244I_Joe Glesta, co-founder and CEO of Climasens

What is The Future for Cities?

"Building with climate sensitive design is what needs to happen in cities."

Are you interested in urban resilience and climate adaptation? What do you think about ‘sustainability is dead’? How can integrating urban infrastructure to the built environment help us with climate change?

Interview with Joe Glesta, the co-founder and CEO of Climasens. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, parasitic and symbiotic cities, New York compared to other places, resilience, and many more.

Joe Glesta is aspiring to build climate resilience in our world through technological innovation. Joe is a passionate sustainability and technology professional with a diverse array of skills focused on digital innovation, service design, stakeholder engagement and business strategy. Over the past decade, he has worked in a multitude of positions that have allowed him to hone his skills, developing and delivering innovative products, projects, policy and business outcomes. He has advanced knowledge of digital technologies and emerging innovative trends and is deeply immersed in the nexus of Industry/Government/ Startup engagement.

Find out more about Joe through these links:

• Joe Glesta on LinkedIn
• as Joe Glesta on X
• Climasens website
• Climasens on LinkedIn
• Climasens on X
• Aussie climate startup fires up with $8m from Google - article about Climasense at Forbes
• Climasens at the Melbourne Accelerator Program
• Startup Founder Deep Dive: Climasens - conversation with Joe at the Melbourne Accelerator Program
• How Sensing Forms the Foundation of Smart and Resilient Cities with Joe Glesta of Senscity - interview with Joe Glesta on the Internet of Nature podcast

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.190 - Interview with Adrian McGregor about cities being part of nature
• No.243R - Integrative approaches to urban resilience
• No.288 - Interview with Dan Hill also talking about Jane Jacobs

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WTF4Cities⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wtf4cities.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ website where the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shownotes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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