The Yankeekiwi: Recent Episodes
Mark Spencer
This is an audio grab bag of amateur audio journalism and interviews about the city of Melbourne, Australia. Focusing on the people that live here, and those that make it possible to live here. A show dedicated to civic engagement and public awareness of the 99% invisible work around them.
Could you travel halfway around the globe, without getting on a plane?I met Sacha in the enviromental movement while attending (and recording) at protests in Naarm/Melbourne.
Sacha's been on a journey since leaving Australia earlier this year, as they relocate to Canada. But they're doing this without flying.
We recently exchanged audio messages where we talked about the trip, and Sacha shared their experiences. Me while out walking or on my workday commute, Sacha from a rooftop in Lucknow, India.
Listen in, and learn about the why, what and how of this voyage of many months - which is only now about halfway over.
Climactic is a production of Here Media - and today's that very literal. Under One Blue Roof is a podcast miniseries from Maroushka Saldhana on the intersection of homelessness and the climate crisis, and one we had the pleasure of producing.
This is one of episode from that series, highly recommend checking out the rest if you like this.
On the 1st January 2023, Extinction Rebellion (XR) made a shock announcement titled simply ‘We Quit’. After years of public disruption raising the alarm on the climate and ecological emergency, they had decided to shift their focus into mobilising larger numbers of people – to unite to survive.
That led XR and hundreds of other campaign groups and NGOs to bring 100,000 people on to the streets outside Parliament in London, 21-24 April, for ‘The Big One’.
Join climate justice activist Simon Moore as he explores the protest and meets seasoned activists and newbies, mothers and grandmothers, filmmakers and singers, young and old. Find out why they are at The Big One and what they think the future holds for climate activism.
Charlie Gardner explains why scientists need to get onto the streets and stop hoping that scientific reports alone will solve anything.
Orchestrated Discontent perform to spectators at the London Marathon and ask people to speak up for others, for Black lives, for trans lives, and for restoring Africa.
Holly gives her thoughts on her partner Marcus Decker’s recent sentence of two years and seven months in jail for protesting with Just Stop Oil.
And Rich Felgate shares his expectations for the ‘ecosystem of resistance’ that we could see from the climate movement in the coming years.
You can follow Simon on Twitter @Simon_C_Moore and find more of his podcasts on Climactic.
Featuring, in order of appearance:
- Rick Felgate
- Nicky Crowther
- Sam Knights
- Seize the Day
- Pete the Temp
- Chris Packham
- Simon Hoyte
- Sam Holland
- Ruth Carpenter
- Orchestrated Discontent
- Annie Welch
- Sally Morgan
- Emma Collins
- Aaron Thierry
- Beth Irving
- Charlie Gardner
- Solomon Bourne
Credits
Music by Tom Day – What Could Be
Recorded, produced and edited by Simon Moore, with assistance from Mark Spencer.
Climactic has returned. Now a production of Here Media this feed will feature the best of our climate-engaged work, and curate the best of other climate podcasts.
Get in touch with us at hello@heremedia.studio to pitch us a show, work with us, suggest a show to feature, or just say g'day.
This short episode explains the plans for the feed going forward, and ends with two trailers of upcoming episodes.
It's been 159 days since the last episode on the Climactic feed.
This is a (pre)announcement of plans for the return of Climactic in the new year, and an update (and thank you) to all of you who've stayed tuned.
See you in 2023!
Mark
Who are we? Storytellers and podcasters.
The climate crisis is going to take all of us to address, and before long everyone will be climate change-effected. Isn't it time our podcasts engaged with that reality?
And yet, on June 24th, 2022, the Climactic Collective will disband, and the website Climactic.fm will deactivate.
Here's why.
See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Read the comprehensive shownotes here.
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Dylan Quinnell from the Climate Media Centre recorded with members of some of Australia's leading climate action groups, the day after the election. This short episode is a great way to listen back on their excitement from the election results, and a great way to get yourself pumped to take action in this new chapter for Australia!
Audio grabs and quotes below:
Rural and regional Australians respond to the Federal Election, and what they want to see happen next:
AGRICULTURE
Fiona Davis, CEO of Farmers for Climate Action, from regional Victoria, talks about the importance of climate in the election, and the need for stronger climate policies moving forward, to farmers including the organisation's 7,000 supporters. Fiona says we need deep emissions reductions this decade to protect Australian farmers from extreme weather events, and to ensure farmers can continue to produce food for Australins and the world.
[Audio grabs from Fiona Davis]
Charlie Prell, chair of Farmers for Climate Action, and fourth-generation sheep farmer who also hosts wind turbines on his property in Crookwell, NSW talks about how climate change has become an important issue in the bush. He talks about the election, including increased support for Nationals’ candidates more progressive on climate, as well as the need for integrity and progressive action in government moving forward. [Audio grabs from Charlie Prell] :
BUSHFIRE SURVIVOR
Jo Dodds, president of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action and bushfire survivor from Tathra, NSW South Coast, talks about how the issue of climate change motivated many voters this election. She also talks about the urgency and immediacy of the climate change threat and what she and fellow bushfire survivors want to see from the new government.
[Audio grabs from Jo Dodds]
HEALTH EXPERTS
Dr John Van Der Kallen, Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia, who also specialises in air pollution, from Newcastle, NSW, talks about how people had climate policy at the forefront of their minds after all of the recent extreme weather events. He also talks about how climate change is the greatest health concern for many health professionals as well as calls on the government to do more within the health industry and more broadly. [Audio grabs from Dr John Van Der Kallen]
PARENTS
Laura Grufas, parent from Ocean Grove, VIC, and member of Parents for Climate Action, calls on the new government to listen to the scientists when it comes to climate change and address parents’ immediate and urgent concerns including phasing out fossil fuels including gas. She also talks about embracing the amazing renewable energy opportunities we have in Australia for future generations.
[Audio grabs from Laura Grufas]
Bianca Sands, parent from Hervey Bay, QLD, and member of Parents for Climate Action, talks about how parents voted for their children’s futures this election, and welcomes the newly elected government’s commitment to end the “climate wars”. She also talks about the great opportunity and potential for Australians, particularly in the rapidly developing clean energy industry.” [Audio grabs from Bianca Sands]
Dr Jasper Lee, parent and health care provider from Adelaide, SA, and member of Parents for Climate Action, talks about climate change being an important issue for a lot of people around him in the Mitcham Hills, which has an extremely high bushfire risk. He also talks about the impact of climate change our physical safety and on our most vulnerable people.
[Audio grabs from Dr Jasper Lee]
Anna Harvey, parent of two from Sydney, NSW, and member of Parents for Climate Action, talks about how after the drought, the bushfires and now the floods, so many people were desperate for meaningful change to see better climate policies. She also talks about how there are so many good policies that would reduce our emis
Sci Fight is a quarterly science comedy debate, with your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley (citation needed). Sci Fight brings together science folk and comedy folk, and makes them debate the big issues in a silly way.
This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it come from, and can I have some please? Pleasure is part of our biological make-up; evolution’s way of prodding us to consume calories, procreate, and not freeze to death, so surely seeking pleasure is only natural? If nothing else, pleasure is a small compensation for all the suffering we endure simply by being trapped in these ridiculous meat vehicles, what with all their tooth decay, ear ache, period pain, and haemorrhoids. Can we not have a little dopamine as a treat? Why not steer our ship of purpose towards the cape of pleasure?
Or is pleasure a false god? Simply a smoke screen for more pain? Was it pleasure that led to the tooth decay in the first place? Is pleasure only ever a short term reward, where the deeper satisfactions born from hardship, suffering and sacrifice? One can’t imagine Marie Curie bunking off early from the lab for a cheeky pint and a parma. Does the pursuit of pleasure prevent us achieving all that we are fully capable of as a species?
What ever happened to those kids in the marshmallow test? Are some of them still waiting?
Join us at the Howler for an evening of passionate and pleasurable discourse as scientists and comedians dissect our purpose, our passions and our pitfalls.
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In this episode a great conversation with Ross Anderson, all about the truly inspiring story of AQUNA Sustainable Murray Cod and the premium, murray cod they produce for consumers, restaurants, international markets and leading chef's like Josh Niland. It's an uplifting, can-do story about business leadership and innovation, smart, passionate people and their commitment to sustainability that all adds up to a world first, all grown in regional NSW.
I've long wanted to do a 'positive' story about aquaculture, especially given the impacts of large-scale industrial Tasmanian salmon production, the story Richard Flanagan tells in Toxic - The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry, pub 2021. Flanagan’s ‘Toxic’ is a heart and environmentally wrenching story, but it isn’t all bad news. In a webinar he presented about the issues, he shone light on where there's hope and great potential – to expand, sustainable land based, vertically integrated, closed loop land based aquaculture.
AQUNA is an award winning, land-based, producer of murray cod - one of the most ancient, delicious and highly revered fish, once prolific in the wild, listed as nationally threatened in 2003, and so special to First People's and Murray Darling basin ecosystems. During recent fish kills, the business supplied aerators to the Menindee Lakes and have released some 23 million murray cod fingerlings back into the Murray Darling river to help restore fish stocks and ecosystem health. Love it.
AQUNA is an industry leader internationally and in the local Griffith community and environment – employing people in clever jobs, growing vertically integrated, circular-resource use production. Listen in and check out their website to learn more about their commitment to sustainability and whole-of-system innovation in this space.
Aquna Sustainable Murray Cod is listed as “GREEN” on the The Good Fish Guide. The Good Fish Guide, an app and website, is a sustainability initiative by the Australian Marine Conservation Society. The guide is an independent reference that helps chefs and consumers make informed decisions on the seafood they eat and serve.
Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food producing industries in the world – a key and growing source of protein. According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, global aquaculture production rose 520% for the period 1990-2018 (FAO, 2020). Some 54% of seafood consumed worldwide is produced through aquaculture, but approximately 87% of seafood purchased in New South Wales is imported. So there are enormous domestic and export opportunities for sustainably produced, high quality fish and AQUNA are leading the way to do just that.
Bravo AQUNA and thank you Ross for such a great conversation (and for what you all do)!
AQUNA's website @ aquna.com
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Mike King shares his journey transitioning from professional arborist to foraging tour guide and plant educator, with a focus on how to create space in life to be creative and follow your interests.
We talk about native spices, edible plants, taking over an abandoned horticulture project, where to get educated on plants, foraging tours and much more!
Links:
Follow Mike on Instagram
Finders Eaters Foraging (book a foraging tour with Mike)
Earthworkers Programme (16- 20th May)
Country Calendar Episode 13, Season 2021
Wild Trees (book on climbing Redwoods)
The Common Unity Project
Plants for a future
A field guide to native edible plants (book)
Salt and Straw icecream
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Vote Gas Out: Renewables are our future
As the federal election campaign is upon us, the webinar aims to inspire and assist us to challenge the Governments’ gas expansion schemes in our local federal election campaigns.Speakers: Freja Leonard, Lock the Gate Saul Griffith, author of ‘The Big Switch’ Bruce Robertson, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
This action webinar will remind us, that Governments’ policies for massive gas expansion across Australia will be devastating for climate and environment. It will also bring to our attention that a renewable path is not only possible but of great benefit to us all. Most of all, as the federal election campaign is upon us, the webinar aims to inspire and assist us in our local federal election campaigns to challenge policies promoting gas expansion.
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Get your Pinkish Pods!
What does your laundry have to do with the climate crisis? What's a Pinkish Pod? Can Mark make Eav interested in Unique Selling Points, marketing, and revising Milton Friedman economics?
Find out in this episode!
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Phoebe Gardner (pictured), co-founder and CEO of Bardee, is so excited about her young company, that her positivity is almost palpably and, most certainly, infectious.
The Melbourne-based Bardee is built around, or upon, the wonders of what could be one of our climate heroes, the Black Soldier Fly.
Listen to Phoebe talk and you'll get a sense of just how important this small insect is with regard combating the climate crisis.
Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
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Guest in The Tunnel on 6 April is Robert Patterson from Geelong Renewables Not Gas. We hear excerpt of speeches from UN Chief Antonio Guterres, Labor leader Anthony Albanese and Geelong climate activist Lauren Dillon. Read the full notes, full of tweets, videos and more info at https://climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour406/.
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Get more of Nourishing Matters To Chew On.
A great conversation with Alex about his experiences, reflections and the perspectives he brings to his work that’s all about people centred development for community and ecosystems resilience, livelihoods and food security in a changing climate. Alex has deep experience in community development and working with Indigenous people in East Timor, Central Australia and now with island communities in the Pacific.
We kick off with the idea of the ‘island’ and that we’re all (pretty much) islanders now given the increasingly uncertain, volatile waters of climate change we all face but that especially pose direct, immediate challenges to island people and communities. Our conversation ranges across Alex’s diverse and oft overlapping community development experiences and zooms in on the contrasting and sometimes very similar food security challenges faced by many of the people and communities Alex has worked with in tropical, arid and temperate remote and island locations.
We talk: Colonialism and its legacies, past and present… community development work and how it is approached ‘differently’ here and overseas in the Pacific and elsewhere food security and climate change in central Australia carbon markets, climate change work to support Indigenous land and island owners to build more resilient livelihoods and help protect and restore ecosystems …and we talk about the changing face and place of permaculture, pushbacks, changing perspectives and reflective conversations underway…
Alex McClean has worked in community development, food security, sustainable livelihoods, natural resource management and climate change across the Asia-Pacific region and remote Central Australia for 15 years. He is an experienced field level practitioner, having worked with numerous communities and community based organisations on strengthening the mutual ties between access to land, natural resources and viable livelihoods. Alex established Arid Edge Environmental Services in 2013, the social enterprise arm of the Arid Lands Environment Centre in Alice Springs. He currently works for Nakau on forest carbon projects with customary landowners in the pacific.
Alex lives in Alice Springs with his family and still enjoys pottering in the veggie patch. Last years pomegranate crop was particularly satisfying.
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Learn more about food security and farming in Melbourne's last market gardens. The last chance lands: Werribee South's market gardens - by Jess Fairfax, on ABC Earshot.
This episode is from Climate Conversations, get more here.
Jamie Gilbert is the key player behind the Seymour Alternative Farming Expo but immediately points out that he is just one of a committed and enthusiastic small team that makes the annual event a reality.
But it is more than Jamie and his small team, as working equally diligently to ensure the success of the expo are more than 30 community organizations from in and around Seymour.
Seymour's Kings Park will be packed with exhibitors for the three-day event, opening on April 1, and among them will be Farmers for Climate Action which will help farmers better understand the complexities and challenges of climate change.
The final night in Seymour will see the launch of a six-town roadshow by Farmers for Climate Action (details on the group's website) with the goal of those events being the establishment of a structure that ensures support, connection and knowledge for all farmers.
Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
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The Wairarapa Eco Farm was born out of a desire to produce quality food with ecological integrity. The farm is situated on the Tauherenikau Plains in South Wairarapa. Over the last 20+ years, it has grown from bare paddocks into a secluded oasis. The owners, Frank and Josje, and their family have created their very own micro-climate which has given them the opportunity to grow a wide variety of crops for their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programme.
In this episode, I visit the farm to learn more about the CSA concept, meet the team who are so passionate about feeding healthy food to their local community, and get a glimpse into what it's like to live in a world where you are constantly co-creating with nature.
You can learn more about Wairarapa Eco Farm (and apply to join their CSA) at their website:
http://wairarapaecofarm.com/
You can also check out this epic video on the farm by Happen Films:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWkYtZxpQUo
You can also follow them on Instagram to see what's in their CSA boxes each week:
https://www.instagram.com/wairarapa_eco_farm_/
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Manik Suri (pictured) through his company "Therma" is working to ensure the temperature of the world is just right - not too hot and not too cold.
Those Goldilocks-like conditions - not too hot, not too cold, but just right - are aimed at ridding the world of its massive food waste numbers, numbers that are, according to Manik, "crazy".
Manik appeared with his counterparts at a New York Times event at last year's Glasgow COP 26 to talk about getting back to basics and building resilient supply chains.
Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
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In light of the flooding on Australia's east coast, and the invasion of Ukraine, a re-release of a highly relevant episode.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that between 25 million and 1 billion people will move as a result of climate change within the next 30 years.
Toby Kent, the City of Melbourne's first Chief Resilience Officer, joins Mark Spencer to talk to the Deputy Executive Director of the Mayors Migration Council to talk migration, urbanisation, climate change, and the collision of these factors.
Kate is an immigration policy expert with over a decade of experience working on international, national, state, and local policymaking and advocacy.
Toby Kent is an entrepreneur, professional speaker, and business advisor. His work focuses on helping organisations thrive in the face of challenge. He is a board member of the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia and for over five years was metropolitan Melbourne’s Chief Resilience Officer.
Mayors Migration Council
MMC COVID-19 Response
MMC Twitter
And, for a migration crisis right on the doorstep of Australia, happening to Australian citizens, please take part in this campaign to call on the Australian Federal Government to act on climate change with the urgency required - as we see the Torres Strait Islands being inundated by rising seas.
https://ourislandsourhome.com.au/ - Sign the petition, watch the video, share it with a friend.
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Journalist and foreign correspondent Zoe Daniel talks about how her work has taught her to listen, to suspend judgement, and how to synthesise the best information available, to position Australia as a valuable player in climate-positive futures. She is standing for the seat of Goldstein.
https://www.zoedaniel.com.au/
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Get the full miniseries here. Do it!
As the prospect of runaway climate change becomes tangible, serious consideration is given to technoscience to lessen the likelihood of triggering this tipping point. What's to gain and what's at risk when technoscience is proposed to manipulate the global climate on such a scale? From micro and synthetic biology to earth systems and climate engineering, in this episode we consider some of the emerging science that perhaps – just perhaps – might help with the unfolding crisis.
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In this episode, learn how play can be used to provoke productive conversations about climate.
We chat with Harry Lee Shang Lun, the game designer of Convergence. Written in collaboration with Noongar researcher Cass Lynch, and commissioned by Arts House for Refuge 2021, Convergence is a hybrid web and tabletop experience that invites players to question what decisions they will make to create and break a world living through climate change.
In this interview, we explore the power of play to imagine alternative futures living with climate change and test political decisions. We get comfortable with discomfort and consider why we need to push boundaries of trust in order to create a new shared future with loved ones. Sometimes play is the most radical thing you can do to find authentic connections outside of our current systems of oppression and inequality.
Play Convergence online: https://convergence.place/
Visit Seed, Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network: https://www.seedmob.org.au/
Recorded on 27 September 2021
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Prior to COP26, there was a big problem in international carbon accounting. Both the country where a carbon credit was generated and the country where it was sold could count those very same credits toward their Paris climate commitments. COP26 seeks to remedy this issue with the practice of double entry bookkeeping. But is it too late? What are the unintended consequences of implementing the new rules now?
Aldyen Donnelly is a cofounder, advisor, and former Director of Carbon Economics here at Nori. She also serves as a carbon markets advisor to several organizations, including Terramerra, Inc. and the Livestock Carbon Exchange. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Aldyen joins Ross and Nori CEO Paul Gambill to discuss how the new rules will lead to export controls for carbon credits and describe how such protectionism is likely to impact developing nations.
Aldyen and Paul share their concerns around blockchain crypto projects like KlimaDAO and weigh in on why carbon removals are preferable to carbon avoidance credits. Listen in to understand why throughput might matter more than permanence and learn how the upcoming Nori token launch aims create a true price discovery mechanism for carbon that others can use.
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Resources
Aldyen on Reversing Climate Change EP031
‘Cryptocurrency Traders Move into Carbon Markets’ in The Wall Street Journal
KlimaDAO
Toucan Protocol
Olympus
Careers at Nori
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Produced & presented by Carly Dober
Guests:
Emma Bacon - Executive Director of Sweltering Cities
Emma Bacon is the Executive Director of Sweltering Cities. Emma is an activist and campaigner passionate about sustainable and joyous cities for a world changed by a heating climate.
Find out more:
https://swelteringcities.org/(link is external)
Song
Lord Huron - Mine Forever
Nato- Blockade IMARC Activist
Nato is an activist and campaigner against extractivism and mining who shares with us how to get involved with this year's Blockade IMARC January 31 in Melbourne, Australia.
Find out more:
https://blockadeimarc.com/(link is external)
Song
Le Youth- Acquiver
Climate updates from Climate for Change
https://www.climateforchange.org.au/
Divest
https://www.marketforces.org.au/
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The Scottish Community Climate Action Network invited Climactic publisher Mark Spencer to talk starting a climate-engaged podcast network. Follow their YouTube channel here.
Hear Mark Spencer, Climactic Collective, on Setting up a Podcast Network - by and for the climate community. Mark Spencer of the Antipodean Podcasting Network Climactic Collective will share the journey from his own Climactic podcast to joining forces with others to create a mutually supportive community of climate podcasters. See more about Storytellers Collective on our website: https://scottishcommunitiescan.org.uk...
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Felicity Jefferson speaks to Mark about the psychological concepts and tools that can be useful to the climate community, and the course she is running through What Can I Do Australia.
As promised, here's some photos of the beautiful Hamilton Gardens.
Mark and Eav talk about the concept of deep ecology, the small steps we took/are taking at the start of our climate engagement. We hope this is helpful, and if so, we think you'd love the course.
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In episode six, two special guest hosts report back from COP26 in Glasgow. Jamie Brogan, from Edinburgh Climate Change Institute and Simon Moore, from the University of Leeds, talk to a variety of delegates about the relationship between global negotiations and local level climate action.
Gill Rodriguez from the International SeaKeepers Society explains how global pledges help encourage individuals to take action in their own lives. Glasgow resident Alex Horsburgh gives a local’s perspective, arguing that Glaswegian residents are more open to change than most politicians.
Activists Annwen Thurlow and Daisy Earl discuss the power of local communities to create change, and the importance of centring people in global climate talks.
Actor and musician Keith Bartlett tells his story of co-writing the Mothership Earth Song – a plea from Mother Earth for governments to combat climate change. We hear six different versions of the song, which has now been translated and performed in 25 different languages by female vocalists from around the world.
Bobby Holdbrook from Advanced Bacterial Sciences gives his perspective on the role small businesses can play in the transition to a green economy.
Tracy Irvine from Oasis Hub describes how communities working to protect themselves from flooding can set an example that can be scaled up nationally and across continents. David Richardson discusses a film he’s working on about what he sees as a key issue in the climate crisis, overpopulation.
And finally, Simon wraps up the episode alongside PCAN Associate Rosanna Harvey-Crawford, discussing the ups and downs of their experiences at COP26.
Find out more about the work of the Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN) by following us on Twitter @PCANcities or visiting our website: https://www.pcancities.org.uk/
You can follow @JamieBrogan, @Simon_C_Moore and @RoseHCrawford on Twitter.
Credits
Recorded, produced and edited by Simon Moore from the University of Leeds.
Intro and outro music by Lloyd Richards. The Mothership Earth Song was co-written by Keith Bartlett and Paddy Cunneen and the versions included in this episode were performed in English, Greek, Urdu, Indonesian and Turkish.
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Warfare is becoming increasingly privatised, and the rules of the battlefield are shifting. With more and more PMCs involved in warfare around the world, many fronts have become companies fighting companies, and the international justice system has no framework to deal with it. This week we take a look at just how out of control the situation has become by analysing the operations of Russian PMC Wagner in Africa and on the sea.
