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Climactic
We live in Climactic times. The culmination of billions of lives lived since the Industrial Revolution. The Anthropocene — our current age of technology, machines, and an insatiable need for fuel — has changed the planet and set us on a new path. There is now broad agreement that the consequences of our collective actions are severe. We’re facing an unprecedented future with a destabilised natural world due to rising temperatures. Climactic tells the stories of the people making a difference. Regular people like us, in a daily struggle to live sustainable lives. We want to be the people's voice on climate change, embedded in the community, from the perspective of the actual people. We want to hear these powerful stories. Are you a member of a community environmental group? Do you have knowledge of climate change? A regular person struggling to figure out your role? We'd love to help you tell your story.
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.
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 emissions while making our homes comfier, our energy bills lower and air cleaner.
[Audio grabs from Anna Harvey]
YOUNG PEOPLE
Alex Fuller, National Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, from Brisbane, QLD, talks about how young people across Australia want to see strong climate action from the next government and climate change is the top issue impacting the way young people vote. She also talks about young people wanting to see the next government commit to no new fossil fuel projects, like coal and gas.
[Audio grabs from Alex Fuller]
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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)!
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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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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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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, and what part do Wagner play in the larger strategy at play?
We overview where Russian Private Military companies are working across Africa and where they have been in negotiations to do so. To this end, we look at the fundamental issue of entrusting your security with organisations that thrive and profit from insecurity.
Part 3: Corporate Retreat (57:37)
Kreig focuses on PMCs hired by smaller states and the particularly complex legalities of maritime PMCs. An incident on a cargo vessel involves the ship's flag country, the ship's ownership country, the crew employment country, the coastal country, the vessel's departure and arrival countries, as well the countries involved in the PMC itself. This jurisdictional nightmare is part of why PMCs have seen little to no consequences for their actions.
We look at Abu Dhabi's hiring of Reflex Limited in response to the Arab Spring. Initially contracted to use lethal force against any domestic uprisings, they were later used in Yemen and Somalia to pursue the interests of Abu Dhabi, and signify the key role that the UAE has had in expanding and legitimising the use of mercenaries and PMCs in active conflicts, not just security.
We get Kreig's view on what the future holds for Privatised Warfare. In his view, PMCs are one part of the increasingly blurring lines between state and non-state actors in geopolitics. Additionally, with many states downgrading their military spending and investment, and security problems around the world increasing, the security gap is only widening, and opening up more and more opportunities for PMCs.
The Red Line's Privatised Warfare Reading List:
We’ve put together some further reading for those of you looking for more resources to help you get across the geopolitics of Privatised Warfare.
Books:
The New Rules of War
Sean McFate
Surrogate Warfare
Andreas Kreig
Blackwater
Jeremy Scahill
Articles/Journals:
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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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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!
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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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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
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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.
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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) 00:49 Twin Musicom: A Dream Within a Dream (also at 02:56, 7:26 and 16:58) 01:24 Serge Pavkin: Dawn 03:11 Wayne Jones: Connection (also at 30:05) 03:35 Serge Pavkin: Reflections on Life (also at 23:36) 06:60 The 126ers: Water Lily 08:30 Density & Time: Ether-Real (also at 52:36) 09:18 Hang Massive: Heritage of Queens and Kings 09:24 Colin Mockett in The Sustainable Hour 09:58 Peekaboo: Arrival 12:10 Wayne Jones: Resolution (also at 13:42) 15:25 Climate Clock (also at 42:25) 32:07 Hang Massive: The Moon’s Reflections on Countless Ponds (also at 51:42) 42:45 New Oddyssey 44:40 Wayne Jones: A Quiet Thought 45:45 Louis Wilson: Droplets 50:05 South London HiFi: Sunrise Drive 53:20 Gil Scott-Heron: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, 1970 A big thank you to the musicians for allowing us to use this music in the podcast.
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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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Anthony Day helps you plan a sustainable future with expert guests and reports on green technologies from across a warming world.
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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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 Drawdown's website (where their open-source finding are published): Their current list of evidence-based solutions https://drawdown.org/solutions Their downloadable updates https://drawdown.org/drawdown-review
The Climactic Live episode BZE - Fight for Planet A Panel for the forest regeneration story https://www.climactic.fm/show/climactic/climactic-live-bze-fight-for-planet-a-panel/
The full Clean State podcast on The Insulation Revolution with Stephen Kinghttps://www.climactic.fm/show/clean-state/the-insulation-revolution-the-simple-social-enterprise-model-inspiring-a-state-with-stephen-king/
CREDITS Original music and audio editing by Ian Hopkinson, Human Hacker and serial digital entrepreneur.
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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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Nicole Abadee
Website: https://www.nicoleabadee.com.au
Facebook: @booksbooksbookspodcast and @nicole.abadee
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Penguin "Animals Make Us Human": https://www.penguin.com.au/books/animals-make-us-human-9781760899813
Leah Kaminsky
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Facebook: @LeahKaminskyAuthor
Twitter: @leahkam
Instagram: @leah_kam
Meg Keneally
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Twitter: @KeneallyMeg
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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!
The Crawford Fund https://www.crawfordfund.org/
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research https://aciar.gov.au/
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
Science Learning Hub
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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.
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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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This is an episode of Climate Conversations, on the Climactic Collective network. You have over 300+ more episodes to enjoy after this.
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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Clips:
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!
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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.
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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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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
Facebook - @ListenUpPodcasting Kel Butler - Facebook and Twitter @KelButler
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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, Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Reimagining our world and ourselves, is available from Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Crisis-and-Consciousness-Reimagining-Our-World-and-Ourselves/Gillespie/p/book/9780367365349
(30% discount code is ADS 19) or get your library to order it in!
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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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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. As the people in the Great Bear Rainforest struggle to protect their territory against the pressure and promise of the gas industry, caught in between are the countless beings that call this place home.
Seasters co-host Tess Chapman delves into the climate justice, whale habitat, economic, and native sovereignty issues in the Kitimat Fjord.
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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.
Eav is a marine scientist by training, so has some great questions for Matt around the MSC approach to sustainable fisheries, an ecosystems approach. Mark - as an untrained enthusiast - wants to know how consumers can use the MSC tickmark on canned tuna to send fishing companies a message.
It was great to talk to a member of such an influential and successful non-profit, and we can't wait to explore more product certification schemes, and challenge if they're appropriately engaging with the climate crisis.
In this episode you'll learn about how fisheries are being affected by marine heatwaves, and how changing ocean temperatures are affecting fishing grounds.
Apologies for some audio quality issues with this recording, there was a mic selection problem on Mark's end.
Special Guest: Matt Watson.
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Links: Sustainable Fishing | MSC | Marine Stewardship Council — We're on a mission to end overfishing. Ensure future generations can enjoy the wild seafood we love by choosing certified sustainable seafood with the blue fish label.
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A panel discussion led by Margaret Klein Salamon, author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to transform yourself with climate truth
Yes, we're facing catastrophic collapse. Yes it’s terrifying. But you don't have to be paralyzed by your fear, grief, and other painful feelings. You can use your pain to transform yourself, your friends, and your world. You can become the hero humanity needs. I want to show you how. - Margaret Klein Salamon
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.
She will be joined by:
Dr Sally Gillespie, author of Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Reimagining our world and ourselves and co-founder of the Climate Wellbeing Network in Sydney. She writes: Joining with others to address the climate crisis is a potent catalyst for reshaping an isolated experience of self into a connected one.
Dr Charles LeFeuvre, Vice President of Psychology for a Safe Climate, he is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist and has been involved in writing and speaking about psychological approaches to climate change over many years.
Dr Susie Burke, a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, and author of the Climate Change Empowerment Handbook. She has a particular interest in how to raise children in and for a climate altered world.
This event is hosted by Psychology for a Safe Climate and chaired by Carol Ride, President.
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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.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH EVERY BREW.
"Crema Joe is an Australian owned business passionate about helping you get more from your daily cuppa. It’s why we’ve hand selected a range of innovative and sustainable coffee machine accessories from around the globe for the home coffee brewer, including our eco-friendly coffee capsules - WayCap, Bluecup and our flagship line, SealPod."
Mark sits down for a chat with the co-founder of Crema Joe, and the wholesale manager, for a discussion of how to run a socially- and sustainaly-minded coffee company, while raising kids, without switching off to the climate crisis.
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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?
We all have heard about nature-based solutions, low-carbon futures, liveable, socially just, smart and climate resilient cities. What do they mean?
Join RMIT lecturers and researchers to discuss how we can shape the future of our cities to find out how their teaching and research has real life impact - creating urban spaces that protects the environment adapts to climate change and are equitable.
Panel members Dr Susie Maloney (Climate change adaptation policy)
Dr Susie Moloney is an Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning in the School of Global Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University. She is also a member of the Centre for Urban Research (CUR), RMIT. Her research focuses on land-use planning, urban sustainability and climate change and the implications for policy and governance arrangements particularly at the local and regional scale. She has worked for both the public and private sectors in the urban planning and sustainability policy domains. Over recent years she has worked on a range of applied climate change research projects with local and state government and community sector organisations. She is one of the co-founders of The Climate Change Exchange which is a not-for-profit organisation that is committed to the goals of equity and ecological sustainability in working towards a climate resilience future. Hosted by CUR, RMIT during its pilot first year, the Climate Change Exchange aims to build the capabilities of organisations to make evidence-informed decisions and take actions that target the root drivers of risks and vulnerabilities.
Candace Jordan
Candace is a Climate change adaptation and sustainability officer at City of Melbourne. She has been working as a climate change adaptation practitioner for over eight years across state and local levels of government. Candace has been involved in the development and implementation of City of Melbourne’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Refresh 2017 with a particular focus on mitigating urban heat and monitoring and evaluating the cities adaptation strategy. She has a collaborative approach to adaptation planning and policy, building relationships across organisations and disciplines to achieve positive adaptation outcomes. During her time at the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Candace led the delivery of the Inter-jurisdictional Adaptation Working Group and contributed to the development of Victoria’s second statewide Climate Change Adaptation Plan. Candace is passionate about building Melbourne’s and its community’s resilience to the impacts of climate change to ensure Melbourne remains a great city to live in and enjoy.
Dr Anthony Kent (sustainable transport policy)
Anthony Kent is lecturer and researcher with the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT. He is currently researching the place of second-tier cities in broader settlement patterns with a focus on environmental and economic outcomes and potential.
Dr Georgia Garrad
Georgia Gerrard is a Research Fellow with the Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group at RMIT. She is a quantitative ecologist and has worked on projects related to imperfect detectability and informative Bayesian priors in ecology. She is currently working on a project investigating better planning for biodiversity in the urban fringe; one of four native grassland projects funded by The Myer Foundation. This project aims to address incompatibilities between native grassland conservation and urban development in Melbourne, by improving prospects for grassland conservation within housing developments, and investigating alternative urban development scenarios that mitigate impacts on existing grasslands. Her research interests also include the use of science to inform environmental policy, adaptive management and structured decision making.
Professor Usha Iyer-Raniger (Circular economy/ building apartment and housing design standards for a changing climate)
Usha is a Professor at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University. She is also the Co-Lead of the United Nations One Planet Network’s (OPN) Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme (SBC), (10YFP) on Sustainable Consumption and Production aligned with SDG12. Usha brings wide industry experience to her teaching and research. She has been involved in key projects on sustainability and circularity in the built environment since her commencement at RMIT University at the Centre for Design. Her research projects include national and international projects.
Associate Professor Andrew Butt
Andrew is a lecturer with over 20 years practical experience in planning. Andrew’s research includes investigations of the processes and practice of planning in non-metropolitan settings. He is particularly interested in the way in which land use planners operate as professionals in a context where drivers of change often sit outside of the limits of planning action. He is presently developing a collaborative project developing scenario modelling for future population and land use change, impacts and policy options in central Victoria, Australia. These include a focus on the politics of planning for intensive agricultural systems. He is also involved in research on planning for agricultural systems, particularly intensive agriculture.Facilitator/ Moderator
Dr Mittul Vahanvati
Mittul works at the intersection of environmentally sustainable buildings, disaster recovery and community resilience. She is currently the lead researcher working with rural communities in Victoria to co-produce their climate resilience action plan. She is also part of a team of researchers involved in a large-scale action-research project in the Solomon Islands, 'Climate Resilient Honiara', funded by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund and administered by UN-Habitat. Mittul completed her PhD research in 2018, investigating the long-term impacts of post-disaster housing reconstruction projects in terms of building community resilience. She entered academia after 10 years of practice in architecture industry in Australia, Switzerland and India. She is co-founder of a Melbourne-based design + build studio Giant Grass (GG) and coordinator of RMIT’s Urban Futures Early Career Researchers’ Network.
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How quickly can we achieve climate justice? Does climate justice mean we need to be careful and considered and/or hurry up? In what ways does declaring and responding to the 'climate emergency' contribute to climate justice, or potentially undermine it? What steps need to be taken to ensure that declaring a climate emergency doesn’t lead to ‘states of emergency’ and authoritarianism?
Recent events in Australia highlight the need to consider the pros and cons of declaring a ‘climate emergency’. Efforts to outlaw climate protests demonstrate that some groups are threatened less by climate change than protests about it. Yet ‘climate emergency’ was the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2019 Word of the Year, demonstrating the reach and power of this phrase to capture the world’s imagination and inspire urgent climate action.
Join leading climate change researchers and practitioners as we tackle the pressing questions that the ‘climate emergency’ raises.Panelists
(Recently added) Dr Briony Towers, Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Social and Urban Studies (GUSS), RMIT University
Briony has been conducting disaster risk reduction research with children and young people for over ten years. Her PhD in socio-cultural psychology at the University of Tasmania involved an in-depth investigation of children's knowledge of vulnerability and resilience to wildfire risk in south eastern Australia. She is currently the lead investigator on the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC project 'Building Best Practice in Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction'. She is also a member of the National Disaster Resilience Strategy group and a research advisor on the European Commission’s CUIDAR project. Briony’s primary research interests concern the root causes of disasters and how these can be addressed through place-based critical pedagogies and children's genuine participation in disaster management policy, research and practice. She is also interested in intergenerational climate justice and student-led climate activism.
Associate Professor Lauren Rickards, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS), RMIT University.
A Lead Author with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s forthcoming Sixth Assessment Report on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation, Lauren co-leads the Climate Change Transformations research program at the Centre for Urban Research and teaches on climate change into undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Sustainability and Urban Planning area of GUSS. Among other realms of climate in/justice, Lauren’s research has investigated climate change’s ‘slow emergencies’ such as drought, as well as the logics through which societies ignore, normalise, deny or tolerate the harms climate change inflicts on marginalised people and the non-human world.
Dr Bronwyn Lay, Ecological Justice Coordinator for Jesuit Social Services and Coordinator of the Climate Change Exchange at RMIT University.
Bronwyn has engaged with the intersection of grassroots communities and ecological justice for the past 13 years.
With a background in criminal and family law she completed her PhD on land governance and ecology at the European Graduate School in 2014 with a focus on ecocide law. While living in France she worked as a legal consultant for international NGO’s and expert organisations on environmental crime at the Hague and United Nations and was the Director of the International Caux Dialogue on Land and Security. She has published in a wide variety of forums on the subject of ecological justice, including her book Juris Materiarum: Empires of Earth, Soil and Dirt.
Dr Mittul Vahanvati, Lecturer at RMIT University in the Sustainability and Urban Planning Discipline.
Mittul completed her PhD research in 2018, investigating the long-term impacts of post-disaster housing reconstruction projects in terms of building community resilience. She entered academia after 10 years of practice in architecture industry in Australia, Switzerland and India. She is co-founder of a Melbourne-based design + build studio Giant Grass (GG) and coordinator of RMIT’s Urban Futures Early Career Researchers’ Network. She is currently the lead researcher working with rural communities in Victoria to co-produce their climate resilience action plan. She is also part of a team of researchers involved in a large-scale action-research project in the Solomon Islands, 'Climate Resilient Honiara', funded by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund and administered by UN-Habitat. Her teaching, practice and research lies in co-creation of knowledge around issues of housing, ecologically sustainable built environment, urban design, disaster recovery and community resilience.
David Mieklejohn, Executive Officer of the Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA) and PhD Candidate in RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research.
David currently works as the Executive Officer for the Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA), a network of nine Melbourne metropolitan councils working together on climate change projects. In this role, David coordinates climate action among a broad range of Victorian actors. David’s research as a PhD student investigates how local councils in Australia are implementing behaviour change programs to respond to climate change, as well as how their declarations of a climate emergency are changing their governance practices.
Moderator
Dr Blanche Verlie, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sydney Environment Institute, the University of Sydney.
Blanche has been teaching climate change mitigation and adaptation at RMIT University in the Sustainability and Urban Planning Discipline since 2015, and completed her PhD in climate change education at Monash University in 2019. Her research investigates people’s emotional responses to learning about climate change, and how this affects their identity and relationships, including how this is an issue of intergenerational in/justice, which you can read about here: https://theconversation.com/the-terror-of-climate-change-is-transforming-young-peoples-identity-113355. Blanche has recently moved to the University of Sydney to continue her research, and is working on the Multispecies Justice research program there.
**This event is part of the 2020 National Sustainable Living Festival.
We acknowledge this event is taking place on stolen and unceded Wurundjeri Country. This event is free but we encourage you to donate to Seed Youth Indigenous Climate Network https://www.seedmob.org.au/donate**
Special Guest: Dr Blanche Verlie.
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In November 2019 I caught up with an old friend and fellow conservationist, Jimmy Nails. This throwback episode meanders through conversations from the role of the NGO in multilateral governance, to dealing with the insurmountable grief that the knowledge of climate change brings, to tough decisions about how we move forward in our careers and passion projects. Jimmy’s invigorating stories and contagious laughter are the perfect diversion away from the eeriness felt across the globe this week.
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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.
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Links: SNAP ACTION: Join our digital rally against new fossil fuels in VIC - Friends of the Earth Melbourne Healthy Futures Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) | Department of Health and Human Services Victoria
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Youth on Strike is an exciting new series you can watch on YouTube. With support from Screen Australia and Junkee, this project brings you vlog footage from SS4C organisers, and past Climactic guests, in the lead-up to the March 15 2019 School Strike.
Rob Innes was the producer of this project, and he generously jumped on an interview the same day as Episode 1 was released.
Listen in, share the series, and let's get behind great climate media!
Special Guest: Rob Innes.
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Links: Youth On Strike! | Episode 1 - YouTube Youth on Strike! video series
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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!
Humans have made it through some pretty tricky times. We survived that ice age 40,000 years ago. The black plague epidemic wasn’t exactly a bundle of laughs. Then there was a world war, AND its sequel, which was even worse than the original. We even soldiered through the Boy Band fad of the 90s. Which girl were they all even singing about?
But now we’re in the midst of a Climate Emergency; one accurately predicted by oil company Exxon’s scientists as far back as 1982. We’re experiencing more and more extreme weather events across the globe; floods, fires and cyclones. We have all the scientific data we need to predict the worsening situation, we even have the technology to replace the primary causes of global warming, yet we’re in the grip of a pandemic of global leadership by a bunch of white, complacent businessmen with fossil fuel fetishes. Is this the time to panic?
Or is this the boot in the backside that homo sapiens needed to turn things around? Are we at our best when it comes to an emergency? Did things need to get this bad to tip the populace out of climate complacency and in to action?
RMIT and Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate come together for this special Sustainable Living Festival event; bringing together academics, scientists and comedians to debate whether this is a time for hope, or a time to watch the most well-informed animal on the planet become endangered.
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Madeleine Habib is a master mariner and activist who has worked on and captained many vessels around the world.
Madeline recorded her story of climate activism aboard the very vessel her story takes place, The Aurora Australis.
Special Guest: Madeleine Habib.
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Links: "I will not be silenced" Deep in Antarctica Madeleine Habib fights for her right to speak on climate - Breakfast - ABC Radio Life in 500 Words: Madeleine Habib makes waves while on them - Turning Point - Life Matters - ABC Radio National
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Marco is running a half-marathon in the Tarkine rainforest, and he's fundraising to help protect this beautiful and unique ecosystem. You can support him here.
Imagine if students all across Australia started to call for their schools to declare a climate emergency.
That’s what some of the biggest names in the youth climate movement are now striving to achieve.
This special workshop, facilitated by some of Australia’s leading young strategists, will help students create a roadmap for getting schools to declare a climate emergency and advance serious action on climate.
FEATURING:
Marco Bellemo - Climate emergency activist
Kaity Thompson - Climate justice activist
Zel Whiting - Climate emergency advocate (Adelaide)
Jean Hinchliffe - School Striker (Sydney organiser)
FACILITATOR: Matt Wicking
Special Guests: Marco Bellemo and Zel Whiting.
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Bob Doppelt is the Executive Director of the Resource Innovation Group (TRIG) and the founder and Coordinator of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC).
Trained in both counseling psychology and environmental science, he has combined the two fields throughout his
careeer. He is also a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction instructor from the University of Massachusettes Medical School, Center for Mindfulness.
From 2003 to 2011 he directed the Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI) at the University of Oregon, where he still teaches part time.
Bob is the author of Leading Change toward Sustainability: A Change Management Guide for Business, Government, and Civil Society (Greenleaf Publishing, 2003). The Power of Sustainable Thinking: How To Create a Positive Future for the Climate, The Planet, Your Organization and Your Life, (Earthscan Publishing, 2008)
And his newest book, Transformational Resilience: How to Use Climate Change and Related Adversities to Learn, Grow and Thrive released in 2015.
What is transformational resilience?
