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Episode 5: Hot to Go & Greetings from Down Under! 🇦🇺🌸🌞

Season 1, Ep. 5

Is a record-breaking March a good thing? And can flights really be offset?


In this episode of Green Queens Podcast, Imogen and Abbie catch up on their week in sustainability before diving into why an unseasonably warm March is great for BBQs but bad for bees and hayfever sufferers. They also crunch the numbers on offsetting a flight to Sydney—can solar panels, EVs, or heat pumps really balance it out?!


To help answer that, Imogen phones a friend - expert Dr. Hannah Ritchie—Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at Our World in Data and a researcher at Oxford University’s Martin Programme in Global Development. Check out her incredible newsletter here: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/


For more on weird weather patterns: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2024/warm-may-and-spring-for-the-uk


https://www.climatecentral.org/


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