We face economic, environmental, and social challenges every day that require sustainable solutions. Entrepreneur, scientist, and author Robert Colangelo talks with experts across a variety of global sectors – Energy, Transportation, Food, Agriculture, Water & Waste Management, Climate, and more. Every week, Robert and his guests explore practical, cost-effective, and innovative solutions. You’ll hear objective facts to help you make informed choices so that your lifestyle and business can be more sustainable. Listen every week to hear the latest show, download our complete library of podcasts from Spotify and Apple, and tune into 780 AM & 105.9 FM, WBBM Chicago, to listen to the Green Sense Minute every Thursday and Saturday.
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
What happens if all the doomsdays forecast for the future are wrong and we have a utopian future with a clean environment? Michael Rogers, Practical Futurist has been tracking innovations that will change the future for decades and has written a new novel Email from the Future, notes from 2084. Michael’s utopian future contains vertical farms in cities, as a sustainable way to grow year-round crops with a small footprint and high yields.
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
This week on Green Sense Radio we are joined by Mike Jackson a Springfield Illinois-based architect and a visiting professor of architecture at the University of Illinois. Mike has led the architectural division of the Illinois historic preservation agency for more than 30 years and shares his insights into why historic preservation is important, the criteria used to differentiate between blight and buildings worth saving, and provides tips the public can use when it comes to preservation.
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
This week, Tom Appel reports our Green Automotive News - Ford Motor company’s announcement to split the company into Ford Blue, for traditional gas- and diesel-powered vehicles, and Ford Model E, for new electric models; Rising gas prices and their impact on car sales; The rise and fall of Rivian the darling of Wall Street rising production costs, delays in production and a PR debacle have soured its loyal customer base; and why battery production is moving to the US.
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
This week we sat down with Arama Kukutai, CEO of Plenty an indoor, automated vertical farming technology company that can grow clean produce year-round, anywhere in the world. Arama is a pioneer in both Ag Tech investing and Vertical Farming. Hear about how growing up in New Zeeland, his Māori heritage and college days playing rugby shaped him to succeed. He shares his insights on the current CEA industry and what big plans he has as the newly appointed CEO of Plenty.
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Ridder a Dutch indoor growing technology company is on a mission to help farmers grow more crops sustainably. They are on the constant hunt for new technologies that can grow a wider range of crops faster, better, safer, and cheaper. This week we spoke with Ridder’s CTO, Joep van den Bosch to learn about what technologies are on the horizon, when they will become commercially available and how they will address labor, rising inputs costs and crop quality to produce more crops with less resources.
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
First Student is an industry leader in home-to-school transportation and furthers its
commitment to electric school buses. This week we spoke with Kevin Matthews, Head of Electrification at First
Students to hear first-hand how their electric buses are transporting over 5 million students to
school every day.
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
This week we spoke with Chris Higgins of Hort Americas and Urban Ag News to discuss how GE – Current repurposed an existing US light factory to make horticulture LED lights onshore. Did they get lucky to get ahead of kinks in the supply chain or was this well planned? Listen to this week’s episode and learn about the eco-innovations that are happening in the world of Controlled Environment Agriculture.
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
This week we sat down with Tom Appel, publisher of Consumer Guide Automotive to discuss the latest news in the automotive industry and the challenges manufacturing companies face to ramp up production of EV trucks to meet demand. Tom gives us insight into how car companies are competing in two different automotive markets - cars, and trucks, to meet increased consumer demand for EVs in 2022 and
beyond.
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
There are currently 2.4 billion people around the world who don’t have access to clean water because of poor or no infrastructure to treat wastewater. This week we spoke to Triangle Environmental’s Founder & Principal Tate Rogers to learn more about the company’s development of a small on-site water treatment system that maximizes the chemical energy potential contained in wastewater to produce zero-waste and valuable effluent streams.
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
This week we are joined by AppHarvest founder and CEO Jonathan Webb to discuss how
AppHarvest hopes to become the farm of the future, investing in robotics and artificial
intelligence, while transforming Appalachia into a year-round hub for vegetable production.
Johnathan will also be the keynote speaker at Indoor Ag Con, Feb28- March 1 st in Las Vegas.