How to build a better world
How to Build a Better World is The Fifth Estate's podcast about creating a future all humans can be proud of. Tina Perinotto, editor of Australia’s premium publication for sustainable property and business, talks to the people on the frontline with the power to address the big ecological, social and financial problems of our time.
Episodes
41 episodes
Amanda Steele on pathways to success in sustainability
Amanda Steele is group executive, head of property for ISPT, a business with a strong sustainability profile in the built environment. In her current role, Amanda is in the leadership team; but in the past she’s had...
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TFE Learn: Gabrielle McMillan on activating the vertical villages of office towers
Gabrielle McMillan kicked off Equiem in 2011 for Lorenz Grollo, developer and part owner of the Rialto tower in Melbourne who could see the enormous potential of adding value for occupants in the building through technology and social programs ...
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Sara Stace and Marc Lane on Active transport and Placemaking
Sara Stace is an influential voice in the active transport and placemaking space. Recently she joined forces with Marc Lane at Vivendi Consulting to becomes its new joint directors of cities. Stace and Lane met at WSP, where the tw...
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Jane Cassidy on the massive transformation on the way
As national president of the Australian Institute of Architects Jane Cassidy juggles a lot of competing priorities – and they’re not all in the order you’d expect.There are the usual topics of aesthetics and the role of arch...
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Andrew Eagles on NZ’s green challenge in the new political regime
Andrew Eagles, CEO of the New Zealand Green Building Council reports on an industry that wants to do better, wants green buildings and better regulation.This conversation is a breath of fresh air. Listen now!
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Philip Graus on how cities are shaped and how to shape them
Philip Graus has an omnibus cache of insights and history into how cities are formed, what keeps them growing or failing and how to make them sustainable.This podcast is a bit of rambling chat, weaving in and out the incredible number o...
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1:33:50
Jeremy Mcleod and Nightingale Housing – from inspiration to disruption
Founder of Nightingale Housing Jeremy McLeod will no doubt go down in history as the man who managed to shift a truckload of preconceptions about what housing needs to look like – what it should cost and who it is for.
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Transitions podcast: Liam Wallis on how to generate radical sustainable development
Melbourne based Liam Wallis founded boutique sustainable developer Hip V Hype with the idea of spreading the sustainability message by demonstrating viable exemplar projects. Today that notion has evolved into advisory work with other developer...
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TFE Live: The race for green tech in Australia and China
At TFE Live, Tim Buckley director of Climate Energy Finance, and Heidi Lee, chiefexecutive officer of Beyond Zero Emissions, delved deep into Australia’s potential as a global renewable energy superpower, how to transform our coal mining re...
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Transitions podcast: Rory Hunter and Reade Dixon on innovative BTR
On this episode of Transitions, Tina Perinotto talks to Rory Hunter about the announcement of his first project, which will tick all boxes, including using CLT (cross-laminated timber), being Passivhaus certified and building to rent. He is joi...
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TFE Live: Global Trends and Tipping Points podcast
Good vibes were off the charts at our TFE Live event, brought on by Elena Bondareva, who’s on a changemaking arc following the release of her book Changemakers’ Handbook, her fellow guest Pablo Berrutti of Stuart Investors, whose passion pro...
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Transitions podcast, Ep.2: Michael Mobbs on Sustainable House and coolseats
Tina Perinotto interviews Michael Mobbs, a sustainability guru who founded the sustainable house in Sydney's Chippendale.
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Alison Scotland on herding cats
Alison Scotland cut her professional teeth in the challenging world of Standards Australia.Today she runs the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council. So, you could say she’s had perfect training for the diplomatic minefie...
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56:08
Transitions podcast, Ep.1: Skipp Williamson from Partners in Performance
This is the first episode of the Transitions podcast for The Green List on The Fifth Estate’s How to Build a Better World podcast feed.We interview Skipp Williamson, managing director of Partners in Performance, who shares insights into...
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Jess Miller on doing things differently
Jess Miller is well known to readers of The Fifth Estate - she’s been a brilliant and highly entertaining MC for several of our events now. Starting with our Urban Greening summits at the University of Technology Sydney in the past few years.
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Dawn O'Neil: How to develop the solar panels of the cleaning industry
Dawn O’Neill is one of those quiet achievers who’s helping to change the world. As the chief executive of eWater, she’s getting rid of toxic chemicals in our kitchens and buildings. If you care about the chemicals that end up in our wat...
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39:56
Ray Brown: value of charettes, architecture at the big end of town, and Adelaide hitting its stride
Ray Brown heads a practice of 700 people with Architectus, which, after the merger with Conrad Gargett in April this year, is now the biggest architectural practice in Australia.He’s led some of Australia’s biggest projects – from buildi...
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Rob Bernard: CBRE’s global sustainability boss
Rob Bernard is chief sustainability officer for CBRE, the massive global property consultancy that has 115,000 people on its books across the planet and a responsibility to help transform real estate portfolios owned by the biggest instituti...
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Paolo Bevilacqua on challenges that might be tough but are also irresistible
Paolo Bevilacqua is group head of sustainability for Frasers Property Limited. The role is with the parent company that owns Fraser’s Property Australia, one of the earliest and most courageous movers on the sustainability and greening front. T...
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52:31
Jua Cilliers - Eyes on global ambitions for a nature-positive world
Jua Cilliers, head of the School of Built Environment and Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Technology Sydney brings global framing to her view of the urgent challenges we face with nature and biodiversity
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46:50
Sarah Ratcliffe: NABERS UK, optimism and collaboration
In this episode of the How to Build a Better World podcast, The Fifth Estate's managing editor Tina Perinotto sat down with Sarah Ratcliffe, CEO of the Better Buildings Partnership, to pick her brains over several hot topics f...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:00:40
Mathew Nelson: What motivates investors to save the planet?
On this latest episode of How to Build a Better World, our managing editor Tina Perinotto talks to Mathew Nelson – the first Oceania chief sustainability officer at EY – about what’s getting big Fortune 500 companies ticking on the cli...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:01:38
Paul King: Future buildings, and the intersection between imagination and practical iteration
NEW PODCAST: On this latest episode of How to Build a Better World, our managing editor, Tina Perinotto, spoke with Paul King from Bentley about how new technology like building information models (BIMs) and digital twins can help desi...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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57:54
Alan Pears: The “big challenge ahead of us” in sustainability and energy efficiency
In our latest podcast, our managing editor, Tina Perinotto, spoke with Alan Pears about how he got started in the sustainability and energy efficiency space, and the “big challenge ahead of us”. Alan Pears is probably Austra...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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