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My new book 'Land Smart' is out in July. Pre -order here: Also presenter of 'Rare Earth' BBC Sounds, Countryfile BBC 1. 🎤🎥🔊

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Tom Heap
3 years
The book of show '39 Ways to Save the Planet' is out - happy, excited and a wee bit nervous. Huge thanks to the heroes within these pages.
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4 years
Mr @michaelgove is very clear here and still very senior in Government. Would he repeat this today?
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6 years
Can @michaelgove guarantee future food imports will have to meet UK welfare standards? @tomheapmedia investigates the future of farming on tonight's @BBCCountryfile #countryfile
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But sadly this is the last @SkyNews Climate Show. Thanks for a great 21 months to guests, producers, camera folk and you for watching or catching the #climatecast pod. The final 'pithy end line'...
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2 years
Forceful, focused and funny too. His message to world leaders is a shout he's heard many times: "Action"! He delivered...will they? More @Schwarzenegger On climate here:
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2 years
I can tell you from our experience in California that you can have the best environmental plans, but if you don’t have the courage to stand up to the special interests when they threaten you, sue you, and spend a fortune against you, you have nothing.
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5 years
Coming across a frozen butt while filming @BBCCountryfile
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6 years
Rannoch Moor, Scotland - 20cm snow, 10 days ago, train running. What's stopping South East services? @BBCr4today
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You know you're in a Scottish hotel room when...
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3 years
"Come with me if you want to live" join @Schwarzenegger on the way to a cooler world.
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4 years
A river runs through it...no more. RIP River Ver and chalk stream neighbours. Though not dead according to @EnvAgency . @Costingtheearth today with @Feargal_Sharkey @WildlifeTrusts @MarkLloydRT @SouthernWater
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2 years
It may be of interest that I biked to school, biked to college, worked as a cycle courier, biked to BBC, always use hire bikes in London, MTB and road bike for leisure and am planning a multi-day ride this autumn. Love bikes and journalism.
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4 years
Despite supermarket shelves being frequently empty, their 'quality' rules mean these slightly smaller spuds, and tonnes more, will be fed to animals not people
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7 years
Saharan dust turns London sepia. Wierd wonderful weather
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3 years
Ooh exciting - it's arrived with me and can be yours from next week. #39waysbook
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3 years
A few days to go till the launch of smashing new podcast 39 Ways to Save the Planet (Jan 4th) with @flimsin on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds Stay tuned
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7 years
From NZ to the Peak District - some stunning photography and sound in @BBCCountryfile today. Well done our brilliant crews
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7 years
Looking at the telly @BBCCountryfile I'd just like to apologise for double denim
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4 years
1/2 Slightly weird on @BBCBreakfast people being against #ElectricCar cos of challenges with home charging....it not like most of us have our own doirstep petrol pump. Also leccy doesn't need to be transported in heavy tankers it flows magically through skinny cables
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3 years
Thanks Robert. You and @FullyChargedShw are having a pretty good stab at saving it too!
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3 years
Just started reading @tomheapmedia book, 39 Ways to Save the Planet. (It’s rather good)
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2 years
A fossil fuelled warmonger on the rampage in Ukraine and energy prices rocketing: a cue to kick the hydrocarbon habit? @Costingtheearth at 3.30 today @BBCRadio4 rpt 9pm tmw, forever @BBCSounds with @MLiebreich @James_BG @ELPinchbeck @Regenerco
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9 years
You know you're at a young farmers event when teat dip, licks and s*m*n are up for auction! http://t.co/5UKnNOXwwz
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5 years
The thing I love about filming @BBCCountryfile is the chance to capture the beauty of our countryside.
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4 years
Vital and beautiful veg boxes going out from @naptonvillagestores to vulnerable in nearby village with no shop. Also keeping local market trader in business.
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1 year
Not snow but plastic drifts outside #Brentford County Court today. It's a crime. More on plastic pollution on the @SkyNews weekly climate show this weekend.
