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Our future is based on our choices. The ones we make as individuals and also the ones we make as groups, countries and as a species. A peaceful and plentiful future is only possible if we agree on making sustainable choices together. Collective Choices is a podcast that aims to explore both possible solutions to some of our current issues and also the process of reaching agreements for the common good. As more and more people live in cities, these are the key centers that define economic mod ...
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Fariya Sharmeen is a Research Scientist and Associate Professor at KTH Stockholm, working with travel behavior modelling, social network analysis and urban transformation. We talk about: -how your social network and life events determine your travel behavior -from research data to having an impact in daily life, faster -tech advancements and more c…
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In this episode of Collective Choices we talk about the BIG change that everything else depends on. Dr. Jennifer Hinton is an ecological economist, sustainability researcher, educator and book author. She has worked with the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Lund University, Stockholm University and The Schumacher Institute. Her research focuses on the …
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As we re-discover the importance of local communities, a Helsinki based startup proposes a tool for basically everything regarding information and communication in a city or a neighborhood. Or any location, actually. I talked to Superhood's founder, Markku Mehtälä, about this modern agora: - it's a social discovery hub for all things local - it agg…
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Marianne Weinreich joins me for Ep 10 of Collective Choices. She is Co-founder and Chair of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark, manager of the Danish Mobility Network and Market Manager Global Smart Mobility at Ramboll. We talk about: - how transport connects us all - how the mobility focus is moving from cars to people - why the bicycle is so special …
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Collective Choices Ep 9 was recorded in Stuttgart, Germany, at the Urban Future conference. My guest is Simon Zimmermann, founder of SOLARBAKERY, the world’s first provider of fully equipped, mobile and energy independent container bakeries. We talk about: - how the idea was born - what does a solar bakery have to do with a school? - when businesse…
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This episode of Collective Choices was recorded in Stuttgart, Germany, at the Urban Future conference. My guest is Carlos Moreno, scientist and professor at Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris. He developed the 15 Minute City concept a few years before it became highly publicized during the pandemic. We talk about: -the six essential functions that a city sho…
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Ep. 7 of Collective Choices was recorded in Uppsala, Sweden, with Marie Pellas, mobility expert and winner of the Traffic Award for 2023. We talk about: - how do you win a traffic award - living an (almost) car free life with kids - how the size of a city, its design and the options available influence travel choices - you need infrastructure to ch…
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Ep 6 was recorded in Copenhagen with Mikael Colville-Andersen: urban planner, activist, host of the TV series The Life-Sized City and the author of Copenhagenize - The Definitive Guide To Global Bicycle Urbanism. He's also behind the Bikes4Ukraine initiative. We talk about: -Copenhagen, of course, but also Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, Montreal and o…
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Episode 5 of Collective Choices was recorded in the Carpathian Mountains, in Transylvania, Romania. Christoph Promberger is the executive director of Foundation Conservation Carpathia. We talk about: -the story behind the biggest national park Europe will soon have -fighting the government and the timber mafia -what do you do when you receive a for…
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Staffan Widstrand is an award winning nature photographer, book author and National Geographic explorer. He has traveled the world and has been involved in many conservation efforts, including Wild Wonders of Europe. We talk about: -how we don’t take logical decisions -the power of images -when air travel is good for nature -nature conservation in …
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Episode 3 of Collective Choices was recorded in Oslo, Norway. Kari Anne Solfjeld Eid is a User Experience designer and founder of Whee! On the discussion menu: -how to create a cargo bike subscription service -transportation on human scale -skiing vs cycling in Oslo -why winter cycling with an e-bike is so much better than you assume -why car shari…
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Tove Blomgren is a Creative Director at SALLY - Future Manifestation Lab in Stockholm, Sweden. We talk about: -the cone of plausibility -the insanity of our current reality -seeing the future then traveling back to the present to implement it -how to share the vision of a preferable future so that people want it -the preferable future of food and t…
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Welcome to the first episode of Collective Choices! Lars Strömgren is Vice Mayor for Transport and Urban Environment in Stockholm, Sweden. We're talking about: - why transport solutions also include decreasing transport, not just facilitating it - the time when Stockholm had more cyclists than Copenhagen - electric boats as buses - winter cycling -…
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