Green Queens Podcast

Richard Hammond, Cher Horowitz and two jackets that should probably have stayed on Vinted. Welcome to Green Queens.

This week, Imogen and Abbie get into the e-fuels versus electric cars debate. Following Richard Hammond’s comments about synthetic fuels, we explain what they are, why producing them takes so much energy and where they might have a useful role.

We also share our recent EV experiences: a secondhand Polestar 4, a much-loved Volvo EX30 and the cars currently tempting us. Smaller, lighter and more efficient is the ambition. Occasionally, a very fancy Volvo gets in the way.

Then it’s time to live our Clueless fantasy. Could digitising our wardrobes with an app such as Indyx help us find new outfits in clothes we already own? Or would it just give us another excuse to shop?

Plus: Abbie’s charity-shop recommendations, Imogen’s Sudoku packing method and a wardrobe-regret reveal with strong Monsters, Inc. energy.

NOTEWORTHY MENTIONS:

👗 Indyx - https://www.myindyx.com/

📝 Ellie Muir's Article on Indyx - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/wardrobe-app-organization-indyx-clueless-cher-b3069916.html

🚗 Richard Hammon on E-fuels - https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/2261378/richard-hammond-electric-car-warning-synthetic-fuels

🔋 Why we disagree with him - https://www.transportenvironment.org/topics/cars/efuels

📝 Abbie's Chazza Recommendations - https://abbiedewhurst.substack.com/

👀 Oxfam State of Style Report - https://www.oxfam.org.uk/documents/1141/Oxfam_SHS_State_of_Style_Report.pdf

🤓 The Sudoku Packing Method - https://mademoisellejaime.substack.com/p/the-sudoku-packing-method-aka-the

CHAPTERS

00:00 Richard Hammond meets Cher Horowitz

00:28 Japan, charity shops and sharing a car

03:08 Richard Hammond and e-fuels

03:56 Abbie’s Polestar 4

05:42 Life without a rear window

08:25 Imogen’s Volvo EX30

09:18 Chinese technology and European nostalgia

11:40 E-fuels versus electric cars

15:36 Our EV wish list

19:25 The trouble with recommendations

20:22 The Great Chazza Crawl

22:40 Clueless-style digital wardrobes

24:23 Outfit planning and overpacking

27:05 How much do we actually own?

28:47 The Sudoku packing method

30:32 Wearing more of your wardrobe

32:46 Rediscovering forgotten clothes

33:40 An app to buy less—or more?

34:53 Our wardrobe-regret challenge

36:24 The jacket reveal

38:11 A very sweaty dash for a train

39:41 Accidental Monsters, Inc.

40:09 Goodbye!

💚 What’s your most questionable wardrobe purchase? And would you let an app help you get dressed?

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Heidi Klum’s severed hand, a freezing cottage and Robert Irwin in his pants. The sustainability conversation contains multitudes.

This week, Imogen and Abbie ask: can you afford to save money?

The UK’s Warm Homes Loan Scheme offers low- and no-interest borrowing for solar panels, batteries and heat pumps. We love the ambition of warmer homes and lower energy bills but question who can access the savings, what a long repayment period means if you move, and whether households are being asked to shoulder too much responsibility.

Before that: Maya Jama as Sir Mo Farah, Halloween’s plastic problem, dressing-up-box nostalgia and the joy of a costume that didn’t arrive yesterday in a plastic packet.

Plus, we attempt to explain electricity pricing with chocolate oranges, then turn our attention to Robert Irwin’s appearance on The Graham Norton Show. For conservation reasons, obviously. 🐍

CHAPTERS

00:00 Welcome: Halloween costumes and heating bills

00:40 Sofa season versus handstand season

02:39 Halloween’s waste problem

06:13 Heidi Klum and Maya Jama’s costumes

10:58 Costume waste and panic buying

14:08 Dressing-up boxes and nostalgic costumes

21:21 Slower celebrations, more creativity

22:22 Cold homes and Warm Homes loans

26:08 Solar, batteries and heat pumps

27:25 Loan repayments and Budget contradictions

29:00 What if you move house?

30:44 Individual responsibility versus system change

32:43 Why gas affects electricity prices

35:43 Fuel poverty and access to lower bills

38:41 Our verdict—and reasons for hope

39:44 Robert Irwin and conservation

43:26 Goodbye!

