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| wildgarlic |
Outrageous Wasters -starts 4th SeptemberOutrageous Wasters sees a crack team of eco experts on a mission to transform Britain's most wasteful households.The eco warriors challenge the attitudes of energy-guzzling families, and try to get them to change their lifestyles by showing them how to live greener lives. Our three presenters are Joanna Yarrow, a leading expert in green living; trained ecologist and anti-waste enforcer Dan Carraro; and eco-design consultant and ex-builder Andy Tugby. Joanna advises leading businesses on how to be green and is proof that you can live an eco-friendly life and be chic with it. In her North London home, she has four different composting systems, organic and recycled interior decorations and furnishings, wears hemp clothes and uses organic beauty products. Dan is a self-styled anarchist. He's no conventional protester, just someone who thinks looking after the environment is the obvious and morally just thing to do. Andy's passion is making buildings greener; to help us all reduce our carbon footprint - and our energy bills. Joanna, Dan and Andy descend on a household of wasters to assess just how bad they are based on what they see in the house, by 'interrogating' them and from the evidence of a waste diary that the family has compiled. The family then spends up to five days living at 'the house of correction' - a purpose built eco-camp of large traditional Mongolian yurts (tents) - where they live without creature comforts and have Joanna and Dan teaching how them to waste as little as possible and how to live off the land. Meanwhile, Andy oversees an eco-makeover at the family's home - designed to challenge their behaviour and inspire them to change their ways - with measures such as solar panels, wind turbines, turf roofing, livestock, compost toilets, recycling systems as well as locking up or removing cars. When the family returns to see what has been done to their homes, they are then challenged to live in the house for five days and waste as little as possible. The presenters return to see how the family have done, and assess how much they would save in a year if they lived in such an extreme way. All the makeovers are reversible, so a month later we find out how much of the eco-makeover has been changed back, and to what extent our outrageous wasters have reformed their lives... For programme times click here |
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| Townie |
This looks good... must watch it 
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| tiger6 |
I'll definitely give that a look 
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| zombiecazz |
Sounds like fun.
Better than that Dumped one. That is just big brother in a rubbish tip. They show you so little of what has been dumped and what they use it for. It was all about who takes the lead and who doesn't like that person taking the lead and so on and so forth. Contrived reality TV tripe!! |
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| tiger6 |
Did anyone else watch this ?
What did you think ? I have my doubts about it I must admit .. not so much on the subject matter but the presentation and production of it. |
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| wildgarlic |
I enjoyed it - as for the presentation when I saw the 'experts' walking in like the big guns in a western I did cringe.
I think this sort of programme tries to appeal to the kind of people that really don't care about the environment rather than people like the Neepsters that already have an idea. I rather liked the chutes in the window for the recycling, but how difficult is it to take the recycling out? |
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| tiger6 |
It's just a shame that it feels it needs to appeal to such a low common denominator .. the format was like a cross between a house makeover show and something like Wife Swap where they deliberately choose extreme examples and put them in "confrontational" situations to provoke a reaction from them .. all making for "good" tv moments. There were some good ideas like the recycling chutes but not a lot of explanation of why things should be done . .or even how .. I can't for the life of me see how they managed to survive in a house that size and consume just over 1kw of electricity a day. I'd be dead keen to see how they did that ! Wasn't too keen on the presenters either .. except the builder guy .. he seemed sensible and "normal"
I did chuckle when their solar powered hair salon failed to work because of a lack of sunshine.. hardly surprising .. and a bit of a gimmick I thought. I'll give it a watch next week though to see how it develops
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| wildgarlic |
It's on tonight I think.... according to the link above... seems a bit confusing though. |
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| zombiecazz |
I see what you mean. It appears from the link that only episodes 1 and 4 will be aired. Odd. I'll try and catch it tonight. 1Kw Wow. wish I could do that. |
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| IainC |
Yeah, I'm working tonight but as I can do that from home *and* have the TV on at the same time I was able to watch bits of it. Got to say it was some size of house and those kids with their 20+ consoles and 15 TV's (or whatever it was) don't have a clue about the real world. I did think that the silly wee car they gave them was a waste of time, you'd have recieved a better reception if you'd given them all mountain bikes or something else, I'd have doubted if half of them had fitted in that wee thing. Dressing the house up was a bit OTT as well I'd have said but as someone has already said here, it's the lowest common denominator thing again, I'm kind of used to that on TV (hence the reason it's on the music channels most of the time). I might just watch it again as and when it's on to see if it's any better though. The bloke with the earing thing in his lug looked like he didn't know that much more about looking after animals himself IMO
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| PurpleDragon |
I saw this last night - I think it was a repeat of the one you are all talking about. I actually thought that living in the yurt was a good eye opener for them, but I don't think that it will really get any converts. They seemed to want to provoke reactions rather than convert them. |