To celebrate the 50th episode and second birthday of the Green Urbanist Podcast, I sit down with Giulia Mori to discuss the question: What has to happen in this critical decade to ensure successful climate action?

We talk about:

• The need for legislation to push the building industry towards sustainability
• Circular economy and 'Circular Score', a concept Giulia developed with some collaborators
• The challenge of giving up oil, and why we need to do it
• Getting excited about the future again
• Climate adaptation 

Find out more about Circular Score: https://www.ukgbc.org/inside_innovation/the-circular-score/

Connect with Giulia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giulia-mori-b91492120/


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Reporting live from Footprint+ 2022, a new sustainability conference in Brighton, UK.  Featuring interviews with:

• Joe Jack Williams, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
• Barny Evans, Turley
• Amin Taha, Groupwork 
• Steve Webb, Webb Yates Engineers
• Tim Pyne, Footprint+ (Footprint Plus)
•  U+I
• Q-Bot
• Raw Charging

We discuss a range of topics including the net zero energy transition, building with stone and timber,  the sustainability of historic places, retrofit robots and more!

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Gustavo and Younha are both Technical Directors at Atelier Ten, an environmental design consultancy. Combining expertise in architecture and engineering they shape buildings and masterplans to be sustainable and healthy. 
In this episode we discuss:

• What is environmental design and how it differs for buildings and masterplans
• Circular design in masterplanning
• Carbon emissions and sinks in landscape design
• How the development and design industry is changing and the need for collaboration and debate

This episode was recorded at the Footprint+ Conference in Brighton in May 2022. We recorded this with a single microphone sitting outside near to the beach so there is background noise. It's not too distracting and hopefully gives you a sense of the atmosphere on the day. 

 At some points in the conversation we make reference to 'Patrick'. That is Patrick Bellew, Founding Director of Atelier Ten, who spoke at the conference earlier in the day. 

Find out more about Atelier Ten: https://www.atelierten.com/


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Biophilia is about how we as humans have an innate love and connection to other living things. It is no surprise then that spending time in natural environments such as forests, mountains and parks, is extremely beneficial to our mental and physical health. But how can we recreate our natural biophilic habitat in urban areas? Can we make cities good homes for other living things too?

Sources (articles):

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/studies-on-natures-mental-health-benefits-show-massive-western-bias
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049022000263?via%3Dihub
• https://www.futureoflondon.org.uk/2020/10/20/parks-and-green-space-does-everyone-feel-welcome/
• https://www.groundwork.org.uk/news-report-finds-severe-inequalities-in-access-to-parks-and-greenspaces-in-communities-across-the-uk/
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/10/plants-humans-dont-need-extinction-biodiversity-study
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ginkgo-biloba-species-history/

Sources (Books):

• Civilised to Death, Christopher Ryan
• Darwin Comes to Town, Menno Schilthuizen
• Flourish, Michael Pawyln and Sarah Ichioka
• From What Is to What If, Rob Hopkins
• Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall-Kimmerer

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This episode is a conversation with Samantha Suppiah, Christina Mirasol Sayson, Anna Denardin and Nolita Mvunelo of Possible Futures. 
 
We talk about colonialism and sustainability, the realities of life in the Global South and the need for communities to be able to define their own vision for a regenerative future.

Note: This episode is pretty heavy and may be challenging for listeners in the Global North, who are not used to considering colonialism. I invite you to stick with it and keep an open mind. This is a really important discussion.


Footnotes:

1. In the 37th minute there is a reference to "2 degrees Centigrade".  Climate scientists typically refer to temperature in Celsius in discussing climate change. Celsius is interchangeable with Centigrade.  
2. In the 41st minute there is a reference to "10 million people dying from climate emergencies" - there is actually no current consensus estimate on how many people will die at a temperature rise of 2 deg C.  This is speculation only.  What we do have is a consensus estimate of mass migrations: for every degree increase, 1 billion migrants.  The entire issue of mass migration has notably been omitted from IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (2022).

