GREEN VISIONS - GREEN IDEAS
This podcast puts emphasis on the green transition of all of us and takes Alsion, a major public site in the very south of Denmark, as a test bed. Alsion hosts cultural events, research, innovation and education in the same building. Listen to our plans and see how we can all improve in being more sustainable. Listen and get involved. ------- A note on our jingles: Intro music created by sscheidl from Pixabay ------ Outro music: Nature Documentary - GEMAfreie Musik von https://audiohub.de ------ Futhermore, we would like to thank the Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE) for giving us the permission to record the podcast series in the sound-treated booth of the CIE Acoustics Lab and AllGoodSpeakers ApS for sponsoring the podcast series ----- Podcast production and postproduction: Oliver Niebuhr and Jonas Sikorskis
Episodes
36 episodes
Digital Cleanup Day
An Estonian NGO started the Digital Cleanup Day five years ago, and millions of people have joined since then. Get insights into our digital waste, what it costs in energy, and how we can clean it up.Here a link to the Digital Cleanup Da...
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16:15
Behavior Change Challenge - the winners 2024
Our wining team had a look at laboratories, a place of huge electricity consumptionHow can we, by creating a digital interface, change user behaviors to reduce power consumption of a labComment on this podcast:E-Ma...
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13:15
Special: Follow us on the Alkor, a research vessel
Follow us on the research vessel AlkorWe spent a week on a research vessel, following several experiments to sample and detect plastic particles of micrometer and nanometer size in the western Baltic Sea. During this time, we talked to the ...
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35:48
Behaviour Change Challenge, the winners 2023
Our winners show ways to actively change the behaviour when it comes to choosing more plant based food.
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17:23
Do you need to take flights often?
Then listen to this podcast; we like to have you included in the discussion. Speakers: Katharina Rubahn, Oliver Niebuhr (hosts) & Yogendra Kumar Mishra (guest)Intro text is spoken by Christian Sollberger, https://www.sp...
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14:17
How to change a bad habit?
Behaviour change challenge 2022 Every day you get advice on how to save energy. But what if you keep on forgetting to switch things off? What can help you to make the necessary change? One possible solution is today given b...
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11:35
Behavioural Change Challenge: And the award goes to – Selina Sara Eisenberger
It is a pleasure to announce the winner of our behavioural change challenge 2021 today. You will learn how Selina influenced the behaviour of people in a lab to cut down their energy consumption.For further information about the bac...
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11:27
Green COVID? On the benefits of the global pandemic for our climate
We talk about the actual effects of the lockdowns on our climate.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00090-3 (Jan. 21)
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13:58
Cycling: About easy ways and ambitious goals
Cycling is an important part of reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector. I welcome Louise Sørensen from the municipality in Sønderborg to talk about incentives and actions that should and do help to make a change.https://www.cyke...
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15:45
"Dirty money"? Why Bitcoins currently cost a "bit" too much energy
Taking up the fact that Tesla first decided to accept Bitcoin payments and then revised that decision again with reference to environmental reasons, we discuss in this episode the huge CO2 footprint of Bitcoins and its underlying reasons as wel...
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11:33
To fly or not to fly? Lessons learned during the pandemic
We discuss the impact and the need to fly, and alternatives. BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-clim...
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18:54
New Life for Old Things - 2nd hand stores in Sonderborg
If you come to Sønderborg or live here, you can choose from a variety of second-hand stores. My two guests today had a closer look at some selected second-hand stores for you.Kirppu Sønderborg, Grudnvigs Alle 202Nørrekobbel Genbr...
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13:45
Can an online conference contribute to change?
We inform you how an online meeting could contribute with new ideas and spread some energy despite the missing physical interaction. We talk about the Yerun staff days.Yerun stands for young European research universities. The network consi...
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13:40
A new life for old industry electronics - an Interview with the CEO of DK's largest Ebay seller Buy2Sell
Kristian Lolk Rautert, the CEO of Buy2sell, allows you insights into his unconventional business, its challenges and rewards.Find the company here www.buy2sell.dkTotal run time 15:30 minutes...
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15:24
Gamification to make the green behavior change fun!
Dr. Kerstin Oberprieler is Co-founder and CEO of Pentaquest, a company specialized in behavior change and gamification. Her approach reaches far beyond the usual points, badges and leaderboards, and she presents several examples how she has use...
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11:35
Research for and on the Sustainable Development Goals: An interview with Springer Nature
I had the great pleasure to discuss with Nicola Jones, the head of publishing of Springer Nature's new SDG Programme in London, how this new initiative works, what its underlying processes and aims are, and what first changes it has already bro...
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18:25
Green transition through asymmetric innovation
David Ireland, professor at the University of Queensland and entrepreneur, talks about his consultancy company Asymmetric Innovation, which helps companies create enduring value by bringing experts from various disciplines and from all around t...
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14:46
Waste a minute: A new generation of waste management in Sonderborg
A heavily discussed topic, the new waste management system in Denmark with first results from Sønderborg. As a guest from Sonfor I welcome Stinne Stokkebo.Link to waste sorting: https://sortering.sonfor.dk/Total run time 16:50 m...
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16:49
Charismatic leadership in the green transition
Oliver Niebuhr is an associate professor at the Centre for Industrial Electronics on the SDU campus Sonderborg. He investigates the physical signals of a speaker's charismatic impact, particularly concerning acoustical factors. He is the invent...
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14:11
Greening Goliaths and Multiplying Davids: Towards sustainable economies
Professor Schaltegger is the director of the Center for Sustainability Management at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg and co-founder of the Faculty of Sustainability there. In the podcast, he tells us about his research on collaborative and ...
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18:17
Founding a sustainable energy company
David Ireland, Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, is telling us about why and how he created a company that installs solar plants on school buildings and private houses and sells affordable solar energy. Read more abo...
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20:20
Cycle to Alsion! Insights to the recent survey
We present the two students behind the Green Alsion survey on the use of the bicycle facilities at Alsion and some major results of the survey. Total run time 17:20 minutesSpeakers: Katharina Rubahn, Oliver Niebuhr (hosts) ...
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17:24
Denmark's PhD network and going green in the lab
I welcome Nicolas Fatras, a PhD student at SDU and member of the PhD association Network Denmark. Nicolas coordinates events in sustainability, and recently a webinar ’Going green in the lab’.Webinar with Nicoline Borgermann: https://ph...
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12:22
Organic solar cells - A new breakthrough technology
Organic solar cells possess several advantages compared to conventional silicon solar cells – they are cheaper to manufacture, more eco-friendly, flexible and transparent. Researchers from the NanoSYD team of the University of Southern Denmark ...
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16:58
Go virtual, save on CO2 emissions: BeemUp and the future of conference travel
A new generation of highly immersive VR platforms has emerged with the aim of helping us save thousands of tons of CO2 for conference travel in the future. The Dutch startup BeemUp is an example for that. In our podcast episode, we explain why ...
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