ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Fresh ideas from the sharpest minds working toward a cleaner, greener planet
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
28 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
331 episodes
since Oct. 6, 2010
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~41.72% of listeners are from United States.
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US
41.72%
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GB
19.29%
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SE
8.07%
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DE
5.96%
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FR
4.07%
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IE
2.90%
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CA
2.27%
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IN
1.56%
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HU
1.56%
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AU
1.25%
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RU
1.01%
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RO
0.78%
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TR
0.70%
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SG
0.70%
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AT
0.70%
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JP
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DK
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MG
0.47%
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BE
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DZ
0.47%
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BR
0.31%
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NL
0.23%
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IT
0.23%
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KE
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LV
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BD
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CH
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UZ
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ES
0.15%
Others
2.23%
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Steve Backshall lives in a new build house which is very energy efficient and almost totally off-grid. However, achieving this has been extremely time consuming, expensive and pretty stressful. For this episode of Costing the Earth, Steve explores why -- when the cost of heating our homes is so …
It's said that a teaspoon of soil contains more life than all of the humans on earth. Microscopic life that is - bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematode worms and microarthropods like springtails and mites, but there's increasing evidence that this invisible world, the earth's microbiome, is under thre…
Climate resilient gardens are a feature of this month's Chelsea Flower Show, but how can the experts help the typical British gardener prepare for the future? To find out, botanist James Wong asks whether the way we garden could protect us against the effects of climate change, and if we can prote…
Many of us can remember returning our pop bottles to the shop in return for cash and wonder why we can’t use a system like this today to reduce, reuse and recycle. In Scotland a Deposit Return Scheme has been on trial, but in a complex material world it’s not as simple as the schemes we might remem…
Sewage is now discharged into our rivers and seas on a regular basis. It's joined by agricultural pollution and a host of microplastics. In this special debate programme, Tom Heap asks what's gone wrong with our water system. How did we get into this situation, what will it cost to put it right, an…
When castles collapse into the sea or ancient burial places succumb to floodwaters we lose a slice of our shared culture. Qasa Alom reports from the Norfolk coast on the threats to our heritage and asks if we all need to prepare for the emotional impact of climate change.
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