Exploring some of the choices available for private car transport and some of the issues involved. Keywords: Sustainable Transport; Urban Sprawl; Commute times; Smog; Living Streets; Liveable Steets; Complete Streets; Home Zones; Woonerf; Traffic Calming; Natural gas; Bio-gas; Bio-fuels; Bio-diesel; Hydrogen gas; Hybrid vehicles; Electric vehicles; Car-sharing; Car-pooling; Ride-sharing; Get Transcript

Studies suggest that up to 30% of all food produced is wasted throughout the system. This is an enormous loss of resources and it is up to each of us to do what we can to reduce this figure. This week’s episode explores the issue and related terms. Keywords: Sustainable Development Goal 12; Supply chain; […]

Measuring how a society progresses is a difficult task – even agreeing on what can be measured and how to do so is complicated. In this episode we explore some of the ways developed to tackle the problem. Keywords: Fuzzy concept; Flourishing society; hedonia; Eudainomia; Gross Domestic Product; Human Development Index; World Happiness Report; Ecological […]

Exploring the terms around dietary choices and some of the reasons for those choices. Keywords: Vegetarian; Vegan; Whole Food Plant Based diet; Vegetarian lifestyle; semi-vegetarian; part-time vegetarian; Flexitarian; strict vegetarian; lacto-vegetarian; ovo-vegetarian; pescatarian; pesco-vegetarian; Raw food diet; Ethical vegetarian; Sentience; ahimsa; Zoonotic; Zoonoses; Vegan Agricultural System; Get Transcript Traduzione in Italiano – Non ancora disponibile […]

An interview with David Gershon a founder member of Global Action Plan International and also of The Empowerment Institute. David speaks about the early days of GAP and also about social change programmes and how to ensure they are scalable and replicable. Keywords: Global Action Plan; Social Change; Empowerment; Leadership; Behaviour change; Community Engagement; Transcript […]

Exploring the global fishing industry and the related words and terms. Keywords: Recreational or Sports fishing; Subsistence or Traditional fishing; Commercial fishing; Trawler; Fish stock; Fish stock assessment; Maximum sustainable yield; Total allowable catch; Over fishing; Catch share; Individual fisheries quotas; Limited access privilege; By-catch; illegal fishing; unregulated fishing; unreported fishing; Aquaculture; Fish farming; Fish […]

A look at the Oceans and Seas and related issues and terms. Keywords: Pelagic zone; Euphotic zone; Sunlight Zone; Neritic Zone; Continental shelf; Inter-tidal zone; Tidal range; foreshore; seashore; coastal region; Exclusive Economic zone; UN Convention of the Law of  the Seas; Territorial waters; International waters; high seas; Marine Protected Area (MPA); deep sea mining; […]

A short podcast recorded at the University College Cork Climathon event in Ireland on Friday October 27th. We speak to a number of the organisers and some of the participants also.

Less than one percent of all the water on earth is available fresh water! There are a lot of issues concerning the quality and quantity of this vital life-giving resource. Keywords: Natural Water Cycle; Precipitation; Transpiration; Evapotranspiration; Groundwater; Aquifer; Re-charging; Water Table; Point source pollution; Run-offs; Non-point source pollution; Algal Blooms; Eutrophication; Recycled water; Reclaimed […]

A series of voices from a Global Action Plan International meeting in Stockholm 2017 describing words or terms related to sustainability which resonate with them. Keywords: Consumer; Strong/Weak sustainability; Sustainable lifestyle; Abundance; Employee Engagement; Mindset; Collaboration; Cradle to Cradle; Global Citizenship; Resilience; Regenerative Agriculture. Transcript – not yet available.