Guests:Sean McFate
Former Private Military Contractor
Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council
Professor of Strategy at Georgetown University and the National Defence University
Author of several key books about the Private Military Industry
Catrina Doxsee
Expert in Counter-Terrorism and Irregular warfare for the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Associate Director for the CSIS Transnational Threats Department
Sits on the Editorial Board for the Irregular Warfare Initiative
Andreas Kreig
Associate Professor of Strategic Studies at King's College in London
Professor at the UK Defence Academy
CEO of MENA Analytica
Author of Surrogate Warfare
Part 1: Soldiers of Fortune (3:23)
McFate takes us through some of the basic legalities around Private Military Companies (PMCs), particularly in regard to the legally impactful question of whether they can be classified as mercenaries. By avoiding this definition, they are not bound by the many laws that exist about mercenary work, leading to the explosion in their use over the last several years.
To example this and look at a recent use case we dive into the PMC industry at sea, particularly their role as guards against pirates in the Gulf of Aden and the Gulf of Guinea. To what extent are they legitimate operators, what authority do they have, what are the legal limitations of their action, and how effective have they been?
We overview the parties involved, and their respective interests. From small states who can't maintain a constant military and naval power, to large countries who want to avoid responsibility for actions. Who is employing PMCs, where do PMC fighters come from, and where do they operate? And how might their use develop in the near future?
Finally we look at the key problems with Private Militaries as their use continues to skyrocket. This includes the jurisdictional mess of trying to prosecute any crimes, how increasingly well-armed these groups are, as well as the inherent danger of unleashing highly armed, highly capable military operators into your country whose only interest is profit.
Part 2: From Russia With Guns (35:57)
Doxsee takes us through the development of this industry, from the early days in Iraq and Afghanistan, all the way to today where we see PMCs throughout the world, rapidly expanding their reach and operations.
We look at the grim details of some operations in Mozambique and the Central African Republic by groups like Wagner, and the reports of human rights abuses and criminal activity by these groups. With these groups sanctioned by local regimes, and the level of danger in which they operate making humanitarian and journalistic work near impossible, what can be done?
We then look to examine the Wagner group. Unlike most PMCs, the group trains right next door to Russia's special forces, and takes its orders from the Kremlin. They don't take outside contracts, and so are becoming only a slightly legally distinguished part of the Russian military apparatus.
Given these close ties, Doxsee analyses the Kremlin's strategy with the Wagner Group. By using their state-backed power to undercut the costs of many rivals, they are able to win the contracts that they desire, but to what end is this support offered. What is Moscow seeking in countries like Mozambique and the Central African Republic
Part 2 of a 2-part episode. Or, watch the whole panel on YouTube here.
A Quiet Chat About Climate Change
Climate change is seemingly never talked about in the tones used by friends when talking about their weekend plans, their kids grades at school, their mum’s health. Instead climate is either shouted about, during rallies and marches, and for very good reason. Or in hushed, anxious tones, with lots of knowing looks exchanged. And yet like any social movement, making choices due to climate change needs to become as normal as “we don’t shop there because the owner is a bigot.” This panel brings together 5 climate-engaged podcasters, who are raising the volume on climate by addressing it, but in a polite, friendly and engaging tone. They’ll engage about their process, methods, successes and learnings. Mark Spencer, Allie Hanly, Jessica Hamilton, Ash Berdebes, Tessa de Josselin
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Part 1 of a 2-part episode. Or, watch the whole panel on YouTube here.
A Quiet Chat About Climate Change
Climate change is seemingly never talked about in the tones used by friends when talking about their weekend plans, their kids grades at school, their mum’s health. Instead climate is either shouted about, during rallies and marches, and for very good reason. Or in hushed, anxious tones, with lots of knowing looks exchanged. And yet like any social movement, making choices due to climate change needs to become as normal as “we don’t shop there because the owner is a bigot.” This panel brings together 5 climate-engaged podcasters, who are raising the volume on climate by addressing it, but in a polite, friendly and engaging tone. They’ll engage about their process, methods, successes and learnings. Mark Spencer, Allie Hanly, Jessica Hamilton, Ash Berdebes, Tessa de Josselin
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Get all episode of Nourishing Matters to Chew On from https://www.climactic.fm/show/nourishing-matters-to-chew-on/.
Nourishing Matters to Chew On is a podcast that takes its cue from big picture, healthy and sustainable food system agendas and digs in to explore what these change agendas mean for us here, in Australia. It looks at how we produce and enjoy food in a Climate Change future, as well as how we value the people, places and animals that nourish us.
Join host Anthea Fawcett - sustainability advocate, founder of Foodswell and farmer’s daughter - as she journeys across our food and agricultural landscape to speak with inspiring people in the field who are enabling change toward more sustainable and resilient food system.
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In this episode, we dive into how the climate crisis is playing out locally and across the globe, and what that teaches us about our connection to the earth and each other. Our guests take us from the Birrarung River in southern Australia to the Mongolian Steppe, and to visit the shearwaters feasting on plastic on Lord Howe Island in the Pacific Ocean. With so many lives at risk, including our own, what are the navigational tools to not just track our interdependent fates, but to find ways to keep caring in the face of so much loss?
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Mark speaks to GG, who along with Anna, are fur parents of Lyka. Anna and GG started feeding GG home-prepared meals, and it turned around Lyka's health. They started a pet food - no, a pet wellness - company also called Lyka. And the rest is history!
Lyka: Australia’s only carbon negative dog food.
There is no time to waste for climate action. The change happens with us and we are committed to helping the planet, one bowl at a time.
That’s right. No hidden agenda, no greenwashing – just the facts. Lyka is as committed to the planet as we are to your pup. Because your pup deserves great food, but it shouldn’t be at the expense of our environment.
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Blockade Australia ran actions targeting fossil fuel extraction and exportation this month. In this episode, we feature an episode of Saltgrass that further explains and humanises the movement.
We add a clip of Art Breaker's documentary about the Black Finch Project, for the whole thing here's a link.
This episode was recorded and first released in May 2020.
This is an updated version with a new intro. The interview remains exactly the same.
In this episode we speak with a family of activists and we take a closer look at what is going on with the Adani Coal mine. A hotly contested mine that is still in construction in Queensland.
Long term residents of Castlemaine Ben and Jacynta have spent a lifetime living with the earth in mind, from building a sustainable house to participating in protests and activism.
Ben travelled on the Adani convoy a couple of years ago, as lead by renowned greens leader and activist, Bob Brown. Ben is a visual artist and is known locally as something of an agitator, often providing cheeky and provocative takes on the current political issues.
Jacynta has studied a masters in social ecology, trained in facilitation and participated in the transition towns movement.
At the time of recording Rilka, their daughter, was heavily involved in the activist groups trying to disrupt the Adani coal mine from going ahead.
The reason I have chosen this one to replay right now is that Jacynta has, in the last week, moved from being the proud parent of an activist to taking action herself.
LINKS:
The Traditional Owners in the Galillee Basin where the Adani mine is happening and what they have been doing to stop the mine.
Protest groups mentioned in the show: Blockade Australia FLAC – Frontline Action on Coal Stop Adani Galilee Rising Extinction Rebellion Galilee Blockade FOE Climate for Change Whistleblowers, Activists and Citizens Alliance (WACA) Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) Knitting Nanas
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Join climate justice activist and science communicator Simon Moore, from Leeds (UK), for a walk through the streets of Glasgow during COP26.
Listen to the perspectives of Indigenous leaders, youth strikers, scientists, musicians, and locals, as you experience a taste of the climate activism that occurred during this historic occasion.
You’ll be transported into the heart of two enormous climate marches, hear speeches from Vanessa Nakate, Raki Ap, and Greta Thunberg, and meet a variety of delegates from around the world.
Rou Reynolds explains why his band Enter Shikari felt compelled to play a gig during COP26. Marie Christina Kolo explains why the climate crisis makes gender inequality in Madagascar even worse. Professor Kevin Anderson dissects the flaws in the concept of ‘net zero’. And Dr Sam Mugume Koojo reflects on the progress made by the Ugandan government on carbon credits. Plus hear the welcome from Glaswegian residents as world leaders descended upon their city, to discuss our collective future.
You can follow Simon on Twitter @Simon_C_Moore and find more of his podcasts on Climactic.
Featuring, in order of appearance:
Daisy Earl
Anwen Thurlow
Barbara Keal
Marie Christina Kolo
Rollie
Prof Rupert Read
Mikaela Loach
Raki Ap
Vanessa Nakate
Dylan Hamilton
Greta Thunberg
Eva Murray
Rou Reynolds
Prof Kevin Anderson
Dr Sam Mugume Koojo
Credits
Music by Tom Day
Recorded, produced and edited by Simon Moore
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Or, now from Climactic.fm.
Also recommended listening after this episode is the episode of Climate Ready Stories about small-hold farmers from Burundi and Congo in Mildura.
Following on from our last episode with Rob Law we head up to Mildura, over 400km to the north of Castlemaine.
My interest in Mildura has been growing lately. It is a regional city sitting right on the mighty Murray River, and at the heart of a region called the Mallee.
I have been up to Mildura twice this year and have collected interviews each time.
Why Mildura?
According to climate projections my town may have a climate more like Mildura’s within decades.
I’d also heard about the huge solar farms going in up there and was curious about these developments.
This interview was conducted in March 2021, with Mildura’s mayor, Jason Modica and councillor for environment and sustainability Jodi Reynolds. We talk about the environmental and social issues specific to the region, with water and solar power obviously up the top of the list.
Find links and more at saltgrasspodcast.com
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Today featuring Climate Ready Stories. Visit the page to subscribe and learn more about the show.
Also, check out Endgame Project for more incredible audio exploration of climate change.
As the coordinator of Maldon Neighbourhood House, Amy Atkinson is at the heart of a vibrant, engaged and active community where the median age is approaching 60. Climate change isn’t talked about much in Maldon - even though the impacts of are likely to have a disproportionately negative affect on older people.
"We’re grass roots organisation - we’re activist organisations really, we can make change in the community."
Amy Attkinson | Maldon Community House Coordinator
In this soundwork Amy walks us through the Climate Ready Maldon project, and how she went about creating awareness of the impacts of climate change and the ways individuals can and need to better prepare for it without trying to get everyone onto the same page.
FEATURING Amy Atkinson, Anna Robertson, Miranda Bone, Bernie Kriss, Lindsey Glover, Anthony Morrey and Andy McInnes.
LINKS Maldon Neighbourhood Centre/Climate Ready Maldon
CREDITS Presenter/Producer Kyla Brettle Music, Rob Law Images, Carmen Bunting Cover Art, Maddison Connors
Executive Producers Dona Cayetana and Geoff Caine Produced by ADAPT Loddon Mallee as part of the Climate Ready Plan
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This is episode 3, season 2 of A Positive Climate. Find more and subscribe from their website (www.apositiveclimate.com).
Julia Kay, co-founder of Great Wrap chats to us about how we can make cling wrap GREAT again!
Great Wrap has created Australia's first certified compostable cling wrap - it’s not only made from food waste but it also contains zero plastic. Great Wrap makes residential wrap (the sandwich wrapping kind), catering wrap and pallet wrap (the stuff heaps of things get wrapped in for transport).
You might think cling wrap is a niche issue but we use 150,000 tonnes of cling wrap per year in Australia alone - which is crazy when you think about how light cling wrap is. Soon the technology will be expanded to replace other plastics so we can stop adding to the 9 billion tonnes of the stuff that’s been created throughout history, which is sadly all still here on earth!
Julia, together with her husband Jordy Kay, have created a business that cleverly blends their respective backgrounds, a strong passion for design and an even bigger passion for creating a sustainable product.
In this episode we cover: The plastic problem: how one of our most convenient creations is also one of our most harmful The Great Wrap production method and how they create cling wrap from food waste Julia and Jordy’s future plans for Great Wrap - which include expanding into the US and ultimately looking to expand into replacing other plastic items in our grocery stores Inspiring innovations happening all across the world to reduce our reliance on plastic
We left this conversation feeling uplifted and positive about the future of cling wrap and we hope you do too!
If you enjoy the show, subscribe! You can also follow us: on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn or say hi at hello@apositiveclimate.com
Music by the late, great Nick Weaver
Production by our hero Mark Spencer from Here.Media
Socials by the legend Rebecca Sather Jenkins
Some more reading if you’re interested in the topic You can learn more about the history of plastic via this video
About the podcast
Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity. The consequences are so dire that the media usually focuses on the negative and many of us have no idea where to begin.
To flip the script, clean energy experts Alex McIntosh and Nick Zeltzer host A Positive Climate, an uplifting podcast focused on ways to tackle climate change.
If you want to be inspired by interviews with some of Australia’s most innovative people, if you want to learn a lot (and laugh a little) and if you want a way to leave your climate related existential crises at bay, this podcast is for you.
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A quick catch-up from Mark, and then an episode of the fantastic daily Climate Quick Links from Robert McLean's Climate Conversations.
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Hello! I'm back, huge thanks to Eav Brennan for guest publishing for the last 4 weeks! Check her out on Instagram if you don't already where she does super important science communication using super approachable comics!
This week I'm sharing the awesome Sci Fight with you to ease myself back into the publisher's chair. Because with COP26 just scant days away, things will get heavy quick enough by themselves. So first let's have a laugh!
Sci Fight (www.scifight.com.au/) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner.
This round's topic: Should we bite the bullet and go fully 'online, all the time?'
As the gap between the capabilities of a human brain and a computer shrink, we have to wonder: why not join forces? For those forgetful enough to leave home without pants, perhaps uploading our thoughts, memories and pant-related obligations to the cloud would save us time, money, and an arrest warrant for indecent exposure.
Maybe it's not that big of a leap to hand our minds over to our digital caretakers. After all, computers remember things better than us. They're not overwhelmed by emotions, subject to bias, or distracted by Twitter. Computers also outlive us, meaning our friends and loved ones can access the "digital us" long after the "biological us" has left this realm. Within this electronic cave, our minds can live forever. (So long as we've been charged!)
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In this episode, we discuss misinformation and disinformation on climate change, what it is, how it is manufactured, its impacts, and how you can identify and protect against it. Misinformation and disinformation may be one of the most influential weapons that powerful individuals and companies use to stifle action on climate. It's time to call it out and talk about what to look for, how to break it down and what measures can be taken together to negate its effects.
In this conversation, we refer to a Carbon Brief article How climate change misinformation spreads online published 26 June 2020 by Kathie Treen, PhD candidate in the computer science department at the University of Exeter Dr Hywel Williams, associate professor in data science at the University of Exeter Dr Saffron O’Neill, associate professor in geography at the University of Exeter
URL: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-climate-change-misinformation-spreads-online
Recorded on 16 August 2021.
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Sci Fight (www.scifight.com.au/) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner.
This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it come from, and can I have some please? Pleasure is part of our biological make-up; evolution’s way of prodding us to consume calories, procreate, and not freeze to death, so surely seeking pleasure is only natural? If nothing else, pleasure is a small compensation for all the suffering we endure simply by being trapped in these ridiculous meat vehicles, what with all their tooth decay, ear ache, period pain, and haemorrhoids. Can we not have a little dopamine as a treat? Why not steer our ship of purpose towards the cape of pleasure?
Or is pleasure a false god? Simply a smoke screen for more pain? Was it pleasure that led to the tooth decay in the first place? Is pleasure only ever a short term reward, where the deeper satisfactions born from hardship, suffering and sacrifice? One can’t imagine Marie Curie bunking off early from the lab for a cheeky pint and a parma. Does the pursuit of pleasure prevent us achieving all that we are fully capable of as a species?
What ever happened to those kids in the marshmallow test? Are some of them still waiting?
Join us at the Howler for an evening of passionate and pleasurable discourse as scientists and comedians dissect our purpose, our passions and our pitfalls.
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Get inspired and get involved in ‘Working Together’ to heal country. Listen in to this episode, Part 1, of a two-part great conversation with Craig Aspinall, who is the Community Aboriginal Engagement Officer, with Landcare NSW. It’s an Australian first in the Landcare movement and not before time!
Craig leads Landcare NSW's forward looking Working Together program that is all about empowering Aboriginal people to help lead and deliver Landcare projects in NSW and to support and encourage existing Landcare groups and participants to have the confidence and skills to reach out, engage and collaborate with local Aboriginal people to care for country via Landcare.
Craig, is an inspiring, can do person with a huge depth of knowledge and experience. Craig is an Aboriginal man from the Birpai nation on the lower north coast of NSW who has devoted his private and working life to the natural and cultural values associated with land and sea country. In addition to the change-making work he does with Landcare NSW, he’s also a Director of OceanWatch (since 2005) and is passionate about the work OceanWatch does – it’s one of the 56 NRM regions in Australia but is the only marine focused resource management organisations, responsible for enhancing fish habitats and the marine environment.
What we do on the land has a huge impact on the health of our oceans and marine biodiversity. In this Episode, I speak with Craig about his work as the NSW Community Landcare Aboriginal Engagement Officer with NSW Landcare and the exciting – really important – “Working Together” Aboriginal Communities Engagement Program that he leads.
Craig spoke at the recent Landcare Australia National Conference about the program, and the title of his talk was “Breaking the Barriers Between Landcare in NSW and First Nations Peoples: Recognition, Value, Collaboration”. It’s all about building relationships and partnerships that we all need now to heal country, better, together and is very much in the spirit of NAIDOC 2021’s theme: Heal Country! The NAIDOC 2021 theme – Heal Country! – calls for all of us to continue to seek greater protections for our lands, our waters, our sacred sites and our cultural heritage from exploitation, desecration, and destruction. Country that is more than a place and inherent to identity.
I loved meeting and talking with Craig – reckon you will to.
Website
NSW Landcare, Working Together program: https://landcarensw.org.au/projects/aboriginal-communities-engagement-program/
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This is a conversation with Andrew, the Solarpunk Anarchist from Trinidad and Tobago behind the YouTube channel 'Saint Andrewism.'
Topics Discussed What is Solarpunk? Solarpunk Anarchism? The problem with Greenwashing How to talk about the climate & problems with the climate movement Generational shifts in the climate movement The importance of intersectionality Switzerland's voting patterns and the reaction to Covid-19 (tangent on my part) Why the revolution needs therapy (Reading Ashanti Alston & bell hooks, community care and solidarity, dealing with emotional baggage in revolutionary settings) Everyone needs feminism, including men The risks of psychologizing patriarchal oppression (brought up episode 27) Mutual Aid Emotional Anarchism (brought up episodes 59/60) On social media and their limitations Growing up in Trinidad + some chat about that specific context (legacies of colonialism, colorism, patriarchy, class divides, government corruption, education system, black capitalism, crime) Some interesting Trinidad and Lebanon intersections/differences Addressing Gen-Zers as a Gen-Zer Learning from past movements' mistakes and successes The past being taboo in Lebanon Intersections between Solar Punk and Afro-Futurism The radical roots of carnival (Trinidad, Notting Hill) Discussions within anarchism
Recommended Books Anarchy by Errico Malatesta The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin
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This episode is an interview from climactic member and artist Eav Brennan. Eav's spent the last year interviewing some climate leaders and making upcycled portraits of them. In this episode, Mark and Eav run through the portrait subjects and the stories that stuck with Eav, as well as touching on the long history of textile art as a medium of social change.
Music
Dig the Uke by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/53327 Ft: Kara Square
For more on Eav's work check out her instagram @eavrose or her website
https://www.thesecondattempt.com
This project was supported by the Creative Power Award.
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Tilth, glomalin, exudates … luscious words from the world of soils and a great conversation with Matthew Evans and Sadie Chrestman about Matthew’s new book Soil – The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy.
Matthew and Sadie Chrestman are the well known and much loved co–creators and operators of Fat Pig Farm, collaborators in arms and life and both strong advocates for open, fair, accountable food and farming systems and delicious food. This episode dives into just how very precious and remarkable soil is and why we need to get to know and ‘look after’ it better – now.
‘Soil’ is a joyful, magical book. It’s packed with stacks of facts & curious tales to help us really ‘see’, smell, feel and taste soil in creative, more informed ways and it packs a loving but really powerful punch for pretty much anyone who grows food or eats – and it offers an uplifting call to action to better care for soil, for our and planetary health and food futures in a changing climate.
A rollercoaster of a read – ‘Soil’ is a mix of Alice in Regenerationland; meets Dr Karl, & Costa; great scientists, quacks & visionary gardeners & farmers of the world – and Frenchman, Stephane Le Foll, who, at the Paris Climate Summit in 2015 touted the idea that an extra 0.4% organic carbon into soil each year might radically ‘garden’ us away from runaway global warming ….
There’s a whole lot of love in this book – for soil and for the tiny trillions of bacteria, fungi and neglected critters in it and for people and the planet.
Listen in, enjoy and dig into Matthews latest book that is available from all good bookstores and online booksellers.
Image Acknowledgements:
Sadie, Kitti Gould Photographer
Matthew, Alan Benson Photographer
Matt's Website
Fat Pig Farm
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@nourishing_matters
@foodswellaustralia
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Foodswell
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I have a treat for you today.
This episode is the final live headline conversation from Renew Fest in May, with living legend, esteemed author, thinker, and Co-Originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren.
We’ve all heard of permaculture; it’s been a massive movement and so many people have taken on the concepts of permaculture design into their homes and gardens.
So rather than just talk about what permaculture is or how we implement it, I wanted to take the opportunity step back and ask David about where it came from. Why did he feel the need to develop it in the first place?
Truly, it was birthed from David’s perspectives on what the future could look like, the challenges we may face as society, and what behaviours we can cultivate now to change our trajectory.
In this live conversation, we dive into his 'Future Scenarios' work, where he shares the potential futures we could face which he calls: Techno explosion Techno stability Energy descent Collapse
We talk about our global over-reliance on centralised corporations and governments, and the importance of cultivating both self-reliance (taking things into our own hands) as well as collective reliance (building community connections).
And of course, we dive into the content of his most recent book, Retrosuburbia: The Downshifters Guide to a Resilient Future. This is a truly incredible book which covers so much content about our built world, our biological world, and our behavioural paradigms.
David is a rare mix of highly intellectual and genuinely down-to-earth and human. You're going to love this one.
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Recorded in November 2019 for Raising the Bar, an event series from the City of Melbourne.
We're so grateful to the RTB team for allowing us to share this audio, from past guest and collaborator Dr Jen Rae.
Raising the Bar is "for curious minds and lifelong learners. We’re here for those hungry for innovation and inspiration. For the citizens and dreamers of our world. We’re here to make knowledge accessible outside of the traditional classroom and transform our city’s popular culture. We’re Raising the Bar."
According to Margaret Atwood, we’re no longer talking about climate change; we are facing ‘everything change’. There are infinite adjustments to make - so what's the importance of artists in these transitions? Jen Rae has been practicing at the intersection of arts and climate emergency for the past 10 years. Join her as she shares what she's learned from practicing across cultures and disciplines to find the place of artists in the climate catastrophe.
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What's the Climactic Collective? Well, that's in a state of development and flux.
How our collective of independent shows work with and support each other is changing and morphing, but where it's now is shared in this episode.
Also, hear an exclusive preview of a new show, a collaboration with Climatebase - the world's best place to find a climate-engaged job - to get you updated on this week's climate news, no matter what episode of Climactic you're listening to!
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Congratulations on reaching double digits - Talking In This Climate!
Feeling anxious about climate change? Reflect and recharge with this unique episode where we explore emotional responses to climate change with Dr. Blanche Verlie, member of the Sydney Environment Institute and author of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation.
