Costing the Earth

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JT
 Nov 22, 2018

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Fresh ideas from the sharpest minds working toward a cleaner, greener planet


Episode Date
Introducing Rare Earth
Jan 19, 2024
Steve Backshall Goes Off Grid
May 23, 2023
Save the Microbes!
May 16, 2023
Gardens of the Future
May 09, 2023
Investigation DRS
May 02, 2023
Water pollution solutions
Apr 25, 2023
Losing Our History
Apr 18, 2023
Costing the Earth - The Power of Nature Writing
Apr 11, 2023
Energy Lessons
Apr 04, 2023
The Sound of Nature
Mar 28, 2023
Jobs for a Green Future
Mar 21, 2023
Greening the City
Mar 14, 2023
Prawn Free
Mar 07, 2023
Surrendering to the Waves?
Feb 28, 2023
A Greener Government?
Nov 29, 2022
Community Energy
Nov 22, 2022
How can I be a more sustainable parent?
Nov 15, 2022
COP27: Meeting the Promises
Nov 08, 2022
CSI Oceans
Nov 04, 2022
The Lost World of Ice
Oct 25, 2022
Saving Vietnam's Wildlife
Oct 18, 2022
The Prehistoric Hitchhiker's Guide to Climate Change
Oct 11, 2022
An Environmental Paw Print
Oct 04, 2022
The True Cost of Energy
Sep 27, 2022
Wild Highway
Sep 21, 2022
Future Tourists
Sep 13, 2022
Steve Backshall Listens to the Whales
Sep 06, 2022
Ukraine: A War on Nature
May 24, 2022
Sustainable Sport for the Future
May 17, 2022
How Green Is My Money?
May 10, 2022
Green Power in the Far North
May 03, 2022
Timber!
Apr 26, 2022
Government Energy Strategy
Apr 25, 2022
The World's Toughest Conservationists
Apr 19, 2022
Rip It Up And Start Again?
Apr 05, 2022
Northern Ireland's Environmental Future
Mar 31, 2022
Energy Prices
Mar 22, 2022
Carbon Farming
Mar 18, 2022
Britain's Dark Waters
Mar 15, 2022
The Right to Swim
Mar 01, 2022
Seeing the Wood for the Trees
Nov 30, 2021
All Aboard the Sir David Attenborough
Nov 23, 2021
Canoeing the Cam
Nov 23, 2021
How green is my golf course?
Nov 19, 2021
My Toxic Cocktail
Nov 19, 2021
COP26: A Turning of the Tide?
Nov 09, 2021
COP26: The Unheard Voices
Nov 02, 2021
Six Months on St Kilda
Oct 26, 2021
Earthshot: The Winners
Oct 19, 2021
Earthshot: More Fresh Ideas for the Environment
Oct 12, 2021
Earthshot: Fresh Ideas For the Environment
Oct 05, 2021
Qasa’s Farm - Building Resilience in Bangladesh
Sep 29, 2021
Britain's Changing Flowers
Sep 14, 2021
Beaver Town
May 25, 2021
"Greenfinger"
May 18, 2021
New Grid for the New Age
May 13, 2021
The South Australian Miracle
May 04, 2021
Shipping
Apr 27, 2021
Landfill Legacy
Apr 21, 2021
Maritime Nation
Apr 13, 2021
Gene Editing Nature
Apr 06, 2021
Killer Kitties
Mar 30, 2021
The New Environmental Sheriff in Town
Mar 23, 2021
The Lorax
Mar 23, 2021
Lockdown Planet
Mar 23, 2021
How to Halve Emissions by 2030
Mar 02, 2021
China 2060
Nov 24, 2020
Too darn hot
Nov 03, 2020
The Future of Environmentalism
Oct 27, 2020
A short history of environmental protest
Oct 20, 2020
World on Fire
Oct 13, 2020
Bushfire Animal Rescue
Oct 06, 2020
The Great Leaky Loo Scandal
Sep 29, 2020
Swimming in Superbugs?
Sep 22, 2020
Build, Build, Build
Sep 15, 2020
Autopia to Utopia? Car-Free Cities
Sep 08, 2020
Forests of the Future
May 26, 2020
Flooding Britain
May 25, 2020
Is this something I should be doing?
