Think: Sustainability 2SER 107.3

In this episode of Think: Sustainability, we spotlight some exciting new developments in the sustainability sector. What projects have been underway while we've been glued to our TVs, following COVID and the US election?

We talk to three experts in environmental fields to celebrate innovative renewable energy projects, the circular economy and what a Joe Biden election victory means for Australia's climate policy.

Producer: Marlene Even
Producer/Presenter: Julia Carr-Catzel

Featured:
Dr Nick Florin, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), University of Technology Sydney. Manager of the Resource Futures research group and directs and undertakes collaborative research projects with industry and government partners on resource conservation, recovery and recycling.

Professor Veena Sahajwalla, Director of the Circular Economy Innovation Network and founding Director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) UNSW.

Dr Chris Briggs, Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology and Technical Director, Business Renewables Centre-Australia.

Music: Epidemic Sound

In this episode, we explore the psychology of climate change. With the help of Carl Jung's analytical psychology, we look at how our internal disorder may be hindering efforts to solve external problems. What is holding us back from effective climate action, individually and collectively?

Producer/presenter: Julia Carr-Catzel

Featured:
Jonathan Marshall, Future Fellow and member of the Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney

Music: Epidemic Sound

This is the second-part of a two-part series of Think: Sustainability, where we speak to those living in precarious housing situations. In part one, we spoke to public housing tenants. In this episode, we hear from some of the half a million international students trapped in Australia.

Producer/Presenter: Julia Carr-Catzel

Featured:
Mon Mon Myo Myint, Rajendra Kumar, Rojal L. Shrestha, international students
Adam Loftus, School Breakfast 4 Health and Agencies Team Leader, Foodbank
Kylie Ebert, Director, Student Life, Macquarie University
Alan Morris, professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney

Music: Epidemic Sound, Blue Dot Sessions

In this two-part series of Think: Sustainability, we speak to those living in precarious housing situations in Australia. In part one, tens of thousands sit on public housing waiting lists, and a severe lack of funding in the sector means that those who make it in, are some of the most vulnerable in society.

Producer/Presenter: Julia Carr-Catzel

Featured:
Alan Morris, professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
Fiona Ross, public housing tenant, co-founder Friends of Public Housing
Sara Wilkinson, building surveyor, professor, School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney

Music: Epidemic Sound, Blue Dot Sessions

In this episode, we take a closer look at whether COVID19 has shone a harsh light on aviation's carbon footprint, or whether despite the crisis; the big players in aviation will be unwilling to turn-off auto-pilot.

Producer/Presenter: Max Tillman

Featured:
Audrey Quicke, researcher, the Australia Institute Climate
Jonothan O'Neill, manager, UTS Protospace
Dr Ben Hankamer, Queensland Sustainable Aviation Fuel Initiative

Music:
Epidemic Sound

In this episode, we examine space debris, what is it and why is there more of it? We examine current and emerging space junk removal technology. And what laws and measures are in place to hold those who litter, to account?

Presenter/Producer: Marlene Even

Featured:
Dr. Martin Bell, astrophysicist, and lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

Dr. Cassandra Steer, a lecturer at the Australian National University College of Law and a mission specialist at the Australian National University Institute for Space.

Mike Lindsay, Chief Technology Officer, Astroscale.

Music: Epidemic Sound

Sound:
'Starlink mission', 18th August 2020 (credit: SpaceX) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTMJK7wb0rM
Interview with Peter Meiklejohn, from the documentary 'Searching for Skylab' 2019 (credit: 'Searching for Skylab', Dwight Steven-Boniecki) www.searchingforskylab.com
'Flight Controllers Activity During Skylab Reentry On 12.7.1979', (credit: NASA)
'Sounds of Saturn: Hear Radio Emissions of the Planet and its Moon Enceladus', 2017, licence under a Creative Common Licence (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa) https://soundcloud.com/nasa/enceladus-hiss-audio
'Dinks and Donks: from InSight's seismometer', 2019 (credit: NASA) https://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/index.html