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A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale

Jen Gale

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[119] SHREWSBURY CUP

A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale ·

2021/11/05

Here in the UK we get through around 2.5 BILLION disposable cups a year – 1 million trees are felled just for coffee cups, and a typical cup uses around 05 litre of water in being made.And sadly, disposable coffee cups are very hard to recycle – a 2017 study found that only around 1:400 […]

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[118] A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO COP26

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2021/10/29

COP 26. You can’t fail to have heard about it – my social media feeds are full of it, and even though these are very definitely skewed for eco stuff, it’s been all over the mainstream news and there’s been lots of great TV programming around it. But, erm, what is it?Hopefully I’m not alone in […]

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[117] TRANSFORMING EDUCATION WITH THE MINISTRY OF ECO...

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2021/10/22

Today we’re talking education, specifically eco-education. For me it feels like schools are a really big part of the jigsaw when it comes to changing hearts and minds, and to educating and empowering us all around the changes that we can make, both individually and collectively. More and more schools are running eco clubs, and […]

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[116] WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO ENERGY PRICES AND...

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2021/10/15

Gas prices are going through the roof, energy bills are soaring, and energy companies are dropping like flies.Why is this happening, and what is the best thing for us to do as consumers, for our household budget and for the planet?Tune in to this episode with Jon Fletcher from green energy comparison site Big Clean […]

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[115] ALL THE CLIMATE FEELS…

A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale ·

2021/10/08

Strap yourself in, this episode is all about emotions and feelings - specifically emotions and feelings related to the climate crisis and the teensy matter of the planet burning and us all going to hell in a handcart. That kind of stuff.Before we dive in, hopefully it goes without saying that I’m not a therapist, […]

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[114] HOW TO RAISE A GLOBAL CITIZEN

A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale ·

2021/10/01

In this episode I’m chatting to James Murray, editor of Business Green, and contributor to a recently publish book How to raise a global citizen – a book with the tagline "For the parents of the children who will save the world".We chat about why we’re both not really very keen on that tagline, the […]

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[113] SUSTAINABLE(ISH) MEETS FRIENDS OF THE EARTH

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2021/09/24

I'm still not quite sure how this happened, but in this episode I'm chatting to the co-CEO's of Friends of the Earth! Listen in as I chat to Miriam Turner and Hugh Knowles about their roles as co-CEOs, Friends of the Earth's 50th anniversary, and how Friends of the Earth can help to support us taking […]

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[112] SUSTAINABLE(ISH) LIVE AT TIMBER FESTIVAL –...

A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale ·

2021/09/21

This episode was recorded live at Timber Festival over the summer and was my first every experience of a live podcast recording - I think it went ok! Timber Festival is an annual festival in the National Forest in the middle of England, that this year happened at the beginning of July - there was a […]

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