May 20, 2020
Silencing with Noise
May 05, 2020
Zero Carbon Britain
Apr 28, 2020
Music's Green Day
Apr 21, 2020
Covid-19: the environmental impact
Apr 14, 2020
Fantastic Plastic
Apr 07, 2020
Plastic Burnout
Mar 31, 2020
Turning Japan Green
Mar 24, 2020
Eco Homes Now!
Mar 17, 2020
Fate of the Falcons
Mar 10, 2020
Mark Ruffalo vs Chemical Pollution
Mar 03, 2020
Election 2019
Dec 03, 2019
Vegan World
Nov 28, 2019
Dry Me A River
Nov 12, 2019
Iron Curtain Turns Green
Oct 29, 2019
Plastic Gardens
Oct 22, 2019
Powering Britain
Oct 16, 2019
Carbon Free Islands
Oct 08, 2019
The e-DNA Revolution
Oct 01, 2019
Ghost Fishing
Sep 24, 2019
Fire in the Amazon
Sep 20, 2019
Verity's Wild Garden
Sep 11, 2019
Insect Extinction?
May 28, 2019
Indian Impact
May 21, 2019
Eco Anxiety
May 14, 2019
The State of Nature
May 07, 2019
The Youth Are Revolting
Apr 30, 2019
The Environment after Brexit
Apr 16, 2019
The Wolf is Back!
Apr 09, 2019
Fast Fashion Slow Down
Apr 03, 2019
Dash from Gas
Apr 02, 2019
Clean Air for Kids
Mar 19, 2019
Tread Lightly
Mar 12, 2019
Hit the Gas!
Mar 05, 2019
The Future of Our National Parks
Dec 05, 2018
Heat from the Deep
Nov 27, 2018
Art and the Environment
Nov 20, 2018
March of the Wet Wipes
Nov 13, 2018
Wetland Wonder
Nov 06, 2018
The Real Cost of Chinese Medicine
Oct 30, 2018
Plasticphobia
Oct 23, 2018
Man vs Woman vs Planet
Oct 16, 2018
Helen Czerski's Arctic Expedition
Oct 09, 2018
Electric Dreams
Oct 02, 2018
Fertility and the Environment
Sep 25, 2018
Ending the Plastic Age
Sep 19, 2018
Verity and the Bees
Sep 11, 2018
The Future of the Countryside
May 29, 2018
Disappearing Alps
May 22, 2018
Run Rabbit
May 16, 2018
Antarctic Assault
May 11, 2018
Outback Outrage
May 08, 2018
Demolishing Dams
Apr 24, 2018
Shifting Spring
Apr 23, 2018
Undiscovered Colombia
Apr 17, 2018
Dunes into Bunkers
Apr 03, 2018
Superwood
Mar 28, 2018
Microfibre Detectives
Mar 27, 2018
A Greener Home For All
Mar 13, 2018
Coral versus Coal
Mar 07, 2018
Defenders of the Reef
Feb 27, 2018
Everything's Gone Green!
Feb 20, 2018
Bonn Climate Talks: Where Next?
Nov 14, 2017
America's Climate Resistance
Nov 07, 2017
Tony's Farm
Oct 31, 2017
Fish Farms of the Future
Oct 26, 2017
Where Does Our Waste Go?
Oct 17, 2017
The Future of Fashion
Oct 10, 2017
Dare to Share
Oct 03, 2017
Guardians of the Environment?
Sep 29, 2017
Fight the Power
Sep 20, 2017
Battery Powered Britain
Sep 12, 2017
Tourist Tide
Sep 05, 2017
James Wong on the World's Toughest Plants
May 30, 2017
Future Forests
May 24, 2017
Mekong Delta Blues
May 16, 2017
Exploding Penguins
May 09, 2017
Made to Last?
May 02, 2017
Insulation for the Nation
Apr 25, 2017
Sinking Solomon Islands
Apr 18, 2017
Reasons to Be Cheerful?
