Low Carbon Show
Adventures in Low-Carbon Living, 30 minutes, May-October 2007
Low Carbon Show on October 16, 2007 | Make a Comment
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Low Carbon Show #15 [28:43m]:
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In the last show of this series, we cycle to the local farmers market and see our low-carbon future emerging in front of our very eyes.
We interview the following traders and cyclists at Alexandra Palace farmers’ market:
- Chris Elder (City and Country Farmers Markets)
- Martin (Pitfield Brewery)
- Adam Coffman (of CTC – the UK’s national cycling organisation)
- Helen & Jim (producers of biodiesel from used cooking oil)
With music from The Carbon Town Cryer
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Low Carbon Show on September 24, 2007 | Make a Comment
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Low Carbon Show #14 [29:48m]:
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Britain can become free of fossil fuels and self-sufficient in energy and food in just 20 years. That is the conclusion of the most ambitious report yet on what Britain needs to do to play its part in avoiding dangerous climate change. What will Britain be like and how will we get there?
We speak to the co-ordinator and co-lead author of the Centre for Alternative Technology’s new report “Zero Carbon Britain”, Tim Helweg-Larsen. Why are Tradeable Energy Quotas expected to be the most effective way to drive the changes? What will be the impacts on transport, agriculture, buildings and – most importantly – our well-being?
Low Carbon Show on September 18, 2007 | Make a Comment
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Low Carbon Show #13 [29:44m]:
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Like Slow Food, Slow Travel is all about quality rather than speed. We investigate this emerging concept with two of its leading proponents:
- Author and deputy editor of The Idler, Dan Kieran, who recently travelled across England in a milkfloat;
- Founder of fledgeling low-carbon travel agent Loco2, Jamie Andrews, who is co-authoring the Slow Travel Manifesto
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Low Carbon Show on September 5, 2007 | Make a Comment
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Low Carboon Show #12 [29:30m]:
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What will holidays be like in a low carbon world?
Will we feel the need to escape so much if we are living less stressful, more community-focussed, local lives that give us greater well-being?
We speak to Laura Burgess, editor of a new directory called Ecoescape which brings together sustainable accomodation, eateries, and environmentally-focused places to visit in the UK.
We also speak to artist Lottie Child who has been developing the practice of “street training” with people of all ages and exploring creative approaches for interacting with, and feeling at home in, our own localities.
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Low Carbon Show on August 23, 2007 | Make a Comment
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Low Carbon Show #10 [29:32m]:
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I left the camp on Sunday evening convinced that a new political movement has been born – George Monbiot in The Guardian
We are armed … only with peer-reviewed science – banner from the Climate Camp
Interviews, recordings and reports from the amazing 2007 Camp for Climate Action near Heathrow Airport, London. Seven days of workshops, sustainable living and direct action on the root causes of climate change. The show covers:
- participatory education and consensus decision making with Alice of the Trapese Collective (editors of “Do It Yourself – a handbook for changing our world” published by Pluto Press)
- analysis of the media coverage in conversation with the media team
- a conversation with local residents about their views of the Camp
- other stuff
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Low Carbon Show on August 14, 2007 | Make a Comment
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Low Carbon Show #9 [29:57m]:
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The UK government is planning to provide for a tripling of aviation movements – a move that the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, The Tyndall Centre and the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee say is incompatible with our commitment to play a fair role in avoiding dangerous climate change. Not content with a weighted planning system, the government is proposing to speed up the implementation of major infrastructure projects which will lock us into high carbon pathways in the future.
We speak to Brian Ross, economics advisor to Stop Stansted Expansion to find out how their campaign is going and if the government’s arguments about the economic benefits of aviation have any basis in reality. And we hear from Paul de Zylva, England Campaigns Co-ordinator at Friends of the Earth about the unprecedented new “Planning Disaster” coalition that has come together to oppose the proposals in the government’s Planning White Paper.
Finally we have an extract from an interview with Alan Simpson MP about why he will be standing down at the next election and why he thinks that leadership on climate change can now only be found outside Parliament.
