The Green Urbanist

This episode is a conversation with Morgan Lewis, Co-Founder and CEO at Material Index.

In the UK, 60% of all waste comes from the construction industry and only 2% of building components in the UK are reused. In this episode, Morgan explains how Material Index are trying to tackle this by working with building owners, contractors and project teams to make material reuse happen at scale.

Learn more about Material Index: https://www.material-index.co.uk/

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Learn more and enrol now: Sustainability Essentials for Built Environment Professionals

My new course is now live and available for purchase. It's an introduction to urban sustainability with practical advice for getting started with delivering more sustainable projects. 

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This is part 3 of a 3-part mini-course about how to start bringing sustainability into your work as a built environment professional. In this session, I provide a free training session about Regenerative Design, which is an excerpt from my upcoming full-length course: Sustainability Essentials for Built Environment Professionals

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This is part 2 of a 3-part mini-course about how to start bringing sustainability into your work as a built environment professional. In this session, I provide a free training session about Net Zero Carbon, which is an excerpt from my upcoming full-length course: Sustainability Essentials for Built Environment Professionals

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This is part 1 of a 3-part mini-course coming out this week about how to start bringing sustainability into your work as a built environment professional. In this episode, I give advice for how to approach learning about sustainability and what roles you can play in your career and community.

To get parts 2 and 3 of this mini-course as video lessons delivered to your inbox, sign up to my newsletter: Green Urbanist Newsletter

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In this episode I share some learnings from my recent research project about how climate change is likely to affect an urban nature reserve in London and climate adaptation recommendations for the reserve's management. 
I discuss:

• How to make climate change projections tangible at the city-level
• How climate change may impact on some common tree and vegetation species
• General strategies for how urban parks and natural sites can adapt to climate change

References:

• EU Tree Atlas
• Bastin et al. (2019) Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues
• USDA report: Climate adaptation actions for urban forests and human health

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My guest on this episode is Katrin Klingenberg, the Executive Director of Phius. Phius is a non-profit organization committed to decarbonizing the built environment by making high-performance passive building the mainstream market standard. They are mainly active in USA with some international projects. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Why passive design principles need to be adapted to different climate zones - and how Phius has done this in their standards.
• The role of passive design in net zero carbon.
• How passive design is becoming mainstream in the USA and what else needs to be done to achieve this. 

Learn more about Phius: https://www.phius.org/

Phius Passive Building Foundations Training: https://www.phius.org/passive-building/what-passive-building/passive-building-foundations-training

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This episode is a conversation with Prachi Rampuria and Soham De, co-founders of an urban design practice called EcoResponsive Environments and are co-authors of a book by the same name. They joined me on this episode to discuss the concept of designing settlements with an understanding of natural systems as the starting point. They bring together the knowledge of multiple disciplines like sustainability, landscape ecology and water management and present it in a useful way for designers.

More about their work: https://www.ecoresponsiveenvironments.com/

EcoResponsive Environments book

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Nadina Galle is an ecological engineer, National Geographic Explorer, science and nature writer, podcaster, and keynote speaker. She helps green professionals use emerging technologies to improve urban ecosystems for future generations. 

She is the author of the book, The Nature of Our Cities, which is the topic of our conversation. Through rich stories from the book, in this episode we explore:

• The importance of urban nature for climate resilience, health and children.  
• The Internet of Nature, emerging technologies that are helping nature to thrive in cities.
• How to improve the survival of urban trees.
• Which cities are leading the way in a technological approach to managing urban nature.
• The potential risks of becoming over-reliant on technology and how to avoid this. 

Link: Learn more about Nadina and the book

Link: The Internet of Nature podcast

Link: Nadina also appeared on episode 27 of the Green Urbanist Podcast 

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This episode is all about technology to help us deliver Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG). My guest is Shashin Mishra, VP of EMEA for AiDash.

We explore how a new digital tool called BNGAI has been created to help developers, ecologists and local authorities deliver Biodiversity Net Gain on development sites. We talk through how can the tool be used to help designers and ecologists work together in a collaborative way to get better results.

I ask the key question: Is this going to replace real ecologists? Spoiler: no, it won’t. 

If you want to learn more, go to their website www.BNG.AI

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