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

08/09/23 • 15 min

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 8 - Beyond The 15 Minute City with Carlos Moreno

This episode of Collective Choices was recorded in Stuttgart, Germany, at the Urban Future conference.
My guest is Carlos Moreno, scientist and professor at Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris. He developed the 15 Minute City concept a few years before it became highly publicized during the pandemic.
We talk about:
-the six essential functions that a city should provide for a good quality of life
-why do we need to commute?
-the zoning system and the architectural influence of Le Corbusier, who separated the functions of the city and imagined that infrastructure and cars will provide access to them, but didn’t consider the time, costs and environmental damage involved
-the proximity concept brings together legacies from multiple urbanists
-what is the role of technology and looking past the "smart city"
-chrono-urbanism, changing the rhythm for living and working in cities
-where the resistance to change comes from
-Paris pioneering the 15 Minute City concept
-the launch of the Global Observatory of Sustainable Proximities
More about Carlos Moreno:
https://www.moreno-web.net/
More about the Global Observatory of Sustainable Proximities:
https://www.c40knowledgehub.org/s/sustainableproximities?language=en_US
Urban Future:
https://urban-future.org/

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

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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