🤓 Noteworthy mentions:

Warm Homes Loan Scheme: government factsheet : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/warm-homes-loan-scheme-factsheet

Carbon Brief: Budget climate and energy announcements: https://www.carbonbrief.org/uk-budget-2026-key-climate-and-energy-announcements

Guardian: Warm Homes loans: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/27/homes-across-uk-to-get-low--or-no-interest-loans-to-fund-solar-panels-and-heat-pumps

Sew Spooky: https://hubbub.org.uk/sew-spooky

YouGov: Halloween shopping research, October 2025: https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/53067-uk-halloween-spending-shopping-trends-2025

Kensa: Ground Source Heat Pumps for Social Housing: https://kensa.co.uk/social-housing/case-study/central-london-retrofit

Robert Irwin: https://earthshotprize.org/people-partners/ambassadors/robert-irwin/Robert Irwin x Snakes: https://www.instagram.com/robertirwinphotography/?hl=en

💚 What’s your best homemade costume? And would a low-interest loan persuade you to upgrade your home?

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A North Sea gas field, an Abercrombie & Fitch jumper and some very tiny frogs. Welcome to Green Queens, where the connections are occasionally tenuous but the opinions are plentiful.

🎙️ This week, Imogen and Abbie unpack the approval of the Jackdaw gas field. Will more domestic gas lower UK energy bills? How many jobs will it create? And could saying yes to Jackdaw make it easier—or harder—to say no to the much larger Rosebank oil field?

Then it’s over to Abercrombie & Fitch, where a viral comparison of men’s and women’s knitwear has sparked questions about fabric quality, fashion marketing and whether women are paying the same for less.

Plus: a conservation win involving critically endangered puddle frogs. Or, as we prefer to call them, froglets. 🐸

🤓 A few corrections from us:

• In 2025, around 58% of the UK’s gross gas supply was imported. Of those imports, 69% came from Norway, mainly by pipeline, and 23% from the US, as LNG by ship. The remainder came from other sources, including Qatar. Gross supply includes some gas that is subsequently exported.
• When discussing the electricity mix, we should have said the 47% figure referred to electricity generation, not all the energy we use.
• And if we’re being super pedantic: no, you don’t store gas in a barrel. But you can express its energy content in barrels of oil equivalent.

👀 Noteworthy mentions:

• Cody Dahler’s 10/10 Jackdaw summary: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DezNlJptS4s/?vrfl=MXMxeW0yYnhpd25ueA==
• Write to your MP about Rosebank: https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-oxfam/no-more-north-sea-drilling/
• The viral video that kicked off sweatergate: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeXn0XsgkZ5/?vrfl=MXFpNjg0YnNzN2VvYg==

In this episode:

00:00 Welcome, charity shops and the VW ID. Polo

02:59 What is the Jackdaw gas field?

05:00 The numbers: gas supply, jobs and emissions

08:09 Why are people upset?

12:00 North Sea jobs and the political gamble

14:32 What about Rosebank?

19:07 The Jackdaw announcement and social media

21:59 Can you understand a decision without agreeing with it?

24:34 Abercrombie & Fitch and the jumper debate

29:26 Abercrombie nostalgia and teenage aspirations

34:12 Shopping habits, quality and charity shops

39:09 And finally… froglets! 🐸

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After a little break, Green Queens is back (for a bit...!)

In this catch-up episode, Imogen and Abbie explain where they've been, why life got in the way, and what the future of the podcast looks like. Imogen opens up about leaving her role at Everything Electric after years of presenting and leading content and what it feels like to finally slow down.

Along the way, the conversation wanders (as Green Queens conversations often do!) through holidays, books, careers, nervous systems, and some genuinely exciting sustainability news—including the rise of plug-in balcony solar, why Germany is leading the way, and why these tiny solar panels could transform clean energy for renters.

00:00 Welcome back to Green Queens

02:41 Where have we been?

03:49 Imogen leaves Everything Electric

08:55 Looking back on the clean energy journey

12:00 Burnout, rest and finding balance

14:45 Holiday highlights and travel chat

17:07 Sustainability news catch-up

18:38 Balcony solar explained

22:18 Why Germany is embracing plug-in solar

22:58 EV updates after leaving the industry

26:27 Why the future of transport still excites us

30:22 How we stay informed without doomscrolling

32:29 What's next for Green Queens

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This week Abbie heads into the world of wildlife conservation with one of the people helping to protect some of Africa's most extraordinary ecosystems.

This week we're joined by conservationist and safari lodge owner Pamela Kertland Wright to explore Uganda's incredible conservation journey, how tourism can support wildlife, and why local communities are at the heart of successful environmental projects.