‘’The capacity of individuals and groups to use their existing strengths and resources to
deliberately regulate their body, emotions and thoughts, and use adversity as a catalyst to
find new meaning, direction, and hope in life by making decisions that enhance personal,
social and environmental wellbeing’’ – Bob Doppelt, 2015
Special Guest: Bob Doppelt.
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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.
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 @CatastrophicPod or email us at info@listenuppodcasting.com.au and we will get in touch to record your story.
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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.
We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their support.
We'll be taking a break next week but if you want more information about events included head to www.transitionaustralia.net. Also if you liked the section on Transition Streets and want to get your hands on the manual then head to the Transition Australian Website.
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Karen Viggers lives in Canberra, she is a Vet who works with native wildlife in the field. This January she volunteered her services to help the animals and saw first hand the impact of the catastrophic bushfires on flora and fauna. 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.
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.
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Catastrophic
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It has been 160 years since Charles Darwin first published ‘On the Origin of Species,’ detailing the amazing ability of living things to evolve through natural selection. Today, human activities and Earth’s rapidly changing climate require that species adapt and evolve at an unprecedented rate in order to survive a great ecological disruption.
What genetic tools are available to enable species to evolve? Which species are most at risk? How can we avoid a collapse in biodiversity, and what can humans do to help?
Join us to celebrate the anniversary of Darwin’s accomplishment for this very special participatory event, held in the 160-year old facilities of the Royal Society of Victoria, combining live music performance and discussion on the convergence of science and music, and the potential for species to evolve and adapt in a time of changing climate.
This one-off event showcases the important research conducted by Melbourne scientists, along with cutting edge musicians and new music of artists drawing their inspiration and musical vocabulary from climate science. Comprising a quintet of some of Australia’s leading musicians in an idiom-bending mix of live jazz, improvisation and contemporary classical, the Gene Tree Project sonically explore climate change science, and ‘re-tell’ the story of the peppered moth. The original music draws upon aspects of evolutionary biology and species adaptation in response to changes in climate, and to themes of adaptation, extinction and resilience.
Gene Tree Project
Gene Tree Project quintet are Elissa Goodrich (composer / vibraphone), Adam Simmons (saxophones / shakuhachi / bass clarinet), Gideon Brazil (saxophones / flute), Elliott Folvig (electric guitar) and Tamara Murphy (double bass). These critically acclaimed Melbourne-based musicians perform, compose and tour both within Australia and internationally in various contemporary jazz, experimental and ensembles and multi-artform projects.
Speakers:
Andrew Pask
Professor Andrew Pask is a geneticist in the School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on Evolution, Development and Reproduction, using marsupial, mouse and human models.
Andrew’s lab recently sequenced the genome of the extinct thylacine and is using this data to understand more about the biology of this unique marsupial predator. The Pask lab is also developing methods to examine the possibility of de-extinction for this species as well as tools to help preserve and conserve current threatened and endangered marsupial species.
Amy Coetsee
Dr Amy Coetsee is a Threatened Species Biologist at Zoos Victoria, where she works on the Eastern Barred Bandicoot. Focussing on habitat requirements, threat mitigation and island releases, Amy’s work has contributed to this marsupial being well on its way to recovery.
Amy is passionate about conservation, actively engaging communities to care for threatened species and fight their extinction, and to inspire students to uphold Zoos Victoria’s commitment that no Victorian terrestrial vertebrate species will go extinct.
Elissa Goodrich
Ms Elissa Goodrich is a musician (percussionist), sound artist & composer. She records & performs in contemporary classical, jazz & pop groups and also works in independent theatre & dance. A Victorian College of the Arts graduate and University of Melbourne Masters postgraduate, Elissa’s sound-art works have played numerous Australian and international festivals.
In 2016 Elissa founded the Gene Tree Project researching and composing new music in collaboration with evolutionary biologist Dr Anna Syme and Nadja Kostich (dramaturg), and is currently composing a large-scale work ‘Gene Tree: Listen.Now.Again.’ in partnership with St Martin’s Youth Performing Arts Centre and with a composer’s commission from APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund 2018.
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On the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, the Barkindji Maraura Elders Environment Team are re-familiarising themselves with their 'country' as a living museum.
It is hot and windy. On the banks of the rivers it is lush and green but just a little way away their lake, Fletcher's Lake, is dry and salinated.
But this is territory that has a vibrant history for the Barkindji people. The team, known as BMEET, know exactly where to find the artefacts that show their connection. Stone tools lie buried in the sand or hide under bushes.
All round us sit irrigation farms—wine and table grapes, fruit and almond trees—and surrounding them, the dry scrub that reaches towards the continent’s centre.
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.
You posted over 200 evocative stories from around the country. Some of these were chosen to be part of a three part series, tracking the impact of summer as we lived it.
Stories in this program are from:
Liz Yelland - Milang Jetty, New Year's Eve - if these boards could talk.
Oliver Coulter - The Weathermen
Please note: the program refers to the price of water in gigalitres. Water is however sold in megalitres and the prices mentioned refer to the megalitre price.
Broadcast: Wed 20 Apr 2016, 11:05am
Guests
Dr Andrew Watkins
Supervisor, Climate Prediction Services at the Bureau of Meteorology
Dameion Kennedy
BMEET Programs Manager
Zachary Harris
BMEET ranger
Mr Howard Jones
Chair of Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group Ltd. Former member of the Board of Western Murray Irrigation. Member of Community Reference Committee to The Living Murray. Currently a member of The Basin Community Committee No 2.
Greg Snowdon
IAS Projects Manager at BMEET
Dennis King
BMEET ranger and media officer
Jenny Gordon
Farmer at El Kantara, near Longreach, Queensland
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For more information about events included head to Transitionaustralia.net
Special Guest: Paul Shelton.
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Part 2 of a three-part series. Listen to part one first at www.climactic.fm/103
In December, as this intense summer got into full swing, most of the country dried out. Drought held tight in western Queensland, Perth swooned through a series of record breaking heatwaves, and then the south-east and west caught fire with powerful implications for human life, livestock, native animals, plants, and our landscape.
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.
You posted over 200 evocative stories from around the country. Some of these were chosen to be part of a three part series, tracking the impact of summer as we lived it.
In part two we use some of these stories to show how fire attacked the southern part of the country, and how the bush and the community responded.
Stories in this program are from:
David Barton - First fire of the season
Polly Musgrove - October garden
Guests
Captain Steve Warrington
Deputy Chief Officer of the Victorian Country Fire Authority
Professor David Lindenmayer
Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Dr Andrew Watkins
Supervisor, Climate Prediction Services at the Bureau of Meteorology
Captain Leigh Pilkington
Deputy Group Captain for the Gosford district of the NSW Fire Brigade.
Professor David Bowman
Professor of Environmental Change, at the University of Tasmania
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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.
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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Kel Butler
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For more information about events included head to Transitionaustralia.net
Special Guest: Paul Shelton.
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Climactic member Gretchen Miller brings us a three part series from ABC and Radio National, Hot Summer Land.
Intense fires, drought, rain in unexpected places, and temperature records smashed—this El Niño summer in Australia both lived up to expectations, and surpassed them.
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.
You posted over 200 evocative stories from around the country. Some of these were chosen to be part of a three part series, tracking the impact of summer as we lived it.
In part one of our series, Hot Summer Land, we travel back in time to the beginning of the season, and hear your stories of fear and anticipation at the start of the antipodean El Niño.
Stories in this program are from:
Natalie Lincoln - Anticipation
Polly Musgrove - October garden
Mary Mageau - From our back verandah
Viki Cramer - No change comingGuests
Dr Andrew Watkins
Supervisor, Climate Prediction Services at the Bureau of Meteorology
Captain Steve Warrington
Deputy Chief Officer of the Victorian Country Fire Authority
Professor David Lindenmayer
Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Jenny Gordon
Farmer at El Kantara, near Longreach, Queensland
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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.
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For more information about events included head to Transitionaustralia.net
Special Guest: Paul Shelton.
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Pamela Cook is an Author living on the South Coast of NSW. Her daughter, son in law and 2 year old grandson all live and work on her property in Milton. The young family run their business out of that property, it is how they earn a living. Not anymore. This Christmas saw them lose that business and very nearly lose their home. The town of Milton is decimated, people have lost everything and they aren't out of the fire season yet. This is Pamela's story.
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 (@CatastrophicPod)or email us at info@listenuppodcasting.com.au and we will get in touch to record your story.
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. The LNP, the ALP, The Greens, One Nation and all of the Independents - both state and federal goverment. We will also be alerting the media organisations every time the file goes out to keep the pollies honest.
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
Facebook @ListenUpPodcasting
Kel Butler
Facebook and Twitter @KelButler
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Sophie Masson is an author living near Armidale in Northern NSW. Sophie has always thought she was safe out there and water was a given. In 2019 both drought and fires hit for the first time. She did not lose her home but she now knows what fear of fire and climate change feels like. This is Sophie's story.
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 (@CatastrophicPod)or email us at info@listenuppodcasting.com.au and we will get in touch to record your story.
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. The LNP, the ALP, The Greens, One Nation and all of the Independents - both state and federal goverment. We will also be alerting the media organisations every time the file goes out to keep the pollies honest.
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
Facebook @ListenUpPodcasting
Kel Butler
Facebook and Twitter @KelButler
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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! In this episode we chat with the delightful Imogen Jubb, Australian National Manager of Zero Carbon Communities, a Beyond Zero Emissions initiative. Imogen has had an impressive sustainability focused career, beginning in ecology, then climate change communications and now on one of the biggest and most promising solutions, transitioning communities at scale to beyond zero emissions. She has authored the Zero Carbon Communities guide and was the principal director of the Australian Local Government Climate Review 2018. She is an elected Board Member of the Australian Energy Foundation and previously worked with the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO where she co-authored reports with some of Australia’s leading climate-change scientists. Listen in to hear all about this, and how Imogen has sustained her passion and connection with this challenging work.
And for those who identify as women out there, if you feel inspired and could benefit from leadership support, check out the Womens Environmental Leadership Australia who are now taking applications for 2020. So much going on. Get amongst it!!
Special Guest: Imogen Jubb.
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Links: The People’s Climate Assembly – Federal Parliament (Canberra) – Climate change protests Australia The Peoples Climate Assembly - Federal Parliament Wellbeing Archives - The Commons Zero Carbon Communities - Beyond Zero Emissions Firesticks Womens Environmental Leadership Australia | Women's Environmental Leadership Australia BZE Radio Show - Beyond Zero Emissions
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This is one cinema with a difference! Powered by bicycles, the Climate Emergency Cinema invites you to experience a series of outdoor films at MPavilion celebrating the urgent grassroots action around climate change. Co-curated by the Transitions Film Festival and the Little Projector Company, the curated program of short films and award-winning feature documentaries will be introduced by leading thinkers and activists leading the climate emergency campaign here in Melbourne. You’ll even have the chance as an audience member to ride a bicycle and help power the screenings!
Thanks to guests:
Vanessa Petrie, BZE
Luke Taylor, SLF
Sofi Krige, Greenfleet
Kylie Lewis, Ofkin
Program—
Please note the screening on Tuesday, 14 January has been rescheduled to Wednesday, 5 February. We hope to see you there!
Tuesday, 21 Jan—Panel + Metamorphosis
Tuesday, 28 Jan—Panel featuring 2040 impact producer Kim Ingles, Chrissy Downes of Student Strikes Melbourne, and Darebin Councillor Trent McCarthy + 2040
Wednesday, 5 Feb—Panel + Climate Emergency Short Films
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Program—
Please note the screening on Tuesday, 14 January has been rescheduled to Wednesday, 5 February. We hope to see you there!
Tuesday, 21 Jan—Panel + Metamorphosis
Tuesday, 28 Jan—Panel featuring 2040 impact producer Kim Ingles, Chrissy Downes of Student Strikes Melbourne, and Darebin Councillor Trent McCarthy + 2040
Wednesday, 5 Feb—Panel + Climate Emergency Short Films
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Mark and Evan met on the Project Drawdown group on Facebook, but didn't realise it at the time. Then they were put into a group thread by a fellow connector, Daniel Poynter. Evan reached out to be on the podcast, and Mark just loved that. In this episode Mark and Evan go into the likelihood of a US Green New Deal, but more importantly into what it really means, and how to achieve the goal of a job and a life that's actively spent in pursuit of solutions to the climate crisis.
You'll get a lot from this episode, but fair warning, you may be inspired to upgrade your job. Don't say we didn't give you a heads-up.
Special Guest: Evan Hynes.
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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.
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Australia's bushfires have left grief on our doorstep. As a cancer survivor, I too have been through the flames.
You can read the full article at Al Jazeera here.
Or, you can listen to it read aloud, by the author.
This is the first of hopefully many such pieces being read aloud by their creators that we'll be hosting on Climactic. The amazing Facebook group Writing for the Environment is a wealth of amazing content, and we hope to become a venue for more audio adaptations of writing on the climate crisis.
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Iara Lee is a prolific filmmaker and chronicler of social movements, native cultures fighting to protect their heritage and lands, and the beauty of the human and natural world.
Tess Chapman, half of the Seasters podcasting duo, jumped on a remote recording session with Iara to talk about her time in the Solomon Islands, her film Wantoks among others, and the power of independent media.
Check out the trailer for the film Wantoks, and you'll see past guest Patrick Rose even show up.
Listen to Patrick's episode at: www.climactic.fm/88
Thanks to Spencer Green for editing this episode.
Thank you listeners for letting us get to Episode 100!
Special Guest: Iara Lee.
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History of the lecture and in memory of Nancy Hillier
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.
The inaugural lecture took place at NSW Parliament House in August 2016. Botany Bay City Council and now the new Bayside City Council agreed to host and co-fund the lecture as an ongoing annual event, in conjunction with UNSW. Development of the lecture series has involved UNSW staff, Botany Bay community members, Bayside Council staff and councilors, Botany Historical Trust, NSW government MPs, and Nancy’s family.
Nancy’s many contributions to the development of services, to championing the interests of residents, and to protection of the environment in the Botany Bay region, are very well known. Her legacy is aptly summarized in the title of her SMH obituary as the “Relentless rebel with many causes”.
Moving to Botany at 17, and faced with the inexorable development of the suburb in which she found herself, Nancy became embroiled in what became her life’s work – fighting for justice for local residents, the community and the environment. From extensions to the port of Botany through to industrial contamination, there was much to confront.
A natural organizer, Nancy always led from the front, which did not go unrecognized. Named 1985 Botany Council citizen of the year, she worked tirelessly in her community, often challenging industry and governments at the highest levels. She received a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2006.
Nancy was also tireless in assisting academics and students, many from UNSW, in their research and teaching projects. She also co-authored academic analysis, and wrote many reports, submissions, letters and other public documents. Her own extensive archive is held by Bayside's local Library.
This lecture series acknowledges Nancy’s heritage, recalling her work and passion while providing an avenue for others to debate issues that resonate with Nancy’s work. Over the years, the annual event will help forge scholarly and broader community relationships and commitments.
The general theme of the lecture series is community participation in the achievement of social and environmental objectives.
Each year, at least one presentation will be given by a young emerging community leader. This recognizes the important perspective of a younger generation, and reminds us that the necessity to ‘pass the baton’ to emerging leaders and activists was amongst Nancy’s greatest passions.
With thanks to all the contributors above, and to others who assisted to initiate and organise this event:
Bayside City Council: staff and councilors
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences UNSW: Events and Media team.
Parliament House staff, and the office of MLC Cate Faehrmann
Presenters
Jean Hinchliffe is a 15-year-old school student and climate activist. As the Sydney group founder and lead national organiser within School Strike 4 Climate, she campaigns for legislative action to end the climate crisis. She first initiated her activist journey at the age of thirteen through volunteering with the Vote Yes campaign for marriage equality, before becoming involved with GetUp and Stop Adani. However, it was only in late 2018 that she started to focus on the climate crisis above other issues. When she isn’t trying to save the world, Jean works as a professional actress.
Varsha Yajman is a year 12 student at Gosford High on the Central Coast. She grew up in Sydney for the most part, and says going to school on the Coast has given her exposure to diverse perspectives on societal issues such as female rights, health, and environmental issues. Her greatest passion, climate activism, led to her involvement with the National Leadership Team for the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and the National and the core Sydney team for School Strike 4 Climate. She says this is more than just fighting for a sustainable world but rather about being part of a collective movement with capacity to empower every individual to unite and fight for a greater cause. Varsha's interests also include the mental health sector and she will contribute more time to this after finishing high school.
Elly Baxter is a communications specialist with more than ten years experience running media and marketing campaigns in the arts. As a teenager she was involved in local environmental activism and has recently become active again as part of Extinction Rebellion Sydney.
Tema Milstein is an associate professor of Environment & Society at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and convenor of UNSW’s Master of Environmental Management program. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of culture, discourse, and ecological relations. Tema's research spans the globe, examining ecological activism, ecotourism and endangered wildlife, ecoculture meaning systems and identity, and ecoculture jamming. Her newest work, the 40- author International Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, will be published early next year. A former US Fulbright Scholar, Tema has taught at universities in the United States, Australia, Italy, China, and New Zealand. She has worked as a newspaper and public radio journalist, and recently participated as an invited speaker at Extinction Rebellion rallies in Sydney.
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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.
Episode 4 of our podcast, we speak to Daisy and Viv, two of the masterminds behind some of the strikes happening in Australia. We ask them about what motivates them, what challenges they have faced and their response to some of the criticism that has been directed their way as well as the imperative importance of stronger climate action in this country.
Hosts: Simeon Levine, Alannah Robinson and Alex Driscoll
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Cle-Anne Gabriel is a lecturer at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, and the UQ Business School's Director for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education. Her research focuses on the areas of sustainable development and postgrowth futures.
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?
References mentioned during the episode: Federico Demaria, Giorgios Kallis, Giacomo d’Alisa, Degrowth: a vocabulary for a new era (book); Cle-Anne Gabriel, Without nature, there can be no business: the harsh bottom line of ecological debt, Entrepreneur Asia Pacific (article) Yves Cochet, The next thirty-three years on Earth, Momentum Institute (article) 2040, by Damon Gameau (film) Planet Earth II, by David Attenborough (film) Making sense of climate science denial – Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate? Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial, The University of Queensland (free course).
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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. We also look at Barnaby Joyce’s failed magnetism, Rupert Murdoch’s climate denier denial, Alan Jones’ cow obsession and why Scott Morrison should send thoughts and prayers to himself!
Watch this episode on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/31qgSPRNivg
Created and hosted by Dylan Behan, News Fighters aims to shove the entire 24/7 Aussie news cycle into your ear-holes in around ten minutes.
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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. That same bird is now Australia's Bird of the Year, while it's habitat is being destroyed to clear the way for the development of the Galilee Basin as the world's newest and largest coal exporter. How can art help us engage and cope with this tension? The grief of extinction?
Thank you for listening to Art Breaker. We're the newest show from the Climactic Collective, a podcast network by and for the Australasian climate community. If you liked the program, please tell a friend, and leave a rating and review in your podcast app or Apple Podcasts if so moved.
Thanks to Charlotte Watson for her time and generousity. Since that tumultuous time in mid 2019, her life has somewhat returned to normal, and she's moving to a plant-based diet.
Chris Turnbull is still campaigning against Adani, and raising his son. If you wanted advice on how to run a bird of the year campaign, he'd be a good man to ask.
Margaret Ingles is still prolifically working on the intersection of the climate emergency and our understanding, and her work has moved your host to tears on multiple occasions.
Our thanks to Miles Martignoni and Laura Murphy-Oates from the Guardian, and Sean Dooley from Bird Life Australia for the use of a section of the Full Story podcast from the Guardian Australia.
Thank you for listening, and if you know of an artist or a project, in any artistic medium, engaging with the climate emergency that's a good story waiting to be told, please get in touch at hello@climactic.fm.
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Hello Dan Ilic here —
Thanks to the Queensland Government for inviting us to perform at Climate Week .
The team of producers were incredible, and the production staff at the Brisbane Powerhouse were slick professional units.
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.
Bridie Connell and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd do some topical music for us. Tom Ballard tells us that it’s all over and there’s no hope left. The Queensland Government put a bid in for the 2038 Nuclear Winter Games. MICF Pinder Prize winner Steph Tisdell give insects the tick of approval, and goes on the hunt for true love with an entomologist. Mel Buttle hopes that foodies will go extinct. Alan Jones has some thoughts on climate change. Professor Hilary Bambrick scares us all to death with what the real health ramifications are for humans on a warming planet. Lewis Hobba thinks he has solutions to the climate crisis, but ends up just blaming Queenslanders for it all.
It is truly and excellent 90 minutes of climate change banter.
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The Climactic Network has launched a new show, Art Breaker, all about the art being made in this time of climate emergency. This episode, an in-depth conversation with writer, poet, and podcaster Magdalena Ball, was originally recorded for Art Breaker, but we also wanted to share it with you here.
Magdalena shares not just some of her story, her way of engaging with the climate, but also reads some of her poignant and vivid poems. Even if you don't normally enjoy or seek out poetry, we think you'll enjoy this episode.
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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.
Meet climate activist, Anna Rose. She started forming environmental groups when she was a school kid. By the time she was at university, she, and her friend Amanda McKenzie, cofounded the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, which today has more than 150,000 members. She's been involved in leadership for Earth Hour, is on a bunch of important academic advisory boards and today works with an organisation called Farmers for Climate Action. But the reason you need to listen to her is that Anna has a long view on how to stay motivated with our activism . She talks about "hope as a strategic decision" and reminds us that we all have difference capacities that "it's only called impossible until it's done."
