Earth Notes Podcast: Recent Episodes
Earth Notes / Damon Hart-Davis
Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2025 small talk on retrofitting from gas. - On the realities of ditching gas heating at home including delays and difficulties; our heat pump works well and saves carbon and cash!
Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2025 small talk on keeping cool in hotter weather. - On keeping cool in our hotter summers as others in warmer places have been doing for many years, by Marilyn M.
Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2025 small talk on storing your energy. - On the essentials of choosing a home battery to save your wallet and the planet!
Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2025 small talk by Alan F. - Alan F describing the first year of solar PV at his home in Kingston.
Ambient busy big holiday time airport nowhere near any aircraft. #fieldRecording #travel #airport - The sound of a warm summer airport, landside.
Low-carbon heating at home with solar diversion and storage and heat pump. #heating #DHW #storage
Sonification: sounding out the carbon cost of sloppy implementation 12 weeks in... #frugal #greenSoftware #RSS
Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows
Back garden noises with temperature hitting 32°C; birds, bees, cars, planes, sirens. #fieldRecording #London #heatWave
Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris
Sonification: total electricity imports and exports 2009 to 2023 #podcast #audification #house
Ambient Mediterranean campsite sounds at around lunchtime. #fieldrecording #lunchtime #Mediterranean
Ambient Mediterranean beach at dusk at Marseillan Plage. #fieldrecording #beach #Mediterranean
Random samples of soundscape from a loud local music festival and just after. #festival #fieldrecording
Covid continues, COP26, field recordings, lots of storage, heating on, Twitter peer review. #podcast #lockdown
Late summer soundscape from a small river near the English south coast with a mystery chicken or three! #river #summer #fieldrecording
A few minutes of soundscape from a busy microbrewery doing its thing! #microbrewery #festival #fieldrecording
We all have to become more frugal to halt climate change, but 5 out of 6 say that they will not... #podcast #climate #obstinacy
Ambient soundscape from a week in Herne Bay (Kent, UK) late in July: sea, amusements, people... #HerneBay #soundscape #fieldrecording
Ambient soundscape from 16WW back garden birdlife; small bird makes big noise! #wren #soundscape #fieldrecording
What happens when you send a sound-activated live field recorder in a parcel? #ambient #soundscape #fieldrecording
Teasers from an interview with Ian Mundell for Imperial College's Grantham Institute #podcast #teaser
A one-mile twenty-minute walk around the local cemetery grounds! #soundscape #fieldrecording #lockdown2020
Christmas is Coming! We are in tier 4 here at 16WW, and way too warm for snow: not the stuff of kitsch card vignettes... #podcast #lockdown2020
A talk to Manchester Carbon Co-op virtual meeting about Radbot. #cutCarbon #Radbot #TRV
Our house in a bat hotspot - pipistrelles rather than vampires! #bat #Chiroptera #dataset
Ambient soundscape from a week in Weymouth late in August: boats, beach, amusements, eating... #Weymouth #soundscape #fieldrecording
Lots of catching up after 1 (UK) break instead of 3, D3, a sound walk and bats, plus other miscellany! #podcast #soundscape #lockdown2020
Listening to the sounds of the estate near 16WW, pre-recorded talks, and detecting bats. #podcast #soundscape #soundwalk
First work meetup and travel in months, at exotic Elephant and Castle. #podcast #soundscape #lockdown2020
Brief diary update from my sunny Sunday suburban garden... #podcast #coronacast #lockdown2020
Stats from 16WW and the wider world for June, plus more graphs! #podcast #stats #lockdown2020
Ambient sound of silence (nearly) from a tranquil (nearly) suburban garden... #podcast #SilentCities #OrkneyLibraryHaiku
Ambient sound of silence (nearly) from a tranquil (nearly) suburban cemetery... #podcast #lockdown2020 #SilentCities
More good PV generation, and news that active travel is getting some central-government love... #podcast #coronavirus
Stats from 16WW and the rest of the world for April, and maybe some other numbers play... #podcast #stats #audification #lockdown2020
Coronavirus-lockdown low-pollution blue skies make for good PV generation! #podcast #coronavirus
Apparently the lockdown does not prevent lawnmowing (or home cooking)! #podcast #coronavirus
A podcast episode about podcasting - shaking out a huge new microphone for a richer sound.
A snapshot of the world as seen from EOU HQ, while the UK hunkers down to beat the bug. #podcast #coronavirus #lockdown2020
A summary of 2019 on EOU, and what may be coming in 2020. Also, a word about Radbot... #2019wrapup #podcast
We seem to have made many weird and wonderful bits of video over the years: here's some clips...
Sonification: listening to my kitchen tap water mains inlet temperature #podcast #audification #MIDI
Guest piece by Adam Hart-Davis on his green and lovely home in Devon! #podcast #greenLiving
Audification: listening to my Enphase AC Battery state of charge and flows #podcast #audification #battery
Each journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but avoid taking that first step to the car! #podcast #CarFreeDay #WhatIf
Audification: can you hear the difference between summer and winter temperatures in your home? #podcast #tech #audification
Uncool: pointless behaviour that endangers the climate and benefits no one? #aircon #waste #podcast
Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving
Find out why I have solar panels on my garden wall as well as on my roof! #podcast #solar #garden #microgen