In this conversation we flip the teacher/student dynamic and have one of Blanche’s previous students, our co-host Zoe, interview her. Join our discussion on feeling the realities of climate change and embrace ways to support each other and live with climate change.
Together, we reflect on what living with climate change can feel and look like and delve into environmental education and its impacts on students and teachers. We explore the power of laughter and vulnerability in communicating climate change and unpack some powerful concepts such as: more than human, the human nature binary, relational climate justice and bearing worlds with climate.
Access the free e-book of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation: https://bit.ly/3jJPBHB
Our sincere thanks to Blanche Verlie for taking the time to speak with us for this episode, and to Zoe Goodman for hosting this discussion.
Recorded on 12 July 2021.
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The Women's Climate Justice Collective and One Woman Project warmly welcome you to come along to our poetry night celebrating intersectional feminism and climate justice.
WCJC is a national collective aiming to mainstream intersectional feminist climate justice.
WCJC strives to be feminist, intersectional, inclusive, diverse, child-friendly, and safe. Our mission is to: 1) mainstream intersectional feminist climate justice;
2) support women and nb folks in the feminist and climate justice movements;
and 3) demand that intersectional feminism is incorporated into the climate justice movement, and climate justice is incorporated into the feminist movement.
We aim to bring more feminists and feminist perspectives into the climate movement to build capacity and consciousness. We also aim to illuminate in feminist spaces and groups, how the climate crisis especially affects women, and the need for gender-just climate solutions. Our main objectives are to grow as a collective, and develop resources, workshops and events to increase understanding of intersectional feminist climate justice.
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Full notes available from the Centre for Climate Safety.
Thank you to the Sustainable Hour for sharing this episode with us.
The threat, the solution and the plan. Here's the why, the who and the how. This podcast episode is dedicated to the climate campaigner who has burned out.
Podcast content – in order of appearance - apologies these are 2:31 earlier than they appear in the Climactic release.
00:05 Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General 00:25 Movie clip: Marvel, Thor: Kaorg speaks to Thor about revolution (also at 53:52) 00:46 Jose Ramos: “What is my role and my place?” 00:54 Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace International, quotes Bob Hunter 01:01 7News Sydney: NSW Rural Fireservice firefighter 01:16 Californian firefigther on SBS News 01:24 BBC World Service during Second World War: “This is London calling” 01:50 Stuart Scott speaking in Stockholm in 2018 (also at 27:57, 29:40, 35:49) 06:20 9-year-old Eve speaking in London at Extinction Rebellion rally 07:31 Reuters: Deadly floods hit western Europe 09:18 Kinya Seto, CEO, LIXIL Corporation 10:11 Chris Hayes on MSNBC: extreme weather news 12:01 Movie clip: Marvel, The Avengers: “And the humans, what can they do but burn?” 12:42 Movie clip: The 100, s1 e5 at 26:20: “This will cause a riot! Good. We need one.” 12:48 Movie clip: The 100, s2 e8 at 8:20: Abby talks about trust 12:55 Breakthrough interview with Admiral Chris Barrie 14:45 Jennifer Atkinson at 6:00 in Episode 1 of Facing It podcast, ‘Facing Down Climate Grief’ 16:19 Amitav Ghosh, Indian author, interviewed by Rune Lykkeberg, editor of Information 17:50 Adam Bandt, leader of the Australian Greens, addresses Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack in the Australian Parliament on 17 June 2021 20:31 Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking at the Austrian World Summit 2021 22:32 Angela Francis speaking at TEDxLondonWomen in December 2019 25:46 Emily Atkin, Heated podcast producer, interview on CNN 27:31 MacKenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister, speaking during the Second World War, featured in Climate Emergency Unit’s 4 Hopeful Lessons from WW2 to Confront Climate Change (also at 52:31) 28:32 Greta Thunberg: “You cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis.” 29:13 ABC News: Landmark climate court ruling against Royal Dutch Shell puts Australian firms on notice 30:35 9News reporting on Antonio Guterres call for governments to declare a climate emergency 31:26 Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace International, quotes Bob Hunter 31:36 Movie clip: The 100, s2 e13 at 18:50: Bellamy and Maya talk about revolution 31:52 BBC World Service during Second World War (also at 53:40) 37:56 Jem Bendell: Living in the Time of Dying 40:47 Movie clip: Marvel, Guardians Of The Universe: “I have a plan” 41:09 Dr Giselle Wilkinson speaks about her doctorate “Mobilising whole communities to restore a safe climate” at the webinar Finding a Safe Passage to a Safe Climate (also at 42:46, 50:08 and 51:59) 41:53 Movie clip: Larry Kramer in ‘Love and Anger’: “Nobody knows what to do next!” 42:33 Brenna Quinlan, illustrator, interviewed in ABC’s Gardening Australia 44:40 Michael Shaw, teacher and therapist, in Conscient podcast 46:36 Rob Hopkins, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Stephan Harding and others in an excerpt from last part of Peter Armstrong’s documentary film ‘The Sequel’ 52:15 Movie clip: Enola Holmes: “The future is up to us!” 52:27 “All revolutions seem impossible until they are inevitable.” 52:44 Jason Bordoff in Planet A podcast with Dan Jørgensen on 3 July 2021 54:14 David Attenborough, excerpt from BBC’s ‘Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World’: “There just could be a change in moral attitude from people world-wide, politicians world-wide, to see that self-interest is for the past, common interest is for the future.” 54:41 The Kookaburra laughs 54:55 Prince Ea: Three seconds
Music 00:00 Alex Aidt: Icecream (also at 04:58 and 26:40) 0
The Climactic Collective is the podcast network by and for Australia and NZ's climate community.Curation is the monthly audio magazine show that highlights the best of the network – and the broader community.This curation is focused on climate solutions.Attendees are able to participate as the episode is recorded and streamed live, then a listener Q+A with host Mark Spencer plus special guests.
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Transport represents almost half of CO2 emisisons in NZ. In Auckland, its higher, at 67%. After agriculture with our burbing cows, transport is the most imporant sector to decarbonise. Yet the just published 10-year plan for Auckland predicts a 6% increase in emissions by 2031. Critics have called the plan ‘baffling’ – at odds with the council’s commitment to halve emissions by 2030. The report is one of many transport policy documents up for discussion, all promising to lower emissions and shift us out of cars and trucks. To explain what’s going on, why transport planning seems so contradictory and what still needs to be done, Vincent talked to emissions expert Paul Winton, from 1Point5.org.nz
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We're halfway through our July Solutions Showcase. Join us on July 25th for a live recorded taping of Climactic Curation looking back on the episodes we've featured, highlighting some particular moments. Watch on Facebook, or our YouTube channel.
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How does the profession of facilitation relate to the climate crisis, and how might it be a potential solution? Find out in this bonus episode where Mark talks to showrunner of the new podcast from the Groupwork Centre, Jim Buckell, about the new show, it's purpose, and why it might be just the show for you!
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Listen to the series here.
Giant corporations are retooling their business models, setting their sights on the climate problem and hoping to capitalize on offshore wind. But some of these corporations — including BP and Shell — are the same companies arguably responsible for climate change in the first place.
Windfall is the story of a promising green technology and the potential of wind power in a changing climate. And it’s a story about power… and who has the power to reshape our energy future.
Mark talks to co-host of Windfall Annie Ropeik, and NHPR Senior Producer Jack Rodolico, about the making of this series, making climate podcasts, making good podcasts, and telling great climate-engaged stories.
This is the second of Climactic's July showcase of climate solutions episodes. Got a suggestion for what we should highlight next? Let us know; hello@climactic.fm
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Climactic's July Spotlight on Climate Solutions Week 1
This episode of Robert McLean's Climate Conversations is a perfect way to start this month's solutions focus. If you have a recommendation please just drop us a line: hello@climactic.fm
Music in intro | In Paler Skies by Blue Dot Sessions
Graeme Wiggins (pictured with two of his enthusiastic students) has created what he believes is the world's first project where young girls, about 26 of them, are working together on a project to convert a conventional car to an all-electric vehicle.
The project, at the BendigoTech School, is well advanced with the conversion of the 1982 three-door Range Rover into an all-electric Telsa powered car.
The project, "Girls in STEAM electric car project" has caught the imagination of many, bringing wide publicity to the school, Graeme, the girls and one of those stories on the ABC was entitled "Why a group of teenage girls described as 'hardcore car nuts' are converting a Range Rover into an electric vehicle".
Listen to the end of this episode and you will hear one of the students, an excited 14-year-old "Lilly", heaping praise on the project.
Also, enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
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Why Regenomics Downunder?
RE - because the best solutions are REgional GEN - because the best solutions reGENerate (not just reduce harm) OMICS - because the best solutions create better economies (especially regional)
Down Under - because our focus is our region - Australia and New Zealand - with stories from across the Pacific, through the “global south” and around the world.
We have the solutions - and they're spreading
This episode explores what the human race already knows about how to reverse global warming – starting with the commercial, scaling solutions modelled and ranked by the independent not-for-profit Project Drawdown in 2017 (and updated in 2020)
Project Drawdown’s findings include: We CAN reverse global warming – even if we just use the quantifiable, multi-benefit commercial solutions that WE ALREADY HAVE and are already scaling. NONE of the 80 solutions require further policy change from national governments (while it would help, all the solutions ARE commercial and ARE scaling) 79 of the solutions are multi-benefit solutions that make the world BETTER (the only harmful solution of significance was nuclear). The 80 solutions are WHOLE-OF-ECONOMY solutions that go way beyond electriciy generation and transport to include food, agriculture, construction, education, health and materials. The high-potential new solutions that they didn’t have numbers for are likely to be every bit as powerful and even more regenerative than what we have now.
The list of 80 commercial, quantified Drawdown solutions can a bit overwhelming, and each one only gets 2 pages of explanation.
So in this episode we dive in to a couple and see how they’re happening in Australia, with examples from two past Climactic episodes. Tropical forest regeneration Insulation
Forest regeneration ranked #5 and #12 on the original Drawdown top 80. And here’s an example of what a small group of concerned Australian researchers created, told by Jess Panegyres from The Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network
Insulation ranked #21 on the original Drawdown list. We explore the action that one Perth insulation installer began back while Drawdown was still doing their modelling.
Drawdown only modelled solutions where they could find a robust, peer-reviewed data sets – so there are many, many more powerful, existing solutions that aren’t that well-measured yet – from vortex water processing to cellulose-based building materials.
So it’s more useful to think of Drawdown as a guide book of highlights rather than a definitive encyclopedia.
We live in a world where most of the mainstream media coverage on climate action is focused on either: high-level action where big government and big business do big things; OR low-level actions about consumers using less or spending more on expensive alternatives.
That’s barely beginning of the story. Those two themes like the pastry layers on a vanilla slice – necessary, but not the main event. There’s actually a wealth of accessible action when you get out and start looking for problems that need solving and the opportunities they create.
Solving the challenges we face has created a quiet design revolution – the development of systems and processes that regenerate communities and ecosystems. It’s a whole lot easier to see the best, multi-benefit solutions when you understand the straightforward principles regenerative design.
Re-gen-omics Down Under explores the solutions happening and the thinking behind them – so if you’re interested in solutions, learn to find your action opportunities and listen to your gut.
LINKS Paul Hawken, founder of Project Drawdown, speaking on Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOTLtrt6OIE
Key pages from Project Drawd
It's another changing of the guard at PEN Pod as Cam Kaufman prepares the pass to the keys to the next steward of the Postgraduate Environment Network podcast. In this episode she speaks to the founder and lead staff at Climate for Change.
In the 10th episode of PENpod, Cam Kaufman chats with Katerina Gaita, the founder of Climate for Change, as well as Marta (fundraising coordinator at C4C) and Serena (fellowship coordinator at C4C), a organization uses personal connections as a powerful lever for climate action. They discuss the C4C organisation (and some opportunities to get involved!), some insight into starting your own business, and some tips for employment for international students.
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The Magnitude of All Things is a cinematic exploration of the emotional and psychological dimensions of climatechange.
When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown, drawing intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker’s childhood on Ontario’s Georgian Bay. What do these stories have in common? The answer, surprisingly, is everything.
This is a conversation about making beautiful, compelling climate-engaged media with Sundance award-winning documentary maker Jennifer Abbott, and composer Rob Law.
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This is an episode of PCAN, you can find more here (www.climactic.fm/show/pcan-podcast).
In episode three we talk to two key players in the PCAN story, Andy Gouldson, Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Leeds, and Polly Cook, Chief Officer for Sustainable Energy and Air Quality from Leeds City Council.
Andy set up the independent Leeds Climate Commission in 2017, which works closely with Leeds City Council. The Leeds Commission has led to the formation of ten other climate commissions around the UK, through PCAN, the Place-based Climate Action Network. Andy and Polly have also been instrumental in setting up one of the newest, and largest yet - Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission.
Co-hosts Professor John Barry, from Queen’s University Belfast, and Kate Lock, from the University of Leeds, talk to them about the thinking behind these novel climate partnerships.
Andy discusses some of the ongoing challenges around ensuring the voices of all communities are heard in addressing climate action, and his vision for financial tools that let people invest in a green future for their city.
Polly explains the importance of a climate emergency declaration for the day-to-day work of a council, and describes their attempts to communicate hyper-locally, so people can inspire each other to become more sustainable.
Find out more about the work of the Place-based Climate Action Network by following us on Twitter @PCANcities or visiting our website: https://www.pcancities.org.uk/
You can follow @Andy_Gouldson, @ElsieC51 (Polly Cook), @ProfJohnBarry and @KlockworksKate on Twitter.
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Sci Fight (www.scifight.com.au/) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner.
This round's topic: Scientists go to heaven.
Scientists do God’s work. They seek truth; divorced from opinion or ambition. They put society’s needs ahead of their own. They pursue their research with diligence, patience, and humility. Some of them even do it sober. That’s most of the seven Heavenly virtues!
Surely that’s enough Frequent Virtue Points to fly them straight to the gates of Heaven. Knowing scientists, they probably carbon offset the flight as well. Surely scientists are God’s chosen ones.
Pope Francis assured us that you didn’t actually have to believe in God to go to Heaven; though it is still rude to continuously blank Him during the weekly Bingo tournament once you’re there. Plus, the atheist scientists surely have an eternity in Heaven to overcome their existential bewilderment.
Then again, scientific research brought us the weapons of war; the tools to frack God’s Mother Earth, and the Lynx Africa body spray range. Can any amount of atonement wash the sins of shower in a can away? If Richard Dawkins ended up in Heaven surely it would be some sort of Angelic prank. If Dawkins is there, is it still Heaven?
Come to the Brunswick Ballroom and enjoy a bite and a beverage as we get belligerent and biblical.
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Special guest host Amruta Nargundkar from Heckin' Concerned (www.heckinconcerned.com).
Inconceivable is a film that recently ran on ABC Compass. Amruta and I speak to the director Jayde Harding about the making of and response to the film, her engagement with the climate crisis, and the broader topic of 'birthstrike'.
In the age of the global climate crisis many young Australians are struggling with the part of them that has always wanted and imagined having kids and the part of them that is terrified for the kind of future those children might have. Inconceivable explores these anxieties and how they are playing out in the lives of 5 Australians at different stages of building a family.
Many of the subjects of this documentary have previously appeared on Climactic, and you can fine those appearances below. Violet Mark Christine
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We're so happy to share the first episode of the new season of Hypecast with you!
Ever since Zali Steggall won the Sydney seat of Warringah as an independent candidate in the 2019 election she has been a force for change in our federal parliament. Championing legislation on climate action, parliamentary integrity, and recently an amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act, she has demonstrated refreshing leadership and transparency in Canberra.
In this episode Laura Phillips, Head of Urban Advocacy at HIP V. HYPE is joined by Zali Steggall OAM, Federal Member of Parliament for Warringah and Katya Crema, Director of Projects at HIP V. HYPE to discuss climate action and their shared paths as Winter Olympic athletes.
For more information on how to support the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020 head to the Climate Act Now page.
We respectfully acknowledge that Hypecast is recorded on traditional Aboriginal lands which have been sustained for thousands of years. We honour their ongoing connection to these lands, and seek to respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians in our work.
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Get the full episode and subscribe to Going There from https://goingtherepodcast.libsyn.com/episode-124-hope-in-anti-climactic-times (sorry for the full URL, but Apple Podcasts is currently a 🗑️🔥 so 🤷🏻).
Climactic Collective publisher Mark was invited on the excellent Going There podcast so popped along - and had a blast! Thanks to Matt and the team we can share episode for you here. But, if you enjoy this please do get along and get more of their deep seam of great shows.
The hosts turn to speakers in the climate space for guidance, insight & hope. New Zealander, Mark Spencer of the Climactic Podcast, shares witnessing the real effects of climate change throughout the world and getting certified in Al Gore’s climate initiative. The titular host of Talking Climate Change with Yash Negi, from India, talks about his scholastic studies & activism as he tries to educate others on the issue. And Phil Kolis of Air Bloom provides an ethereal soundscape for the topic.
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A complete treat and fun, to speak with Nicole Abadee this week about her wonderful podcast Books, Books, Books and how books nourish and share joy and hope at times like these. Two talkative women, Nicole and I, went on a roadtrip to Scone last March to what was to then be the last ‘live’ Writers Festival for more than a year as COVID restrictions kicked in.
Within a month or so, Nicole’s new podcast Books, Books, Books was up and underway featuring interviews with the best Australian and international writers about their new books that they could no longer promote or share live at book launches, writers festivals and other events.
One of Nicole’s first interviews was with Julia Baird about her inspiring book Phosphorescence. Julia’s very personal and uplifting book about healing, hope and the solace of nature - and immersion in it – is absolutely one that’s pitch perfect for the times, and has rapidly become a popular bestseller.
Listen in and enjoy hearing from Nic as we chat about and chew on podcasting, why writers write and about some special authors and recent books that speak to and about the precariousness of things and the vulnerabilities of living with climate change, bushfires and COVID, loss and hope.
Join us to hear about Claire Thomas’s new novel The Performance and James Bradley’s Ghost Species, hear practical tips about how to manage eco-anxiety and positively engage with friends and colleagues about climate action from Rebecca Huntley, author or the non-fiction book, How to Talk About Climate Change.
And enjoy a bite from the gorgeous book Animals Make Us Human, a compilation of wonderful short pieces about ‘animals’ by 40 well loved Australians. Instigated and edited by Leah Kaminsky and Meg Kenneally, this book shares reflections and stories from a myriad of voices who each respond to the grief and loss of so many animals and biodiversity from the 2019/2020 black summer.
Animals Make Us Human is an absolute jewel of a book and a call to action. You can look out for and listen in to Nicole’s interview with Meg and Leah, out soon, on Books, Books, Books.
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Books, Books, Books is a podcast by Nicole Abadee, book critic for Good Weekend, where she interviews top Australian and International authors.
This episode is especially of interest to Climactic listeners, as was the first episode of hers we featured, with Rebecca Huntley.
Please enjoy!
Leah Kaminsky and Meg Keneally discuss their new anthology, “Animals Make us Human”, a passion project for them and their contributors.
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Penguin "Animals Make Us Human": https://www.penguin.com.au/books/animals-make-us-human-9781760899813
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Climactic was launched April 22nd, 2018.
Now, three years on, we've released over 300 episodes. Kept our weekly schedule through it all. And, grown to be the flagship show of a Collective of 20+ climate-engaged podcasts.
We're proud, and here we're highlighting why, with some of our finest moments! The recent, the topical, the unrehearsed.
Enjoy, and if you enjoy the show please drop us a line to hello@climactic.fm to share some of your favourite moments, or what the show means to you.
Thanks, keep up the great work, and take care of each other - in these Climactic times.
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This is an episode of Nourishing Matter to Chew On. Find more episodes, and subscribe, here.
In this episode I speak with Dr Colin Chartres, CEO of The Crawford Fund, and Dr Daniel Walker, Chief Scientist of ACIAR, about an inspiring workshop that was held in March to bring leading Australian farmers and researchers together to present and discuss success stories, research challenges and paths forward.
Farmers and researchers across the country have high ambitions and believe it’s possible for agriculture to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with the will and way.
Imagine, if something huge but that sounds small, like “an increase of 0.4% of carbon in soils” on top of current levels of about 1% could get us there?!
The challenges are huge but Australian farmers and researchers are taking action and leading the way forward – both here and abroad.
Facilitating the conversations, research collaborations and disseminating Australian innovative practices here and overseas is key and The Crawford Fund and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) do just that.
Proceedings and live - yes live! – presentations from the workshop, “What can farmers do? Farmer-Led, Science-Based Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Strategies for Australia and Abroad” can be viewed online at The Crawford Fund’s website. Take further inspiration from the international Global Research Alliance (GRA) on Greenhouse Gases in Agriculture, that ACIAR, for Australia, currently Chairs, and that Dr Walker and colleagues convened meetings for in conjunction with the workshop that we discuss in this episode.
A privilege and such a pleasure to speak with and learn from Dr Chartres and Dr Walker and to hear their ideas and reflections upon, the discussions – before and after the workshop. Eminent Australian scientists - each with deep knowledge and understanding about Australian agriculture and ecosystems.
Before joining The Crawford Fund as CEO in 2014, Dr Chartres was Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a CGIAR Research Centre, headquartered in Sri Lanka, 2007-2012. Previously, he was Chief Science Adviser to the National Water Commission, held senior roles in the Bureau of Rural Sciences and Geoscience Australia and worked with CSIRO Division of Soils from 1984- 1997 and from 2002-2004 in CSIRO’s Land and Water Division.
Prior to joining ACIAR in 2017 as Chief Scientist, Dr Walker spent 23 years at CSIRO, where he was Research Director for Agriculture and Global Change with CSIRO Agriculture and Food and prior to that he was Chief of CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences. In his current role as Chief Scientist at ACIAR, Dan oversees the strategic science focus of the ACIAR research portfolio and its impact assessment, monitoring and evaluation work and also provides leadership for Research Program Managers across nine research areas, along with oversight of ACIAR’s relationship with the Australian innovation system.
Bravo and thank you!
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Global Research Alliance (GRA) on Greenhouse Gases in Agriculture https://globalresearchalliance.org/
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This is an episode of Art Breaker, find the show and all episodes here.
But this is also a guest episode, adapted from Saltgrass, a podcast and radio show on Main FM, and the work of Alison Hanley.
Jessie Boylan is a PhD candidate at RMIT’s School of Art. She has work in the upcoming Castlemaine State Festival called The Smallest Measure. Her thesis and upcoming art installation has taken her out to the wilds of a remote outpost at the edge of Tasmania… to a place called Cape Grim where there is a science lab that tests the air coming in off the ocean there. Without land or human habitation for hundreds of kilometres, the air blowing in off the ocean to cape grim is considered the best air in the world to get base measurements of our atmosphere, including carbon and other green house gasses. This data is vital in our understanding of global warming.
How does an artist depict the science of climate change? Listen to this episode to find out.
Thanks to Tom Day for music used in this and other Climactic Collective episodes.
Special thanks to Matt Wicking for the use of the music of the General Assembly.
Listen to Cape Grim here, from the album Vanishing Point.
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Gretchen Miller, radio documentary-maker and podcaster, interviews Tema Milstein, co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, about the key findings from the book, and a new term of this epoch, and why it's not the Anthropocene.