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6 years
Really nice @BBCCountryfile tonight. Gotta feel for the camera crew lugging the gear two hours up Cairngorm, great sound recording too
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3 years
Let's make the right fate. #39ways with a foreword by @Schwarzenegger no less. Out today
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4 years
Let's play spot the climate killer..yes it is 2 massive wattage heaters in an outdoor link between 2 parts of a London eatery. Blood boiled, didn't enter.
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5 years
Born on Valentines Day. From @BBCCountryfile with love
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5 years
You'd have to be Beavis or a butthead not to see that: A Orkney has stunning coast and B Orcadians are giving rest of UK a lesson in renewable energy. @Costingtheearth today
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4 years
Very nice work @itsanitarani and @AdamHenson . But all of us on @BBCCountryfile are well aware that many of you are cooped up in a much smaller space. We are fortunate you are resilient.
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6 years
Hands up for a huge change for the better at #countryfilelive masses of people with refill water bottles. @BBCCountryfile
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2 years
So excited : climate, journalism, telly - a bunch of my favourite things. And I started my broadcasting life as a sound man with @SkyNews back when the channel was born.
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Sky News takes daily climate show out of primetime but invests in weekend editions to be hosted by @tomheapmedia
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6 years
Wow - deposits on bottles! Stunning day for fighting litter and pollution. Been featuring this on @Costingtheearth for years. Will 2018 be year of environmental delivery?
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Tom Heap
7 years
MMmm, what is the attraction of working for @BBCCountryfile ? Answers on a postcard
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4 years
Filming up a tree for @BBCCountryfile can tie you up in knots but I do love life in the canopy
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Huge Congratulations to our @BBCCountryfile colleague @HamzaYassin3 @bbcstrictly winner. Light up Ardnamurchan this Christmas and dance with the Treshnish puffins
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6 years
Normally he slums it with #RealHousewivesOfCheshire , today the glamour of @BBCCountryfile
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6 years
Snow getting deeper, smile getting wider
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4 years
Mmmm, my lovely twin @AdamHenson just said on @BBCCountryfile that glass milk bottles have to be better for the planet. Plastic milk containers are very light and highly recycled. Glass is energy intensive to make and transport (heavy) so climate punishing. So...debate!
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4 years
Mmmm, which to press? @Costingtheearth reveals how confusing buttons and dodgy design mean low flush loos could waste more water than they save. The Great Leaky Loo Scandal. @BBCSounds later today
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7 years
On @BBCCountryfile t'nite the tasty subject of sheep worms. Some fields ungrazable. We even try to catch droppings as they drop #tvglamour !
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It's done. After 30+ years @BBCRadio4 'Costing the Earth' is no more. Huge thanks to scores of inspiring and passionate people who sustained it for so long as the only regular environment show in UK. But worry not @BBCRareEarth is born: longer, stronger and with @helenczerski
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2 years
Tonight, London, warm. Patio heaters: Putin's ally, climate's enemy. And shouldn't we be saving gas those who really need it?
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7 years
Getting close to bees. @BBCCountryfile with the latest buzz on #neonics and pollinators
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7 years
See, we can do it. Renewables provide more than half UK electricity for first time -
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3 years
Beautiful indeed and lurking beneath Bruce and Barack! Thanks @heffersbookshop
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7 years
Hopefully @michaelgove @DefraGovUK will bring agri food and environment into #Brexit conversation...we've waited long enough
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3 years
Great show and a fine example of how farming is becoming an ally in the fight against climate change. More land use solutions coming in the next '39 Ways' series
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5 years
Winter...is it just me?
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8 years
Loving the old boys on the farm @BBCCountryfile brilliant example of care farming. The redemptive power of outdoors
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6 years
Snow on the ground, sunshine skimming the frost and @BBCCountryfile fantastic cameraman = a glorious Sunday night sight
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3 years
My new filling station. Now, where can I find an overpriced coffee... @bobbyllew
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5 years
A river DOESNT run through it. Dying chalk streams thanks to our demands. Future @BBCCountryfile
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3 years
Protecting the environment, economy and creating jobs all go togethether and @Schwarzenegger says California has proved it. Caustic about leaders who disagree!
