Podcasts about future environments

This week on the show, ZB's Resident Builder Pete Wolfkamp talks about removing trees that are close to buildings, mouldy bathrooms, rust on roofs, double glazing, staining fences, drains, and inbox guttering. With special guest Jay for Resene to answer all your painting questions. And John Tookey, Associate Head of Schools for Future Environments from AUT to discuss construction from an academic view. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SUV drivers in Paris are facing a financial blow after residents voted to hike parking fees for larger vehicles.  The vote was initiated by the French capital's socialist mayor and will see those driving vehicles weighing more than 1.6 tonnes pay the equivalent of $30 an hour to park in the inner city.  AUT Professor of Future Environments John Tookey told Mike Hosking that people should expect more of these kinds of measures.  He says higher parking rates for larger vehicles are an inevitable way forward.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richlister Chris Meehan is taking aim at the Government in a series of advertisements.  The full-page newspaper ads describe Aotearoa as the land of the long red tape, bemoaning the difficulty of getting anything built.   He isn't alone in making these complaints, with many other construction insiders also expressing the view that regulation has made building projects move at a glacial pace.  So are they right? Are our rules too strict? And if these restrictions were relaxed would that hamper the quality of what's being built?  Winton Land CEO Chris Meehan, joins The Front Page to explain why he thinks it's time to bin the bureaucracy, and John Tookey (AUT School of Future Environments) discusses the impact of regulation has had. Follow The Front Page on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can read more about this and other stories in the New Zealand Herald, online at nzherald.co.nz, or tune in to news bulletins across the NZME network. Host: Damien VenutoProducer: Shaun D Wilson and Paddy FoxExecutive Producer: Ethan SillsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cyclone Gabrielle has flooded roads, buried houses and claimed over six bridges in the upper North Island. With climate change predicted to make extreme weather events more common, experts are warning rebuilds will need to factor these in. Professor John Tookey from AUT's School of Future Environments says it's possible to rebuild infrastructure to withstand extreme weather, but compromises will have to be made. Professor John Tookey says changes in planning regulations around the development zones will have to be made to ameliorate future weather damage. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From Kaitaia to Bluff, the one thing all New Zealanders need is a place to call home. But that's not such a sure bet these days.  Despite years of acknowledging the housing situation as a crisis, it seems like this country is always in an uphill struggle against under-supply and over-pricing.  Add to this the expensive materials, backlogged supply chains and growing concerns over climate change – and you have a complex issue to which there are no easy answers. So what will it take to make sure Aotearoa has enough dry, warm homes for our population? And why have we struggled so much to find a political solution to this issue?  Today, John Tookey, a professor at the AUT school of Future Environments, explains to Damien what New Zealand gets wrong about housing and how we go about fixing that.  Follow The Front Page on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can read more about this and other stories in the New Zealand Herald, online at nzherald.co.nz, or tune in to news bulletins across the NZME network. Host: Damien VenutoProducer: Shaun D Wilson and Paddy FoxExecutive Producer: Ethan SillsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Passive House Podcast cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Dr. Priscila Besen, lecturer at the Huri Te Ao School of Future Environments at Aukland University of Technology. The two dive into the findings and insights from Besen's research into the technical feasibility and best approaches to deep energy retrofits of historically significant buildings, viewed with an EnerPHit lens.  A special "thank you" to Emu for being Passive House Accelerator's Sponsor of the Week this week! Emu helps construction industry professionals navigate the journey from research to reality by providing a supportive community with access to training, services, and standardized systems.  Matthew and cohost Zack Semke discuss upcoming Passive House events at the end of the episode. Links to those can be found here:https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/articles/passive-house-weekly-june-6-2022

A shake-up is coming to the way Auckland collects and charges for its waste services. At the moment it's different in the Super City depending on where you live: residents in Manukau and Auckland City are charged through their rates, residents elsewhere buy bags or bin tags and pay-as-they-throw. The Council, as part of its waste minimisation plan, wants to standardise its collection services and fees, and has just closed its submissions on the process this week. To discuss the changes, Kathryn is joined by Parul Sood, GM for waste solutions at Auckland Council, and Dr Jeff Seadon, an expert in waste minimisation AUT's School of Future Environments, who fears what's planned will have the opposite effect to what's intended and encourage people to throw more, more often.

Philip Ross is a futurist, author, and advisor who specializes in predicting the impact of emerging technology on the way we will work, shop, consume and live. He is also the CEO and founder of UnGroup and Cordless Group, as well as the creator of the popular Worktech event series. Simply put, Philip is one of the world's biggest thinkers when it comes to the future of the workplace. In this conversation, we go deep into the future of work and ask Philip some of the challenging questions on what might lie ahead of us. While he can't literally whip out a brush and paint a picture for us, he does an excellent job of giving shape to what's ahead. Learn More about Phillip Ross and the Worktech event series: https://www.worktechacademy.com/ https://worktechevents.com/ Learn more about UnGroup and Cordless Group: https://www.unwork.com/team-members/philip-ross/ Connect with Phillip Ross on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pjnross For more Imagine a Place stories, please visit: https://ofs.com/imagine-a-place Connect with Doug Shapiro on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doshapiro/

“If you want to go back to the umbilical cord of the universe, check this out.”This is how I was introduced to John P. Milton 20 years ago.John P. Milton is a pioneering ecologist, spiritual teacher, meditation Master, vision quest leader, and shaman. He was one of the first ecologists ever on staff at the White House as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors and one of the first people in opening the use of the word “environment” to describe our culture's paradigm shift into our responsibly ecological view of our oneness with Earth. (Future Environments of North America, 1966)John is the author of “Sky above, Earth Below” and founder of Sacred Passage and The Way of Nature Fellowship. He and his guides offer sacred passage awareness trainings, and wilderness solo experiences for leaders that inspire earth stewardship, by cultivating natural will wisdom and an open, loving heart in the wild. "John Milton is one of the truly important teachers coming out of the American cultural context today; he has a unique capacity to help people into an encounter with nature that catalyzes their deepest sense of purpose and innate capacities as leaders."~Peter Senge, MIT senior lecturer, author of The Fifth Discipline and co-author of PresenceIn this interview: Get out of the house!•Ignite your passion: Reconnect to nature.•Open your senses: Discover your outer, inner and true nature.•Create the possibility for something new: Disconnect from human culture completely.“Stones were created for the purpose of reconnection to the world of outer nature, and the rest of life.” ~ John P. MiltonAnd: The Mandalic Experience•How you see things, how you hear things, how you touch things, •How things touch you, how things see you, how things hear you.“Perceptions are the vehicle with which you will make connection [with your inner nature].” ~ John P. MiltonPlus:The Earthing Process •The Power of Solitude•Walking barefoot on the earth“Open awareness is the fundamental discovery. There's nothing simpler than open awareness.” ~ John P. MiltonUntil soon! Be curious, be inspired, simplify the way…John P. Miltonwww.sacredpassage.com

Reform of the Resource Management Act is now well underway, with the first two peices of the new legislation to replace it expected to be before Parliament at the end of this year. The RMA will be replaced with three new acts, the Natural and Built Environments Act, the Strategic Planning Act, and the Climate Change Adaptation Act. The reform will see the 100-plus RMA council planning documents reduced to about 14. It will mean huge changes for local councils which are already dealing with the reform of three waters, and a local government review. So what are those changes, and what will they mean for people seeking consents? Dr Grant Hewison is the director of Grant Hewison & Associates Ltd, a firm specialising in local government and environmental legal and consultancy services and John Tookey is a professor of construction at AUT University's School of Future Environments.

Reform of the Resource Management Act is now well underway, with the first two peices of the new legislation to replace it expected to be before Parliament at the end of this year. The RMA will be replaced with three new acts, the Natural and Built Environments Act, the Strategic Planning Act, and the Climate Change Adaptation Act. The reform will see the 100-plus RMA council planning documents reduced to about 14. It will mean huge changes for local councils which are already dealing with the reform of three waters, and a local government review. So what are those changes, and what will they mean for people seeking consents? Dr Grant Hewison is the director of Grant Hewison & Associates Ltd, a firm specialising in local government and environmental legal and consultancy services and John Tookey is a professor of construction at AUT University's School of Future Environments.

Shana Lee Hirsch investigates the Columbia River Basin of the past, the present and the sociotechnical imaginaries of the River in her new book. In this episode, we discuss emerging approaches to restoration and getting in right relationship with climate change. Last summer, UW Press published Hirsch's book: Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin. Shana is a Research Scientist in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at UW. She has an interdisciplinary background in sustainability social science and water management and policy. Her work draws on participatory design methods and theories from science and technology studies. She is also Associate Director of the Pacific Marine Energy Center, where she brings collaborative methods for understanding innovation to power remote communities. The Basin ecosystem provides for us, and Shana gets into the details about a subset of people who really care about the Basin in return. She provides insights into the everyday of restoration, the tools people use, and the emergent tactics of coping and getting in right relationship with climate change – which in turn changes us and the science itself. Within the current system people are trying to help. People. Love. Salmon. The strength of the River restoration is really the strength of that relationship with the fish and their connection with everything else. The restoration effort combines that love, the human wherewithal and resilience through adaptation. Hirsch, S. L., & Long, J. (2020). Adaptive Epistemologies: Conceptualizing Adaptation to Climate Change in Environmental Science. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 0162243919898517. Hirsch, S. L. (2019). Anticipatory practices: Shifting baselines and environmental imaginaries of ecological restoration in the Columbia River Basin. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 3(1), 40-57. Visit the episode details at the treehugger website Music on this episode was Freedom Trail Studio and DJ Williams on YouTube Tell a few friends about the show and follow the podcast on Instagram and Twitter @treehuggerpod Review treehugger podcast on iTunes

