Green Urbanist - Placemaking in the Climate Crisis
Episodes
#27: Dr Nadina Galle - The Internet of Nature, Technology and Urban Ecology
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nadina is an ecological engineer, technologist, and entrepreneur dedicated to working with urban ecologists and planners to apply today’s technology...
#26: Dr Brian O'Ceallaigh - Why Climate Anxiety is Healthy and How to Manage it
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Brian O'Ceallaigh is a clinical psychologist working for the national health service in England and he also happens to be my brother. I sat do...
#25: Alice Schmidt (The Sustainability Puzzle) - Systems Thinking, Circularity and the End of Civilisation?
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a conversation with Alice Schmidt.Alice is an advisor, advocate and author on global sustainability & social transformation. Among...
#24: Luke Newcombe (GrowN22) and Charles Linton - London National Park City Rangers
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode in an ongoing series exploring the work of London National Park City Rangers. I go 'in the field' to to meet Range...
#23: Systems Thinking - An Intro for Climate Action in Cities
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to the concept of Systems Thinking and how it is essential for understanding and taking action on climate change. This episode is in...
#22: Arthur Kay (Skyroom) - Densify Cities with Affordable Homes for Key Workers
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is a conversation with Arthur Kay, Founder and CEO of Skyroom and Bio Bean, and Chair of the Key Workers Homes Fund.Skyroom is an...
#21: Jake Attwood-Harris (Hawkins\Brown) - Whole Life Carbon, Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofitting for Sustainability
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jake is Sustainable Design Advisor at Hawkins\Brown where he led the development of the free open-source Hawkins Brown Emissions Reduction Tool, also ...
#20: Jonny McKenna and Dhruv Sookhoo (Metropolitan Workshop) - A New Kind of Suburbia and Practice-Based Research
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is a conversation with Jonny McKenna and Dhruv Sookhoo of Metropolitan Workshop, a leading practice of architects and urban desig...
#19: Virginia Cinquemani - Key Skills for a Successful Sustainability Career
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is a conversation with Virginia Cinquemani.Virginia is the founder and director of Green Gorilla Consultants, a unique training a...
#18: Liza Degtyareva (4D Sustainability) - Small Business Sustainability, Regenerative Economy, and UN Sustainable Development Goals
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Liza is a business consultant, social innovator and advocate for regenerative economy. She's a member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainabi...
#17: James Godfrey-Faussett - Growing Urban Forests with the Miyawaki Method
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
James grows urban forests around the UK with his company Wild Urban Spaces and with rewilding organisation SUGi. He is an expert in the use of the Miy...
#16: Are Tall Buildings Sustainable?
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode we are asking, are tall buildings sustainable? It is often argued that because of their density, tall buildings are essential ...
#15: Psychology of Climate Action
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode pulls heavily from two excellent books, The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells and The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres a...
#14: Livestock and Climate Change - Why Cows are not (Necessarily) Evil
03 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Green Urbanist, the podcast for urbanists fighting climate change. I'm Ross.The premise of this episode is that the way we current...
#13: Stig Terrebonne (Human City Podcast) - Lessons Learned from Leading Urbanists
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is a collaboration with the Human City podcast. The Human City is a podcast hosted by Stig Terrebonne that focuses on making citi...
#12: Salem Qunsol - Sustainability in the Middle East, Urban Resilience and Bouncing Forward after Covid-19
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Salem is a Sustainability Engineer who has worked on projects in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. Originally from Amman Jordan, he m...
#11: Carbon is Making our Food Less Nutritious
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a mini-episode covering one very interesting topic: Increased atmospheric carbon is making food grow with less nutrients. I cover the research...
#10: Justin Hunt (Blaise) - Future of Mobility and Sustainable, Equitable Transport
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Hunt is a Canadian engineer and entrepreneur, and CEO of an exciting company called Blaise Transit. Blaise is an AI-based software platform tha...
#9: Tiago de Zoeten (Mossy Earth) - Using Reforestation and Rewilding to fight Climate Change
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are taking a step outside cities to explore reforestation and rewilding in a conversation with biologist Tiago de Zoeten.Tiago is a conservat...
#8: Planning for the Future - White Paper on a New Planning System for England
27 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode provides a summary of the main proposals in the UK government White Paper, Planning for the Future, which sets out a new planning system ...
#7: Niall McEvoy - Breathing Life into Cities: Urban Greening, Air Quality, Biophilia and Biodiversity
06 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a conversation with Niall McEvoy.Niall is Business Development Manager at Scotscape, a leading green infrastructure and living wall pr...
#6: Climate Change in Cities - Sea Level Rise and Jakarta, the Sinking Megacity
23 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Green Urbanist Podcast. My name is Ross and this podcast is about how urbanists of all kinds can step up the climate emergency.This epi...
#5: Conrad Richardson - Sustainable Transport, Innovation in the Global South, and Truly Smart Cities
09 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Green Urbanist Podcast, hosted by Ross O'Ceallaigh. This podcast is all about how we can design and manage cities to reduce our ca...
#4: Climate Change in Cities - Heat Waves, Water Shortage and Crime Rates
26 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is Part 1 of a series about how climate change is affecting our cities. There are four episodes in this series, coming out over t...
#3: Giulia Mori - Wellbeing in the Built Environment
12 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Green Urbanist. The podcast for urbanists fighting climate change. I'm Ross.Today's episode is an interview with Giulia Mori....
#2: Three Actions for Cities transitioning to Zero Carbon
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many cities around the world have declared a climate emergency and have committed to reducing their carbon emissions to zero. But where should they st...
#1: Zero Carbon Britain
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I take a look at one scenario for Britain achieving zero carbon emissions put forward by the Centre for Alternative Energy (CAT) in t...
Introduction to the Green Urbanist Podcast
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A short introduction episode for first time listeners.https://twitter.com/GreenUrbanPodhttps://www.instagram.com/greenurbanistpod- - - Subscribe to th...