Tom Heap

Thanks Adam and looking forward to welcoming some of your readers in #norwich #norfolk @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

Green Shoots presents The Mend of the World: An Evening with Tom Heap - Norwich Arts Centre

The @britishecologicalsociety.org conf' in Edinburgh renewed my mojo for pushing the battle scarred environmental message. So many passionate, active people dedicating professional lives to nature. Thanks @davyfalkner.bsky.social It is the foundation for an upcoming talk in Norwich bit.ly/49RtM2U

Five lessons from 2025: including growing basil, the best wormery & multisowing Plus how can we spread the word about the potential of container gardening - and help more people grow?

Ain't nobody fresher....than Mark Ridsdill-Smith who is genius small space food grower. Check out Vertical Veg. Five lessons from 2025: including growing basil, the best wormery & multisowing open.substack.com/pub/vertical...

Winter and hace we broken it? On Rare Earth onBBC Sounds now www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... with @helenczerski.bsky.social @valmcdermid.bsky.social meteorologist John Hammond and @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social

A shout out...The next Rare Earth on @bbcsounds.bsky.social is all about nature in our cities. Please reply with any surprising examples of creating living space for nature amongst living space for us - roundabout rainforest, skip salad plot, alley arboretum?

The Shoe Event Horizon is an economic theory that draws a correlation between the level of economic (and emotional) depression of a society and the number of shoe shops the society has. The theory is summarized as such: as a society sinks into depression, the people of the society need to cheer themselves up by buying themselves gifts, often shoes. It is also linked to the fact that when you are depressed you look down at your shoes and decide they aren't good enough quality so buy more expensive replacements. As more money is spent on shoes, more shoe shops are built, and the quality of the shoes begins to diminish as the demand for different types of shoes increases. This makes people buy more shoes. The above turns into a vicious cycle, causing other industries to decline. Eventually the titular Shoe Event Horizon is reached, where the only type of store economically viable to build is a shoe shop. At this point, society ceases to function, and the economy collapses, sending a world spiralling into ruin. In the case of Brontitall and Frogstar World B, the population forsook shoes and evolved into birds.

Remember the Shoe Event Horizon from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? (explained in pic)
Is that where we are today with online clothes shopping?
Listen now to this week's Rare Earth, on fast fashion, its effect on the environment, and options for what happens next: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Is 'Sustainable fashion' a contradiction in terms? Spoiler:yes. But there's so much more to chew on. Todays @bbcsounds.bsky.social Rare Earth with Kate Fletcher, @patrickgrantism.bsky.social, Simon Platts and of course @helenczerski.bsky.social

On Rare Earth this week: can the clothing/fashion industry ever be sustainable? Our 3 fab guests - Patrick Grant (Great British Sewing Bee), Prof Kate Fletcher & Simon Platts - all had LOADS to say. Sneak peak here before you can listen to it all on Friday: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

If you want to see what @helenczerski.bsky.social and I are chuckling about at the start of today's @bbcsounds.bsky.social Rare Earth. A hat on a hat and one that eats s**t

Is it a free kick? No it's dream team for new BBC Rare Earth taking on @cop30brazil.bsky.social @helenczerski.bsky.social @clequere.bsky.social @eamaberg.bsky.social and on as super subs @georginarannard.bsky.social and the @thecccuk.bsky.social chair Nigel Topping. Midday BBC sounds

Tom Heap, Corinne Le Quere, Anna Aberg and Helen Czerski sitting in a BBC Rado studio

Back in the studio for a new series of Rare Earth! First up: COP30, the big yearly global climate conference. What might come from COP30, where are we after 30 years of COPs, and how might COP evolve in the future? Join us on Friday (or any time afterwards) to find out:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Come and join in the chat at Nuneaton Library, this Thursday lunchtime. Your chance to SPEAK UP in a Library!

The Ice Climbing Midge and other migration super-powers

New tech will reveal individual travellers stories of triumph and tragedy. bit.ly/4nnrTAC

BBC studio with two guests and two presenters: Will Hawkes, David Barrie, Helen Czerski and Tom Heap

In this week's edition of Rare Earth on animal migration, @tomheap.bsky.social and I had a great time finding out about the incredible things we're learning as tech improves and what the future holds.

Available now on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I'm in conversation about me' book linktr.ee/landsmartbook at the www.leistonbookfestival.co.uk this Saturday. Can't wait to return to this lesser known gem of the Suffolk Heritage Coast and hear from other authors. See you there

No, I’m not on Desert Island Discs! Recording session for BBC RADIO 4 Rare Earth on animal #migration with @willleohawkes.bsky.social @tomheap.bsky.social and @helenczerski.bsky.social Airs on Friday 19 September at 1200 GMT

Hello @fourteeneighteen.co.uk Chris Baker. Please follow me

If its not built of it its probably built by it but can #steel ever be green? Rare Earth @bbcsounds.bsky.social with @helenczerski.bsky.social @edconway.bsky.social @steelwatch.bsky.social @willarnoldengineer.bsky.social Also BBC R4 today midday

And we were very happy to have you. I discovered that insects don't spend winter in the loft with the xmas decs'

At last the #UKWA and govt have caught up with my Landsmart book linktr.ee/landsmartbook . Solar power on warehouses, is such low hanging fruit it's begging to be plucked bit.ly/42m4wyK. No new landtake and 89% public support.

In the 1950s, this (a scientist in a tie(!) pulling levers to influence the weather) was the image of geoengineering. But as the climate crisis advances, is it back on the table? In this week's Rare Earth, @tomheap.bsky.social & I take a look at the ideas around today

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That is the context every week and a good slab of the content on this show.

Mirrors in space, blanket forestry, capturing gigatonnes of carbon. Can #geoengineering save us? on @bbcsounds.bsky.social with @helenczerski.bsky.social Shaun Fitzgerald from @climaterepair.bsky.social @peterbrannen.bsky.social @alexdavey.bsky.social

INSURANCE A deserter in the fight against climate change?

After high hopes, has the insurance industry become a deserter, possibly even an enemy in the fight against climate change? Just a thought tomheap.substack.com/p/insurance

IS USING Ai LIKE DRIVING A GAS GUZZLER? We poked a digital hornets nest.

A lively academic row has broken out following the Rare Earth broadcast @helenczerski.bsky.social and I did on #artificialintelligence and energy use. So I decidie to look further with a Substack tomheap.substack.com/p/is-using-a...

Warming to the idea of air-con? Sleepless nights

If you are thinking of fitting air-con in your home. please also display a banner saying 'I don't give a s**t about climate change' Here's why. tomheap.substack.com/p/warming-to...
Medical need exempted #lovesweat

Are electric trucks joining the fast lane? The road safety law now protecting the planet

Are electric trucks joining the fast lane?
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80 years on from the horror of Hiroshima should splitting the atom be seen as an environmental menace or asset?
@BBCRareEarth @marklynas.bsky.social, Prof Tim Mousseau, Dr Fiona Rayment. The picture is from 1995 when I visited Hiroshimaon the 50th anniversary

Thar' she blows! Whales - their song, their slaughter, their survival and even their sewage. Rare Earth on BBC Sounds and R4 with newly elevated PROFESSOR @helenczerski.bsky.social

Well done to 'The Prof'. She is brilliant