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This episode is a solo episode from me, all about bins! Specifically my bins and how we only put out bin out once every 9-12 months.
It’s Zero Waste Week this week, so whilst I would very much not consider us a ‘zero waste’ household, I wanted to share some tips to help us all be ‘zero-waste(ish)’, ie produce less waste, rather that’s recycling or waste destinted for landfill or incineration.

USEFUL LINKS:
Zero Waste Week
Simpler Recycling: household recycling in England
Podcast ep – The Big Plastic Count with Daniel Webb
Wholly Shrink
Terracycle zero waste box
Green Johanna
Green Cone
Local Council discounts
Loop Frome – Frome food waste recycling scheme
Generation Soil – Bristol food waste recycling scheme
Keep Britain Tidy Waste Hierarchy
Find a Repair Café
Buyerarchy of Needs – Sarah Lazarovic
 
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In this episode we take a dive into climate anxiety, and I’m chatting to Linda Aspey who amongst many other roles is Director of Psychology at the People’s Emergency Briefing and a board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance.

We explore:
- what is climate anxiety?
-why do some people have it and some don’t?
- why for some people it tips into something that starts to disturb their ability to do the things they want and need to
- some of the things that can help.

Linda mentions some sources of support in the episode, and I’ve linked to them below - if you’re really struggling with your mental health, then please do reach out for support. You’re not on your own. There is support out there, lots of which can be accessed at very low or no cost.

USEFUL LINKS

Linda Aspey
- Website
- Linked In
National Emergency Briefing
- Host a screening - register to host and you'll get a resource pack with links to facilitator workshops
Climate Psychology Alliance
- Website
- Climate Café Listening circles
- CPA therapeutic support
A Barrister for the Earth by Monica Feria-Tinta
Solastalgia
Adrian Lambert on Substack
Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety by Megan Kennedy-Woodard and Patrick Kennedy-Williams

Related Sustainable(ish) podcast episodes:
How to be more activist with Clover Hogan
Turn the tide on climate anxiety with Megan Kennedy Woodard
 
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This week I’m joined by Dan Tipney, a former airline pilot who co-founded Safe Landing, a community of aviation workers and enthusiasts, working together to figure out what it might look like to have a world where aviation flourishes, in harmony with nature.
This episode isn’t an episode in flight shaming anyone, and absolutely doesn’t have the intention of making anyone feel bad about the choices they’re making. We obviously talk about the impact of flying, because coming to terms with the cold hard facts around that is a key part of Dan’s story. But this episode is more about the power of story-telling and conversations, about how two things can be true at the same time, and about how learning to recognise that and sit with the discomfort that it can bring, could help us all to have better climate conversations.

USEFUL LINKS:
 Dan Tipney on Linked In
 Safe Landing
-              Website
-              Linked In
-              Instagram
Charlie Cotton’s post on Linked In about flight efficiencies vs flight numbers
Jon Richardon and The Futurenauts – The Future of Life After Oil
Larger Us
Climate Fresk
Episode 189 – Climate Fresk (and friends) with Ash Goddard
Charlie Gardner
Ayana Elizbeth Johnson – Climate Venn Diagram
 
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This week I’m joined by Dan Edelstyn, artist and documentary film maker whose latest film Power Station with his partner Hilary Powell, documents their attempts to turn the street where they live in Walthamstow in London, into a power station, by putting solar on the roofs of the houses.

USEFUL LINKS:
Dan on Linked In
Power Station
- Website
- Watch the film- (Free) membership community – including access to a How-to Guide
- Instagram
- Facebook
- You Tube

Dan and Hilary’s previous films:- Bank Job
- How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire

Ann Pettifor
You Tube video of guy dancing on his own at a festival and starting a dance party!
Episode 188 – Money Money Money with Lisa Stanley Mann
We the Hated – film about Just Stop Oil protestors
POP Energy – supporting communities to install solar
 
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There are 60 million tonnes of e-waste generated every year globally – that's around the same as the weight of nearly 6,000 Eiffel Towers!
 And E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream globally, with the UK as the second biggest e-waste producer in the world.

Team Repair are on a mission to change that through education and repair kits to help us all feel a bit more confident having a go at mending our broken electronics.
Tune in to to hear from co-founder Anaïs Engelmann about some of the wider issues around e-waste, how Team Repair got started, and the great work they're doing with kids, schools, and their new mobile phone repair kit for grown ups.

USEFUL LINKS:
Team Repair
- Website
- Instagram
- Facebook
- You Tube
- TikTok
- Kits for kids
- For schools- Mobile phone repair kit

 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Right to Repair
Restart Project
- Repair and Reuse Declaration
- International Repair Day – 17th October
iFixIt
Repair Cafes
- Find a Repair Café near you

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