Water Rappers
Following our discussion on ice melts and sea levels rises, we found this tweet which suggested what rappers might be called . . . . .or did we make it up? Real tweet or not?
Following our discussion on ice melts and sea levels rises, we found this tweet which suggested what rappers might be called . . . . .or did we make it up? Real tweet or not?
Home and skincare product brand @jusu has come up with a great use for waste from juicing. Having run a juice bar the founder decided there had to be a use for the waste peel, pips, skin etc None of the chemicals we see in most other things you put on your face!
Good news for keen cyclists this week – you can now grow your own cycle helmet out of mycelium – that’s mushrooms for the rest of us. Best of all after you’ve used it you can simply compost it! 😀
This week saw the annual Climate Adaption Summit. Whilst there were lots of big name leaders in attendance (Merkel, Macron, Kerry & Johnson) it has to be said that outputs and outcomes were thin on the ground. Listen to the podcast for a fuller review of the event.
This week on the show we delved into the realm of social media misinformation. We found a few tweets – but which are real and which did we make up? Baby it’s cold outside – is this a real factual tweet or is it fake?
Great fun last week recording for the upcoming Planet Plug crowdfunder. We had the pleasure of being at the @cornwallchannel in their studio – they have a great podcast studio too!
A study found that 9% of accounts sending tweets about climate change were actually bots. What’s more the study found that by volume these bots sent 25% of all tweets about climate change. The worst thing is that most of these tweets were misinformation – which got more engagement, became stickier and were then further …
A topic that we discuss on the podcast was the approach of the new US President, Joe Biden, to climate change. As this quote shows, he is at this stage saying the right things. We hope he follows through on promises and commitments.
A story which @sammycudds told us about from cycle accessory company @enduraofficial and which we discussed on the podcast. An amazing effort to plant a million trees!! 🌳 🌳 🌳
The easiest way to find out the correct answer to our Fact or Fakes is to subscribe and listen to the podcast each week. We are however going to reveal some answers from a few months back. . . .71% of listeners got this one correct. FACT.