S3E11 – Road Ecology w/ Ben Goldfarb
Description: ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ธ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐น๐ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น๐ถa? Ben Goldfarb found that roads are “the leading direct human cause of vertebrate mortality on land.” More than hunting, wildfires, dams, and urban habitat loss combined. The costs are enormous. According to the @Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG) animal-vehicle collisions cost Australia $7 billion every
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S3E10 – Sustainable Procurement w/ Bec Timmings
Description: ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐? Sustainability feels expensive and hard when itโs bolted on at the end. But when procurement is involved early, everything shifts: โข Sustainability is embedded from planning, not postโdesign โข Procurement and sustainability teams work together โข Suppliers help shape smarter, costโneutral solutions Public procurement is powerful
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S3E9 – Modes of Mobility w/ Melissa Bruntlett
Description: Do you take cars for granted? What if you learned they were responsible for An increased sense of isolation? A lack of trust in the community? A source of stress throughout your day? Even where you spend time in your home? Studies show all this and more, yet we often fail to see cars
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S3E8 – Global Sustainability w/ Joan Ko
Do you have someone to call when you don’t know the answer? On carbon? On Nature Based Solutions? On sustainable finance? On circularity? With so many sustainability regulations and requirements, it’s impossible for one person to know it all. But it takes hours to read up on these topics and, even then, do you qualify
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S3E7 – The Value of Us w/ Richard Evans
Description: Richard Evans is the Founder and CEO of Talent Nation, Australiaโs leading Sustainability, ESG, Environment, Sustainable Finance and Climate & Energy recruitment agency. The company is a B Corp and 100% employee owned. He serves part time on the Membership Advisory Group of the UN Global Compact Network Australia. He has a background in
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S3E6 – Transport Resilience w/ Cathy Bebelman
Description: Host Seth Scott interviews Cathy Bebelman. Cathy is the Chief Scientist: Head of Science and Sustainability with Auckland Transport in New Zealand. Cathy has an extensive background in the environmental impacts of infrastructure and transport networks, working as a researcher and consultant in the public sector for over 25 years. She advocates for a
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S3E5 – The Wellbeing of Future Generations w/ David Clubb
Description: David Clubb is the Chair of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales. He is also the Head of Climate Action at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He also founded Afallen, one of Wales’ leading sustainability consultancies. Prior to that, he was Director of RenewableUK, the award-winning trade body for sustainable energy. Wales is realising several outstanding
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S3E4 – The ISC Impact w/ Toby Kent
Description: Toby Kent is the CEO of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council. Prior to this, he worked for PwC Australia, where he served as a Partner in the Energy Transition. He co-founded and managed ResilientCo Consulting and has been an active board member of the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia for four years. He was
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S3E3 – Pricing for the Planet w/ Andy Hill
Description: Host Seth Scott interviews Andy Hill, Founder of Planet Price Andy Hill is the Founder of Planet Price, a software company that incorporates the cost of planetary boundaries in infrastructure procurement. A mechanical engineer, Andy is also ANZ Director at Hemisphere Partners, an M&A firm. He serves on the board and is an angel
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S3E2 – Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure w/ Anthony Kane
Description: Host Seth Scott interviews Anthony Kane, President and CEO of Assistant Professor of Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure. Anthony Kane is President & CEO of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI), a Washington, DC-based nonprofit which facilitates the Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Framework. Anthony also serves as a commissioner on the DC Commission on Climate Change
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S3E1 – State Capacity and Infrastructure Costs w/ Cailin Slattery
๏ปฟ Description: Host Seth Scott interviews Cailin Slattery, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. Cailin brings us her findings from the paper โState Capacity and Infrastructure Costsโ (co-authored with Yale Law School Professor Zachary Liscow and Columbia University’s William Nober). Key findings of the report: ๐ One
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S2E7 – Beca’s Circular Design Framework w/ Tania Hyde
Description: Host Seth Scott interviews Tania Hyde, Technical Director & Circular Design Lead (Transport & Infrastructure) at Beca. One of our most detailed episodes yet, Tania talks about Beca’s Circular Design Framework, how infrastructure projects can achieve circular principles by asking tough questions, accounting for the Planet Price in purchasing, and free Circular Spatial Planning
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