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6 years
After a long absence, the environment has resurfaced at Westminster. Why and will it last? Find out on new series of @Costingtheearth starting to week
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6 years
Anti-plastic "almost religious fervour" is a "potentially dangerous" distraction in the fight against climate change says Guy Singh-Watson from @riverford to @Costingtheearth on @BBCRadio4 Tues 3.30, Weds 9pm
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5 years
Link between @AdamHenson merino piece and @HCDream2012 plastic film on @BBCCountryfile : Merino is a great alternative to plastic based acrylic/polyester clothes which shed microfibres
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8 years
Just seen in Paris on La seine. Surely a good idea to stop plastic reaching the sea @Costingtheearth . Other rivers catch floaters?
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6 years
Thoughtless, lazy, polluting
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So, the visitors to @Countryfilelive love the #British #Countryside ? Why then do some think it OK to leave this, from their cars @BlenheimPalace in their majestic grounds? Poo + all sorts - shocking selfish behaviour #leavenotrace . What thinke ye @tomheapmedia - my new #hero ?!
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3 years
A book about climate change to put a smile on your face. As @Schwarzenegger quotes 'No fate but what we make for ourselves' We can crack this: here's how.
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7 years
I like milk, butter and cheese and believe they're mainly good for me. Producing it has challenges and not just for farmers @BBCCountryfile
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1 year
Your intv on #electriccars @bbcnickrobinson on @r4Today is completely at odds with my experience and I drive huge distances, all around country (Inc Cornwall!) under time pressure for @BBCCountryfile and @Costingtheearth . Fancy a chat?
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6 years
Give a little money to @BBCCIN or I'll prance near you
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6 years
And now we are dancing - @tomheapmedia showing some flair... @BBCCountryfile for @BBCCiN
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Amazing #Orkney long home to natural wonders and now pioneers of renewable energy, hydrogen and storage. Inspiring place, future @Costingtheearth
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Flushable? My a**e .The freshly removed wet wipes blockage. @Costingtheearth v excited to make #bbcpick
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3 years
The inner child is escaping! UNIMOG! It was my favourite toy car. Thanks to @yorkswildlife
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3 years
Blue carbon and the seagrass. A tale of redemption starring @RJLilley @ZosteraR . '39 Ways' today 1.45 @BBCRadio4 and anytime on @BBCSounds . Co-starring @flimsin with @RGS_IBG
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6 years
The bar-b-q summer is officially over but the show goes on for @BBCCountryfile with @Josieghost @bethanlyons and crew
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7 years
Cheers #sagtconf17 tks for fine gathering. As promised, consumed before losing it to security. (Am I breaking a bye-law?)
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3 years
Reasons to be cheerful? Sharing the first of 39 Ways to save the planet 🌏 @RGS_IBG @BBCRadio4
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2 years
Look what's on the bookcase behind @bobbyllew of the excellent @FullyChargedShw ....Yes it is me'book '39 Ways to Save the Planet'
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3 years
Loving the @EarthshotPrize . So heartening to see growing traction for solutions agenda @BBCOne
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5 years
In 1916, this man had the idea of a path for peace along the whole Western Front 3 months before he was killed. 103 years later it's happening as this plaque proves in Auchy Les Mines. @WesternFrontWay #whyiwalk
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3 years
Everyone likes a hero shot! Adrian Macleod from @SAMSoceannews on the way to saving the world through seaweed. Hear him on '39 Ways to Save the Planet' @BBCRadio4 1.45 @BBCSounds forever. With @flimsin backed by @RGS_IBG
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7 years
Stunning...and the waterfall looks good too. @BBCCountryfile in the making with @ColinNapthine and crew.
