Sustain Circularity Podcast: Recent Episodes
Luka Paltana
I get up in the morning to work with brilliant, passionate, and impatient people primarily motivated by improving life and making the world a more fulfilling and sustainable place. I am MSc student @ the best agriculture university in the world Wageningen University & Research. In this podcast I talk with scientist and people around me, where we explore ongoing topics for building a Biobased Economy.
This time I talk with Christophe Lasseur, He works in European Space Agency (ESA) as an Environmental Control and Life Support System R&D coordinator & Head of the MELiSSA project, which been running for the past 30 years. I am extremely impressed by the work that has been done, I am even happier to share this talk with you.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
00:41 - Childhood
3:16 - Engineering for space systems
6:16 - Why algae in space?
14:44 - How algae are researched in space?
18:10 - Growth in Mars and space
21:10 - Algae as astronauts nutrition
25:21 - Knowledge management
27:11 - COVID-19 and impact on ESA
29:32 - Melissa project
33:10 - Interdisciplinarity of ESA
33:50 - Why do we need to go to space?
35:20 - When we will fly to space commercially?
36:52 - USA vs EU vs rest of the world
40:40 - Elon Musk meme and aliens
42:10 - Government and aliens
43:56 - Space startups
45:09 - Career at ESA
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The following conversation is with Stefano Pascucci. He is a proffesor in Sustainability and Circular Economy at the University of Exeter Business School and also a Visiting professor at Wageningen University & Research. His research focuses on agribusiness, sustainability and circular economy. Another bright mind that I had a chance to meet in reality and therefore I am recording this discussion to encourage future minds to learn more and get excited about science. Enjoy!
OUTLINE:
00:00 - Intro
00:39 - Childhood
2:57 - PhD
5:00 - Closed loops
8:26 - Green wheel
10:11 - Mainstream circularity and defintion
13:14 - Missinterpretations
17:59 - Regenerative Agriculture
24:09 - Advice for farmer
34:45 - Blue Economy
36:31 - Students mindset
39:51 - Advice for future students
42:53 - Conscious awareness
What's next?
Circular Economy Course: https://ssc.wur.nl/Studiegids/Vak/BMO-26806
MOOC Circular Economy: https://www.wur.nl/en/show/Circular-Economy-An-Interdisciplinary-Approach.htm
Angelo Vermeulen is an artist, biologist, and space system researcher at Delft University and Technology, the Netherlands. Interdisciplinarity between art, engineering, and science is his strength. Next to that, he works towards biological life support in space. Enjoy the conversation! More about Angelo Vermeulen: http://www.angelovermeulen.net
OUTLINE:
00:00 - Podcast mission
1:00 - Childhood
6:25 - Art and holistic personality
16:34 - Biology space and art
21:39 - Ecology in space
25:53 - Earth first space later?
29:07 - Mission to mars and horticulture
34:10 - Obstacles for food production
39:30 - Aliens
43:03 - Influential books
47:11 - Gaming
48:19 - Advice for future students
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Hans Langeveld is a highly influential researcher with over 100+ publications in an areas of biobased, bioenergy production, feedstock availability, and sustainability. He is an editor of a book Biobased Economy. He is a former Senior Researcher at Plant Research International at WUR. Currently, here in same Wageningen campus he is a Director of Biomass Research consultancy firm, where they provide highest quality data to organisations such as UN FAO, European Commision, Ministry of Economic affairs, Agriculture and Innovation in the Netherlands and so on.
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Leo Marcelis is sometimes called the Rock n Roll star of horticulture, because of his popularity in various medias, for example the latest YouTube series about Artificial Inteligence. Leo Marcelis is a Head of chair group Horticulture and Product Physiology at Wageningen University & Research. Sometimes WUR is called the Sillicon Valley of Agriculture. In this episode you will hear more about indoor, vertical farming, circular food systems and food production in outter space.
More about prof.dr.ir. Leo Marcelis research and his impact: https://research.wur.nl/en/persons/leo-marcelis
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