Green Urbanist - Sustainable Placemaking, Planning and Urban Design
100+ episodes exploring climate action in cities and neighbourhoods.
This show provides actionable advice and case studies on:
- Sustainable urban design and placemaking principles.
- How to design cities and neighbourhoods for biodiversity net gain and wildlife.
- Climate adaptation: How to build resilience to climate change in cities.
- Net zero carbon masterplanning and architecture.
- Circular economy: How to minimise waste and emissions in new development.
- Transport: How to transition cities away to sustainable and active travel.
- Regenerative Design: Delivering positive benefits for the environment and communities.
Who is it for? Urban designers, planners, developers, architects, landscape architects, urban ecologists, engineers, transport professionals and urban citizens.
The Green Urbanist podcast is hosted by Ross O'Ceallaigh, an urban designer and sustainable placemaking consultant.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 129
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#28: Balázs Erdei - Innovative, Nature-Based Solutions for Regenerative Cities
Balazs is founder of Green Urbanics, marketplace and blog for innovative, nature-based, urban sustainability solutions. He has a long career in business development and innovation, but with a backgro…
#27: Dr Nadina Galle - The Internet of Nature, Technology and Urban Ecology
Nadina is an ecological engineer, technologist, and entrepreneur dedicated to working with urban ecologists and planners to apply today’s technology to improve urban ecosystems for future generations…
#26: Dr Brian O'Ceallaigh - Why Climate Anxiety is Healthy and How to Manage it
Dr Brian O'Ceallaigh is a clinical psychologist working for the national health service in England and he also happens to be my brother. I sat down with him to discuss how climate anxiety and climate…
#25: Alice Schmidt (The Sustainability Puzzle) - Systems Thinking, Circularity and the End of Civilisation?
This episode is a conversation with Alice Schmidt.
Alice is an advisor, advocate and author on global sustainability & social transformation. Amongst other things, she is an adviser to organisations l…
#24: Luke Newcombe (GrowN22) and Charles Linton - London National Park City Rangers
This is the first episode in an ongoing series exploring the work of London National Park City Rangers. I go 'in the field' to to meet Rangers Luke Newcombe and Charles Linton in Wood Green, North Lo…
#23: Systems Thinking - An Intro for Climate Action in Cities
An introduction to the concept of Systems Thinking and how it is essential for understanding and taking action on climate change. This episode is inspired by the book Thinking in Systems by Donella …
#22: Arthur Kay (Skyroom) - Densify Cities with Affordable Homes for Key Workers
Today's episode is a conversation with Arthur Kay, Founder and CEO of Skyroom and Bio Bean, and Chair of the Key Workers Homes Fund.
Skyroom is an award-winning technology and urban development compan…
#21: Jake Attwood-Harris (Hawkins\Brown) - Whole Life Carbon, Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofitting for Sustainability
Jake is Sustainable Design Advisor at Hawkins\Brown where he led the development of the free open-source Hawkins Brown Emissions Reduction Tool, also referred to as H\B:ERT, which is a whole life car…
#20: Jonny McKenna and Dhruv Sookhoo (Metropolitan Workshop) - A New Kind of Suburbia and Practice-Based Research
Today's episode is a conversation with Jonny McKenna and Dhruv Sookhoo of Metropolitan Workshop, a leading practice of architects and urban designers based in London and Dublin. Jonny McKenna is Dire…
#19: Virginia Cinquemani - Key Skills for a Successful Sustainability Career
Today's episode is a conversation with Virginia Cinquemani.
Virginia is the founder and director of Green Gorilla Consultants, a unique training and coaching company focusing exclusively on empowering…
#18: Liza Degtyareva (4D Sustainability) - Small Business Sustainability, Regenerative Economy, and UN Sustainable Development Goals
Liza is a business consultant, social innovator and advocate for regenerative economy. She's a member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership network and has extensive experience wo…
#17: James Godfrey-Faussett - Growing Urban Forests with the Miyawaki Method
James grows urban forests around the UK with his company Wild Urban Spaces and with rewilding organisation SUGi. He is an expert in the use of the Miyawaki Method of afforestation, which is a Japanes…
#16: Are Tall Buildings Sustainable?
In today's episode we are asking, are tall buildings sustainable? It is often argued that because of their density, tall buildings are essential for sustainable cities to support public transport, wa…
#15: Psychology of Climate Action
This episode pulls heavily from two excellent books, The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells and The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac.
I look at the cognitive bias…
#14: Livestock and Climate Change - Why Cows are not (Necessarily) Evil
Welcome to the Green Urbanist, the podcast for urbanists fighting climate change. I'm Ross.
The premise of this episode is that the way we currently produce most of our meat, using factory farms and f…
#13: Stig Terrebonne (Human City Podcast) - Lessons Learned from Leading Urbanists
Today's episode is a collaboration with the Human City podcast. The Human City is a podcast hosted by Stig Terrebonne that focuses on making cities, well, more human. Making people healthier, happier…
#12: Salem Qunsol - Sustainability in the Middle East, Urban Resilience and Bouncing Forward after Covid-19
Salem is a Sustainability Engineer who has worked on projects in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. Originally from Amman Jordan, he moved to England to study civil and environmental …
#11: Carbon is Making our Food Less Nutritious
This is a mini-episode covering one very interesting topic: Increased atmospheric carbon is making food grow with less nutrients. I cover the research and some of the implications for global health.
T…
#10: Justin Hunt (Blaise) - Future of Mobility and Sustainable, Equitable Transport
Justin Hunt is a Canadian engineer and entrepreneur, and CEO of an exciting company called Blaise Transit. Blaise is an AI-based software platform that allows transit operators to run on-demand bus s…
#9: Tiago de Zoeten (Mossy Earth) - Using Reforestation and Rewilding to fight Climate Change
Today we are taking a step outside cities to explore reforestation and rewilding in a conversation with biologist Tiago de Zoeten.
Tiago is a conservation biologist at Mossy Earth, a social enterprise…