Humans have been copying nature for millenia - but we gave it a back seat at the start of the Industrial Revolution. Now it's back - and offering a wealth of regenerative innovation opportunities for products, processes and systems design. Nature's "superpower" is to create solutions at room temperature, using renewable resources and renewable energy. In this episode, host Leigh Baker of Think Act Regenerate discusses how Biomimicry-based design can be used to uncover smart regenerative business...
Nov 27, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andy McCarthy - founder of Gippsland Solar in 2010 - has told his renewable energy business story (so far) in his recent autobiography HERE COMES THE SUN. I caught up with Andy at the start of October to discuss what he’s learned and where he sees the next big openings in renewable energy opportunity. FULL TRANSCRIPT: https://thinkactregenerate.com/interview-solar-entrepreneur-andy-mccarthy-on-the-next-big-renewable-energy-opportunity/#text LINKS: Books HERE COMES THE SUN: https://affirmpress.co...
Oct 09, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Service and value tools for finding business opportunity have been developing for decades - both in mainstream business and sustainability circles. In Circular Economy circles, they talk about The Service Flip - but there's a much wider toolkit on offer. "Regenerative business service and value design is not about finding a better or lower cost solution to the existing problem of an industry. It's about redefining the problem itself." Adapted from Blue Ocean Strategy FULL TEXT: https://thinkactr...
Aug 30, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, host Leigh Baker of Think Act Regenerate talks with David Hauser about innovative Melbourne battery-as-a-service startup ELIoT Energy - and the multiple benefits their business model offers customers, the hospitality industry, environment and community. FULL TEXT: https://thinkactregenerate.com/interview-exploring-battery-as-a-service-opportunities-with-eliot-energy/#text LINKS ELIoT Energy website: https://eliot-energy.com/ 10 key regenerative perspectives on regenerative busin...
Aug 07, 2024•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast This podcast episode summarises the third of the Think Act Regenerate INSIGHTS email series on regenerative innovation -and the rich smorgasbord of business and career opportunities it offers. Circular Economy principles have been a driver of regenerative business growth over the last 1-2 decades - and proving increasingly profitable. A lot of people have heard the term - but think of it as "something about better recycling". However, assuming that the circular economy is just about better recyc...
May 22, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast One of the core propositions of Think Act Regenerate is that today’s regenerative design thinking enables a rich smorgasbord of smarter, faster, funner win/win/win solutions that go WAY beyond 20th century “sustainability” and “efficiency”. What IS regenerative thinking? To me, it’s a new place to stand – because we can’t solve 20th century problems with 20th century thinking. Here’s my take on what regeneration is about and why it has a strong business focus, illustrated with a heap of examples...
Apr 25, 2024•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast A surprising number of people look at “sustainability” and “the environment” as onerous obligations instead of seeing it as a rich smorgasbord of business and career opportunity. So they miss out on the wealth of commercial solutions coming to market – many of which are already scaling globally. In the first of 10 Think Act Regenerate INSIGHTS, we explore the scope and scale of today’s opportunities and identify some starting resources. FULL TEXT: https://thinkactregenerate.com/insight-a-world-o...
Mar 22, 2024•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast I began this podcast as an exploration of the wealth of regenerative solutions scaling globally today that just about anyone can be part of. It was initially part of the Climactic podcast family, so it had a focus on climate issues. However, my passion has always been design for regeneration and accelerating the spread of today's rich smorgasbord of commercial, actionable solutions. Going forward, Think Act Regenerate will explore the design principles as well as the individual solutions bei...
Feb 06, 2024•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The impact of industry-supported climate solutions is not well recognised. The US ratification of the Kigali Accord is one such example - which passed the US Senate with bipartisan support in late 2022. It was a solution supported by the HVAC-R industry and lobbied for by the industry - and is expected to reduce warming in 2100 by 0.35 to 0.5 degrees Centigrade. The most powerful place you can take climate action may well be in your own industry. For example, the computer games industry has a po...
