Tom Heap
@tomheap.bsky.social
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Broadcaster, journalist and author.
https://linktr.ee/landsmartbook
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My scribbling is now out in paperback. Landsmart: a practical guide to transforming our countryside.
linktr.ee/landsmartbook
9 months ago
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So good to have you on the show
@rachelsalvidge.bsky.social
Freshwater isn't only about rivers you know...https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002sg5p?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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17 days ago
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So pleased with the poster. Great Artwork by Dee Block. Now the talk has to match up...Gulp! March 11th Norwich Arts Centre
norwichartscentre.co.uk/event/green-shoots-presents-the-mend-of-the-world-an-evening-with-tom-heap/
share.google/PYc0lcSCeWDw...
20 days ago
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The 'Mend of the World' is nigh! Next Weds, 11th,
@norwichartscentre.bsky.social
. Come, share and find out why I'm bending wood!
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22 days ago
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I really enjoyed this chat with
@marklynas.bsky.social
. he seemed to relish putting me on the spot for a change!
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23 days ago
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So excited for the new play from the always excellent Steve Waters
@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
dramatist
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Good People, 1. The Great Reset
Four young idealists. One radical mentor. A nation on the brink.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r4vr
about 1 month ago
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Tom Heap
Helen Czerski
about 2 months ago
Last night, I got properly "doored" for the first time. A car in the road to my right paused, and the rear left passenger threw open his door without looking, right into my path. I ended up on the floor, badly winded but ok. If you don't know what the "Dutch reach" is, NOW is the time to learn.
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The
@britishecologicalsociety.org
conf' in Edinburgh renewed my mojo for pushing the battle scarred environmental message. So many passionate, active people dedicating professional lives to nature. Thanks
@davyfalkner.bsky.social
It is the foundation for an upcoming talk in Norwich
bit.ly/49RtM2U
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Green Shoots presents The Mend of the World: An Evening with Tom Heap - Norwich Arts Centre
https://bit.ly/49RtM2U
2 months ago
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Ain't nobody fresher....than Mark Ridsdill-Smith who is genius small space food grower. Check out Vertical Veg. Five lessons from 2025: including growing basil, the best wormery & multisowing
open.substack.com/pub/vertical...
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Five lessons from 2025: including growing basil, the best wormery & multisowing
Plus how can we spread the word about the potential of container gardening - and help more people grow?
https://open.substack.com/pub/verticalveg/p/five-lessons-from-2025-including?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
2 months ago
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Winter and hace we broken it? On Rare Earth onBBC Sounds now
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
with
@helenczerski.bsky.social
@valmcdermid.bsky.social
meteorologist John Hammond and
@hedgehoghugh.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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A shout out...The next Rare Earth on
@bbcsounds.bsky.social
is all about nature in our cities. Please reply with any surprising examples of creating living space for nature amongst living space for us - roundabout rainforest, skip salad plot, alley arboretum?
4 months ago
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Tom Heap
Helen Czerski
4 months ago
Remember the Shoe Event Horizon from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? (explained in pic) Is that where we are today with online clothes shopping? Listen now to this week's Rare Earth, on fast fashion, its effect on the environment, and options for what happens next:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Is 'Sustainable fashion' a contradiction in terms? Spoiler:yes. But there's so much more to chew on. Todays
@bbcsounds.bsky.social
Rare Earth with Kate Fletcher,
@patrickgrantism.bsky.social
, Simon Platts and of course
@helenczerski.bsky.social
4 months ago
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Helen Czerski
4 months ago
On Rare Earth this week: can the clothing/fashion industry ever be sustainable? Our 3 fab guests - Patrick Grant (Great British Sewing Bee), Prof Kate Fletcher & Simon Platts - all had LOADS to say. Sneak peak here before you can listen to it all on Friday:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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If you want to see what
@helenczerski.bsky.social
and I are chuckling about at the start of today's
@bbcsounds.bsky.social
Rare Earth. A hat on a hat and one that eats s**t
5 months ago
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Is it a free kick? No it's dream team for new BBC Rare Earth taking on
@cop30brazil.bsky.social
@helenczerski.bsky.social
@clequere.bsky.social
@eamaberg.bsky.social
and on as super subs
@georginarannard.bsky.social
and the
@thecccuk.bsky.social
chair Nigel Topping. Midday BBC sounds
5 months ago
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Helen Czerski
5 months ago
Back in the studio for a new series of Rare Earth! First up: COP30, the big yearly global climate conference. What might come from COP30, where are we after 30 years of COPs, and how might COP evolve in the future? Join us on Friday (or any time afterwards) to find out:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Come and join in the chat at Nuneaton Library, this Thursday lunchtime. Your chance to SPEAK UP in a Library!
