Rowan Dixon – Saving The World

Peter talks with Will about New Zealand's water quality, water quality, innovations and where you can find the purist glass of water in Aotereroa.

In this episode Kezia discusses how noise can have negative impacts on people and how to reduce this and also improve people's living environment.

In this episode find out... How do EV’s work?  Is it true that the national grid couldn’t currently support mass adoption of EVs? How does NZ’s renewable energy network compare with other developed nations? I heard EVs may not actually be cheaper to run the petrol vehicles – Is this true? What about Electric buses, trains and planes? Are these foreseeable options? I read that The average electric vehicle can travel 160 kilometres per charge? Is that true, how often do you need to charge your average EV?  Is WSP Opus doing any work with EV’s

Many of us want to save the world, but where would you even start? Environmental consultant Rowan Dixon, is one of those people who might just be able to do it and in this episode of The Future Cities Podcast he shares a bit of knowledge about how we can all save the world.

Modern-day wizard, Kristian Jensen knows a lot about electricity and in the course of his career has deliberately blown a few things up. On the flip side, he’s spent more time being paid to prevent things blowing up. In this episode of The Future Cities Podcast we discuss what role electricity plays in our future cities.

Smart mobility expert Louise Baker, joins us on The Future Cities Podcast. In this episode, Louise talks about a vision of our transport future where the car is no longer king, and all forms of transport are easily accessible.