Emma Cooper

The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.

Following on from our look at photosynthesis, this episode looks at how we can use plant sugars, starches and oils as fuels. Biofuels are often in the news these days, and are a hot environmental topic – but are they as green as they seem?

During the show I mention a biomass boiler in use at Ikea Milton Keynes and a landfill site where methane is captured and used as an energy source onsite.

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