Building Sustainability Podcast

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The first of a Barnaby Carder (Barn the Spoon) double bill.
Barn is a spoon carver, co-organises spoonfest and is the author of several books including the excellent Spo…

This episode is a conversation with Bristol Permaculture legend Sarah Pugh. We discuss the nuances of permaculture in a city and how permaculture is all about building communities.

Black Lives Matter…

I talk with Paul Allen from the Centre for Alternative Technology about how Britain can get to Net Zero carbon using only existing technologies.

Incorporating work from the last 12 years of Zero Carbo…

This week we have a conversation with mud mason, Becky Little from Rebearth. 

"Rebearth is a Scottish company founded by mud mason Becky Little. We specialise in building, art and education using raw …

We continue our meander into the benefits for human health of access to countryside. This week in a conversation with writer, Illustrator and land justice campaigner - Nick Hayes

Nick is just putting …

This episode takes us a little away from our chosen niche, and looks at how we can create sustainability by getting out into nature, learning the plants and developing a deeper connection to the natu…

Claire O'Neill is a director at 'A Greener Festival' a not-for-profit company, committed to helping events, festivals and venues around the world to become more sustainable and to reduce environmenta…

In the second of our birthday / lockdown triple bill...
I have a conversation with Beth Williams, who is a 'Structural Engineer + Certified PassivHaus Designer. Passionate about diversity in construct…

It's Building Sustainability's first birthday & most of the world is on lockdown... So this month sees a triple Building Sustainability podcast release to celebrate / occupy your mind.

The first of t…

This month we talk to Ben Moss from Bristol Wood Recycling Project (BWRP). 

Ben set up the recycling project in 2004 with the aims of: 

• Recycling timber from the waste stream, 
• Promoting social inclusio…

In this month's 'Building Sustainability' podcast, we talk with Rob Hopkins. A massive thanks to Rob for being such a wonderful guest... even if Google Maps tried to sabotage our meeting!

Rob Hopkins …

Flo Hamer lives in a tiny house, it measures 4.8m x 2.4m - It contains everything she needs - kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and lounge. It's a normal house, but tiny.

For images check out her instagram …

Adrian Leaman from wholewoods.co.uk talks to us about his journey into the world of roundwood timber framing and green woodworking in general. We go off some wonderful tangents and end up with Adrian…

In this month's Building Sustainability podcast we talk with Kiko Denzer.
Kiko is perhaps best known as the author of ' Build Your Own Earth Oven' - https://tinyurl.com/2bu6xj7t (A book that made it …

Natural builder, Bee Rowan talks to us about Ecococoon straw bale panels. These prefabricated panels are load bearing and highly insulating - the result is being able to build the entirety of your ec…

In this episode we talk to architect, Noel Isherwood.

The discussion is largely based around Poundbury, which is the expansion of Dorchester. It was designed for humans and community, not cars.

We tal…

This month sees us talking to Judith Thornton from Aberystwyth University. 
 
Judith is looking at alternative natural insulators that can be grown. She has a particular interest in how we stop biodegr…

In this episode of Building Sustainability I talk with Dave ‘The Bodger’ Cockroft about the hidden benefits of craft. We talk specifically about spoons and chairs of which Dave is an exceptionally ta…

Emma Appleton has drawn up a list of 100 ways to make an anti capitalist building site. We discuss some of the issues that exist on current building sites and the larger effects, then we delve more d…

One Planet Development is a welsh planning policy which enables those wishing to live off the land to buy agricultural land and build a house. Chris Vernon has not only just done this, but also runs …