In this conversation:

🌿 Uganda's conservation success story

🦏 Wildlife recovery after conflict

🌍 Sustainable tourism done properly

🏡 Building low-impact safari lodges

❤️ Why community-led conservation works

Find out more: https://wildplacesafrica.com/

00:00 Welcome & World Conservation Day

02:00 Meet Pam Kertland Wright

04:30 Falling in love with conservation

09:15 Uganda's wildlife recovery story

14:00 Conservation after conflict

19:15 Tourism as a force for good

24:00 Why local communities matter

29:00 Building a sustainable safari lodge

33:30 Creating low-impact tourism

38:30 Intentional sustainability

42:45 Reasons to feel hopeful

47:45 Everyday sustainability habits

52:45 Final thoughts

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If you've been hanging out with us for a while, you know we did an amazing Interrail trip last year and haven’t stopped talking about it since. Well, the travel itch is officially back, and it is entirely Cat Jones’s fault.

In this episode, we sit down with Cat, the absolute powerhouse founder of Byway; a brilliant travel tech company rewriting the rules of holidays. Think flight-free, multi-stop, gorgeous journeys over land and sea that prove the journey itself can be the absolute best part of the trip. (Goodbye airport chaos, hello dining cars and mountain views! 🏔️🍰)

Cat shares how Byway is using smart tech to fix the massive headache of planning flight-free travel, combining dynamic routing with independent, locally owned hotels, and (our personal favourite) an in-trip WhatsApp group that feels like texting your mates when things go a bit sideways.

Join us to chat about:

• Cat’s Top 3 Magical Routes: From waking up to deer on Rannoch Moor to paddling in Lake Bled by breakfast.
• Traveling with children: How to survive (and actually enjoy!) long train journeys with kids
• The "Package Holiday" Rethink: Why Byway reclaimed the term to protect green travelers.
• The Real Impact: Ditching short-haul flights and the frustrating politics behind jet fuel tax breaks.
• Sustainable Travel Leave: The ready-made policy that gets you extra holiday days just for choosing the train. (Yes, really. Go pitch it to your boss immediately!)

👉 Check out Byway: https://www.byway.travel/

00:00 - Introduction & The Joy of Slow Travel

02:47 - Introducing Cat Jones & The Concept of Byway

06:38 - The Tech Challenge: Solving Overland Travel Chaos

10:56 - The Hybrid Model: Package Protection & WhatsApp Support

15:33 - Are Flight Cancellations Shifting the Industry?

18:01 - Cat's Top 3 Magical Train Journeys (Slovenia, Swiss Alps, & Scotland)

23:58 - Train Travel Pro-Tips for Parents with Kids

26:34 - Hard Data: The Climate & Community Impact of Ditching Flights

30:15 - What is "Sustainable Travel Leave"?

31:13 - The Behind-The-Scenes Startup Story of Byway

39:14 - Magic Wand: Fighting Jet Fuel Tax Breaks & Media Bias

46:12 - Seed Swapping!

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What if the problem isn’t climate inaction, but rather the way we are telling the story? 🌍

In this live episode of Green Queens, we sit down with Emily Renshaw-Smith, the Managing Director of Open Planet to go behind the scenes of her team's incredible productions, including the David Attenborough-narrated documentary Ocean, to unpack how storytelling serves as a vital tool for real-world climate impact.

From her professional journey through Channel 4 and Comic Relief to her current role leading one of today's most ambitious environmental media initiatives, Emily explains why data alone is insufficient to inspire change. She shares how powerful narratives can shift perspectives, influence global policy, and transform climate anxiety into meaningful action.

We also explore Open Planet’s groundbreaking open-source footage library. This platform is designed to provide creators everywhere with access to world-class natural history content, effectively democratising the ability to tell stories that truly matter.

Find out more:

https://www.openplanetstudios.uk/

https://openplanet.org/

https://otherhouse.com/south-kensington/

00:00 – Welcome to The Other House: Live with the Green Queens

02:00 – Reusing & Sourcing

03:10 – Introducing Emily Renshaw-Smith: From Comic Relief to Open Planet

05:00 – The "Golden Thread": A career in purposeful media

07:15 – Data vs. Storytelling: Why we are hardwired for narrative

08:45 – The Mission of Open Planet

11:20 – Ocean: Baking impact into David Attenborough’s latest film

15:30 – Open Source Revolution: Giving away world-class footage

17:40 – Individual Acts vs. Systemic Change: The tuna sandwich dilemma

19:50 – Fighting the "Slop": Authenticity in the age of AI

22:00 – Hopeful Storytelling: Imaging a better future

24:30 – The Next Generation: Finding new trusted voices

26:40 – Community Narratives: Why local stories cut through

30:00 – Short Form Power: Nature doesn't have a bin

34:10 – Advice for Creators: Know your audience & entertain first

39:30 – The Yogurt Pot: Small acts and final thoughts

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Can you organise a marathon for 60,000 people… without wrecking the planet? 🏃‍♀️🌱

In this episode of Green Queens, we go behind the scenes of the London Marathon with Kate Chapman, Head of Sustainability at London Marathon Group, just days before race day. Kate takes us through how one of the world’s biggest sporting events is designed with the planet in mind, and the role sport can play in creating positive impact. From carbon levies to behavioural science, Kate reveals how the marathon achieved “Evergreen” status, the highest global standard for sustainable sport, and what it really takes to get there.

