The Grand Challengers Podcast

36 Episodes

1. #35 - Yannick Back: The answers are beyond the "clouds" - the water-energy link for climate adaptation in a world of data ubiquity

   Published: 11/11/2024
2. #34 - Denise Mitrano: A world of plastics from macro and micro to nano - should zero plastics be the long-term goal?

   Published: 28/10/2024
3. #33 - Bill Hunt: America's evolving stormwater management, our innate connection to water and walking your "Camino"

   Published: 30/09/2024
4. #32 - Luis Angel Sañudo Fontaneda: Partnering with nature in Spain's journey to Sustainable Drainage and Climate Adaptation

   Published: 16/09/2024
5. #31 - Neil Armitage: Reflections, from a canoe chute and litter traps to Day Zero and South Africa's Sustainable Drainage

   Published: 12/08/2024
6. #30 - Tobias Baur: From tropical Singapore to Europe - the "ABC Waters" of sponge cities and climate adaptive design

   Published: 3/06/2024
7. #29 - Katrin Pakizer: Grassroots movements, policy instruments and timing for transforming water, biodiversity and underground management

   Published: 27/05/2024
8. #28 - Alexa Delbosc: A social psychology toolkit for changing transport planning, built environment and future mobility

   Published: 30/04/2024
9. #27 - Darcy Molnar: A personal journey, from Africa to Switzerland - insights on education, nature-based solutions and women scientists

   Published: 9/04/2024
10. #26 - Manuel Fischer: The Good, the Bad, and the Socio-Political - can science really support collaborative policymaking?

    Published: 18/03/2024
11. #25 - Shubber Ali: Your garden, the 'field of dreams' for tackling the twin crises of climate change and artificial intelligence

    Published: 5/03/2024
12. #24 - Jon Hathaway: The ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of green infrastructure, opening a ‘can of worms’ and gaining control of watersheds

    Published: 19/02/2024
13. #23 - Markus Vogl: To give 'space' - from a library to collaborative urban transformation and rethinking the architect's role

    Published: 5/02/2024
14. #22 - Françoise Bichai: "God-like technologies in medieval institutions", discussing paradigm shifts for greener, water-resilient cities

    Published: 22/01/2024
15. #21 - Danielle Dagenais: The paradox of nature - process and parts and its implications for green infrastructure

    Published: 8/01/2024
16. #20 - Belinda Hatt: Stormwater control measures, healthy waterways, battleships and karate at the riverside camp

    Published: 27/11/2023
17. #19 - Anna Lintern: Diving deep into the underground, ‘forensics’ on river water quality to uncover environmental past and future?

    Published: 16/10/2023
18. #18 - Fritz Kleinschroth: From tropical forests to the city - reconciliation ecology between human infrastructure and nature conservation

    Published: 11/09/2023
19. #17 - Mohan Yellishetty: What to do with a hole in the ground - re-mining for critical minerals, rehabilitation and repurposing

    Published: 28/08/2023
20. #16 - Mattheos Santamouris: A 'hot' topic for cooler cities - high performance architecture to combat urban overheating

    Published: 31/07/2023