To read excerpts from the book please do so here.
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This episode is from The Overview Effect with James Perrin
Usually I’m on Bundjalung country, but THIS episode was recorded on takayna land in lutruwita (otherwise known as Tasmania), and I’d like to pay respects to the takayna people, and all first nations people of beautiful lutruwita.
I have been here in Tasmania for the last 5 days and if you’ve been listening to recent episodes or following me on Instagram, you’ll know that I was running the takayna ultramarathon. This is a 51km trail through the pristine Tarkine rainforest, the largest temperature rainforest in Australia; and it was AMAZING.
And brutal. The run was brutal. The course was super technical, with lots of really steep hills, climbing over and under fallen trees, bush bashing, heaps of rocks and mud, river crossings; it really was something else. But it was incredible, and I am so grateful to have experienced it, and I highly recommend anyone listening to come and do the run next year.
And that’s not JUST because of the specular running experience, but because it was all for a cause. See were running to raise awareness and funds for the Bob Brown Foundation to protect this place, which is every day under threat of logging and mining.
The team and volunteers at the Bob Brown Foundation are truly amazing, and the passion and the community that they’ve been here around this cause is so special. I had the absolute pleasure of spending the day after race at their forest defenders camp meeting many of them and learning about their front line actions and seeing the devastation that they’re trying to stop.
So this is what I’m sharing with you today.
I have two guests today: one of them is Scott Jordan who is a takayna campaigner, and we sat down in the rainforest at the defender’s camp where he will take you through all of the details about what the forestry activities and doing to the landscape, the environmental impacts, the socio/political situation, the economics of the situation, and how this campaign is at the core of the politics in this country.
MOST importantly, he shares what you can do to help the fight. This is really important because it’s not just a local issue. In fact, people outside Tasmania have a really key role to play in this fight so please listen in to what Scott has to say about hat.
But first, you’ll hear someone to set the scene, and tell us about how special the Tarkine is, and the destructive societal mentality that is leading to these sorts of activities in the first place.
He is the grandfather of the environmental movement in Australia.
He led the successful blockade in the Franklin River in the early 80s.
He helped establish both the Wilderness Society and Bush Heritage Australia.
He co-founded the world’s first Green political party, and held seats in various state and federal houses.
He really needs no other introduction, of course I’m talking of none other than the man himself, Dr Bob Brown
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Happy belated International Day of Forests, which is March 21st, since 2012. Mark here, publisher of the Climactic Collective, podcast network for the Australian and New Zealand climate community.
This episode is late because yesterday I travelled home to Aotearoa New Zealand, and am now quarantining in Christchurch.
I can't wait to get involved in New Zealand's climate community, and help expand Climactic to a collective of Australian, as well as New Zealand, climate-engaged podcasters.
But today is a story from the Melbourne community, that was sent in by friend and listener Peter Vadiveloo.
Peter is a musician who cleverly weaves funk, blues, folk and roots music around a rich seam of critical social justice issues such as First Nations people’s conditions, treatment of refugees, racism, wealth inequity in Western democracies and climate change. In short, Peter is an artist who will make you think.
He's written a song particularly appropriate to the day, and shared it with us to play for you.
For more on deforestation: Wilderness Foundation
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Brenna Quinlan is an illustrator and educator who strives to make the world a better place through her art and her actions. She lives at Australia's most well-known permaculture demonstration site, Melliodora, where she grows food, milks goats, builds soil and engages with the community - or, she did.
Mark and Eav caught up with Brenna on her last day at Melliodora to talk about her art and illustration, her process, and Our Street, the new book for kids about permaculture that brings Retrosuburbia to a new generation.
Thanks to Formidable Vegetable for their permission to use some excerpts of their tracks.
For more episodes of Serially Curious find them here, or for Art Breaker find and follow from here.
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Simon Moore is an environmental activist and science communicator from Leeds, in the UK. In this episode he chats to his local member of parliament (MP), Alex Sobel, about politics and the climate crisis.
Alex is MP for Leeds North West, Shadow Minister for Tourism, and Chair of the Net Zero All-Party Parliamentary Group.
The conversation covers how Alex got into politics and his views on political cronyism and corruption during the Covid pandemic. They discuss his hopes for COP26 and the private members’ bill he helped to craft with Extinction Rebellion – the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill.
They also discuss the controversial expansion of Leeds Bradford Airport, and approval of the first deep UK coal mine for more than 30 years, in Cumbria.
Simon also asks about the role of the new Mayor for West Yorkshire, which Labour MP Tracy Brabin is standing for in the upcoming local elections in May. And finally, Alex offers advice to activists who want to influence and work alongside their own elected representatives.
You can follow @Simon_C_Moore and @AlexSobel on Twitter
Music was provided by Tom Day
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Dr Jonica Newby hosted Catalyst on ABC television for two decades and because of the knowledge that brought, she found herself suffering from climate grief and so with the support of NewSouth Publishing wrote "Beyond climate grief".
She covers the whole gamut of human emotions, including courage, humour, love, anger and creativity, and with regard the latter, talked with Australia singer/songwriter, Missy Higgins, about latest album, "Solastalgia".
Jonica who twice one the Eureka Award for science journalism talked with Climate Conversations from her "heart place" at Gerroa on the New South Wales coast.
The music on this espisode is from "Music for a Warming World".
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From Kyla Brettle: A copy of David Attenborough’s ‘A Life on Our Planet; my witness statement and a vision for the future’ arrived in the post from my dad. In the accompanying letter dad said he'd read it whole and thought I’d like it. Anticipating a day spent in bed with David - I got up to make a cup of tea - that was my mistake. In a moment my partner had David I turn just in time to see him leave. So I had to wait, which roused my interest - but that I didn't have to wait for long intrigued me more. My man returned David to me the next day, and said his book was good. I started reading.
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Season 2 Episode 2 of Art Breaker
Lloyd Richards bring this interview and audio doco about artist Tom Day to Art Breaker.
Tom Day is a solo artist residing in Main Ridge, Australia and has been creating ambient and electronic music since 2005. Characterised as “effortless and raw”, Tom’s tracks couple elegant beats and piano melodies to an array of personally-collected field recordings, his style alternating between promising swells and restful plateaus.
Having grown up on a farm on the Mornington Peninsula, Tom is strongly influenced by the ocean beaches and natural openness of his hometown. Other influences include cinematic scores by Alan Silvestri, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Thomas Newman, John Barry & John Williams, as well as pioneering electronic artists such as Moby, Daft Punk, Brian Eno and The Chemical Brothers.
The music of Tom Day has been used in independent film and documentaries from around the world, with clients including National Geographic, Volvo, New York Times, Momondo, Holden, Juice Media, GetUp and Tourism Victoria. Having worked on an array of joint projects with other musicians and visual artists, Tom is deeply drawn to the synthesis of sound and image.
Links:
Tom Day
Songs:
Flemington
Howqua
Southerly
Credits: Host | Lloyd Richards Mix/Master | Lloyd Richards
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This was performed as a livestream as part of the National Sustainable Living Festival.
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Nourishing Matters to Chew On | On Eating Meat Part 1 "It's Not the Cow, It's the How"
Overview Effect with James Perrin | 14 - Catherine Ingram sees the purpose of accepting the unacceptable
Sustainable You | Episode 42: Preserving the right to witness nature’s beauty
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Full notes available from the Centre for Climate Safety.
Thank you to the Sustainable Hour for sharing this episode with us.
The climate revolution begins in your head
Science tells us time is running out. We just have a few years to get it right.
More than new tools, we need a new politics and a new economics, says David Wallace-Wells.
We need awareness and education, says Greta Thunberg. If solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself.”
Albert Einstein told us something similar in New York Times in 1946. “A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels,” Einstein wrote. The world we have created is a product of our thinking, and it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
But how?
The answer is that we need nothing less than a Climate Revolution. One that begins in your head.
The climate revolution is about enabling first ourselves, and then humanity, to scale up a new regenerative, Earth-centered, collaboration-focused thinking. A journey from ‘Me’ to ‘We’.
Revolution? Really? I have long considered whether it would be unwise to start campaigning for bolder climate action while using that term, ‘climate revolution’. The word revolution does have some historical connotations which might not be helpful.
But as we were doing The Sustainable Hour last week, I made a quick decision, inspired by a few phrases that flew out of me, and suddently the genie was out of the bottle: We lifted the ‘Climate Revolution’ into the headline for that podcast episode. And all of a sudden, we found ourselves no longer just whispering the word between ourselves. Now we are getting in gear to shout it out from the rooftops: “The Climate Revolution is happening, folks. Now, how will we be kickstarting the climate revolution in our little town?”
I guess you start the journey and become a “climate revolutionary” in spe already at that moment when you say to yourself: “This struggle for climate safety will be the defining battle of my life. And I feel really passionate about this.”
The days for “climate action” and walking in the streets with protest banners are over – now it is about what you do and how you vote. Not on some Friday afternoon every second month or so, or at the ballot box every third year or so, but every single day.
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There is an unlikely hero that could help deliver us from climate catastrophe, and that hero is found washed up on our beaches and lives deep in our oceans.
In this final UTS 4 Climate conversation, Professor Bob Carr sits down with Australia’s best-known climate author and scientist, Professor Tim Flannery to discuss the innovative ways we could draw down the carbon that exists in our atmosphere, and the urgent need to begin this work.
UTS 4 Climate is a five-part podcast series bringing together leading thinkers from politics, economics, science and journalism to continue the conversation on climate change.
This audio series creates a space to explore climate change from all angles and find practical answers to what we can do to address the climate crisis and secure our futures.
The series is hosted by marine science student Erika Wagner, who works at the Institute for Sustainable Futures. Erika introduces listeners to a range of fascinating conversations held in 2020 by Professor the Honourable Bob Carr, NSW’s longest-serving Premier, former Foreign Minister of Australia and UTS Industry Professor of Climate and Business.
Hear from a diverse range of guests on where Australia has gone wrong on our approach to climate, opportunities to reduce carbon emissions, how to talk about climate in a way that makes a difference, and what it will take to achieve a sustainable future.
This podcast was made by Impact Studios at UTS in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Futures.
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A striking development has occurred in the world of corporate finance in 2020. Over the past months, a string of corporations have divested from thermal coal, starting with US investment giant BlackRock and extending to Japan's Mizuho and the Norwegian Government Pension Fund.
But the world’s financiers haven't suddenly become climate activists overnight - instead it's economics that is driving this shift. With the Paris Agreement in place, coal is being dumped all over the world and no longer is seen a safe investment.
In this instalment of the UTS 4 Climate podcast, Bob Carr sits down with Tim Buckley, Director of Energy Finance Studies, Australia/South Asia at IEEFA for a robust discussion on the transformation hitting the energy markets of Australia and Asia.
UTS 4 Climate is a five-part podcast series bringing together leading thinkers from politics, economics, science and journalism to continue the conversation on climate change.
This audio series creates a space to explore climate change from all angles and find practical answers to what we can do to address the climate crisis and secure our futures.
The series is hosted by marine science student Erika Wagner, who works at the Institute for Sustainable Futures. Erika introduces listeners to a range of fascinating conversations held in 2020 by Professor the Honourable Bob Carr, NSW’s longest-serving Premier, former Foreign Minister of Australia and UTS Industry Professor of Climate and Business.
Hear from a diverse range of guests on where Australia has gone wrong on our approach to climate, opportunities to reduce carbon emissions, how to talk about climate in a way that makes a difference, and what it will take to achieve a sustainable future.
This podcast was made by Impact Studios at UTS in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Futures.
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The devastating effects of the 2019-2020 bushfires saw Australian communities ravaged by the impacts of climate change. Many viewed the tragedy as a long overdue wake-up call, and one that should spur rapid action to address the ecological challenges facing us. But as the ash settles, what will the next steps for climate policy look like in an Australia reeling from a catastrophic fire season?
In this not to be missed conversation, hear from UTS industry professor Bob Carr who is joined by Independent MP for Warringah, Zali Steggall OAM, elected in 2019 on a platform of pursuing national climate action. Zali is joined by Martijn Wilder, a world leader in climate law and sustainable investing who believes Australia could lead the way in the race to decarbonise.
UTS 4 Climate is a five-part podcast series bringing together leading thinkers from politics, economics, science and journalism to continue the conversation on climate change.
This audio series creates a space to explore climate change from all angles and find practical answers to what we can do to address the climate crisis and secure our futures.
The series is hosted by marine science student Erika Wagner, who works at the Institute for Sustainable Futures. Erika introduces listeners to a range of fascinating conversations held in 2020 by Professor the Honourable Bob Carr, NSW’s longest-serving Premier, former Foreign Minister of Australia and UTS Industry Professor of Climate and Business.
Hear from a diverse range of guests on where Australia has gone wrong on our approach to climate, opportunities to reduce carbon emissions, how to talk about climate in a way that makes a difference, and what it will take to achieve a sustainable future.
This podcast was made by Impact Studios at UTS in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Futures.
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End Game brings story, music and sound together to explore a local response to the global problem of climate change. It deals with the difficult and emotional side of getting our heads around being the heroes of this mess.
A mother facing the mother of all threats - Melanie Scaife shares her ‘head-cracking moment’ - when climate change became a real rather than abstract part of her daughters future, and doing nothing ceased to be an option.
Kyla’s notes:
I identify deeply with Melanie’s story. It’s not just that we are of a similar demographic living in the same rural shire, both with four-year-old daughters who are obsessed by rainbow unicorns - like Melanie, I too found myself switched on to climate change in the space of a moment that felt like forever. But I couldn’t find the words until I sat down with Melanie, an audio recorder and a cup of strong coffee…
Rob and I have talked a lot about how to weave in and explore through End Game the more personal side of how we grapple with climate change - and the ‘big bang’ seemed like a good place to start.
In this piece Melanie reads excerpts of a speech she gave at the Mount Alexander Shire Climate Change Forum held in December 2019; urging our local council to declare a climate emergency. Rob and I also spoke at the Forum, alongside 140 odd residents, business owners and community group leaders from our town and its surrounds.
I remember sitting in the audience and thinking - so these are the people I’ll be sharing food, water and a leaky boat with as the impacts of climate change intensify. My interest was sparked in what they had to say and how they saw the world and our future.
Later I discovered that the forum was a key moment in the story of our shire’s response to climate change - and it really did precipitate the emergency declaration that happened shortly after. [For more listen to End Game’s ‘Problem Solved’]. The forum was also an expression of a collective community voice on climate change and part of a long and rich history of climate action in our town [for more listen to End Game’s ‘Bubbling away and rising’]
But ‘Everything you hold dear’ is not about the Climate Change Forum and our community response to the crisis - it is about a woman coming to grips with climate change emotionally - and then managing that realisation once it’s out of the box. (read more on Kyla’s blog about the story behind ‘Everything you hold dear’)
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Maybe the mention of our climate future makes you feel anxious, angry, scared or just detached. If so you’re not alone.
Learning to talk about climate change and having meaningful conversations with those who agree and disagree with you on the subject is a powerful step we can take to get the action on climate we need.
Hear from UTS Professor of Climate and Business Bob Carr in conversation with social researcher and author Dr Rebecca Huntley as they discuss her latest book How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference, and explore why we find it so hard to talk about climate.
UTS 4 Climate is a five-part podcast series bringing together leading thinkers from politics, economics, science and journalism to continue the conversation on climate change.
This audio series creates a space to explore climate change from all angles and find practical answers to what we can do to address the climate crisis and secure our futures.
The series is hosted by marine science student Erika Wagner, who works at the Institute for Sustainable Futures. Erika introduces listeners to a range of fascinating conversations held in 2020 by Professor the Honourable Bob Carr, NSW’s longest-serving Premier, former Foreign Minister of Australia and UTS Industry Professor of Climate and Business.
Hear from a diverse range of guests on where Australia has gone wrong on our approach to climate, opportunities to reduce carbon emissions, how to talk about climate in a way that makes a difference, and what it will take to achieve a sustainable future.
This podcast was made by Impact Studios at UTS in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Futures.
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Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this first episode of this five-part series with you.
In 2007 it looked like there was a political consensus to price carbon in Australia, in a move that would provide a transition to a post-carbon economy. So how did Australia's climate policy fall foul of a global political agenda? In this episode of UTS 4 Climate, Professor Bob Carr picks through forensic investigative journalist Marian Wilkinson’s book, The Carbon Club to discuss how big money and political power continued Australia’s decades of climate inaction.
UTS 4 Climate is a five-part podcast series bringing together leading thinkers from politics, economics, science and journalism to continue the conversation on climate change.
This audio series creates a space to explore climate change from all angles and find practical answers to what we can do to address the climate crisis and secure our futures.
The series is hosted by marine science student Erika Wagner, who works at the Institute for Sustainable Futures. Erika introduces listeners to a range of fascinating conversations held in 2020 by Professor the Honourable Bob Carr, NSW’s longest-serving Premier, former Foreign Minister of Australia and UTS Industry Professor of Climate and Business.
Hear from a diverse range of guests on where Australia has gone wrong on our approach to climate, opportunities to reduce carbon emissions, how to talk about climate in a way that makes a difference, and what it will take to achieve a sustainable future.
This podcast was made by Impact Studios at UTS in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Futures.
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What do you get when audio creators from an award-winning production agency work with Greenpeace to create a mini series on climate engagement? You get Heaps Better!
Listen to the amazing Episode 1 of this four-part miniseries right here on Climactic. Then, stick around for a chat with the creators Jess and Ash, with interviewer and science communicator Lee Constable. Climate Australia, Lee's livestreamed interview show has just launched as a podcast on Climactic. Subscribe and watch out for Lee's amazing interview with some leading figures in the climate community.
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Warwick Smith reads aloud his article on Doughnut Economics for economic recovery, and climate action, which recently ran in The Conversation, ABC, and New Daily.
Before the recession we were on a collision course with environmental disaster.
The recovery provides a rare opportunity to do things differently; to rebuild a better economy that can support living standards without irretrievably damaging the environment.
The closer we get to irreversible climate change, the harder that will become.
Links:
https://castlemaineinstitute.org.au/
https://www.regen.melbourne/
https://www.slf2021.org/
https://doughnuteconomics.org/
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Introducing Kyla Brettle, radio and audio creative veteran, reading aloud her review of Rebecca Huntley's latest, and much-loved, look at what makes effective climate conversation.
Then, hear an episode from the phenomenal End Game Podcast Project, from Castlemaine. The work of Kyla and Rob is audiophonic theatre for your ears.
If it inspires you to campaign for your local council to declare a climate emergency, here's some resources that'll help! https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/
https://www.lgcet.com/
And two previous episodes on the network about Council CED's: https://www.climactic.com.au/show/serially-curious-with-mark-and-eav/glen-eira-declares-a-climate-emergency-54-days-into-lockdown-spotlight-on-community-climate-action/ https://www.climactic.com.au/show/growing-concern/s1e6-the-voices-of-the-bayside-council-climate-emergency/
End Game 'Problem 'Solved' shownotes:
Kyla’s notes
Last year I became really invested in whether or not my local council would declare a climate emergency. The vote happened shortly after a monumental petition signed by 400,000 Australians wanting the federal government to respond urgently to climate change - went nowhere. I withdrew my hopes like small change from national politics and I fell into worrying about what would happen to me and my little family as climate change worsens.
A declaration of a climate emergency is a bit of a weird thing to long for - or at least it seemed so before 2020, when normal didn’t include firestorms and pandemics. At the time I was awakening to the grim reality of our situation - reading long essays about tipping points and deep adaptation - weeping before youtube videos of floating fish and blazing rainforests - coming adrift over plastic waste in a supermarket isle. I wrote about this in my blog. Unable to withstand the tide, I made the inevitable shift from being concerned about climate change to being alarmed.
My man and I talked about moving to New Zealand - a relative crevice in the cliff facing the storm. For my part, I realised I didn’t want to leave this country - that in some way I had to stand by it. So my focus shifted to the local - a place where I felt I could have some kind of influence - and that took me to my first town meeting about the climate crisis.
At the Climate Emergency Town Hall Meeting, November 2019
The speeches at the start of this soundwork are from this Town Hall event - set up to share information about climate change in our shire and the most recent petition to declare a climate emergency. This is where the story started for me. In the photo taken at the event I’m sitting in the front row with the red shoes - a few seats down from fellow sound person and local creek dweller, Rob Law. We didn’t know one another then, but a few months later we started collaborating on this sound project.
Initially we thought this audio sequence would open the podcast series we intend to make out of the story site - but now we are not so sure.
Credits co-Produced by Kyla Brettle and Rob Law Sound Design by Kyla Brettle Music by Rob Law
Featuring Jodi Newcombe, Rob Law, Kyla Brettle Town Hall Speakers: Warwick Smith, Harriet O’Shea Carre & Heather Cummins Councillors: Bronwen Machin, Stephen Gardener, Dave Petrusma
Other Recording Sound recording of Owlet Nightjars, courtesy of Listening Earth, Andrew Keogh Town Hall Recording by Twofold Media MAS Council Recordings on youtube
Licence CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) Use the contact form to request a downloadable version
Links Jodi Newcombe website Central Victorian Climate Action Team Mount Alexander Shire Council Rob Law’s music Twofold Media Listening Earth
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This special 2-part miniseries is from a panel held as part of ARTS1241, Environmental Advocacy and Activism, from the University of New South Wales.
Mark Rudd is a political organizer and an anti-war activist. He first burst onto the political landscape in the United States as a member, and ultimately the leader of the Columbia University chapter of Students for Democratic Society (known as SDS). SDS was the leading student anti-war social movement in the United States in the 1960s.
Mark Rudd's expertise, namely the limits of violent, direct action, are particularly relevant to what's going on right now. For more on SDS, Mark's contemporary Tom Hayden and that time period, check out the film The Trial of the Chicago Seven on Netflix.
Join the students of 1241 for this discussion with Mark about the dangers of violence in activism, his theory of change, and what we can learn from successful social movements of the past.
To join us in adapting future events, and providing a platform for learning and collaboration across the climate community, get in touch with Climactic at hello@climactic.fm for any feedback, suggestions or questions.
Resources: Why Did Columbia University Students Protest in 1968? | History (YouTube)
Mark's book - Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen (Goodreads)
Mark's film recommendation - The Glorias (Wikipedia)
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This special 2-part miniseries is from a panel held as part of ARTS1241, Environmental Advocacy and Activism, from the University of New South Wales.
Mark Rudd is a political organizer and an anti-war activist. He first burst onto the political landscape in the United States as a member, and ultimately the leader of the Columbia University chapter of Students for Democratic Society (known as SDS). SDS was the leading student anti-war social movement in the United States in the 1960s.
Mark Rudd's expertise, namely the limits of violent, direct action, are particularly relevant to what's going on right now. For more on SDS, Mark's contemporary Tom Hayden and that time period, check out the film The Trial of the Chicago Seven on Netflix.
Join the students of 1241 for this discussion with Mark about the dangers of violence in activism, his theory of change, and what we can learn from successful social movements of the past.
To join us in adapting future events, and providing a platform for learning and collaboration across the climate community, get in touch with Climactic at hello@climactic.fm for any feedback, suggestions or questions.
Resources: Why Did Columbia University Students Protest in 1968? | History (YouTube)
Mark's book - Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen (Goodreads)
Mark's film recommendation - The Glorias (Wikipedia)
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Climactic is at 250 episodes. Wow.
If you must hear it, here's where we started. But really, we've gotten much better.