5 months ago
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New tech will reveal individual travellers stories of triumph and tragedy.
bit.ly/4nnrTAC
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The Ice Climbing Midge
and other migration super-powers
http://bit.ly/4nnrTAC
6 months ago
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Tom Heap
Helen Czerski
6 months ago
In this week's edition of Rare Earth on animal migration,
@tomheap.bsky.social
and I had a great time finding out about the incredible things we're learning as tech improves and what the future holds. Available now on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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I'm in conversation about me' book
linktr.ee/landsmartbook
at the
www.leistonbookfestival.co.uk
this Saturday. Can't wait to return to this lesser known gem of the Suffolk Heritage Coast and hear from other authors. See you there
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Home | Leiston Book Festival | 20 Sept
The first Leiston Book Festival took place on 7 September 2024 and was a great success. In 2025 we continue the theme established last year as six renowned writers explore ideas about our changing lan...
https://www.leistonbookfestival.co.uk
6 months ago
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Tom Heap
David Barrie
7 months ago
No, I’m not on Desert Island Discs! Recording session for BBC RADIO 4 Rare Earth on animal
#migration
with
@willleohawkes.bsky.social
@tomheap.bsky.social
and
@helenczerski.bsky.social
Airs on Friday 19 September at 1200 GMT
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Hello
@fourteeneighteen.co.uk
Chris Baker. Please follow me
7 months ago
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If its not built of it its probably built by it but can
#steel
ever be green? Rare Earth
@bbcsounds.bsky.social
with
@helenczerski.bsky.social
@edconway.bsky.social
@steelwatch.bsky.social
@willarnoldengineer.bsky.social
Also BBC R4 today midday
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7 months ago
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At last the
#UKWA
and govt have caught up with my Landsmart book
linktr.ee/landsmartbook
. Solar power on warehouses, is such low hanging fruit it's begging to be plucked
bit.ly/42m4wyK
. No new landtake and 89% public support.
7 months ago
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Tom Heap
Helen Czerski
7 months ago
In the 1950s, this (a scientist in a tie(!) pulling levers to influence the weather) was the image of geoengineering. But as the climate crisis advances, is it back on the table? In this week's Rare Earth,
@tomheap.bsky.social
& I take a look at the ideas around today
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Mirrors in space, blanket forestry, capturing gigatonnes of carbon. Can
#geoengineering
save us? on
@bbcsounds.bsky.social
with
@helenczerski.bsky.social
Shaun Fitzgerald from
@climaterepair.bsky.social
@peterbrannen.bsky.social
@alexdavey.bsky.social
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7 months ago
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After high hopes, has the insurance industry become a deserter, possibly even an enemy in the fight against climate change? Just a thought
tomheap.substack.com/p/insurance
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INSURANCE
A deserter in the fight against climate change?
https://tomheap.substack.com/p/insurance
7 months ago
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A lively academic row has broken out following the Rare Earth broadcast
@helenczerski.bsky.social
and I did on
#artificialintelligence
and energy use. So I decidie to look further with a Substack
tomheap.substack.com/p/is-using-a...
