The Grand Challengers Podcast
A podcast by Peter Marcus Bach - Tuesdays
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32 Episodes
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#31 - Neil Armitage: Reflections, from a canoe chute and litter traps to Day Zero and South Africa's Sustainable Drainage
Published: 8/12/2024 -
#30 - Tobias Baur: From tropical Singapore to Europe - the "ABC Waters" of sponge cities and climate adaptive design
Published: 6/3/2024 -
#29 - Katrin Pakizer: Grassroots movements, policy instruments and timing for transforming water, biodiversity and underground management
Published: 5/27/2024 -
#28 - Alexa Delbosc: A social psychology toolkit for changing transport planning, built environment and future mobility
Published: 4/30/2024 -
#27 - Darcy Molnar: A personal journey, from Africa to Switzerland - insights on education, nature-based solutions and women scientists
Published: 4/9/2024 -
#26 - Manuel Fischer: The Good, the Bad, and the Socio-Political - can science really support collaborative policymaking?
Published: 3/18/2024 -
#25 - Shubber Ali: Your garden, the 'field of dreams' for tackling the twin crises of climate change and artificial intelligence
Published: 3/5/2024 -
#24 - Jon Hathaway: The ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of green infrastructure, opening a ‘can of worms’ and gaining control of watersheds
Published: 2/19/2024 -
#23 - Markus Vogl: To give 'space' - from a library to collaborative urban transformation and rethinking the architect's role
Published: 2/5/2024 -
#22 - Françoise Bichai: "God-like technologies in medieval institutions", discussing paradigm shifts for greener, water-resilient cities
Published: 1/22/2024 -
#21 - Danielle Dagenais: The paradox of nature - process and parts and its implications for green infrastructure
Published: 1/8/2024 -
#20 - Belinda Hatt: Stormwater control measures, healthy waterways, battleships and karate at the riverside camp
Published: 11/27/2023 -
#19 - Anna Lintern: Diving deep into the underground, ‘forensics’ on river water quality to uncover environmental past and future?
Published: 10/16/2023 -
#18 - Fritz Kleinschroth: From tropical forests to the city - reconciliation ecology between human infrastructure and nature conservation
Published: 9/11/2023 -
#17 - Mohan Yellishetty: What to do with a hole in the ground - re-mining for critical minerals, rehabilitation and repurposing
Published: 8/28/2023 -
#16 - Mattheos Santamouris: A 'hot' topic for cooler cities - high performance architecture to combat urban overheating
Published: 7/31/2023 -
#15 - Juan Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez: "Restrictions and constraints breed innovation" - sewers and nature-based solutions in Colombia
Published: 7/17/2023 -
#14 - Janine Bolliger: Lights, Camera, GPS and Action around biodiversity enhancement in human-dominated landscapes
Published: 7/3/2023 -
#13 - Veljko Prodanovic: Going vertical in a green horizontal world and promoting urban water and nature co-design
Published: 6/19/2023 -
#12 - Liah Coggins: "Pondering" conversations around banana bread and boats from across the fence
Published: 6/5/2023
In the face of climate change, urbanization, population growth and many other grand challenges that our world faces, many inspiring individuals are stepping up to tackling these challenges in their own unique ways. Hear the passionate story of inspiring guests, which I interview on each episode. We learn about how their journeys along the cutting edges of science, engineering, technology and design has shaped them as a person, all while are creating new solutions and ways of thinking for an uncertain future. Each episode offers nuggets of advice for aspiring young professionals who want to make our world a better place.