Apr 11, 2017
Fishing Future
Apr 04, 2017
Unfrozen North
Mar 28, 2017
Trump's Big Sell Off
Mar 21, 2017
Heroines of the Rainforest
Mar 14, 2017
Delivering Clean Air
Mar 07, 2017
Soil Saviours
Feb 28, 2017
Black Gold in Paradise
Feb 23, 2017
Rig Retirement
Feb 14, 2017
Fighting Fire
Feb 07, 2017
America's Energy Independence
Dec 01, 2016
Cruising: A Dirty Secret
Nov 15, 2016
Putting the Fizz Back into Planet Earth
Nov 08, 2016
Nuclear Futures
Nov 01, 2016
Forests of the Orangutan
Oct 25, 2016
The British Countryside after Brexit
Oct 18, 2016
Wildlife-Friendly Motorways
Oct 11, 2016
Spiritual Greens
Oct 04, 2016
The Growing Season
Sep 27, 2016
Fruits of the Forest
Sep 21, 2016
Cities Without Cars
Sep 14, 2016
Big Oil Big Trouble
Sep 06, 2016
The Sun King of China
May 10, 2016
Four Menus to Save the Planet
May 03, 2016
After Chernobyl
Apr 26, 2016
The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic
Apr 19, 2016
Digging Climate Change
Apr 12, 2016
From Iceland with Love
Apr 05, 2016
Beasts of the Border
Mar 29, 2016
Litter
Mar 22, 2016
The Environment after Exit
Mar 15, 2016
New York's Big Green Clean
Mar 08, 2016
Acoustic Ecology
Mar 03, 2016
The City That Fell into the Earth
Feb 23, 2016
Requiem for a King
Feb 16, 2016
Britain Disconnected
Feb 09, 2016
Murder in Cambodia
Nov 20, 2015
In Conversation with David Attenborough
Nov 17, 2015
River Quality
Nov 03, 2015
Antipasto Agony
Oct 27, 2015
Coast: 50 Years of Change
Oct 20, 2015
Paying For Our Parks
Oct 13, 2015
Lungs, Lies and Automobiles
Oct 06, 2015
Where Have All Our Gardens Gone?
Sep 29, 2015
Oceans of Acid
Sep 22, 2015
Britain Rules the Waves
Sep 15, 2015
Sounds of the Seas
Sep 08, 2015
Electric Island
May 19, 2015
The Ozone Hole Thirty Years On
May 12, 2015
Britain's Environment: The Debate
May 05, 2015
China's Water Revolution
Apr 28, 2015
Eco-Cities
Apr 23, 2015
Cycle City
Apr 14, 2015
Reds Return
Apr 07, 2015
Climate Change: Inconvenient Facts?
Mar 31, 2015
The Price of Cheap Oil
Mar 24, 2015
Lava: A Dangerous Game
Mar 17, 2015
Greening the Green Belt
Mar 10, 2015
Hunting the Beefalo
Mar 03, 2015
Bristol: Green Capital?
Feb 24, 2015
The Ice in Iceland
Feb 17, 2015
Taming Australia
Feb 10, 2015
Arctic Future
Nov 04, 2014
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Oct 28, 2014
Making a Splash
Oct 21, 2014
Scuba Squad: Cleaning the Ocean
Oct 14, 2014
Saving the Caribbean
Oct 07, 2014
A Decade of Fracking
Sep 30, 2014
Power to the People
Sep 24, 2014
El Nino: Driving the Planet's Weather
Sep 16, 2014
When Mosquitoes Attack!
Sep 09, 2014
Texan Drought
Sep 02, 2014
The Diesel Decade
Aug 26, 2014
Britain's Overseas Wildlife
May 20, 2014
Energy Storage
May 13, 2014
The Future of Our Food
May 06, 2014
Chemical Weapons: 100 Years On
Apr 29, 2014
Power of Scotland
Apr 22, 2014
Living It Small
Apr 15, 2014
Flight from Disaster
Apr 08, 2014
A Resilient World?
Apr 01, 2014
Britain's Green Capital 2015
Mar 28, 2014
Feeding the Crops of the Future
Mar 18, 2014
Future-proofing Forests
Mar 11, 2014
Nuclear Waste's Final Destination
Mar 04, 2014
A Greener Way to Go
Feb 25, 2014
Britain Under Water
Feb 18, 2014
A Toilet for the 21st Century
Feb 11, 2014
The End of Plastic
Nov 05, 2013
Hot in the City
Oct 29, 2013
Our Neighbours Are Elephants!
