCartney, MacRebur
We’ve covered the waste plastic problem in previous episodes, it’s not suprising it’s a big issue and its everywhere and we need solutions for the time being because it doesn’t look like any real bans are coming any time soon. Without meaning to get too political,...
Episode 20 – 3D Ocean Farming – A Greener Way Of Producing Food From The Sea – Bren Smith, GreenWave
The environmental impact of humans reaches all parts of the planet and despite the oceans covering 71% of the earth and us supposedly being land-based creatures, we have managed to have quite a negative effect there too. Fishing for food advanced from a rod and hand...
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 is usually too good to be true. If the costs are taken off the end...
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 path to finding solutions is long, and expensive. Requiring years of...
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 topics and puts the spotlight on individuals or groups leading the...
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 and pesticides. Then you have the state of our farm soils which is a...
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 constructed in concrete and steel and this has come at a price, and that price...
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 weird shaped skyscrapers everywhere…… And there is one thing that...
Episode 13 – Cryptonature – Using Blockchain Technology to Tackle Environmental Problems – Pete Howson, Nottingham Trent University
This week we are talking about the blockchain. Could the technology behind Bitcoin help us tackle some of the worlds biggest environmental problems? There are many issues with trust in today’s society and around environmental concerns, this is no different. How...
Episode 12 – Human psychology and climate change – Forgetting the deniers and having useful conversations – Dan Rubin PsyD, Clinical Psychologist
Today I take a deeper look into the human psychology behind climate change. Is there any way we can change tactics to convince the denialists?…..or are there more important battles we should be fighting first? I interview Dan Rubin PsyD, a clinical psychologist from...