Tosh is currently available for work. Find him on linkedin or contact him via email at tszatow (at) gmail (dot) com
Tosh gets excited about creative, pragmatic solutions to important, complex problems like:
- How do you make clean energy cheaper than the fossil fuel grid?
- How do you catalyse transformative change across the property sector so that new homes and communities are designed and built with legacy in mind, not just next years profit?
- How can you eliminate the need for oil and coal before people have the chance to get hooked?
- How do break the farming debt trap that locks in soil degrading farm practices?
- How do leverage the world wide web for good, and not just targeted advertising and time wasting (that’s a stab at you facebook)
For these reasons, he is working on projects like the Cape Paterson Ecovillage, The Climate Group’s Climate Smart Precincts, has reached out to help barefoot power design a service model and the sharehood to grow its impact (early days for those two, but they’re exciting so I can’t resist). In his spare time, he is working with a group of friends on a regenerative farming project.
Tosh has a broad academic background spanning economics, social science and engineering. His capabilities include economic modelling, energy modelling, strategic planning, business planning, business development, systems design, facilitation and qualitative research. Highlights from his professional career include:
- Developed a concept for a financially viable, local energy service model to provide zero emission stationary and transport energy for the Cape Paterson Ecovillage
- Detailed financial assessment of sustainability features for the Cape Paterson Ecovillage, including 7.5 star homes, on site solar pv, solar hot water, efficient appliances, electric vehicles and water tanks – report available at the Cape Paterson Website
- Worked with Gorman Industries to develop a holistic approach to sustainability incorporating in-house innovation while influencing suppliers upstream and customers downstream
- 2nd author on CSIRO’s intelligent grid report – report available at the CSIRO website
- Delivered many (30+) briefings, workshops and presentations to public and private sector audiences on the value of distributed energy and ways to realise that value
- Developed an innovative concept for harvesting energy value from organic waste at Victoria Markets in Melbourne
- Consumer advocate representative on the Australian Energy Market Commission’s reviews into demand side participation, network planning and connection arrangements and energy market frameworks in light of climate change policies
In his spare, spare time, he tries to help out his better half – Juliette Anich – with all her crazy food adventures