“Often I don’t feel brave, but I have to do things that I know are important,” she says. "I see courage as a muscle we can build up over time."
In this upbeat, inspiring conversation, we discuss where to begin, why courage is important, how to foster it and how we can use it to change the world.
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Guest in The Sustainable Hour’s studio bunker on 11 December 2019 is chef Jono Hall from the Little Green Corner café in Geelong, who shares some inspirational stories about how the café and his kitchen have been able to reduce their carbon footprint and keep pushing for doing things in ways that are more sustainable.
In November, the Sustainable Hour team went on an excursion to Narmbool to learn about a local tree-planting project – and our latest regenerative hour podcast is all about that. In today’s program we play an excerpt of our interview with Colleen Filippa, the owner and CEO of Fifteen Trees.
Last week we talked about Coldplay’s push on the Pause Button, as they stated that they won’t be touring until it can be done in a way that is responsible and not doing any harm. Charlie Mgee from the Formidable Vegetable Sound System did something similar half a year ago, when he announced that we was stopping doing international tours because of the climate crisis.
But what if he offset his flying by planting some trees instead? Well, if you follow the discussions about this topic in social media, you’ll quickly learn that offsetting your flight or car-driving with purchase of trees gets a lot of criticism. We talk with Shane Adams, who was quick to post a message about this on Mik’s Facebook page, to find out what the core of this discussion is.
Heidi Lenffer from the band Cloud Control started a carbon offset project, FEAT, initially mainly to offset the flight-emissions from their own touring, but over the last three years their project has grown into something which also involves the sports sector, and next year they are launching an even bigger platform, which everyone can get involved with.
We kick the hour off with Colin Mockett’s global outlook about the United Nations’ climate summit in Spain, the European Union’s Green New Deal, and Denmark’s new and world-leading climate law which requires a reduction of the country’s emissions with 70 per cent below 1995-levels before 2030.
The formidable song we play by Formidable Vegetable Sound System is called ‘Earth People Fair’.
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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.
Recorded in Collingwood at the Easey Street Concert Hall in front of a bloody lovely crowd, this is a funny and important conversation about Scott Morrison, socialism, the climate crisis, the 2019 election, the ALP's pathetic position on coal and the possibilities of a Green New Deal for Australia.
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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.
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Through your support of episode 0 we will be assisting in the protection of Australians largest cool temperate rainforest Takayna - Otherwise known as The Tarkine.
Episode 0 includes behind the scenes conversations with Bob Brown (Founder of The Greens and The Bob Brown Foundation) and Darvis Walker (Co-Founder of Tarkine Trails and Wild Walkers) - during our chats we get real deep, exploring WTF is going on in the world, resilience and how to walk the wild back into our lives.
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 following 50% of funds supported Sail for the Planet in Collaboration with Extinction Rebellion you can find out more here.
Custodians - where we explore WTF we are meant to be doing here as we transition from the narrative of being just “consumers” and learn from elders, past, present and emerging.
Creative Director & Producer - Lily Haines
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The first guest we ever had on this podcast, the former Wall St executive John Fullerton, made reference again this week to “John Elkington's product recall“ on a term he coined 25 years ago – ‘triple bottom line’. It reflects, he said, “the growing consensus that sustainability in business is not working. Instead, the chorus for systemic transformation is growing.” Our guest this week is Professor Karen O’Brien, and she has spent decades exploring and assisting people in just this.
“Given the rate, magnitude and speed of the changes we need, let’s go to the highest leverage point. What would that involve to actually loosen the constraints of a paradigm that is, in my view, killing us?”
— Professor Karen O'Brien
Karen is an internationally recognised thought leader on climate change impacts and social transformation. She has been heavily involved in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC), and shared in its 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. She’s also on the scientific advisory board for Project Drawdown, and is the co-founder and partner in cCHANGE, an Oslo-based company that has become a beacon in the space of social transformation.
Karen’s work focuses on the relationships between personal, cultural, and systems transformations. She calls it exploring the most powerful solution to climate change – people! And she’s decidedly positive about it, pointing out that projections of the future too often exclude the understanding that people constitute the systems and stories we live by. We are the systems. And we have the ability to transform ourselves (read, not others) – deliberately, consciously, deeply. And in everyday life, wherever we are.
Karen wrote an article a few years ago titled ‘Is it time for a quantum leap?’, on the emerging field of quantum social theory. And she sees her work on the ground with cCHANGE and cCHALLENGE bearing out the potential for just that. So how does conscious social transformation happen? How do we engage the highest leverage points? How do we take care of each other in the process? And can this really enable us to achieve the 1.5 degree Paris Agreement target?
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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.
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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.
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TRANSCRIPT FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED, Thanks to Kevin Wild for transcribing the audio.
Hey everyone, Giordano here with the juice media podcast, broadcasting from the Department of Genuine Satire.
Most of you know this by now, but I'm just going to repeat it for any newcomers to the podcast, this is a companion podcast to the honest government ads series which we produce and this latest episode was an honest government announcement about the climate crisis.
[Honest Government Ad]
"Hello, I'm from the government with an important message as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, things are going, err, fine. Overall.. The Amazon is fine, half of Africa is fine. So is the Arctic, Indonesia, Spain, Greece, even Greenland's on fucking fire, err, I mean fine.
Scientists have coined a new term for this stage of climate change we're entering. “We’re fucked”. Unlike the previous stage, which climate scientists called listen to us or we might be fucked. We're fucked is happening. And in your lifetime..."
[Giordano] There are so many things to talk about on this issue. Where does one even start? Well, I think my expertise can be most useful in discussing the bullshit that is levied against people who joined the global strike movement. I mean you must have noticed there is just so much bullshit. Where does it all come from, what do we make of it, and how do we respond to it?
And I'm not talking about the bullshit regarding the science. Don't even get drawn into those debates because the only people that can debate the science are scientists and the vast majority of them agree on the science. I'm talking about general run of the mill bullshit, which generally consists of badly constructed arguments that rely on profound ignorance of our own history. So that's what I'm going to talk about in the second half of the podcast. But before we get to that, I want to hand over the mic to the people who have been leading the fight to raise awareness about the climate crisis and to ring the alarm more effectively than, than anyone has been able to, in this last decade, and that is school kids who have created the global movement.
It's fucking amazing. They've made history, they're making history. As we saw yesterday with the global climate strike, there were millions of people on every continent on the street saying this is enough. Of course we joined the Melbourne strike. And, uh, it was just an incredible experience. And while we were there, we thought we would interview some of the kids who have been behind the organization of this amazing event. Of course, we posed as the Department of Genuine Satire from the Australien government. And, uh, these are some of their voices. All I can say is the kids are doing fine.
[background chatter] So, these guys are from the Honest Government ads series. Just about,
[Student] Oh, oh, I love this. Oh my God. Cameron. I've probably spent like years watching these videos.
[music]
[Giordano] So we're here from the government. We just kind of doing a little bit of a survey to see what's going on with the youth. And, uh, our first question to you, Cameron, is, why aren't you at school?
[Cameron] Fuck you. You're the reason I'm not at school, mate.
[Honest Govt] How much money would you need to not believe in climate change?
[Cameron] Um, I'd probably need a politician's wage to not believe in climate change. Maybe a liberal wage and maybe it'd be, it would be good. Yeah.
[Honest Govt] That sounds really familiar to what we have though. We'll have to look into that.
[Honest Govt] Fatima why aren't you at school?
[Fatima] Well, because today we’re striking to ask for climate justice and we're asking for everyone all over the, all over the world to stand with us. Um, I'm not in school today because I've decided to come out and protest for my future.
[Student] Um, I want better action on climate change. Um, why not, a free chance to take off. Nah Um, I'm fighting for my future. Um, yeah. Out of genuine concern for my future.
[Honest Govt] Why are you concerned? I mean, we're taking care of it. We're doing a pretty good job are’nt we. Do you not trust your government? Do you not trust [inaudible]?
[Student] No. Not at all.
[Honest Govt] Fair enough
[Student] Well, I'm seeing your track record. You're not doing a very good job. I'm sorry to say that.
[Honest Govt] Why do you believe scientists? Don't they teach you at school to believe your government?
[Student] Yeah. But Science is also tell me about fossil fuels and about carbon emissions and how renewables are the way to go. Did they, did they ever teach you that?
[Honest Govt] Why aren't you listening to good, reasonable, daggy dad figures like ScoMoe and Alan Jones?
[Student] Well, Alan Jones is prehistoric. Um, he was probably there to see the first coal mine open. [laughter] So I feel like it's a little bit out of touch for me to listen to someone like Alan Jones, considering he could have been my great grandfather.
[Honest Govt] Would a six figure salary at a coal mine changed your mind.
[Student] It wouldn't take any dollar figure. I'm lucky enough, I am fortunate enough to not need to be worried about a dollar figure and that means I'll continue on with my activism irrespective of the money.
[Student] See, unlike, I understand you might be after the money, but I don't think that way. I'd rather be after the planet.
[Honest Govt] So climate change is going to affect the most vulnerable of the worst. So should you be focused on just trying to be like less vulnerable?
[Student] Well. The thing is is that I'm already probably the least vulnerable person that's going to be affected by climate change. So I guess I'm trying to fight for the people that are most vulnerable before me.
[Honest Govt] What if I told you the climate has always been changing?
[Student] Yeah, but now we're causing it. It's been changing naturally, but now we're doing it, so let's got to change it a bit.
[Student] I mean, technically we should be heading, the world should be cooling at the moment, but it's not. And that's because of us and like, like I'm just a kid and I'm pretty worried about it. It's not a good thing.
[Honest Govt] One last question. Do you have something you'd like to say to Scott Morrison today?
[Student] I Dunno if I would allow... [Student] Hop onto the weight watchers!
[Student] As a politician, your job is to represent the people, not represent yourself in parliament. So I think you should get going and start doing that. Otherwise all of Australia is going to be on your back. Oh wait. It already is.
[Student] I don't know if the words I would use with reflect school strike greatly, but I'm probably “go fuck yourself”.
[Honest Govt] Thank you very much. We'll deliver that to the prime minister.
[music]
[Giordano] Jokes aside, there's a huge turnout here. I Dunno, we'll see the numbers later. But this is an incredible event. There's a big mix of like young people, old people. You guys have helped put this event together. Tell us a little bit about what's happening and why you're here and what's, what's happening
[Student] Today what we're going to see is probably the biggest climate mobilization in Australia's history. Um, which is open to not only school students but unions and businesses, corporations, stuff like that. Um, it is largely student led today. Um, lots of the decisions that have been, that have gone into this day have been made by students. Um, and what we're going to see today is just a whole bunch of people protesting climate inaction and putting pressure on the government to tell them that we need more.
[Honest Govt] Yeah, just give us a little rundown of what the demands are
[Student] So our first demand is that we have no more coal or gas projects. Our second demand is that we require a just transition for workers leaving coal and mining areas. And we want 100% renewables by 2030.
[Giordano] I'm sorry, your name is.
[Emma] My name's Emma.
[Giordano] Thank you for your work Emma.
[music]
[Giordano] Shout out there to Zoe and mark, who are helping me to ask those questions on behalf of the Department of genuine satire and also to Dan Ilitch who contributed to some of those questions that these funny brain. And lastly to Mark from climactic who recorded those interviews.
[music]
So as you can probably tell from the tone of my voice, I'm really excited and I was so inspired by being at the climate strike in Melbourne. I know a lot of you feel the same way as well. We've been posting on social media and I've seen so many of you sharing photos from your own cities and towns, whether there were small towns in rural Queensland or big cities like Sydney or overseas in uh, in the US or in Europe. Everyone was really on the same street, on the same page. And I think it was like checking in with each other and going, yes, we are saying, we do know that this is a crisis. This is an emergency, this is the time to be getting down into the street. And it was just so awesome to be standing shoulder to shoulder with likeminded people.
And uh, the one thing that really, you know, that we share in common is that these are people who are listening to scientists. That's what it all comes down to. Every time I see denial and equivocation, it's like I'm just listening to the scientists. I'm not an expert. You're not an expert. The experts are saying we should be freaking out and at an end and having an emergency response to what's happening, I feel to do anything else is insanity. So sane people were on the street and I'm so proud of the way that this amazing collective of people behave respectfully towards each other, towards their cities and streets because we know that the critics are looking on for the tiniest excuse to call out, um, you know, hypocrisy or to call out double standards. Um, they didn't have anything, you know, the streets were clean.
They were cleaner than when the protest started in some places. And by the way, I think we should start a tradition where at the end of the climate strikes, we go and take pictures of the grounds to show the condition in which they've been left. That's why yesterday, after Lee, before leaving Melbourne, I went back to the treasury gardens where not long before the 100,000 people were gathered and I took photos because I was just amazed. There was nothing, there was no plastic bottles or rappers or anything. But sure enough, within hours, photos were circulating online claiming that a mess had been left in Hyde Park, in Sydney. Uh, and in other places. One photo, which was even shared on that pile of steaming shit, Sunrise on channel seven was of Hyde Park in London. Um, and the mess that is shown was created by a festival, not by the climate strikers, but it was reported as if that mess had been left in Sydney's Hyde Park.
They've got fuck all left. I mean, if you have to resort to that level of misinformation and fake news, um, then that's it. It's we've won, you know, now it's just the case of keeping up the pressure. Just keep going in. I think the most important thing, the most important thing now is to inspire each other, to support each other, to keep each other really engaged in the struggle. This isn't a one off thing. There are going to be more protests that are going to be more strikes. The next one's coming up in October. Worldwide. What's the point? Why are we doing this? Isn't it a big waste of time? No, it isn't. No, it isn't. This is one of the many criticisms and many cheap ass bankrupt criticisms that come out and it's really important to know that it is bullshit. When people say that, “what's the point” (or) “You're not going to make any difference”. “How has this changed anything”?
Well, the historical record shows that this is how things have always changed, that people are getting down into the street and making a noise. Suspending business as usual. Downing tools has always been the way that things had been won.
People then go on and demonize that and say, oh, that's you're a socialist. You're a Marxist Europe. Well, if you want to call it that, call it that, but really what it is is that history. This is how humans behave. This is how things change. If you don't like it, then well then why don't you give up your eight hour day? Why don't you give up your sick leave and paid leave? Because all of those things were won by people getting down into the streets. I mean here in Melbourne, the great example is the eight hour movement in 1856 stone masons down tools and they marched the parliament to say, we want to have an eight hour work day. You know, child labor was very common. 10 to 16 hour workdays were common. 700 people marched in the streets. Just 700 people, not 150,000 like we had yesterday in Melbourne. 700 people won the right for an eight hour day in the trade. There were 19 trades represented. But then after that success and movement was organized to make sure that the eight hour day was spread to all workers generally. And that movement continued. It grew and it grew. And the marches got bigger until eventually the eight hour day became nationally instituted across Australia in 1920 the eight hour day, which people take for granted, the very people who sit in their chairs at home posting on social media saying, what have you achieved? This is pointless. Why you marching our beneficiaries of this very method of, of winning overwrites. They have jobs where they have eight hour days where they have paid leave sick leave.
Those very rights were won in the same way that people are seeking to win a right to protect our future, our kids' future from the climate crisis by getting down into the street. So the only thing those critics are really demonstrating is how dangerous it is when you don't know your own history.
The funny thing is that they are the hypocrites for benefiting from the very mechanisms of struggle that they are now criticizing and disparaging. And the reason I laugh when I say that they're hypocrites is because the charge of hypocrisy is what critics are often pinning on climate activists. I'm saying that we are hypocrites for protest in climate inaction when we ourselves use and depend on fossil fuel products. Okay, so let's talk about this criticism, this accusation of hypocrisy. And again, I'm only focusing on the criticisms because as I said, I think about this a lot and I feel like it gets people's spirits down.
People tend to lose energy when they feel attacked. And as I said, we need to stay inspired and engaged. And I don't want to see people, um, losing spirit or losing heart because they are attacked in these ways. So that's why I'm sharing these thoughts with you so that if you had an already cottoned on to these fallacies a then maybe this is helpful to know how to respond or how to at least not let these kind of criticisms get you down. So with that in mind, what do we make of this charge? That we're hypocrites? I'm sure you've come across this on social media. If you make the point that you're attending the climate strike, people will ask you, are you going to wear clothes? Cause did you know that they made out of petroleum products? Oh and how are you going to get to the protests?
Are you going to drive there? Are you going to catch public transport? Well all that too is powered by electricity and diesel. The logic is if you benefit from the system, you're not allowed to call for it to be changed or improved.
The answer to this argument is in our historical record, the historical record of our species is one of transitioning from one source of energy to another from one way of doing things to another. There is never been a case of group of people saying let's power our society, our economy differently, and then the next day they did that and so because it's always been about transitions, there has always been a massive overlap between old ways and new ways of doing things. Again, if we're looking for examples, history is our friend. People in the northern United States who are against slavery were wearing cotton picked by slaves.
That didn't mean that we're hypocrites for joining the abolition movement. It meant that they realize that we're beneficiaries of that system and they wanted to campaign to end it, but until that happened, there was no affordable way for most people to obtain cotton just as there is no affordable way for most people today to obtain electric vehicles because our system still supports and subsidizes the fossil fuel industry. But I'll come back to that in a second. The main point is, and Jamie Hen from three-fifty dot org put it really clearly in a letter to the Boston globe. We must fight in the world we have, not the world we want. The fact is what we're calling for is a transition. That is the key word. The critics are attacking as if we're saying we have to switch from fossil fuels right now. That's not what we're saying.
So the criticism that they are living is a straw man. It's attacking a position that we don't hold. We're not saying we're going to change today. We're saying we need to transition to a zero emission economy over the next 10 15 years maximum, which allows us to implement the technology which now exists in order to rely on renewables and also to create a just transition for workers in the coal mining and oil industry so that they’re not left up shit creek either. And so when you put all that together, given that we're calling for a transition using fossil fuel products from laptops and iPhones and social media and computers and getting to a rally, however you can, obviously if you can ride your bike like, like I did yesterday, great. Otherwise, public transport, if you have to drive a car, that's okay because the logic is the best use of fossil fuels today is to campaign and fight for a transition away from fossil fuels.
If that's what you're using your fossil fuel tools for, that is the best possible use for them right now in this moment of history. It's very important to understand that this criticism which tries to discredit the global climate strike movement isn't just haphazard. This is part of a much bigger narrative, a much bigger discourse, which is about discouraging people from taking collective action. It's about making us feel that unless we can make a change as individuals, unless we can live the perfect life that we envisage, then we don't have the right to speak as a collective to call upon our government to make changes. This forces us into dealing with the climate crisis as individuals, which is incredibly, well, okay. It's impossible because the very choices that we want to be able to make are not available to us. For example, the reason that we can all afford to drive cars and buy petrol is that these industries are incredibly heavily subsidized by governments, but if government subsidized the creation of, first of all, if they cut subsidies for fossil fuels and gave up those subsidies, which by the way are our tax dollars.
It's not the government or rich people that are paying for it. We are paying for it. We paid for the, the exploration, the licenses that patrol, all the private companies that profit from the extraction of mineral resources do so on massive generous handouts from government. In other words from us. But if those subsidies were instead going towards supporting the creation of renewable energy technology, including storage as well as the electric vehicle manufacturing industry, which could create a shit-tons of jobs here in Australia and around the world, then we could all afford electric vehicles. But that choice is not available to us because our government is subsidizing and propping up a fossil fuel industry. So to turn around and say to people, why don't you make an individual choice to um, you know, end your own dependence on fossil fuels. Completely ignores the fact that those choices are not available.
In other words, they're not affordable. For most people, that's not their fault. That is, that is because of government policy. And that is why we have to take collective action. And that is why the argument “don't take collective action” unless you can take individual action is completely rubbish. There's a great article that,in the Guardian, by Martin Lukacs. “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals while we busy ourselves greening our personal lives”, Lukacs writes. "Fossil fuel corporations are rendering those efforts irrelevant. The breakdown of carbon emissions since 1988, a hundred companies alone are responsible for an astonishing 71% so while we tinker with putting up solar panels on our houses, they go on torching the planet." I'm going to include the link to this article in the show notes so that you can read it yourself.
And I'm also going to post the link to another article which I really highly recommend called Forget Shorter Showers by Derek Jensen. Here is a quick excerpt.
“Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight hour workday or the chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Zara's prisons. Would dancing naked around fire would have helped put in place the civil rights act of 1964? Then why now? With all the world at stake to so many people retreat into these entirely personal solutions."
Again, the answer is that people retreat into these personal solutions because we're constantly told that this is how we have to deal with the crisis. Not as not as a collective by getting down into the street, but by dealing with it as individuals, by making small changes to our personal life. While this does fuck all.
Don't get me wrong. Personal responsibility, reducing waste, reducing consumerism, leading a simpler, greener life is really important, but on its own, is not enough”.
Even if everyone that absolutely everything composted, went vegan and did everything absolutely a, you know, with a zero footprint, it would only reduce global CO2 emissions by 20 something percent. Well, as mentioned, a hundred companies are responsible for 71% of emissions, so you do the maths. So taking personal responsibility is really important. But if we con ourselves into thinking that that is enough, that because we recycled compost don't eat meat, drive a Tesla, we are doing enough that we don't have to get into the street and campaign and actually use our collective muscle, in the same way that stonemasons did to win the eight hour day movement, in the same way that civil rights activist, and Anti-vietnam warm activist smash in the streets. If we caught ourselves into thinking that we don't need to do those things because we're taking personal action that is playing into the narrative that we can and should deal with this global crisis as individuals.