And, we've helped launch many more, better shows that started much stronger than we did. You can find them all at climactic.fm.
Hear some thank you's to some (but in no way all) of the people who've contributed to Climactic this year!
Climactic on Podchaser
Music Seán Marsh
Tom Day
Puscha
The General Assembly
Design - Abby Hawkins
As 2020 draws to a close, once again Jacqui and Lisa take some time to chat about the year that was. They reflect on the episodes that they are most proud of, the things that they learnt and what they have achieved in a year like no other. This is the final episode of the year - but they will be back with more inspiring episodes in 2021! Thank you to everyone for your support - please get in touch if you have something to share!
Sustainable You is a proud member of the Climactive Network. For more information about the growing Climactic Collective, check out the network at www.climactic.com.au
Sustainable You can be found onFacebook,Instagram, and sign up to our mailing list for bonus material through ourwebsite. If you have an idea for an episode, or want to ask us something in more detail, send us an email! If you enjoy listening to our show, we would love you to give us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. This episode is produced by Fran from 17th Street Audio.
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Nourishing Matters to Chew On has launched on the Climactic Collective. Subscribe to get new episodes at Climactic.com.au, or Foodswell.
Nourishing Matters to Chew On is a podcast that takes its cue from big picture, healthy and sustainable food system agendas and digs in to explore what these change agendas mean for us here, in Australia. It looks at how we produce and enjoy food in a Climate Change future, as well as how we value the people, places and animals that nourish us.
Anthea Fawcett talks to Arnagretta Hunter, eminent Cardiologist, senior lecturer for ANU and Chair of the Commission for the Human Future about the implications of their recently released report "The Need for Strategic Food Policy in Australia".
"The really powerful messages from the report is the interdependence and interrelated issues here that you can't can't really address food security without considering climate change" Arnagretta Hunter
To hear more Nourishing Matters to Chew On go to the Foodswell website www.foodswell.org/nourishing or SUBSCRIBE wherever you get your podcasts.
WE HOPE YOU HAVE LIKED THIS TASTE OF OUR NEW PODCAST, WE WILL BE GOING ON BREAK FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON BUT PLEASE JOIN US IN 2021 FOR MORE "NOURISHING MATTERS TO CHEW ON".
SHOWNOTES:
FoodswellWeb: https://www.foodswell.org.au
Twitter: @foodswell1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Foodswell-800405613378218
Instagram: @nourishing_matters and @foodswellaustralia
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Instagram: @foodswell1
Dr Arnagretta Hunter
Web: https://climate.anu.edu.au/about/people/academics/dr-arnagretta-hunter
Twitter: @cbr_heartdoc
Instagram: @arnagretta
IMPORTANT LINKS:Commission for the Human Future: https://humanfuture.net
The Need for Strategic Food Policy in Australia Report: https://humanfuture.net/node/112
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This is an audio adaptation of an article written by Laura Phillips, host of Hypecast, published December 7th, 2020 on Resilience.org.
It includes a short message from Dale Martin, author of the Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit (LGCET).
It was produced and edited by Lloyd Richards. Music from Tom Day.
If you have a suggestion for a podcast adaption, or any comments/feedback, please reach publisher Mark Spencer at hello@climactic.fm.
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Our thanks to the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife for sharing this episode with us. Find the whole series and more information about the Wildlife Heroes project.
Australia’s 15,000+ wildlife volunteers work hard, under intense conditions. The Wildlife Heroes: Caring for Carers Podcast aims to start a mental health conversation to support our volunteers to look after themselves and each other.
The Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife (FNPW) teamed up with podcast producer Gretchen Miller, wildlife carers and mental health experts to share stories and perspectives about climate worry, personal wellbeing, community conflict, catastrophic events, and supporting others.
Each single animal we rescue takes hours, days, weeks and months of care. But the big picture remains grim. How can we take care of ourselves as climate warriors and climate worriers?
We speak with: Dr Ros Irwin, a veteran carer and President of Friends of the Koala from Lismore in NSW. Sally Gillespie, a former psychotherapist who presents talks and workshops on climate psychology and eco-psychology.
Further information: Two Green Threads – advice and mental health support for wildlife carers. Wildlife Heroes Please call Lifeline on 13 11 14 if this conversation has brought up strong feelings and you are having trouble coping.
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Ruth Bookbinder, a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, in the UK, talks to Professor Anna Mdee and Dr Katy Roelich about their research studying the University of Leeds’ transition to net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. Their project aims to create a theory of change that can also help other institutions respond to the climate crisis. They discuss some of their key findings, including the barriers and opportunities to changing complex institutions - at the University of Leeds and beyond.
This episode was produced for Climactic with assistance from Simon Moore.
Professor Anna Mdee is Professor in the Politics of Global Development at the University of Leeds.
Dr Katy Roelich is Associate Professor at the University of Leeds.
Ruth Bookbinder is a PhD researcher in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.
For questions or comments about the show and the research contact R.I.Bookbinder@leeds.ac.uk
Find out more about the work of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, based at the University of Leeds, on their website or follow them on Twitter: @PriestleyCentre.
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This is a special audio documentary from Ruby Marshall.
Join us in this podcast to hear from local residents and workers from the Latrobe Valley about the just transition away from the fossil fuel industry that is happening there right now. What is currently happening in the Latrobe Valley with their transition away from the fossil fuel industry? How is the community preparing for the closing of the coal mines, and creating new industries with jobs to replace the mines? How is the Latrobe Valley experiencing the impacts of climate change and how are they dealing with it? Listen to find out.
Earth Worker Cooperative
Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation
Voices of the Valley
Latrobe Valley Community Power Hub
Environment Victoria
Coal Hole
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Thanks to the Women's Climate Justice Collective for sharing this event with us and allowing us to adapt it to a podcast episode.
WCJC is a national collective led by women, aiming to mainstream feminist climate justice and support women in the climate and women's rights movements.
Meet us at the intersections of gender and environment, rise above the noise and distraction, and be transported by the magic of story. Cut through the confusion and divisiveness of statistics, politics, vested interests and media coverage and listen - to first person accounts of climate impacts, beautifully told. Come with us to visit the heart of our shared global experiences through true, spellbinding narratives from diverse women.
Having an event, want it to be adapted and released on Climactic? Get in touch at hello@climactic.fm
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Thanks to the Feminist Writers Festival for sharing this excellent episode with us.
In this episode, Ecofeminism, Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe and novelist Alice Robinson chat with nature writer Inga Simpson about a feminism that centres itself around country.
Reading Notes
Rachel Carson: The Life and Legacy
On Judith Wright: Judith Wright in a new light, by Kevin Brophy
Louisa Atkinson: Louisa Atkinson's Nature Notes
Protecting the Djab Warrung, Lidia Thorpe
Other recommended reading
Some other reading suggestions from our podcasters.
Feminist Writers Festival
feministwritersfestival.com
FB: @feministwritersfest
Insta/Twitter: @FemWritersFest
Speakers
Alice Robinson: Tw @critature, Insta @ciaoalicerobinson, www.alicerobinson.com.au
Inga Simpson: Tw/FB @inga.simpson, Insta @nestofpages, www.ingasimpson.com.au
Lidia Thorpe: Tw @lidia_thorpe
Shout Outs
Kel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.
The Besen Family Foundation for vital funding support.
We acknowledge that this recording took place across Australia on First Nations lands - lands whose sovereignty has never been ceded.
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Author Katerina Cosgrove reads aloud a recent piece of writing, published by SBS Voices.
This feature vignette was produced and sound designed by Lloyd Richards featuring music by Omer Haber.
The coverart is by @leio on Unsplash.
To get in touch with us, to contribute your own creativity to engaging with the climate crisis, drop us a line at hello@climactic.fm. Or a voicemail from climactic.com.au.
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This is the pilot episode of a new series on the Climactic Collective podcast network, that will be recorded live on streaming TV platform Cimpatico.tv. We're calling it 'Degree of Difference' and it's like Jerry Springer. For the climate community. If Jerry Springer had been about mutual respect and constructive engagement over differences of opinion. So, less Jerry and more civil discourse.
In this episode Daniel Bleakley and Asher Coleman discuss their perspectives and the difference between them about:
If it's fair or constructive to call Victorian Environment Minister Lily D'Ambrosio a climate denier. If Twitter activism is productive. If Tesla is going to save, or at least substantially change, the world. The benefit and utility of climate reduction and net zero targets by a certain date.
It's fascinating, fractious, and dare we say even fun.
You can watch the video at https://www.facebook.com/301351893724797/videos/2961492227418558/
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Send a COMMUNITY CORNER message at https://www.climactic.com.au/p/communitycorner/
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The International Organization for Migration estimates that between 25 million and 1 billion people will move as a result of climate change within the next 30 years.
Toby Kent, the City of Melbourne's first Chief Resilience Officer, joins Mark Spencer to talk to the Deputy Executive Director of the Mayors Migration Council to talk migration, urbanisation, climate change, and the collision of these factors.
Kate is an immigration policy expert with over a decade of experience working on international, national, state, and local policymaking and advocacy.
Toby Kent is an entrepreneur, professional speaker, and business advisor. His work focuses on helping organisations thrive in the face of challenge. He is a board member of the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia and for over five years was metropolitan Melbourne’s Chief Resilience Officer.
Mayors Migration Council
MMC COVID-19 Response
MMC Twitter
And, for a migration crisis right on the doorstep of Australia, happening to Australian citizens, please take part in this campaign to call on the Australian Federal Government to act on climate change with the urgency required - as we see the Torres Strait Islands being inundated by rising seas.
https://ourislandsourhome.com.au/ - Sign the petition, watch the video, share it with a friend.
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The Climactic Collective is proud to host the Clean State WA Podcast Series, by Anthony James, creator of The RegenNarration.
You might recognise Dr Vanessa Rauland from the recent ABC TV series Fight for Planet A. Vanessa’s the co-founder with Alexander Karan of ClimateClever, one of a growing number of WA social enterprises that are starting to realise some of the enormous opportunities in our energy transition. The ClimateClever team has nearly doubled in recent months (even during COVID-19), working with an increasing number of schools, their communities and now businesses, to help them reduce emissions, save money and up skill the next generation around regenerative living.
Vanessa’s long-dedicated her days to addressing climate change and increasing awareness about the vast benefits of sustainability. And in the wake of the extraordinary youth-led global climate strikes, it seems fitting that schools would lead the way in the energy and related transitions we so urgently need. Today, Vanessa takes us to one of the WA schools doing just that.
The Clean State WA podcast is produced and hosted by Anthony James, Perth-based creator of The RegenNarration podcast. For more stories of regeneration around WA, Australia and the world, tune into The RegenNarration wherever podcasts are found, or at https://www.regennarration.com.
Music: Eden is Lost, by Selfless Orchestra.
Get more: On Vanessa and ClimateClever - https://www.climateclever.org/
For more on the emerging Perth hub of ‘clean technology’ start-ups, visit PowerLedger and ClearView solar window technology.
And check out the Clean State WA website, where you’ll see more on the Jobs Plan and how you can get involved - https://www.cleanstate.org.au/jobs-plan
Including on the Bright Sparks Solar Powered School Program and the energy transition - https://www.cleanstate.org.au/bright_sparks_solar_schools
Clean State is an independent initiative advocating for action on climate change and jobs in Western Australia. We represent thousands of individuals and hundreds of businesses and other organisations who are dedicated to climate action across the state. We promote solutions that create thousands of jobs supporting businesses, families and communities and make our state a regenerative, fair and prosperous place to live and work.
More than ever before, we have an opportunity to invest in a sustainable future for WA. The coronavirus pandemic is expected to put as many as 64,000 Western Australians out of work and an economic downturn is underway. That’s why Clean State has worked with industry experts from across WA to develop a plan for over 200,000 jobs that will also deliver action on climate change, conservation, and the care economy. This is the Clean State Jobs Plan.
The Clean State office acknowledges that it resides on the land of the Nyoongar people. We pay respect to their Elders, past and present, and acknowledge the important role all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play in advancing a Clean State of WA.
Thanks to the team at Clean State WA, and to the generous volunteers, supporters and active partners who are making this plan a reality.
If you’d like to get in touch with ideas, questions or thoughts generated by the plan or this podcast, you can email Clean State at info@cleanstate.org.au or simply join our mailing list https://www.cleanstate.org.au/join
And thanks for listening!
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It’s Saturday, the 7th of November.
November 9th, next Monday, a bill will be tabled in the Australian federal parliament.
It’s called the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020. Also known as the Climate Act. It is a net zero carbon emissions pledge, and plan, for Australia to achieve by 2050. It is the same pledge, and broad plan, already adopted by the UK.
"Climate change is real for Australia, with immediate and deepening risks to our natural environment, economy and way of life. Last summer’s unprecedented bushfires are a mark of the worst of those risks, and how they will affect some communities more than others. But there are also opportunities to prosper, given our enormous natural, human and financial wealth."
You, reading this, already know. But we all have people in our lives who have heard the facts, but don’t feel the urgency. So rather than reciting the facts, I’m honoured to now play you a song. It’s called Sky Was Blue (The Bushfire Song) and is performed by Bonesy.
If you get the chance, in the next 48 hours ahead of November 9th, play this song for a friend or family member. I’m sure it’ll cast their minds back to this summer, and let all the other distractions fade. And after this song, take them to climateactnow.com.au, and sign to support what really is a bare minimum commitment, to honour the losses our communities suffered over that summer.
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Rebroadcast of an episode of Catastrophic, with a new introduction.
Sulari Gentill lives in the NSW town of Batlow, home of the Batlow apple. Her husband, Michael and son, Edmund, are both volunteer firefighters with the RFS. They have been fighting fires for years but they have never experienced anything like this. In the first weekend of January 2020 the town of Batlow was decimated by a mega fire. Sulari evacuated their home, while Michael and Edmund almost lost their lives fighting to save their beloved town. This is Sulari's story.
New introduction includes reading from this article in The Conversation. And a video by Sara Rickards about the Climate Act.
Catastrophic is a dual podcast and political protest. Catastrophic tells the tales of the Australian bushfires and calls for all-partisan political action around Climate Change. Each episode of Catastrophic features an Australian talking about their experience of living through the bushfire crisis, what their fears are now and for the future and what they would like to see done about it on a government level. But it doesn’t end when the episode goes out. We at Listen Up Podcasting are taking every story we gather, every episode we release of the Catastrophic podcast and putting them together into one big audio file and sending it to ALL the politicians. These are our demands: They are the same demands people have been protesting about and calling for over the last few years: No new coal, oil and gas projects, including the Adani mine and the Wallarah 2 coal project. 100% renewable energy generation & exports by 2030 Fund a just transition & job creation for all fossil-fuel workers & communities. Hand over land conservation management to First Nations Australians Start preserving our water and treating it as a precious resource not a commodity.
SHOW NOTES: Catastrophic Facebook @CatastrophicPod Listen Up Podcasting - www.listenuppodcasting.com.au
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"The Long View on Environmental and Social Justice for Botany Bay: Interdisciplinary partnerships between UNSW and the community"
This year's Hillier lecture will provide an opportunity to reflect on the past, present, and future of work on environmental and social justice issues in and around Botany Bay from the perspectives of researchers with the University of New South Wales.
While UNSW and Council are partners in presenting the annual Hillier lecture, the interrelations between the communities of Botany Bay and the University are much deeper.This year's lecture will take the form of a round-table reflecting upon the broader lessons we can learn from the work done at UNSW addressing environmental, social, policy, water, planning, legal and urban issues around Botany Bay, and what these lessons might mean for new and existing interdisciplinary partnerships with Botany Bay's communities.
Panel members:
Ian Tyrrell - Emeritus Professor, Environmental Historian. Author of "River Dreams: The people and landscape of the Cooks River" (2018)
Sharyn Cullis - Georges River Environmental Alliance and Recent UNSW PhD Graduate.
Emma Golledge - Director, Kingsford Legal Centre, UNSW Law
James Weirick - Professor and Director of the Urban Development & Design Program, UNSW
Anne Maree Kreller, Postgrad, Expert on planning for sea level rise in the Botany Bay Area, author: "Fair for whom? How residents and municipalities evaluate sea level rise policies in Botany Bay, Australia" (2018)
Suhelen Egan - Associate Professor, UNSW School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) & The Centre of Marine Science and Innovation (CMSI)
About Nancy Hillier:
Nancy Hillier was a tireless campaigner on behalf of people and places in the Botany Bay area of Sydney. This annual lecture acknowledges Nancy's legacy by providing a forum to discuss major social and environmental issues from the perspective of campaigners and activists.
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Simon Moore, from the Priestley International Centre for Climate, talks to a variety of people at the University of Leeds who are working to bring about a net-zero, socially just future.
Dr Cat Scott explains the important role of trees and forests in tackling climate change.
Then Dr Kirsty Pringle talks about her citizen science project in Bradford, looking at how air pollution impacts children’s health.
PhD researcher Jefim Vogel discusses a wellbeing economy, the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill, and the community group Our Future Leeds.
And finally, Dr Louise Ellis, Director of Sustainability, outlines what the University of Leeds is doing to reduce its own contribution to climate change, aiming for net-zero emissions by 2030.
This episode was produced for Climactic, Bradford Science Festival, and the University of Leeds research showcase Be Curious.
Find out more about the work of the Priestley International Centre for Climate on their website: https://climate.leeds.ac.uk/
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What’s the Grot? Or, what happens to form The Grot?
A barely recognisable, muddy dystopia of a future? Or, a near at hand present with just a slap of mud and touch of humour?
Eav Brennan explores graphic novel The Grot with author Pat Grant, and get into why he made it, what it reflects, and what he hopes you take away from it.
You can already read it for free on his site, so get the director’s commentary here while you’re at it, you beautiful cheapskates!
Links: Pat Grant The Grottiest Book Launch!
Clips: Sydney Morning Herald - 'There's nothing to celebrate': Cronulla Riots 10 years on 2040 - Seaweed Crowdfunding Campaign Elysium
Credits: Host | Eav Brennan Host | Mark Spencer Mix/Master | Seán Marsh Music/Production Assistance | Lloyd Richards
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This is the Climactic adaptation of Everybody Now, a "podmarch". "A Podcast Climate Protest March, or Climate Podmarch, if you will."
First we feature some audio from the excellent new Climate Ads project, then an introduction/explanation by Climactic founder Mark Spencer, a recording from Mark ahead of the September 20th, 2019 School Strike, before the Everybody Now podmarch.
Please find below the shownotes and credits of Everybody Now.
Everybody Now
Climate Emergency and Sacred Duty
We’ve caused a turning point in the Earth’s natural history. Everybody Now is a podcast about what it means to be human on the threshold of a global climate emergency, in a time of systemic injustice and runaway pandemics. Scientists, activists, farmers, poets, and theologians talk bravely and frankly about how our biosphere is changing, about grief and hope in an age of social collapse and mass extinction, and about taking action against all the odds.
On 19th October 2020, Everybody Now is being released by podcasters all over the world as a collective call for awareness, grief and loving action.
With contributions from:
Dr. Gail Bradbrook - scientist and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion
Prof. Kevin Anderson - Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester
Dámaris Albuquerque - works with agricultural communities in Nicaragua
Dr. Rowan Williams - theologian and poet, and a former Archbishop of Canterbury
Pádraig Ó Tuama - poet, theologian and conflict mediator
Rachel Mander - environmental activist with Hope for the Future
John Swales - priest and activist, and part of a community for marginalised people
Zena Kazeme - Persian-Iraqi poet who draws on her experiences as a former refugee to create poetry that explores themes of exile, home, war and heritage
Flo Brady - singer and theatre maker
Hannah Malcolm - Anglican ordinand, climate writer and organiser
Alastair McIntosh - writer, academic and land rights activist
David Benjamin Blower - musician, poet and podcaster
Funding and Production:
This podcast was crowdfunded by a handful of good souls, and produced by Tim Nash and David Benjamin Blower
Permissions:
The song Happily by Flo Brady is used with permission.
The song The Soil, from We Really Existed and We Really Did This by David Benjamin Blower, used with permission.
The Poem The Tree of Knowledge by Pádraig Ó Tuama used with permission.
The Poem Atlas by Zena Kazeme used with permission.
The Poem What is Man? by Rowan Williams from the book The Other Mountain, used with permission from Carcanet Press.
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This is a guest episode from the Books, Books, Books podcast
Rebecca Huntley on looking your children in the eye, managing eco-anxiety, and how to use emotions such as guilt, anger, fear and hope to change hearts as well as minds in the climate change debate.
Rebecca Huntley is one of Australia's most experienced social researchers and former director of The Mind and Mood Report, the longest running measure of the nation's attitudes and trends. She holds degrees in law and film studies and a PhD in gender studies, and is a mum to three young children. It was realising she is part of the problem older generation that caused her change of heart and to dedicate herself to researching our attitudes to climate change. She is a member of Al Gore's Climate Reality Corps, carries out social research for NGOs such as The Wilderness Society and WWF, and writes and presents for the ABC. This is her sixth book.
A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.' Osher Gunsberg
'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide to understanding ourselves and each other as we face the climate crisis. Let's take down the walls that divide us. Collectively, with compassion and courage, we can make real change happen.' Kylie Kwong
'Explains whether and how we will choose to solve the climate problem. Immensely important analysis in a great read.' Professor Ross Garnaut
Why is it so hard to talk about climate change?
While scientists double down on the shocking figures, we still find ourselves unable to discuss climate change meaningfully among friends and neighbours - or even to grapple with it ourselves.
The key to progress on climate change is in the psychology of human attitudes and our ability to change. Whether you're already alarmed and engaged with the issue, concerned but disengaged, a passive skeptic or an active denier, understanding our emotional reactions to climate change - why it makes us anxious, fearful, angry or detached - is critical to coping on an individual level and convincing each other to act.
This book is about understanding why people who aren't like you feel the way they do and learning to talk to them effectively. What we need are thousands - millions - of everyday conversations about the climate to enlarge the ranks of the concerned, engage the disengaged and persuade the cautious of the need for action.
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This is an episode of Growing Concern by Seán Marsh. Listen to more of the show and subscribe here.
In this episode, I chat with an old friend, recent father and Qantas pilot grounded indefinitely by COVID-19. Concerned for the future, Nick Thorne's on a new path, albeit a somewhat begrudging one, to become an atmospheric climate scientist.
Added bonus: tune in to hear Nick's passionate speech in front of the Bayside City Council late last year.
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This is an episode of Climactic Candid, honest talks with climate engaged people from across society. I'm Mark Spencer, publisher of the Climactic Collective Podcast Network. My guest for this episode is entrepreneur Sara Bell.
Sara Bell founded AMPLIFY in the belief that conscious consumers have the power to generate the pressure points needed to drive rapid change before 2030. The companies whose business models cause climate change have too much vested in the status quo to change willingly. Yet with no customers, these companies would face falling revenues and business failure so the option will be to change or fail.
Sara spent four years legally challenging a £5.6 billion fossil fuel subsidy in the European Court as CEO of an energy tech company in London. She won, marking a massive career high. Sadly, the win was temporary as the UK government and EU Commission unlawfully reintroduced the scheme.
The fight continues, but the process has convinced Sara that with the clock ticking rapidly, we can no longer rely on incremental change. The stories we tell about the future and how to get there have to change for this to happen.
