📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. Hello everyone and Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast, I am your host, Aristide from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, activists, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.

With today’s episode we will go amongst others back to the topic that we hold dearest to our hearts, urban metabolism. If you have ever explored this topic, one of the first pieces of information that you will encounter is the article “The changing metabolism of Cities” which quantified the energy, materials, water and waste flows from 8 cities co-authored by today’s guest Chris Kennedy. In fact, Chris has been one of the main driving forces for the renaissance of the urban metabolism field in the late 2000s. Chris is a Professor and the Director of Industrial Ecology Program at the University of Victoria. He has worked for over 20-years on strategies for addressing global climate change, drawing upon economics, technology, policy and industrial ecology perspectives. His research helped the development of a standard approach for city-wide greenhouse inventorying – as well as mitigation strategies. Holding qualifications in civil engineering, economics and business, he has conducted consulting work on sustainable infrastructure and cities for several national governments, as well as the World Bank and others. He previously served as President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and author of The Evolution of Great World Cities: Urban Wealth and Economic Growth.

On this episode, we talk about the renaissance of the urban metabolism field, on why Chris dedicated more than 10 years on this topic, what were some of the learnings he encountered and what are his current research interests.

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📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. Hello everyone and Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast, I am your host, Aristide from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, activists, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.

I hope you enjoyed your summer holidays. We are back and today, we will talk about how a concept that you all know came to life and how it was used by citizens and policy makers to reduce our environmental impact. In fact, I think it is one of the most wide-spread concepts that helps to quickly synthesise the current state of the environment. This concept is the ecological footprint. To talk about it I have his co-creator and the author of “Our Ecological Footprint – Reducing Human Impact on the Earth”, Mathis Wackernagel. Mathis co-developed this concept during his PhD in the University of British Columbia. Since then, he has received numerous awards such as the 2006 World Wide Fund for Nature Award for Conservation Merit, and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of the US Society for Ecological Economics. Since 2003, he co-founded the Global Footprint Network, an independent think tank that develops and promotes tools for advancing sustainability, including the ecological footprint and biocapacity, which measure the amount of resources we use and how much we have.

On this episode, we talk about the creation of the ecological footprint concept, its significance for cities and how it can be used as a compass to drastically reduce our overall environmental impact without borrowing or stealing from present and future generations.

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📺 Bienvenu.e au 31ème épisode du podcast Circular Metabolism: Vers des villes sobres et Low-Tech avec Philippe Bihouix 📺.

Je suis Aristide Athanassiadis de Metabolism of Cities. Dans ce podcast nous interviewons des chercheurs, des décideurs politiques et des praticiens pour mieux comprendre le métabolisme de nos villes et comment réduire leur impact environnemental d’une manière juste et contextualisée.

Après plusieurs épisodes en anglais traitant de comment transformant l’économie grâce à la décroissance, la post-croissance, l’économie du doughnut et d’autres concepts, on revient avec un épisode en français pour traiter d’une question un peu technique mais fondamentale pour la survie ou la transformation de nos villes. Dans les premiers épisodes de ce podcast, on avait voulu traiter des sujets tels que l’implémentation et la territorialisation de l’économie circulaire, comment rendre les villes plus productives ainsi que souligner le fait que rendre les villes immatérielles est une illusion.

Dans cet épisode, j’espère aller un peu plus dans les détails dans cette idée de rendre les villes plus autonomes et plus sobres. Pour explorer cette thématique avec moi, j’ai invité Philippe Bihouix, auteur de nombreux ouvrage tels que « l’Age des Low-techs » et « Le Bonheur était pour demain ». Philippe est ingénieur centralien et est le directeur générale de l’AREP une agence d’architecture pluridisciplinaire filiale de SNCF Gares & Connexions. Depuis une dizaine d’années Philippe regarde de plus près la connexion entre ressources, climat et technologies.  

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📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. Hello everyone and Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast, I am your host, Aristide from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, activists, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.

