Green Urbanist - Sustainable Placemaking and Urban Rewilding
Explore climate action in cities with the people who are making it happen. Do you want to take meaningful action on the climate and biodiversity crises? Dive into interviews with leading practitioners, researchers and authors to learn about the art and science of sustainability and regenerative design. With over 100 episodes, the podcast covers the challenges facing cities from all angles, including architecture, urban design, biodiversity, planning, policy, housing, transport, economics and systems thinking. Start listening to learn how to make cities more sustainable, healthy and happy, get inspired and learn actionable advice to inform your own work. The Green Urbanist podcast is hosted by Ross O'Ceallaigh, an urban designer and educator.
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This is episode 2 of 6 in the podcast series on urban rewilding. My guest is Sophie Thompson, a landscape architect and Director at LDA Design. In this episode we discuss:How wild nature can be brought into city streets and public spacesThe importance of working closely with local communitiesExamples of LDA’s transform
My guest is Duygu Kutluay, a campaigner at Beyond Fossil Fuels. We discuss:Why local community projects need to be part of Europe’s energy transition away from fossil fuels.Beyond Fossil Fuels" new interactive map of community-based energy projects that you can access on their website. Six case studies of local energy
Workshop on 19 Feb: Find your Unique Role in Climate Action (link) In this episode I explore the different roles that built environment professionals can play in leveraging systems change for sustainability. This is based on interviewing 122 guests on this podcast and exploring systems change research. The 5 types of
#102: (WILD) Rewilding Urban Parks with Lost Species - Sean McCormack, Ealing Beaver Project
This episode is part of a 6-part series on Urban Rewilding. My guest is Sean McCormack, Chair of Ealing Wildlife Group. Sean led the reintroduction of harvest mice and beavers into urban parks in London, UK. In this episode we discuss: What is "Urban rewilding" and why we should do it.What made these projects successf
This episode is a conversation with Jonathan Rosenbloom, Associate Dean at Albany Law School who has researched and written about sacrifice zones. He is also the Executive Director for the Sustainable Development Code. We discuss:Whether neighbourhoods that have been destroyed by natural disasters should be rebuilt or
This is a recording of a live streamed podcast episode to celebrate episode 100 of the podcast. I was joined by three guests, who you might recognise from past episodes:Laura Baron, Head of Sustainability, PurcelScott McAulay, Regenerative Design and Infrastructures Specialist, ArchitypeConrad Richardson, Sustainable M