It also plays into the narrative that we shouldn't get into the way of business as usual. So the answer is yes, of course take personal responsibility but also get down into the street and take collective action. It doesn't have to be one or the other. And this is exactly why when people criticize us for our personal decisions, um, you know, having a laptop or using an iPhone or driving to the rally or using plastic bottles. The reason this criticism does affect us is that there is a kernel of truth there. It's not completely false. They're saying take personal responsibility, and yes, that is correct. We should take personal responsibility. The fallacy is in implying that we shouldn't also take political collective action because without that all our personal efforts and sacrifices and dealing with the climate crisis are like trying to put out a bushfire by pissing on it.
I am gonna wrap up now, but I want to say one final thing which I think is really important and it also relates to the individual versus collective way of dealing with the climate crisis. The very way that we think about the climate crisis is as individuals we're often dealing with this huge monumental crisis on our own.
Whenever we read an article or the latest news report, which is invariably incredibly depressing. We tend to engage with that information on our own and then we go away and deal with these emotions on our own. I don't think that's very healthy. I don't think it's a sane way of dealing with this issue. So let's deal with it together. Let's talk about it. Let's normalize the conversation. And obviously that conversation will change depending on who you're having it with. The way you'll talk about it with your children will be different to how you talk about it with your peers, your friends, maybe your colleagues or employees
But let's at least start talking about it, because if we don't talk about it and we deal with it as individuals, we're going to run out of energy. We're going to burn out. People are gonna shut off. They're going to go this, this hurts, this doesn't feel good. I can't deal with this. But together we can deal with it together. We can support each other.
You know, some people might need to go to a therapist to deal with this issue, but I, I would hope that a therapist would say, well, the best solution isn't coming to me. The best solution is getting down into the street with other people who feel just as worried, concerned and terrified as you, so that you’re not dealing with this problem alone and that you can actually feel that you're taking action to address the problem. Surely that has to be one of the most therapeutic things one can do.
That is why I enjoyed being part of the climate protest the other day is because it was therapy. It was like, wow, here are 150,000 people. Same people. As I said at the start, who feel like me and that, that was like medicine. At the same time, I've also reached out to my friends and said, hey, let's get together and have, you know, let's catch up. We can have a beer and let's talk about the climate crisis, you know, in a lighthearted way, but let's have a conversation. Let's just see where it goes so that we're not dealing with this as individuals. Um, because the reality is, well, we're dealing with a real existential crisis here.
This isn't, this isn't the hypothetical, this isn't science fiction. This is happening. And um, it's insane not to talk about it. So let's open that conversation. Nothing in the history of humanity has ever required or entailed this level of coordination.But then again, humans have come a long way. We've had a lot of practice, we've learned a lot. We have an incredible level of education. So just because we've never done it in the past does not mean we cannot do it.
Now, the one thing that threatens all of this is misinformation. And I don't need to tell you, you already know this. There are forces out there that are actively spreading misinformation, trying to delay, trying to deny, trying to muddy the waters, trying to divide and try new tire people out with constant criticism and attacks, which is where our work comes in. Basically, the whole honest government ad series is designed to provide a counter attack to a lot of these arguments. And to expose the bullshit, the foundations upon which so many of these criticisms are based. Um, and I extend that into the comments section of many of our videos
I'm really not afraid of taking on the trolls and taking on the logical fallacies. So I really make an effort to engage with people in the comments, not necessarily to change their mind, but just to create a presence, a presence of defiance and resistance towards bullshit. And I want to give a huge thanks to all the people who join me in the comments, uh, in defying and resisting that bullshit. You know, often I'll respond to criticism and attacks in the comments, uh, but often I don't even have to do that. So more and more often I'm seeing you, the audience, taking care of that role and not letting bullshit go and check to actually picking people up saying, actually that's wrong. And um, you know, hopefully that person will think again about saying those things because people have wised on, cottoned on. They know how to respond to these fallacies.
And it's really important that those of us who have the patients and the, and the, the mental, this position to do it, um, do so so that other people aren't dragged down and their confidence isn't chipped away and um, it's all, it's all part what I was saying before about looking after each other. All right. I'm clearly still high from yesterday's strike. Um, but I'm going to wrap up now. I like to keep these a short wherever possible.
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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.
But really, the toilet and associated sewerage systems deserve a lot more credit than they get. Without proper toilets and human waste removal systems people and communities frequently become seriously ill and diseased such as Cholera can kill thousands of people in just a few weeks.
Follow the evolution of the modern toilet from Scotland, in around 3,000 BC to today, learn about the clever Aussie who made a great water saving innovation and consider the future of the toilet and waste management in the context of building a more sustainable society.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
This episode focuses on water use and sewerage management in cities. From an Australian curriculum perspective, the episode examines our world view [sustainability curriculum key concept 2] about responsible use of our very limited water resources as well as use of associated resources, such as those that go into making toilet paper. We challenge students and families to consider steps they can take immediately to reduce the impact of their toilet use on the environment. Check out our “challenges” section of the show notes and download the resources to kick start your action today.
We also ask listeners to consider the future [sustainability key concept 3] of both the toilet and sewerage management. How could we innovate to reduce waste and also repurpose human waste so that it becomes useful?
The concepts in the show also link to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 6 (Clean water & sanitation) and 11 (Sustainable cities and communities)
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What Democracy Looks Like by Ryan Pemberton
In September, 4 million protesters gathered to demand action on climate change. A few weeks later, Extinction Rebellion staged a global act of civil disobedience. Who are the organisers of the movement? And what impact are the protests having?
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Supervising producer: Zacha Rosen
Music: ‘Our Digital Compass’ by Blue Dot Sessions, ‘Copley Beat’ by Blue Dot Sessions, ‘Waterbourne’ by Blue Dot Sessions, ‘Saver’ by Podington Bear
Off-Off-Grid by Alice Allen
Some things aren’t easy to broadcast – to your nearest and dearest, or to the general public. Michael Mobbs shares how he became “The Off-Grid Guy”, and why he’s giving up the home that helped him make his name.
Note: Michael Mobbs mentions that 60-80% of food production depends on bees. Around 75% of crops benefit from pollination from bees, but don’t neccessarily depend on it.
Producer: Alice Allen
Supervising producer: Ryan Pemberton
All The Best credits:
Executive Producer: Ryan Pemberton
Victorian State Coordinator: Jordan Fennell
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Host: Maddy Macquine
Community Coordinators: Chloe Gillespie and Danni Stewart
SYN Community Coordinator: Lee Robinson
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Jo Dodds takes us inside the December 18th protest of Acting PM Michael McCormack at the terminal opening at Merimbula Airport.
She's joined by local community members Liane and Jamie.
We feature a clip from Sky News Australia to show how media coverage is changing.
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Recorded at Howler, December 12th.
Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is a bi-monthly science and comedy debate held at Howler Bar, Brunswick in Melbourne. Hosted by science comedian Alanta Colley, it’s almost always a lot of fun and only occasionally results in defamation cases. Now also lives in podcast form at Climactic.fm.
This round's topic: Santa Claus is real.
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.
He must be real. I mean you can track him on google maps on December 24. I mean you can't be this famous and not exist! Next you'll be questioning the existence of God! Or George Clooney!
Yet some serious questions have arisen about this particular individual's practices. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good. I mean Santa Claus has a surveillance system that puts the NSA to shame. Who has Santa paid off to get around international privacy protocols? Not to mention Customs. Is Santa in the pocket of Big Bauble?
Questions have been raised about the laws of physics Santa flagrantly violates in order to complete his deliveries on Christmas eve. With the sophisticated transport technology at Santa's disposal humanity could achieve incredible things; like distributing ebola medications to remote communities in crisis, as much as spoiled 8 year-olds in Florida need a second Pikachu pez dispenser.
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Climactic host 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.
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Links: Cop25 Bulletin: 'Our own pace' As COP25 goes into the night, Guterres calls for more climate ambition | UN News Madrid Climate Conference COP25 enters overtime as many countries raise lack of ambition amid blockers | Climate Citizen
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Simon Moore is a science communicator at the University of Leeds. He recently gave a speech at a School Strike for Climate, and was involved in organising the Leeds Climate Change Citizens’ Jury. On the eve of the UK's climate election, join Simon as he takes you into and behind one of the most exciting things happening post-Climate Emergency declarations, a citizens’ climate jury.
Thank you to Kate Lock from the Leeds Climate Commission for being interviewed, along with many of the members of the Leeds Climate Change Citizens' Jury for sharing their experiences and perspectives.
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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.
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Climactic teamed up with the outreach team of the amazing 2040 documentary to bring you this episode. You'll find links here to their video here.
Past guests Fatima and Marco join Chrissy, one of the MCs from this event, and Jai Allan Wright, the first speaker. We take a deeper dive into the topics of bushfire, federal government hostility to the future, and indigineous knowledge.
You can donate to the School Strike's drive for the Red Cross.
Thank you to Kim Ingles for interviewing.
Recommended Listening:
School Strike organiser Maiysha Moin - Climactic #42
Richard DiNatale and more on the strikes - Climactic #47
The March 15 strike - Climactic #54
The September 20th strike - Climactic #79
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Collective member and Bega Councillor Jo Dodds sends in an update from Canberra during one very eventful day.
Woman brings remains of home lost in NSW bushfires to parliament in climate protest
Convoy at parliament to protest Basin Plan
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The Climactic Network has launched a new show, Art Breaker, all about the art being made in this time of climate emergency. This episode, an in-depth conversation with writer, poet, and podcaster Magdalena Ball, was originally recorded for Art Breaker, but we also wanted to share it with you here.
Magdalena shares not just some of her story, her way of engaging with the climate, but also reads some of her poignant and vivid poems. Even if you don't normally enjoy or seek out poetry, we think you'll enjoy this episode.
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Climactic #86 - Beth's introduction episode and James Bradley Art Breaker episode
Climactic #78 - Full-length James Bradley interview
Art Breaker #1 - First Art Breaker episode
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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.
We'd love to know your feedback about how to make this of use to the community. If it was shorter, a maximum of four minutes, would you like it added to the weekly show? Would you be interested in hearing about a range of events, from across the country?
Please send feedback to hello@climactic.fm, and events@transitionaustralia.net
Special Guest: Paul Shelton.
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Mark joined Daniel Bleakley on the steps of the Victorian Parliament for a chat about the past 7 days of his hunger strike, the global XR hunger strike, his methods and self-care through this experience, and much more.
From Daniel;
"Day 7. Seventh day of Extinction Rebellion Hunger strike. Starting to feel a bit weak but still focused. Today I'm continuing to request a meeting between members of the Andrews Government and a group of XR representatives to discuss our demands which are:
That the Government come together to declare a climate emergency now.
That the Government commit to net zero emissions by 2025. To avoid a further deepening of the Climate Crisis.
That the Government install a citizens assembly to help guild the transition to a safe sustainable future.
Our children don't deserve the future that they're facing right now..."
Special Guest: Daniel Bleakley.
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Southeast MP Engagement Group, next meeting 6pm, Tuesday, 10th December, Port Phillip Ecocentre, St Kilda. Email seastmpeg@gmail.com, or visit Climate for Change - Take Action
Better Buds 2020 - https://www.facebook.com/betterbuds2020/ Rally for Life - November 28th, Victorian Parliament Steps
'The gap is larger than ever' according to the United In Science report published earlier this year. The current national emissions reduction targets set under the Paris Agreement needs to be increased fivefold to maintain the temperature rise below 1.5°C - a widely accepted goal that would avoid potentially irreversible consequences of climate change. The lack of progress achieved in the recent United Nations Climate Summit puts even more pressure on the members of the 25th Conference of Parties (COP) meeting later this year in Chile.
Monash Energy Club (MEC) is hosting a seminar to discuss 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. While the countries are expected to raise their ambition, some are still struggling to follow their current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. The latest emissions data will show whether Australia is on track to meets its emissions reduction target, and what role we expect Australia to play in the years ahead.
The Panel
Anna Malos, Policy Analyst - Climate Works Australia
John Connor , CEO - Carbon Market Institute
Erwin Jackson, Policy Director - Investor Group on Climate Change
Chloe Munro AO, Professorial Fellow - Monash University
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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.
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Recorded at Howler, October 17th.
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*This round's topic: Nature Knows Best. *
We are born of nature. We strive daily to return to Mother's ideal state; organic, pure, fresh, and free of chemicals. We're told we would definitely be a lot happier if we shook off the shackles of modern day living; buried our smart phone, swapped out our laptop for lapping lakes, exchanged our coke for coconuts and netflix for nectar and flowers.
And it's true; mother nature invented heaps of good stuff. Like sunsets. And the mantis shrimp. But she also invented scurvy. And obstetric fistula. And kidney stones. I mean what were we supposed to do with kidney stones! They're not even load bearing like regular stones.
Let's be honest; if left purely to the whims of evolution a whole bunch of us would not be alive for this event. To feed the lion nature sacrifices the goat. And the goat didn't really get a say in it. The goat would probably be happier if the lion survived off protein pills and video games.
And who gets to draw the line as to what even is natural? I mean, everything is of nature, if you squint hard enough. With the right mind set real estate agents are natural. And banking holidays. And Dancing with the Stars.
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Climactic Community Corner Night Terrace KickstarterNature for Life Rally - November 28th, 12pm, Melbourne Parliament, Spring Street.
Meet Paul Shelton.
Paul is the director of Growing Spaces, Member of the founding committee of Transition Australia and past president of Transition Darebin for four years. Winner of Darebin Sustainability Awards local hero in 2016 and Winner of Australia’s most edible street, which I presume we can also thank his amazing wife for also!
Paul is someone who has thought deeply about the question, what life do we want to live? And together with his family made meaningful changes, and even wrote a blog about it called A year of Treading Lightly. In this episode he speaks frankly about the challenges this brings, and experiences of raising his kids to understand climate change and build their emotional resilience.
At a time when we are facing the reality of feared futures, this episode offers complimentary breathing space. A perspective that synthesises the painful reality with possibilities of growth and meaning.
Paul organised a national convergence this year for Transition towns, attracting 120 locals and 50 people from around Australia. Their focus was on generating powerful, visible and interdependent actions.
Transition Towns are focused on balancing motivating visions of what’s possible along-side here and now proactive local approaches. The movement embodies the spirit of empowerment, a powerful blend of self-determination and community connections that together inspires and generates communal resilience.
So wherever you are, thank you for listening, for caring deeply with us.
Enjoy and soak up the joyful energy of this episode.
Special Guest: Paul Shelton.
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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.
Thanks to Ross, Christophe and Alessandra for allowing us to bring you this episode of their fantastic podcast, Reversing Climate Change.
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“We’ve got to nurture the land, nurture ourselves and nurture each other. That’s really what being human is about, and if we can get into that essence then we might have a future on the planet.”
Healthy soil is key in restoring biodiversity, protecting against pests and disease, and improving water use and photosynthetic efficiency. Healthy soil supports healthy animals and healthy humans. And healthy soil sequesters carbon from the atmosphere, effectively reversing climate change.
Louise Edmonds is the Eco-Agripreneur behind Intuit Earth, a company created to support farmers in restoring the carbon and water cycles on their land and bringing resilience into their systems on an environmental and economic level. Intuit is focused on restoring soil health, and to that end, the team produces Biodynamic Organic Compost specifically designed for the swan coastal plain sandy soils. Louise is also working with the Australian government to implement its new carbon sequestration pilot program.
Today, Louise joins Ross and Christophe to discuss her obsession with aerobic composting and her role in changing Australia’s climate and soil health policy. She shares the details of their carbon sequestration pilot project, discussing how the country’s policy has changed over time and why corporate leadership is motivated to put carbon on the balance sheet. Listen in to understand how Intuit Earth is involved in implementing Australia’s carbon sequestration program and learn how Louise is working to return the Wheatbelt of Western Australia to its former, biodiverse glory!
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‘What were you doing while the planet was burning?’
This is the question posed by The Hottest August, offering fascinating perspectives from a broad range of everyday New Yorkers – from the optimists to deniers, through to the futurists.
Billed as the ‘Humans of New York’ approach to a climate change filmmaking, The Hottest August explores the different ways people respond to living in the age of climate anxiety, confronted by an endless stream of dire statistics, terrifying images and a ticking clock.
Filmed every day over the course of a month, this film captures lived realities – job insecurity, racialised violence, gentrification, disaster recovery, fears of technology – all compounding and compounded by how we deal with the rapidly changing world around us.
Presented as a poetic artefact, The Hottest August offers a refreshingly lucid look at the backdrop to our ecological crisis.
As hypnotically beautiful as it is haunting, this film is about our future from the perspective of the present.
This film will screen with a short film made by Community Grocers thanks to EFFA's Community Storytelling Project, made possible with the support of Bank Australia.
Mark Spencer - Founder and Journalist, Climatic Podcast
This session will be hosted by Mark Spencer, the founder of Climactic, a podcasting collective dedicated to telling stories from the climate community. Mark has worked a wide variety of jobs and lived in many places, including the US, NZ, China and the UK, before settling permanently in Melbourne. Climate change has become his main interest, and through Climactic and other projects he seeks to engage more people in this greatest test of humanity.
Lesley Head - Head of School of Geography, University of Melbourne
Professor Lesley Head is Head of the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the cultural dimensions of environmental issues, including climate change. Her most recent book is Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene (Routledge 2016).
Lauren Rickards - Associate Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
Lauren Rickards is an Associate Professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University where she co-leads the Climate Change Transformations research program in the Centre for Urban Research. Lauren is a Lead Author in Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation, and her works focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of responding to climate change.
Dr Benjamin Henley - Research Fellow at University of Melbourne, Lecturer at Monash University and an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes
Benjamin’s research includes the climate of the past 2000 years, evaluation of climate models, and the context and impacts of anthropogenic climate change.
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New Climactic host Tess interviews photographer Patrick Rose about his last 18 months with the UN Development Program in the Solomon Islands.
Patrick has a wealth of experiences and stories from the Pacific and this episode will bring you closer to our neighbours, and give you a greater perspective on climate justice.
Special Guest: Patrick Rose.
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Our thanks to La Trobe University and Prof. Robert Manne for allowing us to record and produce this episode. Thanks to Reece Gray, Climactic editor, for production.
Recorced at the National Gallery of Victoria, September 17th 2019.
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The Ideas and Society Program, convened by Professor Robert Manne, is a forum for discussion about the future of Australia and beyond. In 2019 we are hosting a series of discussions regarding some of the most fundamental and polarising issues Australians now face, either between those with fundamentally different points of view or between those with similar points of view but different ideas about strategy and tactics. Our next event is taking place three days before one of the most challenging political events of 2019--the climate change school student strike.
Climate change is regarded by many scientists, policymakers and citizens as the gravest problem humankind has ever faced. Unless fossil fuels are replaced by renewable sources of energy in the next decade or so, future generations will face a ruinous post-industrial revolution rise in global temperature of 3 degree Celsius or something even higher.
Climate change is also an almost uniquely difficult problem. The Paris ambition to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees relies upon a level of international co-operation never before achieved. If humankind fails to take the action now required the consequences will be irreversible. It is no hyperbole to say that the future of the Earth lies in our hands.
What happens in Australia matters greatly. If our domestic energy consumption and our exports of coal, oil and gas are taken into account, we are responsible for 5% of global carbon pollution. Climate Analytics has calculated that if all the fossil fuel developments now proposed were to proceed, Australia would be responsible for a staggering 13% of worldwide carbon emissions.
For those fighting for the radical changes required, climate change poses a daunting political challenge. According to the conventional interpretation, in the recent federal election those Queensland Coalition candidates cheering on the Adani coal mine polled unusually well. In the short term at least, the anti-Adani protest march failed to sway local public opinion.
Climate change is a generational problem. Older Australians took up the struggle. The lives of younger Australians will be shaped by the impact of climate change.
The Ideas and Society Program has brought together, for this reason, front line fighters across the generations to reflect on recent experience and debate future strategy.
The former leader of the Greens, Bob Brown, is the revered father of the Australian environmental movement.
David Ritter is the leader in Australia and the Pacific of the pioneering world-wide environmental movement, Greenpeace.
Dr Amanda Cahill, a Queensland grassroots analyst and activist, is the founder and chief executive of The Next Economy.
Maiysha Moin is a leader in Victoria of one of the most hopeful recent climate change developments, the school strike movement that is taking action on September 20.
This debate will be introduced by La Trobe University's Vice President (Strategy and Development), Natalie MacDonald, and moderated by La Trobe University’s Director of the Centre for the Study of the Inland, Professor Katie Holmes.
Special Guest: Maiysha Moin.
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Beth Spencer is one of the hosts of the first new show from the Climactic Network, a stable of shows by and for the climate community.
In this episode Mark and Beth discuss writing, the climate crisis, tuna (yes, really), and methods of engaging and coping with the climate crisis.
She gives us beautiful readings of two of her poems, and then we share the first episode of Art Breaker with you.
You can subscribe to Art Breaker here: more episodes coming very soon.
Beth's details: www.bethspencer.com www.facebook.com/bethspen www.twitter.com/bethspen
instagram.com/bethspen
Wild Things -- as produced by Oakley Fletcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okNlGGJmIEk&t=11s
Special Guest: James Bradley.
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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.
Climactic Community Corner Trash Bags on Tour - Phillip Island Tour Adrift Labs - Job Opportunity Listen to our episode with head of Adrift Labs, Jenn Lavers here. Mairin Briody - Electric Prisms Exhibition Carbon Sync - Job Opportunity
Special Guest: Dr. Veena Sahajwalla.
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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.
Special Guest: Katherine Copsey.