Mark and Sara talk about the Tempus lawsuit, the fight she won with the UK Gov't and European Council, demand response in the power industry, conscious consumerism and the power of personal purchasing.
Links:
www.amplifybyample.com
Sara in RenewEconomy
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In 2019 close to a thousand people gathered in Brisbane for a Climate Reality Leadership Corps training. In 2020, thousands met online as COVID19 reshaped the world in mere months.
What do 8 recently trained leaders think about the virtual Climate Reality Project flagship 3-day training? What's next for them?
Join former APAC Climate Reality lead Linh Do, and Climactic publisher Mark Spencer, for a roundtable chat with Masters of Environment at University of Melbourne students and alumni.
"Train with former Vice President Al Gore as a Climate Reality Leader and learn how you can inspire action for climate solutions in your community and beyond.
The Climate Reality Leadership Corps is a global network of activists committed to spreading awareness of the climate crisis and working for solutions to the greatest challenge of our time.
The program takes great leaders and makes them exceptional, providing training in climate science, communications, and community organizing to better tell the story of climate change and inspire communities everywhere to act. The result is a dynamic group of world-changers shaping the conversation on climate everywhere from family dinners to international summits and building a twenty-first century movement for solutions."
Listen and subscribe to the PEN Podcast here.
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Beyond Zero Emissions is an independent Australian research organisation developing detailed plans for how Australia can develop a zero-carbon economy.
Their most recent work includes the Million Jobs Plan and their Zero Carbon Communities platform.
In September 2020, Beyond Zero Emissions hosted an online Discussion Group to follow up on the ABC's Fight For Planet A: Our Climate Challenge
Their star-studded speakers list included comedian and documentary producer Craig Reucassel (who made Fight For Planet A) alongside film maker Damon Gameau, writer/director of the movie 2040: Join the REGENERATION
Also on the panel were: Jess Pangyres – land use solutions expert Imogen Jubb – BZE’s Zero Carbon Communities Manager Aimee Mehan – Hunter Entrepreneur and Climate Leader
Resources Find out what your local government issues are at: https://snapshotclimate.com.au/ (which comes with share options so you can engage with your council).
Join (or start) climate action in your community with the help of BZE’s Zero Carbon Communities Guide https://bze.org.au/zero-carbon-communities/zero-carbon-communities-guide/
Explore the BZE Million Jobs Plan: https://millionjobs.org.au/
What’s Your 2040? offers resources for activating your own REGENERATION plan: https://whatsyour2040.com/activate-your-plan/
Tools from Fight for Planet A: https://www.goodforthehood.com.au/toolkits-and-resources/abc-fight-for-planet-a-toolkit/
And you can watch the full recording of the webinar here: https://vimeo.com/455657185
The innovation skills courses mentioned are: https://www.coursera.org/learn/design-strategy https://www.marsdd.com/e101-registration
Credits
Leigh Baker - Edit/Adaptation - find her at balance3.com.au
Tom Day - Intro music - Flemington
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THE GAS FALLACY: why we need a renewable led recovery for our climate, health and economy
Event description
Drought, floods and the recent catastrophic bushfires have brought home the reality of the climate crisis to Australia - the burning of fossil fuels is destroying our world. The Covid caused recession creates an opportunity to transition rapidly to renewables as part of economic recovery, but the federal government maintains a gas-led approach to recovery is necessary. This is despite the fact that gas produces unacceptably high greenhouse emissions and that renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, and better for the economy, environment, climate and our health.
Port Phillip Emergency Climate Action Network (PECAN), Glen Eira Emergency Climate Action Network (GECAN) and Bayside Emergency Climate Action Network (BECAN) are bringing together key experts to help us understand the proposal for a so called gas-led recovery, and how an alternative renewable led recovery would work. This forum is supported by many other climate action groups throughout Melbourne’s South East, from Melbourne Central to Western Port Bay and The Mornington Peninsula.
The Panel
Professor Penny Sackett is Professor at the Climate Change Institute, ANU and was previously Australia's Chief Scientist. She will speak about the impact of plans for gas expansion on greenhouse gas emissions and the climate.
Dr George Crisp, a GP and Committee Member, Doctors for the Environment, will speak on the less well known effects of gas on people’s health.
Mark Ogge, Principal Advisor and gas expert at the Australia Institute will speak on The National COVID Coordinating Commission’s plans as well as the renewable alternatives to gas.
The webinar will be moderated by Esther Abram, Consultant and Strategic Advisor at Estuary Resources and formerly the inaugural CEO at the Moreland Energy Foundation and Director of Environment Victoria.
The Issues
The speakers at the webinar will cover these questions: What impact will plans for gas expansion have on greenhouse gas emissions and on the climate? What impact would it have on people’s health? Why is the Australian government supporting this gas expansion? Do we actually need more gas? Can the transition to renewables be achieved without gas?
Why this Webinar?
This important webinar will give us all the opportunity to learn more about gas and its impacts, and the government’s plans. It will also be an opportunity to make our voices heard to our parliamentary representatives before the federal budget, on 6 October. Many of Melbourne’s south east federal seats are held by Commonwealth Government members– some being key ministers.
A Call to Action
Climate For Change will be present to guide participants to engage with their local MPs through a letter writing activity. Our voices combined, can matter.
Readings
We have put together a list of readings on the potential impacts of the proposed gas recovery on our climate, health and economy to help inform us before the webinar. Access the readings at: http://pecan.org.au/readings/
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Listen to the full episode on Climactic, or Climactic Live.
This an abridged version of the longer adaptation of the recent event, The Gas Fallacy.
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On the weekly flagship feed of the Climactic Collective, this week an episode of the Sustainable You Podcast. This week there's been multiple new episodes of shows on the network - check them all out at www.climactic.com.au.
There are tons of easy swaps that we can make in our lives to be more environmentally friendly. Waste is a crucial problem for today’s environment, but there are plenty of eco-friendly substitutes for single-use products that we use every day.
Lisa and Jacqui troubleshoot some ways to help you focus on reusing products again, rather than using them once and then sending them to landfill. Remember there is no such thing as throwing plastic ‘away.’ Have you got any others to add to our list?
Sustainable You can be found onFacebook,Instagram, and sign up to our mailing list for bonus material through ourwebsite. If you have an idea for an episode, or want to ask us something in more detail, send us an email! If you enjoy listening to our show, we would love you to give us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. This episode is produced by Fran from 17th Street Audio.
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The Climactic Collective is a podcast network of shows engaged with the climate crisis, and other pressing social issues. The network now numbers close to 20 shows, with more in development - and we welcome new members. But we now have a happy problem, it's hard to stay up-to-date with so much content.
So, we're starting something new; monthly Climactic Curation episodes. They'll bring you the best of the Climactic Collective and friends, once a month. Sometimes on a theme, but not always.
In this second Climatic Curation, the September Edition, hear episodes from: Growing Concern by Seán Marsh Serially Curious Half Measures and Hope
Hear updates from the Stop Adani and Yes to Renewables campaigns: Stop Adani Yes to Renewables
Get a supercut of August's Community Corner messages. Share your own, it's free.
Special thanks to the musical friends of the Collective. Tom Day Puscha The General Assembly Greg Grassi/§OJUX
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Across Australia, there are more events about the climate crisis happening than one person can attend. And with events now digital, there’s even more available.
Climactic Live adapts these events to audio, cutting the fluff and leaving the substance. Hear from Australia’s leading speakers, and grass roots voices, whenever and wherever you like.
This episode is adapted from an event by Australia at Home - a lunchtime conversation with Paddy Manning, author of Body count: How climate change is killing us and Fiona Armstrong, Executive Director of the Climate and Health Alliance.
Event links: Australia at Home - for more upcoming events, as well as the video for this event.
Climate and Health Alliance.
Link to buy Body count: How climate change is killing us.
Further listening from Climactic: Imogen Jubb on Feeling the Change
Prof. Tony Capon and Prof. Ro McFarlane on Climactic
Greg Mullins and more at the National Climate Emergency Summit
Find even more at www.climactic.com.au
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This episode features an episode of Catastrophic, the tales of the Australian bushfires from the 2019/2020 summer.
But first, it contains a message about the August 2020 wildfires in California, and the relevance to Australia.
Why is this relevant? Because California is going through a transformation of their energy system, and the transition to renewables is being blamed in some quarters for the failure and blackouts wracking California. But it has been poor management and mistakes that have caused this, and in a time when governance here in Australia is under the microscope, we cannot afford to allow mismanagement or poor planning hide behind greenbashing, like we’re seeing in the US.
Links from the intro: https://www.overshootday.org/
https://www.climactic.com.au/show/climactic/bze-the-million-jobs-plan-public-launch-podcast-adaptation/
Shownotes from Catastrophic | Zoe Pook
Zoe Pook and her family live in Cobargo, NSW. She was travelling with her 2 children to Adelaide for a wedding when the firewall hit Cobargo and incinerated much of the town. Her husband, a volunteer firefighter, stayed to battle the fire and save their house. He is one of our nation's heroes. Fortunately he survived. Unfortunately, like many others in Cobargo that day, they lost everything. This is Zoe's story.
Catastrophic is a dual podcast and political protest. Catastrophic tells the tales of the Australian bushfires and calls for political action around Climate Change. Every story we gather, every episode we release, of the Catastrophic podcast is being sent in a protest letter to over 100 politicians and members of the media, every week. These are our demands for effective Climate Action: No new coal, oil and gas projects, including the Adani mine and the Wallarah 2 coal project. 100% renewable energy generation & exports by 2030 Fund a just transition & job creation for all fossil-fuel workers & communities. Hand over land conservation management to First Nations Australians Start preserving our water and treating it as a precious resource not a commodity.
@CatastrophicPod info@listenuppodcasting.com.au If you or anyone you know has a story they would like to share from or about the Aussie bushfires please instant message us via the Catastrophic Podcast Facebook page or email us at and we will get in touch to record your story. SHOW NOTES: Catastrophic Facebook @CatastrophicPod Listen Up Podcasting - www.listenuppodcasting.com.au
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One guest - two interviews. Jimmy Halfcut has been engaged in activism, organising, and fundraising for many years. Mark and Seán, hosts of two shows on the Climactic Collective, had back to back chats with Jimmy about the story of Halfcut, and the lessons he learnt on the way to finding the formulae to their success.
Having a laugh, letting people have fun while engaging with serious topics like deforestation, and visual disruption all factor into the formula.
Hear more chats with folks Mark and Eav find interesting on Serially Curious.
Tune into Growing Concern, where Seán Marsh sands back the greenwash on dirty industries, discuss brand strategy for ethical organisations and learns from inspiring individuals.
And sign up to get Halfcut, form a team with your friends, and help save a slice of the Daintree Rainforest.
Listen to James at a panel from the National Climate Emergency Summit: on ENDING FOSSIL FUELS.
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Dr Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning Australian climate scientist and writer, currently teaching at the Australian National University. She’s the author of the book “The Sunburnt Country. The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia”.
Joëlle is also one of the dozen or so Australian lead authors working on the IPCC’s upcoming 6th assessment - in addition to her full-time teaching load.
The results of the refined climate models that she and her fellow scientists are working on terrify her. While the final IPCC report won’t be published until 2022, the results are available now – and they’re terrifying.
She wakes up in the middle of the night with terrifying dreams of tsunamis. She’s been brave enough, and honest enough to share publicly exactly what terrifies her and why.
In this podcast she reads aloud her piece in The Monthly - “Witnessing the Unthinkable”.
Thanks to the State Library of Victoria, we can also share her launch speech for “Sunburnt Country” in 2018, which Tim Flannery calls “a marvelous investigation of Australia's climate, and how we are affecting it”.
Our thanks to Tom Day and The General Assembly for their music used in this episode.
Links:
https://www.mup.com.au/books/sunburnt-country-paperback-softback
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2020/july/1593525600/jo-lle-gergis/witnessing-unthinkable#mtr
https://7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/why-we-need-to-feel-climate-change
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The Climactic Collective is a podcast network of shows engaged with the climate crisis, and other pressing social issues. The network now numbers more than ten shows, with more in development - and we welcome new members. But we now have a happy problem, it's hard to stay up-to-date with so much content.
So, we're starting something new; monthly Climactic Curation episodes. They'll bring you the best of the Climactic Collective and friends, once a month. Sometimes on a theme, but not always.
In this first Climatic Curation, the August Edition, hear episodes from: Growing Concern by Seán Marsh Sustainable You These Trying Times
And meet Climactic Collective hosts: Angelica Kross, of upcoming show Half Measures and Hope Maneet Hora and Upeksha Galappaththie, of thEMPOWER Beth Spencer, co-host of Art Breaker and meet repeat guest and friend of the Collective, Jo Dodds.
Special thanks to the musical friends of the Collective. Tom Day Puscha The General Assembly Greg Grassi/§OJUX
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This is not the next episode of Climactic. It's an announcement of a new format of show from the Climactic Collective, a monthly 'audio magazine' featuring some of the best from across the shows on the network. It's coming soon, early in the week starting August 3rd.
We'd love to hear what you think of this new style, what works and what doesn't. Get in touch at hello@climactic.fm and let us know!
Cheers,
The Climactic Collective.
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Guest episode from the BZE Community radio show. Our thanks to the team for allowing us to share it with you.
Also, we're announcing two new shows on the Climactic Collective. thEMPOWER and Sustainable You. Check out all the shows on the network at www.climactic.com.au.
CLIMATE CRISIS FRONTLINES
Episode 1- BANGLADESH
13th July 2020
Guests:
Runa Khan - Founder of "Friendship" floating hospitals in Bagladesh
https://friendship.ngo/floods-in-bangladesh-and-friendships-response/
https://friendship.ngo/about-us/leadership/runa-khan-founder-and-executive-director/
Dr Saleemul Huq - Scientist and Director of International Centre for Climate Change and Development
https://www.iied.org/climate-covid-19-collaboration-we-need
Sound Effects: by Maqubul from Freesound
"Be prepared" is the message from Bangladesh. Runa Khan describes the thousand rivers and silt islands in her country. She says saving lives is not enough. Her floating hospitals have expanded into schools in the refugee camps, paralegal help, para-veterinary help and training people to maintain the solar panels that connect them to government services.
The secret of a long lasting project like this is treating everyone with dignity. It is thrilling to hear how Runa imbues her volunteers and staff with a deep respect for human rights. She speaks to European donors in the same way, wanting their empathy and understanding in a sustained partnership rather than just a guilty cheque. She says seeing the Rohingya refugee camps nearly broke her but she is undaunted. This is one of our best podcasts and should be a tonic for anyone feeling climate angst or despair. The motto of "Friendship" is "Think big, start small, begin now!".
Dr Saleemul Huq spoke to an international audience about "Climate, Covid19 and the collaboration we need." He described how the recent Cyclone Amphan was supercharged by the elevated temperatures in the Bay of Bengal. It caused damage in the Sundarban Forests and over two million people were evacuated to safety with their lifestock. But his pride is in the fact that the death toll was low. Compared to the 140,000 killed in the 1990's, Bangladesh is now a model of early warnings and adaptation. The millions of volunteers who go around with loud speakers in the villages, warning of a climate emergency, now go round wearing face masks and giving a Covidsafe health message.
"Be prepared!" Dr Huq says that Covid19 is a rehearsal for the great climate crisis which will affect all of us. He says governments and businesses who refuse to listen to scientists are acting unconscionably. Just as the pandemic crosses all borders so does the climate disruption we cause by our emissions. Listening to these two compassionate and energetic Bangladeshis will remind you of the moral vision of Martin Luther King.
When I read that Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies are currently $5.2 Trillion and $29 Billion in Australia according to the IMF, I understand why the climate frontline states demand justice.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/global-fossil-fuel-subsidies-reach-5-2-trillion-and-29-billion-in-australia-91592/
As well as sending a cheque in a crisis and reconnecting with the Green bank, we need to understand and empathise with the suffering caused by the emissions our government is subsidising. This podcast might awaken some so please forward it to those who need to hear.
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Thanks for joining us for this bonus episode.
My name’s Mark, and when I’m not publishing Climactic, and helping out in the Climactic Collective, I work in the podcasting industry. That's how I know the great team at Soundcartel.
They've allowed us to share this episode of their new program Business Essentials Daily, this short, sweet, and in plain business English interview with Anna Skarbek of the thinktank Climate Works, on how businesses taking action on climate change isn’t just the right thing, it’s the financially sound thing.
For some business owners the environment might be the last thing you’re considering as you navigate operations through the pandemic. With visible improvement in water and air across the globe during COVID-19 it’s an image we can have in the future if we begin to rebuild with climate in mind. The best part is that the solutions are accessible, available and won’t break the bank.
Anna Skarbek is CEO of ClimateWorks Australia, a non-profit think-tank and advisory body helping bridge the gap between climate research and action, so not just talking about the numbers and data but working through policy to get the job done. And what’s the goal? Net zero emissions by 2050.
Reference
Find out more information about energy saving technologies for your business, by following the links below:
Better Building Finance Climate Active - Carbon Neutral Certification) Decarbonisation Futures - ClimateWorks net zero emissions pathways report
Business Essentials Daily is produced by:
SoundCartel soundcartel.com.au +61 3 9882 8333
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An event from the Bayside Climate Crisis Action Group. Recorded and adapted from a June 25th event.
This is about making money from your money (Super). Putting it to work for a Safe Climate Future. You won't want to miss this.
Hear from Will van de Pol, Asset Management campaigner at strategic lobby group Market Forces, describing how Market Forces have shifted millions of investment dollars away from fossil fuels.
You will also hear from Seán Marsh who states, "The finance industry is the worst enabler of environmental destruction in this country, and I can't wait to shed some light on what we can do to stop that!"
Links
https://www.marketforces.org.au/campaigns/banks-new/
https://www.marketforces.org.au/campaigns/super/
https://www.marketforces.org.au/get-involved/use-your-shares/
https://goodments.com/
https://www.carbon.so/
https://www.onesmallstepapp.com/
https://www.amberelectric.com.au/
https://www.futuresuper.com.au/
https://www.australianethical.com.au/
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Simon Moore, a climate activist and science communicator, brings us another dispatch from Leeds in England. As a contributor to Climactic, he’s told stories of Extinction Rebellion protests, community activist groups and the first UK Climate Change Citizens’ Jury.
In this episode Simon discusses the boundary between activism and academia with Professor Julia Steinberger from the University of Leeds.
Julia Steinberger is an IPCC lead author and Professor of Ecological Economics. She studies the relationship between the use of resources (such as fossil fuels) and the performance of societies.
Simon and Julia talk about the role of scientists in our society, how researching and publishing the facts may not be enough in the face of climate crisis, and how being an outspoken academic has affected Julia's career in science.
Image credit: Saphie Coffey-Brittain
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On June 29 2020, Beyond Zero Emissions launched The Million Jobs Plan. The launch included a stellar line up including Christiana Figueres and Mike Cannon-Brookes. You can watch the webinar launch here.
Climactic has adapted the event to audio, by shortening and producing the webinar recording into a version you can enjoy over headphones.
The Million Jobs Plan is the framework to restore our economy. We’ve mapped out how we can rebuild our nation through practical projects that can restore our economy, modernise our industry, reskill our workforce and deliver a bright and secure economic future
We’ve identified seven key sectors across our economy where strategic investment over the next five years would have the most impact and create the most jobs, including Energy Building Manufacturing Transport Recycling Land Use Training
Jobs will be distributed around Australia, including in cities and regions already under pressure from the closure of traditional heavy industry and manufacturing, historical droughts and fires, and high unemployment.
The next stage of this project will include shortlisting of several priority projects across Australia that we will present to the government over the coming months, along with the private investors and partnerships needed to realise these projects, create good, secure jobs and kick our economy back into gear.
Learn more and get involved at www.bze.org.au
This adaptation was produced by Mark Spencer, Climactic Collective.
Music in this episode was provided by David Hudson, Tom Day, and Nine Inch Nails (under Creative Commons license).
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Building Briefing: The Million Jobs Plan Webinar Series - Podcast Adaptation
We welcome you to join us for this Buildings Briefing webinar. Beyond Zero Emissions are hosting this briefing ahead of the release of our Million Jobs Plan and we welcome you to join us for this one-off event.
The Million Jobs Plan building initiative will create over 180,000 jobs and deliver 2.5 million energy-efficient home upgrades, 150,000 new high performing, low-cost homes, and rooftop solar installations across Australia.
This will be a great opportunity to hear from key industry stakeholders. So far speakers include: Caroline Pidcock – leading Australian Architect Rob Pradolin – Founder of Housing all Australians
Key speakers and BZE experts will bring to life how The Million Jobs Plan – Building initiative could effectively deliver secure jobs, healthy homes and a clean economy.
Learn more at: https://bze.org.au/
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This episode is an adaptation of the launch event for the People's Climate Strategy, held by Act on Climate on June 3rd.
Friends of the Earth Melbourne's Act on Climate collective officially launched its push to write a People's Climate Strategy for Victoria with over one thousand people watching the online launch via Zoom and Facebook live. The strong level of interest is a vote of confidence in the idea.
Writing a People's Climate Strategy for Victoria to present to the Andrews government later this year is a bold and ambitious undertaking. But shaping the state's first climate strategy is an opportunity that can't be missed.
The Victorian government is required to prepare and rollout a climate strategy every five years out to 2050. Our efforts in coming months will influence the Labor government's own plan (which must be prepared by October 31) as well as all those that follow it.
Stay informed about the People's Climate Strategy by following Act on Climate
https://www.actonclimate.org.au/
https://www.facebook.com/ActOnClimateVic
Get in touch if you've got an event happening that would make a great audio adaptation, or if you're otherwise interested in podcasting/climate engagement.
hello@climactic.fm
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The Climactic Collective is thrilled to be able to bring you this special feature, an audio documentary from Jess Fairfax - https://www.jessfairfax.com/
TO FEED TWO BIRDS WITH ONE SCONE
An audio documentary by Jess Fairfax
Over the past year or so, I have found inspiration in the work of Michel Foucault, who believes in the power of discourse as both “an instrument and an effect of power, but also a hindrance, a stumbling point of resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy” (Foucault 1998). The dominant discourse our government upholds, preserves an economy powered by fossil fuels, despite the known impacts of global warming. With business as usual brought to a standstill due to COVID-19, and the government looking for ways to stimulate the economy, I felt an urgent need to amplify alternative discourses that point towards a new low carbon economy. Within this documentary you will hear from researchers, farmers and representatives from unions, investor groups and worker cooperatives about the environmental, social and economic impact of climate change and the solutions at hand.
The piece also considers how we might shift the way we think of ourselves from consumers to citizens, part of, not separate from, the environment. Orr (1994) states that we must shift our current paradigm to one that “places us in the web of life as citizens of the biotic community”. Within the piece, I addressed this through using field recordings from various Australian ecosystems as background to the dialogue. I also believe music is an incredibly powerful medium and I composed the soundtrack as a way to bring beauty to conversations around the economy and energy systems. I wove stories my friends told me about their time outdoors during lockdown into the piece. I believe that isolation has instilled a great appreciation in many people of the value of green space for our mental and physical health. I hope this translates into citizen action around the need to preserve and care for the environment.
This piece is just the beginning and I encourage feedback, comments, communication, ideas, criticisms and importantly conversations. It is here that the power should be.
