Episode 011 | Rahul Mehrotra: Designing for Adaptation and Regeneration
"The future beckons us to repair, to restore, to maintain, to reserve resources, to rethink our fundamental imagination of where we should live and how we should live."In this podcast I had the great pleasure of interviewing Rahul Mehrotra. I first met Rahul...
Episode 010 | Peter Howard: Smart Carbon Policy and Technology
“In terms of what's actually scary? For me… it's how do we feed our population? How do we feed the next generation? That's an open-ended question that, I think, if you think down the road, the consequences of that are not pretty.”In this episode, I speak...
Episode 009 | Dale Prest: Sustainable Forest Management and the Fight for a Stable Climate
"About 20% of the human's contribution to carbon in the atmosphere is from how we're treating our forests!" In this podcast I talk with Dale Prest, CEO of the Climate Forest Company (CFC). We talk about the global carbon cycle and our future ability to...
Episode 008 | Brad Bradford: Planning and Politics for Sustainable Cities
"My advice would be look for small but tangible ways to get involved, different organizations, different community groups, even just having conversations with people who might have a different perspective and opinion than yours, but trying to find that...
Episode 007 | Pamela Robinson: Planning Sustainable, Smart, Resilient Cities
"We need to say enough is enough in the way in which we plan and imagine, design our cities. We need to stop talking about diversity and actually make it happen.""We need to say enough is enough in the way in which we plan and imagine, design our cities. We...
Episode 006 | Eric Corey Freed: Living Architecture – Architecture That Takes Responsibility for Itself
"Something changed in the last five years - I've run out of patience. Every building needs to generate its own energy, process its own waste, clean its own water, avoid all known cancer-causing chemicals. That's the bar."I’d seen Eric present at a couple of...
Episode 005 | Mike Williams: On Sustainability, Carbon, and Big Data
"Find something you're passionate about and then the change starts to create itself."In this episode, I have had the pleasure of speaking with Mike Williams—a professional engineer who has spent his career specializing in sustainable design, carbon...
Episode 004 | Klaus Hoppe: Inspiring Freiburg’s Green Transformation
“We have to talk to each other.”In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with one of the world’s authorities on low carbon and smart city planning, Klaus Hoppe. I first met Klaus back in 2014 at the World Future Council Conference in Munich, where we...
Episode 003 | Stan Choptiany: Adapting To Climate Change
“I think that the local things that you do, and how you relate to people, and how you build your family, and how you include those, all matter.”In this episode, I had the very great pleasure of interviewing Stan Choptiany, a former high school teacher,...
Episode 002 | Ryan Meyers: Valuing Natural Capital
“We need to move everybody past the question of “is this happening”, and more towards “how can we solve it” as individuals, groups, companies, and countries.”In this episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Meyers, one of the world’s leaders in...
Episode 001 | Jeff Schnurr: Restoring Ecosystems in Africa and Canada
“Once you get in the cycle of seeing something, and striving for a solution, holding yourself accountable to making that change, on a very small scale, you ingrain that habit, and it just grows overtime.”In this, our first episode, I had the pleasure of...
Episode 000 | Craig Applegath: An Introduction to Twenty First Century Imperative and its Host
"As the saying goes, you can either light a candle or curse the darkness, take your pick. Lighting candles has always held a lot more appeal to me."Since starting the podcast, we’ve received many comments from listeners suggesting that we do an episode that...