Circular Metabolism Podcast

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. Hello everyone and Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast, the bi-weekly meeting where we have in-depth discussions with thinkers, researchers, activists, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.On today’s episode I will be discussing a topic that I’m not too familiar. It is loosely connected with consumption, companies and the pursuit of eco-efficiency or the win-win paradigm which assure us that companies can maximise profits and still protect the environment. As we will see this win-wins and sustainable business are a perhaps a pipe dream and that there might not be no such thing as green product. However, there is still a lot that we can do both at a company and a household level to reduce net environmental impact. To discuss about this topic I have Roland Geyer, Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California at Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the Bren School he held research positions at the Centre for Environmental Strategy (University of Surrey, UK), the Centre for the Management of Environmental Resources (INSEAD, France), working with top industrial ecologist. Roland has also recently published “The Business of Less: The role of companies and Households on a Planet in Peril” (show boo) which will make the basis of our conversation.Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts.👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/n6ijVy977kg👂 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/circular-metabolism-podcast/id1455115320👂 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/circular-metabolism-podcast👂 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13qH9Oj4b0yF0dBidGAdFR👂 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzLzYwMWMyYzNlODg4NzQ3NjIyYmY5MzRlNg#business #ecoefficiency #industrialecology Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. Hello everyone and Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast, the bi-weekly meeting where we have in-depth discussions with thinkers, researchers, activists, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.On today’s episode I want to switch gears a bit and leave theory and come back down to earth, pun intended. Ok bad pun aside, today I want to focus on a great initiative in Brussels that transforms excavated earth of construction sites into building materials. As such, they use probably one of the biggest waste flows of cities, which is by the way a local resource, and reduce the need for construction materials. To let us know more about this fascinating initiative I have Anton Maertens the Business developer at BC Materials.On this episode, we talk about how earth can be a local, low-tech, circular and carbon-neutral construction material. We learn how BC Materials went from a crazy idea to an urban manufacturing company making Brussels more circular. We learn about the challenges that they are facing as well as their vision for a future construction sector that would enable staying under the 1.5°C.Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts.👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/b4I1AhAnj68👂 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/circular-metabolism-podcast/id1455115320👂 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/circular-metabolism-podcast👂 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13qH9Oj4b0yF0dBidGAdFR👂 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzLzYwMWMyYzNlODg4NzQ3NjIyYmY5MzRlNg#lowtech #circulareconomy #construction Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Bienvenu.e au 37ème épisode du podcast Circular Metabolism: Quelles relations villes-campagnes avec Laëtitia Verhaeghe 📺.Bonjour et Bienvenu au Podcast Circular Metabolism. Le rendez vous bi-hebdomadaire qui interviewe des chercheurs, des décideurs politiques et des praticiens pour mieux comprendre le métabolisme de nos villes et comment réduire leur impact environnemental d’une manière juste et contextualisée.Je suis Aristide Athanassiadis de Metabolism of Cities et dans cet épisode nous allons parler d’un sujet fondamental pour le fonctionnement des villes. Comme nous allons le souligner plus tard dans notre discussion les villes sont loin d’être autonomes et autosuffisantes. Elles ont en effet besoin de s’approvisionner de ressources et traiter les pollutions tant solides, liquides qu’atmosphériques. Pour le faire elles ont besoin de territoires plus ou moins proches pour les aider. C’est précisément cette relation entre les villes et les campagnes que nous allons explorer aujourd’hui avec Laëtitia Verhaeghe.Laëtitia est doctorante ET bientôt docteure en Aménagement et Urbanisme à Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Elle étudie les relations villes-campagnes portant sur les flux de matières et d’énergie renouvelable en France dans le cadre de la transition socio-écologique. On a pu échanger plusieurs fois lors de mon séjour de recherche dans son labo il y a maintenant 5 ans et je suis très curieux d’en apprendre plus sur ce sujet fascinant.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons des différentes typologies de relations villes-campagnes, le rôle des acteurs publics et privés dans celles-ci mais aussi donnons plusieurs exemples concrets.Profitez de cet épisode et aidez nous à améliorer ce podcast en le partageant avec vos proches ou collègues, abonnez vous sur votre plateforme de podcast préférée (Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher) et laissez nous un commentaire 📝.👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/qWjBRyWymDQ👂 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/circular-metabolism-podcast/id1455115320👂 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/circular-metabolism-podcast👂 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13qH9Oj4b0yF0dBidGAdFR👂 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzLzYwMWMyYzNlODg4NzQ3NjIyYmY5MzRlNg Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Bienvenu.e au 36ème épisode du podcast Circular Metabolism: La ville comme ressource - le cas du bois avec Stephan Kampelmann 📺.Je suis Aristide Athanassiadis de Metabolism of Cities. Dans ce podcast nous interviewons des chercheurs, des décideurs politiques et des praticiens pour mieux comprendre le métabolisme de nos villes et comment réduire leur impact environnemental d’une manière juste et contextualisée.Je suis vraiment content de pouvoir revenir sur le terrain pour notre podcast et plus particulièrement revenir au lieu de naissance de podcast. Nous revenons avec le cofondateur du podcast, la personne avec laquelle j'ai co-animé la chaire en Economie Circulaire et Métabolisme Urbain de Bruxelles pendant 3 ans. Depuis lors, Stephan Kampelmann s'est lancée sur une nouvelle grande aventure. Celle de la Sonian Wood Coop. Une coopérative qui récupère le bois Bruxellois (et de la forêt de Soignes) pour le réutiliser localement plutôt que le voir exporter en Asie.