Episodes
December 06, 2021
E-bikes: the electric vehicle transforming our cities
Zoomo ’s Mina Nada chats to Nick and Alex about the role of electric bikes in the future of our cities. Electric vehicles are a key pillar of our shift to zero carbon transportation. And when we hear the words "electric vehic...
November 22, 2021
Australia's Role in the Battery Revolution
Christaan Jordaan of Sicona and Novalith talks to us about Australia’s great opportunity in batteries. Yes, the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. But there’s lots of technologies for those in between times -...
November 15, 2021
Fashion, but make it sustainable!
Gordon Renouf from Good On You , chats to us about sustainable fashion. We all want to look good and stay up with the latest trends but how do we do this in a sustainable and ethical way? It's an area definitely worth solving...
November 08, 2021
How will Amazon get to net zero emissions?
Charley Daitch from Amazon Web Services (AWS) joins us to talk about the work he’s doing in renewable energy and how Amazon will get to net zero emissions by 2040. Amazon is one of the world’s largest and best known brands. T...
November 01, 2021
Sea Forest's seaweed to stop cows burping
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...
October 25, 2021
Great Wrap: Making Cling Wrap Great Again
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...
October 18, 2021
Drones to string together the clean energy transition
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 fossi...
October 11, 2021
Meat 3.0: Is Cultured Meat the Future?
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 potentia...
July 18, 2021
Electric Vehicles: Busting the Myths
We've saved some of the best for last in this final episode of our positive first season. We're lucky to have Tim Washington from JetCharge on the show to talk about all the reasons why electric vehicles (EVs) are just awesom...
July 04, 2021
Zero Emission Aviation: Brissie to the Gold Coast in 10 mins for $10
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 c...
June 27, 2021
The future of farming with Sarah Nolet, Tenacious Ventures
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...
June 16, 2021
POSITIVE PRESS: NUGGS - The Tesla of Chicken
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 Ni...
June 13, 2021
Chris McGrath from 5B: Solar Mavericks
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 ...
June 06, 2021
Drinking Water Out of Thin Air: The Magic of Source Global's Hydropanel
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 ...
May 30, 2021
Cheers for Hydrogen! How SwitcH2 is helping breweries decarbonise
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 yo...
May 16, 2021
ZeroCo: Eliminating single-use plastic one household bottle at a time
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...
May 09, 2021
GoTerra: Turning food waste into pet food
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 tha...
May 02, 2021
Meat 2.0: Is plant based meat the future?
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 sh...
April 20, 2021
Trailer: A Positive Climate
A Positive Climate is a podcast focused on the cool ways to tackle climate change. Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. Media coverage on the issue is often negative and many of us have no idea wh...