Sustainababble

Sustainababble: comedy, nature, climate change.
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Sustainababble

A funny podcast about the environment, sustainability, and all the total guff people talk in the name of saving the planet.

  1. #274: The End.

    24/12/2022

    #274: The End.

    Well, this is it. Yer last ever Babble. Thank you - seriously, thank you - if you've lent us your attention over the years. It's been a pleasure.Herewith a valedictory episode in which we reveal the real reason we're binning the babble, Ol serenades Dave with an original tune, and we humbly compare ourselves to one of the finest sitcoms this or any country has ever produced.Mostly though we consume far too much of the Christmas spirit and get bitter about the British Podcast Awards, so it pro...

    1h 13m
  2. #273: Chris Packham meets Sustainababble, again

    19/12/2022

    #273: Chris Packham meets Sustainababble, again

    For our final interview, we're joined for a second time by the majestic Chris Packham, our first 'proper' guest all the way back in 2015.We discuss all that has changed in those seven and a half years, not least some pretty hardcore stuff for Chris personally, and we chew over what the world of activism and protest might look like seven years hence, given things continue to go so spectacularly to shit.Talking of shit, we discover that Chris Packham is full of it - so much so that he's put his...

    1h 2m
  3. #272: Twitter

    11/12/2022

    #272: Twitter

    If there wasn't twitter, would we have solved climate change by now? Might we at least have got round to thinking about solving climate change? Would Ol have had more sleep?Sure, loads of important eco connections and organising and other useful stuff have happened via the site, but so too has a prodigious amount of titting about (trust us, we know of what we speak) let alone all the hate and bile and BS and conspiracy that sustains it.Do climate-y people need to 'win' twitter to make progres...

    1h 3m
  4. #271: Onshore Wind

    05/12/2022

    #271: Onshore Wind

    Bat-chomping bird-slicing eco-crucifixes* are making a comeback! A mere eight years after some Tories effectively banned anyone from erecting wind turbines in England, some other Tories now look poised to overturn that ban. Which sort of tells you everything you need to know about Westminster politics.So this week we transport ourselves to a time when David Cameron was both a thing and someone who professed to like the planet, to understand why it is that these obviously useful, relentlessly ...

    47 min
  5. #270: Heat Pumps

    28/11/2022

    #270: Heat Pumps

    Look, we're quitting, so if there ever was a leash we are now firmly off it. Problem is, while unleashed Dave might follow his nose into the bushes of podcasting misadventure, unleashed Ol... well, he's not that interesting is he? So having cast aside any editorial imperative to stay vaguely relevant or entertaining, herewith 45 minutes of a sad old man wanging on about hot water cylinders and heat pumps.Don't say you weren't warned.Sustainababble is your friendly environment podcast, out wee...

    53 min
  6. #269: Just Stop, Ol

    20/11/2022

    #269: Just Stop, Ol

    Now then, we have Some News about the babble. Listen to the show to find out precisely what (don't worry, we haven't been bad), but suffice to say this year's Sustainabauble will be particularly valedictory.But before we get too festive and emotional, there's work to be done. Like trying to gather our thoughts on there being 8 billion humans alive.Or indeed what we make of the increasingly ballsy climate protests sweeping the land. Are Just Stop Oil really "damaging their cause", as so many a...

    55 min
  7. #268: David Roberts meets Sustainababble

    14/11/2022

    #268: David Roberts meets Sustainababble

    Chances are you’ll have read David Roberts’ superlative writing on climate – at Vox or more recently Volts – and thought ‘coo, that’s sensible and right and interesting’. We certainly have, so we’re delighted to finally have him on the show.David natters with us about US politics (are things potentially *not* totally naused?), progressives’ inability to be happy, the usefulness of COPs and the role of protest. We also goad him to adopt pointlessly binary positions on various controversial top...

    1h 13m
  8. #267: Eels

    06/11/2022

    #267: Eels

    If we said "name the weirdest, most mystical & inexplicable creature on earth" you would rightly say "80s English footballer Peter Beardsley". But pause for a moment to consider instead the 'umble eel, a fish(ish) so unknown and unknowable that no human has observed one shagging in the wild. In fact no-one's totally sure that they even DO shag in the wild. A bit like Peter Beardsley.It's an astonishing tale, the eel's, at the heart of which is a simple question that's confounded thinkers ...

    51 min
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A funny podcast about the environment, sustainability, and all the total guff people talk in the name of saving the planet.

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    Sustainababble: comedy, nature, climate change.
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2022
  • Episodes
    276
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    © 2025 Sustainababble
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