Sustainababble

In a first for the Babble, we talk to someone very much on The Other Side. David Hone is chief climate change advisor... to Shell. After 30 years in the energy industry he's written a new book, Putt...

3 Des 201742min

Environmentalist. Author. Guardian columnist. Campaigner. Brain on legs. We grab some time at home with George Monbiot, everyone's favourite font of wisdom. In a wide-ranging babblechat, we find out w...

26 Nov 201740min

For 27 years John Vidal was environment editor at The Guardian, scouring the world to bring underreported environmental issues to light. John talks to us about his latest story - the remarkable disco...

19 Nov 201734min

Right now, a lot of hideously sleep-deprived people are in Bonn, Germany, figuring out how nations should work together to stop the planet frying. Thought this was all sorted out in Paris two years a...

12 Nov 201735min

Fancy getting your hands on a bit of lovely solar or wind power, while making friends and sticking it to the big energy companies? Course you do. So, er, why isn't community energy more of a thing in...

5 Nov 201732min

We meet that Liz Bonnin off of TV and science to talk about the Galapagos Islands. It's far away, an ecological wonder, and slowly getting ruined by plastic. Liz tells us what needs to be done. In ou...

29 Okt 201728min

Insect numbers are plummeting and no-one knows why. What they do know is that the implications are, frankly, terrifying. Is it possible to get our heads round stuff like this without being paralysed ...

22 Okt 201733min

Hoots! Scotland's banned fracking! Ol and Dave don their Tam o' Shanters and find out why. Elsewhere, there's more suspiciously good news, particularly if you're an elephant or you like making electr...

15 Okt 201730min