The Big Ideas 11-15
From farming seaweed to steel production without the fossil fuels, Tom Heap views the fundamental problem of our age from a fresh perspective.
From farming seaweed to steel production without the fossil fuels, Tom Heap views the fundamental problem of our age from a fresh perspective. Small things that make a big difference. Big things that make a small difference. We鈥檙e going to need every one of them.
In the third batch of programmes he meet the experts behind a selection of fascinating carbon-cutting ideas; the Canadian who can produce a plate of scallops whilst absorbing the ocean's carbon dioxide, the Swedes who can make steel without fossil fuels and the central American fridge detectives who hunt down illegal planet-destroying chemicals.
Dr Tamsin Edwards, with help from the experts at the Royal Geographical Society, runs her slide-rule over the ideas to help Tom assess which are the biggest ideas with the most potential to push back on climate change.
Produced for 大象传媒 Audio in Bristol by Alasdair Cross and Anne-Marie Bullock with research from Sarah Goodman
Series made in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society
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