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Planet & The People

May 25, 2020

Tom visits a Hemp farm in Co Monaghan in Ireland and talks to Farmer Marcus McCabe & Hill sheep farmer and Land Tenure Specialist Bridget Murphy all about the wonderful potentials of Hemp. From a Carbon negative building material, to a fossil fuel substitute, to a health food that can suck in more carbon dioxide than...


May 18, 2020

Who are Greenpeace, what do they stand for, and what role can we play in preventing deforestation?

Tom talks to Greenpeace's Forest Campaigner Chiara Vitali about the planet, about the Amazon, about Greenpeace and about chickens, with the occasional reference to a supermarket elf. 

Chiara tells Tom about two reports...


May 11, 2020

How to restore forests and plant trees with a simple online search. Tom chats to Hannah Wickes, the CMO at Ecosia, the tree planting search engine. He finds out all about how they are shrinking deserts, restoring water cycles and rebuilding wildlife habitats with their extensive reforestation projects, all funded by the...


May 5, 2020

In two interviews, Tom finds out about CO2 air capture technology and also explores how we can protect the Polar Regions.

 

Climeworks is a Direct Air Capture Company based in Switzerland, extracting carbon dioxide from the air and converting it into commercial commodities. Tom finds out from Louisa Charles just...