The Cleantech Show #004 (MP3 - 13MB - 36min)
Sylvia Tulloch, is the Managing director and founding team member for 3rd Generation solar cell technology company Dyesol (ASX:DYE).
3rd generation solar cell technology utilises biomimicry of the chlorophyll dye in plants to produce energy from the sun.
Dyesol has been a pioneer in the field of Dye [...]

Water Availability and Desalination is a hot topic at the moment here in Australia, as in many other areas of the world. Developed countries like Australia are gripped in drought and faced with shifting climate conditions that mean that water availability is becoming more and more pressured.
Around the world in developing countries 1.1 billion [...]

One of the things I love about the revolution in technologies at the moment is the shift from Brute Force approaches to problems, based on cheap energy and resources to smarter design based on minimising energy and resource use.
The ingenuity of these approaches were often thought up in another era.
In an age gone by when [...]

Now this is one of those great innovations looking at a societal system and identifying the its ecological and cost structure and then innovating to bring benefits to both.
In this case that system is trash collection and disposal. The system being, installing the bins, collecting the trash and truck logistics, disposing of it.

Big Belly is [...]

The Cleantech Show #003 (MP3 - 15MB - 42min)
This weeks podcast is an interview with Mitra Ardron. Mitra is principle of Natural Innovations a company which provides consulting services on developing businesses around sustainability, and in particular green technologies.
Mitra has previously worked in commercialising internet technologies and co-founded the international NGO Association for Progressive [...]

The Cleantech Show #002 (MP3 - 10MB - 30min)
This weeks podcast is an interview with Dr. Tim Finnigan, Founder and CEO of Biopower Systems, a distributed ocean power technology company.
On the show Tim and I discuss the company’s novel approach to harnessing ocean power, including their tidal current power technology bioStream and wave power technology [...]

The cost of solar PV is dropping - or will shortly according to solar PV concentrator manufacturer Soliant Energy.
Solar concentrator technologies allow the same level of light to be captured often as a traditional panel technology. However they drastically reduce the cost of the photovoltaic components by concentrating the incident sunlight onto a much smaller [...]

In case you missed it, Rupert Murdoch announced overnight that News Corporation worldwide would be carbon neutral by 2010. The Australian Newspaper has reproduced the speech in this article, and you can read it by expanding the read more button below.
Its well worth a read, and this is a particularly poignant given the [...]

The Cleantech Show #001 (MP3 - 17MB - 48min)

This weeks podcast is with Andrew Neilson who is the Legal and Commercial manger and Company Secretary at Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL). For those of you not familiar with Ceramic Fuel Cells they are a Australian and London Stock Exchange (AIM) listed maker of solid oxide [...]

I’m currently reading Clive Hamilton’s new book “Scorcher - the dirty politics of climate change”. And its a real eye opener on what’s happening in Australian Politics particularly over the last 10 years of the Howard government. We all know how the Australian Government has really dragged its heals regarding action on climate [...]