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A story of an arrest, the shaky foundations for harsh bail, your rights as a protestor in Australia and advice. Along with some chants, slam poetry, and inspiration. We're halfway through week one of the International Rebellion. Here's a resource when considering peaceful arrest.
Special Guest: Violet Coco.
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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.
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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.
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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. Asha has worked across large corporates in Australia and the UK She's contributed to the Australian UN Sustainable Development Goals working group, and the SDG's are explained and discussed Empowering girls and women and closing the gender equity gap is one of the most important things we need to do to fix climate change
We hope you enjoy this, and with the Day of the Girl on October 11th, take the opportunity to reconsider gender equity, in this new light.
Special Guest: Asha Kayla.
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Recorded at Howler, August 21st. This month, Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is partnering with Science Gallery Melbourne to explore their 2019 exhibition theme: Disposable.
Are we a disposable species? The 20th Century has seen humanity’s focused on creating inbuilt obsolescence, of single use everything, why should it not apply to the whole human race as well? We turned liquid dinosaur juice into fuel for our cars, we took perfectly happy and inert carbon and flung it into the atmosphere, and we built an entire economy on moving bits of plastic from one place to another, and then back again in the name of recycling. Which then mostly went into landfill.
Well, the land is very full now and we’ve not yet got around to locating a Planet B. No one has put their hand up and said that they’re willing to forego pasta and start eating plastic. When oil is down to its last drop, should humanity just go with it? To be outlived by the coffee cups and disposable nappies we brought into existence.
Or is that the attitude of quitters? This new wave of ecological chaos isn’t humanity’s first run in with adversity. Remember the bubonic plague? Well that wasn’t the barrel of laughs we hoped for. But we got through it. Remember Nuclear Winter? We’ve put that off. Then there was the K2 bug. If anything we’re getting better at this crisis business. Plus, this time round we’ve got all these coffee cups and nappies to use for something. As the most intelligent, creative, and adaptable species Earth has yet seen, is the solution to our ever increasing waste problem just around the corner? It’d be a shame to quit before we got there. Humans might just be worth saving.
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Brett Tait, Founder of We-Refill joins Mark for a rapid reaction to Coca-Cola's hostility to refilling stations at the Brisbane Festival.
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Special Guest: Brett Tait.
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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.
Join this conversation hosted by Dr Renee Beale from the Royal Society of Victoria, about what got Kate started, her work, and it's impact on the field of climate change study.
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Special Guest: Dr. Kate Selway.
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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.
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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.
This week Kri shares her experiences of visiting Parliament House in Canberra, meeting Cabinet members and diplomats, as her briefings on COP25 and her role as a youth delegate begin.
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Author and new collective member Beth Spencer hosts award-winning Australian author James Bradley on Climactic.
They discuss his cli-fi novel Clade, YA series The Change, his article in the Monthly earlier this year about the influence of the coal lobby on Australian politics and the background to the battle over the Adani mine, and his devastating and important essay in the latest issue of Meanjin Quarterly about living in the Anthropocene. Above all this is a discussion about how to face clearly the reality of the climate crisis while retaining hope and the ability to keep choosing and acting.
Coming soon you'll be able to hear an adaptation of this full-length interview for the first new show on the Climactic Network, Art Breaker.
For those of you in Melbourne, you don't want to miss James in conversation with fellow author Sophie Cunningham at the launch of the Spring issue of Meanjin magazine. The event is free, on the 25th of September at the University of Melbourne: link here.
Special Guest: James Bradley.
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Links: Alumni and Giving - Unearthed: Last days of the Anthropocene James Bradley (@cityoftongues) / Twitter city of tongues UNEARTHED - Meanjin
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Since Simon's first dispatch, which you can hear here, a lot's been happening in Leeds, the UK, and the whole world. Extinction Rebellion have been active, and they're gearing up for more. Simon brings us the voices from the people, to go behind the headlines and banners, slogans and slanders. You'll come out of this knowing more about the Leeds community, XR, and the state of the transition of society in the face of the climate crisis.
As well as speaking to passers-by and XR members young and old, new and brand new, Simon speaks to David Barns from XR Leeds and Our Future Leeds.
We would like to thank Simon Moore and Dan Preston. Please, check out Dan's excellent Marvel review show, A Marvellous Lunchbreak for a great bit of fun.
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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.
We'd love to continue to do these community response episodes, and we can only do that with community input. You can reach us at hello@climactic.fm, or @climacticshow on social media.
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Special Guests: Anthony James, Artemis Pattichi, and Jo Dodds.
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Links: Dry weather helps fires spread outside the Amazon The Amazon isn't "Burning" - It's Being Burned Sustainable investor group representing $90 trillion mobilizes against Amazon fires - MarketWatch Story — The RegenNarration
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Violet Coco shares the story of her arrest on September 6th.
Special Guest: Violet Coco.
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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.
Also, we celebrate our 75th numbered episode and 100th episode in total. Thanks to you for being with us, we honestly couldn't do this without an audience, and we appreciate you joining us to share in these stories.
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Community Corner
Stop Adani Melbourne's September actions targeting GHD, Adani engineering contractor.
Special Guest: Anthony Gleeson.
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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.
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Special Guest: Dr. Darlene Lim.
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Greta Thunberg is in NYC, the Amazon's being burnt down, Origin Energy want to frack the NT, and here in Victoria we're trying to save 800-year-old trees from being cut down. There's a lot going on, so here's a bonus to keep you caught up. And, we put the call out for submissions for an Amazon special.
Special Guest: Jo Dodds.
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Links: Episode 3: Djab Wurrung Trees | The JUICE Media Podcast djab wurrung heritage protection embassy | Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy protecting sacred trees from VicRoads Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network Climate emergency vote passed by Bega Valley council | Bega District News
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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.
With thanks to Marisa and Kaushik, two other attendees who sent in messages.
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This is a special guest episode from storyteller, producer, former guest and friend of the show Gretchen Miller. It's from her collaboration with Landcare, the Rescue Project, and you can find more information here.
Gretchen's previous guest appearance on Climactic: https://www.climactic.fm/45
"Home Ground can mean many things. A place you live, a place you’ve developed a relationship with over time, or further ranging territory you travel across in your day to day. And in this episode, three stories of care for the land. We’re travelling to farm country near Tumut, NSW, then across the Blue Mountains to a hidden valley and then to the Brisbane suburbs, as a simple pile of grass clippings threaten a small patch of local bush.
In this compilation you’ll hear all three stories:
Louise Freckelton reading Carex and the Ducklings.
Kathryn Read – On Planting a Forest.
Jill Bauer – Whacking Weeds Rescues Creek!
For more stories: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/rescue/.
Produced and presented by Gretchen Miller.
Sound engineering by Judy Rapley.
This podcast is supported by UNSW, Landcare Australia and through an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. More about this episode"
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This is a special guest episode from storyteller, producer, former guest and friend of the show Gretchen Miller. It's from her collaboration with Landcare, the Rescue Project, and you can find more information here.
Gretchen's previous guest appearance on Climactic: https://www.climactic.fm/45
"We listen to the history of land protection, hear what art reveals that the eye doesn’t see, and reflect on the meaning of saving just one tree.
In this compilation hear Susan Doran on the history of the Friends of the Mongarlowe.
Luise Manning on Turning the Tide on Litter.
Michael Fitzjames read his story of painting Bullio.
and Margaret Storey on the tiny Brown Dust seeds of her favourite bottlebrush.
For more stories: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/rescue/.
Produced and presented by Gretchen Miller.
Sound engineering by Judy Rapley.
This podcast is supported by UNSW, Landcare Australia and through an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. More about this episode"
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This is a special guest episode from storyteller, producer, former guest and friend of the show Gretchen Miller. It's from her collaboration with Landcare, the Rescue Project, and you can find more information here.
Gretchen's previous guest appearance on Climactic: https://www.climactic.fm/45
"In On Animals we hear three short stories which capture deep interactions between humans and other creatures. We spend some time at a wombat rehabilitation centre and meet the wombats themselves. We hear about how a tiny kangaroo joey helped heal a family and community after unimaginable loss, and we make the acquaintance of a very unusual bird for this part of the world – a southern giant petrel.
In this compilation, hear Lyn Obern read Mudsey’s rescue and happy ending.
June LePla and Dodo’s Story.
and Dorothy Henderson’s Why we don’t have Mondays anymore.
For more stories: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/rescue/.
Produced and presented by Gretchen Miller.
Sound engineering by Judy Rapley.
This podcast is supported by UNSW, Landcare Australia and through an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. More about this episode"
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This is a special guest episode from storyteller, producer, former guest and friend of the show Gretchen Miller. It's from her collaboration with Landcare, the Rescue Project, and you can find more information here.
Gretchen's previous guest appearance on Climactic: https://www.climactic.fm/45
"We’re in the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland. This documentary feature immerses you in the wettest part of the driest continent on earth, a tiny patch of emerald green. A World Heritage area. We’re walking through the landscape with people collaborating on interconnected projects – looking after tree kangaroos whose fragmented forest habitat needs re connecting, finding seeds for propagation, replanting great tracts of rain forest, and protecting the whole from a tiny but deadly invader – the yellow crazy ant.
How are people doing this work and what drives them? How do they remain hopeful and passionate in the context of global climate disruption?
For more stories: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/rescue/.
Produced and presented by Gretchen Miller.
Sound engineering by Judy Rapley.
This podcast is supported by UNSW, Landcare Australia and through an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship."
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Greg Grassi is half of the electronic music duo §OJUX, and one of the hosts of the newest show on the Climactic Network, Art Breaker.
In this episode he breaks down the process of how one of the tracks on their new EP was made, and his thoughts on musical creation, and collaboration. Greg is making music in Sydney, where lockout laws have created hurdles for the musical community. He shares his views on how they can be overcome, on musicianship, and on making music in the face of the climate crisis.
Art Breaker is the first new show on the Climactic Network, and we'd greatly appreciate your comments and questions, feedback of any sort. You can email us at hello@climactic.fm, or reach us on @climacticshow on all the social networks.
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Guest episode from Newsball —
This episode has explicit language.
"This week in a very special episode we have our first ever guest Mark Spencer from the Climactic Network! Mark and his friends over at Climactic host a show that tell peoples stories on climate change and share a lot of positive news in times that can seem less than positive! We had a great time hearing Mark bring in some interesting stories across environmental history. We hope you do too! Let us know what you thought of the collaboration as we make more plans for the future of Newsball!
Also a formal apology from Newsball to Fox News Contributor Daniel Turner, we were really annoyed at you at the time on the count of all the outlandishly dismissive and ignorant things you said about a global issue that has as of this week a 99% scientific consensus that it's a threat. So anyway, sorry about all the personal insults and what not."
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/20/how-to-stop-the-climate-crisis-six-lessons-from-the-campaign-that-saved-the-ozone?fbclid=IwAR2pX9_BScylzhsSOGg00fDMwNADQLR-UWVMCUVhXSSI29CXU3xqzAFz6IY
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-05-23/mystery-ozone-depleting-gas-tracked-to-china/11137546?fbclid=IwAR1GKpqWa3g7T24-BMe_-jVLGy9XhTQs0WLb_GNutdfzfH7fmoUE3Seev2k
https://time.com/5564651/reagan-ozone-hole/?fbclid=IwAR0_TCGpmJZwjZKNmsjPlLrkc1qD-qP8-XGFgFU4ikHTf2pirlorlvDAi0Y
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/daniel-turner-un-climate-disaster?fbclid=IwAR2KeZD_H22YFOK5wAia6C9Ta3-23YUrvf74-dfdLRkLH1pOPO8-DI7TOnE
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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?
Special Guests: Annett Finger and Katherine Copsey.
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Guest episode from The RegenNarration:
Damon Gameau has received multiple standing ovations around the world as he has accompanied the premiere screenings of his visionary documentary film ‘2040’. You might remember our first conversation on this podcast last year, as the film was being finished. This time we’re joined by a wonderfully engaged cinema audience, and special guest Julie Leslie, the impressive editor of Circular Style – a new magazine about sustainable, conscious, and circular fashion.
What resulted was a fascinating sense of how the film is landing with people - the questions raised and inspiration felt. And some additional stories that aren’t in the film, like the instructive story behind how the board game Monopoly used to be played, Damon’s visit to the Gross National Happiness centre in Bhutan, what regenerative fashion might look like, and what the growing movement behind 2040 is up to.
Anthony starts the conversation by asking the audience a bit about themselves. Only about half the people considered themselves very engaged with themes of sustainability or regeneration, but just about all were very concerned about the future - though interestingly, one person wasn’t concerned at all (you’ll hear him join the conversation in this podcast).
Most tellingly, only a couple of people had ever thought about the sort of positive vision for the future outlined in the film. It emphasises the enormous value of this documentary. 2040, and these conversations, are envisioning new, more aspirational stories to live by, and exploring the changes we can make together that just might bring them about.
Anthony hosts Damon and Julie in conversation at the Perth premiere of 2040.
With thanks to Adriana Begovich from Anarchy PR.
Note: On Anthony’s mention of the book Empire of Things, Frank Trentmann reports one third of the items in the average British wardrobe is never worn.
Special Guest: Anthony James.
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Rebecca Sullivan, Damien Coulthard, and Maree Lowes are three incredible people who we're thrilled to have with us on this episode. Recorded at the bookstore Better Read Than Dead on the night of the launch of Rebecca and Damien's latest book, Warndu Mai, Georgia gets into the importance of native Australian ingredients, to health, society, and soil, as well as many other topics.
Great for the foodies in your life, the regenerative farmers, and everyone in between.
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Caroline Danaher — Songs and poems for climate actions — Persistent Presence (Facebook) / Thrive for Future (Instagram)
Special Guests: Damien Coulthard, Maree Lowes, and Rebecca Sullivan.
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Costa's World has been hugely popular among kids, and it wasn't hard to see why when Costa and Dirt Girl performend live at the Ballarat Begonia Festival in 2018. The Festival was a month before Climactic launched, and host Mark had the chance to interview Costa and Dirt Girl, before really having any sense of the legends they were.
They were absolutely gracious, and this became a great interview. But it would have languised without the help of new editor, Reece Gray, who gave it the time and attention it needed. Enjoy!
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Special Guests: Costa Georgiadis and Maree Lowes.
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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.
Tim's experience and expertise is broad, but in this episode we focus a lot on heatpump technology, the radically more efficient technology for heating that he's on a crusade to popularise, and the lessons he's learnt for running a successful Facebook group.
If you're joining us from MEEH, welcome! We look forward to bringing you more about this topic, just as soon as people step forward to help us, or you let us know what you'd like covered!
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Samantha Jewell — Urth.io | Pet Health event
Extinction Rebellion — October 7th Melbourne Week of Action
Mark Spencer — This week's bonus episode | Climactic's Pozible
Special Guest: Tim Forcey.
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Links: My Efficient Electric Home Victorian Residential Efficiency Scorecard with Tim Forcey - The Road to Sustainability - YouTube
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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.
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Links: Save Lake Knox from being bulldozed - YouTube Petition · Save Lake Knox · Change.org Friends of Lake Knox Sanctuary rally to protect it | Leader Hong Kong’s huge protests, explained - YouTube
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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.
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It wasn't until Lottie Dalziel tried to drastically reduce her waste as part of her New Year's resolution in 2018 that she realised how hard it was not only to find environmentally-friendly products but also find credible information around waste.
In 2014-15 Australia produced approximately 64 million tonnes of waste, which is equivalent to 2.7 tonnes of waste per person*. As a country, we rank 5th highest in generating the most municipal waste in the world but are the 55th largest country... it just doesn't add up.
Banish was born in a bid to help Australian's reduce their waste with the right products and even better information. With the creation of Banish as a platform for not only products, but education and resources, Lottie is poised to take the eco-product out of the eco-bubble, and to the mainstream.
Special Guest: Lottie Dalziel.
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Sydney has declared a climate emergency. What does that mean? Not just in the fight against climate change, and to change the trajectory of Australia's transition, but to us as people? Has it lifted our spirits, topped up our tanks, are we feeling hopeful? Hear messages from our friends and fellows in the climate community in this first Rapid Reaction episode. We'll be doing more of these in future in response to breaking news, so jump on Climactic's social media in order to hear the call-out.
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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.
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Links: Home | ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 Climarte | Arts for A Safe Climate HARA | Organic Bamboo Bras & Underwear
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Climactic guest and friend of the show Damien Cole has been injured in a surfing accident in Bali. Find his GoFundMe page here if you're able to help out. He's recovering well and in hospital, but did not have insurance on this trip. Damien has been an inspiration to us and many others, and it's a pleasure to be able to help him now.
We also re-release our episode with Heidi Taylor, founder of Tangaroa Blue, the marine debris organisation that's not only cleaning beaches, but changing how products are made, and eliminating waste at the source.
We've got big things coming in the next few weeks, so stay tuned. And thanks for joining us.
Special Guests: Damien Cole and Heidi Taylor.
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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. Here's a great explainer for how to get a podcast app.
This keynote was delivered by Miranda Massie, former civil rights attorney, and now director of NYC's Climate Museum. It's an amazing exploration of the power of multi-disciplinary approaches to communicating climate change, and enabling action. The Climate Museum in just a few years has done amazing work, and you'll get to hear about it, and their future plans. You'll also be able to get a better understanding of the hidden power of museums in society.
This is a fantastic keynote and we're so priviliged to be able to bring it to you. The Climate Museum is doing amazing work and be sure to check them out and follow their ongoing events, such as Climate Speaks, happening as this episode is released, a showcase of young performers engaging with the climate crisis from the stage of the Apollo Theatre.
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Links: Climate Speaks — Climate Speaks 2019 will be presented on the evening of June 14th at the Apollo Theater. Climate Museum — The first museum in the U.S. dedicated to climate change. In Human Time — Climate Museum — An exploration of polar ice, humanity, and time Whale Bay, Antarctica no.4 Timelapse on Vimeo — Whale Bay, Antarctica no.4 Timelapse
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In our latest episode (www.climactic.fm/60) we heard voices from 4 different cities, all members of the group Extinction Rebellion. In this bonus we have an extended interview with one member, and get more into the details of how XR operates, and what the philosophy is to their actions.
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Extinction Rebellion is a group, a collection of groups, making waves, taking headlines, and getting a reaction, all over the world. But what is XR? Where's it from, how does it work? Who are these 'rebels'? In this episode, we find out. You'll hear the voices of XR rebels in the UK and Australia, taking action in a variety of ways, and taking part in actions that have attracted worldwide attention.
We would like to thank friends of the show Simon Moore, who recorded the UK component, and Dan Preston, who produced it! Please, check out Dan's excellent Marvel review show, A Marvellous Lunchbreak for a great bit of fun.
We'd like to thank Violet, John, Oliver, Reid, Jo, and all of our London and Leeds guests for being on the show.
Credits:
Mark Spencer — Founder
Rich Bowden — Editor-in-Chief
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.
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Special Guests: Oliver Westwood and Violet Coco.
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Links: Home - Extinction Rebellion Extinction Rebellion 🐾⌛️🌱 (@ExtinctionR) / Twitter Extinction Rebellion - Wikipedia
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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.
Special Guest: Sophie Lamond.
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Matt Wicking is a well-known figure in the environmental community. Through years of mentoring and facilitating at the Centre for Sustainable Leadership, he's worked with some of the leaders in the community, and helped them find their strength. Two of Climactic's own, Georgia and Maxine, have been taught by Matt. He showed great humility and grace by being willing to speak to us not only about his work, his mindset and approach to life in the time of climate change, but also his issues and burdens.
This is a timely discussion, as many of us are feeling tired and overwhelmed in the wake of the Australian election, and need to hear how to set a basis for our own strength. To care for ourselves, so we can be of service to others.
We hope you enjoy this candid, heartfelt, and extremely relevant chat with Matt Wicking, and follow the links to check out his work.
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.
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Special Guest: Matt Wicking.
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Links: Cloud Catcher Lost At Sea — Cloud Catcher The General Assembly | triple j Unearthed
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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.
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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.
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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.
Beka Economopoulos and Jason Jones (USA)
Co-founders of The Natural History Museum and Not An Alternative, a collective that works at the intersection of art, activism and theory.
In a post-truth era, the role of trusted institutions of science is more important than ever. Drawing on recent initiatives organized by The Natural History Museum, a traveling pop-up museum founded by the activist art collective Not An Alternative, this talk will explore how The Natural History Museum leverages the symbolic and infrastructural power of science museums to transform them into vital infrastructures for environmental progress, champions of science for the common good, and advocates for a just and sustainable future.
The Natural History Museum (NHM, 2014-) takes the form of a traveling pop-up museum that highlights the socio-political forces that shape nature, yet are excluded from traditional natural history and science museums. NHM collaborates with artists, curators, community groups, scientists, and museum professionals to create new narratives about our shared history and future, with the goal of educating the public, measurably influencing public opinion, and inspiring collective action. The museum is the latest project of Not An Alternative, a collective that since 2004 has worked at the intersection of art, activism, and critical theory. The group’s work has been featured within Guggenheim, PS1/MOMA, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Tate Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum, MOCAD, and Museo del Arte Moderno, and in the public sphere. Not An Alternative connects movements to museums and museums to movements, fostering a growing coalition of museum workers, activist scientists, and communities.
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.
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Mairin Briody describes herself as ‘an artist living and working on stolen Wadawurrung country in the regional town of Ballarat, Victoria’. She is practicing within her context of motherhood and our current political state of climate change denial. Her work speaks to the hope we can sense in a renewable and thriving future. Maxine sat with Mairin in her studio to discuss her outlook, and how it's expressed through her work.
