Today’s episode with Sam Elsom from Sea Forest continues our discussion on sustainable protein - can we have our steak and eat it too? We all know that our obsession with meat is not sustainable. The livestock sector accounts for around 15% of all emissions and in Australia alone we eat 120kg of meat per person per annum (the equivalent of eating Dwayne the Rock Johnson in steaks and sausages)! So far we’ve discussed plant based meat with Nick Hazell from V2Foods and cultured meat with the co-fo...
Nov 01, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Julia Kay, co-founder of Great Wrap chats to us about how we can make cling wrap GREAT again! Great Wrap has created Australia's first certified compostable cling wrap - it’s not only made from food waste but it also contains zero plastic. Great Wrap makes residential wrap (the sandwich wrapping kind), catering wrap and pallet wrap (the stuff heaps of things get wrapped in for transport). You might think cling wrap is a niche issue but we use 150,000 tonnes of cling wrap per year in Australia al...
Oct 25, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Cameron Van Der Berg from Infravision explains how can drones help us tackle climate change. As the world transitions to 100% renewable energy we are going to need a whole lot more electricity transmission. Historically fossil fuel generators have always been located in centralised locations closer to central loads or cities. However, if our grid is 100% clean the generation mix is likely to be far more dispersed. While you’ll ideally have solar on your roof, the large solar farms will be locate...
Oct 18, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Tim Noakesmith and George Peppou of Vow explain the carbon free revolution soon to come to our dinner plates - cultured meat. *** Welcome back to Season 2 of A Positive Climate! We’re thrilled to be bringing you another ten episodes EVERY TUESDAY covering everything from sustainable plastics, seaweed to stop cows burping methane and Australia’s potential mega role in the battery revolution. Today’s episode continues our investigation of alternative proteins with the absolute rock-stars Tim Noake...
Oct 11, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Tim Washington from JET Charge answers the question: why should we care about electric vehicles? They’re a better driving experience, they’re quieter, they’re better for air quality (especially important for when kids are walking by at exhaust pipe height), they’re soon to be cheaper, they are actually MORE convenient to charge and finally, unlike petrol vehicles, they can give the world what it needs: zero carbon transport! We cover it all on this episode - why we should care about EVs, whether...
Jul 18, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Andrew Moore, co-founder and CEO of AMSL Aero chats to us about the future of transportation and how soon we might all be able to get around in flying taxis or eVTOLs (electric vertical take off and landing) as the industry calls them. AMSL Aero is an Australian company that's creating a flying air taxi which is powered by batteries and a hydrogen fuel cell which means it is completely emissions free. Air taxis could revolutionise the future of transport allowing us all to get to destinations fa...
Jul 04, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Sarah Nolet is the CEO and a founding partner of Tenacious Ventures , Australia's first and only dedicated agrifood venture capital firm. Sarah chats to us about all the innovative and exciting agricultural technologies or as they say in the industry “agtech”. We cover the current sources of emissions within our food supply chain and some fantastic solutions including farming robotics, improved pest management and alternative proteins (hello, plant based nuggets). Follow us on twitter and instag...
Jun 27, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Welcome to our new podcast series The Positive Press by A Positive Climate! We'll be bringing you 5-ish minute episodes on good climate news. Bite sized, informative and a bit tongue in cheek, tune in to hear from Alex and Nick about the most uplifting stories of the week. This week we're covering NUGGS by SIMULATE - a plant based chicken nugget company with some pretty cheeky branding. Apparently they are "The Tesla of Chicken". The founder is 21 year old Aussie Ben Pasternak - who moved to NYC...
Jun 16, 2021•8 min
Solar energy is changing the world and 5B Solar has created an innovative solution for large scale sites - the MAVERICK. It's prefabricated, modular, rapidly-deployable and enables projects to be delivered more safely, three times faster and using half the land vs conventional technology. Chris McGrath shares the story of how he and his mate Eden came up with the idea, didn’t sleep for three days and then hashed out their business plan over a bottle of whisky. He also shares some insights into t...
Jun 13, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Rob Bartrop has a great story, he’s an Aussie who was part of the development of the first large scale solar farms in Australia and has now found his way over to Arizona working for a company that's created the world's first renewable drinking water system - Source Global . The system includes a solar panel that doesn’t create electricity but instead creates clean drinking water. On a global scale access to water is a real problem - Rob notes, 40% of the global population doesn’t currently have ...
Jun 06, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Constantine Tsounis, co-founder of SwitcH2 Engineering has created a unique process that turns beer waste-water into hydrogen which can be used to power breweries or as a fuel for trucks and forklifts to get that beer into your hot hands! In this episode we discussed how Con and his co-founders developed this innovative tech plus how some great beer brands are looking to decarbonise. We also explore the concept of hydrogen - What is it? What can you use it for and why is there so much hype? Plus...
May 30, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Mike Smith from ZeroCo is trying to eliminate single-use plastic, one household bottle at a time. This episode explores the sheer scale of the plastic problem, the impact of plastic on not only the environment but also carbon emissions and how ZeroCo and their innovative business model is looking to address the problem at hand. Mike spins many a good yarn about founding the business - which thankfully moved out of his sister’s bedroom a long long time ago. If you want to buy your own ZeroCo fore...
May 16, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Olympia Yarger is the CEO and founder of Goterra , a startup using insects to redefine waste management. Goterra has created a unique solution which uses organic waste as feed to grow other usable products such as maggots that can be used in livestock feed and pet food. This episode explores just how Olympia became a maggot farmer, the issues surrounding waste and Goterra’s unique solution as well as some hilarious maggot stories. For more content follow us on instagram and twitter . Music by Ni...
May 09, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of A Positive Climate - an uplifting podcast focussed on the cool ways to tackle climate change. We're Alex McIntosh and Nick Zeltzer , two mates in the Australian clean energy sector trying to showcase all the positives. In this episode we interview Nick Hazell, CEO and founder of V2Food . V2Food is an Australian company that has developed plant based meat that not only cooks like meat, but tastes like meat. The meat industry is responsible for 14.5% of carbon emiss...
May 02, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to the podcast! A Positive Climate is an uplifting podcast about tackling climate change. An inspiring look at the products, people and technologies making a real difference. Hosted by Australian climate technology experts Nick Zeltzer and Alex McIntosh two friends on a mission to find the solutions to keep our existential crises at bay. We cover it all on the show while keeping things optimistic and accessible: electric planes, waste eating maggots, plant-based meats, hydrogen made from...
Apr 19, 2021•2 min