Oct 22, 2013
Mind the Gap
Oct 15, 2013
CSI Landfill
Oct 08, 2013
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Oct 01, 2013
Burn That Fat!
Sep 30, 2013
Sharks Attacked
Sep 17, 2013
Waste Watchers
Sep 10, 2013
The Palm Oil Palm Off
Sep 03, 2013
Electric Cars Recharged
Aug 27, 2013
GM Update: Pig 26
May 21, 2013
The Cost of Cruising
May 14, 2013
Bees Fight Back
May 09, 2013
Amphibian Extinction
Apr 30, 2013
Fish - The Next Fight
Apr 23, 2013
The Deepest Lake on Earth
Apr 19, 2013
CSI Rhino
Apr 09, 2013
The Urban Farmers
Apr 03, 2013
Exotic Pets
Mar 26, 2013
Green Babies
Mar 19, 2013
The House That Heats Itself
Mar 12, 2013
Electrifying Africa: Beyond the Grid
Mar 06, 2013
Electrifying Africa: The Power Beneath
Feb 27, 2013
Dash for Ash
Feb 19, 2013
When Nettles Attack!
Feb 12, 2013
Robot Farmers
Feb 05, 2013
Berlin's Big Gamble
Jan 29, 2013
Future Forests
Dec 13, 2012
Tsunami Debris
Oct 09, 2012
Wave Goodbye?
Oct 02, 2012
Apocalypse Then and Now
Sep 26, 2012
Cruel Harvest
Sep 19, 2012
Chinese Salmon
Sep 11, 2012
People Power
Sep 04, 2012
Britain's Wilderness
Aug 28, 2012
Britain in 2060: The Seas
Aug 21, 2012
Britain from 2060: The Land
Aug 14, 2012
Jellyfish Invasion!
May 22, 2012
Pushing Water
May 15, 2012
Return of the king
May 08, 2012
Genetically Modified Brunch
May 01, 2012
Cruise Ships and Creeks
Apr 24, 2012
Britain in Flames
Apr 17, 2012
What lies beneath
Apr 11, 2012
Frozen Fish
Apr 03, 2012
Sands of Time
Mar 27, 2012
Outbreak
Mar 20, 2012
The Power of Peat
Mar 13, 2012
Rebel Without a Car
Mar 06, 2012
Nuclear Power Without the Nasties
Feb 28, 2012
Tunnel Beneath the Thames
Feb 21, 2012
Bambi Bites Back
Feb 14, 2012
Adapting Insects
Feb 07, 2012
Bottle Bank Wars
Jan 31, 2012
Let it Snow!
Oct 26, 2011
March of the Pylons
Oct 19, 2011
Gold of the Conquistadors
Oct 12, 2011
High Speed Hell?
Oct 05, 2011
Waters of Arabia
Sep 28, 2011
A Very Large Hole in the Sahara
Sep 22, 2011
The Air That I Breathe
Sep 14, 2011
Bug Mac and Flies
Sep 07, 2011
Cave Carnage
Aug 31, 2011
Nature's Medicine Cabinet
May 25, 2011
California Gasping
May 18, 2011
The Real Avatar
May 11, 2011
Greening the Teens
May 06, 2011
Cocoa Loco
Apr 27, 2011
Peak Leak
Apr 20, 2011
Deepwater Horizon - The Real Damage
Apr 13, 2011
Fields Paved with Gold
Apr 06, 2011
Alien Invaders
Mar 30, 2011
Britain's Nuclear Future
Mar 23, 2011
Carbon Trading
Mar 16, 2011
Fur or Faux?
Mar 10, 2011
OK Coral
Mar 02, 2011
The Real Eco Warriors?
Feb 23, 2011
Digging Britain
Feb 16, 2011
Arctic Dreams
Feb 09, 2011
Into the Arctic
Feb 02, 2011
Spring Forwards, Fall Backwards
Oct 27, 2010
Grapes of Wrath
Oct 20, 2010
Can Lawyers Save The World?
Oct 13, 2010
Plastic Pollution
Oct 06, 2010