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The power to stop climate change is in one word - Replace. We'll explore what to replace and what to replace it with. From food networks to fossil fuels, building products and gas fired stoves, attitudes and beliefs, we're on a mission to find out what works better, stops climate change, and creates the next golden age. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Drop us a line on gmail @replaceremoverecover Want to support us? Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ReplaceRemoveRecover Receive exclusive content including transcripts and private podcasts that answer your questions and respond to your comments.

Episode 12 - Sunshine Hydro's Pumped Hydro and Hydrogen Energy Storage Solution 11/04/2024

Episode 11 - How Biocraft cat food and cellular agriculture will stop Climate Change 08/27/2024

Episode 11 - How Biocraft cat food and cellular agriculture will stop Climate Change This episode is exciting for me personally because it introduces two concepts that are, in my opinion, the largest solutions to climate change. The first is cellular production, bioreactors, and farm-free meat. The second reason I’m excited is because our guest today, Dr. Falconer, discovered a shortcut to solving climate change... with cat food. That's right. And we’re counting on it sounding ridiculous and flying under the radar. It turns out the simple act of producing farm-free cat food in a bioreactor might solve all of the world's meat and agriculture problems at once. Listen and see how soon you can spot what makes it possible. Imagine a future where we grow our meat and vegetables at a cellular level inside compact facilities powered by renewable energy. The meat is clean and healthy with no herbicides, pesticides, PFAS or antibiotics. It is tailored to maximize the amount of nutrition our biology and evolution requires. Because this food is no longer grown on-farm, it is produced in cities and towns next to the people it feeds where almost anyone, anywhere can make it, meaning no one goes hungry. But the best part of this future is outside. Half of the earth’s land surface returns to nature, rewilded, where ecosystems recover. Forests grow from abandoned pastures, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere to build themselves. The animals and birds return to the forests. And humans, well fed and healthy, play with their cats, laughing as they remember that this was all thanks to cat food. You can read more by visiting: by Thanks for listening! If you liked this episode, please tell your friends. Hit the like button wherever you heard this so you'll know when the next one comes out. And if you missed any of the episodes, they're waiting for you. Stay optimistic about climate change. Together, we will do this. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Drop us a line on Music in this episode provided by Theme Song - 00:28 - 12:24 and 13:15 - 18:07 and 19:48 - 24:10 - Sound Effects by : “Laser Shot Ingame” Sound Effect by “Crockery” SFX by Sound Effect from Pixabay “Ladder Drop” SFX by Sound Effect from Pixabay “Machine Powering Down” SFX by Sound Effect from Pixabay “Power Down” SFX by Sound Effect from Pixabay /episode/index/show/99c988e1-a978-48e7-a904-0e329a08a5f6/id/32757407

Episode 10 - Part 2 - How Ammonia Will Save the World, Again 10/18/2023

Replace Remove Recover Episode 9 - Part 1 - How Ammonia Will Save The World, Again 09/10/2023

Replace Remove Recover Episode 9 - Part 1 - How Ammonia Will Save The World, Again You might be surprised to hear it phrased this way, but you are a fossil fuel product. Half of the nitrogen atoms in your body are artificially synthesized. They are a product of the Haber-Bosch process, a process that requires fossil fuels. The world's population relies on fossil fuels powering the Haber-Bosch production of ammonia, used in fertilizer, to grow the food that keeps us alive. You are what you eat. In fact, without fossil fuels you probably wouldn’t exist on earth today. When we talk about our carbon footprint, the only real question is which foot – the right or the left. That might be a lot to swallow, so we’re going to approach this in two episodes. Because to understand the magnitude of the technology Douglas MacFarlane developed with his team at Monash University, to see how radically it will change the world, you’ll first need to understand how we got here. And this story is so huge, so all-encompassing, and (despite being something we’re all living through) almost completely unknown to you, that we’ll have to lay the groundwork in this episode for you to appreciate the next. So, get ready for birds, bones, and guns as we explore ammonia. Our guest today is Douglas MacFarlane of . He and his team developed a new method to produce ammonia without fossil fuels. Green ammonia might play a very big role in solving climate change and bring ammonia redemption. Thanks for listening! If you liked this episode, please tell your friends. Hit the like button wherever you heard this so you'll know when the next one comes out. And if you missed any of the episodes, they're waiting for you. Stay optimistic about climate change. Together, we will do this. Sound FX by Music in this episode provided by Theme Song - "The Best Thing" by Paper Planes 00:00 - "It Dont Rain" by Ben Strawn 04:05 - "Sentiment" by Runar Blesvik 08:00 - "Finale" by David Morton 08:17 - "Lost Are We" by Alon Peretz 11:42 - "Auf Wiedersehn" by Victor Dance Orchestra 14:20 - "Battle of the Nations" by Conways Band 15:01 - "Ebb and Flow" by Kadir Demir 20:00 - "Heavens" by Itai Argaman Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Drop us a line on gmail @replaceremoverecover /episode/index/show/99c988e1-a978-48e7-a904-0e329a08a5f6/id/27989727

