For this episode I speak to Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity. Ecotricity is described as Britain's 'greenest energy company', supplying over 200,000 homes across the UK from a growing fleet of wind and sun parks. We talk about fracking, green gas and the story behind the world's first vegan football team. https://www.ecotricity.co.uk/ You can read more from our interview in the January/February edition of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5241-where-the-gas-is-greener.html ...
In the first episode of our second series of Resurgence Voices, Satish describes how heroes have influenced his own journey. His 8,000-mile walk for peace in the 1960s started from the grave of Mahatma Gandhi and took him to Atlanta Georgia, where he met Martin Luther King. But the heroes of today have a very different challenge to face. “I think the next revolution will be led by a younger person, by a woman, and I feel that Greta Thunberg is that person,” Satish says. “I think that some kind of divine power but also some kind of unseen, unimaginable, unexplainable force is working through her.” What does Greta think of that? Amid a scrum of journalists at the Mayflower Marina in Plymouth, I get a chance to ask her. ...
We talk to Lisa Schneidau, author of Botanical Folk Tales, a new book which seeks to reconnect people with the joy, wonder and horror of nature. ...