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IS USING Ai LIKE DRIVING A GAS GUZZLER?
We poked a digital hornets nest.
https://tomheap.substack.com/p/is-using-ai-like-driving-a-gas-guzzler
8 months ago
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If you are thinking of fitting air-con in your home. please also display a banner saying 'I don't give a s**t about climate change' Here's why.
tomheap.substack.com/p/warming-to...
Medical need exempted
#lovesweat
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Warming to the idea of air-con?
Sleepless nights
https://tomheap.substack.com/p/warming-to-the-idea-of-air-con
8 months ago
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Are electric trucks joining the fast lane?
open.substack.com/pub/tomheap/...
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Are electric trucks joining the fast lane?
The road safety law now protecting the planet
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomheap/p/are-electric-trucks-joining-the-fast?r=1s6ucd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
9 months ago
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80 years on from the horror of Hiroshima should splitting the atom be seen as an environmental menace or asset? @BBCRareEarth
@marklynas.bsky.social
, Prof Tim Mousseau, Dr Fiona Rayment. The picture is from 1995 when I visited Hiroshimaon the 50th anniversary
9 months ago
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Thar' she blows! Whales - their song, their slaughter, their survival and even their sewage. Rare Earth on BBC Sounds and R4 with newly elevated PROFESSOR
@helenczerski.bsky.social
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9 months ago
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What's this plugged into? Ooh its a big'un. EV trucks are coming...fast. More soon
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9 months ago
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Today
@helenczerski.bsky.social
and I have turned metal heads with the help of
@iolahughes.bsky.social
@britgeosurvey.bsky.social
Pierre Josso and
@philipmarsden.bsky.social
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9 months ago
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My scribbling is now out in paperback. Landsmart: a practical guide to transforming our countryside.
linktr.ee/landsmartbook
9 months ago
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And how will our insect loving guests answer the question: with a pesky fly in the kitchen 'swat or not'?
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10 months ago
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Very happy to be in conversation with smart people driving more
#regen
farming especially Uwe Schroder from
#Cefetra
vimeo.com/1065041119/1...
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Tom Heap Land Smart Interview
This is "Tom Heap Land Smart Interview" by Sergio Zapico Mena on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
https://vimeo.com/1065041119/149c8985b3
11 months ago
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There's a familiar face...
@helenczerski.bsky.social
further boosting the scientific heft of the
@everythingelectric.bsky.social
show
12 months ago
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These guys know
@everythingelectric.bsky.social
the future runs with wires not fires. Come and see how. I'm going
12 months ago
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Going back to my roots for this. Talkin' 'bout the roots in the man. Anyway... Hear how we can win the face for space on Earth at the Cambridge Literary Festival
12 months ago
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New series of Rare Earth starts today at midday on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. Look North for a new scramble for the Arctic
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about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Tom Heap
Little Green Books
over 1 year ago
Land Smart came out in July from TV's
@tomheap.bsky.social
, and explores the urgent question of just how we can use the land we have so that it works for us and our diverse needs, and for nature. Packed with examples and studies, innovations & transformations - buy it here:
https://buff.ly/49CF1fc
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I'll buy this one!
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over 1 year ago
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Rare Earth...not down to earth as this week 'we have lift off...'
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over 1 year ago
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A rare iceberg of cool in a sea of dated pop. Do love a bit of GSH though
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over 1 year ago
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I've just washed up on BlueSky's shores hoping to find a land full of fascinating folk, a place rich in debate but lacking in hate. And I might squeeze in a few book and programme plugs too!
over 1 year ago
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Tom Heap
over 1 year ago
One of the most informative environmental podcasts I've listened to over the years. Really appreciate the depth that
@helenczerski.bsky.social
and
@tomheap.bsky.social
go into.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Heartily recommend a good look through the episode list.
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Rare Earth - Who's in charge: us or plastic? - BBC Sounds
How can we reduce the burden of plastic pollution?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00254gg?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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