I talk to Robin Nicholson, who is an architect at Cullinan Studios, an architecture co-operative which has been designing innovative low carbon…
Chris Friedler is a UK environmental lobbyist with Decarbonise Now with an extensive working knowledge of the UK climate policy – if…
The drop in passenger numbers on trains due to COVID-19 is boosting UK low carbon freight – they’re running 10% longer trains,…
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What is Climate Justice?
Kelo Uchendu is a student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, an activist pushing for Climate Justice and an organiser of the…
Hugh Archibald White was born and brought up in Calgary, Canada in the 1940s and 50s. He gave me a run-down on…
Nobody asked for climate change and global warming, melting ice caps and rising sea levels. Which climate denial can you relate to?…
This week I persuaded my old friend from Germany, Dirk Carstens, to give me the run-down on the pros and cons of…
Dr. Bremley W.B. Lyngdoh is Director Microfinance & Ecorestoration of Earthbanc, which enables smallholders to plant mangroves and build sustainable livelihoods by…
My guest on this week’s podcast is Danny Badger, fisheries scientist, educator, jellyfish nerd and general oceans expert, who’s worked at the…
I interview Kate Calvert, Superhome creator and North London resident: what happens when you do a green retrofit on a 19th Century…
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Shifting Baseline Syndrome
Finally some proof that if things happen slowly, we’re less likely to notice them. It’s called the shifting baseline syndrome, AKA the…
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Coral Reefs
Coral reefs worldwide have been hit hard over the last few years, but they are far from lost. The survival of these…
In the USA, the UK and the countries of western Europe, about 80% of adults own a car. These must all become…
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The Carbon Budget Made Simple
When student climate striker Greta Thunberg talks about “simple maths”, she means the carbon budget and how the 2015 Paris Climate Accord…
The flywheel, feature of every Industrial Revolution museum, could save the electricity grid with its energy storage capabilities. If you’re not an…
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Heavy Industry CO2 Emissions
BBC Futures ran an article on carbon capture from aluminium smelting in Iceland. Heavy industry CO2 emissions make for a heavy carbon…
In 2017 the Finnish city of Lahti declared they would become carbon-neutral by 2025. Now they must get each citizen to reduce…
There are two big “Green New Deals” on the table: the US Democrats want one and are planning to bring it in…
Personal Carbon Trading or PCT is a mechanism for increasing flexibility and efficiency in a carbon allowance or cap-and-trade scheme. It is…
The city of Lahti in Finland is running an experimental personal carbon trading scheme, with voluntary carbon rationing or quotas helping citizens…
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Ecosia really is Effortless Climate Action
Ecosia is the search engine that promises to use the advertising revenue they make from your searches to plant trees for the…
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The Energy Storage Issue
Houston we have a problem. It turns out that all those climate deniers who didn’t want us to invest in renewable energy…
Had the chance of talking on ABC Australia radio about carbon footprints and carbon rationing on the Future Tense programme, along with…
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Offsetting Step-by-Step
The concept: emit CO2 – and pay to compensate for it. If CO2 and climate change are destroying the planet, the idea…
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Goodbye Coal
It’s got to go. There’s basically no overlooking the fact that coal releases 20% more CO2 emissions per kilowatt of energy produced…