In this episode of Stirring the Pot, we talk with Dr Shahab Ramhormozian and Prof Charles Walker from the Auckland University of Technology. Shahab is a Lecturer in Structural and Earthquake Engineering and Prof Charles Walker is Head of AUT’s new School of Future Environments and has a  background in architecture. Together we’ll be discussing the exciting two new degrees at AUT – the BEng (honours) in Architectural Engineering and the Bachelor of Architecture and Future Environments. The idea being to teach our future engineers and architects how to work together to prepare and present building design projects of varying scales and complexity.      Connect with Shahab LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahab-ramhormozian-b58b7583/   Connect with Prof Charles Walker LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-walker-a050216/     Connect with Auckland University of Technology Website: https://www.aut.ac.nz/ School of Future Environments: https://www.aut.ac.nz/study/study-options/architecture/courses/bachelor-of-architecture-and-future-environments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/autuni/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/autuni Twitter: https://twitter.com/autuni YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AUTUniversity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autuni/    Want to hear more from AUT and the exciting work they're doing? Come to our Future Forum - 20/20 VISION conference where they're sponsors of our Nation Breakfast and demonstrating virtual reality capabilities during the evening session! Find out more & register today! http://bit.ly/2020VIS Got a question? Contact our Event Manager: brian.low@hera.org.nz  

In this episode of Stirring the Pot, we talk with Dr Shahab Ramhormozian and Prof Charles Walker from the Auckland University of Technology. Shahab is a Lecturer in Structural and Earthquake Engineering and Prof Charles Walker is Head of AUT’s new School of Future Environments and has a  background in architecture. Together we’ll be discussing the exciting two new degrees at AUT – the BEng (honours) in Architectural Engineering and the Bachelor of Architecture and Future Environments. The idea being to teach our future engineers and architects how to work together to prepare and present building design projects of varying scales and complexity.      Connect with Shahab LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahab-ramhormozian-b58b7583/   Connect with Prof Charles Walker LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-walker-a050216/     Connect with Auckland University of Technology Website: https://www.aut.ac.nz/ School of Future Environments: https://www.aut.ac.nz/study/study-options/architecture/courses/bachelor-of-architecture-and-future-environments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/autuni/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/autuni Twitter: https://twitter.com/autuni YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AUTUniversity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autuni/    Want to hear more from AUT and the exciting work they're doing? Come to our Future Forum - 20/20 VISION conference where they're sponsors of our Nation Breakfast and demonstrating virtual reality capabilities during the evening session! Find out more & register today! http://bit.ly/2020VIS Got a question? Contact our Event Manager: brian.low@hera.org.nz  

In this episode of Stirring the Pot, we talk with Dr Shahab Ramhormozian and Prof Charles Walker from the Auckland University of Technology. Shahab is a Lecturer in Structural and Earthquake Engineering and Prof Charles Walker is Head of AUT’s new School of Future Environments and has a  background in architecture. Together we’ll be discussing the exciting two new degrees at AUT – the BEng (honours) in Architectural Engineering and the Bachelor of Architecture and Future Environments. The idea being to teach our future engineers and architects how to work together to prepare and present building design projects of varying scales and complexity.      Connect with Shahab LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahab-ramhormozian-b58b7583/   Connect with Prof Charles Walker LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-walker-a050216/     Connect with Auckland University of Technology Website: https://www.aut.ac.nz/ School of Future Environments: https://www.aut.ac.nz/study/study-options/architecture/courses/bachelor-of-architecture-and-future-environments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/autuni/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/autuni Twitter: https://twitter.com/autuni YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AUTUniversity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autuni/    Want to hear more from AUT and the exciting work they're doing? Come to our Future Forum - 20/20 VISION conference where they're sponsors of our Nation Breakfast and demonstrating virtual reality capabilities during the evening session! Find out more & register today! http://bit.ly/2020VIS Got a question? Contact our Event Manager: brian.low@hera.org.nz  

