39 Ways to Save the Planet

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Tom Heap and Dr Tamsin Edwards uncover fresh ways to save the planet from climate change.

BBC Radio Four, in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society, presents 39 ideas to relieve the stress that climate change is exerting on the planet.

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39 Ways to Save the Planet: The First Five Fascinating Ideas

The First Five Fascinating Ideas

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Beating climate change takes the best ideas from the smartest minds.

Beating climate change takes the best ideas from the smartest minds. Tom Heap offers up the first five bold ideas to cut carbon.

We’re resourceful, adaptable and the smartest thing this planet has ever seen. We got ourselves into this mess but we can get ourselves out of it. 
BBC Radio Four, in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society presents 39 ideas to relieve the stress that climate change is exerting on the planet.

From tiny rice seeds and perovskite solar cells to the total transformation of landscapes, Tom Heap and Dr Tamsin Edwards view 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’re going to need every one of them.

In the first week of programmes they meet the experts behind a selection of fascinating carbon-cutting ideas; super-strong building timber, wind turbine repairing robots, secondary education for women in the developing world, planting seagrass and rice without the paddy field.

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by : Alasdair Cross and Anne-Marie Bullock

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