Accelerating to a Better Future

Green Swans take flight

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:27:24 GMT

The renowned author and sustainability leader John Elkington joins Amanda and Richard in the last of the series of Accelerator podcast. His optimism for the future and the opportunities that a green recovery present is infectious and helps us to herald the launch of the new Centre for Climate Change Innovation.

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From flying feathers to carbon cutting cotton

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:04:31 GMT

Join Amanda and Richard in this discussion with Elena Dieckmann, co-founder of Aeropowder and Ed Brial, CEO and founder of hydroCotton (now Materra) about how their businesses are using innovative solutions to cut carbon out of the manufacturing cycle.

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INSIGHTS: Internal Combustion Engine - Good or Bad?

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:33:15 GMT

Dr Marc Stettler from Imperial College London shares the science behind emission free transport systems and discusses the opportunities plus some of the challenges

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Driving towards zero carbon

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:15:44 GMT

We chat to Jason Hallett from Lixea about using sugar extracted from wood - biomass fractionation that uses low cost ionic liquids to replace hydrogen for vehicles, and to Ian Campbell from Breathe Battery Technologies about making that EV battery go further. Breathe's new software could revolutionise electric vehicles by making the battery last 5% longer.

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Top to Toe!

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:25:24 GMT

From sustainable affordable key worker homes on the rooftops of city buildings to a revolutionary new way to insulate old homes from below, this podcast covers it all. Arthur Kay discusses how Skyrooms offer an alternative way of providing low cost homes that don't cost the earth by using largely redundant space on top of existing buildings. Our second guest, Matthew Holloway from QBot is working bottom up using remote controlled robot technology to insulate homes below existing floors, reducing heating costs and emissions quickly and efficiently.

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Out of the cardboard box.....

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:57:33 GMT

A podcast on food packaging and waste, what is and isn't recycled and some of the bio science behind the food packaging industry with Professor Richard Murphy and Dr Jem Woods. Just how many times can you reuse a cardboard box?

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As good on the outside as it is on the inside

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 08:00:22 GMT

We hear from our guests about how innovative technology is helping consumers judge the freshness of their packaged food just by touching the label, as well as cutting out the need for single-use plastic by replacing food packaging with edible seaweed. Solveiga Pakštaite, Founder and Director of Mimica, and Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, Co-Founder and co-CEO of Notpla, join Professor Richard Templer and co host Amanda Carpenter, to get in touch with how their products mean less wasted food and single-use plastic.

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INSIGHTS: Food Production

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:00:03 GMT

Taking the long view - in this Insights episode we talk to Angela Karp, CEO of the Rothamsted Institute, about some of the history and science of food production, the role of land management and cultivation and what the future holds. Angela also explores how agri science has kept going during wars and pandemics!

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Speedy Duckweed!

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:00:29 GMT

Hear how our guests have harnessed science to grow Lemna (duckweed) ten times faster and with 99% less water, as well as unlocking plant DNA to make agriculture more sustainable. William Pelton, CEO of Phytoform Labs and Sean Peters, CEO of DryGro, join Professor Richard Templer to talk about how their work means food needn't cost the earth.

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INSIGHTS: GHG Extraction

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:00:00 GMT

Hear from Professor Nilay Shah OBE, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, about the science behind greenhouse gas extraction – a key technology to help achieve Net Zero carbon.

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Catch it, extract it, bury it!

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:00:26 GMT

In conversation with Tim Kruger, Founder of Origen Power, on how they extract existing carbon from the atmosphere.

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Insights Behind the Science

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 08:00:13 GMT

Hear from Naveed Chaudhry, head of the Grantham Institute’s Climate-KIC Accelerator Programme at Imperial College London, about what's new for the 2021 programme and how to take your cleantech startup from small beginnings to business success!

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Where it all began!

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:57:53 GMT

Over a decade ago a team of visionaries at Imperial College London teamed up with European colleagues to found the European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s Climate Knowledge Innovation Centre. They shared a vision to bring the science and technology expertise of their organisations to the creation of new cleantech businesses. Out of this the Accelerator Programme was born and can now boast a string of successful businesses producing everything from seaweed packaging to robots that install underfloor insulation, and agriculture that uses very little water for cattle feed and cotton. In this first episode founders Professor Richard Templer and Sir Brian Hoskins remember how and where it all began.

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