Coming in August 2022
Featuring voices from across the U.S. and around the globe, connect your audience to the world with these unique stories and perspectives. This month, we evaluate green transport and the transparency of their supply chains, learn about the wheat industry and how it’s been effected by the war in Ukraine, and discover how Gnanli Landrou has created a far less polluting building material by mixing mud with a special powder. See below for details and more unique stories.
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Witness History – Viruses and Vaccines
One hour
August 1 – 31, 2022
For the CDC’s ‘National immunisation awareness month’, a special program devoted to viruses and humanity’s battle against them. We’ll hear first-hand accounts from the Flu pandemic of 1918, revisit the SARS epidemic, and meet one of the first people vaccinated as a child against polio – the son of Dr Jonas Salk.
The Compass: Green Energy – Some Inconvenient Truths
Two one-hour documentaries
Episode 1: Transport and Renewables
Aug 17 – Sep 17, 2022
Green transport is crucial to a net zero future, but how transparent are the supply chains bringing the world the components we need, and how green is the electricity we are using to power electric cars anyway? Then, we visit one of the windiest places on earth to hear how locals support green energy – but not when it means the destruction of the local landscape.
Episode 2: Iceland and Finance
Aug 31 – Sep 17, 2022
Iceland produces five times more green energy than its population needs. But what to do with the excess has led to controversy. Then, how is the world going to get to net zero by 2050 and who is paying the bill? Hard choices must be made as we abandon fossil fuels, and every solution to global warming has an impact and unintended consequences.
The Bread Line
One hour
Aug 27 – Sep 16, 2022
From field to bakery, we follow the ‘bread line’ and hear the stories of those in the wheat industry who are winning, and those who are losing, due to the global food crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine.
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People Fixing the World: The Man Turning Mud into Eco-Friendly ‘Concrete’
- Description: Gnanli Landrou has invented a special powder that can turn mud into a solid building material. It’s inspired by houses where he grew up in West Africa. It’s far less polluting than concrete – and it’s about to be used in a new apartment block.
- Suggested social copy: The man who has invented a special powder that can turn mud into a solid building material.
- Duration: 3 minute 33 seconds
Health: Why do we need to sleep well?
- Description: How much sleep do we need, why are not we getting it, and what effect is that having on us? Here are five ways to make sure you get enough to stay healthy.
- Suggested social copy: How much sleep do we need, why are not we getting it, and what effect is that having on us?
- Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds
Global Citizen: ‘I sort out piles of human hair’
- Description: Fry founded the Green Salon Collective which is encouraging sustainability in the hairdressing industry. The collective recycles everything from bleach and dye to people’s actual hair. Video produced by Daniel South, Trystan Young and Jasmin Souesi.
- Suggested social copy: Fry founded the Green Salon Collective which is encouraging sustainability in the hairdressing industry.
- Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds
