Suddenly my house was running on 100 percent renewable electricity and 10 percent green gas, and I felt so great having a shower, turning on the lights and making a cuppa in the knowledge that it wasn't costing the Earth as much.
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Woodman regularly reports back on his travels for the BBC current affairs show From Our Own Correspondent and is also a guest presenter on Radio 4's Costing the Earth.
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Costing the Earth is a factual programme on BBC Radio 4 about the environment. The show has been broadcast since 2007 and is also available to download as a podcast. The programme is produced by the Radio 4 team based in Bristol.
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Heap married Margaret (Peggy) Spicer in 1960 and had two daughters, Sarah and Alice, and one son, Tom Heap, the BBC's Rural Affairs Correspondent and presenter of BBC One's Countryfile programme and a reporter for Panorama and BBC Radio 4's Costing the Earth programme.
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He also provides media skills training to companies, universities and NGOs. He is also currently the environmental correspondent for BBC News Online, and hosted BBC Radio 4's environment series, Costing the Earth. He also writes for The Guardian and Climate News Network. He has no formal scientific training.
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Harrabin was founder presenter of BBC Radio 4's environment magazine "Costing the Earth" which was created to bring a lighter touch to environmental issues and to question environmental goals. In 2015 Harrabin's report on renewable energy sources in Malawi, including a cook stove that charges mobile phones reportedly pulled in 22 million hits.
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She applied for newspaper apprenticeships while working several jobs, including work on the children's television programme Tiswas. She then worked for the BBC on the Radio 4 programmes Farming Today, Costing the Earth and Woman's Hour. She also worked as a television presenter on Countryfile until 2009. During her time at the BBC, O'Reilly won the Foreign Press, Royal Television Society and British Environment Media awards.
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Thomas John Gillespie "Tom" Heap (born 6 January 1966) is the Rural Affairs Correspondent of BBC News, and a United Kingdom television and radio reporter and presenter best known for his contributions to the BBC One programme Countryfile, the same channel's Panorama programme, and the BBC Radio 4 programme Costing the Earth. Since February 2012, he has also been Director and media presenter of the media company Checked Shirt TV Limited.
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The programme was presented by Quentin Cooper from 2000 to its end in 2013. Material World was one of the BBC's main conduits for up-to-date scientific news, along with Frontiers, Science in Action, and Bang Goes the Theory. From 5 April 2010 the programme was repeated on a Monday evening at 21.00, in the former slot of Costing the Earth. For a short time, when programmes on 5 Live began webstreaming with video, Material World was also webcast.
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According to Professor Sharon Beder, the "weak" perspective is undermined by a lack of knowledge of the future, as we do not know which intrinsically valuable resources will not be able to be replaced by technology.Sharon Beder, 'Costing the Earth: Equity, Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics', New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law, 4, 2000, pp. 227-243. We also do not know to what extent environmental damage is irreversible. Further, more harm cannot be avoided to many species of plants and animals.
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"Sixty Seconds That Will Change the World: Coming Tokyo Earthquake" Amazon.com, Sixty Seconds That Will Change the World: Coming Tokyo Earthquake, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1991Hadfield, Peter. "The Coming Tokyo Earthquake – Sixty Seconds That Will Change the World" Amazon.com, The Coming Tokyo Earthquake – Sixty Seconds That Will Change the World, Tuttle, 1995 More recently, he has contributed regularly to the CBC, NPR, and BBC radio programmes Costing The Earth, Science in Action, The World Tonight, Outlook and East Asia Today, as well as the ABC's Science Show.
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In February 2010, Todmorden featured in the BBC Radio 4 programme "Costing the Earth: The New Diggers". Members of a guerrilla gardening group spoke about reclaiming unused land for growing vegetables, how this helps the local community and how it can be a driver for change. In November 2011, Todmorden featured in the Channel 4 programme The Secret of Luck, in which Derren Brown sought to convince the town that the dog statue in Centre Vale Park brought good luck. In September 2010 Todmorden received a visit from Prince Charles (his second visit to the town) who came to support Mary Clear's Incredible Edible Todmorden project.
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Oliver Tickell explaining his book Kyoto2 in the presence of Ed Miliband at Oxford Town Hall Oliver Tickell is a British journalist, author and campaigner on health and environment issues, and author of the book Kyoto2 which sets out a blueprint for effective global climate governance."Kyoto2 website" His articles have been published in all the broadsheet newspapers and numerous magazines including New Scientist, New Statesman and The Economist. He is an experienced broadcaster on the BBC home and world services including "Today", "PM", "Costing the Earth", "Farming World" and "Farming Today". He studied physics at Oxford University and is a founding fellow of the Green Economic Institute.
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Henderson was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. After working as a film script reader in Los Angeles, an aid worker in Uganda, and a research assistant and junior journalist working on human rights and the arming of Iraq by foreign powers and other matters, he became co-ordinator of the Green College Centre at Oxford University from 1992 to 1994, which focused on climate change and other environmental issues. In 1995 and 1996 he worked on Costing the Earth, the flagship environment program on BBC Radio 4. From 1996 to 2002 he wrote on topics such as energy, science, environment and human rights for The Financial Times, The Independent, New Scientist, The Ecologist, Environmental Finance, Green Futures and other newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media.
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