What is the role of businesses in a sustainable transition? What can you do to embrace that role?

In this episode, we talk to Barbara Kump, an associate professor of Business & Sustainability at UT. The topic of conversation was insider activism: How can individuals change their organisations to a more sustainable one, from any position in the organisation they might hold. We also talk about what sparked her to pursue sustainability in her research, how that impacted her role, and about her upcoming book!

Today we are tackling the topic of biking... how to make it more safe and appealing in order to support sustainability? Our guests, Mario Boot and Annemarie Jutte, will explain how they are working on this with their project "Human-Bike Integration".
Mario works at UT and has a background in user experience research and design of wearable technology, and Annemarie works in Saxion and has a background in human media interaction and data science. UT and Saxion are collaborating together on smart connected bikes, with the vision of creating, one day, a car-free city.

Link:
https://app.simplymeet.me/smartbikes

In this episode, we are glad to present Florence Metz. She has a background in political science and public policy. Florence conducts her research in various policy domains and teaches about public policies for sustainability transitions here at UT. During this episode, she will explain how policies are implemented to understand why sometimes they may fail or be contradictory, but mostly how we can create an impact on this project. Later in the interview, she also explains her research on the Positive SDG interaction, explaining which SDG we should target to have optimal results. If you want to know more about how governmental policies can help us tackle sustainability listen to this episode!

We have had the pleasure of hosting two guests in this episode: Elisah Pals, the initiatior of Zero Waste Netherlands, and Dirk Groot, also known as "The Zwerfinator" for his work in picking up litter and analysing data collected in the process.
Both have taken their sphere of influence beyond personal lifestyle changes and turned their efforts into movements. Their inspiring stories teach us how to go beyond individual choices and grow them into movements sharing ideas, turn others to the cause, and use the momentum to create impact on corporations and governance.

This month we had the pleasure of talking to Ernst-Jan Kuiper, a climate scientist who didn't feel like passively producing research is his best way of making an impact, and so shifted to climate activism instead.
Stories like Ernst's are becoming increasingly more common: scientists feeling like they are not being heard, and turning to more persuasive forms of public outreach, such as protests, acts of civil disobedience, and lawsuits.
We talked about his personal story, how exactly the shift from science to activism happened, his career, and current effort in helping Milieudefensie, a group taking on big oil companies in courts.

We are starting the new year with a brand new episode. We had the pleasure of interviewing Shun Yang, an Assistant Professor specializing in Manufacturing Systems at the UT. With a global career spanning KIT China Branch, MIT, and more, Shun brings a wealth of experience and expertise in Sino-German collaboration, global production strategy, smart automation, and sustainable manufacturing. We explored his project, "NWA Smart Industry Route", that aims to make the product production process sustainable and circular. Join us in this interesting interview, if you want to know more about this topics!

We're kicking off the second season of GreenTalks with an exciting special episode: Sustainability in Healthcare.
The impending climate crisis, and other environmental damages, have serious implications for our collective health. However, the very industry that is there to protect our health is big contributor to carbon emissions and pollution. How can we make sure that this impact is minimised, while not compromising the effectiveness of healthcare?

Maarten van Aalst, the Climate director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological institute, and ex-director of Red Cross Red Crescent climate centre, will tell us about the impacts of the climate crisis on health, both physical and mental. How can data help tackle the invisibility of heatwave deaths? What is the role of Loss & Damage funds? How do we talk about the climate crisis in a way that sounds the alarm, but controls anxiety?

Marianne Kooistra-Jonker is an alumni of University of Twente working in the medical sector, currently working on improving the sustainability of the field. She is the coordinator of a sustainability programme in the MST hospital in Enschede. How can hospitals lower their CO2 emissions, become more circular? How do we reduce the impact of medication on ground water and waste water? How do we make hospitals more diverse and inclusive?

02:05 - Maarten van Aalst
34:05 - Marianne Kooistra-Jonker

This special episode of GreenTalks was recorded at the TechMed event at the University of Twente. The final audio clip was provided by Merlijn Twaalfhoven and his website www.tegentijd.nl, which features creative ways (in Dutch) to get in touch with future generations.

Hi! Welcome to the new season of GreenTalks, a podcast run by GreenHub, the green office at the University of Twente.

We are excited to invite you into the our show, where we interview experts on sustainability, climate change, climate action, sustainable development, and more!
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This is a trailer episode for Season 2.

Clizia Mochi & Fran Karlović