Sustainababble
286 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsA funny podcast about the environment, sustainability, and all the total guff people talk in the name of saving the planet.
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#33: The Climate March
November 30, 2015 01:28 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBGrab a megaphone, neck a can of cider, and scribble weak puns on a bed sheet. It's march time! But hang on. Does marching through London make a blind bit of difference to the climate? We toddle along with a microphone to find out. Also this week: more coal cronies, cross carbon-capturers, and cooing over Caroline. Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes. Available on iTunes, St...
#32: France
November 22, 2015 14:35 - 37 minutes - 34 MBListen very carefully, we will say zis only once: Ol and Dave are having a French-themed special. The horrific attacks in Paris have overshadowed the upcoming climate change talks. What's at stake from the climate COP21, and will clampdowns on protest affect the outcome? There's a ban on French lions and an airport that's very proud of its green credentials. All this, and Dave's finally won his prediction - or was there something unexpected in Amber Rudd's big energy speech after all? Sus...
Extra: Sustainababble on the Weekly Economics Podcast
November 21, 2015 12:16 - 25 minutes - 35.8 MBHere's a bit of bonus Babble for you. Ol and Dave were chuffed and all agog to be invited to talk with Kirsty on the Weekly Economics Podcast. What's the intersection between economics and the planet? Does this Government get it? If not, why not? And what does it all mean for the climate talks in Paris? All of this while trying not to say anything *too* rude about politicians. To subscribe to the Weekly Economics Podcast and listen to back episodes, visit http://www.neweconomics.org/proje...
#31: Protest
November 15, 2015 20:41 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MBProtest. What's the point? Far better to sit down, wear a suit and be reasonable. We're not so sure, so we delve into recent green victories and ask: did angry hippies make any difference at all? Plus, the bosses of India and the UK are caught babbling like there's no tomorrow and Dave devours a 'fish swim bladder' live on air. Yuck. Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes. Avai...
#30: America
November 08, 2015 14:17 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBYee-Haw! Mega news from across the pond as Obama rules out tar sand pipeline, Keystone XL. Is this as momentous a moment in the climate fight as it seems? Won't Donald Trump just undo it all anyway? And is Obama really as green as all that? Ol's off with man-flu, so Dave interviews David Turnbull from US climate campaigners Oil Change International. Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dre...
#29: Meat
November 01, 2015 17:00 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBCan a bacon butty really be as bad for you as smoking? Is meat just a no no if you're keen on the planet? Food and farming expert Vicki Hird joins us to answer these questions and more. Also this week, bees, Belgium and a bit of bother for Shell. Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabble...
#28: Back To The Future!
October 25, 2015 22:30 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBGreat Scott! The future is actually here - so why are we still building stoopid concrete jungles and mega pricey nuclear power stations? Also this week Shell turn out to be vegan lovers and McDonalds are the planet's unlikely saviours. And Donald Trump. There's always Donald Trump. Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustain...
#27: China
October 18, 2015 22:14 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBChinese Premier Xi Jinping is in the UK being preened at by David Cameron & co. We turn our Babble-lens onto China: do all hopes for saving the planet rest on its mighty shoulders? And is it environmental hero or villain? Meanwhile, an Alaskan governor wants to drill oil to pay for climate damages - and the multi-decadal wickedness of ExxonMobil is laid bare. Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcra...
#26: Coal
October 11, 2015 20:20 - 38 minutes - 35 MBYucky, yucky coal. Cheap and abundant, but kryptonite for hippies (and any poor soul who mines the stuff). Why? Other big questions this week: - why are all the animals having such a great time at Chernobyl? - are YOU accidentally eating TURTLE for tea? Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @t...
#25: Naughty Volkswagen
October 04, 2015 15:26 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBSuch terrible behaviour! Ol and Dave spank the bottom of Volkswagen for fiddling emissions tests. But how bad is it *really*? Who should care? And is it the tip of the fume-y iceberg? There's a plastic bag charge with a trillion exemptions and a nice Canadian in a suit. Also: let's all laugh at Shell! Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcl...
#24: Chris Packham meets Sustainababble
September 27, 2015 21:21 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBWe only went to interview Chris Packham - star of Springwatch, Autumnwatch & The Really Wild Show! And his dogs. In our exclusive natter, we ask Chris whether there's any room for 'tradition' when it comes to protecting wildlife. We find out what he thinks about rotters who kill animals for fun, and discuss whether poor ol' pandas are indeed up an evolutionary creek without a paddle. Chris even finds time to tell us what he thinks about fracking. And, we ask him what his favourite environme...
#23b: Dr Karl meets Sustainababble
September 22, 2015 19:23 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBBlimey! Australia's legendary Dr Karl Kruszelnicki talks exclusively to Ol and Dave. Is climate change real? Is it going to be bad? What should we do about it? And whose fault is it that we're not doing enough? All this and some scientific explanations of how solar power works, and why marital relations can make you temporarily deaf. Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes. Avai...
