Special Report: How Climate Change is Impacting The Great Barrier Reef.

Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Headlines to that effect zoomed around the world after two consecutive bleaching events in 2016 and 2017. But Australia’s most famous World Heritage wonder is still very much with us - a vast eco-system, roughly the size of Germany, it teams with life. It is however under threat from climate change and other factors - what’s being done to build resilience on the reef?

We are discarding clothing and other unwanted items at a record rate. So what happens to all our stuff when we’re done with it?

Meet ADAM MINTER - the recycling obsessive who grew up on a junkyard and now works for Bloomberg. The author of Junkyard Planet and Secondhand - Travels in the New Global Garage Sale travelled all over the world talking to the people who deal in trash.

In this fascinating interview, Clare picks his brains about everything from how metals get recycled to the politics of exporting our trash.

Biophilic design is a buzz phrase with good reason. What if our buildings weren't just a little bit more energy efficient or decorated with a few extra plants? What if they gave back to the environment instead of taking away from it?

Meet visionary US-based Canadian architect Jason McLennan, founder of the Living Building Challenge and the Living Future Institute, on a mission to “create a world that is socially rich, culturally just and ecologically restorative”.

How might we truly live in harmony with nature? And, as Jason puts it, “create places that are not only lovely but express the love we have for people, for animals and for the environment.” This Episode is all about how we can rethink our built environment so that it’s regenerative, and provides havens for other species too.

If we can picture the zombie apocalypse, surely we can imagine a new economic system? Political economist and co-author of A History of the World in 7 Cheap Things, Raj Patel talks colonialism, oppression and the exploitation of nature, labour and energy - and how the patriarchy and capitalism drive it all. What’s the alternative, and how is fashion involved?

Welcome to our 100th Episode! This week's guest is Sinéad Burke, the Irish fashion journalist, activist and inclusivity advocate. Maybe you've watched her TED talk, Why Design Should Include Everyone, or heard about reminding the World Economic Forum at Davos this year, to ask: "Who is not in the room?" Probs you saw her on the cover of the Duchess of Sussex edited September issue of British Vogue.

This interview was recorded during London Fashion Week, so of course we talk clothes. These days, Sinéad sometimes gets about in custom-made Gucci, but that wasn’t always the case...What happens when clothes don’t fit you? When the world is not designed for you? Why doesn’t the fashion industry embrace the opportunity to cater to more shapes and sizes and abilities, why does it so often exclude, and how can we change that?

Should the government step in? Why do we need to "fix" fashion? Try because textile production consumes vast amounts of water. Because fashion contributes more to climate change than international aviation and shipping combined. And if current consumption levels continue, the industry could account for 25% of the world's carbon budget. Because our wardrobes are full of clothes we don't wear, yet we keep buying more and more garments, most of which are made from polyester and shed tiny plastic microfibres every time we wash them.

Because we buy fashion to throw it away.

This episode’s guest is Mary Creagh, at the time she was chair of the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) and the Labour MP for Wakefield - the woman responsible for raising these issues with the British parliament in 2019.

Is it time we tore it all down? Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a grass roots activism movement demanding radical action on the global climate crisis. The group formed in the UK in October 2018 on the premise that trying to be a bit more sustainable, tinkering around the edges of the system but essentially carrying on with business as usual, will not save us from climate breakdown. They are calling on governments to declare a climate and ecological emergency, and to act immediately to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2025.

In this Episode, you’ll hear from some of the XR protestors who staged a “funeral” for London Fashion Week in September, then sit down with activists: Clare Farrell, Sara Arnold and Will Skeaping to find out why they think civil disobedience is the way to go, what to do about the scary science, and where fashion fits in with all of this.