Wallace Broeker, Robert Kunzig, Jon Snow
The pre-eminent climate change scientist who coined the term ‘global warming’ way back in 1975 Wallace Broecker and his co-author Robert Kunzig propose a radical and amazing solution to the carbon crisis.
Chaired by Jon Snow.
John Gormley, Jane Davidson, Guto Harri
Does the current emphasis on individual choice allow policy makers to duck out of difficult decisions when trying to put in place climate change solutions? John GormleyMinister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government Ireland and Jane Davidson Environment Minister (Wales) debate how far they could and should go in directing and guiding. Chaired by Guto Harri.
Alan Weisman
Alan Weisman asks how the world would change if human beings vanished from the earth right now, for good. What would the planet be like in a day, a week, a month…a millennium?
Jo Wood
The model and cosmetics producer lays out an holistic organic manifesto—Naturally: How to Look and Feel Healthy, Energetic and Radiant the Organic Way.
Homero Arisdjis
The eminent Mexican writer ("Eyes to See Otherwise", "1492 The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castille"), environmentalist and diplomat talks about his lifelong crusade to save the Monarch butterfly, which migrates every year from Canada to overwinter in Mexico's oyamel forests.
George Monbiot
Eco-firebrand George Monbiot in his final conversation with the audience about global sustainability and political accountability.
Monty Don, Patrick Holden
The new President and the Director of The Soil Association talk to Sky News anchor Adam Boulton about food production, climate change, and the organic movement’s lead with local and supermarket shopping.
George Monbiot
In the first of a series of conversations with the audience, the captivating author of Bring on the Apocalypse: Six Arguments for Global Justice discusses a global or environmental topic arising from the day’s news.
Tim Flannery, Rosie Boycott
The writer and Ecologist examines our changing climate and what it means for life on Earth. 'It would be hard to imagine a better or more important book' Bill Bryson.
Gabrielle Walker
Through the eyes and lives of its discoverers, the science writer celebrates the natural history of the earth’s atmosphere and reveals how we came to understand air, the true elixir of life.
Stephen Harding, Brian Goodwin
The Schumacher College lecturers explore how Gaia has sequestered excess CO2 over millenia, and why bacteria are essential for the formation of both clouds and continents. If we are going to have a habitable home in the future we need solutions as complex and elegant as the conditions that give us life.
David Howell
Thatcher’s former Energy Secretary (1979–1981) argues that the climate change debate is on the wrong track to a low carbon future and that energy security is the worldwide key.
Tony Juniper, Rosie Boycott
The Director of Friends of the Earth presents his 95 ways to save the planet with missionary zeal.
Zac Goldsmith, Jeremy Leggett, John Sauven, Adam Boulton
Zac Goldsmith (The Ecologist), Jeremy Leggett (SolarCentury) and John Sauven (Greenpeace) discuss the adoption and advocacy of environmental sustainability for the creative industries. Chaired by Sky News anchor Adam Boulton.
A Greenprint debate
Wangari Mathai, Rosie Boycott
The heroic and inspiring Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate and founder of the African development Green Belt Movement talks about her life and work. Chaired by Rosie Boycott.
Nick Rosen
From survivalist and hippy homes to new environmental adventurers, Rosen takes a journey outside the system of telephone, water and power.
Jay Griffiths
The adventurer encounters cannibals, polar bears, Amazonian healers and sea gypsies in her extraordinary odyssey around geographical and mental wildernesses.
Rachel Lewis, Polly Ghazi
What we all can do towards carbon reduction, offset trading and getting fit for the planet.
David Beerling
Why did plants evolve leaves? When and how did forests once grow on Antarctica? Beerling reveals the crucial role that plants have played in driving and recording climatic change.
Peter Melchett, Patrick Holden, Alex Avery, Denis Murphy, Jonathon Harrington
Peter Melchett and Patrick Holden of the Soil Association take on Alex Avery of the Hudson Institute and Denis Murphy of the University of Glamorgan, chaired by agronomist Jonathon Harrington.
John Hare
A 100-day, 1500-mile journey with camels from Lake Chad to Tripoli accompanied by a Chinese scientist, a 77-year-old Kenyan rancher, warring tribesmen and Gaddafi’s secret police
Illustrated.
James Fergusson
How a British scientist taught the nation how to eat well, then taught the food industry how to trick consumers, and paid for the paradox with his life.
Jeremy Leggett, Mark Lynas, David Miliband
The author of Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and The Global Energy Crisis is joined by Lynas (Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet) and the Secretary of State for the Environment.
Chaired by Guto Harri.
George Monbiot
How to Stop the Planet Burning analyses the issue of carbon emission with ruthless rigour and elegant clarity. The action and commitments Monbiot proposes are politically compelling and define how we might all move forward.
Rosie Boycott, Monty Don
The former newspaper editor discusses her new life on her small farm and her local town’s battle with Tescos and the planners; she explores the complexities of the food chain and its frequent cruelty, the rhythms of the natural world, the healing patterns of nature and the therapeutic effects of a herd of boisterous pigs.
Rosie Boycott, Charlotte Hollins, Peter Kindersley, Roger Williams MP, Jane Clarke, Barbara Crowther
With 18% of us buying British food, thousands of farms have been lost and the countryside is endangered. Rosie Boycott talks to farmers Peter and Juliet Kindersley, Roger Williams MP, Charlotte Hollins of Fordhall Farms, Jane Clarke, Meat buyer for Waitrose and Barbara Crowther of the Fairtrade Foundation about the Fair Trade for British Farmers campaign, and how we can help rural Britain by changing our food-shopping habits.
Katherine Hamnett, Neil Crumpton, Gerhard Knies, Nicola Heywood Thomas
Designer Katharine Hamnett joins Neil Crumpton (Friends of the Earth) and Gerhard Knies (TREC) to discuss the potential power revolution of CSP. Chaired by Nicola Heywood Thomas.
A Greenprint debate
Jo Confino, Mathew Anderson
Executive Editor of The Guardian, Jo Confino, and BSkyB Group Director of Brand and Communications Matthew Anderson discuss how their respective organizations are dealing with carbon reduction and sustainability.
A Greenprint debate
Chris Stewart, Manuel Pimentel
Please note: This conversation is conducted entirely in Spanish.
Farmer and writer Chris Stewart, author of the international bestseller Driving Over Lemons. An Optimist in Andalucía, with over a million copies sold and translated into fifteen languages, will speak in Spanish to Manuel Pimentel (writer, businessman, ex-minister and head of Almuzara publishing group) about his delightful and surprising work.
James Lovelock talks to Rosie Boycott
The visionary Earth scientist, inventor of Gaia, adopts an increasingly radical manifesto for how we can still save the planet, including a passionate and controversial advocacy of nuclear power.
Jonathon Porritt
he author of Capitalism as if the World Matters assesses the implications for the way we use money while there is still time to change our systems, avoid disaster, and maintain prosperity. Porritt is programme director at Forum for the Future, and chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission.
Tim Stowe
The RSPB's Director Wales investigates the impact that climate change is beginning to have on our natural surroundings, from the challenges of managing water resources to changes in migration patterns and populations of birds.
Jeremy Leggett
The global marketplace is built on the notion of a stable supply of cheap oil and gas. But that bedrock is about to crumble. As geologists, civil servants and the oil industry knows, the end of oil is a lot closer than we think. Leggett is Chief Executive of Solarcentury.
Clare Short, Michael Codner
Clare Short MP and Michael Codner, director of Military Service, chaired by Stephen Tindale Is there a rationale for continuing Britain’s nuclear force in the twenty-first century?