[170] Active(ish) for Earth – With Tash Acres from Earth Runs

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Sustainable(ish)

Jen Gale

185 episodes

9 months ago

If you feel like you're drowning in plastic and need to use a small child to jump up and down on top of your black bin each fortnight to get the lid to shut, or you want to save the planet but you're exhausted at the very idea, then this is the podcast for you!
Sustianable(ish) isn't about austerity, or deprivation, or needing to live off grid in a yurt (although if that's your bag you're also very welcome!) - it's about you, and me, and the power of our actions. The small tweaks we can make, the baby steps, and how they add up to change the world.

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[170] Active(ish) for Earth – With Tash Acres from Earth Runs

Sustainable(ish)

1 hour 9 minutes 24 seconds

2 years ago

[170] Active(ish) for Earth – With Tash Acres from Earth Runs

Tash Acres is the founder of Earth Runs, an organistaion that rewards activity by planting trees! As you will hear, Tash’s approach to running and physical activity is so similar to my approach to sustainability – anything is better than nothing, it all counts, celebrating the successes no matter how small, and so much more! Now if you're sat there thinking "I’m not into running, this episode isn’t for me", don’t switch off! This episode is for everyone! Tash shared a couple of really startling stats during the episode – apparently inactivity is the 4th biggest killer of people in the UK, and being active for just 10 minutes a day can reduce your risk of premature death by 10%. Tash’s definition of ‘activity’ is super broad – anything that gets you moving, just for a bit. Anything that gets you up from the sofa, or your office chair, ideally outdoors, because of all the additional mental health benefits that that brings, but she’s not fussy – she talks about doing just 10 squats last week and how that was better than nothing. Somewhat unsurprisingly I love Tash’s approach, and I love what she’s doing – there are virtual races and challenges you can get involved in, you can join me in the 1% Club, which plants a tree for every day you’re active (and active can be anything, you absolutely don’t need to be running if you don’t want to!), or you can find plantable medals for your school or community fun run. Enjoy! Tash Acres - founder of Earth Runs

GOOD NEWS!In the new Good News section after the main interview, I share some of the good climate news happening (because there is some, I promise!). Here's this weeks pick:Deforestation rates in Brazil's Amazon have plummeted (The Progress Network) Community solar is set to surge in the UK (Positive News) Much closer to home, in The Sustainable(ish) Clubhouse we’ve had a fashion focus for this half-term, which is now coming to a close. As part of the theme, we’ve had a mending thread in the Facebook community where people have come and added to the tally with items that they’ve mended – we’re up to 151 items at the last count! Obviously this has saved all of these items from landfill, and saved the expense of having to buy new items to replace them, but I wanted to try and get a rough idea of the carbon savings, so I headed over to a new set of comparison calculators from Giki and used the ‘new clothes’ calculator – very roughly, mending these 150+ items have saved over 1 tonne of greenhouse gas emissions and 359,992 litres of water. That's the equivalent of driving nearly 4000 miles in a Ford Focus and enough water for 143 months of showers!

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