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🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Mark Stephen presents the Scotland Outdoors podcast
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0:00.0 | He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot. |
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0:36.2 | The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:45.6 | Hello and thanks very much for downloading this. |
0:47.7 | I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:48.6 | On this Scotland Outdoors podcast, I'm taking it not terribly far away from where I live in rural Aberdeenshire. Benahe is probably the best known hill in the area. It's a well-known landmark and the Baileys of Benahey who look after the hill in the surrounding area along with Forestry and Land Scotland have come up with a really simple and to my mind really brilliant idea of a carbon footprint walking trail. |
1:12.6 | Bailey's Jill Matthews and Doug Goody were my guides. |
1:16.6 | The aim of the trail is to try and illustrate the effect that our lifestyles have on our carbon emissions. |
1:24.6 | I'm a scientist but I don't know what a ton of carbon looks like. |
1:29.3 | Haven't a clue. I can't envisage it. So what we wanted to try and design was a way to illustrate that |
1:35.3 | using areas of land that soak up our carbon for us. So this trail goes round 1.7 hectares of forest and we calculated that that is the area of pine forest that you need to capture one person's carbon emissions each year. |
1:55.7 | Okay. And within that 1.7 hectares, Jill, what is it you're trying to represent? |
2:01.4 | Might be easier to show me, actually. |
2:02.8 | Well, I think you could have a look because it's a bit shocking, actually, |
2:06.0 | that it takes that amount of woodland to capture one person. |
2:08.9 | So if you start multiplying that up by five million and a half million people in Scotland |
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