Mairin’s show ‘Electric Prisms’ runs 17-27 October 2019 with an opening on Saturday the 19th at TooT Artspace, Shop 5, 17-19 Irwell Street St Kilda 3182.
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Forest Conservation Victoria - their Facebook page
Vote for the Planet - www.environment.vote
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.
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Special Guest: Mairin Briody.
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Links: Australian Wind Alliance Mairin Briody - wind turbines as a rhythm in the landscape - YouTube — Mairin Briody - wind turbines as a rhythm in the landscape Mairin's website
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This episode is largely brought to you by Facebook voice messages, and it's a great way to get your story on the show as well! Just send us your voice messages from live events, use them to interview someone, or just send us your thoughts.
Shannon Loughnane of My Extremely Long Walk For Climate Action shares his thoughts as he walks towards Canberra from Melbourne to deliver the message to the Australian Parliament that their inaction and obstruction on climate change has been noticed, and is well past due for changing. You can hear his episode all about his long walk here.
Matthew Onyeanula is a permaculture farmer, community educator, and a very inspiring figure. He founded and runs Mattlawie Ecological Restoration Centre. His story is incredible, and so is the Mattlawie project.
Here's more from Matthew about Mattlawie:
Mattlawie Ecological Regenerative Center is an ecological based organization and a registered nonprofit organization in Ghana, West Africa.
Our Vision:
Our vision is for humans, animals, plants etc to peacefully and happily coexist in our Ecological Center/ Community; therefore creating an amazing example of regenerative - sustainable agriculture and sustainable living in this region.
Through these ways, taking action against climate change as well as restoring, improving and protecting tropical ecosystems.
Our Mission:
*To Teach
*Empower
*Promote peace and culture.
Concept:
We are very careful to do all we do ecologically without the use of toxic chemicals, holding firmly to permaculture/regenerative principles, ethics and design systems.
What We Do/ Intend To Do:
Ecological Farming
Organic Food Production, Organic Cosmetics, Repellents, Fertilizer,
Ecological/ Permaculture / I.C.T Trainings
Eco-Culture Development / Exchange programs, Ecotourism, Eco-lodge / Eco-village
Youth and women empowerment
Aged Care - Elderly Care
Community Development, Landscaping
Recycling,
Beekeeping (Apiculture), Essential Oil distillation, Mushroom Production
Moringa Projects
Peace Advocacies,
Nurseries/ Tree Planting / Agro Forestry Systems,
Sustainable Animal Management,
Renewable Energy – Solar systems, Water Catchments Systems, Biogas, Low Cost Irrigation Systems, Etc.
CAUSE OF ACTION:
Ecosystems devastation
Land Degradation / Soil infertility
Community development
Deforestation
Climate change
Alarming poverty rate
Environmental hazard
Segregation
Lack of access and means to other knowledge like recycling, Self-sufficiency, etc.
Food Security
Capacity Building/Empowerment
Outrageous Unemployment rate
Needs:
Eco Buildings for base camps, lodge and trainings
Water Connections on Site
Eco Toilet-Washroom
Special Guests: Matthew Onyeanula and Shannon Loughnane.
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Links: Mattlawie GoFundMe Mattlawie Ecological Regenerative Center | Family Farming Knowledge Platform | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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The March 15th School Strike for Climate was a global event. Quite possibly the largest-ever coordinated strikes, not just by school students, but by anyone in history, the #ss4c movement has become a force. Listen to how the day unfolded at Melbourne's strike and march, the mood before the event, the speeches and highlights, some interviews while marching through the city.
Mark then talks to key speaker from the strike, Fatima Kidwai, one month on about the impact of the strike, the fallout, and what comes next.
This is very much a lead-in to the climate election, as the students have more than played their part in speaking out, and putting climate change and the climate crisis on the radar. Now, it's time for the voters to play their part in changing the government to one willing to take the required action. So, if you need to fire up your friends and family about the climate election, this episode is for you!
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.
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Special Guests: Fatima Kidwai and Maiysha Moin.
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Links: Lil Dicky - Earth (Official Music Video) - YouTube Watch: Lil Dicky’s “Earth” video makes celebrities animals — for charity - Vox School Strike 4 Climate CEDAMIA: Climate Emergency Declaration & Mobilisation in Action
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Reptile Encounters is a mobile zoo. A zoo that comes to you, whether to a classroom or boardroom, for schools or corporate events. It's not a new concept. But Josh, the founder, is bringing fresh eyes and a perspective with a sustainability focus to the field. An animal lover, Josh is passionate about his flock, and for teaching kids about them.
Mark talks to Josh about fostering connections to nature in young people, how vital a care for animals and nature is for development, and how pivotal a time this is for spreading a love and care for nature. The unfolding sixth mass extinction, the first climate change-linked extinction, the Murray-Darling fish kills are all discussed. But so are happier topics, like Josh's history of exotic pets, and how great a feeling it is to expose kids to a new love of animals.
A great episode to share with the animal lover in your life.
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.
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Special Guest: Josh Cox.
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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.
Darren was Knox City's citizen of the year in 2018, and is the founder of local environmental group Greening Knox. Anthony is a friend of Climactic, and is involved with First Friends of Dandenong Creek. Bruna is a new member of the community, having recently moved to area, and is getting involved to protect and preserve the local environment.
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.
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Links: Knox Environment Society Knox Environment Society - Save Lake Knox Petition · Save Lake Knox · Change.org Kooyong Votes Climate
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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.
This is a community-powered walk, and you can get involved in Shannon's effort. But, you can also learn a lot about his approach, his mindset, and how he's gone about creating a grassroots campaign that really captures the imagination.
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.
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Special Guest: Shannon Loughnane.
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Wiebe Wakker is a rare type of person, one you don't encounter very often, and who you might think doesn't exist anymore. Wiebe's an adventurer. But he's not off pillaging foreign lands or taking part in destructive activities in the name of fun. He's travelled around the world, in a ten year old electric car, to bring attention to the practicality of EV's.
This is the 50th episode of Climactic, and Wiebe's story is a great way to mark our half-century. It's fun, inspiring, informative, and a bit of a palate cleanser from the heavy topics we talk about. This won't be a permanent change, but this was so much fun, and we're so happy to bring you this story.
We're currently looking at ways to further develop the show, and Climactic as a social enterprise, as we start year 2, and we'd love your feedback. Drop us an email or say hi on Facebook, won't you?
Enjoy!
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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 kindly provided our end credits music, see their work here.
Special Guest: Wiebe Wakker.
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Links: Plug Me In - The Car video! Plug Me In | Electric Road Trip from the Netherlands to Australia Arrived in Australia!! | Day 807 - 829 | Plug Me In - YouTube Is Tesla actually sustainable? - YouTube Electric Cars Aren't As Green As You Think - YouTube — Somewhat misleading... worth a whole episode to get into this!
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Holly Hammond is a stalwart of the social activism community, but when she's not on the baricades or on a march, she's practising radical self-care, and helping others to do the same. Burnout is endemic in the activist community, but maybe it doesn't have to be. Holly's efforts, and organising, have helped scores of members of the community overcome burnout, overwhelm, and emotional fatigue. With host Bronwyn, a self-care advocate in her own right, this conversation dives deep into how we need to look after ourselves, while looking out for others. Please check out the resources, Holly's sites, and if you're feeling overwhelmed, feel free to reach out to us and we'll get you connected with the great people in the community eager to help.
Tools referred to in this podcast:
*Reviewing activitist year * https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzu4o9OXAnNDcWNYcUdWZW5Gemc/view
Healthy goal setting https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzu4o9OXAnNDZGFEcXZhbTFOSmM/view
Desired feelings http://www.daniellelaporte.com/cdf-library/
Resources for sustaining activism http://plantothrive.net.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/04/PTT_SustainingActivism_Resources.pdf
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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.
Special Guest: Holly Hammond.
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Links: Plan to Thrive - Activist health and wellbeing Plan to Win | Social Movement Learning
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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.
Host Mark is thrilled, and humbled, to be attending the Climate Reality - Brisbane Training in June of this year, and he wants you to be there as well! Applications close on April 18th. Tell a friend, a family member. The public acceptance of the facts of climate change has never been higher, which means we need to ramp up the action, and these three days will be equipping you to do just that. And, best part, if you're accepted, it's free! 💚🤟🌏 why not?🤷♂️
Special Guest: Linh Do.
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Links: Apply to the Climate Reality Leadership Corps Brisbane Training | Climate Reality — APPLY TO THE CLIMATE REALITY LEADERSHIP CORPS BRISBANE TRAINING!
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Doctor Richard di Natale is many things, beyond being a general practitioner and public health specialist. He's an Australian Senator in the Federal Government, and leader of the Australian Greens Party, a powerful third party. The Greens are a fascinating party with an amazing story, and this episode could easily have dived solely into politics, as Richard of course has a ringside perspective. But, instead of doing that, this is a conversation with a powerful politician about being a person, who, in the face of climate change, is just as fragile and small as everyone else. We talk about how Richard keeps motivated, what he's doing in his life to be sustainable and have a lighter footprint, and how he feels about the future. But it's also extremely hopeful, and Richard's perspective is a welcome dose of optimism, and practical pragmatism. He lays out a way forward. We greatly appreciated his time, and generousity, and we're so happy to be bringing this to you.
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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.
Special Guest: Dr. Richard di Natale.
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The School Strike for Climate is one of the most energizing, and effective, things happening in the climate movement. From Greta Thunberg striking from school, one student standing up and doing what seemed obvious, what seemed called for, has spiralled and grown into a worldwide movement, that has hit home, taken root, and sprouted in an unbelievable way here in Australia.
Here at Climactic we are so inspired by the SS4C movement, and the amazing young people involved. We do not seek to speak for them, or lead them, but are very glad to give them our platform, and be led by them.
In this special you'll hear many voices, from the community at large, the leader of the Australian Greens party, and most importantly, of the school strikers themselves. Thanks to all those involved, all those who lent us your voices to tell this story, and set the scene for the 15th of March, 2019. The day of the global school strikes for climate. Hopefully, the day the world changes.
You'll find a lot to love in this episode, and we hope you enjoy it. If you do, please consider leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, and sharing the show with a friend.
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Elodie Camprasse/Remember the Wild — Day by the Bay Festival, Point Cook, March 23rd 2019 — RSVP on Facebook here or view the website here
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.
Special Guests: Fatima Kidwai, Marco Bellemo, and Van T Rudd.
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Links: Van's art is Ventolin for the breath of resistance
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Jackie Matthews is many things, a businesswoman, mother, co-host of community stalwart The Sustainable Hour, and much else. Maxine sits down with Jackie for a chat about her story, the recycling crisis, the school strikes, and the climate emergency.
You'll find a lot to learn in this episode, and we hope you enjoy it. If you do, please consider leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, and sharing the show with a friend.
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Chan and Lap — Effect the Change — New sustainable product review video series!
Mark Spencer — The Water Keepers — Get in touch, and send in a Community Corner message of your own!
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Editor-in-Chief
Mark Spencer — Founder
Maxine Bazeley — Host
Georgia Sheil — Host
Bronwyn Gresham — Host
Special Guest: Jackie Matthews.
Support Climactic Greg Grassi wrote our theme, check out his work here. Abby Hawkins designed our logo, check out her work here.
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Climactic host Maxine not only attended the Paddle Out in protest of Equinor's plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight, paddled out herself, but was an intrepid on-the-ground reporter. Listen in to learn what is happening in the Bight, just what the locals have to say about it, and learn how to get involved!
Special Guest: Damien Cole.
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Links: Great Australian Bight Alliance — Submit your public comment to Equinor by March 20! VIC - Surfrider Foundation Australia Damien Cole - Independent Leave a comment on Equinor's Environment Plan | Wilderness Society
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Gretchen Miller is a creator of beautiful audio. A twenty year veteran of the ABC, she's produced radio features for the ABC, RN, and BBC. She's also passionate about the environment, well aware of climate change, and to our immensely good fortune, an early supporter, and key advisor, of Climactic. As a member of the Climactic Collective, Georgia did her very first interview with Gretchen, and you wouldn't believe this is it. Georgia is a natural and turns this into a fascinating conversation about Gretchen's emotional relationship to climate change, her ways of staying motivated, her approach to her craft, and the power of the spoken word to inform, persuade, and enthrall.
You're in for a treat! When you're done, please consider taking a moment to leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, we'd greatly appreciate it!
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Kathryn Farrell — Trash Bags on Tour — New tours!
Adrian Whitehead — Save the Planet Party — Help get the party registered!
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Editor-in-Chief
Mark Spencer — Founder
Maxine Bazeley — Host
Georgia Sheil — Host
Bronwyn Gresham — Host
Special Guest: Gretchen Miller.
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Links: Professional Podcast Production and media training | Gretchen Miller Media Sydney — Gretchen | Miller MEDIA - Storytelling for the 21st century Listen to Gretchen's work Landcare Australia Rescue | Kind acts of environmental rescue Greg Grassi wrote our theme, check out his work here. Abby Hawkins designed our logo, check out her work here. Additional music by Poddington Bear, under Creative Commons license.
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The Climactic Collective is the next phase for Climactic, and it starts now.
Member of the Climactic Collective Bronwyn Gresham brings us this interview with Carolyn Ingvarson, founder of the influential group Lighter Footprints. Based in the eastern Kooyong area of Melbourne, the group started initially in response to the film, An Inconvenient Truth, as a way to gather like-minded locals to make improvements in their home and personal sustainability. But the group has grown into something much bigger, and is now the gold-standard for the type of influence and impact a community group can have.
Instrumental to this has been Carolyn's leadership. Bronwyn is able to peel back Carolyn's experiences and victories, and learn her fears and doubts. In the process, this episode delivers a powerful story about reconciling with your own perceived weaknesses, and how to harness them to become strengths.
We hope you enjoy this first episode from this new phase of Climactic. Any feedback would be warmly welcome. Email us at hello@climactic.fm.
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Editor-in-Chief
Mark Spencer — Founder
Maxine Bazeley — Host
Georgia Sheil — Host
Bronwyn Gresham — Host
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Links: Lighter Footprints — Lighter Footprints aims to influence Australians (including local, state and national decision-makers) to take urgent action to halt global warming Lighter Footprints - Home — @LighterFootprintsMelbourne
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It was around this time a year ago that the idea for Climactic was born. So it's very appropriate to take this opportunity to announce some new changes, and improvements. Climactic is no longer just a podcast. Climactic is now a podcasting collective. With four podcasters spread around the country making the show, with the help of an editor, a producer, and a marketing intern, we're now more capable, and dynamic, than ever.
Groups are beginning to use Climactic as a platform for telling their own stories. Experiments are being cooked up, new series planned. This is an exciting time for the collective. So join us as we begin this new chapter, and spread the word, because Climactic is best enjoyed with friends.
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Editor-in-Chief
Mark Spencer — Founder
Maxine Bazeley — Host
Georgia Sheil — Host
Bronwyn Gresham — Host
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Links: EcoLibrium — Ecolibrium is the official journal of AIRAH. AIRAH - Home — The Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air conditioning and Heating (AIRAH) is an independent not-for-profit technical organisation Live At The Cape - Home — Victoria's most sustainable housing development
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Mik and Anthony are names and faces familar to many in the Australian sustainability community. Their show, The Sustainable Hour, has been running for over half a decade, with over 250 hours of great climate change discussion and interviews and growing. They joined Mark on the side of the Sustainable Living Festival to talk to two younger, fresher faces, Anthony and Fatima, who joined with other leaders of the nationwide School Strike for Climate movement for the next stage of the campaign for a safe future, Climate Leaders.
Enjoy this spirited discussion, where the enthusiasm of youth meets the wisdom of two long-time veterans.
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Climactic had a huge year at the Sustainable Living Festival, and we had so many amazing interviews we're bringing you some specials this week!
In this first bonus, Carol Ride, founder of Psychology for a Safe Climate, talks to Mark about the impact the Black Saturday fires had on Victoria, how the pace of environmental disaster is quickening, and how it's more important than ever to take care of our mental health.
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Links: My Coping Plan on the App Store Psychology for a Safe Climate — Psychology for a Safe Climate
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First up, Climactic is going for an Australian Podcast Award, and if we're to have a hope of winning, we need your vote! We have a guide on how to vote for us, and a link to vote, right here. This is the LAST week to vote! Voting ends midnight February 15th!
Maiysha is incredible, as a public speaker, a rally organizer, a storyteller. If you're a young person, she's also very relatable, as she's just started her final year of high school. If you're older, that just makes her all the more remarkable.
Maiysha's path to activism is easy to follow, and most of us might have had similar experiences. Which poses the question, if Maiysha can do so much, while still at school, why can't we all do more as well?
This is a great episode to use to introduce your family, friends, and kids to Climactic. If you'd like to know more about SS4C, just let us know at hello@climactic.fm, and we'll get you answers to your questions.
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Editor-in-Chief
Mark Spencer — Founder
Maxine Bazeley — Host
Georgia Sheil — Host
Bronwyn Gresham — Host
Special Guest: Maiysha Moin.
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Links: Student protest: Not your typical activists: students strike over climate 'inaction' BBC World Service - Newsday, Why are Australia's school children on strike? The Today Show on Twitter: ""We don’t want to live in a world where floods are happening and droughts and bushfires are happening all the time." - These passionate kids are walking out of school, demanding something be done about climate change! Would you let your school children go on strike? #9Today https://t.co/qbPQmNUTWT" / Twitter
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First up, Climactic is going for an Australian Podcast Award, and if we're to have a hope of winning, we need your vote! We have a guide on how to vote for us, and a link to vote, right here.
Now, this episode is a dream come true for the team. One of the reasons behind Climactic is to give environmental groups a platform in the podcasting space to get comfortable telling their story. Stop Adani Gold Coast took that opportunity, seized it really, and made an amazing story. This episode really shows what it's like to be the humans behind a chapter of an activist network like Stop Adani. You'll hear their backgrounds, motivations, inspirations, fears, and hopes. It's a unifying, enlightening, heartening story, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
You can help us find other groups with a story to tell. We'd love to help them tell it. Just get in touch at hello@climactic.fm or on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram.
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Editor-in-Chief
Mark Spencer — Founder
Maxine Bazeley — Host
Georgia Sheil — Host
Bronwyn Gresham — Host
Special Guest: Stop Adani — Gold Coast.
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Links: Stop Adani spells it out for politicians - Blank Gold Coast — Locally, there’s a growing movement of Gold Coasters who are joining the campaign to stop fossil fuel giant Adani from building the largest coal mine in the southern hemisphere right on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef. Gold Coast activists have Ciobo's EFIC fail in their sights - Blank Gold Coast — A passionate group of Gold Coasters is adding its voice to a national movement calling for governments to Stop Adani. General Action Group Signup: #StopAdani Gold Coast - Stop Adani (Dev) — Join #StopAdani Gold Coast
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Jo Dodds is becoming a widely-known figure in the climate change community. From being an active member of the community, to running for council as an independent, Jo had the best interests of her community at heart. But her work on climate change, her activism, her willingness to speak truth to power at this time of active climate denial in Australian politics, that came later. We learn what activated Jo, what drives her, and how she maintains her relentless pace. She's gone onto deliver keynotes and speeches, travelling with Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, on a recent tour of Australia. It was a real pleasure to have Jo on Climactic, and we can't wait to have her back.
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
https://youtu.be/ospwK-sIons
Special Guest: Jo Dodds.
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Links: NSW town of Tathra looks to rebuild two months after devastating fires - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) — When almost everything you own is reduced to dust and rubble, putting it all back together can be a daunting prospect. 'I'm furious': Tathra councillor says now is the time to talk climate — Jo Dodds says her home near Tathra was threatened on three sides by Sunday's fires, as she watched black plumes of smoke rising from houses of friends and heard gas bottles exploding one after another. 350.org — 350 uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, take money out of the companies that are heating up the planet, and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all. 350's network extends to 188 countries.
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Past guest Beth Hill leads a talk with the vice-president of the amazing group, Psychology for a Safe Climate, for a special episode this week. The topic at hand is bushfire, and the psychological impact they have on those affected. You'll hear first-hand experiences, engagement with the difficulty of how and when to introduce climate change into the conversation, and some starks facts of the ground-truth of Australia's bushfire future.
It was great to get to work with PSC, and we appreciate getting the opportunity to share events like this with you. If you're holding an event or talk, and know of groups that are, please feel free to contact us to make plans for a recording. Events like these take time and skill to put together, and deserve to live on long after they are done.
We recommend checking out Beth's episode, if you haven't yet.
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Beth Hill.
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Welcome back to year two of Climactic! To start off the new year we’ve got a first for you in today’s show. Our first overseas guests. Joining us are Helene and Raoul Costa de Bureaugard, a young couple living in my hometown of Seattle, Washington. We talk about their campaign to add a new Nobel Prize, one dedicated to recognizing and rewarding the amazing work happening to mitigate, avoid, and reverse climate change. Enjoy!
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Hélène and Raoul Costa de Beauregard.
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This episode is a part of the first annual Climate Podcast Showcase, for more information on this visit www.climactic.fm/climatepodcase, and for more information on this show please visit A Rational Fear. ClimateWeekQLD
Hello Dan Ilic here —
Thanks to the Queensland Government for inviting us to perform at Climate Week .
The team of producers were incredible, and the production staff at the Brisbane Powerhouse were slick professional units.
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.