Here are the links to the interviewee’s organisations and publications, along with other references:
LUKE SKINNER – Climate Justice Union of WA
PETER HOLDING – Farmers for Climate Action
EMMA HERD – Investors Group on Climate Change
PETRA STOCK- Climate Works Australia
DAN MUSIL – Earthworker Cooperative
Other References:
The Guardian:Business, unions and green groups call for sustainable Covid-19 recovery with clean energy transition
The Sydney Morning Herald: Breakthrough moment: Woodside investors revolt on climate change
The Australian Financial Review: Coronavirus complicated Woodside’s task on LNG
The Guardian: COVID Commission boss Nev Power steps back at gas company amid conflict of interest concerns
ReNew Economy:Solar, batteries, micro-grids and ISP should be added to Covid-19 response
The Clean Energy Council: Renewables clean energy has the potential to drive covid-19 economic rebuild
The IEA:Put clean energy at the heart of stimulus plans to counter the coronavirus crisis
The Age: ‘Ambitious climate action a double win for economy in Coronavirus recovery’
The Conversation:Why it doesn’t make sense to ignore climate in our recovery from the pandemic
Bibliography:
Foucault, Michel (1998) The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge, London, Penguin.
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This is the fourth episode of Aftermath, a show on the Climactic Collective. Listen and subscribe at https://omny.fm/shows/aftermath-1
This episode features Jo Dodds of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action and Elaine Johnson of the Environmental Defenders Office.
They talk Eav through the basis for their case against the Environmental Protection Agency, to compel them to mitigate greenhouse gases to prevent further catastrophic bushfires.
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On May 28th Richie Merzian, Climate and Energy Director of the Australian Institute joined the Bayside Climate Crisis Action Group to talk the Australian Federal Government's post-COVID "gas-fired recovery" plans.
Excerpts from 'Shipping Sunshine': Renewables, Gas, and Australia's Energy Mix | Q+A, May 25, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzuBX6xpxI
Get more from BCCAG at https://bccag.org.au/
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Recently 2040 director Damon Gameau and Independent MP Zali Steggall for Warringah shared a livestream. They explored how we can ensure government accountability during COVID-19, how we #BuildBackBetter, and the importance of a Climate Change Act for Australia.
Thanks to the 2040 team for allowing us to share this adaptation of the webinar with you.
www.climateactnow.com.au
https://whatsyour2040.com/
https://www.facebook.com/2040Film/videos/1182373688809818/
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/climactic-657824/episodes/2040-x-climactic-school-strike-49009706
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/climactic-657824/episodes/the-regennarration-2040-with-d-42543972
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Climactic's newest show, Aftermath.
Released weekly. Listen, rate and review at https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/aftermath-1183678
Let's start at the very beginning.
Plants are critical to all life on land, and they are the organisms most acutely impacted by fire.
In this episode, Eav talks to Dr Brett Summerell of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney about how Australian plants are (and aren't) adapted to fire, the way that plants are recovering from the 2019/2020 bushfires and what we can all do to help conserve Australia's native flora.
Further reading
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-18/gondwana-era-nightcap-oak-devastated-by-bushfire/11877770
https://www.australianbotanicgarden.com.au/
https://theconversation.com/many-of-our-plants-and-animals-have-adapted-to-fires-but-now-the-fires-are-changing-129754
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How does an unstable planet increase the risk of pandemics like COVID 19?
In this episode, Eav interviews not one but two Professors of Public Health - Tony Capon and Ro MacFarlane
The impacts of environmental destabilisation on human health is discussed, as Ro and Tony propose an alternative vision for society where human and environmental health are treated as one system.
Further reading
Ro and Tony's article in the Conversation
A tale of two emergencies published in the Lancet
Frank Fenner and his legacy
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How did a community climate action group get their city council to not only declare a climate emergency, but commit to emergency level emissions reduction measures, during a global pandemic?
Coalitions, campaigning, determination and good old-fashioned organizing!
Coalition members Belinda Haydon and Elinor Hasenfratz share their story.
For more check out:
https://www.facebook.com/JewishCN/
http://gecan.org.au/
Recordings from the Tuesday, March 5th Glen Eira Council session are also featured in this episode.
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Climactic contributor Gretchen Miller saw a post from Protect Warburton Ranges, of a young woman named Alice up a tree, trying to protect old-growth native forest from clear-felling, forest just a kilometre from her home - her literal backyard.
Alice, the same Alice you may have already heard on Climactic. So introductions were made, and from Gretchen in Sydney, to Alice up a tree in the Victorian Central Highlands, this interview was conducted late last night. Today we release it for you, because as this goes up Alice is still in her tree-sit, but not for long. Search and Rescue are on their way to remove this 'possum' from her tree.
Alice states that 'although the night was chilly, I remain undeterred and committed to holding off the clear-fell logging of this precious forest as long as I can. The government sanctioned plundering of the ecosystems that we all rely upon must be stopped.'
Our native forests are critically important for bushfire affected threatened species habitat, water security, carbon storage, cultural and community values, mental health and ecotourism. They are worth so much more than cheap office paper. Will you help Alice call for the protection of this iconic area, just on the doorstep of Melbourne?
Please call, write emails and write letters to the relevant ministers. Together, let's protect what's left our our precious native forests in Victoria.
Jaclyn Symes Ph: 8392 2261 jaclyn.symes@parliament.vic.gov.au
Lily D'Ambrosio MP Ph: 9637 9504 lily.dambrosio@parliament.vic.gov.au
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Luke Skinner, secretary of the Climate Justice Union of Western Australia, joins Mark and Angelica from Climactic to talk climate justice, Government action in the face of COVID, and the power of unions - and those of us working essential jobs - in these times.
To learn more about the CJU, check out https://climatejusticeunion.org/ - you can become a solidarity member for even a dollar, to make your support for the transition they're working on tangible.
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Climate Emergency. What can one do?
Presented as part of the Sustainable Living Festival, Melbourne Playback Theatre Company in collaboration with Climate for Change are hosting an evening of conversation and performance - sharing stories, knowledge, and empowering action.
Part workshop, part improvisational performance, The Power For Change will recap the climate science, offer a pathway for change and use the power of playback theatre to deepen the conversation. Audience reflections and stories about our individual and collective response to climate change will power the creation of theatre, and inspire ongoing action after the event.The night will provoke the mind, nourish the heart, and, ultimately, motivate meaningful action.
Recorded by Fien Van Den Steen - check out her blog at https://finfinnews.com/
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Katerina Cosgrove went from being a contributor to Climactic, to being an interviewer in record time. Listen to her first piece on Climactic here. Given the chance to use the podcast as a platform, she reached out an author she greatly respected, and booked him for an interview. What followed was something fantastic.
Derrick Jensen is a prolific, and controversial author. In another interview he has said "I get accused of being the 'violence guy'...but I don't ever think that's really fair, because I really consider myself the 'everything guy', that I want to put everything on the table and talk about all forms of resistance."
Derrick is a deep thinker and great conversationalist, and you'll greatly enjoy this interview.
Find more about Katerina at https://www.authorcosgrove.com/
Find more about Derrick Jensen at https://derrickjensen.org/
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Today we’re talking online activism and keeping the ledger straight.
We all get our news online - social media is our town square and the news pages are the town criers. I follow a bunch of these pages and while plenty of the articles they share demonstrate great empathy and compassion for the complexities of life lived and a commitment to science and waking the world up to climate change - there is an equally powerful commitment from people who seem to find social justice, equality, fairness and acceptance profoundly threatening. Some are bots, some are astro-turfers and shills, and some are believers - whatever they are, they actively seek out stories of tolerance and climate activism to drown out the voice of the town crier. These are the voices of hatred, discrimination, and frankly, fear. They shout so loudly that your friend who is might be climate concerned but not engaged feels there’s more of a diversity of genuine expertise than there actually is - and might not ‘get’ that the science is in - and might also feel that expressing discrimination is just ‘voicing your opinion’.
Do you want to contribute to the discussion - and risk getting attacked? Possibly not. But there’s a global Facebook movement that’s grown up organically and powerfully over the past three years, and stepped up, little by little, and more and more, to counter that hatred, and open space for other views. It’s a group that sits at the tipping point of civic discourse - It’s the I am HERE movement - and our guest today is the administrator of the Australian arm - Gabriel Morse of #iamhere Australia, welcome!
If you're inspired to join the group, you can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/iamhereaustralia
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Transitions Film Festival brought a film screening to Port Phillip in Melbourne, and Mark from Climactic was able to moderate and record the post-screening panel as a live episode. Featuring two young members of the Port Phillip community, and a marine scientist and science communicator from the Port Phillip EcoCentre, this panel grapples with Australia's vulnerability to climate impacts, the present threats of the climate crisis, and looking ahead from the perspective of young people.
For more about Kiribati and the advocacy work by former President Anote Tong, check out this episode from The Australia Institute which they kindly let us share.
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Bronwyn Gresham hosts a conversation between four psychologists about facing the climate crisis.
About Sally
Sally Gillespie, PhD, worked as a Jungian psychotherapist for over twenty years before completing her doctoral research in climate psychology.
Her recent publication, Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our owrkd and ourselves is an intriguing and essential read, venturing into our collective stories and consciousness and guiding us towards a space that has promise even in our difficult reality. Check out her book here
Sally has kindly shared her recommendations for reading and materials.
About Christine
Dr Christine Canty is a clinical neuropsychologist with a passion for climate activism. She is involved in XR Families and the XR Outreach team.
Listen to her incredible speech from the XR Spring Rebellion (about 20 min into this episode)
And in person here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWqlzW7-nw
About Carol
Carol Ride is the founder of Psychology for a Safe Climate after being a longstanding psychotherapist and climate activist. Our friends in Dumbo Feather spoke to Carol in 2017, and the importance of inner work is as relevant now as it was then.
Recommended Reading and Resources
A great place to start is the Climate Psychology Alliance short podcasts on a range of subjects including eco anxiety, climate grief, communication, etc
https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/podcasts.
Another excellent entry point are information sheets and booklets from Australian Psychological Society: https://www.psychology.org.au/for-the-public/Psychology-topics/Climate-change-psychology
Also very helpful are writings on https://www.climateandmind.org/
For an accessible psychological insights and support for climate communication and action you can download Psychology for a Safe Climate’s booklets: Let’s speak about climate change, Facing the heat: Stories of climate change conversations and Coping with climate change distress, all available on https://www.psychologyforasafeclimate.org/publications
For an engaging video introduction to climate communication go to Rosemary Randall’s lecture for the Cambridge Climate Lecture Series 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqXtJt9OoLA.
Ro Randall’s podcast and blog pieces are also excellent on both communication and the activist trajectory https://rorandall.org/.
Paul Hoggett and Rosemary Randall’s insightful short paper ‘Sustainable activism: Managing hope and despair in social movements” (2017) can be found at https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/papers/201-sustainable-activism-managing-hope-and-despair-in-social-movements
Also many excellent short pieces on climate communication on Renee Lertzman’s website https://reneelertzman.com/essays/
For very helpful short pieces on burnout go to https://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/editorial-sophy-banks-on-balance-or-burnout/ and https://grist.org/article/2010-05-12-coming-out-of-the-closet-my-climate-trauma-and-yours/
Per Espen Stoknes identifies psychological barriers to climate action and communication in What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action (Chelsea Green, 2015). This warm and thoughtful book is full of personal stories and strategic solutions for encouraging individual and social responses. Political adviser and climate campaigner Alex Evans gives a short insightful account of how stories and myths hinder or activate change in the The Myth Gap: What happens when evidence is not enough (Eden Project, 2017).
Joanna Macy’s work has sustained generations of environmental activists. Her most recent book, highly recommended, is Active Hope: How to face the mess we’re in without going crazy, co-authored with Chris Johnstone, (New World Library, 2012). Watch her videos and podcasts on https://www.joannamacy.net/main#multimedia
Sally's book, Climat
Recorded in November 2019 for Raising the Bar, an event series from the City of Melbourne.
We're so grateful to the RTB team for allowing us to share this audio, from past guest and collaborator Dr Jen Rae.
Raising the Bar is "for curious minds and lifelong learners. We’re here for those hungry for innovation and inspiration. For the citizens and dreamers of our world. We’re here to make knowledge accessible outside of the traditional classroom and transform our city’s popular culture. We’re Raising the Bar."
According to Margaret Atwood, we’re no longer talking about climate change; we are facing ‘everything change’. There are infinite adjustments to make - so what's the importance of artists in these transitions? Jen Rae has been practicing at the intersection of arts and climate emergency for the past 10 years. Join her as she shares what she's learned from practicing across cultures and disciplines to find the place of artists in the climate catastrophe.
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Organizing member Lizzie Webb joins Mark to bring this Engineers Declare event to Climactic. This podcast is an excerpt from the NSW Region Connect session, where Lizzie and Chris provide an overview of the Engineers Declare movement and Engineers Act strategy development.
The Australian engineering profession has the opportunity to lead a rapid and just transition towards healthy, thriving communities and ecosystems. Over 160 organisation signatories and 2,300 individuals have signed Engineers Declare, joining a growing number of governments, professional bodies and businesses around the world in declaring a Climate Emergency. As we move into the next phase of our movement, Engineers Act, we encourage signatories and supporters to continue to champion the mainstreaming of a progressive sustainability paradigm in the Australian engineering profession and join a state-based region group to take carriage of local movement building and sector transformation initiatives ongoing.
Participation in an ED Region group provides a great opportunity to; - get involved with leading the movement, - connect with others, and, - share ideas on how we can act together to facilitate systems change, normalise innovative solutions and fundamentally shift the practice of engineering and engineering leadership in Australia.
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Beth Spencer in conversation with Kit Kelen about his creative practice as poet, artist, publisher, collaborator, academic, mentor, musician and blogger. Kit reads selections from some of his many books intercut with original guitar tracks.
They discuss Holden cars, bushfires, coal-addiction, and the role of place in his work -- as a writer who uses a lot of Australian idiom, colloquialisms and reference to landscape in his poetry, and who has also been widely translated.
The process and benefits of translation, the role of habits and doodling, the disruptive power of humour in creative and political practice, and the importance of community and friendship.
Links: The Daily Kit blog - www.thedailykitkelen.blogspot.com
www.kitkelen.com - art and writing
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Reflections on a recent river trip during the COVID lockdown, from Alice Hardinge. A reminder of the persistence of the natural world, and our duty to it.
Read her writing here.
Send us a story from our new website: www.climactic.com.au
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Director Mirjam Leuze’s The Whale and the Raven illuminates the many issues that have drawn whale researchers, the Gitga’at First Nation, and the Government of British Columbia into a complex conflict.
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an independent non-profit which sets a standard for sustainable fishing. Mark and new Climactic member Eav talk to Matt Watson, Senior Fisheries Manager.
Margaret Klein Salamon, author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to transform yourself with climate truth, and founding director of The Climate Mobilization in the US will lead a panel discussion that explores the emotional challenges of facing the climate emergency.
Pilot episode of a series by the Climactic Collective exploring the intersection of social enterprise and consumer choice during our time of climate crisis.
Tip us off about a great social enterprise with a story to tell, or interested in helping tell these stories? Reach out to hello@climactic.fm.
Join RMIT lecturers and researchers to discuss how we can shape the future of our cities Cities shape us and we shape our cities. We are living in uncertain times. Can cities hold significant answers to addressing some of the challenges facing us today?
Join leading climate change researchers to consider how we can rapidly transition toward climate justice
A throwback episode to my pre-COP25 jitters shared with an old mate Jimmy Nails. Listen up for some thoughts about the world before Corona Chaos!
Harry is not just trainee General Practitioner, he's also a climate activist. So he's a great person to talk to about how to continue organising for climate action, while the COVID-19 virus understandably dominates the world's attention.
Mark interviews the producer of the Youth on Strike, Rob, on the day of the release of the first episode.
Sci-Fight hits Kalaide Theatre for this special National Sustainable Living Festival event! Academics, scientists and comedians put forth the case as to whether this is fine or whether it's time to unleash chaos. Come and make your breakdown evidence based!
Climactic hosts Mark and Fien sit down for a chat with Marco and Zel, fresh from their Students Declare workshop at the National Climate Emergency Summit.
In this episode of Feeling the Change, Bronwyn interviews Bob Doppelt, a leader in the field of climate resilience.
Zoe Pook and her family live in Cobargo, NSW. She was travelling with her 2 children to Adelaide for a wedding when the firewall hit Cobargo and incinerated much of the town. Her husband, a volunteer firefighter, stayed to battle the fire and save their house. He is one of our nation's heroes. Fortunately he survived. Unfortunately, like many others in Cobargo that day, they lost everything. This is Zoe's story.
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is happening in this climate emergency.
Karen has had experience with a number of big bushfires throughout her life, including the Black Saturday fires of 2009 but has never seen anything like the fires of this past Christmas and New year. She gives an interesting scientific perspective on the impact, cause and repair of the Aussie bushfires.
Dr Renee Beale, and Mike Flattley, CEO of the Royal Society of Victoria, brings us this combined panel and musical performance.
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on.
In the Hot Summer Land project RN Earshot and ABC Open teamed up to ask our audience—you—to paint us a word picture of how your landscape changed over the three months of summer.
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on.
In the Hot Summer Land project RN Earshot and ABC Open teamed up to ask our audience—you—to paint us a word picture of how your landscape changed over the three months of summer.
Catastrophic tells the tales of the Australian bushfires and calls for all-partisan political action around Climate Change. Each episode of Catastrophic features an Australian talking about their experience of living through the bushfire crisis, what their fears are now and for the future and what they would like to see done about it on a government level.
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on.
In the Hot Summer Land project RN Earshot and ABC Open teamed up to ask our audience—you—to paint us a word picture of how your landscape changed over the three months of summer.
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on.
Catastrophic tells the tales of the Australian bushfires and calls for all-partisan political action around Climate Change. Each episode of Catastrophic features an Australian talking about their experience of living through the bushfire crisis, what their fears are now and for the future and what they would like to see done about it on a government level.
Catastrophic tells the tales of the Australian bushfires and calls for all-partisan political action around Climate Change. Each episode of Catastrophic features an Australian talking about their experience of living through the bushfire crisis, what their fears are now and for the future and what they would like to see done about it on a government level.
Ever wondered about the phrase ‘think globally, act locally’? Or how your local community could transition to zero emissions? Well we are stoke to say that this visionary work is underway right now!
We make a space available each week for community messages, here's how to make use of it!
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on.
Evan Hynes is the founder of the climate jobs site Climate.careers, an entrepreneur and deep-thinker on the practicalities of solving the climate crisis.
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on.
Katerina Cosgrove wrote a January 10th, 2020 feature for Al Jazeera. Here, she reads her piece aloud, in her home.
Tess speaks to independent filmmaker and chronicler of social change and activism Iara Lee.
In 2016, staff in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales proposed an annual lecture to commemorate the life and work of Nancy Hillier OAM, a prominent figure in the Botany Community, instigator of significant community services across many fields, and a life time supporter of education and scholarship.
In August of 2018, then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg started striking outside Swedish Parliament, demanding stronger action on climate change. A year later, her global notoriety has inspired millions of young people around the world to take similar action, including in Australia, really showcasing the power of youth.
During our conversation, Cle-Anne Gabriel questions the compatibility between environmental sustainability and economic growth. Is a de-prioritisation of economic growth as a policy objective a way forward to reduce emissions globally?
While a bushfire crisis and catastrophic drought engulfs the country, Australia's politicians think it’s the perfect time to start blaming each other and triggering their opponents.
The Black Finch Project, or #1000finches, swept through the Australian art and environmental world in mid 2019. People of all walks of life were creating art featuring this endangered finch, usually dead, and posting them to politicians and community figures across Australia.
You may notice there is one word we’re avoiding to say in the show. That word begins with A and ends in I, has Dan in between. We were told about 20 minutes before the show, so some minor tweaks had to happen on the fly. I’m sure you’ll enjoy listening to that as we go.
Poetry is a powerful way to engage with big events and emotions. Magdalena Ball reads from her new book and discusses the art of dealing with the unimaginable.
How are you doing with all this climate news? Is it getting you down? This Episode to the rescue! It's all about climate hope and how we can feel more courageous and positive about our activism.
After joining me at the end of the shitshow that was 2016 for the first live edition of the podcast, Greens MP Adam Bandt returned to reflect on how far we have (or haven't) come and what to make of the political year that was 2019.
When we think about consumables, we don't often think about the clothes and accessories we wear. But compared to 15 years ago, the average person buys 60% more items of clothing and keeps them for only half as long. Listen for some ways you can slow down the impact of fast fashion.
This podcast was a pilot to explore how we could support activism as we move into 2020, with half of the funds being donated to The Bob Brown Foundation for their work on the front line in Takayna/The Tarkine.
The recent Pacific Islands Forum turned from a 'Pacific step up' to a Pacific step back for Scott Morrison, as Australia held a hardline on coal and emissions cuts.
Former president of Kiribati, Anote Tong urged that Australia’s membership of the Pacific Island Forum to be reviewed, asking “How can you justify being part of a family and part of a group which you’re trying to destroy?” and Follow the Money was fortunate enough to speak to him while he was in Canberra.
This episode is an interview with Issy Philips who is a comedian and writer. We talk about finding effective ways to communicate climate change and how using humor can engage the public on climate action.
Welcome to Episode 4, in which the Australien Government interviews some kids behind the Melbourne climate strike; and then we dissect some of the BULLSHIT criticisms against the global climate movement and talk about how we can look after each other so we can make history happen.
Most people in developed or so-called Western nations take toilets for granted. They are definitely a source of humour for kids but other than that, we don’t tend to give the toilet much thought from day to day.
Jo Dodds takes us inside the December 18th protest of Acting PM Michael McCormack at the terminal opening at Merimbula Airport.
We all know him. On a first-name basis. This man, with an unorthodox method of entering your living abode and leaving again based on your yearly performance is a household name and routinely escapes arrest.
Climactic host Kri and Global Voices youth delegate for Australia to COP25 Kri McNamara sends in interviews with other youth delegates about the progress of the conference, and the confronting reality of being from a country seen as hostile to responsible action on the climate emergency.
Climactic Collective's Simon Moore sends in a dispatch from Leeds, UK. The first Leeds Climate Change Citizens' Jury has just finished, and Simon brings us the story of results, origins, and journey of the Citizens Jury.
Kri, one of Global Voices youth delegates to COP25, and a member of the Climactic Collective, recorded this chat with one of her professors before heading to Madrid. It's a great explainer on COP, the history until now, and also gets into some of Sam's work on traditional bushfire management in Australia and Africa.
We take you inside the November 29th School Strike 4 Climate bushfire solidarity event in Naarm/Melbourne, to learn how the movement has grown in the last year, and how the community feels about the Australian bushfires.
Collective member and Bega Councillor Jo Dodds sends in an update from Canberra during one very eventful day.
Poetry is a powerful way to engage with big events and emotions. Magdalena Ball reads from her new book and discusses the art of dealing with the unimaginable.
Transition Australia wants to make it easier to find groups and events no matter where you live...here's a bit of a test about how we could make this happen, and give you some ideas about what's on this week.
Mark sat down with XR member Daniel on day 7 of his 10 days as part of the worldwide XR hunger strike for climate action.
Climactic presents - Monash Energy Club (MEC) hosting a seminar discussing the topics that will dominate the COP25 agenda, including international carbon markets and the need for resource mobilisation to ensure the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Mark sits down with three organisers of the next climate strike, and they look back on the year of school and climate strikes that it's been since November 30th, 2018.