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2 years
Carbon farming - it's the new way to reap reward but will it prove a key tool in slowing climate change or a chaotic landgrab lining investors pockets? With @dustin_benton @TrinityNCM @FUWpress @pkendallfarm @Churchfarmkav at 3.30 @BBCRadio4
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3 years
Excited, hopeful and a little bit nervous - and that's just me!
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We got ourselves into this. Here's how we can get ourselves out. Pre-order your copy of @tomheapmedia ’s 39 Ways to Save The Planet now.
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7 years
Beware of ideas hatched at high altitude. Thin air of Snowdon clouds judgement it seems
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3 years
Many of our "39 Ways..." have co-benefits but today's surely tops that list. Educated girls have more choice, power, knowledge, wealth and, almost as aside effect, tend to have fewer children - wins all round. With @Camfed @FionaMavhinga and @flimsin @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds
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4 years
Acting colossus, big friendly giant @BFGMovie and now jolly green giant. Mark Rylance on @BBCCountryfile tonight, with @WildlifeTrusts @RSBenwell @CraigBennett3
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7 years
Who dumped these? @NWPRuralCrime Eryl Lloyd is on your trail. @BBCCountryfile pursues the fly tippers.
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7 years
A fearsome crew to be sure. But who are @BBCCountryfile and @DorsetMarine hunting down? @Josieghost @mikecainetv and Rob the sound
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7 years
I have been away from email for the past few days
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1 year
So looking forward to this. Here's something to mull over with @bobbyllew 'Is it now amoral for wealthy people to buy new petrol or diesel cars?' #FullyChargedHarrogate
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How do food, energy and the environment all tie in with each other and climate change? 🤨🥦 Find out at the Electric Fireside Chat, where author and journalist @tomheapmedia joins @bobbyllew ! Tickets are still on sale, get yours here!
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4 years
@dresserman About 12 years ago I made an @BBCPanorama called 'Bottled Water, who needs it? Now we have an answer...er...nobody
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6 years
Lookin dumb, feeling happy on patio/pool. Got any more juicy storms coming my way @weathertrending ?
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10 months
Who would have thought: daffodils + cows = lower methane ....probably. @BBCCountryfile tonight with @SRUC @AbiReader @Rumenco_ltd @GeorgeMonbiot and, appropriately, the try out is in Wales!
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5 years
'Look there's Tom's profit margin' ..or not. @charlottebsmith and the top team from @AntiqueRoadTrip on tonight 7pm
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So, what is it? Liars? Or stupid? Check out my interview with Tom Heap of @BBC . More coming tomorrow!
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On mild day, the day of the #IPCC #SR15 report, this is the scene in Canary Wharf: ranks of patio heaters, some on. Crazy, infuriating
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7 years
Should we respond to food poverty by making food cheaper or learning to value it more?
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7 years
Is the price of food reflect its true price? Listen to the gripping debate recorded @ #CountryfileLive on @BBCFarmingToday Sat 6:30 Radio4
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3 years
How do you know if someone owns an electric car? 'cos they never stop banging on about it! Had my @HyundaiKona from @DriveOnto for 3 months now and home charger too from @Caplor_Energy . Keen to answer ANY questions you'd like to ask about use, range, drive, charging, cost etc
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7 years
6 pillows and 2 cushions... I've only got one head. Rampant inflation hits hotel soft furnishing!
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6 years
Hares with Myxomatosis being reported in the UK for the first time. @uniofeastanglia Very alarming given suffering and mortality we've seen in rabbits. @BBCNews @BBCCountryfile
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4 years
Will home working trend weaken the case for airport expansion and HS2? Does the willingness to sacrifice the economy for common good give hope in fight against climate change. @Costingtheearth looks at poss new post-covid geography and environment with @flimsin and @CFigueres
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3 years
Hear @Schwarzenegger in full on 39 Ways to Save the Planet. @BBCRadio4 1.45 - Arnold Schwarzenegger angered by world leaders' climate policies
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3 years
In today's '39 Ways' doing good with wood. How timber building could take a big chunk out of our carbon emissions with @MHRamage @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds @flimsin @RGS_IBG
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