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Monitoring the Earth's heartbeat is our task. We look at our footprint on this big round world of ours and run stories of the people trying to make that footprint lighter. Marnie Chesterton is the host of the sustainably heated Earth Beat.
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Our selected shows of Earth Beat

Radio Show: A rubbish show

This week on Earth Beat we bring you a rubbish show. From musical garbage in Taiwan to donkeys in Sicily, from a zero waste challenge in Vancouver to burning trash to run trams in Amsterdam, we span the globe in search of those w...

Radio Show: Bartering for a better environment

This week on Earth Beat:  the business of bartering, the not so green side of lawn grass, food education at the Screaming Avocado, and hunting your own food.   Listen to this week's programme in...

Radio Show: "Eating Animals" and where pig parts end up

This week on Earth Beat: "Eating Animals" with author Jonathan Safran Foer. Find out all the strange places a pig's parts end up. Also, environmentally friendly gyms and gadgets to make doing the laundry greener....

Radio Show: Mud graffiti and book pulp

This week on Earth Beat: we look at the cost of getting your message across. We see some different forms of graffiti and weigh the environmental impact of the printed word. And what happens to books that no one loves?...

Radio Show: Eating your dog and other resolutions

It’s the time of year when many people make New Year's resolutions – so we thought we'd look at some of your environmental resolutions. The first of which might be to eat your pet, if authors Brenda and Robert Vale ar...


Video highlights

China speaks loudly and carries a big stick
China has suddenly adopted a harsher and more threatening tone towards the...
Microcredit gives Comfort a helping hand
Microcredit is slowly helping to transform Comfort Azelima's life. She...
Dutchman realises his dream with microcredit
Arnold Hoek knew that setting up a company renting out motorised Solex...
Winter delight turns into winter misery
Pack ice in Friesland, Arctic storms, tailbacks stretching more than 20...

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