Today’s episode is special. Today we celebrate the 30th episode of the Circular Metabolism Podcast and for that I’m wearing my favourite shirt. Over these 29 episodes I spoke and learned from very intelligent people about how to move forward with our current mess. I talked about urban ecology, territorial metabolism, circular economy, social ecology, degrowth, post-growth and today we’re going to talk about another fascinating topic that might become our compass for the numerous challenges that cities face. But today’s is also special because I get to talk with the fantastic Kate Raworth. Although we have never talked before, I know we already share some things in common. One of them is our love for doughnuts as it was my favourite treat when I was a kid. The other ones you’re going to discover them later in the episode.

To talk about Doughnuts, I have the author of the international bestseller “Doughnut Economics, Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st century Economist” which has been translated into 20 languages. She is an economist and over the past 25 years she has worked with Oxfam, UNDP, and in the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Zanzibar. She currently teaches at Oxford University and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Kate is also the co-founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab, an online collaborative laboratory that brings together tools and stories about how to transform a radical idea to transformative action.

On this episode we talk about the power of metaphors for implementing tranformative visions, how to transform visions into actions and how to navigate through the complex and interlinked societal and environmental challenges of the 21st century. We also discuss how doughnut economics could be applied at the city level and what a city like that might look like.

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📺 Welcome to the 29th episode of the Circular Metabolism podcast: "The Role of Urban Infrastructures" with Prof. Sybil Derrible 📺.

On today’s episode I wanted to focus on a piece of our cities which I always found a bit boring. It is topic dominated by engineers and which I thought there is nothing new happened since the beginning of the 50s or 70s. However, I later came to realise that if we want to reduce the environmental impact of existing and especially new cities then they are a key component. If you haven’t figured it out already I’m talking about infrastructures. Indeed, urban infrastructures are dictating the way flows circulate with our cities and have immense political and urbanistic implications.

To talk about infrastructures, I have Sybil Derrible who has written and edited two books and written countless articles on the topic. Sybil is Associate Professor of Urban Engineering in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and the Director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks (CSUN) Lab. His research interests include the planning, design, and modeling of urban infrastructure. More particularly, he looks at both the supply of (e.g., network properties) and demand (e.g., consumption behavior) for infrastructure. From buildings, water/wastewater, electricity, gas, telecom, transport, and even solid waste, all are part of a nexus of co-dependent and ubiquitous elements of infrastructure that is critical to our cities, acting as a significant generator of economic activity and social development. His main goal is to rethink infrastructure planning and design practices and inform new policies to help design smart, sustainable, and resilient cities.

On this episode we talk about the role of urban infrastructures to address urban (environmental) challenges. We discuss about the variety and differences of infrastructures existing across the world as well as how we should plan and implement infrastructures in the future for existing and new cities.

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📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.

In this new episode, I wanted to explore a concept that has been extremely popular over the last decade or two in the fields of research, practice and policy in urban areas. And I think it was even more present during the current pandemic. However as we will discover later in this episode there is a lot of fuzziness yet at a lot of stakes behind a clear definition and implementation. The concept I’m referring to is urban resilience.

To talk about this concept I’m lucky to have Sara Meerow who has wrote many articles on the topic. Sara is Assistant Professor at Arizona State University and is an interdisciplinary social-ecological systems scientist working at the intersection of urban geography and planning. Her research tackles the challenge of how to make cities more resilient in the face of climate change and other social and environmental hazards, while at the same time more sustainable and just. Specifically, she works on the theories and practices of urban resilience, green infrastructure, and climate change adaptation planning in a range of cities.

On this episode we define urban resilience, discuss what actions can be implemented at a city level to increase it, but also how to negotiate between the different trade offs when dealing with the concept.

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📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.

In this new episode, I wanted to move away from studying economic alternatives, technological solutions and policy measures and get back to an essential question which is how you plan and design cities. In fact, there is a very intimate relationship between the territorial organisation of a city and how they consume resource flows but also how they reuse waste flows as new resources. In other terms I wanted to discuss with one world renowned architect and urbanist, Paola Viganò.

