Episode 11 – Will vegans be able to eat meat again soon? – Shir Friedman, SuperMeat
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by Rob Wreglesworth
6M ago
It is now pretty common knowledge that cutting down on meat consumption is one of the best things we can do individually for the environment…. but globally we just keep eating more of it. So is there another way we can greatly reduce this impact and without going vegan? More than 80% of farmland in the world is used for livestock but it produces just 18% of food calories and 37% of protein. By weight livestock now makes up 60% of the world’s mammals…..which may also say quite a lot about the state of the worlds wild mammals populations but still, pretty shocking. So that has ..read more
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Episode 10 – Could computer games help us save the planet? – Dr Umran Ali, University of Salford
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by Rob Wreglesworth
6M ago
As of 2019, 1 in 3 people now identifies themselves as a ‘gamer’. The gaming industry is now 1.5 x bigger than the movie industry and 5 times bigger than the music industry. So it is probably worth paying at least some attention to. This podcast is about leaving no stone unturned in the quest for solutions to the environmental issues we face and with the gaming industry having such a big reach and finance behind it; is there a way we can utilise it to educate and inform about the natural world?? With a move to increasingly realistic simulations, open-worlds and virtual reality ..read more
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Episode 9 – Where’s My Water Fountain? – The Problem of Bottled Water – Justine Rose, Water For London
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by Rob Wreglesworth
6M ago
Plastic waste has got a lot of press lately due to it being quite a tangible environmental problem. It is much easier to imagine the impact of plastic floating about in the ocean than an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But the one source of plastic that has to be the most ridiculous is bottled water. And this is especially true in the UK where we have clean and drinkable tap water. So why is it still lining every shop fridge and supermarket aisle in the country? This episode interviewee is part of a volunteer organisation Water for London. They are starting ..read more
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Episode 8 – The Food Sharing Revolution – Tessa Clarke, Olio
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by Rob Wreglesworth
6M ago
Summary  Food waste is a huge environmental issue and one that often doesn’t get as much attention as it perhaps deserves. We often look to shift the blame to producers and supermarkets but actually, we may be more to blame than you think. Here in the UK for example households are responsible for well over half of all food waste in the country, with the average family throwing away a quarter of the weekly shop, this is approximately £800 of food per year, and collectively adds up to £15 billion. £15 billion of food in landfill. And it isn’t just the emissions of the f ..read more
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Episode 7 – Biodegradable Plastics From Waste – Jeff Beegle and Tony Bova, Mobius
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by Rob Wreglesworth
6M ago
Thanks in part to successful campaigns and thanks also to the visual and tangible nature of the problem. The environmental issue of non-biodegradable plastics is more well known that ever before. Despite efforts to recycle more of it a huge 91% of plastics still aren’t recycled, ending up in landfills or in the oceans, taking around 400 years to degrade. We obviously must continue to curb our use of plastics in daily life but you know here we understand that some disruption of the current technology can also go a long way to tackling the issue much more quickly. One of the ways ..read more
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Episode 6 – How To Start Your Own Disruptive Environmental Business – Jay Clouse, Unreal Collective and Upside.fm
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by Rob Wreglesworth
6M ago
Happy New Year Everyone! For many people, the new year means new starts, new goals, trouser sizes…… I don’t know why we can’t just decide suddenly on a random Friday evening in front of the TV that we want to do something different but instead use an arbitrary point chosen on a calendar that is 100s of years old, but its fine, I won’t judge you. Over the past few days I’ve seen many people on the twitter vowing to change behaviours to better the environment which is great, we’ve touched on this in the last couple of episodes this kind of stuff and they are right to shout about ..read more
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Episode 5 – Values and framing – Targeting compassion over self-interest – Tom Crompton, Common Cause Foundation
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by Rob Wreglesworth
6M ago
There is a great misperception in our society that others place values of self-interest higher than values of compassion and care. Fixing this perception gap is massively important in the way we approach how we try and influence behaviours regarding environmental issues. As it is Christmas next week, I wanted to focus on a subject of hope, optimism and attempting to find common ground. This episode builds on what we were talking about in the last podcast regarding influencing environmental behaviours. I wanted to dig a bit deeper into this subject and I came across a not for p ..read more
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Episode 4 – Influencing Environmental Behaviours – Lessons From Trump and Brexit – Dr David Rose – University of East Anglia
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by Rob Wreglesworth
6M ago
Moving away from innovations this week and onto new perspectives, as I interview an academic who says we need to get down from our ivory towers, stop the finger pointing and start communicating better about environmental issues. This podcast series isn’t just about shining a spotlight on innovators and businesses that are disrupting the way we deal with environmental issues, it is also a chance to speak to people who might offer a different perspective. When trying to influence behaviour around environmental issues, sometimes it feels like no matter how hard we try, the messag ..read more
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Episode 3 – Human waste and animal feed – doing the ‘dirty job’ – Mathieu Chaix-Bar, Weendle
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by Rob Wreglesworth
6M ago
The production of animal feed around the world has a huge environmental footprint. Which further adds to the already quite large footprint produced by simply rearing the animals themselves. Around 70% of the world’s soya is fed to livestock and Soya has a huge footprint. There is the land take which often leads to deforestation and then there are the emissions involved in the transport costs to often ship the feed half-way around the world to where it is needed. According to a study by Cornell America could feed 800 million people with the grain it produces to feed its cattle ..read more
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Sorry George. In these dark times for wildlife, we still need inspiration as well as tragedy
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by Rob Wreglesworth
6M ago
Last week, Guardian columnist, author and nowadays (it seems) chief spokesperson for a large number of people with environmental leanings George Monbiot wrote an article which garnered quite a lot of attention. In it, he outlined how arguably one of the world’s most renowned naturalists and presenters Sir David Attenborough had ‘betrayed the living world he loves’. This was in response to comments Sir David had given in an interview with the Observer, where he had said that too much alarmism on environmental issues could be a ‘turn off’ for viewers. The article set me thinking, was this going ..read more
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