The Carbon Watchdog Podcast
The climate crisis is dogged by worry and denial - Carbon Watchdog focuses on the basic facts behind the panic and bluster. My name is Adam Hardy and I produce informative and entertaining material for people everywhere in the world who have seen this whole thing brewing and are looking for the best ways to tackle it. Society is adapting to climate change at breakneck speed - and God knows, we have to - but the information tsunami is only going to get bigger - so what do all the headlines and cool infographics about Arctic sea ice and hydrogen power actually mean? Carbon Watchdog has put together a complete package of not-so-inconvenient truths about living with climate change - regardless of your politics (or lack of) and moral and ethical viewpoint. We should all do our bit of course - but what is "our bit" and who says? The US president? Greta Thunberg? God? Listen here for a range of interesting, inspiring, helpful, effective and trustworthy climate-related discussions! Get more Carbon Watchdog content at https://carbonwatchdog.o
Episodes
Abundance Investments is a crowd-funding platform that lets people finance green infrastructure. Bruce Davis is joint managing director. He has great experience and deep knowledge about money, finance and the Energy Transition, as the next 30 years will sees the economy shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
If you have a little money and you want to make it do good and earn something back, then listen on! We talk about:
- c...
- I talk to Robin Nicholson, who is an architect at Cullinan Studios, an architecture co-operative which has been designing innovative low carbon buildings for 65 years, some of which are now listed, using design strategies such as passive solar as early as 1970. He was a key force in the creation of the Edge Debate, a round table that encourages the Professional Institutions to work together to greater effect on public policy, s...
Chris Friedler is a UK environmental campaigner at Decarbonise Now with an extensive working knowledge of the UK climate policy - if that's what it can be called nowadays. We talk about climate policy ranging from the new Cumbria coal mine (Britain's first in decades) to energy policy, housing, transport, electric cars and everything in between.
Kelo Uchendu is a Nigerian student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and an active member of a broad coalition of student climate movements across the world that held the MOCK-COP. This was the youth climate movement's answer to the vacuum left by the UN's delayed COP26. Kelo is a member of Grey 2 Green Movement in Nsukka and Students Organising for Sustainability. Being in a youth climate movement in the Global South, Kelo know...
Hugh Archibald White was born and brought up in Calgary, Canada in the 1940s and 50s. He gave me a run-down on their almost universal dependence on coal, illustrated with some great anecdotes about his grandfather, a coal and gas merchant, including:
- the vastness of Canada’s natural resources - the railways and development - low prices and infinite availability of fossil fuels - Canadian winters, minus 20°C for half the year - wh...
This week I persuaded my old friend from Germany, Dirk Carstens, to give me the run-down on the pros and cons of owning a Tesla. He’s a trained physicist so there’s not much about the EV technology that phases him.
Some of the stuff we discussed:
- the low bills
- the all-important battery, how to treat it, how long it lasts, how much it’s worth
- the amount of data Tesla accumulates on you, your car, your driving…
- when autonomous dr...
Dr. Bremley W.B. Lyngdoh is Director Microfinance & Ecorestoration of Earthbanc, which invests capital from their savers via microfinance to enable smallholders to plant mangroves and build sustainable livelihoods. He's made a career out of bringing pe...
My guest on this week's podcast is Danny Badger, fisheries scientist, educator and jellyfish nerd, who's worked at the New England Aquarium in Boston, USA and the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI).
We discuss everything (almost)!
- from the size of sea-lions to dead zones
- talking to...
I interview Kate Calvert, Superhome creator and North London, UK resident:
- what happens when you do a green retro-fit on a 19th Century terrace house
- solar panels, wall insulation, electricity bills
- local council planning regulations, bad buildings and bombs
- holding corporate building developers to their eco promises
- is carbon rationing like war-time rationing?
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