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25: Strange Sustainability Solutions: Celebrating the Interesting, Innovative and Unusual
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It’s a fun one this week as we explore some of the most interesting and unusual sustainability solutions and environment-saving action plans the internet has to offer! We’re talking about robot-bees, plastics made from fish waste, bicycles and towers which suck smog out from the air, toilets which convert urine into electricity, shower curtains which grow spikes to kick you out and save water… aaannd all kinds of other things!
If you’ve heard of any cool climate or sustainability solutions recently, let us know! We LOVE hearing about them. Find us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and leave us a review - it helps new listeners find the podcast!
Things we spoke about:
- Marinatex plastic made from organic fish waste: https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/2019/project/marinatex/
- Spiky shower curtain: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/spiky-shower-curtain-gets-you-out-of-hot-water-to-help-save-the-environment_n_55b65012e4b0224d8832caeb?ri18n=true
- Tokyo Electricity Forecast: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/forecast/html/index-e.html
- Smog-free bicycles:https://www.studioroosegaarde.net/project/smog-free-bicycle
- Beijing smog-sucking tower: https://www.studioroosegaarde.net/project/smog-free-tower
https://www.fastcompany.com/40421177/this-giant-smog-vacuum-cleaner-in-china-actually-works
- Building underneath glaciers and ice sheets: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/20/build-walls-on-seafloor-to-stop-glaciers-melting-scientists-say
- Harvard's Robo-Bees:https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/robobees-autonomous-flying-microrobots/
- Nigeria Plastic Bottle Houses:
https://www.dw.com/en/doing-your-bit-nigerias-houses-made-from-plastic-bottles/av-48013059
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14722179
We have tees! Get yourself a sustainable FWIE teeshirt here: https://forwhatitsearth.teemill.com
Wonderful theme music by Mark Skinner Sound
84 episodes
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When? This feed was archived on February 27, 2024 02:31 (). Last successful fetch was on July 27, 2024 02:15 ()
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Manage episode 251116180 series 2582729
It’s a fun one this week as we explore some of the most interesting and unusual sustainability solutions and environment-saving action plans the internet has to offer! We’re talking about robot-bees, plastics made from fish waste, bicycles and towers which suck smog out from the air, toilets which convert urine into electricity, shower curtains which grow spikes to kick you out and save water… aaannd all kinds of other things!
If you’ve heard of any cool climate or sustainability solutions recently, let us know! We LOVE hearing about them. Find us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and leave us a review - it helps new listeners find the podcast!
Things we spoke about:
- Marinatex plastic made from organic fish waste: https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/2019/project/marinatex/
- Spiky shower curtain: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/spiky-shower-curtain-gets-you-out-of-hot-water-to-help-save-the-environment_n_55b65012e4b0224d8832caeb?ri18n=true
- Tokyo Electricity Forecast: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/forecast/html/index-e.html
- Smog-free bicycles:https://www.studioroosegaarde.net/project/smog-free-bicycle
- Beijing smog-sucking tower: https://www.studioroosegaarde.net/project/smog-free-tower
https://www.fastcompany.com/40421177/this-giant-smog-vacuum-cleaner-in-china-actually-works
- Building underneath glaciers and ice sheets: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/20/build-walls-on-seafloor-to-stop-glaciers-melting-scientists-say
- Harvard's Robo-Bees:https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/robobees-autonomous-flying-microrobots/
- Nigeria Plastic Bottle Houses:
https://www.dw.com/en/doing-your-bit-nigerias-houses-made-from-plastic-bottles/av-48013059
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14722179
We have tees! Get yourself a sustainable FWIE teeshirt here: https://forwhatitsearth.teemill.com
Wonderful theme music by Mark Skinner Sound
84 episodes
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