Replace Remove Recover Episode 8 - For the Love of Trees 07/18/2023

Replace Remove Recover Episode 8 - For the Love of Trees Today we're looking at trees. This was not the episode I wanted to do next. I had a few others planned, but everywhere I looked for replacements to fossil fuels, people thought trees were the answer. Architects specifying timber to replace concrete in low-embodied-carbon buildings, companies buying carbon credits from forests to reach net-zero, biomass replacing coal in coal fired power plants. Every solution I heard felt... weird. Trees don't strike me as a 21st century high-tech solution to climate change. Maybe I'm crazy. You tell me. Listen to these voices and tell me if you sense the weirdness. There are approximately three trillion trees on earth today. That sounds like a lot, but there used to be more. Before human agriculture, there were twice as many, about six trillion trees. Humans removed 46% of all the planet’s trees since the dawn of agriculture, and half of that happened since 1900. So pervasive has human intervention been that only about 34% of the world's forests are primary forests, you know, the kind we think of when we hear the word “forest”. That's 34% AFTER the 50% we've already removed. That means 85% of the world's original forests are currently serving human use. Half of them serve us by no longer existing at all. The truth is, whatever we use timber for, timber is not renewable. It is a finite resource, one that competes with all of our other resources, and one we've already half depleted. When you see it like this, you realize so many of our attempts to use trees are absurd. The ideas that we’re pushing to make more, to use more, to burn more, to bury more are such consumerist concepts. They’re anathema to all environmental beliefs and scientific understanding, but it’s environmentalists and scientists proposing it. That's weird. How unnatural are we willing to make nature in order to clean up our mess? More correctly, how much MORE unnatural than the 85% we already have. This obsession of ours for the regenerative beauty of trees, this timberpunk view of returning to a yesteryear we've long since depleted, this puerile faith in nature to clean up our adult-sized mess, our love of forests may yet be the end of them. This podcast is called Replace, Remove, Recover, and as you can see from trees, we get so motivated by Replace Remove that we often forget about Recover. We need to stop looking at nature as a renewable resource and see it for the finite and closed system it is. The next time you’re looking for a low carbon alternative, don’t look at trees. Don’t ask nature to solve this for you. Recover means we need a plan for the next million years. If you want to make a difference, contact the Rainforest Action Network to see how you can protect a forest, not for carbon credits, but for survival. Talk to your local Climate Change Commission to treat biomass the same way we treat coal. Tell your local Emissions Trading Scheme to divorce forests from carbon, forcing funds to be spent on anthropogenic solutions to anthropogenic emissions. We need solutions that don't involve trees. Rainforest Action Network: https://www.ran.org/ If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with someone you know who needs to hear it. If it made you feel, made you angry, made you cry, let someone else feel the same. Music in this episode provided by Artlist.io Theme Song - "The Best Thing" by Paper Planes 01:10 - "Sero" by Crest 03:30 - "Many Persons in His Head" by Max H. 06:10 - "What We Have Lost" by David James Terry 10:06 - "Many Persons in His Head" by Max H. 11:59 - "Four on Five" by Yehezkel Raz 13:05 - "Vacuum" by Buddha Kid 15:00 - "Sleeper Valley" by Ardie Son 19:18 - "Erased from My Mind" by Kevin Graham 24:31 - "Less Than Tomorrow" by Raphael Angelini 25:39 - "Four on Five" by Yehezkel Raz 27:58 - "Less Than Tomorrow" by Raphael Angelini Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Drop us a line on gmail @replaceremoverecover Want to support us? Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/ReplaceRemoveRecover Receive exclusive content including transcripts and private podcasts that answer your questions and respond to your comments. /episode/index/show/99c988e1-a978-48e7-a904-0e329a08a5f6/id/27496620

Replace Remove Recover Episode 7 - Reinventing Cement 06/27/2023

Replace Remove Recover Episode 6 - Wave Energy with Heikki Paakkinen of Finland's Holvi Energy 05/28/2023

Replace Remove Recover Episode 5 - Now You're Cooking With(out) Gas 05/02/2023

Replace Remove Recover Episode 4 - Unintended Consequences 04/11/2023

Replace Remove Recover Episode 3 - Parkinson's Law and Loss Aversion 03/31/2023

Replace Remove Recover Episode 2 - The Grief Cycle 03/18/2023

Replace Remove Recover Episode 1 - Why We Can't Stop Climate Change 03/07/2023

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