17: Rewildling and reforestation: Can trees save the planet?

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8: Palm Oil: What’s The Problem?: Confused about palm oil? We’re heading deep into the former rainforests of South East Asia to explore the huge palm oil plantations that fuel far more of the food industry in the west than we realise (and also chop down quite a lot of the lush forest gre... by For What It’s Earth

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12: Climate Emergency: What Does That Even Mean?: Children have gone on strike from schools, Extinction Rebellion has occupied our headlines and our cities, and now the UK has declared a Climate Emergency, as have many individual towns, cities and communities - Universities, even! But what has the Gret... by For What It’s Earth

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5: Plastics (Part 1): What‘s The Problem?: In part one, we're exploring the issues with plastics in marine environments, trying to figure out what's going on with microplastics and even diving into a little chemistry when we look at the new links that scientists have uncovered between plastics an... by For What It’s Earth

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13: Listener Q&A!: And that’s a wrap for season one of For What It’s Earth! This week, to celebrate making it this far, we’ve been answering your questions, from finding the most impactful environmentally-friendly actions we can make from our own home and exploring whether... by For What It’s Earth

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24: Wildfires: Causes, Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change: This week we're exploring the topic of wildfires. As immense wildfires currently blaze across huge areas of Australia and both California and Siberia have also experienced vast fires in recent years, we look at the causes of wildfires, the impact they ca... by For What It’s Earth

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For What It's Earth Trailer: Hello and welcome to For What It's Earth! Your brand new environment and sustainability podcast explaining the science behind what’s going on in the world, and exploring the things that we can do to make a little bit of a big difference. Each week we si... by For What It’s Earth

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31: Water Scarcity: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink: As our population grows and so too does our consumption of resources, this week Emma and Lloyd are exploring why one of life’s most essential resources is becoming more and more scarce around the world. We look at the causes of water scarcity, explore bi... by For What It’s Earth

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2. Vegan, Vegetarian or Flexitarian? Sustainable Diets and Smart Food Choices: Put down your hamburgers! This week we are tucking into the topic of sustainable diets, looking at the many, many environmental impacts of the food industry and finding out why many of us are moving to vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian diets. We’re lookin... by For What It’s Earth

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6: Plastics (Part 2): What Can We Do?: It's time to chat about PLASTICS. This here is part two and we're looking at some of the things that we can do to reduce our plastic footprint. Plus, we'll be chatting to Libby Bowles, who cycled around the world on a bamboo bicycle to teach kids about p... by For What It’s Earth

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21: Letters from Listeners: A few months ago, a year 6 class at Mendip Green Primary School sat down to do a writing exercise; they wrote us letters on the topic of plastic pollution! Today we're sharing a few of these fantastic letters, which range from issues they've researched i... by For What It’s Earth

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9: Electric Cars: Chocks away! From life-cycle emissions and the environmental issues surrounding the lithium-ion batteries to finding charging points and looking at how EVs (electric vehicles) can help rather than hinder the National Grid, buckle up your seatbelt because... by For What It’s Earth

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52: How to grow your own food: Have you ever wanted to grow your own grub? Even with only a small space, growing food is a fantastic thing to do for you, and for the planet. This episode is all about getting the most out of the space you have in terms of yield, because growing your ow... by For What It’s Earth

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1: Why Do We Need Bees? (And Other Pollinators?): Why do we need bees in our gardens (and everywhere else)? To kick off the first series, we're sitting down to talk about honey bees, solitary bees (yes, they’re a thing), pollination, trying to figure out how to feed the world’s growing population withou... by For What It’s Earth

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18: The Great British Beach Clean, with Lizzie Prior and the Marine Conservation Society: Every year, millions of items of litter wash up on our shores, from crisp packets and plastic bottles to cigarette stubs and microplastics, and every year hundreds of volunteers join the Marine Conservation Society's Great British Beach Clean weekend. Vo... by For What It’s Earth

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33: Alcohol: Getting sloshed, sustainably (and responsibly): Getting sloshed, sustainably… This week we’re raising a glass and toasting the end of series 2 of For What It’s Earth, by taking a look at the environmental footprint of the alcohol industry. From the packaging used and the carbon footprint associated wi... by For What It’s Earth

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10: Why is Nature Important in our Cities? With the Avon Wildlife Trust: Joined by the Rosie Maple from the Avon Wildlife Trust, we explore the reasons why we need urban wildlife and to understand why conservation movements such as The Wildlife Trusts believe cities rely on their green spaces. Find out why we need to keep our... by For What It’s Earth

