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The podcast series that explores the insights, approaches, experiences of scientists, engineers, designers, business entrepreneurs, politicians and other successful change-makers, who are finding smart, effective ways to answer one or more of the three critical challenges of…
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Episode 044 | Mike Schreiner: Green Ideas Into Action (opens the original)
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When Mike Schreiner was a kid, he spent long days driving a tractor on his family's grain and cattle farm in Kansas, and in his head, he said he was already giving political speeches! Mike came to Toronto in 1995, for love, and then built a career in organic food: Toronto Organics, WOW Foods, EarthDance Organics, and Local Food Plus, a nonprofit that certified sustainable farms across Ontario. He wasn't trying to build a movement. He was trying to build a better food system, one farm at a time.
Episode 043 | Cool by Design: Redesigning Public Space for a Hotter Future (opens the original)
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Dorsa Jalalian led the development of the City of Toronto's Thermal Comfort Guidelines, which treat climate adaptation as a design problem measured at street level. Our conversation covers Toronto's shift from a winter-focused planning identity to summers projected to hit 55 days above 30 degrees by mid-century. Jalalian argues for shade as public infrastructure, not amenity, and unpacks why "just plant more trees" runs into underground utilities, narrow rights-of-way, and retrofit costs. Jalali
Episode 042 | Chris Fitch: Rewilding Our Cities (opens the original)
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Episode 042 | Chris Fitch: Rewilding Our Cities Chris Fitch, author of Wild Cities, argues that urban nature does more than beautify cities. It helps them fight and adapt to climate change. Fitch tells host Craig Applegath that successful rewilding projects share three traits: grassroots passion, committed local champions, and government backing. Miss any one, and the project stalls. The conversation covers case studies from Japan, Sydney, Munich, and Wellington, and makes the case that local, v
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