Bridie Connell and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd do some topical music for us. Tom Ballard tells us that it’s all over and there’s no hope left. The Queensland Government put a bid in for the 2038 Nuclear Winter Games. MICF Pinder Prize winner Steph Tisdell give insects the tick of approval, and goes on the hunt for true love with an entomologist. Mel Buttle hopes that foodies will go extinct. Alan Jones has some thoughts on climate change. Professor Hilary Bambrick scares us all to death with what the real health ramifications are for humans on a warming planet. Lewis Hobba thinks he has solutions to the climate crisis, but ends up just blaming Queenslanders for it all.
It is truly an excellent 90 minutes of climate change banter.
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Hello folks, hope you’ve had a fantastic holidays, and we are so happy to be back with you. We announced in our last episode of 2018, which was a ripper, and if you haven’t checked that out that, you’re missing out on some quality Rich banter, that we’d be back on January 10th. Well, we couldn’t wait. And this was a great opportunity to play you something we’ve been holding onto for months now.
Back in August of last year, I had the chance to go on the excellent podcast The Blunt Report, and have a chat with science enthusiast and ace conversationalist Konner Blunt, about climate change, science, pop culture, and how to think about and cope with, and live consciously, in this time of climate.
I have an admission to make, I’m a podcast addict, but that much should be obvious, so the real admission is, I get really frustrated when I listen to some of my favourite podcasts. Because these interesting, engaging people that merrily chat away in my ears have this habit of not addressing climate change. Konner was one of those people. I love his podcast, his great interviewing style, the really stimulating topics he explores. But he hadn’t addressed what to me, and probably to you, is the elephant in the room. Climate change. But, we fixed that.
It was such a privilege to interview him, to be interviewed by him, to engage in what turned into a really good conversation.
So, this one is definitely a little long, but there’s a lot of good stuff in here. Next week’s episode will be back to usual Climactic style, with some year 2 refinements. If you liked this, let us know and we’ll aim to bring you more in this style of long-form conversation. There will be talk about pop culture, a bit about World War 2 and World War 1, but these are all tangents that then inform more discussion about climate change. Trust me, they come back around. This was a really great opportunity for me to try engaging a bright, curious mind with the urgency of climate change.
Was I successful? Let’s find out.
Please check out the awesome Blunt Report if you liked Konner, which, how can you not?
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It's been a big year. In the cultural awareness and response to climate change, in dramatic moments, slow-burning stories, trends, macro-enomic factors. Sadly, it's also been a big year for emissions.
But it was also the year that a new platform launched, that lets people from all backgrounds talk about how they're encountering, and grappling with, climate change.
For the whole team behind Climactic, this has been a monumental year. And so we want to say thank you for joining us on this wild ride.
Mark and Rich break down the year, the highlights and learning, and we cover a topical subject, COP24.
Join us! And see you next year, January 10th.
Special Guest: Dr. Tobias Geiger.
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Paulina Valdes is a pretty amazing person. She's well-travelled, with a great academic career, and extensive volunteering at some of Melbourne's most impactful climate change groups. But, she'd never told a story about climate change before, with an audience, and she'd never been interviewed before. Climactic was lucky enough to help her do both, and the results were fantastic.
Paulina's story about her native Chile, and the effects of climate change being felt there today, was stark, moving, impactful; everything we hoped for this first storytelling event, and more.
To see the event in it's entirety, you can watch it here.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Paulina Valdes.
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Annett Finger and Jennifer Lavers are both top in their fields, of campaigning for waste reform, source reduction, marine plastics, and marine conservation. Which means there's plenty to talk about with these two amazing figures. But, even better, they're old friends, with Jenn being Annett's supervisor during her PhD. So, luckily for Mark's sake, they're not stuck waiting for him to keep up. This episode will take you through the work of a marine scientist, a political campaigner, and all the ways these align, overlap, and compliment each other.
Enjoy!
Credits:
Hazel Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guests: Annett Finger and Jenn Lavers.
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Links: BBC One - Drowning in Plastic Blue The Film - Ocean Guardians Film . A Plastic Ocean . About - Plastic Oceans Foundation Adrift Lab Boomerang Alliance
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Intrepid Climactic co-founder Rich Bowden is back in the interviewing saddle this week as he travels up to the Blue Mountains to speak to a local legend. Lis Bastian is a pillar of the permaculture community, and is now in the media game as well through her amazing initiative, the Big Fix.
Hear from Lis on topics of sustainability, permaculture thinking, climate change, and the power of media for good, and why we need to recreate it to serve our communities like it should.
Special Guest: Lis Bastian.
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Links: Trash Bags on Tour —Great Ocean Road, Dec 2nd! Permaculture Plus – New thinking for a sustainable future The Big Fix
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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.
Special Guest: Leigh Ewbank.
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This chat with Beth goes into a whole new realm of intersecting topics with climate change, the myriad ways we experience and feel it, as humans. Beth is a member of Psychology for a Safe Climate, and we learn about what that group is and how it helps the climate change community. We learn about Beth's work doing an anthropological study in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, about a community recovering from a devastating bushfire.
Stay tuned to the end for an update about how other groups are taking actions across Australia. Thanks to Beth for her generousity, in allowing this conversation to take place at her dining room table, and for allowing Climactic to record a live talk from Psychology for a Safe Climate, coming soon.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Beth Hill.
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Links: 2013 New South Wales bushfires - Wikipedia Work That Reconnects Network — "The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization." –Joanna Macy Psychology for a Safe Climate
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Recorded excerpts from the Plastic-Free Victoria Alliance, November meeting, held at the Port Phillip Eco Centre.
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Links: Plastic-free Victoria Alliance (PVA)
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This week we get a lot more of the collective members voices in the show, as we all pitch in to discuss how the Head in the Sand action went. As this episode goes up, AoC is about to embark on a week full of actions across Victoria, and you can get involved! Check out the links to get in touch and stay in the loop.
Special Guest: Leigh Ewbank.
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Links: Act on Climate Vic - Home AoC Twitter
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Leigh Baker is a very experienced veteran of the manufacturing industry, and brings this grounded, realistic thinking to sustainability. She's a brilliant guest, a quick-wit, and out-of-the-box thinker, and her first episode with us was a listener favourite. Now, Leigh is back to talk to us about human systems, the way we make decisions as human beings, and how we can effectively influence people towards sustainability, and away from the climate crisis. Climate group leaders, volunteers, and people wanting to make a change for the good will be more effective by taking onboard what Leigh has to say in this episode. We'll be striving to do the same.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Leigh Baker.
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Links: Turning regenerative thinking into sustainable business innovation Paul Hawken lecture
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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.
Special Guest: Leigh Ewbank.
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Tim has done a lot in 24 years. He's been part of AYCC, ultimately leading one of their groups. He's worked on Senate campaigns across Australia. Jhatkaa, the Getup of India, brought him over to work in Bangalore. Now he's in Melbourne, and doing big things. This is a powerful episode of the show where Tim's passion is on full display. And his story is very replicable. Check out Kate's episode out this week as well for a real both sides of the coin look at campaigning and activism.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Tim Lo Surdo.
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Links: Democracy in Colour - Home Home - Democracy In Colour Jhatkaa - the GetUp of India Australian Youth Climate Coalition
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We're over halfway through this State Election miniseries with Act on Climate, and we're bringing you something different. Due to a change in schedule last week, the normal AoC meeting wasn't recorded, so instead we bring you an extended interview with Kate Wattchow, long-time activist and campaigner with Friends of the Earth Melbourne, both at Yes 2 Renewables and Act on Climate.
We get into the daily realities of campaigner life, what propelled Kate down this path, missed opportunities to become a campaigner even earlier in life, and what sustains and motivates Kate to keep going. This is a great extended interview and good double feature with our other show this week with Tim Lo Surdo.
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This week is part two of a two-part interview with Brett Hedger, aka Zero Waste man. Find part one here. 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.
We are actively looking for more interviewers, in the capital cities, and regional areas. We're eager to train, assist, and work with the right people. Radio or interviewing experience not required, just a desire to converse with the everyday people working hard in our communities for a safe climate.Interested? Drop us a line at hello@climactic.fm
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Brett Hedger.
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Links: Zero Impact Man — Sustainable Port Phillip 52 Week Challenge The Keeling Curve | A daily record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego — A daily record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Keeling Curve - Wikipedia — The Keeling Curve is a graph that plots the ongoing change in concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since the 1950s.
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With a few new people joining the campaign, Leigh takes the chance to give an overview of the goals of the campaign. Great short listen this week.
Special Guest: Leigh Ewbank.
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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.
We are actively looking for more interviewers, in the capital cities, and regional areas. We're eager to train, assist, and work with the right people. Radio or interviewing not required, just a desire to converse with the everyday people working hard in our communities for a safe climate.Interested? Drop us a line at hello@climactic.fm
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Brett Hedger.
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Links: Zero Impact Man — Sustainable Port Phillip 52 week challenge The Keeling Curve | A daily record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego — A daily record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Keeling Curve - Wikipedia — The Keeling Curve is a graph that plots the ongoing change in concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since the 1950s.
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After an absolutely full-on week for the Act On Climate team, we kick back and talk about the week's events in a more laid-back style. Halfway through the series, and the election run-up, and the nature of the campaign is starting to change. We wrap up the big events and actions AoC had planned, and executed, and note that the action now pivots to a more nimble, reactive role. Stay tuned for a lot of updates, but now, they'll be surprises!
Special Guest: Leigh Ewbank.
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Part 2 of Maxine's interview with Damien Cole. Part 1 is here.In this episode, Max talks to Damien Cole, independent candidate in the November 24th Victorian state election, about running a climate aware campaign. Damien has a refreshing, common sense approach to climate change, development of a fast-growing region, and putting the environment at the top of the list of electoral priorities.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Damien Cole.
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Links: Part one of Maxine's interview with Damien Cole Damien Cole - Independent for South Barwon
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This week it was unseasonably hot in the Friends of the Earth building in Collingwood, so this episode comes to you from the mezzanine above the cafe. You'll hear the hustle and bustle of trams and traffic from Smith Street just outside, and hear a great update from Leigh on the campaign, a double pass giveaway to the Environmental Film Festival from Mark, and an explainer on just transition for LaTrobe Valley from Kate.
Special Guest: Leigh Ewbank.
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Links: Act on Climate Vic - Facebook Act on Climate Vic (@ActOnClimateVic) | Twitter
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Climactic is happy to welcome aboard Maxine Bazeley for her inaugural interview. Max will be bringing us stories from the Surf Coast of Victoria, the Greater Geelong region, about how the area is confronting massive changes in the face of the climate crisis.
In this episode, Max talks to Damien Cole, independent candidate in the November 24th Victorian state election, about running a climate aware campaign. Damien has a refreshing, common sense approach to climate change, development of a fast-growing region, and putting the environment at the top of the list of electoral priorities.
We loved this interview from Max, and it was so good we'll be bringing you part two of this extended interview next week.
This marks a moment the Climactic team has been looking forward to from the beginning, the welcoming aboard of a new member of the burgeoning network, and we're so happy to be able to host stories from the Greater Geelong region.
We are actively looking for more interviewers, in the capital cities, and regional areas. We're eager to train, assist, and work with the right people. Radio or interviewing not required, just a desire to converse with the everyday people working hard in our communities for a safe climate.
Interested? Drop us a line at hello@climactic.fm
--Music from Chris Zabriskie, used under Creative Commons 4.0 license. http://chriszabriskie.com/
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Damien Cole.
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Links: Damien Cole- Independent for South Barwon Maxine's first guest appearance
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This week hear from Kate Wattchow, Act on Climate member, outlining their goals for the election, and why it's so important to her. And get an update from Leigh on what the group has been up to this week.
Special Guest: Leigh Ewbank.
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This is quite possibly one of the most relatable and urgent episodes of Climactic yet. Heidi Taylor is, to people who know of her, inspirational, almost to the point of folk hero status. But when Heidi sits down with Mark, she shows she's much more than an inspiring figure, she's a living, breathing, inspiring human. Heidi founded Tangaroa Blue because of personal concern for the seas, where she practised her career as a dive instructor. But she's a powerful example of how to take a personal passion and create a structure for change, through clear thinking, pragmatism, and most importantly, data.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Heidi Taylor.
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Links: Operation Clean Sweep Australia - YouTube — Operation Clean Sweep is a program developed by the plastics industry to prevent plastic resin pellet loss into the environment. What does marine debris mean for our oceans? - YouTube — Tangaroa Blue Foundation highlights the marine debris and ocean pollution issue in our oceans - can you be part of the solution? Tangaroa Blue - Facebook Tangaroa Blue (@tangaroablue) - Instagram Tangaroa Blue Foundation Database - Tangaroa Blue Foundation — The Australian Marine Debris Database was created to enable volunteers and organisations who were running beach clean up events to also collect data on what they were finding with a consistent methodology so it could be collated into a standardised national database on marine debris.
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Climactic goes behind the scenes with Act on Climate, Friends of the Earth's premiere political action group, as they gear up to fight a pivotal state election. This one's for you if you've ever wondered what political/climate activism is really like. And, spoiler alert, they're a bunch of relatable, earnest, caring people.
This is the first miniseries from Climactic made in collaboration with an environmental group, and we couldn't have a better partner in this than Act on Climate. For the next 8 weeks we'll be sharing their stories, which they're already telling every Monday night at FoE Smith Street, Fitzroy, and on their excellent Twitter, Facebook, and blog. Links below. If this has sparked an interest in you to get involved in this, or other campaigns, feel free to come along or drop a message to them.
We'll be back next Sunday, same time same place, with week 2 of this exciting series.
Special Guest: Leigh Ewbank.
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Links: Act on Climate Victoria — Act on Climate is a team of citizens who are concerned about climate change and want to take action on it at a grassroots level. 'Terrible': Rising gas output lifts Australia's greenhouse gas emissions — Australia's greenhouse gas emissions have continued to climb, reaching the highest levels on a quarterly basis since 2010, led by a surge in gas production. Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100 - The Washington Post — The analysis assumes the planet’s fate is already sealed. Act on Climate Vic - Home Act on Climate Vic (@ActOnClimateVic) | Twitter — @FoEAustralia's community-powered campaign for action on climate change. Positive Solutions | Climate Justice | #ClimateImpactsVic | #VicClimateSolutions
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This week Climactic is happy to have the founders of ShareWaste, an amazing app that's connecting and creating communities through the simple act of sharing organic waste. We all produce it, it's our kitchen scraps, our yard clippings, our garden waste. And, in proving that "one's trash is another's treasure" what may be waste to us, may be gold to others. Australia, just like many other countries, but especially on our arid continent, has a serious organic material shortage, especially in our soil.
ShareWaste is a huge ally to composters, worm farmers, and farmers, and a great timesaver and tool for consumers. The 'consumer' title, it's OK to hate it, yet it's an accurate title for the majority of us. Through a free app, the power of the commons, and an amazing community Eli has fostered, ShareWaste can help anyone, anywhere, remove some of the negative taint of modern consumption.
We were so chuffed to bring you this story from Tom and Eli, and can't wait to feature more stories from the ShareWaste community. And we have one in this episode as well, so you won't have to wait long!
Andrew is a host on ShareWaste, in fact, he was the first host Mark connected with through the site. Andrew's story is likely echoed across the community and the 10,000+ users, and it's a great one. Through leveraging ShareWaste, the community garden Andrew has taken the lead on maintaining and rehabiliting has helped dozens of South Melbourne dwellers bury their bokashi, a vital service.
We hope you enjoy this episode, and if you'd like to hear more stories from the ShareWaste community please let us know!
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--Music from Chris Zabriskie, used under Creative Commons 4.0 license. http://chriszabriskie.com/
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guests: Andrew McCarthy and Tomas Brambora & Eliska Bramborova.
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Links: ShareWaste - Give your waste a second chance! — We connect people who wish to recycle their kitchen scraps with their neighbours who are already composting, worm-farming or keep chickens. Now you can divert waste from landfill while getting to know the people around you! Foundry Park Gardens (@foundrygardens) • Instagram photos and videos — A public garden in South Melbourne. Landcare Australia Rescue | Kind acts of environmental rescue — Contribute your story to this new project from our Senior Advisor, Gretchen Miller! Abigail Hawkins — Climactic's intrepid designer, Abigail Hawkins. Hire her, seriously. Chambres | Free Listening on SoundCloud — Chambres is Sydney based producer Gregorio Grassi, star composer of our theme.
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Chan and Lap are the two founders of Effect the Change, a YouTube channel that spreads useful information about sustainability, in a fun and easy way. This episode is a lot more light-hearted than previous interviews. It's obvious that Chan and Lap enjoy what they're doing, and it's quite refreshing. If we can find ways to do good while having this much fun, well, that makes it all the more personally sustainable.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guests: Chanaka Ruw and Lap Thai.
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Links: Effect The Change on YouTube — This channel is all about using the power of the people to create change. We have one world, let's keep it fresh and beautiful. Use what you learn through the adventures of Lap and Chan and make the world a better place. What's Wrong with Coffee Pods? — Lap shows Chan his new coffee pod machine, but Chan hates it. Hot Mess on YouTube — Hot Mess is a show about how climate change impacts all of us, and about how we can create a better future for our planet and ourselves.
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We've noticed a theme emerging from our first twenty or so episodes, and we're taking an episode to break it down.
We all want to do our part, and live sustainable lives, but is that enough? Or would our efforts be better spent pressuring lawmakers, companies, and communities to change their practices? Should we instead be focussed on altering the systems we live in, rather than the way we live within those systems?Please join us as we attempt to bring some clarity to the biggest question: How can I help?
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Ella Plumanns Pouton.
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Links: Franklin Dam controversy - Wikipedia — The Franklin Dam or Gordon-below-Franklin Dam project was a proposed dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia, that was never constructed. The movement that eventually led to the project's cancellation became one of the most significant environmental campaigns in Australian history. Buying reusable coffee cups won't solve our environmental problems | Ella Pouton — For most middle-class Australians, reusable coffee cups and biodegradable products are an easy way to be 'green'. But what does it achieve? We won’t save the Earth with a better kind of disposable coffee cup | George Monbiot — We must challenge the corporations that urge us to live in a throwaway society rather than seeking ‘greener’ ways of maintaining the status quo. Climactic: El Gibbs — "The Consensus Builder" Climactic: Councillor Tim Baxter — "Combating Climate Change through Local Government" Climactic: Councillor Kat Copsey - "The Waste Guru" Climactic: Liz O'Dwyer and Madeline Clarke — "Sustainable Consulting, and starting from anywhere" Switch on Sustainability: Micro Change for Macro Impact by Liz O'Dwyer — Lizzie has long been a crusader for environmental sustainability. About 20 years ago, she made a conscious choice to begin making changes in her life that would reduce the chemicals in her life, reduce the use of plastics and become a conscious consumer toward a more self-sustainable lifestyle. “What Can I do about the Climate?” – We Don't Have Time – Medium — Become less of an individual. Come together and push for solutions. — Bill McKibben
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Phil is a leader in the HVAC&R (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Regfrigeration) industry, the largely invisible sector that powers our modern world. Without heating, cooling, and refrigeration, Australia would a very different place. But HVAC&R has done more than just allow progress, it also consumes a huge amount of electricity, and handles and is responsible for some of the most powerful greenhouse gases in the world.
Phil, in his work at the industry advocate AIRAH, is humanising the industry. He believes that in making the industry accessible and understandable, the people and firms that are taking strides in sustainability can be recognized and rewarded, and bad actors can begin to lose out. He's got a great personal story, from his year of University in France, learning mechanical engineering in a second language, to his trajectory and then long and stellar service with AIRAH. But wait, there's more. Phil had the chance to interview Paul Hawken, editor of Drawdown, and we are thrilled to bring you a great bit of that interview. We'll share Paul's thoughts on Australia from his recent trip in early 2018, and what it means to really start using the Drawdown research to make an impact on emissions.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Phil Wilkinson.
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Links: AIRAH — Safe, sustainable, healthy and effective environments Drawdown by Paul Hawken — In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience by Elizabeth Shove — Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely gone unnoticed. This intriguing book brings together the sociology of consumption and technology to investigate the evolution of these changes, as well the social meaning of the practices themselves. Homes, offices, domestic appliances and clothes play a crucial role in our lives, but not many of us question exactly how and why we perform so many daily rituals associated with them. Drawdown Home Paul Hawken — Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. Could you be an Enviro Champ? — Sustainable Port Phillip Rate and review Climactic!
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Leigh has been a very important member of the Climactic community since Mark met her at an event in Melbourne. Her focus on scaleable solutions, and the way she keeps her finger on the pulse of the promising developments happening around the world, are a big inspiration to the Climactic team. It was Leigh that introduced us to Project Drawdown, the most comprehensive plan to reverse global warming, which has really opened our eyes to where we should be focusing our efforts. Leigh is an absolute wealth of knowledge, and her passion is contagious, so we know you'll love this episode.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Leigh Baker.
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Links: Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking — In this series on systems thinking, I share the key insights and tools needed to develop and advance a systems mindset for dealing with complex problem solving and transitioning to the Circular Economy. Turning regenerative thinking into sustainable business innovation — Are you adventurous enough to explore a smarter approach to business development? Circular Economy - The Ellen MacArthur Foundation — The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works with business, government and academia to build a framework for an economy that is restorative and regenerative by design. The Blunt Report - Podcast | Science | Knowledge — Mark on the Blunt Report. Drawdown - Climactic Curated Videos - YouTube — Climactic's curated playlist of Drawdown videos Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken — The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken'sEcology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argumentthat business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problemsis more relevant and resonant than ever. Drawdown by Paul Hawken — In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and activists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and methods are described here-some are well known, some you have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in the developing world to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. Drawdown — 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming Paul Hawken — Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author.