Apr 04, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast ReGenOmics Down Under is a podcast by Leigh Baker of Balance3 exploring the wealth of climate solutions happening on the ground in Australia and New Zealand, as well as around the world. This episode explores what the human race already knows about how to reverse global warming – starting with the commercial, scaling solutions modelled and ranked by the independent not-for-profit Project Drawdown in 2017 (and updated in 2020) Project Drawdown’s findings include: We CAN reverse global warming – e...
Aug 16, 2022•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast INTRO This podcast is called Regenomics Down Under - "Regenomics" is short for Regional Regenerative Economies – and in previous episodes we’ve looked at what’s happening – mostly locally in Australia. Today’s a bit different – we’re looking at “What IS regeneration anyway?” and “How can you learn to enable regeneration?” I interview Kathleen Davies of Ekkremon – a freelance engineering HAZOPS facilitator – who recently finished a course called The Regenerative Practitioner with the Regene...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast INTRODUCTION Want a materials solution that replaces fossil-based styrofoam with a compostable alternative AND reduces greenhouse gases by turning agricultural “waste” into valuable packaging? It’s being delivered in Melbourne – by mushrooms. Not the “fruit” that we eat as mushrooms – but the mycellium root system that they grow on. Today we talk with Amanda Morgan of Fungi Solutions about how they’re turning wastes into beautiful, elegant packaging solutions. Join us to hear more about the futu...
Mar 25, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast INTRODUCTION Do you like the idea of coffee that restores the forests that sequester carbon? I do. So it was great to talk with Darcy Small, co-founder of Kua Coffee about how his Australian-based social enterprise is collaborating with Ugandan coffee growers to help them respond and adapt to climate change. Darcy tells the story of how a couple of engineering students and their housemates came to start a climate positive coffee business - one that cuts greenhouse gas emissions in A...
Mar 14, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Regenomics Down Under, we take a quick (ish) tour through the Project Drawdown 2020 review, summarising their action areas and connecting them to actions happening in Australia and around the world. We explore quantified, evidence-based solutions for reversing global warming through: Improving society Supporting carbon sinks Reducing emissions Reducing emissions is much more interesting than solar panels and electric vehicles. Currently our global emissions come from: ~2...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast SUMMARY Some people think that “renewable energy” is all about solar panels, wind turbines and batteries. They can be trapped into thinking that if they can’t afford to install solar panels and batteries or buy green power then there’s no useful action they can take towards increasing the take up of renewable energy. Climate energy solutions are about re-inventing our complex, 1-way energy distribution systems. There’s a lot more than just plugging in a couple of new power sources to replace coa...
Oct 28, 2021•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast ReGenOmics Down Under is a podcast by Leigh Baker of Balance3.com.au - it explores the wealth of climate solutions happening on the ground in Australia and New Zealand, as well as around the world. In this episode, Leigh talks with Stephen King from the Australian Insulation Foundation about why insulation is a surprisingly powerful emissions solution. So what's insulation got to do with climate? It's a significant, evidence-based climate solution. Insulation was ranked as #16 in the...
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast ReGenOmics Down Under is a podcast by Leigh Baker of Balance3.com.au . It explores the wealth of climate solutions happening on the ground in Australia and New Zealand, as well as around the world. In this episode, Leigh talks with Bob Sharon, founder of BlueIoT about Smart Building Management systems and how they are delivering significant Climate Solutions (along with new career opportunities for engineers and developers). Big buildings consume a lot of energy, creating a lot of emissions. Sma...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast RE - because the best solutions are REgional; reGENerate (not just reduce harm); and create better ecoNOMICS (especially regional). Down Under - because our focus is our region - Australia and New Zealand - with stories from across the Pacific, through the “global south” and around the world. We have the solutions - and they're spreading This show explores the wealth of actionable climate solutions that are being delivered “down under” by citizen-innovators in local communities and business ...
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