Nature connects us all, so its decline and destruction should be a concern for us all. In 2023 WWF, RSPB and National Trust published the People’s Plan for Nature, a document written in collaboration with a citizen’s assembly of 103 members representative of the British public, and with input from thousands more people across the UK. In this episode, released almost exactly a year after the People’s Plan for Nature was published, we speak to WWF’s Head of Community Engagement Campaigns, Kat Mach...
Apr 03, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In late 2023, Kevin Jordan’s dream retirement home by the sea was demolished by the local council. Bought only 14-years prior, it was deemed unsafe and at risk from coastal erosion. In this, the first episode of the Carbon Copy Podcast series 3, we explore the link between Kevin’s story and the dangerous human-made heating of our planet. Join Host Isabelle Sparrow, Save Hemsby Coastline campaigners Kevin and Simon, and Professor Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading’s Centre for Atmospheric Sc...
Mar 20, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Launching March 20, series 3 of the Carbon Copy Podcast brings powerful, inspiring and relatable stories about people around the UK fighting to protect their communities from the impacts of climate breakdown. Listen to a new episode every fortnight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 13, 2024•46 sec
In this final audiobook episode, we adopt a new perspective and go on to explore the common ground that connects people. We discover the power and appeal of working together locally to protect us from climate breakdown and defend nature. Communities are seen in another light, as both beneficiaries and guardians of common natural resources – from clean rivers to clean air. We open the door to over a thousand inspiring, real-world examples of collective local action from all four corners of the UK...
Oct 11, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In episode two of Civic Revolution, we sift for clues in our past that shape the future. Throughout our history, we have been converting energy from one form to another and changing the world around us in remarkable new ways. We have lived by the stories we are told, and reshape the world by the new stories we tell. Taken together, we see how these clues point towards a civic revolution where we have the opportunity to create something better and mend the links between people and place that have...
Oct 11, 2023•18 min•Season 2Ep. 2
In this audiobook episode, we look at the predicament of humankind: the quest for endless economic expansion in a world of finite resources and planetary boundaries. We don’t need to look far to see the broken links between people and places, past and present, imagination and reality. We dispel some of the myths that are putting us in jeopardy, rediscovering the power we have to tell different stories that can reinvent the places where we live and lead to a better future. Adapted from the origin...
Oct 11, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 1
A short three-part audiobook about the clash between our culture and wellbeing; and the power of community to resolve this conflict. Based on the book Civic Revolution, and narrated by its author and Carbon Copy co-founder, Ric Casale. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 29, 2023•49 sec
Hello! Welcome to the last episode of Copy This (the first season of the Carbon Copy Podcast) where we throw the spotlight on big thinking, local climate action. When was the last time you tried to get your mobile phone or laptop repaired? Chances are that it was impossible but all too easy to buy a replacement instead. This year, the weight of electronic waste produced globally will equal that of the Great Wall of China because repair is so difficult and obsolescence is built into many electron...
Jun 08, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Hello! The longest non-stop relay ever attempted is starting in October 2022, over 7200km from Glasgow in Scotland to Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, in the name of climate action. Community leaders, school children and neighbours will pass a relay baton hand-to-hand across 18 countries and show the world what we can achieve if we work together. An extraordinary challenge, requiring extraordinary effort, to achieve extraordinary change. Listen to Danny Bent, cofounder of The World Relay, about what we...
May 06, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Hello! Welcome to Copy This - the first series of the Carbon Copy Podcast - where we throw the spotlight on big thinking local climate action. In this episode, the inspiration is provided by Energy Garden, a co-operative which has helped over 130 communities create gardens at overground railway stations across London. Not only has this re-connected residents with nature and food growing, increasing local pride in the process, it’s also improved the wellbeing of passengers plus delivered a whole ...
Apr 21, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Hello! This week we’re off to Hull to discover how the Living With Water partnership is working with the community to build a “blue green city of the future.” We’re joined by two key members of the partnership’s team - Lee Pitcher and Andrew Barron - who share insights into the challenges and triumphs of flood mitigation and adaptation in one of the UK’s most at-risk areas. Listen in to hear how personal experiences of homelessness and the destruction that flooding can bring, led to our speakers...
Mar 30, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Hello! Welcome to the very first episode of our first series, Copy This , where we travel to Scotland to learn how a community raised £millions to buy 5,000 acres of local land for a new nature reserve. In this episode, hosts Ric Casale and Amanda Carpenter are reunited, having last met at COP26, moments after Ric had completed a gruelling 500-mile, 26-day walk from London. During that journey, Ric had the opportunity to meet our podcast guests, Jenny Barlow and Mairi Telford Jammeh, of the Tarr...
Mar 09, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 1
We’re pleased to announce Copy This , the first series in our new podcast from climate charity Carbon Copy. Launching March 10, in this series we’ll hear from the 'doers' who prove what’s possible when you think big, locally. In this short trailer host Ric Casale is joined by team mate Izzy Sparrow to delve into what to expect during season one of the Carbon Copy Podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 08, 2022•2 min
