We speak to anti-aviation activist, Joss Garman, about the rise of the eco-protest and what the future holds for Plane Stupid - the campaign group he helped to set up; we hear from fashion designer, Helen Storey about a biodegradable dress; and we travel to California to find out why disappearing honey bees is an environmental disaster.
Could fashion do more to reduce it environmental impact? Designer, Helen Storey, think so. She tells The Observer's ethical columnist Lucy Siegle, about her latest creation; a dress that disappears after it's worn.
Honey bees pollinate a third of everything we eat. But this year, the largest pollination event on the planet in California's almond orchards - where 40 billion honey bees are trucked in from across the States - is threatened by a mysterious disease that has wiped out a third of the country's honey bees. Alison Benjamin travelled to California to find out if the US agricultural industry is demanding too much of the honey bee and contributing to its disappearance.
You can watch her film here.
Back in England,Beck Dawson tells us how the Wiltshire town of Malborough is trying to cut its carbon footprint.
Leo Hickman, the Guardian's ethical living editor, is joined in the studio by Joss Garman, the campaigner who, probably more than anyone, has raised the issue of aviation's damaging effects on climate change to the top of the political agenda.
They will be discussing protests on the roof of Parliament, and the Daily Mail's high profile campaign to ban plastic bags.
Joss's day job is a climate campaigner for Greenpeace. His next battle is to stop a new proposed Kingsnorth coal-fired power station from getting the go ahead.
Environment weekly is presented by Alison Benjamin.
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