Sustain Circularity Podcast

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.   PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro, Breaker, Castbox, Radio Public Follow the link: https://plinkhq.com/i/1540689102 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/lukapaltana  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  CONNECT: LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/paltanavicius/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lukas.paltanavicius/

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   CONNECT: LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/paltanavicius/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lukas.paltanavicius/

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. CONNECT:  LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/paltanavicius/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lukas.paltanavicius/

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 CONNECT:  LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/paltanavicius/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lukas.paltanavicius/