Pre-Zero Sports Talk
Pre-Zero Sports Talk is a sports leadership podcast exploring high performance, coaching, athlete development, sports business, faith, purpose, innovation, sustainability, clean progress, and life beyond the game.
Hosted by Sid Bensalah, with over 30 years of global sports industry experience, the podcast brings honest, long-form conversations with athletes, coaches, leaders, founders, innovators, and changemakers.
This is not only a podcast about sport. It is about what sport reveals about people, how we lead, how we handle pressure, how we pursue meaning, and how we build lives, teams, and communities with purpose.
Through real conversations beyond the game, Pre-Zero Sports Talk explores leadership, performance, faith and purpose, identity, resilience, human potential, athlete well-being, coaching culture, community impact, sports governance, clean progress, sustainability, technology, innovation, and the future of sport.
No filter. No bias. Straight talk.
Subscribe and join real conversations on sport, leadership, faith, performance, purpose, community, impact, and life beyond the game.
Pre-Zero Sports Talk
How Cities Can Cool Themselves: Climate Design with Joshua Harrison
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In this powerful episode, host Sid Bensalah is joined by Joshua Harrison, co-founder of Leaf Island and co-director of the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure. Together, they unpack how cities around the world can use nature—not just to survive climate stress—but to regenerate and thrive.
This isn't theory. It's about real solutions already in play.
We explore:
- Turning recycled Styrofoam into high-performance green roof soil
- Rethinking urban metabolism using modular plant systems
- Confronting the empty promises of COP climate summits
- And how clean progress can start on your rooftop—not in a faraway boardroom
Joshua brings sharp insight from the field, from composting in NYC to working with island communities in the Caribbean, blending systems thinking, urban ecology, and creative storytelling into one timely conversation.
00:00 How Cities Can Cool Themselves: Climate Design with Joshua Harrison
00:32 Composting and Recycling in Cities
02:20 UN Climate Conference and Environmental Irony
02:54 Indigenous Protests and Global Climate Events
04:04 Challenges of Hosting Global Conferences
07:05 Introduction to Joshua Harrison
07:36 The Role of Nature in Urban Regeneration
09:24 Cultural Development in the Caribbean
19:22 Climate Migration and Global Inequality
30:03 The Importance of Storytelling in Climate Systems
35:22 Innovative Green Roof Solutions
38:54 Introduction to Bioactive Soil
39:21 Hydroponics vs. Traditional Soil
39:53 Benefits of GaiaSoil™
41:09 Urban Greening and Climate Impact
44:33 Economic and Community Benefits
48:40 Challenges and Solutions for Green Cities
52:06 Leadership and Climate Action
56:01 Youth Activism and Global Climate Efforts
58:51 Reflections on Climate Leadership
01:06:50 Hope for the Future
01:10:54 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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