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First Mile's Climate Heroes — 104 episodes

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"Can Surplus Food Solve London's Hunger Crisis?" with Paul Baines from 'The Felix Project'

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“How green is your cup of coffee?” with Caffé Nero's Matt Spencer

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"How businesses can fight Food Waste" with Too Good To Go's Jamie Crummie

4

“Innocent Drinks' Recipe for B Corp Success” with Emilie Stephenson

5

“Seeing Red”: Decoding the Climate Stripes with Professor Ed Hawkins

6

“What is cell-free biomanufacturing?” FabricNano CEO & founder Grant Aarons explains

7

“The growing problem with E-Waste” with Anthony Levy, The Sustainable IT Guy

8

“Are AI robots the future of recycling?” with Recycleye’s Benedetta Delfino & Zoe Cook

9

“Pioneering the refill system” with GoUnpackaged’s Catherine Conway

10

“Revolutionising the Electricity Grid” with IONATE’s Luca Mezossy-Dona

11

“Walking the length of the River Thames” with Li An Phoa, founder of Drinkable Rivers

12

“How to make sustainable investments” with Liontrust’s Peter Michaelis

13

“The plant-based alternative for meat lovers” with Andy Shovel, founder of THIS

14

“Inspiring the next generation of climate heroes” with Cindy Forde, Author, Speaker and founder of Planetari

15

Fighting the food waste epidemic with Olio’s Tessa Clarke

16

What is carbon accounting and why is it important for businesses? Greenly co-founder Alexis Normand explains.

17

“Your guide to travelling sustainably” with Travel Matters’ Karen Simmonds

18

“Creating the UK's leading earth science centre” With Hermione Cockburn from Dynamic Earth

19

“Pioneering the B Corp movement in the UK” with James Perry, Co-founder and board member of B Corp UK

20

“Empowering businesses to accelerate global climate actions” with Ecologi’s Elliot Coad

21

“Spotlighting your businesses’ carbon solutions” with The Climate Agency’s Co-Founder Sophie Gallios

22

“Constructing a net-zero world” with Low Carbon Materials CEO & Co-Founder Natasha Boulding

23

“Creating a more sustainable fashion future” with Reskinned Co-Founder Ross Barry

24

“Can packaging made from seaweed solve the plastic pollution problem?” Pierre-Yves Paslier from Notpla explains

25

“Surviving the food waste epidemic” with Oddbox’s Deepak Ravindran

26

“Pioneering for change” Ceris Turner-Bailes on WasteAid’s mission

27

“Why the Ocean’s future is key to our wellbeing” Finisterre’s Tom Kay explains

28

“Becoming a sustainable business by achieving net zero” Anthesis' Stuart McLachlan explains

29

“There’s never been a more important time for organic farming” Daylesford Organics’s Henry Unwin explains

30

Josh White from CanO Water on disrupting the water industry by putting water in a can.

31

“Nature should be for everybody” Rhiane Fatinikun from Black Girls Hike discusses diversity within the outdoors community.

32

Your eco-conundrums explained with Georgina Wilson-Powell

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How to win £10k by binning your litter with LitterLotto

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What is light pollution and “light shaming”? Recolight’s Nigel Harvey explains

35

Making beer from bread: Louisa Ziane on Toast Ale’s mission to tackle food waste

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Dr Anna Scott from Keep Britain Tidy discusses ways to reduce our consumption

37

"Paper straws are worse than plastic": Plastic myths debunked with Dr Chris DeArmitt

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"I've been arrested 6 times": Extinction Rebellion's Nigel Harvey on his fight for a greener world.

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Packaging made from plants and how to recycle them.

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Streaming green films to build a community of activists

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Better weather predictions lead to more accurate climate forecasting

42

Making supply more sustainable

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Can engineers save the planet?

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Ride to net-zero with Brompton Bicycles

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Disrupting packaging with low-carbon paper bottles

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BOKASHI

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Low-carbon living should taste great

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Bottle to garment circular plastic recycling

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Empowering behaviour change to reduce personal carbon impact

50

Making the case for plastics in a regenerative society.

51

Composting food and green waste at scale

52

Social housing leads in decarbonising homes

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Making an impact with your investment

54

Can UK Rainforest provide the ultimate ecosystem service?

55

The British Bean Scene

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Worm farming to manage food waste and regenerate soil.

57

Recycling By Bike

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A global reuse marketplace for planet positive impact

59

Taming the Four Horsemen to save civilization.

60

Putting a mark on climate change

61

Regenerating fashion into a force for good

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Building a regenerative solution to plastic pollution and extreme poverty

63

Harnessing the power of nature to grow produce and conserve our soil.

64

Not all burgers (or chips) are made equally. Honest Burgers and regenerative farming.

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Power to the people – using democracy to act on climate change and biodiversity

66

Kickstarting the reuse sector in the food-to-go sector with CLUBZERO

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Making cities greener with ESG property investment

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Eliminating food waste with sustainable cookery

69

How to save our planet. The Facts.

70

What is Sustainable Production and Consumption?

71

Sustainable places and the future of town centres

72

Compostable packaging meets citizen science in the Big Compost Experiment

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Future of robotic waste sorting with AI computer vision

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Building a circular economy of print with ink refills

75

Sand is the most consumed natural resource; it’s running out and overlooked

76

S2. E11. Smart bins and skips deliver on-demand Canadian waste services

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S2. E10. Lessons learned from pay-as-you-throw household waste services

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S2. E9. Assessing the route to a Circular Economy

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S2. E8. The future of packaging recycling with B-Corp compliance scheme Ecosurety

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S2. E7. Do we have a tragedy of the commons?

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S2. E6. Are the Cloud, data centres and live streaming killing the planet?

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S2. E5. Biohm harnesses the ancient organism mycelium to grow engineered construction systems

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S2. E4. Aluminium is the most recycled material in the world from drink cans to space craft – we discuss the current state of aluminium recycling

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S2. E3. Learn how to reshape your office space with a low carbon impact, deliver social benefit and save money.

85

S2. E2. Putting us straight on plastic packaging recycling, green washing and behaviour change.

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S2. E1: Textile recycling comes full circle…

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Bonus Season 2 Episode - Meet the First Mile Team

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S1 E17. Understanding how we can take action against the environmental footprint and consequences of the fashion industry

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S1 E16. Fixing our dysfunctional relationship with plastic

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S1 E15. KeyKeg: how to tap into the circular economy

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S1 E14. Delphis Eco: Cleaning up the cleaning industry

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S1 E13. LettUsGrow: Growing lettuce with LEDs: the sustainable future of farming?

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S1 E12. Hubbub: Solving environmental issues through play

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S1 E11. The science behind Nando's ambitious 2030 carbon target

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S1 E10. How to build communities through food waste

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S1 E9. How wet wipe reefs are changing the River Thames

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S1 E8. The future of coffee: from coffee logs to cosmetics

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S1 E7. How to row the Atlantic and save the planet

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S1 E6. How to build a sustainable start up in the foodie world

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S1 E5. What happens when your waste goes abroad

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S1 E1. How to create a zero-waste business in a week

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S1 E4. Rewilding: the rise of un-gardening

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S1 E3. How to be plastic savvy in a plastic world

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S1 E2. How the takeaway industry can go zero waste