David Vargas is a founder of Isla Urbana, a non-profit in Mexico City started by 2 graduate engineers, putting up rainwater harvesting systems in low income neighbourhoods where families go months without water. Isla Urbana is helping thousands of kids and families get access to clean water. Have a listen.…

Meet Margot Jacobs for the latest FWTF podcast. Margot is a landscape architect, an amazing human, a creative activist and a soul dancer. Have a listen to Margot’s story, ️and hear about an amazing project she worked on recently to challenge the Dakota Pipeline creatively by demonstrating how much renewable energy could be generated with that same …

We spoke with David Saunders, a bioenergy expert from Ballarat, about the huge potential of anaerobic digestion in Australia, and challenges we face implementing it on a wider scale.

We spoke with Iris Alonzo, an incredible human. Big heart. Full of passion. She’s about to flip the fashion industry upside down. By showing rather than talking. After leaving American Apparel as the Creative director, Iris went off to start her own thing with her business partner Carolina Crespo. It’s called everybody.world. The duo are messing wi…

CO-LAB is a full service architecture studio located in Tulum. Inspired by the natural beauty of the Yucatan, their projects strive to create a greater appreciation and connection to the natural world through design. Embracing sustainable design principles, each project carefully weaves the architectural program with the beauty of each site to crea…

FRSA RIBA Director of BBM Sustainable Design & Senior Lecturer at The School of Architecture & Design University of BrightonDuncan has practised, researched, and taught around issues of sustainable development for over 25 years. He has worked on projects as diverse as ‘The Greenwich Millennium Village’ n London with Ralph Erskine, and more recently…

We interviewed Professor Maria Cecilia Loschiavo Dos Santos, a philosopher and full professor of Design at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo. She was speaking at @unmakingwaste 2018 in Adelaide last week and we were fortunate enough to sneak in an hour with her to find out about Brazil before, during and after the dic…

We interviewed Sam Chapman, one of the owners of Sherwood Queenstown (www.sherwoodqueenstown.nz), a self-proclaimed ‘community hotel’. Sam and his business partners redeveloped a run-down, mock tudor 80s motel into what is one of the most unique hotels in New Zealand.