How low-carbon can CrowdScience go?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Reducing climate change and global warming is one of the biggest and most urgent challenges for everyone as we enter a new decade. The CrowdScience team have been trying to figure out how to play our part in reducing our carbon footprint. So what’s the best way forward? Presenter Marnie Chesterton starts to find out by pitting three of her colleagues against each other for the first phase of our challenge. Anand Jagatia, Geoff Marsh and Melanie Brown have all been tasked with answering a listener’s question in the lowest-carbon way possible. Along the way, they must monitor and account for every emission – from their travel methods to their choice of sustenance whilst working. It turns out that the challenge is not only in acknowledging all the types of activity that produce emissions, but in working out the volume of greenhouse gases produced. Marnie judges her colleagues’ efforts, determines a winner, and dispatches the losing challenger to look further into carbon calculation, and to find out about the possibilities of legitimately offsetting the overall footprint. And we start our on-going experiment using a broadcast industry carbon calculator to find out the most carbon-efficient and sustainable ways to keep answering everyone’s questions and sharing more cutting-edge global science.
Presented by Marnie Chesterton Produced by Jen Whyntie for the BBC World Service
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| 0:00.0 | Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of |
| 0:07.0 | Happiness Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want |
| 0:14.4 | to share that science with you. |
| 0:16.1 | And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley. |
| 0:19.4 | I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that |
| 0:25.4 | calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello I'm Marnie Chesterton, and I'm starting today's crowd science in the way that many of us start a new year, with the resolution to do better. My resolution took some careful |
| 0:47.8 | planning because I'm taking the entire crowd science team with me. Have you heard about your carbon footprint? Almost |
| 0:56.4 | everything you consume, everywhere you travel, every piece of technology you use, |
| 1:01.0 | yes, even looking something up on the internet, it all has an energy cost. |
| 1:07.1 | And to make that energy generally produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, which is heating our atmosphere and changing our climate. |
| 1:15.4 | Crowd science from the BBC World Service has a remit to find the best answers on |
| 1:21.5 | this planet in response to your science questions, |
| 1:25.0 | which means we really clock up the miles, |
| 1:28.0 | and I just wondered, could we do things better? |
| 1:31.0 | To explain, let's go back in time. All the way back to a different era, you |
| 1:38.6 | may remember it. 2019. Love the Carbon Master, aka, Marnie. |
| 1:55.0 | Okay, Carbon Master Rules, Letter. |
| 2:01.2 | Dear presenter, reporter slash colleague, nice and personal. |
| 2:02.4 | The Crowd Science Carbon Master is setting you the following task. |
| 2:07.8 | You must make a report with the lowest possible carbon footprint that answers a single |
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