Find out more about Possible Futures:
https://www.possiblefutures.earth/


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In this episode, we talk about Farah's new book Net Zero City, the role of urban design in achieving a net zero city, and a clear process for cities to decarbonise in 10 years.

Farah Naz, is an award winning Climate Change strategist with over 20 years’ experience in the construction sector gained in the USA, UK, Southeast Asia and most recently the United Arab Emirates (UAE). She is a Chartered Engineer (UK), Fellow of CIBSE, LEED and WELL AP and Verified Research Expert for Dubai Future Foundation. Farah Chairs CIBSE UAE Chapter and is an advocate of STEM education for the future generation. Farah recently co authored a book on Net Zero City, which is considered the first book published from the Middle East Region.

Find out more about Farah and the book: https://netzerocitybook.com/

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Steve O'Reilly works in a policy & communications role at Ireland's national centre for the Circular Economy, The Rediscovery Centre. Steve spent over 7 years in the Netherlands, Europe's circular economy hotspot, working on many projects related to circularity and becoming inspired by the circular innovation he saw there. Upon returning to Ireland during the pandemic, Steve took up a position in The Rediscovery Centre in Dublin to help drive circularity back in Ireland.

In this episode, Steve shares insights into the social potential of circularity, how it is blossoming in rural communities and what we can learn from the Dutch.

Learn more about the Rediscovery Centre: http://www.rediscoverycentre.ie/

Connect with Steve: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-o-reilly/


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It turns out what's good for us is also good for the planet.

How can we design housing for human beings that aligns with our evolution? In this episode I talk about how Co-Housing and Eco-Village concepts could be a proxy for hunter gatherer tribes by creating small, cooperative communities within urban settings. This way of living has huge benefits for our wellbeing and can also be an effective way of minimising energy and resource use. A Win-Win for people and the environment.

Resources and further reading:
Articles/web pages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousing
https://journal.theaou.org/news-and-reviews/the-popularity-of-cohousing-in-demark/
https://cohabitas.com/a-visit-to-saettedammen-co-housing/
https://www.lilac.coop/community/
https://gen-europe.org/podcast/episode-6-lets-build-an-ecovillage-lessons-from-a-life-in-community/
https://laecovillage.org/

Books:
Civilised to Death, Christopher Ryan
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
Uncivilised Genes, Gustav Milne

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This episode is part 1 of a series about  human evolution, our prehistory and Hunter Gatherer ways of life. Why should urbanists be interested in this? In this episode I make the argument that:

• We evolved over 2 million years as foragers and it is the only environmentally and socially sustainable way of life we know of.
• Living this way, embedded within ecosystems, is what what we are optimised for and therefore how human beings thrive.
• Life in our prehistoric past (and in modern hunter gatherer bands) is not nearly as awful as we think. In fact we can learn a lot from their approach to life, work, play and community.

This means that our pre-history should be a key design consideration in architecture and urban design. In part 2 (and maybe 3) I will set out specifically what this means for urban design.

Sources:
Civilised to Death, Christopher Ryan
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
Uncivilised Genes, Gustav Milne
https://theconversation.com/hunter-gatherers-live-nearly-as-long-as-we-do-but-with-limited-access-to-healthcare-104157
https://phys.org/news/2016-07-hunter-gatherers-fundamental-human-social-networks.html

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Michael Pawlyn established Exploration Architecture in 2007 and has built a reputation as a thought leader in regenerative design and the circular economy. He has lectured internationally and, in 2011, became one of only a small handful of architects to have a talk posted on TED.com which has since had over 1.8 million views. He is the author of Flourish: Design Paradigms for our Planetary Emergency (with co-author Sarah Ichioka) and Biomimicry in Architecture.

In this episode we talk about:

• Regenerative Design
• Biomimicry
• Indigenous Wisdom
• Systems Change and shifting Paradigms.

All of these ideas are captured in the amazing new book Flourish, which I encourage you to read. More info here: https://www.flourish-book.com/

Michael and Sarah also have an excellent podcast called Flourish Systems Change: https://www.flourish-book.com/flourishsystemschange-podcast

Flourish Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/flourish.systems.change/
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