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons du montage d'un projet d'économie circulaire, l'utilisation de ressources locales pour augmenter la résilience locale ainsi que la traduction d'apprentissages du monde de la recherche vers le monde de l'entreprenariat mais aussi la traduction d'un projet d'entreprenariat se focalisant sur un flux vers un projet se focalisant sur un autre.Profitez de cet épisode et aidez nous à améliorer ce podcast en le partageant avec vos proches ou collègues, abonnez vous sur votre plateforme de podcast préférée (Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher) et laissez nous un commentaire 📝.👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/5uD5perrpL4👂 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/circular-metabolism-podcast/id1455115320👂 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/circular-metabolism-podcast👂 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13qH9Oj4b0yF0dBidGAdFR👂 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzLzYwMWMyYzNlODg4NzQ3NjIyYmY5MzRlNg Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. Hello everyone and Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast, I am your host, Aristide from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, activists, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.On today’s episode I am very fortunate to receive one researcher that has helped laying the foundation for most of my colleagues and people we have received on this podcast work. He has co-develop and used two essential analogies that are essential for doughnut economics, post-degrowth, and even circular economy. These analogies are Steady State Economics and Ecological Economics. My guest today is Herman Daly which is emeritus Professor at the University of Maryland and was a senior economist at the World Bank for 6 years. He was the author of the book Steady-State Economics and the editor of the all-star anthology Toward a Steady-State Economy including authors such as Georgescu-Roegen, Boulding, Schumacher, Meadows and many others. He was also the co-founder and associated editor of the academic journal Ecological Economics. He received countless awards for his work.On this episode, we talk about how steady-state economics could be applied and helped to kickstart ecological economics but also about the controversial topic of population regulation (what is your opinion on that?).Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts.👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/91M622cvrLg👂 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/circular-metabolism-podcast/id1455115320👂 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/circular-metabolism-podcast👂 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13qH9Oj4b0yF0dBidGAdFR👂 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzLzYwMWMyYzNlODg4NzQ3NjIyYmY5MzRlNg#ecologicaleconomics #steadystateeconomics #hermandaly Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. Hello everyone and Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast, I am your host, Aristide from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, activists, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.On today’s episode I want to go back to a topic that we briefly covered previously and get a bit more technical or encyclopedical. This concept is getting more and more popular although it is still very badly understood or used. I’m talking about the concept of Degrowth. To clarify some misconceptions about this topic I’ve invited Timothée Parrique, a researcher that holds a PhD from the University of Clermont Auvergne and the Stockholm resilience centre entitle “The political economy of degrowth”. Timothée is very active online where he collects and digests most work on degrowth but he also responds to media articles that cover degrowth both positively and negatively.On this episode, we talk about numerous facets of #degrowth, why this concept has created numerous heated debates and why it is stool widely misunderstood.Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts.👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/1-fuJYvJ7Sk👂 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/circular-metabolism-podcast/id1455115320👂 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/circular-metabolism-podcast👂 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13qH9Oj4b0yF0dBidGAdFR👂 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzLzYwMWMyYzNlODg4NzQ3NjIyYmY5MzRlNg Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. Hello everyone and Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast, I am your host, Aristide from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, activists, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way.With today’s episode we will go amongst others back to the topic that we hold dearest to our hearts, urban metabolism. If you have ever explored this topic, one of the first pieces of information that you will encounter is the article “The changing metabolism of Cities” which quantified the energy, materials, water and waste flows from 8 cities co-authored by today’s guest Chris Kennedy. In fact, Chris has been one of the main driving forces for the renaissance of the urban metabolism field in the late 2000s. Chris is a Professor and the Director of Industrial Ecology Program at the University of Victoria. He has worked for over 20-years on strategies for addressing global climate change, drawing upon economics, technology, policy and industrial ecology perspectives. His research helped the development of a standard approach for city-wide greenhouse inventorying – as well as mitigation strategies. Holding qualifications in civil engineering, economics and business, he has conducted consulting work on sustainable infrastructure and cities for several national governments, as well as the World Bank and others. He previously served as President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and author of The Evolution of Great World Cities: Urban Wealth and Economic Growth.On this episode, we talk about the renaissance of the urban metabolism field, on why Chris dedicated more than 10 years on this topic, what were some of the learnings he encountered and what are his current research interests.Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts.👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/5qfo8EXbtvE👂 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/circular-metabolism-podcast/id1455115320👂 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/circular-metabolism-podcast👂 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13qH9Oj4b0yF0dBidGAdFR👂 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzLzYwMWMyYzNlODg4NzQ3NjIyYmY5MzRlNg Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. Hello everyone and Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast, I am your host, Aristide from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, activists, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way. I hope you enjoyed your summer holidays. We are back and today, we will talk about how a concept that you all know came to life and how it was used by citizens and policy makers to reduce our environmental impact. In fact, I think it is one of the most wide-spread concepts that helps to quickly synthesise the current state of the environment. This concept is the ecological footprint. To talk about it I have his co-creator and the author of “Our Ecological Footprint – Reducing Human Impact on the Earth”, Mathis Wackernagel. Mathis co-developed this concept during his PhD in the University of British Columbia. Since then, he has received numerous awards such as the 2006 World Wide Fund for Nature Award for Conservation Merit, and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of the US Society for Ecological Economics. Since 2003, he co-founded the Global Footprint Network, an independent think tank that develops and promotes tools for advancing sustainability, including the ecological footprint and biocapacity, which measure the amount of resources we use and how much we have.On this episode, we talk about the creation of the ecological footprint concept, its significance for cities and how it can be used as a compass to drastically reduce our overall environmental impact without borrowing or stealing from present and future generations.Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts.👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/rcaKcIQYgYc👂 iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y👂 Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y👂 Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y👂 Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Bienvenu.e au 31ème épisode du podcast Circular Metabolism: Vers des villes sobres et Low-Tech avec Philippe Bihouix 📺. Je suis Aristide Athanassiadis de Metabolism of Cities. Dans ce podcast nous interviewons des chercheurs, des décideurs politiques et des praticiens pour mieux comprendre le métabolisme de nos villes et comment réduire leur impact environnemental d’une manière juste et contextualisée.Après plusieurs épisodes en anglais traitant de comment transformant l’économie grâce à la décroissance, la post-croissance, l’économie du doughnut et d’autres concepts, on revient avec un épisode en français pour traiter d’une question un peu technique mais fondamentale pour la survie ou la transformation de nos villes. Dans les premiers épisodes de ce podcast, on avait voulu traiter des sujets tels que l’implémentation et la territorialisation de l’économie circulaire, comment rendre les villes plus productives ainsi que souligner le fait que rendre les villes immatérielles est une illusion.Dans cet épisode, j’espère aller un peu plus dans les détails dans cette idée de rendre les villes plus autonomes et plus sobres. Pour explorer cette thématique avec moi, j’ai invité Philippe Bihouix, auteur de nombreux ouvrage tels que « l’Age des Low-techs » et « Le Bonheur était pour demain ». Philippe est ingénieur centralien et est le directeur générale de l’AREP une agence d’architecture pluridisciplinaire filiale de SNCF Gares & Connexions. Depuis une dizaine d’années Philippe regarde de plus près la connexion entre ressources, climat et technologies.  Profitez de cet épisode et aidez nous à améliorer ce podcast en le partageant avec vos proches ou collègues, abonnez vous sur votre plateforme de podcast préférée (Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher) et laissez nous un commentaire 📝. 👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/5uD5perrpL4👂 iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y👂 Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y👂 Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y👂 Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

📺 Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast 📺. Hello everyone and Welcome to the Circular Metabolism podcast, I am your host, Aristide from Metabolism of Cities. In this podcast we interview thinkers, researchers, activists, policy makers and practitioners to better understand the metabolism of our cities and how to reduce their environmental impact in a socially just and context-specific way. Today’s episode is special. Today we celebrate the 30th episode of the Circular Metabolism Podcast and for that I’m wearing my favourite shirt. Over these 29 episodes I spoke and learned from very intelligent people about how to move forward with our current mess. I talked about urban ecology, territorial metabolism, circular economy, social ecology, degrowth, post-growth and today we’re going to talk about another fascinating topic that might become our compass for the numerous challenges that cities face. But today’s is also special because I get to talk with the fantastic Kate Raworth. Although we have never talked before, I know we already share some things in common. One of them is our love for doughnuts as it was my favourite treat when I was a kid. The other ones you’re going to discover them later in the episode.To talk about Doughnuts, I have the author of the international bestseller “Doughnut Economics, Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st century Economist” which has been translated into 20 languages. She is an economist and over the past 25 years she has worked with Oxfam, UNDP, and in the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Zanzibar. She currently teaches at Oxford University and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Kate is also the co-founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab, an online collaborative laboratory that brings together tools and stories about how to transform a radical idea to transformative action. On this episode we talk about the power of metaphors for implementing tranformative visions, how to transform visions into actions and how to navigate through the complex and interlinked societal and environmental challenges of the 21st century. We also discuss how doughnut economics could be applied at the city level and what a city like that might look like. Enjoy this episode and before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer or Stitcher and leave us a comment 📝 with your thoughts.👂 iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y👂 Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y👂 Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y👂 Google: http://tiny.cc/1o1zlz Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.