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Environment Weekly podcast

Alison Benjamin brings you the latest environment news from around the planet and is joined in the studio by environmental journalists, experts and guests
  • Greenpeace protesters dressed as orangutans demonstrate outside Unilever's central London headquarters

    Environment Weekly: Orang-utan protest

    Alison Benjamin talks to Greenpeace executive director John Sauven about why campaigners dressed as apes are targeting Unilever, plus artist Kurt Jackson on why he's painting for Friends of the Earth
  • Discarded wrappers, plastic cups and other litter in London

    Environment Weekly: Cleaning up Britain

    Bill Bryson talks about his campaign to free Britain of litter, we meet Germany's wind power chief and hear from the UN's top climate change official, Dr Rajendra Pachauri

  • Brian Paddick

    Environment Weekly: is Brian Paddick green?

    Alison Benjamin talks to the Lib Dem London mayoral candidate about his green credentials. Plus Martin Wainwright on the plight of the country's honey bees
  • Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson

    Environment Weekly: How green is Ken?

    Is this the first green election for mayor of London? Ken Livingstone tells us why his rivals are out of tune with voters' passions for urgent action on global warming
  • Alistair Darling

    Environment Weekly: Labour's greenest budget yet?

    Alison Benjamin and the panel ask, is this Labour's greenest budget yet? Plus, scientist David Suzuki discusses our failure to tackle climate change
  •  A climate change protestor marching through Sipson Village, near Heathrow Airport

    Environment Weekly podcast: Plane Stupid's Joss Garman

    Alison Benjamin speaks to the eco-activist Joss Garman about the recent protests by his group Plane Stupid
  • A pack of cheetahs at The Harnas Wildlife Foundation farm in Gobabis, Namibia

    'It's so desperate, we need to show people what's happening'

    Wildlife filmmaker and anti-plastic bag activist, Rebecca Hosking on why we're not seeing the real state of our planet on TV
  • Delia Smith

    Environment Weekly: incineration makes a return

    We look at Energy from Waste facilites - are these just incinerators by another name? We hear from the 8 streets across Britain who are competing to be the greenest address in Britain. We visit the UK's first fully fledged ethical retail shop. And we consider Delia Smith's opposition to organic food.
  • Sian Berry, Green party candidate for mayor of London

    Environment Weekly: Sian Berry

    Featuring the Green Party's candidate for London Mayor, Sian Berry
  • An orangutan

    Environment Weekly: Orang-utans

    Alison Benjamin reviews the week's environment news, with the Guardian's John Vidal and Leo Hickman.
  • This undated image provided by the Smithsonian Institution showing streetlights on Earth at night

    Environment Weekly podcast: Alison Benjamin and Robert Henson

    Alison Benjamin hears from the Earth Policy Institute; and climatologist Robert Henson looks at George Bush's Hawaii climate change conference
  •  Sand dunes stretch into the distance on the northern edge of the Sahara desert at al-Ramla in western Libya Feb. 2, 2004. Since the government of Moammar Gadhafi began its campaign to open its doors to the outside world, tourists are increasingly visiting Libya.

    Environment Weekly podcast: A sustainable city in the desert

    Alison Benjamin looks at the week's environment news with David Adam and Leo Hickman
  • The temporary nuclear waste storage facility at Sellafield nuclear power plant

    Environment Weekly: Porritt on nuclear power

    Anti-whaling crew are kidnapped; Jonathon Porritt is disappointed the government ignored his advice over nuclear power
  • The world's largest solar power plant

    Environment Weekly: Welsh solar power

    American financier Bob Hertzberg on solar technology in Wales; and the residents of Eigg tell us how they are pioneering eco-friendly power
  • The UN climate change conference in Bali

    Environment Weekly: UN climate summit

    Featuring David Adam at the UN climate summit in Bali; Peter Ainsworth on the Conservatives' energy policies; and the rest of this week's environment news
  • Waves and sea

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