A Positive Climate

Alex and Nick wrap up 2021 and the end of our second season with a wide ranging chat: the current state of cleantech, some BOLD predictions about the future, the zaniest climate solutions of 2021 and what we’re excited about for 2022!  We cover a lot on this episode: Australia’s opportunity to be a renewable energy superpower; the hydrogen economy;  when we might get to high...

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 vehicles" most of us think about cars. But what about e-bikes? In the US for example they outsold cars by over 2 to 1 last year! And they are growing at 16 times faster than...

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 - some are old, some are new but all of them are getting much much better. Pumped hydro, hydrogen, thermal storage and of course, BATTERIES. Batteries a...

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 as the global apparel industry accounts for an estimated 8% of emissions! That’s on par with the steel sector. It's a complex topic and one that is so confusing....

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. Their operations are both everywhere and nowhere at the same time. You see the website, the streaming service, the Kindles and the packages but what you don&r...

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 for around 15% of all emissions and in Australia alone we eat 120kg of meat per person per annum (the equivalent of eating Dwayne the Rock Johnson in steaks and s...

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 zero plastic. Great Wrap makes residential wrap (the sandwich wrapping kind), catering wrap and pallet wrap (the stuff heaps of things get wrapped in for transpor...

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 fossil fuel generators have always been located in centralised locations closer to central loads or cities. However, if our grid is 100% clean the generation mix is likely to...

Tim Noakesmith and George Peppou  of Vow explain the carbon free revolution soon to come to our dinner plates - cultured meat. *** 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 potential mega role in the battery...

Tim Washington from JET Charge answers the question: why should we care about electric vehicles? They’re a better driving experience, they’re quieter, they’re better for air quality (especially important for when kids are walking by at exhaust pipe height), they’re soon to be cheaper, they are actually MORE convenient to charge and finally, unlike petrol vehicles, they can...

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 calls them.  AMSL Aero is an Australian company that's creating a flying air taxi which is powered by batteries and a hydrogen fuel cell which means it is completely emiss...

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 they say in the industry “agtech”.  We cover the current sources of emissions within our food supply chain and some fantastic solutions including farming rob...

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 Nick about the most uplifting stories of the week.  This week we're covering NUGGS by SIMULATE - a plant based chicken nugget company with some pretty cheeky branding. Appa...

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 times faster and using half the land vs conventional technology.  Chris McGrath shares the story of how he and his mate Eden came up with the idea, didn’t sleep for...

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 renewable drinking water system - Source Global .  The system includes a solar panel that doesn’t create electricity but instead creates clean drinking water....

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 your hot hands! In this episode we discussed how Con and his co-founders developed this innovative tech plus how some great beer brands are looking to decarbonise.  We also expl...

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 emissions and how ZeroCo and their innovative business model is looking to address the problem at hand. Mike spins many a good yarn about founding the business -...

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 that can be used in livestock feed and pet food. This episode explores just how Olympia became a maggot farmer, the issues surrounding waste and Goterra’s unique solu...

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 showcase all the positives.  In this episode we interview Nick Hazell, CEO and founder of V2Food . V2Food is an Australian company that has developed plant based meat...

Welcome to the podcast! A Positive Climate is an uplifting podcast about tackling climate change. An inspiring look at the products, people and technologies making a real difference. Hosted by Australian climate technology experts Nick Zeltzer  and Alex McIntosh two friends on a mission to find the solutions to keep our existential crises at bay. We cover it all on the show while keeping things op...