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!

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

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.

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Clizia Mochi & Fran Karlović

Today we can welcome Prof.Dr.IR Boelo Schuur. Who will talk about his specific research and much more related to SDGs. 

Mr. Boelo is a professor of separation technology in Process & Catalyst engineering with key research in development and sustainability of separation processes in chemical operations. Some applications include biorefinery and circular economy as key topics. 

His current research is focusing on sustainable supply chains and circular economic business models, with particular attention on industrial symbiosis networks. His goal is to support the circular economy and energy transition under the umbrella of industrial, rural, and urban symbiosis.

Strong efforts have been made in the last decades to develop chemical processes dealing with these more sustainable feedstocks (e.g., lignocellulosic biomass or plastic waste). While these streams have the potential to reduce the C- footprint of the chemical industry, their complex composition makes it difficult to implement them in existing processes. For this reason, joint efforts from academia and industry, as well as the whole society, are key to accelerating the widespread implementation of these streams in the chemical industry and allowing a more circular economy. This is the core of my career as a researcher and teacher in the field of Sustainable Chemical Processes.

In this episode recent graduate Luuk Buunk will join us. Luuk currently fills the role of educational advisor for challenge-based learning or CBL at the UT and is a candidate for the Provincial States of Overijssel. 

I am Tamas Szecsei, a Green Hub Officer from the University of Twente, and your host for today’s episode. I am joined by Nando Tolboom, who has been part of the UT community for over a decade. He completed his bachelor's and master's in applied physics and is currently finalizing his PhD.