Inside this episode:

🌍 The marathon’s carbon footprint

💡 How “Team Green” nudges runners into better choices, with real perks 👀

♻️ Why carbon removal is replacing traditional offsets

🚿 The surprisingly powerful role of toilets, queues, and incentives

🌆 How sustainability also includes inclusion, accessibility, and community

Whether you are a runner, an event organiser, or simply in need of some positivity, this episode shows how small design choices can drive massive impact.

00:00 – Race Week!

02:45 – Meet Kate Chapman

06:50 – How the London Marathon Evolved

10:40 – What Is “Team Green”? (And Why It Works)

14:50 – “Evergreen” Status

19:10 – Competing (and Collaborating) Globally

22:50 – The Biggest Carbon Problem: Travel

24:40 – The Mile 11 Forest Experiment 🌳

29:10 – Future Tech: Edible Packaging & Refill Systems

31:40 – Climate Change vs Race Day Reality

35:20 – Carbon Removal vs Offsetting

39:30 – Why Sport Changes Behaviour Faster

44:50 – Advice for Smaller Events

51:30 – Round Up

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This week on Green Queens, Imogen and Abbie sit down with Dr. Ravina, a GP and women’s health specialist, to unpack the science behind microplastics and what it actually means for your body.

After the buzz around  @Netflix  's The Plastic Detox, we wanted answers beyond the headlines.

Dr. Ravina breaks down how chemicals like BPA and phthalates can mimic hormones in the body, why fertility conversations need to include men too, and how small, realistic changes can make a meaningful difference.

💚 To find out more:

https://theonelabs.co/pages/the-lab

https://www.instagram.com/doctor.ravina/

0:00 – Welcome to Green Queens!

2:45 – Introducing Dr. Ravina

4:50 – What are microplastics and where are they hiding?

9:30 – The "Plastic Detox" experiment: Science vs. Fiction

12:30 – How "Fake Oestrogen" affects your body

18:00 – Gut health, Endometriosis, and environmental factors

24:00 – The One Fertility supplement story

30:45 – Period products: Should we be worried about toxins?

34:00 – Male fertility: The 3-month regeneration window

39:30 – 3 Achievable swaps you can make TODAY

45:00 – One final question!

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Secondhand is reshaping the fashion industry.

This week, Abbie and Imogen are joined by a very special (and returning) guest, Olivia May. She joins us to delve into the data behind the fashion industry's resale boom. Why are over a third of us hooked on platforms like Vinted and eBay? Is the “French way” of shopping actually better for the planet? And what happens when luxury brands start embracing resale, digital passports, and circular design?

In this episode, we cover:

👗 The £50B Shift: How secondhand is reshaping the future of retail

👗The “Vinted Credit” Effect: Why selling has to be seamless

👗 Can AI and tech actually fix fashion?

👗 Fast Fashion Fallout in France

📝 Check out the full research report here: https://www.occstrategy.com/en/article/fashion-reincarnated/

00:00 – The Smoothest Intro Ever & Special Guest Olivia May

02:50 – The Resale Boom: 35% of the UK is Now Shopping Secondhand

05:12 – Beyond Vinted

07:58 – How Brands are adapting

09:20 – Higher Liquidity: Is Secondhand Speeding Up Our Consumption?

12:40 – Designing for Three Kids: Circularity and Longevity in Luxury

20:30 – Digital Product Passports: Scanning Your Clothes for the Future

22:45 – Removing Friction: How AI and Image Recognition will Change Selling

25:20 – The "Birkin" Effect: Why Secondhand Can Sometimes Cost More

28:45 – The French Way: Anti-Fast Fashion Laws and Capsule Wardrobes

31:50 – Searching with AI: Using ChatGPT to Find Your Next Blue Linen Shirt

35:30 – The Struggle of Stock Images

38:40 – Democratising Fashion: Is it Snobbish to Criticise Fast Fashion?

43:10 – The Supermarket Shift & The Klarna Conundrum

47:00 – Future Forecast: Reaching a $50 Billion Market by 2030

50:50 – Who are the Losers? The Challenge for Value Price Point Brands

54:30 – The Last Thing for the Planet & Final Thoughts

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