All Episodes

#62 - Anacleto Rizzo: Throwing your heart beyond the fence with treatment wetlands and NBS

#61 - Richard C. Tyson: Waste is "resources in the wrong place" - from small islands to circular economy and certifications

#60 - Maryam Imani: Embracing failure to build resilience - critical infrastructure, nature and the human spirit

#59 - Galina Yordanova: Human Consciousness is the most valuable business asset in the Age of AI

#58 - Juan Pablo Carbajal: Tadpoles, tolerance and why AI alignment is really a human problem

#57 - Hiten Sonpal: A LEGO crane, a belt and disrupting the 600 billion dollar robotics industry

#56 - Fred Jordan: The power of mathematics, anti-counterfeiting to "wetware" and how biocomputing will disrupt our future

The NotebookLM Mini Series #10 (FINALE): The long-overdue critical reflection, "backstage pass" and exclusive conversation with AI on AI

#55 - Julia K. Dietmar: A new take on “dress to impress” - the intersection of sustainability, fashion, AI and the magic number 30

The NotebookLM Mini Series #9: "Super SUPER tiny plastic dust" explained at three levels of difficulty (feat. Denise Mitrano)

#54 - Mats Larsson: What it takes for the sustainable energy transition - from electric vehicles to full grid transformation

#53 - Alma Schellart: Making data open, making models talk and embracing uncertainty to solve 100-year old urban drainage challenges

#52 - Makoto Kern: Feature-centric to user-centric - UX Design to navigate global challenges and the “AI Competence Mirage”

#51 - Rob Wreglesworth: A culture reboot for nature, biodiversity and conservation through incentives, conversations and T-shirts

#50 - Tables Turned: Part 2 - Personal reflections on Switzerland vs. favourite places, academia, nature, music, my career and much more…

#49 - Nadja Kunz: Towards water stewardship in mining, understanding critical minerals, safer and sustainable resource management

#48 - Christoph Ort: Sewers, Drugs and Rock n' Roll - from wastewater surveillance to saving lives in the pandemic

The NotebookLM Mini Series #8: "Broken Telephone" - lost in translation between leapfrogging and Dunkelflaute (feat. Mashael Yazdanie)

#47 - Wei-Shan Chen: Valuing food waste and greening - the experience in delivering technology and tools to close the carbon and water cycles

The NotebookLM Mini Series #7: The “Tablecloth Problem”, headwaters in focus and the pollution party (feat. Belinda Hatt)

#46 - Mark Swinnerton: Gravity vs. "giant hockey pucks" - what disused mines and renewable energy storage have in common

The NotebookLM Mini Series #6: These are neither the pollutants nor researcher you are looking for (feat. Lena Mutzner)

#45 - Lena Mutzner: “A list that keeps getting longer” - understanding pollutants of emerging concern for healthier aquatic environments

The NotebookLM Mini Series #5: Plot Twist! Figure 3 says more than a thousand words and a third of the hot dogs (feat. Yannick Back)

#44 - Jarrod Luxton: What does a best-practice sustainability strategy look like? Discussing nature, valuation, Nordic and Aussie contrasts

The NotebookLM Mini Series #4: Jalapeños as part of the urban form and a lesson in Dutch (feat. Martijn Kuller)

#43 - Tom Young: Answers to sustainability are in the links between green roofs, beer, mushrooms, golf, water, cowboys and community

#42 - Mashael Yazdanie: "Doing the right things the right way" - how to holistically plan for sufficiency and renewable energy

The NotebookLM Mini Series #3: Multi-tasking superheroes and going meta on AI (feat. Veljko Prodanovic)

The NotebookLM Mini Series #2: Playing "Urban Tetris" and "Heat Detectives" with Blue Green Systems (feat. João P. Leitão)

#41 - Don Weatherbee: "Catalyzing" change beyond the mine - scaling up metals regeneration to enable the future circular economy

The NotebookLM Mini Series #1: Cooling establishment time, it's like baking a cake (feat. Lucas Gobatti)

#40 - João P. Leitão: Studying the extremes - "when it rains, it floods", and "just add water" when "the heat is on"

#39 - Lucas Gobatti: Spinoza, science, spirituality - confronting ‘displacements’ in planning urban nature, climate and heat

#38 - Patricia Cuervo Uría: The human side of planning and flood risk in London - the challenge of embedding history into policy

#37 - Brett Ferrin: "Safeguarding the ordinary" - achieving traffic safety planning and management in a data-rich, AI-powered world

#36 - Tables Turned: Part 1 - Guests ask me questions on the podcast origin story, life choices and more

#35 - Yannick Back: The answers are beyond the "clouds" - the water-energy link for climate adaptation in a world of data ubiquity

#34 - Denise Mitrano: A world of plastics from macro and micro to nano - should zero plastics be the long-term goal?