In this episode of Stirring the Pot, we talk with Dr Shahab Ramhormozian and Prof Charles Walker from the Auckland University of Technology. Shahab is a Lecturer in Structural and Earthquake Engineering and Prof Charles Walker is Head of AUT’s new School of Future Environments and has a  background in architecture. Together we’ll be discussing the exciting two new degrees at AUT – the BEng (honours) in Architectural Engineering and the Bachelor of Architecture and Future Environments. The idea being to teach our future engineers and architects how to work together to prepare and present building design projects of varying scales and complexity.      Connect with Shahab LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahab-ramhormozian-b58b7583/   Connect with Prof Charles Walker LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-walker-a050216/     Connect with Auckland University of Technology Website: https://www.aut.ac.nz/ School of Future Environments: https://www.aut.ac.nz/study/study-options/architecture/courses/bachelor-of-architecture-and-future-environments LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/autuni/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/autuni Twitter: https://twitter.com/autuni YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AUTUniversity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autuni/    Want to hear more from AUT and the exciting work they're doing? Come to our Future Forum - 20/20 VISION conference where they're sponsors of our Nation Breakfast and demonstrating virtual reality capabilities during the evening session! Find out more & register today! http://bit.ly/2020VIS Got a question? Contact our Event Manager: brian.low@hera.org.nz  

Everyone assumes that the electric vehicle transition will happen anyway. But Alina Dini, from the Institute of Future Environments, asks: Has anyone asked the consumer what they want?

The last banana you probably ate was a type called Cavendish. But this, our last commercially viable variety is under severe threat, as the fungus, called Tropical Race 4, is laying waste to swathes of Cavendish banana plants across China, Asia and Australia. Recently, scientists & horticulturalists gathered in Istanbul to discuss the best ways to fight the threat. Professor James Dale from the Institute of Future Environments at the University of Queensland has been conducting successful field trials in previously infected areas with impressive results. Could gene editing provide the solution? The extraordinary shape of the guillemot egg is one of ornithology’s great mysteries. This seabird lays something twice the size of a hen’s egg, which looks a bit like an obelisk, blue, speckled and weirdly elongated at one end, with almost flat sides. There have been a handful of theories to explain why it’s evolved. Professor of behaviour and evolution Tim Birkhead, at the University of Sheffield shows in his new research that the answer lies in allowing the birds to successfully breed on the steep slopes of cliff ledges. Marnie Chesterton meets the next in Inside Science’s series of writers shortlisted for the very prestigious Royal Society’s Book Prize : Lucy Cooke, zoologist, author and broadcaster discusses The Unexpected Truth About Animals which flies the flag for some of the lessons learnt from mistakes made in understanding animal behaviour. Could the Tambora volcanic eruption in April 1815 be responsible for Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo? A rain-soaked battlefield in June 1815, stopped Napoleon deploying his military might although many have questioned how a volcano could have such an effect on the weather so soon. How was it to blame for a Belgian rainstorm just several weeks after the end of the eruption? Dr Matt Genge from Imperial College, in a new paper out this week, says the answer lies in the phenomenon known as electrostatic levitation. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer: Adrian Washbourne

Professor Laurie Buys, from the Institute for Future Environments, on the Senior Living Innovation Challenge and winning entry, One Good Street, a social networking site for individual streets.

  The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) hosts an amazing digital interactive learning space featuring 9 metre-high (27 feet) projections, 48 screen multi-touch interactive panels, and motion tracking technology. Called The Cube, it’s purpose is to engage and inspire the next generation of thinkers and doers, and provide an immersive and participatory experience for everyone to enjoy. The Cube enables people to discover, visualise and contribute to research projects and explore big questions of the 21st century. The content is produced in-house by a dedicated team of eight and draws in students, researchers, and artists from all over the world. They’re creating content on a real-world scale, allowing 'citizen scientists' as the public is called, to experience real project scenarios and explore some of the challenges being tackled at Universities with hands-on and interactive workshops.  On this episode we’re speaking with Gavin Winter, who is the Manager of the Visualisation and eResearch team, called ViseR, at the Institute for Future Environments at QUT. Gavin was the Project Manager for The Cube during its design, engineering, and implementation - and maintains a key role in the strategic planning of The Cube and QUT’s on-going technology research and development initiatives. He has some insight into this unique space and some advice about how to deal with networks in a large university setting... @GavinWinterBNE @QUTTheCube @IFE_QUT   Subscribe to this podcast: iTunes * Google Play * RSS

Why the IoT will not be an unpredictable mess | Prof Antonio Liotta on the Digital Dialogue Predictions are that over 1 trillion things including phones, fridges, cars, sensors and micro-processors will be connected, sending and receiving data across the internet by 2020. With so many 'things' connected and providing data there ARE some physical challenges that need to be resolved including - how do we power so many things; and how do we process all the data. Professor Antonio Liotta from Eindenhoven University of Technology, Netherlands is an expert in complex networks, data science and future of IoT with a speciality in miniature machine learning. Professor Liotta recently presented at Queensland University of Technology and the Institute of Future Environments. In a factual and straight forward account discusses the challenges, opportunities and the implication for STEM and higher education on the digital dialogue. The answer he suggests is learnt from the octopus, who has the capacity to learn via neurones right down to the end of its tentacles.