#23a: Tony Abbott Schadenfreude Special
September 20, 2015 23:13 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBTony Abbott has gone! TONY ABBOTT HAS GONE! A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-HA-HA-HA! Ol and Dave bask. Episode 23b - an exclusive interview with Australia's @doctorkarl - follows later in the week. Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream Themes. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble
#22: Refugees
September 13, 2015 15:31 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBAs the refugee crisis continues to mount, Ol and Dave examine claims from politicians that climate change will only make things worse - are they right? In other news, there's Vivienne Westwood gallivanting around in a tank, some Babble about trees, and an Inhofe we can all get behind. And Paul McCartney's Earth song sickens us to our very stomachs. Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft and Dream...
#21: So Long, Solar
August 30, 2015 21:05 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBBad scenes in the sunshine business as the UK Government sets fire to the solar industry. Ol & Dave are righteously angry about it. Plus, some avian mistaken identity from the Antipodes, and some rather unpalatable Schadenfreude for the Prime Minister. Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on sustainababble.fish. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at...
#20: Religion
August 24, 2015 00:37 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBFirst the Pope, now 1.6bn Muslims. Religion is going ECO nuts. Can faith save the planet? Does it make a blind bit of difference? Are Ol & Dave going to hell? Sustainababble is your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on the sustainababble website. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble
#19: Happy Happy Joy Joy
August 16, 2015 21:34 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBPanic not! We're back! And everything's gone rubbish! Donald Trump and Tony Abbott are happening. And the new UK Government is setting fire to everything green. How on earth do we stay optimistic? We interview professional climate optimist, Alice Bell, and get her top tips for not giving up and going home. This is the first episode of season two of Sustainababble - your weekly comedy podcast about politics, prattle and the planet. Out Mondays. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available ...
Extra: Sustainababble Live!
June 21, 2015 17:03 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBHere's an extra treat. Sustainababble Live! Caution - contains a few naughtier (than usual) words. We recently did a 15-minute set, live from the stage at the Hackney Attic. Thanks to Dave Pickering, Alice Bell & all at Stand Up Tragedy (@standup4tragedy / http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk) for having us! Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on iTunes, Stitch...
#18: Eurovision Special!
May 18, 2015 07:01 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBIt's Eurovision! And it's the last episode of Season 1 of Sustainababble! PARTY TIME! We're joined by songwriter Diego Brown (aka Adam) for a special BUMPER edition looking at green protest songs - why are they all rubbish? All that, and the usual slots: Australia being Inhofes, Boris being wiffly, and dodo news. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on iTun...
#17: It’s All Our Fault
May 10, 2015 22:58 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBWell then. How did Ol's prediction that Ed Miliband would be prime minster get on? Pardon? Oh. So the Tories won. What does that mean for the environment, then? Is it REALLY all our fault? And is the performance of the Green Party a reason to be cheerful? Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on the sustainababble website....
#16: General Election
May 03, 2015 23:36 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThere's an election on Thursday (I know, us neither!) so with chaotic coalitions round the corner we ponder what small parties can hope to achieve. Plus we confidently predict who will be the next PM. Also this week, babbly BMW, naughty Norway and climate-denying cheer. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on the sustaina...
#15: Nationalism
April 26, 2015 22:11 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBWhat with St. George's Day and the rise of political nationalists, we look at whether nationalism is a good or a bad thing for the environment. Does loving your country mean you can't love the planet? There's Earth Day - 24 times more babbly than Earth Hour? Dr Tizer is this week's Inhofe, and the latest environmental / election news. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcra...
#14: Manifestos
April 19, 2015 21:45 - 32 minutes - 30 MBWith an election brewing all the parties have their manifestos out, and BOY are they packed with Babble. This week, Dave & Ol devote pretty much an entire show - with Arabella on overtime - to picking through the egregious eco-guff being offered to the electorate by our politicians. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and ...
#13: Drought
April 13, 2015 01:29 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBCalifornia’s drying up but Dave and Ol’s pun juices are flowing freely. The results aren’t pretty. Plus, aviation industry 'babble, undeterred seals, and annoyingly time-sensitive predictions. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on the sustainababble website. Visit us at @thebabblewagon and at Facebook.com/sustainababble
#12: Leaders’ debates
April 05, 2015 13:29 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBWhy didn't the leaders' debates mention the environment at all? Do politicians not care? Do WE not care? Also, grim news for fans of an Arctic not being covered in oil, a climate change minister behaving badly, and a butterfly that looks like a cat. And Arabella's back! Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on the susta...
