Think: Sustainability
From waste to wealth, and grids to growth, the show digs into the impact of consumption across all areas of life — it tracks the movements, discoveries and technologies making way for a sustainable future.
Episodes
November 27, 2024 • 23 mins
Noise is killing us... literally. But we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change that. Join us as we imagine how a beautiful city might sound.
Guest:
• Dr Ian Stevenson, Senior Lecturer Music & Sound Design Program at the University of Technology Sydney
Production staff:
• Producer and co-host: Lawrence Bull
• Co-host: Regina Botros
• Editorial consultant: Sharon Davis
• Sound designer & mix engineer: Martin Peralta
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November 6, 2024 • 20 mins
Half of Australians have a parent born overseas. How can complex issues like climate change be communicated to such a diverse audience? To find out reporter Wing Kuang embeds herself among Chinese-Australian grandmas.
Guests:
Dr Kim Loo, Chair of Asian Australians for Climate Action
Joey Chan, President of Eastwood Chinese Senior Citizens Club
Dr Zozan Balci, University of Technology Sydney
Mrs Lam, event participant
Produ...
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October 23, 2024 • 28 mins
The amount of waste we create is out of control. When it comes to tyres, we dump two Harbour Bridge’s worth into the Australian environment each year.
But there is something we can do.
Guests:
Paul Randell, Director Randell Environmental Consulting
Dr. Linda Mitchell, Science, Research and Innovation Manager, Tyre Stewardship
Australia
John Gertsakis, Director, Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence, and Adjunct
Professor, ...
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October 9, 2024 • 24 mins
Every Australian has the right to housing under international law. But despite being a signatory to this, the Australian government hasn’t made it the law of the land.
Here’s the case for why they should.
Guests:
Kate Colvin, CEO of Homelessness Australia
Daney Faddoul, Campaign Manager at the Human Rights Law Centre
Professor Jessie Hohmann, Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
Tyler, Lived Exper...
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September 25, 2024 • 30 mins
The air inside your home and workplace is probably more polluted than the air outside. Fortunately there’s a cheap and (somewhat) easy solution.
Guests:
Dr Fraser Torpy, Director of the Plants and Environmental Research Group, Faculty of Science UTS
Dr Brian Oliver, Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Science UTS
Johan Hodgson, Managing Director for the Pacific Region, Ambius
Audio:
Producer and co-host: Laura Corrigan
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September 11, 2024 • 26 mins
What if your kitchen sink was a carbon sink? Your corner store, stored carbon? And your shoes reduced your carbon footprint?
In this discussion, our experts explain how this is already underway.
Panelists:
Craig Reucassel, Australian writer, comedian, and TV presenter, best known for his work on the Australian TV programs, The Chaser and The War on Waste, televised on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Alex Thomson, Marin...
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August 28, 2024 • 28 mins
Plastic-filled funerals… spacious burials… gas-fired cremations – the ways we die are unsustainable. Here are some alternatives.
Guests
Jewelz Hansons, Performer and death doula
Dr Maiken Ueland, Deputy director, AFTER
John Humphries, CEO and founder of Aquamation
Hartley, Rock and Tug
Production staff
Producer and co-host: Regina Botros
Executive producer and co-host: Lawrence Bull
Editorial consultant: Sharon Davis
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August 14, 2024 • 29 mins
Economic inequality is at a record high. And many economists say political inequality is a likely consequence. Is there a point where "rich" becomes "too rich"?
In this episode we hear from a money coach who gave her wealth away, and an ethicist who says we shouldn't raise taxes on billionaires.
Guests
Morgan Curtis, Ancestors & Money Coach
Carl Rhodes, Dean of UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
Jessica Flanig...
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July 17, 2024 • 23 mins
Reduce, reuse, recycle. How might this actually cause more waste and social inequity?
Guests:
Trevor Zink, Assistant Professor of Management from Loyola Marymount University
Melissa Edwards, Senior Lecturer in the University of Technology Sydney Business School
Producer: Jake Morcom
Host: Lawrence Bull
This episode originally aired in 2018.
