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HOME PLANET MISSED A PROGRAMME? Go to the Listen Again page PROGRAMME INFO Tuesday 15:00-15:30 Richard Daniel chairs the interactive environmental programme in which he and his guests deal with listener's questions and concerns. Call 03700 100 400 [email protected] Home Planet, PO Box 3096, Brighton BN1 1PL LISTEN AGAIN 30 min Listen to 9 September PRESENTER RICHARD DANIEL "Home Planet is the environmental programme for which you set the agenda. We tackle your questions and concerns and try and make some sense out of the conflicting opinions which make up the environmental debate." Richard Daniel PROGRAMME DETAILS Tuesday 9 September 2003 Panel Baroness Barbara Young Chief Executive, Environment Agency Dr Nick Riley Manager, British Geological Survey's Sustainable Energy and Geophysical Survey's Programme Emeritus Professor Philip Stott University of London This week's topics: Birds and thermals When birds seek and find thermal lift they seem to rise in a clockwise direction. Is this the case and does it differ in the southern hemisphere? Oxford University Gazette story University of Leeds info Meteorological Society Weather Club info Thermal lift info North Carolina info Nasa/Lego info Apogee Rockets info Gravity I have never understood how the earth's gravity works. Anything spinning like a turntable throws loose items off. Likewise, objects spun around your head when released fly outwards. But if a bucket with gritty or dusty particles in the water is stirred vigorously then left to settle, all the particles are gathered in the centre of the bucket or whirlpool. Why and how is this? Perhaps the universe is enclosed in a large bucket! BBC News story North Wales Institute of HE info First Science info Tides We know that the moon causes a high tide through the force of gravity. But why does a high tide also occur on the other side of the globe at the same time? National Maritime Museum info UK Coastguard info Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory info Tide info Newton's explanation of tides Peat production World Energy Council info: Ireland World Energy Council info: peat Peat Alert Indonesian forest I read that clear-felling of lowland forests of Sumatra, Indonesia, is taking place to satisfy demands for paper and timber products and make space for palm oil plantations. These forests are home to more than 100 threatened bird species and the World Bank predicts that these forests could be gone completely by 2005. Birdlife International info Rural Development Forestry Network info Green Nature info Swedish heating idea Is it true that in Sweden they drill into the earth and the heat that comes up can heat their home all winter? Could we use such a system in the UK? BBCi info International Geothermal info Open University info World Energy info: Sweden Geothermal heat pumps Towards Sustainability info Contact Home Planet Send your comments and questions for future programmes to: Home Planet BBC Radio 4 PO Box 3096 Brighton BN1 1PL Or email the programme: [email protected] Or telephone the Audience Line 03700 100 400 Home Planet is a Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. The personal information you provide will be held by the BBC and by Pier Productions Ltd, the independent production company which makes Home Planet. Your information will be used for the purpose of creating the Home Planet programme, and will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. For more details on how the BBC deals with your information, please see the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy OTHER RELATED LINKS Philip Scott English Nature The Wildlife Trusts Pond Conservation Trust British Trust for Conservation Volunteers Froglife Bath and North East Somerset council DEFRA Community Recycling Network The Recycling Consortium Waste Recycling Group Plc Country Land and Business Association National Farmer's Union Oxfam WWF Guardian Unlimited English Nature DEFRA The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites Audio Help DON'T MISS HOME PLANET Current Programmes Previous Programmes Science, Nature & Environment Programmes Current Programmes Archived Programmes

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