Can the earth help to save The Earth? Helen and Seyi explore some dirty impacts of food production, and meet people breaking new ground when it comes to restoring the ground itself. To read more about our featured guests, check out our website at https://www.virgin.com/in-focus/earth-unscrewed-podcast

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In this episode, Helen and Seyi explore the link between space exploration and improving things on Earth for all its inhabitants. They speak to a man who has travelled into space four times, astronaut Mark Kelly. They also hear from Will Pomerantz of Virgin Orbit, working to make space more accessible.Their third guest, David Grinspoon, is an astrobiologist and author. His books include Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet’s Future, and Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto. Dr. Grinspoon explains the lessons we can learn from exploring space and other worlds in protecting this one. For more reading, check out our website https://www.virgin.com/in-focus/earth-unscrewed-podcast

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Fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world today. In this episode, Helen and Seyi ask whether it needs to be that way. On the road in London, they speak to creators and innovators striving to improve the way we make clothes. For more information on the contributors in this episode: Better Cotton Initiative, VIGGA and Ananas Anam - head to our website https://www.virgin.com/in-focus/earth-unscrewed-podcast.

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In this episode, Helen and Seyi look to Kenya to learn how electric power can help unscrew the planet whilst empowering economies and societies. They hear from two guests, each taking a different approach to the challenge. Crystal Adero Okudo works on better grid connectivity, and Simon Bransfield Garth from Azuri tech offers pay-go solar home systems. 

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What if we could reduce the amount of landfill? What if we could mine rubbish to save cash and the planet? What if we could turn supply chains into supply webs? Well maybe we can. In this episode, Helen and Seyi hear how one person’s rubbish is another person’s gold dust. By exploring two case studies, Aeropowder and Interface - they get beneath the buzz words to understand what is meant by ‘closed loop production’ and how it can ‘unscrew' the planet. Head to our home page for further reading, it’s https://www.virgin.com/in-focus/earth-unscrewed-podcast

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This week, Helen and Seyi are joined by two very special guests, ocean plastics specialist, Dr. Lucy Woodall and Raw Foundation anti-plastic activist, Melinda Watson. They discuss the perils of the plastic problem. A special feature with Hugo Tagholm from Surfers against Sewage gives some tops tips for the everyday things you can do to fight the plastic plague. 

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In this first episode of Earth Unscrewed, a new podcast powered by Virgin, presenters Dr. Helen Scales and Seyi Rhodes get into the topic of cars. With over a billion vehicles on the world’s roads, air-pollution levels are reaching deadly highs. Helen and Seyi explore some breakthroughs that are gaining traction, and that might help ‘un-screw’ the planet. Delve into London’s sewers in search of a surprising clean fuel, and meet the innovators working hard to make costly and polluting cars a thing of the past, by racing clean ones around city centres. 

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