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This week's guests:
Home Planet recording in Edinburgh
An edition of Home Planet is going to be recorded at 1:00pm on Sunday 2 March at the Dynamic Earth Centre in Edinburgh. Please do come and be part of the studio audience. If you would like to pose a question to the panel in person please send us the question in advance by email, post or via the 麻豆官网首页入口 Audience Line, details below, marking your question EDINBURGH.
We look forward to seeing you on the 2nd of March.
The Home Planet Team.
TOPICS
Is it better to build new or renovate old properties?
at Oxford's Environmental Change Institute into whether it is better to build new, energy efficient buildings or to renovate old ones.
This offers suggestions as to how buildings might be made more energy efficient with insulation, draught proofing and the like.
, a UK Government run organisation that has advice on how to make your home more energy efficient. It also includes links to the grants available and information on everything from draught exclusion to major renovation.
on a range of issues surrounding energy use and building.
What is the best type of plant to act as a Carbon Sink?
All plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow, and different ones store different amounts for different periods of time in their tissues.
A from the Woods Hole Institute in the United States. This covers how plants absorb carbon dioxide, how it is stored by the plants and released when they die and how other elements of the environment also absorb and release carbon dioxide.
Why don't all new houses have solar panels installed?
Information on how solar water heating works from the
on microgeneration of electricity, including solar photovoltaic panels.
Information on the installation of solar photovoltaic panels from the of the UK Governments Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. This website includes information on what grants are available for solar water heating and solar photovoltaic installations.
the trade body for manufacturers of renewable energy products.
Are newly discovered animals likely to be recently evolved?
What is the process that turns trees into coal and how many trees does it take to produce a tonne of anthracite?
discussing many different aspects of evolution. Includes recent research, guides to the workings of evolution and briefing notes on evolution.
on the recent discovery of a new species of giant elephant shrew in Tanzania.
which was a large mammal discovered within the last ten years in the forests of Vietnam.
, a new species recently identified by DNA analysis.
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