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Funny Old World — six podcasts sharing entertaining conversations which make it easier to better understand the causes, symptoms and solutions to the climate emergency — with a little much-needed good humour along the way.

“It's a funny old world…” idiom | Definition: UK expression as said when someone has told you something that is strange or surprising. Also a six-part podcast series with Juliet Kinsman and Simon London.

Produced and edited by Mark Machado of 11-29 Media.
Recorded by Andy Hughes in Love Electric Studios, North London.

These conversations were made possible by Weeva, a sustainability management system.

Each episode, we discuss serious topical sustainability stories, and chat to the world’s most thought-provoking experts.

Episode 1: TALKING THE WALK: What does eco even mean?
Guests: Environmentalist, George Monbiot and climate justice activist, Mitzi Jonelle Tan

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Episode 2: CARBON. We need to talk about carbon.

Helpful tips on ways to decarbonise our daily lives, how to measure carbon footprints, pondering the meaning of buzzwords such as Net Zero with Charlie Cotton and Dr Angela Terry.

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Charlie Cotton, carbon consultant, founder of ecollective, and Angela Terry, environmental scientist, the founder of One Home.

Episode 3: WASTE. Talking rubbish

In a world addicted to disposability, this episode sorts through our ‘stuffocation’ pandemic and sees Juliet and Simon opening Pandora’s box to the mind-bogglingly complicated world of recycling: how we might all do better when it comes to waste? For this conversation, our dynamic duo geek out on garbage and revel in a better understanding of all the ‘Rs’ of refuse, chewing over how best to reduce, reuse and recycle when it comes to tackling our trash more efficiently.

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Episode 4: ECO-NOMICS: How sustainability is better for business — and people and planet

As ever, Juliet and Simon dance between delivering easy-to-follow eco tips and high-level expert advice. Tackling the most serious of sustainability topics with gusto and good cheer, they don’t just bring listeners the problems — they showcase the solutions in the climate crisis conversation and present here simple hacks to save money by being greener — at home and in business. The two guests in this episode make businesses more sustainable and cost-efficient, and the key to adapting financial systems to do more good.

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Episode 5: THE MEDIA. Is the climate crisis also an information crisis?

“The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. “— Oscar Wilde

Is the media covering the climate emergency well enough to allow us to tackle it? In this episode of the edutaining serious for the eco-curious, Juliet and Simon speak to the person in charge of climate change coverage for the British television news channel Sky News and they also hear from a leading spokesperson on climate misinformation and disinformation at the ISD, an independent global organisation dedicated to powering solutions to extremism, hate and disinformation.

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Episode 6: ACTIVISM. How to be a Good Citizen

Our aim for this 'edutaining' six-part series was that it served as a mini crash course in the key climate themes — and that each episode inspires us all to be activists in our own way. Sustainability is a huge conversation though, and with this final episode Juliet and Simon focus on helping all who listen to FOW to feel empowered to be more responsible, considerate global citizens.

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