Paola is the co-founder of the architectural study Studio and Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL (Lausanne) and at IUAV Venice. Paola, has received numerous awards for her work including the French Grand Prix de l'Urbanisme in 2013, the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture in 2018 and has received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2016. Her Studio has worked on constructing visions for some important metropolitan areas: Le Grand Paris, métropole de l’après Kyoto; Brussels 2040; Lille 2030 and Montpellier 2040. In 2012 Studio was chosen to propose a vision on New Moscow. In her work she has also developed some concepts to rethink cities such as the porous city and the horizontal metropolis. 

On this episode we talked how architects and urbanists might design 21st. century cities, how they can articulate all pressing challenges into one spatial reconfiguration and how new concepts can help to acceleration transitions.

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📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.

In the last episodes we explored some alternative societal and economic models such as degrowth, living well within limits, permacircularity and we continue our quest by looking into postgrowth. Today is a special day, I have the pleasure to talk to Tim Jackson about his new book Post Growth – Life After Capitalism!

Tim is an ecological economist and writer. Since 2016 he has been Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). He holds degrees in mathematics (MA, Cambridge), philosophy (MA, Uni Western Ontario) and physics (PhD, St Andrews). Tim has been the author of Prosperity Without Growth a book that was highly influential for me 10 years ago when I was exploring the relationship between material flows, GDP and prosperity. Over the last years, he seems to be obsessed with growth, its ills and what we should really focus on in the society of tomorrow.

His new book title Post Growth which I had the pleasure to ready thanks to the team at Polity is a mix between a history of economy, capitalism, science, and philosophy and a manifesto on how to build the next economy. You can find quotes of the Beatles, Boltzmann, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Stuart Mill and many others in order to better understand what the good life is and what motivates us.

On this episode we talk about how to what is post growth, what life after capitalism might look like, as well as how the flow state might be a solution to overcome current challenges.

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📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. This podcast is hosted by Aristide Athanassiadis from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we talk with researchers, policy makers and practitioners to understand what makes urban metabolism and economies more circular.

On this episode, I am very excited to speak with Julia Steinberger who is a Professor of Societal Challenges of Climate Change at the Université de Lausanne. After earning her PhD in MIT on ultracold hydrogen, she came back to Lausanne and Zürich to do postdoc fellowships before joining the Klagenfurt Institute of Social Ecology in 2007. In 2011, Julia became Associate Professor in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds on Industrial, before returning last August in Université de Lausanne becoming a full professor. Julia researches and has largely published on the relationship between human needs and well-being on the one side and their associated resource and pollution requirements. More notably she is a lead author for the IPCC and is leading a project called Living Well within Limits. Finally, I think is fair to say that aside from research, Julia is a seasoned activist on environmental and societal subjects.

On this episode we talk about how to live well within limits, on how affluence is the strongest determinants of global impacts, what are some radical approaches to get out from the current mess and what are some strategies the reduce the environmental impact of cities.

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📺 Bienvenu.e au podcast Circular Metabolism 📺.

Je suis Aristide de Metabolism of Cities. Dans ce podcast nous interviewons des chercheurs, des décideurs politiques et des praticiens pour mieux comprendre le métabolisme de nos villes et comment réduire leur impact environnemental net d’une manière juste et contextualisée.

Dans cet épisode, j’ai l’honneur de discuter avec Dominique Bourg. Dominique est philosophe et Professeur honoraire de l’Université de Lausanne. Il a pas un mais deux doctorats, trois licences, deux Maîtrises et deux DEA. Il dirige et co dirige plusieurs collection et revues dont la Pensée Ecologique de chez PUF. Il a aussi présidé plusieurs conseils scientifiques de fondations telle que la Fondation Nicolas Hulot et actuellement la Fondation Zoein. Finalement, il s’est également aventuré dans les élections européennes de 2019 en menant la liste « Urgence Ecologie ».

Je voulais passer un moment avec Dominique aujourd’hui pour discuter de son ouvrage « Ecologie Intégrale – Pour une société permacirculaire » et plus particulièrement de démystifier les concepts d’économie circulaire, d’économie « authentiquement » circulaire et d’économie permacirculaire.

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