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Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Tropical rainfall is unpredictable, making life hard for farmers. Until now. 5 spoke to Liisa Smits, CEO of a Swedish startup that has developed a new way to predict rain, and deliver tailored forecasts by text message.
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Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
There’s treasure in the ocean. Hidden beneath the waves is a sustainable source of food, fuel, fertiliser and even biodegradable plastics. In the battle against climate change and environmental damage, could seaweed be our greatest untapped resource?
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Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Clean toilets are a game changer in the slums of Nairobi – and they also provide the raw material for products that boost farm yields. 5 meets the founder of the organisation making it happen.
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Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
The pandemic has revealed just how important a role nature plays in all our lives. In this curated piece, Joanna Benn of The Nature Conservancy takes stock of what we’ve learned – and considers what we need to do about it in the crucial years ahead.
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Monday Nov 29, 2021
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Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Brewing a cup of coffee takes less than one per cent of what’s in the beans. What if we could use the rest to create healthy products, reduce carbon emissions and support farmers in the global south? These three young entrepreneurs are doing just that.
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Friday Feb 26, 2021
Friday Feb 26, 2021
In the 5 Podcast, Thomas Loudon investigates issues and solutions that create a more sustainable world one step at the time.
Just because we don’t hear much when we stick our heads in the water, doesn’t mean that there isn't sound there. In fact, sound is everywhere in the ocean – and it’s vital to marine life. It’s how sea creatures navigate, how they communicate, how they find mates and how they get to their next meal. And after millions of years of evolution, it used to be perfect. Then humans came along and added the sound of engines, airguns, sonar and more to the soundscape. In this episode we speak to a marine biologist Nathalie Houtman, marine ecologist Serena Rivero and Michel André, the director of the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics in Barcelona, about the effects of our noise on life in the ocean – and even life on land. Frans Hendrik Lafeber tells us how the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) is making ships quieter. But we start with a man who had a close encounter with killer whales, and wonders whether noise played a role.
Here's what you can do if you want to know more:
- Listen to the sounds of the ocean at the Discovery of Sound in the Sea site
- Take a deep and very visual dive into the topic with the amazing documentary Sonic Sea
- Check out the work of the Embassy of the North Sea here
- Listen to the deep in real time here
- Discover what WWF is doing to protect the oceans here
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Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Johanna Kinnock & Maria Jencel find out what it actually takes to be the change they want to see in the world.
What comes in all shapes, sizes and colours, is a vital life source, and ends up in the bin one third of the time? You guessed it: food. In this episode of the 5 Podcast we’re talking about food waste. Johanna and Maria ask how big a problem it is for the planet, how we can waste less, and how we got so casual about wasting food in the first place. We're joined by Tristram Stuart, a campaigner who wants us all to throw less away, and Mette Toftegaard Rasmussen of eSmiley, which makes software to help businesses get food waste under control. Plus, Maria comes face to face with the amount of food she actually wastes in a year.
What we read and watched
Tristram Stewart: the global food waste scandal, ted talk
Selina Juul: Stop Wasting food, ted talk
Food waste is an ethical scandal, the UN
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