About the show
The team at Zephyr Environmental brings you conversations and discussions with various experts in the fields of climate change, atmospheric science, carbon and emerging technologies.
Join us each month for a new episode.
Episodes
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Episode 19: Waste to Energy: The Burning Questions
March 28th, 2025 | 39 mins 9 secs
In this month's podcast we spoke with Marc Stammbach from Kanadevia Inova about waste to energy, how to get the community on-side and the role waste to energy can play in helping Australia reach its greenhouse gas emissions targets.
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Episode 18: Explainer - The NSW Guide for Large Emitters
March 17th, 2025 | 40 mins 1 sec
In this Special Edition, the team at Zephyr discuss the EPA's "NSW Guide for Large Emitters". This new guidance document aims to support proponents to consider GHG mitigation measures associated with new and modified projects within the NSW planning process. In this episode we discuss who the guide applies to and how to use it.
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Episode 17: Climate (Accident &) Emergency: Reducing carbon in the healthcare system
February 7th, 2025 | 30 mins 5 secs
Australia's healthcare sector is one of the largest emitters per capita, with an estimated 35.8 million tonnes of CO2-e emissions annually which equates to 7% of Australia's total emissions. Dr Penny Hodges, an anaesthetist at Royal North Shore and North Shore Private Hospitals NSW, and a NetZero Co Lead for anaesthesia in the NSLHD joined us on the pod to talk about net zero emissions from Healthcare and Anaesthesia.
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Episode 16: Particles, Policy and Pollution: A Deep Dive with Dr Douglas Dockery
January 13th, 2025 | 52 mins 5 secs
2023 marked 30 years since the release of the iconic Harvard Six Cities Study. In this study a well-characterised cohort of adults were followed from 1974 through to 1991 from six communities across the US from which researchers estimated the effects of air pollution on mortality. For this month's episode, the team at Zephyr Environmental sat down with Dr Douglas Dockery from Harvard to reflect on this study and to talk about his new book - Particles of Truth.
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 13
December 16th, 2024 | 15 mins 8 secs
The final episode of the series, we talk all things Antarctica with Ruby, Marc and Elizabeth. We hope you enjoyed the series, thanks for listening.
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 12
December 16th, 2024 | 14 mins 43 secs
Francine and Jeff returned to the pod booth to talk with Russ about second careers, being on the committee together and anything else that was on their mind!
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 11
December 16th, 2024 | 10 mins 46 secs
Sophie and Alida joined Russ to talk about CASANZ's Emerging Air Quality Professional (EAQP) and climate change special interest group (SIG) and how to join these.
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 10
December 16th, 2024 | 17 mins 24 secs
DING DING - let's get ready to rumble for the State of Origin Branch Presidents! Russ sat down with Dave, Craig and Ruth to debate which state is best, their presidential style, and their greatest achievements with nothing held back!
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 9
December 16th, 2024 | 11 mins 59 secs
What's it like to run an independent air quality consultancy? And why make the move? Damon, Gary and Martin (all directors and co-founders of independent air quality consultancies) sat down with Russ to talk about those things along with CASANZ conference memories.
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 8
December 16th, 2024 | 14 mins 23 secs
Lidia Morawska stepped into the pod booth to talk with me about her career, indoor air quality and what brought her to the conference.
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 7
December 9th, 2024 | 24 mins 37 secs
So who is the grumpiest old man of odour? Listen in and you'll find out. We delved into the history of odour measurements and assessments with four of the stalwarts of odour research and consulting.
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 6
December 9th, 2024 | 11 mins 29 secs
Following her fantastic keynote address, Dr Carolyn Orr sat down with us to talk about her brilliant presenting style, her TEDx talk, activism and how her career has grown to where she is now.
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 5
December 9th, 2024 | 15 mins 40 secs
Keynote speaker Cameron McNaughton entered the pod booth to talk about his time in Hawaii, his keynote address and his previous nuclear talks.
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 4
December 9th, 2024 | 15 mins 11 secs
Keynote speaker Matt Riley joined us to discuss his day job, NARCliM 2.0, his role on the CASANZ committee and a sneak peak of his keynote address.
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 3
December 9th, 2024 | 20 mins 56 secs
The hosts with the most! Jeff Bluett and Gerda Kuschel, the wonderful Clean Air Conference hosts joined us to talk about favourite conferences, working together and CASANZ has got talent.
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Clean Air Conference Hobart 2024: Episode 2
December 6th, 2024 | 14 mins 38 secs
There are many incredible people that go into organising and bringing together a fantastic CASANZ conference. Two of these wonderful people are Vicki Callaway and Janelle Wildish, who joined us for an episode to discuss how they bring these events together and some of their favourite memories.