Ep 10 - How Men And Women Move In Cities with Marianne Weinreich

08/24/23 • 31 min

Marianne Weinreich joins me for Ep 10 of Collective Choices. She is Co-founder and Chair of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark, manager of the Danish Mobility Network and Market Manager Global Smart Mobility at Ramboll.

We talk about:
- how transport connects us all
- how the mobility focus is moving from cars to people
- why the bicycle is so special
- gender and transport: differences between men and women in patterns of mobility
- why storytelling matters
- what kind of city do we want? We might have more ideas in common than we think.
- you need to have the basics in a city and you get what you design for
- the arrogance of the auto industry
- how different countries view cycling issues differently
This episode was recorded in Stuttgart, at the Urban Future conference.
Cycling Embassy of Denmark:
https://cyclingsolutions.info/cycling-embassy/
Ramboll:
www.ramboll.com

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Ep 9 - The World’s First Solar Bakery with Simon Zimmermann

Collective Choices Ep 9 was recorded in Stuttgart, Germany, at the Urban Future conference.
My guest is Simon Zimmermann, founder of SOLARBAKERY, the world’s first provider of fully equipped, mobile and energy independent container bakeries.
We talk about:
- how the idea was born
- what does a solar bakery have to do with a school?
- when businesses have the well-being of people as a final goal instead of profit
- the technical details: solar panels, kilowatts and other bits
- special bread made in Africa
- the use cases for Europe
- the delicious baked goods
Find out more about the bakery here:
https://solarbakery.com/en/
Urban Future:
https://urban-future.org/

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Ep 11 - Is Superhood The Future Tool For Communities? with Markku Mehtälä

As we re-discover the importance of local communities, a Helsinki based startup proposes a tool for basically everything regarding information and communication in a city or a neighborhood. Or any location, actually.
I talked to Superhood's founder, Markku Mehtälä, about this modern agora:
- it's a social discovery hub for all things local
- it aggregates local information sources, solving a major communication problem for cities
- you follow a location instead of other persons
- it only allows locals to post and discuss, reducing the noise and increasing involvement, while outsiders can follow a location
- it creates an informed community that is more engaged and better connected to the authorities that manage the area
- it is a bulletin board for local businesses and entrepreneurs, enabling them to easily find an audience
More about Superhood:
www.superhood.com
This episode was recorded in Stuttgart, at the Urban Future conference.

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