#33 - Bill Hunt: America's evolving stormwater management, our innate connection to water and walking your "Camino"

#32 - Luis Angel Sañudo Fontaneda: Partnering with nature in Spain's journey to Sustainable Drainage and Climate Adaptation

#31 - Neil Armitage: Reflections, from a canoe chute and litter traps to Day Zero and South Africa's Sustainable Drainage

#30 - Tobias Baur: From tropical Singapore to Europe - the "ABC Waters" of sponge cities and climate adaptive design

#29 - Katrin Pakizer: Grassroots movements, policy instruments and timing for transforming water, biodiversity and underground management

#28 - Alexa Delbosc: A social psychology toolkit for changing transport planning, built environment and future mobility

#27 - Darcy Molnar: A personal journey, from Africa to Switzerland - insights on education, nature-based solutions and women scientists

#26 - Manuel Fischer: The Good, the Bad, and the Socio-Political - can science really support collaborative policymaking?

#25 - Shubber Ali: Your garden, the 'field of dreams' for tackling the twin crises of climate change and artificial intelligence

#24 - Jon Hathaway: The ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of green infrastructure, opening a ‘can of worms’ and gaining control of watersheds

#23 - Markus Vogl: To give 'space' - from a library to collaborative urban transformation and rethinking the architect's role

#22 - Françoise Bichai: "God-like technologies in medieval institutions", discussing paradigm shifts for greener, water-resilient cities

#21 - Danielle Dagenais: The paradox of nature - process and parts and its implications for green infrastructure

#20 - Belinda Hatt: Stormwater control measures, healthy waterways, battleships and karate at the riverside camp

#19 - Anna Lintern: Diving deep into the underground, ‘forensics’ on river water quality to uncover environmental past and future?

#18 - Fritz Kleinschroth: From tropical forests to the city - reconciliation ecology between human infrastructure and nature conservation

#17 - Mohan Yellishetty: What to do with a hole in the ground - re-mining for critical minerals, rehabilitation and repurposing

#16 - Mattheos Santamouris: A 'hot' topic for cooler cities - high performance architecture to combat urban overheating

#15 - Juan Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez: "Restrictions and constraints breed innovation" - sewers and nature-based solutions in Colombia

#14 - Janine Bolliger: Lights, Camera, GPS and Action around biodiversity enhancement in human-dominated landscapes

#13 - Veljko Prodanovic: Going vertical in a green horizontal world and promoting urban water and nature co-design

#12 - Liah Coggins: "Pondering" conversations around banana bread and boats from across the fence

#11 - Anas Ghadouani: A limnologist, filmmaker, foodie, water diplomat, and passionate teacher walk into a kitchen…

#10 - Daniele la Cecilia: Backyard balsamic vinegar, a pizza oven and technological progress in agriculture

#9 - Ana Deletic: From first flush and manholes to pendulums of stormwater, engineering and life

#8 - Megan A. Farrelly: Don't forget the social - experiments in urban water and energy transitions

#7 - Abishek Narayan: There are no silver bullets for the toilet, city or life's journey - just keep rowing

#6 - Arya Arabshahi: Citymaking in times of crises, from yoghurt shops to plans of resistance

#5 - Peter A. Vanrolleghem: Like wastewater for chocolate - control, serendipity and digital twins

#4 - Sofia Boarino: Good vibrations – a sensorial journey into urban soundscapes and acoustic design

#3 - Martijn Kuller: A game of planning, a set of maps and a match of nature-based solutions

#2 - Scott Lloyd: Cohabitation and close encounters with myths in urban design

#1 - Joao P. Leitao: Engineers never say never and never say always - a new take on flood models

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