Listen into a Sci-Fight, a live science comedy debate, about whether or not in these climactic times, we think nature is in need of any improvement.
This collaboration with the great Reversing Climate Change podcast brings you an interview with an Australian soil carbon expert, from a No-Till Conference in Kansas, USA.
Host Mark moderates a panel with three well-known and respected climate academics to discuss the lived realities of climate crisis.
New Climactic host Tess interviews photographer Patrick Rose about his last 18 months with the UN Development Program in the Solomon Islands.
Our thanks to La Trobe University and Prof. Robert Manne for allowing us to record and produce this episode.
Recorced at the National Gallery of Victoria, September 17th 2019.
Climactic has launched it's first new show, Art Breaker. Hear an interview with host and author Beth Spencer, and then the first episode of the show with award-winning author James Bradley.
This is the third episode from Australian Science Week, from guest host Dr Renee Beale of the Royal Society of Victoria. Guest Dr Sahajwalla explains how a future economy, one built around localisation and reuse could solve our waste problems.
Week one of the International Rebellion by XR is finishing, and we're sharing a couple stories from Brisbane and Melbourne about the week that was, before crossing to London for more from the epicentre of the rebellion.
Arrestees share their story with us, legal observers share your rights and their best advice.
Climactic member Simon Moore sends in a dispatch from the streets of London highlighting the first day of the International Rebellion there. The cat and mouse game with police, a rousing speech from journalist George Monbiot, and beautiful choiral singing.
We bring you on the ground chats with rebels in 5 cities to get beyond the headlines in three special episodes. Look out for specials Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
With 15 years in big corporations, working to increase their social responsibility and environmental sustainability, Asha became friends with host Georgia. They sit down for a chat about Asha' story, the power of finding your own story, and how Asha is building a social enterprise to help empower girls and young women.
Listen into a Sci-Fight, a live science comedy debate, about whether or not in these climactic times, humans are worth saving.
Brett Tait, Founder of We-Refill joins Mark for a rapid reaction to Coca-Cola's hostility to refilling stations at the Brisbane Festival.
Dr Kate Selway is an Earth scientist who is passionate about understanding how our amazing planet works. She has led research teams in the deserts of central Australia, the savannas of East Africa, and the frozen expanses of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
Climactic contributors Beth and Fien were out at climate strikes outside of the main centres, and recorded great talks with strikers of all kinds. We also have a panel from a special screening of 2040, with SS4C and SEED organisers, and a representative of the City of Melbourne.
Kri McNamara is attending COP25 in Chile in December as a youth delegate for Australia through Global Voices, a policy NGO. She'll be sharing with us her learnings and experiences along her journey leading up to, and at, the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Author and new collective member Beth Spencer hosts award-winning Australian author James Bradley on Climactic.
Correspondent Simon Moore sends in an update about the unfolding story of Extinction Rebellion, and the wider climate community, in Leeds, UK.
In this episode we grapple with the emotions and reactions to the land clearing fires in the Brazilian Amazon. We hear from members of the community, past guests, and hear context from news services.
Bronwyn has a great chat with community stalwart, long-time activist, former school teacher and community radio host Anthony Gleeson, and gleans three key lessons about personally sustaining activism.
Dr Renee Beale, Curator of National Science Week for Victoria, sits down with key speaker Dr Darlene Lim for a chat about the natural world, and what the study of Mars analogues has taught her about life on Earth.
In June, Climactic hosts Mark and Georgia attended Climate Reality Training, with Al Gore and over 700 other attendees. Hear them recap their experience and what they learned.
This is a special guest episode from storyteller, producer, former guest and friend of the show Gretchen Miller.
This is a special guest episode from storyteller, producer, former guest and friend of the show Gretchen Miller.
This is a special guest episode from storyteller, producer, former guest and friend of the show Gretchen Miller.
This is a special guest episode from storyteller, producer, former guest and friend of the show Gretchen Miller.
The pilot episode of the newest show on the Climactic Network, Art Breaker. A show about the art we love, and how it gets made, in these climactic times.
Mark speaks to Port Phillip Councillor Kat Copsey and CDS campaigner Annett Finger about the closure of Victoria's largest recycler by the state Environmental Protection Agency, and where to next for a broken recycling system. Is it time for a Container Deposit Scheme, or well past due?
Guest episode from The RegenNarration by Anthony James, a panel conversation with filmmaker Damon Gameau after a screening of his film, 2040.
Warndu Mai is the newest book from Rebecca Sullivan and Damien Coulthard about native Australian foods and plants. The story of Australian natives is an important one, and we dive into it here.
Mark sat down with Costa and Dirt Girl after a Costa's World live performance at the Ballarat Begonia Festival in 2018. This recording has been revived and restored, by new Climactic editor Reece.
Tim Forcey, through extensive work at the University of Melbourne, and the thinktank Beyond Zero Emissions, is a household name in a very particular type of household. But the work he does on home energy efficiency is relevant to every household. He started the Facebook group that became My Efficient Electric Home four years ago, and it has started to rapidly pick up steam.
In this special episode, we have two contrasting stories. One from Jo Dodds, Bega Shire Councillor, who has been in Hong Kong for the record-smashing protests, on how one act of violence has warped a mass movement. Another from Knox, in eastern Melbourne, from a young man working to save a lake, and habitat for endangered species, from short-sighted development.
The fourth in a four-part series, recorded at the Living Pavilion, University of Melbourne. Climate Bites are lunchtime panels with experts where audience members are welcome to engage on a particular topic. In this episode, nature.
Lottie is the founder of Banish, an educational resource and platform for disposable product alternatives. Georgia met her at Climate Reality in Brisbane earlier in the month, and with Plastic Free July just around the corner, this was the perfect time to talk waste-free personal transition, conscious consumption, and forming better habits.
Sydney has declared a climate emergency. We hear from the community, from messages sent into us, what that means, and what comes next.
The third of a four-part series, recorded at the Living Pavilion, University of Melbourne. Climate Bites are lunchtime panels with experts where audience members are welcome to engage on a particular topic. In this episode, fashion.
Climactic guest and friend of the show Damien Cole has been injured in a surfing accident in Bali. Hear an interview with him from just before he went on holiday. And, we re-release our interview with Heidi Taylor of Tangaroa Blue.
The second keynote from the Climarte ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 Festival, this podcast episode features embedded images. Listen in a podcast app for the best experience.
A bonus extended interview with Violet from Extinction Rebellion Melbourne on methods, motivations, and theories of change.
This episode is a collaboration with friends of the show in Leeds, England, featuring voices from Melbourne, Sydney, Leeds and London. Go behind the headlines to learn more about Extinction Rebellion, and the people behind the movement, about why they are choosing to rebel.
The second of a four-part series, recorded at the Living Pavilion, University of Melbourne. Climate Bites are lunchtime panels with experts where audience members are welcome to engage on a particular topic. In this episode, food.
The first of a four-part series, recorded at the Living Pavilion, University of Melbourne. Climate Bites are lunchtime panels with experts where audience members are welcome to engage on a particular topic. In this episode, water.
When we asked Reid Pierce how he managed to get the Inner West Council to declare a climate emergency he answered, ‘I just asked them’. This is a conversation of hope, action, the importance of language and using momentum to enact change.
With the results of the 2019 federal election still weighing on our hearts and minds this is a podcast to raise you up and remind you that all over this country, and our world, are people making major breakthrough everyday to make our world a greener, cleaner and more equitable place. with conviction. People just like you.
Climactic Community Corner — Send us your own message, up to one minute, to play on the show, to @climacticshow on Facebook or hello@climactic.fm
Shannon Loughnanne - The City Roars
Annett Finger, Boomerang Alliance - The link to make a submission to the Victorian government
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Editor-in-Chief
Mark Spencer — Founder
Maxine Bazeley — Host
Georgia Sheil — Host
Bronwyn Gresham — Host
Greg Grassi wrote our theme, check out his work here.
Abby Hawkins designed our logo, check out her work here.
The General Assembly wrote the instrumentals you heard at the end, check out their work here.
Connect with Sarah Sannon who wrote the post-election affirmation here.
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Special Guests: Annett Finger, Reid Pierce, and Shannon Loughnane.
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Links: Extinction Rebellion Australia Extinction Rebellion Australia on Twitter: "Inner West Sydney has just declared a #ClimateEmergency." Climactic: Waste Special, Part One — We talk to Councillors and Council staff to find out the very real stress the decision has placed them under to make changes and what consequences this will have for residents and ratepayers. Climactic: Councillor Kat Copsey - "The Waste Guru" — In this week’s episode, Climactic co-host Mark Spencer talks to Cr Kat Copsey of Port Phillip Council in Melbourne, Victoria. Climactic: Councillor Tim Baxter — "Combating Climate Change through Local Government" — Episode 3 sees Mark Spencer go one-on-one with Councillor Tim Baxter of Melbourne’s Port Phillip Council. How to make a Submission for the Inquiry Into Recycling and Waste Management — HOW TO MAKE A SUBMISSION FOR THE INQUIRY INTO RECYCLING AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
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This is the adaptation for the Climactic podcast of the first keynote of Climarte's Art + Climate = Change Festival.
Maxine interviews regional Victorian painter Mairin Briody, about her beautiful works, and her outlook of finding positivity in the time of climate change.
Hear from Shannon as he walks from Melbourne to Canberra to deliver the message to the Australian Parliament that far greater action is needed on climate change. Mark interviews a permaculture farmer and community educator in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa, Matthew Onyeanula.
Look back on the March 15th School Strike for Climate by hearing what happened in Melbourne on the day, then hear what the reaction and actions have been since the strike, and why the imminent Australian election is vital in the fight for climate action.
Mark has a chat with animal educator and mobile zoo operator Josh Cox, about his passion for maligned animals, educating kids about habitat loss and climate change, and creating better humans.
Lake Knox is a deep-water lake in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and is the habitat of an endangered species. The community is trying to stop development plans for the lake site, and in this episode you'll learn what they are trying, why it's important, and hopefully learn some lessons about how you can take action yourself in your own area.
Shannon is a young man who'd had enough with Australia's lack of action on climate change, and has made the decision to walk up to the counter to complain. And by counter, we mean the capital. And by walk, we mean walk. 700 kilometers.
Climactic celebrates it's half-century with a fun, fascinating chat with Wiebe, a young man from the Netherlands who travelled through thirty-three countries in a decade-old electric car, using only the generousity of others.
Bronwyn talks to Holly Hammond, and of course the conversation turns to self-care, but this time Bronwyn is able to learn from a self-care expert, and self-described "care bear" of the activist community.
The Climate Reality Project Australia and Al Gore are headed to Brisbane to train people like you, yes you, in the Climactic community, to #LeadOnClimate.
This episode sees Mark sit down with the leader of the Australian Greens Party, Doctor Richard di Natale, in his office, to talk about how he is facing the climate crisis personally and politically.
Friday, the 15th of March, 2019, will see 50 school strikes across Australia, and many more across 78 countries. They're shaping up to be the largest united protests in history. So, in this special we hear from the organizers of these historic strikes, and from the wider community about what these strikes mean.
This episode is a great chat with a Geelong businesswoman, Jackie Matthews, who's business Scrap Solutions is confronting the recycling crisis head-on. Learn more about how the world of recycling works, at this vital time where we need a fix to how we treat waste.
Norway's state oil company Equinor has the greenlight to drill in the Great Australian Bight, in some of the world's roughest seas, and at extreme depths. The locals and lovers of the Australian coast have said no, and sent strong messages of their disapproval with events all over the country. Here's an on the ground report from the Paddle Out at Torquay.
In her first episode of Climactic, host Georgia Sheil interviews Gretchen Miller, a twenty year ABC radio feature creator, audio artist, and Climactic's own special advisor. Hear beautiful excerpts of Gretchen's work for the ABC, RN, and BBC, and her perspective on how to make change, and how to live well in the time of climate change.
New member of the Climactic Collective, Bronwyn Gresham, brings us this week's episode. An interview with Carolyn Ingvarson, founder of influential Melbourne residents group Lighter Footprints, on how the group came about, her approach to leadership, activism, and the climate crisis, and valuable lessons for other groups on how to be effective.
Mark announces the new changes to Climactic, and brings you an episode of the AIRAH on Air podcast about Australia's first large-scale carbon-neutral housing estate.
Second bonus episode from the National Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne. The veteran hosts of The Sustainable Hour joined in a great conversation with two of the Melbourne organisers of Climate Leaders. Enjoy!
In this bonus episode from the National Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne, we hear from Carol Ride, founder of Psychology for a Safe Climate, on the tenth anniversary of Victoria's Black Saturday fires.
This week Mark talks to Maiysha, the MC of Melbourne's School Strike for Climate that place November 2018. They talk her path into activism, what's next for School Strike for Climate, and the group's next big initiative, Climate Leaders.
The Gold Coast chapter of Stop Adani, a grassroots environmental network Australia-wide, take over this week's show. They got in a studio to record this story of how their group works, the campaign they're on, and the successes they've had. They also give great advice to help you get involved in a group, and how to make groups more effective.
Mark talks to Jo Dodds, city councilor in the Bega Valley Shire, on New South Wale's Sapphire Coast, an outspoken proponent for greater action on climate change, and critic of the current Australian government.
This episode is a live talk from Psychology for a Safe Climate, grappling with the topic of bushfire, and how to engage with the elephant in the room, climate change, in the aftermath of fire.
Mark talks to Helene and Raoul, a young couple behind a campaign to create a new Nobel Prize for Climate Change Action.
You may notice there is one word we’re avoiding to say in the show. That word begins with A and ends in I, has Dan in between. We were told about 20 minutes before the show, so some minor tweaks had to happen on the fly. I’m sure you’ll enjoy listening to that as we go.
This episode is a collaboration with The Blunt Report, a long-form conversation podcast about science, technology, philosophy, et al.
With 36 main episodes, close to 50 shows including bonuses and a miniseries, there's been over 24 hours of Climactic published since we launched in April. So with the end of the year looming, Rich and Mark look back on the first year of the show. But, because the UN COP24 summit has just wrapped up, they discuss the conference, what it actually is, how big it is, and how they feel about it. We also hear from a climate scientist from Potsdam about what the scientific community is watching at COP. It's been a huge year, and we go out with a bang.
Earlier this year, in association with a student group at the University of Melbourne, Climactic ran our first climate change storytelling contest. In this episode, hear the winning story, and an interview with the winning storyteller.
This week we have not one scientist, marine debris expert, and communicator, but two. Jennifer Lavers and Annett Finger are top of their fields, and old friends as well. So you'll hear not only insights and expertise, but be along for some laughs.
Rich talks to Lis Bastian, founder of community media organisation The Big Fix, about using media for good, and living purposefully, both in the face of serious illness, and in facing the biggest issues threatening our communities.
The day before polling day, here's a final update from Act on Climate, and interviews with voters and candidates on the importance of this election in the context of climate change.
Beth Hill is an anthropologist, and a member of Psychology for a Safe Climate, a non-profit group of psychologists and other helping professionals who donate their time and effort to helping people deal with the psychological effects of working on the climate crisis.
Recorded excerpts from the Plastic-Free Victoria Alliance, November meeting, held at the Port Phillip Eco Centre.
Week 8, and it's one week till the polls open. Hear about how Act on Climate's Head in the Sand action went, and about some of the latest updates in the race.
Leigh Baker, listener favourite, is back with her fresh perspective and deep knowledge of how to get things done. We talk human systems, marketing for good, and approaching human psychology as the irrational, emotional, conflicted beast it is.
Banter plus a 360 degree mic makes this a lively episode. Leigh gives a great overview not just of where we're at with the election, but of the history and wins of Act on Climate. Great on-ramp for new listeners.
We spoke to Tim Lo Surdo, Director of Democracy in Colour, a racial justice campaigning organization. We hear Tim's origins into activism, working alongside and with climate activists while pursuing parallel aims for social justice, and what motivates him to keep going.
An interview with Kate Wattchow, a campaigner with FoE's Act on Climate collective. Kate is a force to be reckoned with at AoC, and puts a lot of time and effort into the campaigns. In this episode we find out why, and what sustains her.
This week wraps up our two-part interview with Brett Hedger. We talk the hard edge of sustainable and the reality of the choices, and changes, we're facing.
Week five of our unfolding miniseries following Act on Climate, a political activism group, on the lead-up to the Victorian State Election.
This week is the first of a two-part interview with Brett Hedger, aka Zero Waste man. Brett is a normal enough guy by day, a Sustainability Officer at council, but on special occasions Zero Waste Man comes out to drop reality bombs, and show a way forward.
Week four of our unfolding miniseries following Act on Climate, a political activism group, on the lead-up to the Victorian State Election.
Part 2 of Maxine's interview with Damien Cole, independent candidate in the November 24th Victorian state election
Week three of our unfolding miniseries following Act on Climate, a political activism group, on the lead-up to the Victorian State Election.
New contributor (and past guest) Max talks to Damien Cole, independent candidate in the November 24th Victorian state election, about running a climate aware campaign.
Week two of our unfolding miniseries following Act on Climate, a political activism group, on the lead-up to the Victorian State Election.
Heidi Taylor, founder and director of Tangaroa Blue, one of Australia's leading marine debris and ocean plastic clean-up and source reduction campaign groups, sits down for interview with Mark. Hear the story of the founding of the group, how to get industry to implement sustainable changes, and why marine debris is so important to Heidi.
In the weeks leading up to the Victorian state election on November 24th, Climactic is going behind the scenes with a leading political and environmental campaigning group, Act on Climate. Listen in to updates about the campaign, report backs from actions, and news about the run-up as Victoria faces an election with massive climate safety implications.
Hear the story of the creation of ShareWaste, the easy way to use your kitchen scraps to create soil, avoid landfill, and stop greenhouse gas. The founders share their motivations, their thinking, and their views on climate change, and hear from a ShareWaste user that's helped dozens of others find a new, better home for their kitchen waste.
Mark talks to the two founders of Effect the Change, a YouTube channel that spreads useful information about sustainability, while having fun.
This week Mark and Rich break down a recurring theme from our first 20 episodes. Is it enough to be personally sustainable? Or is it much more effective to put pressure on governments and systems to adapt to our new reality?
Phil is a leader in the HVAC&R (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Regfrigeration) industry, a huge power consumer and emissions causer, but one vital to our world. We talk the human side of AC and cooling, Phil's story, and finally, share some highlights of a recent interview he did with Paul Hawken, editor of Project Drawdown.
Leigh Baker is a great thinker, problem-solver, and researcher. She's delved deep into Project Drawdown, and other projects, that show we have all the tools we need to fix climate change.
This is a bonus episode of Climactic all about a new start-up from Melbourne, Bring Me Home, and the founder's mission to stop food waste.
This episode Mark talks youth activism with Nick Carter, AYCC organizer working in Townsville, northern Queensland. They discuss volunteer-group fit, how volunteers can shape an organization, and how to keep volunteers satisfied and coming back for years. They also get into some practical discussion about what Mark and Nick are doing in their personal lifes for the sake of sustainability.
Climactic goes to the art gallery! This show features the artist Dale Cox, in conversation with Climarte founder Guy Abrahams, about his new exhibition all about life in the Anthropocene, Inner Logic.
Mark speaks to two consultants focused on sustainability, for individuals, and for the restaurant industry.
Rich talks to writer, activist, and community leader Tracy Sorensen about her motivations, her perspective, and her work.
Mark chats with Gabby Maher, a Climate for Change volunteer, who recently took up a zero-waste challenge to raise funds for C4C. We talk about what it's like to live without producing waste for six weeks, and what she's doing now.
This week Rich interviews one of Australia's leading biodynamic farmers, Mark Rathbone. Mark talks eloquently on his family's introduction to biodynamics, what exactly it involves and how he's noticed, and dealt with, the harmful effects of a lack of water and other climate events over the years at his farm in Northern Victoria.
Climactic's first panel features 4 voices, Katy and Chris, interns at the Climate Reality Project's Australia office, Marcus Gibson, one of the first 150 trained by Al Gore in 2006, and co-host Mark, trying to keep up.
This week is an exciting first for Climactic, with two Kiwis in the studio. Mark talks to Laura Wilson of Big Little Brush, a social enterprise in Melbourne using bamboo toothbrushes to do much, much more.
This week Rich talks to Fiona Rossiter, cafe owner, business woman, author, registered nurse, mother of eight and former councillor in the Central West city of Orange, NSW. Fiona tells her own history in running Orange’s iconic Bissy’s Cafe with husband Paul; how they “discovered” permaculture and how they now apply it their businesses, family life and even mode of thinking.
This week Mark does a solo flight, and by that we mean he takes a bus tour. But this is no normal tour — this is a beach clean-up.
Rich talks to John Fry, Environmental Projects Manager at Skillset, former Landcare co-ordinator, experienced land manager and now Greens councillor on Bathurst Regional Council. What John doesn’t know about sustainability in the Central West isn’t worth knowing!
In this episode Mark talks to Oli Moraes, a facilitator trainer for Climate for Change, an environmental group that's combining climate change conversations with a powerful model, one perfected decades ago by Tupperware.
The first in a two-part series, this episode frames the new and concerning waste recycling problem in Australia. The situation has grown critical since China’s “National Sword” decision earlier this year, not to take our recycling. Changing the ground rules on what they will — and won’t — accept has closed the door, leaving our councils effectively buried under a pile of waste.
This week, Climactic co-host Rich Bowden trudges back — with microphone and coffee money in hand — to his previous hometown of Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. There he sat down with old friend, community activist, freelance writer, disability advocate, Aussie Rules footy fan and local legend El Gibbs after a brilliant lunch for a fun, fascinating and, at times, passionate interview. Rich wore out the bleeper covering the swear words on this one!
In this week’s episode, Climactic co-host Mark Spencer talks to Cr Kat Copsey of Port Phillip Council in Melbourne, Victoria. They talk waste, and why they both hate that word, cool tech innovations in recycling, the path from a lawyer to an organiser to a Councillor, and have a good time along the way!
In this episode, Mark talks to Dugald Holmes, his great friend and inspiration behind Climactic.
Mark Spencer goes one-on-one with Councillor Tim Baxter of Melbourne’s Port Phillip Council. Tim’s passion for the environment and determination to drive through essential policies designed to mitigate against climate change is obvious in this free-wheeling and fascinating chat.
Climactic’s Mark Spencer talks to Maxine Bazeley, of Teal Collective, about her transition from the high-powered lifestyle of a career professional to her new sustainable projects!
Introducing a new Australian-based podcast about climate change, sustainable living and caring for our Earth.
Dunkirk. Melbourne IMAX. A very important movie. • The Weapons of War. • No black and white. • Their legacy, our gift.
Grow Assembly, and some time off. • Tsk tsk tsk. • Abbotsford Convent - superfastoverview Edition.
E-sports analogies. • The last game of the Melbourne Rebels? ---Friday night frivolity---
Landfill fire, breaking news. • Firefighters - taking an appreciative moment. • Firefighters fighting firefighters for firefighting rights. Bad ol' days. • The landfill fire, and the bay.
A couple nice moments of my day recorded in audio form. Most excited about the adoption of a new naming scheme, familiar to anyone with a torrent client.
A couple segments of working through my approach to politics in this show, and some thoughts on the film Truth, and the media.
This is a test, an Anchor test. • The simplicity of cost of living comparisons • Welcoming myself to Anchor • The skeleton of the future show, or, the glossary. • The end of show zero.