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This is possibly our juiciest topic to date: how do you feel about bringing kids into the world in a time of climate and ecological emergency? Jess & Livvy explore their own views on the topic and speak to a couple who have joined the Birthstrike movement. 

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Birthstrike https://birthstrike.tumblr.com/

Birthstrike FB group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/674131032989428/

Caroline Hickman and Climate Psychology Alliance - https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/about/who-we-are

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The Pope and Ecocide - https://www.stopecocide.earth/newsletter-summary/pope-calls-for-ecocide-law

Why Livvy wrote to the Pope - https://medium.com/@livvydrake/why-i-have-written-to-the-pope-about-climate-change-and-ecocide-law-dce9a8e7f250


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Our Aussie mates down under are experiencing the worst bushfires since records began. But how are the people on the ground responding? Jess & Livvy hear from a local resident to find out how climate breakdown is affecting day to day life and think about what lessons we can learn for the future. They also introduce a new section to the show.  

Links mentioned in show 


Droughts are causing cattle farming and rural communities to collapse https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7827313/Vet-reveals-toll-record-heat-drought-having-farmers-including-cows-horses-paddocks.html

Why are the bushfires so bad and is climate change to blame? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/australia-burning-bushfires-bad/

Creating an arson dialogue - blaming the Greens  https://factcheck.afp.com/australian-bushfires-disinformation-spreads-about-greens-party-policy-backburning

Sorted Events  https://www.facebook.com/wearesortedevents/

The Brigid Delaney Article on cognitive dissonance that Jess quotes from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/19/2019-wasnt-just-protests-and-fleabag-it-was-the-year-a-climate-truth-bomb-dropped

What you can do to help 


350.org campaign https://350.org/listentothem-solidarity-vigils-for-australias-bushfire-victims/?akid=110938.2623181.bylwpK&rd=1&t=11

Full list of campaigns to support https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-fires-how-to-help-victims-evacuees-firefighters-animals-wildfires/

Greenwash Corner 


Chevron donated $1m to help Australian fires  https://heated.world/p/celebrities-are-donating-more-than

Reasons to be cheerful 


Air passenger numbers in Germany fell 12% last year https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-19/german-air-travel-slump-points-to-spread-of-flight-shame

Germany has cut long distance train fares https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/02/germany-cuts-fares-for-long-distance-rail-travel-in-response-to-climate-crisis

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2019 has been an extraordinary year. In this first episode of Season 2, Jess and Livvy look back at the last few months and share how leaning into their eco-grief has been a powerful fuel for acting on the climate and ecological crisis.

Show notes

Register interest in the COP26 Climate Cycle to Glasgow in 2020
https://blog.wearedonation.com/2019/12/03/introducing-the-cop26-climate-cycle/
More than 400 MPs join Extinction Rebellion reforesting action calling for billions more trees to be planted https://rebellion.earth/2019/10/10/more-than-400-mps-join-extinction-rebellion-reforesting-action-calling-for-billions-more-trees-to-be-planted/
Jess’s article on her experience at the XR October Rebellion in London https://medium.com/@jessica.ferrow/i-was-arrested-with-extinction-rebellion-heres-why-f117f0b355d5
Livvy’s online course - Tackling Single Use Plastic in the Workplace http://www.sustainablesidekicks.com/online-courses.html
Livvy’s top tips: 20 ways to green your business: tinyurl.com/sustainablesidekicks
Joanna Macy: The Work that Reconnects https://www.joannamacy.net/main
Caroline Hickman https://www.carolinehickmantherapy.com/
Climate Cafes (and how to run your own one) https://www.climateandmind.org/climate-cafe
Join us in taking the Flight Free 2020 pledge! https://flightfree.co.uk/

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The Future of Food

Our food system is described as ‘broken’ and held responsible for biodiversity loss, deforestation, desertification and high carbon emissions. So Jess and Livvy explore how it has got like this and what the future of food could look like. Be prepared for some time-travelling and interviews with India Langley from LettUsGrow.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE & FURTHER READING

Sapiens

LettUs Grow 

Post War Agriculture 

60 Harvests Left 

Food waste issues 

Solar Geoengineering

Small Robot Company

GMOs

Lab meat 

Lab grown mean could be on UK Shelves within 5 years!

Cow methane

Insects for protein
Why Eat Insects?

Eat less meat campaign

Red Bull Tonic Water

The Impossible Burger

Street Goat

Pig Co-Operatives

Food Waste Apps

Too Good To Go 

Olio 

Community Fridges 

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Palm oil has weaseled its way into almost every product in our kitchens and bathrooms, but is it as bad as everyone thinks? Jess and Livvy take a closer look this complex and slippery topic - and make some surprising discoveries. 



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LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE


The banned Greenpeace/Iceland advert - Rang Tan

Iceland removed own label from 17 products rather than palm oil (BBC)

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil website

Friends of the Earth article: RSPO: 14 years of failure to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector (Link)

Ethical Consumer Guide to Palm Oil: (Ethical Consumer)

Palm Oil Innovation Group (Link)

RSPO adopts total ban on deforestation under sweeping new standards (Mongabay)

Leashed monkeys forced to pick coconuts in Thailand (Independent)

Millions of songbirds vacuumed to death every year during Mediterranean olive harvest (Independent)


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Greenpeace petition - Save Rang-Tan. End dirty palm oil: Sign here

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Jess and Livvy take a look at the issues and impacts of fashion and clothing. What do you do if you are a shopaholic? How can you dress sustainably? And, if you're taking the 'buy nothing new challenge', what on earth do you do about buying underwear?! Plus an exciting Woke & Confused announcement. 



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Links mentioned in this episode: 


The wastefulness of the fashion Industry:  https://www.bristol247.com/lifestyle/environment/throwaway-fashion/ 

A case study on the demise of the Aral Sea through cotton production  https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/envirobiology/chapter/7-5-case-study-the-aral-sea-going-going-gone/ 

Rana Plaza Collapse  https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/apr/24/bangladeshi-police-target-garment-workers-union-rana-plaza-five-years-on 


The £1 bikini  https://thetab.com/uk/2019/06/25/missguided-one-pound-bikini-107122 

UK Workers being paid £3 an hour, plus tips from Lucy Siegle at the bottom  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/22/cost-cheap-fast-fashion-workers-planet 

Fashion Revolution's guides on understanding fashion issues and actions to take (scroll to bottom of page for resources)  https://www.fashionrevolution.org/emergency-measures-resources/ 

Good On You – fashion brand review  https://goodonyou.eco/ 


Hurrcollective.com and byrotation.co.uk for rental options


Depop for selling and buying  https://www.depop.com/ 

Extinction Rebellion Buy Nothing New Challenge  https://www.xrfashionboycott.com/ 

Tips for unwanted clothes including running a clothes swap  https://www.loveyourclothes.org.uk/unwanted-clothes?cat=67&article_type[]=38&article_type[]=37&article_type[]=35&article_type[]=36 


Antiform clothing label made from waste materials  http://www.antiformonline.co.uk/  
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