Costing the Earth
Summary: Man's effect on the environment, questioning accepted truths, challenging those in charge and reporting on progress towards improving the world. Presenters, Tom Heap and Dr Alice Roberts, travel the UK and the world in search of solutions to the challenges facing the natural world and the people and wildlife that live in it. Broadcast at 21.00 on Mondays, Costing the Earth runs for 27 weeks of the year, split into three series. Podcast episodes are added weekly.
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- Copyright: (C) BBC 2014
Podcasts:
Dr Alice Roberts asks whether we can still have babies if we care about the planet.
Miranda Krestovnikoff looks at new building materials for environmentally-friendly houses and asks where you should start if you want to build your own eco-home.
Micro-solar lamps are now lighting parts of Africa that the grid cannot reach. Tom Heap investigates how the solar spread is emulating the wide reach of mobile phones in Africa.
A geothermal revolution is set to electrify Africa. Tom Heap visits the Rift Valley in Kenya, a potential source of abundant energy to find out if promises to light up even the remotest parts of the continent are going to come true.
Tom Heap whether burning our waste to create energy is the sustainable solution we need.
Tom Heap on the rise of nettles and brambles in the British countryside.
Sarah Cruddas meets the robots who will soon be running our farms.
Tom Heap reports on Germany's Energy Revolution.
Tom Heap investigates the future shape of our forests in an age of ash dieback.
More bombs were dropped on Laos in the Vietnam War than the US dropped on Germany and Japan. Those bombs still have an environmental impact today. Tom Heap reports.
On World Food Day Tom Heap investigates the future of our food supply.
What threat is held in the 1.5million tonnes of debris from the Japanese tsunami?
Can Orkney's waves and tides take Britain closer to a green energy future? Tom Heap reports.
The Vietnam War left enormous scars on Laos. Tom Heap asks if the country's environment can be healed.
2012's disastrous harvest has raised vital questions about the crops we grow. Should we continue to use food for fuel when prices are rising? Tom Heap reports.
