Tag: Well-Being

#15: Farmers Markets & Cycling

Low Carbon Show on October 16, 2007 | Make a Comment

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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Ways to Two Degrees

Most Popular, Specials on September 30, 2007 | Make a Comment

A 60-minute edit of the historic panel discussion held at the 2007 Camp for Climate Action featuring:

• George Monbiot – Guardian columnist and author of “Heat: How to stop the planet Burning” (Penguin)
• Richard Hawkins – co-author of “Zero Carbon Britain” (Centre for Alternative Technology) and
• Sophie and Olly from the Climate Camp

Both George Monbiot and the Centre for Alternative Technology have worked out what the UK needs to do in order to play its part in the global challenge of avoiding dangerous climate change. New scientific findings are telling us we need to act faster than we previously thought and move rapidly to a world without fossil fuels by reducing our energy usage and powering our remaining energy use from renewable sources.

- How can we galvanise the political will to make it happen?
- How will these changes affect the way we live?
- Can we, in fact, live better with less?

Recording by Indymedia.
Programme produced by Phil England.

http://www.zerocarbonbritain.com/
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378866.html

#13: Slow Travel

Low Carbon Show on September 18, 2007 | Make a Comment

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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#12: No Fly Holidays

Low Carbon Show on September 5, 2007 | Make a Comment

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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#8: How To Be Free

Low Carbon Show on July 10, 2007 | Make a Comment

Stop doing. Stop consuming. Stop. Period.

Could doing nothing be an easier and more pleasurable way of saving the planet? We discuss this contention with author and editor of The Idler, Tom Hodgkinson.

Making the transition to a low carbon economy necessitates a fresh look at the skills we have and the jobs that we do. What activities are going to be most valuable in a world without fossil fuels? How will we organise ourselves in a world that is less wasteful, more local, and more about self-sufficiency and community resilience?

What interested me in talking to Tom Hodgkinson was the fact that the ideas he had been exploring about freedom and a life of leisure matched increasingly closely to some of the visions that are emerging of what our low carbon future will look like. In a sense, Tom has been beavering away on the development of a philosophical justification and historical precedents for environmentally-friendly lifestyles.

Check out Tom’s books – “How to be Idle” and especially “How to be Free”.

#7: Growing Communities

Low Carbon Show on June 19, 2007 | Make a Comment

Growing Communities is a social enterprise based in Hackney, North London which has cut through the multitude of environmental and social costs incurred by our globalised, supermarket-led food system and set up community led models for a more sustainable future.

The project represents a model of best practice that is ripe for replication across the capital and across the country.

Their organic box scheme was the first in London and now supplies 300 households in Hackney with their weekly fruit and veg for as little as £6. Most of the salad leaves in the boxes are actually grown in Hackney in Growing Communities’ own urban market gardens – which is the only organically certified growing land in London. And their farmers market in Stoke Newington is the only weekly, fully-organic market in the UK.

They employ 13 part-time staff, a large team of volunteers and two
apprentice gardeners on a project that supports farmers who are producing food sustainably.

The Low Carbon Show met up with co-founder and director, Julie Brown. With the sun beating down on their Allens Gardens plot we talked about food swaps, seasonal feasts and edible orchards….

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