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14: BONUS Episode! Arctic Bumblebees & Climate Change: Hello from the Arctic! In this cheeky bonus episode, we're sharing an episode of one of the podcasts that Emma has been working on in northern Sweden this summer, for the Climate Impacts Research Centre. She's joining Ryan and Lottie from Imperial Colleg... by For What It’s Earth

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3. Fast Fashion: How Can We Shop Sustainably?: What are you wearing and do you know the hidden costs associated with your clothes? Trawling through the world of Fast Fashion this week, we're exploring the complicated and not very environmentally-friendly textile dying processes, asking whether organi... by For What It’s Earth

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15: How Can We Travel More Sustainably?: Emma and Lloyd are back for season two of For What It's Earth! To kick off our next batch of sustainability podcasts, we're celebrating Greta Thunberg's sail across the Atlantic to raise awareness the need for us to reduce our carbon emissions, and, beca... by For What It’s Earth

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40: Lizzie Daly! On animal-human interactions and wildlife presenting: What happens when you take a scorpion into a hotel? What’s the best material to make a puffin from? This week we sat down with Wildlife Television presenter and Biologist Lizzie Daly to discuss human-wildlife ‘conflict’ (or more optimistically, coexisten... by For What It’s Earth

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42: Sea Ice: Why does it matter?: It's been a record-breaking (-ly bad) year for sea ice. So why does that matter? The changing of the seasons is pretty reliable … or it used to be. Arctic ice loss has been in the news constantly for at least a decade, but just last month it was confirme... by For What It’s Earth

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4: Recycling: How Does It Work And Are We Doing Enough?: We are diving deep into our green bins and following the things we throw away on their journey through the recycling process (or not). Find out why we're fascinated by 'Air Knives' in Brighton & Hove, and join us as we discover just why the UK has SO mu... by For What It’s Earth

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60: Slash Your Carbon Footprint with a Green Pension, with Make My Money Matter: Did you know that changing your pension provider is one of the biggest ways to slash your carbon footprint? With over £2.6 trillion in the UK tied up in pension funds, which are often invested by banks in industries like fossil fuels or tobacco, Kennet... by For What It’s Earth

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19: Happy Holidays: How To Be Sustainable at Christmas!: Happy Christmas! This week we're kicking off the festive season by sharing some of our favourite ideas for making this Christmas a real hoot without it being hard on the environment. Links we mentioned: Recycle Now's local Christmas tree recycling finder... by For What It’s Earth

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7. Sustainable Cosmetics & Toiletries, with Sophie Pavelle: Emma is joined by conservationist and all-round nature legend, Sophie Pavelle for this episode on cosmetics and toiletries. Dead chuffed to be wondering how we can make our bathroom routines a little greener, Sophie has taken a break from generally savin... by For What It’s Earth

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17: Rewildling and reforestation: Can trees save the planet?: This week we're wandering through the topics of rewilding and reforestation! We find out how many trees we would need to help the UK become 'carbon neutral', learn about some of the amazing projects in Scotland, Yosemite and Mauritius in which fantastic ... by For What It’s Earth

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30: Overpopulation: Climate Change‘s Uncomfortable Truth? With Dave Gardner: Dave Gardner, host of GrowthBusters Podcast and The Overpopulation Podcast joins Emma this week to talk about climate change’s uncomfortable truth: We’re struggling with overpopulation. We need to do something about our population size and our rate of co... by For What It’s Earth

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16: British Birds and Wildlife-Friendly Gardens, with Dan Rouse: This week Lloyd speaks to the completely lovely Dan Rouse, ornithologist and wildlife presenter! Find out more about how to look after our birdlife, how to make your garden super wildlife-friendly, how to get the best from bird boxes, and how fulmars use... by For What It’s Earth

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29: Flooding: Can we blame climate change? Can we do anything about it?: With the UK still recovering from the flooding caused by Storm Dennis and Storm Ciara, we’re looking at the news this week. We're exploring the links between flooding, intense weather events and climate change, and whether there's much we can do about it... by For What It’s Earth

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43: British Nature with Lucy Hodson: Why are fungi cool? What happens to British birds in the winter? We sit down for a natter with Nature Nerd Lucy Hodson (AKA Lucy Lapwing) to find out what it is about wildlife in Britain that has driven her life-long love affair with nature. Get in tou... by For What It’s Earth

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