Great Green Questions is a new environmental podcast hosted by Juliet Davenport, climate scientist, environmental activist and founder of the UK’s first 100% renewable electricity company Good Energy.
Launching this Thursday 25 March, the podcast is a light-hearted and witty exploration of some of the big questions that come up when trying to ‘walk the green line’.
Those featured, will include the likes of chef, food columnist and best-selling cookbook author Melissa Hemsley, environmentalist, birdwatcher and writer Dr Mya-Rose Craig (Birdgirl), environmental entrepreneur, speaker, futurist and author Ed Gillespie.
It has been curated by Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking and produced by Mags Creative, the team behind successful podcasts such as Deliciously Ella: The Podcast, and CASTaway with Laura Whitmore.
In the first episode of the series, Juliet is joined by stand-up comedian, writer, and broadcaster, Eshaan Akbar, as well as actor, comedy-performer, and writer Robert Llewellyn, to explore the question ‘can I be an environmentalist and still love cars?’
Juliet honestly shares that although she is an environmentalist, her childhood influenced her love for fast cars: “I am an environmentalist, but I grew up with a father who was a rally driver, so I grew up loving fast cars. I think my father put me on a tractor when I was seven, and ever since then, I’ve been in a love affair,” she says.
Throughout the episode Eshaan and Robert candidly explain their own use of cars and travel, including online deliveries, driving into work, and flying to other countries to be with partners.
Eshann shares: “I’m an environmentalist, but I order way too many things online, and I’m definitely contributing to air miles, and road miles. I’ve tried to get better by trying to do same day delivery, but then I remember something else to buy, because I know that I can get all of my deliveries packaged together. I know that I’m obsessively online shopping, and it’s bad for deliveries and the impact on the environment.”
Upcoming themes in the series include:
- Should we shelter our children from the gravity of climate change? featuring Bobby Seagull, Dr Mya-Rose Craig (Birdgirl), and Andy Field.
- Are we throwing away our future with our food? featuring Ed Gillespie, Mellissa Hemsley, and Carolyn Steel.
- Kim didn’t break the internet, but is the internet breaking the planet? featuring Mike Berners Lee and Ken Cheng.
- Can we shop our way out of climate change? featuring Mart Drake Knight, Cyndi Rhoades and Sikisa.
Great Green Questions is available on Apple, Spotify and all major podcast platforms, launching 25 March.