#11: Earth Hour
March 29, 2015 22:58 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBEarth Hour, WWF's epic switch-off-yer-lights-athon, is a Very Good Thing, right? Well, maybe not… Also this week, BP's political donations smell as bad as you'd expect and Dave adds his customary cloud to apparently sunny news from Costa Rica. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and on the sustainababble website. Visit us ...
#10: Death to Pandas
March 22, 2015 22:10 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBThis week, cute fluffy animals v the rest - are people only interested in pointless pandas and the rest of the charismatic megafauna? Plus, is a teeny island in the middle of nowhere really the UK's biggest conservation success story - and has the Chancellor's post-election Budget got *anything* good to say for itself? Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on i...
#9: Houses
March 16, 2015 06:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThis week Ol's feeling mopey about the misery of trying to buy a flat in London. Shouldn't we just build lots of new houses everywhere? Also, celebrity buffoon will.i.am's been at the babble-aid, teaming up with Coca-Cola & Harrods to sell recycled backpacks that cost... oh, just wait till Arabella tells you how much. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Available on i...
#8: Politicians
March 09, 2015 08:27 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBOur first ever guest! Political campaigner extraordinaire and squirrel nemesis Martyn Williams reveals secrets from elections past and explains why we should be pleased that the planet's problems are getting worse. There's also girl news from Exxon, snowballs in the senate, and a whole new meaning to the phrase 'dirty power'. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It comes out every Monday. Music by Dicky Moore from Bearcraft. Avail...
#7: THAT interview…
March 02, 2015 06:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBGreen party leader Natalie Bennett’s "excruciating" interview hit the headlines this week. For more auspicious reasons, so did president Obama and his Keystone veto. But are we putting too much stock in the actions of our leaders? Can the planet ever be saved by powerful individuals? Also this week, vaporising birds, burger tossing scientists, and a star turn from Ol’s five year old niece. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It c...
#6: Top Gear
February 23, 2015 06:00 - 24 minutes - 28 MBTop Gear petrol head Jeremy Clarkson has made greenie-goading something of an artform. But this week we detect mellowing in his menace, and wonder whether fellow tofu terrorisers Andrew Neil and James Delingpole perhaps hate hippies less than everyone assumes. There’s also a war on tiny fish, a Government plan to save the economy by “delivering cold” to homes, and shocking prediction news. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for and by greeny types who don’t really know what’s going on. It c...
#5: Divestment
February 16, 2015 06:00 - 26 minutes - 30.2 MBLike Barry White puffing cigars on a bed of straw, this week’s episode is dangerously sexy. For your aural pleasure we undress #divestment, the steaming hot fossil fuel finance campaign, while Dave is decidedly blue about buses as a Government transport speech gets critiqued. We ponder if the weekend’s climate coo-ing by Cam, Mili & Clegg is the good news it appears, and take aim at a rich American who’s done a cartoon about breaking up with fossil fuels. And for some reason the words “Bor...
#4: The Oil Price
February 08, 2015 23:40 - 27 minutes - 25 MBIn this week's episode Dave and Ollie talk about the oil price, despite not really wanting to and finding it all very complicated and difficult. Are lower oil prices bad or good for climate change? Does anyone really know? Anyone? In mammal news, they've got door-to-door squirrel deliveries and a disagreement about beavers. And what's this about the curious incident of the Government paying a company that makes and sells LED lightbulbs to start using LED lightbulbs? All this, and they fin...
#3: Facts v Fiction
February 02, 2015 06:00 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBSustainababble 3 then, and steam our underparts if it isn't a cracker. Dave and Ollie get reflective about the extent to which it's OK for people - in particular Americans - to treat scientific fact as an article of faith. While 'belief' in climate change is on the rise in the UK, what excuses can be found for fully half of the American public to think it's a wicked fantasy? They get their teeth into 'natural capital' - whatever the hell that means. And revel in the rise and rise of solar, ...
#2: Frack! Frack! Frack!
January 26, 2015 06:54 - 22 minutes - 25.5 MBIn our second episode, we drill into the controversial world of fracking. What is it? Why don't people like it? What's going on in Lancashire? And does the UK's biggest fracking firm sound like an evil lizard on purpose? There's talk of world leaders quaffing sturgeon while talking about how important it is not to wipe out endangered species, and momentary cheerfulness in the direction of the boss of the free world. And, is it really good enough to find climate science so complicated you r...
#1: We’re going to need a bigger swimming pool
January 19, 2015 09:42 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBSustainababble is go! In this debut episode, Dave and Ol get their head around whether the Earth's just a big swimming pool that we're stuffing full of crocodiles - and whether a controversial economist is right to say that it's fine to swap polar bears for larvae. And does the UK Government really think that economic growth is more important than the planet? All this and yet some reasons to remain cheerful, with clean energy investment on the up. Sustainababble is a weekly podcast for an...