Green In The Media 20th - 26th December

As we enter the holiday season, blogging will be slow to non-existent. Enjoy the food, wine and partying!


Monday 20th December

The Material World
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 21:00 to 21:30
2010 has been a year of disasters: floods, wild fires, volcanoes, earthquakes and a record-breaking oil spill. Material World has time and again been reporting on some of the disasters that have struck over the year. As earth scientists gather at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco to review their data from each event, Quentin Cooper asks how science helped and what the lessons are for the future.

Tuesday 21st December

Home Planet
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 15:00 to 15:30
Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions about our world and our impact upon it.

Wednesday 22nd December

Nanoparticles
On: BBC World Service Radio
Time: 10:32 to 11:00 (Also 1530, 2030, 0130, Sat 1330)
Nanoparticles are all around us. What effect could they be having on our environment?

Supermarkets: What Price Cheap Food?
On: BBC 1
Time: 21:00 to 22:00
In a Panorama Special, reporter Paul Kenyon looks behind the special offers to examine the true cost of Britain's cheap food, asking how the leading supermarket chains can afford to keep expanding and slashing food prices in the middle of a global recession. Paul visits the mega-farms coming our way from the United States, and Panorama carries out pioneering scientific research to discover whether 'Made in Britain' always means what it says.

Thursday 23rd December

One Planet
On: BBC World Service Radio
Time: 10:32 to 11:00 (Also 1530, 0230, 0130, Sat 2030, Sun 0630)
One Planet looks at how we use our planet.


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