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BCfm celebrates Our Earth Week
Bristol radio stations are joining community stations across the country this week to celebrate life on earth and highlight the climate crisis.
Our Earth Week, running November 20-28, comes ahead of the UN’s COP28, where leaders will gather in Dubai to discuss high level international climate action.
Community radio can offer local people a voice on the issue. Listeners will be encouraged to take part in the Our Earth challenge and complete an action a day to help reduce their carbon footprint.
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BCFM presenters taking part in last year’s vegan sausage tasting on Our Earth Week – photo: Penny Southgate
BCfm is joining stations across the country to feature climate stories, debates and interviews.
The station have said they’ll be ‘talking about what’s happening to our world, looking at solutions and hearing from people about the inspiring changes they’ve made to their lives to reduce their footprint on the planet.’
BCfm station manager Patrick Hart said: “Our Earth Week is exciting and groundbreaking in so many ways. Community Radio is the perfect place for activism on this scale.”
Their week’s activities include chats with Bristol schools on their eco-initiatives, and advice on cutting energy bills to save money and the planet at the same time.
Poet Caleb Parkin will share ‘mind expanding poetry of the more than human’ and musician Alex H Duncan will share the music of mushrooms.
Listeners will be offered one tip per day to help cope with feelings of eco-anxiety, and will be able to find out more about climate cafes and activism burnout.
On Friday’s One Love breakfast show, presenters will take part in a vegan burger tasting challenge.
Keynsham’s KTCRfm will feature a climate thought for the day and provide live reports of daily climate statistics. Crystal Love, Ujima and Thornbury radio are also taking part.
“Community radio has a very big part to play in communicating the climate crisis, said Penny Southgate, Our Earth Week founder.
“We can react to what’s happening locally more quickly than most of the mainstream media, and we can say things they can’t.
“We can be more open about how serious things are and more robust in holding our local leaders to account. And we can be so much more creative in the way we talk about this, in a way that’s life-affirming as well as serious.”
Main photo: BCfm presenters in the studio. Credit: Ellie Pipe.
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