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July 3, 2024 • 29 mins
Cities are home to the vast bulk of humanity. We live, work, and play in these densely packed places. Urban environments are also responsible for 75% of global emissions. In this discussion, experts explore the transformative power of green infrastructure in urban landscapes and examine innovative ways to make cities smarter, greener, and more communal – places where people can live for generations to come.
Panelists:
Anthony Burk...
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June 19, 2024 • 29 mins
Car-centric design has congested our cities. So how do we beat the traffic?
Guests: Dr Kasun Wijayaratna, Senior Lecturer, UTS School of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Dr David Mepham, Urban Planner; Dr Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design at Monash University; Peter Casimaty, Managing Director & Co-owner Future Village; John Bui, owner of The Bay Bakehouse
Producer and co-host: Laura Corrigan
Executiv...
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June 5, 2024 • 24 mins
Do we need more green homes? Or is sustainable housing more about the communities we live in rather than the homes we build?
Guests: Gordon Noble and Caitlin McGee, research directors at the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures
Producer and co-host: Wendy Frew
Executive producer and co-host: Lawrence Bull
Editorial consultant: Sharon Davis
Sound designer & mix engineer: Martin Peralta
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May 22, 2024 • 26 mins
Is greed fundamental to human nature? Or can we have a society where it doesn’t pose a threat?
Guest: Dr Nathan Kettlewell, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Technology Sydney
Producer and co-host: Lawrence Bull
Co-host: Laura Corrigan
Editorial consultant: Sharon Davis
Sound designer & mix engineer: Martin Peralta
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January 31, 2024 • 27 mins
As a child, Shannon’s dad told her that her great-grandfather was supposed to be among the first to cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the opening ceremony, but was robbed of the honour at the last minute by a white man in a suit.
When she became a professional researcher, she searched for years and years to verify the story, but couldn’t. However, she did uncover some other parts of her family history. And what she found shocked ...
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January 24, 2024 • 25 mins
Traditionally, attempts to save animals in the wild have focused on their population numbers and reproductive success. But new research exploring the mental quality of life experienced by wild animals could revolutionise conservation efforts.
Featuring:
Dr Andrea Harvey, UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Morgan Philpott, WIRES Volunteer Koala Carer
Executive producer & post production: Lawrence Bull
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December 6, 2023 • 25 mins
When we think of the city, “nature” might be the furthest thing from our minds. But we’ve found a hidden army of people bringing our cities back to life.
Featuring:
Dr Judy Friedlander, Founder and Director of PlantingSeeds Projects and Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
The Mudcrabs and the Mudlarks – Hans Beg, Russel Cail, Jennifer Kent and Jo
Abbie Galvin, NSW Government Arch...
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November 22, 2023 • 31 mins
A pharmaceutical company profits from legions of addicted customers; a gambling company knowingly markets to people in debt; a hospital kills its patients.
People who do far less damage are locked up for life, yet corporations act like horror villains and get away with no criminal penalty.
Why do we let them get away with it? And how do we stop them?
Featuring: Penny Crofts, Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technolo...
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November 1, 2023 • 21 mins
At least forty countries and the European Union now have a price on carbon. Australia tried, and failed in 2012. What do we need to do to make it work this time around?
Featuring: Mona Mashhad Rajabi - Post-doctoral Research Associate, UTS School of Business Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience.
Executive producer and post production: Lawrence Bull
Producer and presenter: Annamarie Reyes
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October 25, 2023 • 24 mins
Our online lives and the massive digital infrastructure that supports them are eating up our carbon budgets. But who's paying attention?
Featuring:
Jessica McLean, Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University
Gordon Noble, Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney
Executive producer & post production: Lawrence Bull
Producer & presenter: Wendy...
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October 18, 2023 • 20 mins
It seems like every product has an ad campaign. Cars, cereal, chewing gum, in-soles… What about the most important issue of our time?
Featuring:
Aimee Smith, Graduate Research Student and Sessional Academic in the Marketing Discipline Group at the University of Technology Sydney
Sam Saunders, Chief Creative Officer at Sam Saunders Creative Nyoosa, and International Entrepreneur
Producer & presenter: Lawrence Bull
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