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What do food waste, a smartphone app, and discounted meals have in common? That's the formulae for a great new start-up from Melbourne. Mark sat down with Jane Kou, founder of Bring Me Home, a mission focused tech start-up that's set it sights on one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gas emissions, and one we can all easily make a dent in, food waste.
You'll hear the origin story of the company, the passion Jane has for the mission, and the grand plans they have for the future. Also, Mark tries out the app, and gets a sandwich. What kind of sandwich? Was it good? You'll have to listen to find out!
Try out the app, save money, and save food waste.
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Credits:
Producer - Caleb Fidecaro
Designer - Abby Hawkins: http://www.abigailhawkins.com/
Composer - Greg Grassi: https://soundcloud.com/chambresband
Senior Advisor - Gretchen Miller: https://preventioncentre.org.au/resources/podcasts/
Music for this episode courtesy of Poddington Bear under Creative Commons License - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/
Special Guest: Jane Kou.
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Links: Bring Me Home | Eat well, save money, fight food waste | Australia — Eat smart. Save money. Rescue surplus food. Bring Me Home - Apps on Google Play — Download for Android Bring Me Home on the App Store — Download for iPhone OzHarvest SecondBite – Food for people in need
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AYCC, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, is an environmental advocacy group famous in Australia for it's laser focus on youth. All AYCC staff and volunteers are under 30. In this episode Mark sits down with one of AYCC's organizers, Nick Carter, who is working to expand the organization to Northern Queensland, home to both the Great Barrier Reef, world-class institute of reef study James Cook University, and the headquarters of the Adani mine corporation, behind Australia's most objectionable new coal mine. They discuss activism, how youth activism differs, the dynamics of working for a volunteer-driven organization, and much more.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Nick Carter.
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Links: Australian Youth Climate Coalition — We are the Australian Youth Climate Coalition A movement of over 150,000 people who are fighting for a safe climate for our generation and future generations. Join now to be part of changing the course of history. For the Love of the Reef — AYCC's annual flagship event, For the Love of the Reef is coming up next week, so get involved if it speaks to you. Adani — No Means No — The Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners are fighting to defend our lands from Adani – a foreign, multi-billion dollar company. Stop Adani — Stopping Adani Coal is the Fight of Our Times Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network — YOUNG, BLACK AND POWERFUL Mark's Drawdown playlist on YouTube Climactic's Facebook group Climactic's new YouTube channel!
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This episode our two hosts will be heard only briefly, before we dive into a live conversation from the beautiful Australian Galleries in Fitzroy, Melbourne. This is a very on-topic conversation about living in the time of climate change, meaningful action, and mental health, all in the context of amazing artwork. You can see this artwork yourself and follow along with the discussion!
Simply look at your podcast app while you're listening to see the art that's being discussed, or check out the accompanying YouTube video.If you've got thoughts about the episode, and would like to join in the conversation, check out our new Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/273154463431041
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guests: Dale Cox and Guy Abrahams.
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Links: Inner Logic - Australian Galleries — Inner Logic - Dale Cox Cold War Reliquary on Vimeo — The Cold War Reliquary is a vessel - a spacecraft, and a Holy Relic. What We Do | Climarte — CLIMARTE harnesses the creative power of the arts to inform, engage and inspire action on climate change. Dale Cox
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Mark sat down with two of his personal heroes, Liz O'Dwyer, hospitality consultant, author, and sustainability leader, and Madeline Clarke, individual sustainability consultant, who runs workshops, does waste talks on Trash Bags on Tour, and much more.
Liz and Madeline are both fonts of wisdom, and Mark largely just got to sit back and listen. There's a lot of great advice in this episode, and definitely gives you a good idea of what you can expect in Liz's book, Switch on Sustainability, or at one of Madeline's workshops or on Trash Bags on Tour. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guests: Liz O'Dwyer and Madeline Clarke.
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Links: Triple Your Bottom Line – Attention hospitality business owners … click here to Triple your Bottom Line! — A business that makes only money, is a very poor business. Switch On Sustainability - Home Switch On Sustainability – Switch On Sustainability — In my book, Switch on Sustainability, I take you on my journey of becoming a conscious consumer, and making better choices for us, as well as the generations to come. (1) GreenSpectrum - Home
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Filmmaker, writer, academic, journalist and activist Tracy Sorensen is a woman of many talents. She touches on, and in some cases dives deeply into many of these areas in her chat with Rich. Her personal experience in learning about and coping with climate change is insightful and relatable and her gift for communication is obvious. Hear her perspective on the power of arts in talking to people on the importance of climate change, a view shared by the Climactic hosts and one we think you'll enjoy hearing. (And Tracy delivers a Climactic exclusive right at the very end!)If you've got thoughts about the episode, and would like to join in the conversation, check out our new Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/273154463431041
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Tracy Sorensen.
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Links: FEED4FARMERS — We are calling on the western region community and businesses to join our farmers hand in hand to battle the devastating effects drought is taking on our NEIGHBOURS, FRIENDS AND FAMILIES! We will be asking for donations to supply feed for farmers stock to ease the burden. The squawkin' galah | Tracy Sorensen – writer, film maker, academic — Hi there! My name’s Tracy Sorensen. I write, make videos and teach media in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst Community Climate Action Network | Taking steps towards a low-carbon, sustainable community — Bathurst Community Climate Action Network has been working on a local response to a global challenge for just over 10 years. Tense wait in the court house to hear the final verdict | Western Advocate — The action was part of a last-ditch effort by the tiny village of Wollar to save itself from a new open-cut coal mine on its doorstep. Storyland | Harper Collins Australia : Harper Collins Australia — An ambitious, remarkable and moving novel about who we are: our past, present and future, and our connection to this land. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna Haraway | Review
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This is a great chat with one of those quietly inspiring people that surround us everyday. Gabby generously tells us about her life story, to really set the scene before getting into her experience of going totally waste-free for six weeks. Gabby is a volunteer facilitator at Climate for Change, a great group that's now expanded into Queensland from Victoria, and I think she represents well the skills and mindset you'd need to be a successful facilitator. If this has inspired you to give that a go, get in touch with them!
At the end of the episode we have a brief update from Kat and Mel from Trash Bags on Tour, about their next trip. This time, there's koalas! Check out the link below. Check out our new Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/273154463431041/
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Gabriella Maher.
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Links: Koala Conservation + Beach Clean Day Tickets, Sat, 25/08/2018 at 8:00 am | Eventbrite — Enjoy an educational day in the outdoors, helping Koalas and Marine Wildlife Climate for Change
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This week Rich talks to second generation biodynamic farmer Mark Rathbone about biodynamics, replenishment of the soil, creating a closed system (circular economy) and the relevance of biodynamics in helping farmers mitigate against the effects of climate change.
We also have a little chat about the upcoming climate change storytelling competition Climactic is running for University of Melbourne students.
Check out the competition at http://www.climactic.fm/competition
We've got a new Facebook group, Climactic Club, where we'll share stories and develop topics for new shows. We'd love you to join in!www.facebook.com/groups/273154463431041
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Mark Rathbone.
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Links: Bio-Soil — Even if you aren't interested in organics or biodynamics you might find some information or techniques that you could use to improve YOUR SOIL HEALTH. Save Our Soil — If you're interested in soil, farming, organics, environment or just good food then biodynamics will be of interest to you Mark Rathbone a poster child for biodynamics | The Weekly Times — Mark Rathbone a poster child for biodynamics Lynden Lamb - Home WORLD ORGANIC NEWS – Decarbonise the air, Recarbonise the soil! — The site of the great Jon Moore, who kindly introduced us to Mark. Check out his podcast for another interview between Jon and Mark.
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In this episode Mark does a panel interview with members of the Climate Reality Project, the group formed by Al Gore just after the release of An Inconvenient Truth, to train others to give his powerful presentation on climate change facts. In the panel are the two interns that together with Linh Do make up the Australian chapter of the group. Katy and Chris are just finishing their post-graduate studies, and they give great insight into what it's like to be a student at a time of rapid change and public polarization on climate change.
Marcus Gibson, trained to be a Climate Reality leader twelve years ago, has given hundreds of presentations, and recalls what that journey has been like. We talk a lot about what the group is, where things are at currently, and about the way forward. We also manage to break some news, with the announcement that after 5 years, there is another Climate Reality training coming to Australia. June 2019, Brisbane, Queensland.
We give a plug for the competition Climactic is running for University of Melbourne students, applications open now. And make sure to check out Big Little Brush for a 10% discount on a 100% better bamboo toothbrush during Plastic Free July.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guests: Katy Rohrer and Marcus Gibson.
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Links: The Climate Reality Project | Climate Reality An Inconvenient Truth (Movie) — Al Gore Climate Reality Australia - Climate-Reality-Australia — The Climate Reality Project Australia is Al Gore's climate change leadership program hosted by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. big little brush — 10% discount code, applied at checkout.
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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. Laura's story before getting involved with Big Little Brush is extremely relatable, and we talk landfills, minimalism, and backpacking through Europe.
Then we dig into Big Little Brush, their mission to stop plastic toothbrushes pouring into tips, and how they support oral healthcare projects in Indigineous communities around Australia. This is a really positive and uplifting episode, and we hope you enjoy it!For a 10% discount at checkout for your own big little brush, just go to biglittlebrush.org/discount/climactic.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Laura Wilson.
Sponsored By: big little brush: 10% discount code, applied at checkout.
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Links: big little brush — Get your bamboo brushes here for a 10% discount at checkout. Great start to Plastic Free July! Social Innovation Network Inc, Australia — Supporting you in changing the world. What Red Dust does
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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.
A wonderful chat at a superb venue (the cafe), Fiona generously gives her time to talk of her amazing dreams for the future including the setting up of an permaculture educational institute, a proposal backed by experts in the field.
Fiona and Paul are experts at recycling and Fiona delivers an amazing account of how they reduce their waste at the cafe. Ever heard of a “stone” wall made of recycled plastic bags? Listen on.Enjoy the episode!
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Fiona Rossiter.
Sponsored By: big little brush: 10% discount code, applied at checkout.
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Links: Bissys Cafe Bissys Permaculture Cafe & Catering Orange - Home Amazon.com.au: Fiona Rossiter: Books Bissys Eco Retreat Fiona Rossiter :: FionaRossiter.com.au
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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 and environmental outing put on by two tour groups employees looking to do something positive. And they pulled it off. Listen along with Mark as he gets up terribly early, heads out on a bus, makes new friends, and learns about what a beach clean really is.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guests: Kathryn Farrell and Melissa Tuliranta.
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Links: Home - Tangaroa Blue Foundation — Tangaroa Blue Foundation is an Australian-wide not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the removal and prevention of marine debris, one of the major environmental issues worldwide. But if all we do is clean-up, that is all we will ever do. Trash Bags On Tour - Facebook PRESS RELEASE – 07 May 2018 “Trash bags on tour – hits the Great Ocean Road” | Autopia Tours Melbourne — Staff of Melbourne-based small group tour operator, Autopia (part of the Get Lost Travel Group – GLT) have launched the ‘Trash Bags on Tour’ initiative to raise awareness and address the growing epidemic of rubbish pollution along our coastline and in our oceans. Home - Great Ocean Road Coast Committee (GORCC) — The Great Ocean Road Coast Committee is a not-for-profit organisation that manages 37 kilometres of Crown land reserves between Torquay and Lorne. Rogue Wave Brewing Co. | Rogue Wave Brewing Co. — We live our lives by the tides and the wind and the swell. We don’t dream of living somewhere else, or doing some other job. We love it here Our beer is a continuation of our lifestyle. We won’t be told what mass produced beers we have to put on tap by some foreign owned, multinational, beer factory. No extracts. No chemicals. No additives.
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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!
John was born and bred in the Central West and knows the land — and the effects of climate change on it — like the proverbial back of his hand. His insight, and warning that we can’t continue on a “business-as-usual” approach, serve as a stark warning for the climate deniers and developers.
John also talks about recycling, the long-term future of agriculture in the Central West, his own journey and the difficulty in raising climate change issues before parliamentarians and councillors.Enjoy the episode!
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: John Fry.
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Links: John Fry | Greens on Council Landcare Australia Landcare Australia Bathurst, New South Wales - Wikipedia Skillset Environment | Renewable Energy | Sustainability | Bathurst ranks third in Australia for hotter average temperatures | Western Advocate — Australian National University Climate Change Institute data on Bathurst Climate Change in the Central West of NSW — Central West Local Land Services Regional Strategic Plan Experts talk tough on drought conditions at information session | Western Advocate — MORE than 100 farmers from across the Central Tablelands expressed their fears and concerns over the widespread drought at an information session in Bathurst.
Currently, 100 per cent of the Central Tablelands has been declared in drought (68.3 per cent) or ‘drought onset’ (31.7 per cent).
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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. You'll learn what made a driven university student change paths, give away his car, and dive into a passion for climate change communication and volunteering. Oli's story is powerful, and great for any young person or university student in your life.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Oli Moraes.
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Links: Climate for Change Black Saturday | Australian Broadcasting Corporation Black Saturday bushfires - Wikipedia The Donkey Wheelhouse
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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.
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. We also talk to climate activist Dug Holmes for his take on the crisis and — as an added bonus — Mark shares with us what inspired him to start Climactic.
In our second episode we’ll be looking at the bright side: the opportunities the recycling crisis presents.Enjoy the show!
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guests: Dugald Holmes and Katherine Copsey.
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Links: A billion kilograms of rubbish in need of a new home A crisis too big to waste: China's recycling ban calls for a long-term rethink in Australia China's recycling 'ban' throws Australia into a very messy waste crisis Garbage in, garbage out: Incinerating trash is not an effective way to protect the climate or reduce waste Waste-to-energy incineration should be 'last resort' as Josh Frydenberg flags expansion - Science News - ABC News — Mr Frydenberg described Australia's waste management problem as an "important, urgent issue" that he was looking forward to working with the states to solve.
"We've already got more than 30 [waste-to-energy] projects underway in Australia...and we look forward to expanding these over time," Mr Frydenberg said.
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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!
Those who know El well know of her passionate (that word again) defence of the community and desire to always put regular people first, on every issue. She discusses her battles over implementing progressive legislation during her time as a councillor on Blue Mountains City Council. Just as interestingly, she tells of the way she got around entrenched opposition to legislation on everything from climate change and sustainability, to the widening of the highway through the Blue Mountains.
El’s advice for the best way for people to act on climate change? “Lobby like hell!” Also listen out for El taking the long handle to Rich as she disagrees vehemently with one of his questions.Join us as we talk to El Gibbs.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: El Gibbs.
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Links: El Gibbs (@bluntshovels) | Twitter BAFL Radio (@bafl_radio) | Twitter Blue Mountains City Council - Home
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In this week’s episode, Climactic co-host Mark Spencer talks to Cr Kat Copsey of Port Phillip Council in Melbourne, Victoria.
Kat chats about her “aha” moments in her rise to becoming an advocate in the ongoing battle against global warming and also talks of her love for the arts and artistic expression. However on issues as important as climate change Cr Copsey told Mark that “systemic change” was absolutely necessary and the sooner this change is implemented, the better for our society.
“I always wished that somebody would do something [about climate change] then I realised I am somebody” said Cr Copsey, words that underline her hands-on approach to climate activism.
As part of preparation for our upcoming special on China’s decision to restrict Australian recycling imports, Mark asked Kat about the opportunities this presented as well as the dark side of increased costs for councils. She agreed that a crisis such as the Chinese government’s decision does indeed create room for shared potential and lists changes made and proposals before Port Phillip council.Enjoy the interview!
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Katherine Copsey.
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Links: Katherine Copsey - Home Converting Waste into Fertiliser - South Melbourne Market Sustainability - South Melbourne Market Face Your Waste BigBelly Solar Compactors - Solar Bins Australia Bigbelly – Smart City Solutions
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In this episode, Mark talks to Dugald Holmes, his great friend and inspiration behind the setting up of Climactic.
Inspiration? Well with his organisational skill, Dug was a driving force behind the prevention of the building a massive gas power station plant in the ACT, a fascinating story you’ll hear in some detail in the interview. It was this achievement, this astonishing battle against all the odds, that has driven Mark to establish Climactic with the same passionate goals — to help protect our planet for future generations.
In the episode Mark and Rich describe Dug as a passionate climate activist though as you will hear, Dug doesn’t exactly fit the standard image that you would expect of someone doing this work. He describes himself as a regular family man and member of the local community and it was this status that drove him to spend nearly a decade of his life fighting the proposed gas plant and the inevitable pollution and environmental degradation that would have followed.Dug also talks of his education in organising campaigns against local government as a child, showing us that one person can make a big difference.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Dugald Holmes.
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Links: Canberra Power Station | Canberra Technology City CPR Inc Hume oil refinery CPR Inc. No Canberra incinerator | Coalition for Pollution Reduction
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Episode 3 sees Mark Spencer go 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. He discusses what Council’s role is in implementing green policies and how important feedback from the community is for councillors.
There’s a great deal here too for local democracy enthusiasts as Tim launches into some fascinating topics in the latest developments in direct democracy. He outlines the baby steps many councils are taking to give more power back to the people as well as how online technology is shaping local government accountability.
As Tim says in the interview, he’s not the only one with progressive views on the Council and he discusses the fact that local government is often at the forefront of the battle against climate change. Indeed, if you’re a resident of the council’s boundaries and would like to have your say on the latest draft proposal, check out the link below. Otherwise, sit back back and enjoy the show. As Mark says: “... it’s fair to say we’re a pair of geeky democracy, technology and environment fans, and we had a lot of fun chatting.”
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Tim Baxter.
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Links: A Sustainable Future | Have Your Say at Port Phillip — The draft sustainability plan for Port Phillip Council. Commissioner Tim Baxter - Facebook Tim Baxter (@BaxterTim) | Twitter Tim Baxter | Australian Greens Port Phillip Council tells Victorian Government to catch up on plastic bag ban | Leader Jewish councillor shaken after 30 pieces of silver left on desk during public meeting | Leader Your Councillors | Australian Greens
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The first of Climactic’s interviews conducted in a professional setting at the Library at the Dock studios, our second episode is Mark’s fascinating, fun, and informative chat with Maxine Bazeley of Teal Collective. Maxine has worked in recruitment for many years and she kindly takes us through the essence of good and bad management practice in this industry, with the benefit of her experience. She also tells us her story, saying there was a point, after an accident, when she realised the pursuit of riches and status no longer satisfied her in the way it once did. She realised there were many more important things in life and has now settled in the beautiful seaside resort town of Torquay, in southern Victoria with her partner. In the first of what we hope will be a number of interviews for Climactic, Maxine tells Mark about her plans for a renewable future for the town, including advocating for solar and wind energy.
Credits:
Caleb Fidecaro — Producer
Rich Bowden — Co-Founder
Mark Spencer — Co-Founder Abigail Hawkins — Designer Greg Grassi — Composer
Special Guest: Maxine Bazeley.
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Links: Teal Collaborative The New Joneses Library at the Dock Surf Coast Energy Group
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Setting the scene in this first episode, Mark Spencer, founder of Climactic, and co-host Rich Bowden talk about the goals they have for their new podcast. The pair discuss the storytelling approach they will take to bringing listeners information and ideas on sustainable living. Mark and Rich also give an insight into the interviews they will be using to anchor the show as well as the importance they give to listener engagement to the success of the show.
Both Mark and Rich love talking to the people doing the hard yards on the ground, as much if not more so than the famous figures in the environmental movement, so if you’d like to tell your story, we’d be very happy to help.
Climactic.fm - The voice of the people on climate change.
The introductory trailer episode also includes preview “teaser” clips from the following interviews:
Dugald Holmes
Asia-Pacific Support Manager for Papercut, and Grassroots Environmental Campaigner. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dugaldholmes/ http://noplasticstofuel.com/
El Gibbs
Community champion.
Freelance writer, disability advocate and former councillor in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. https://twitter.com/bluntshovels
Costa Georgiadis
ABC personality, speaker, permaculture and sustainability advocate and presenter of the long-running Gardening Australia. https://www.facebook.com/CostasWorld/
Maxine Bazely
Maxine is a volunteer host at the New Joneses, a professional in the recruitment industry, and a very inspiring woman. She walked the walk and quit her day job in order to live on a block in Torquay, near Melbourne on the Surf Coast, to pursue her goals of personal and environmental sustainability. She's doing great work with her new agency, Teal Collaborative, and she will always be Climactic's favourite first guest. https://www.tealcollaborative.com.au/
Oli Moraes
A volunteer facilitator at Climate for Change.
Cr John Fry
Councillor and long-time Landcare expert in Central West NSW.
Cr Tim Baxter
Tim is a member of the Port Phillip City Council, representing the Canal Ward, and is associated with the Greens Party. He was the first elected official to volunteer to be on Climactic. He's a great thinker on the future of democracy, sustainability, and local government, and is a very friendly and approachable guy. We know he'd love it if you got in touch with him for a chat.
Cr Katherine Copsey
Katherine is a passionate local, who cares about the community she lives in. She is proud of our eclectic neighbourhoods, our thriving local marketplaces, our rich cultural heritage and our natural environment. She cares about the protection of our neighbourhoods and fostering community renewable energy solutions.
Interested in becoming part of the Climactic community? We’re really looking for your engagement, suggestions, feedback and guests to improve and tweak our future shows. We really see this as a listener-driven podcast.
Contact us at the following: https://twitter.com/climacticshow https://www.facebook.com/climacticshow hello@climacticshow.fm
Special Guests: Dugald Holmes, El Gibbs, Katherine Copsey, Maxine Bazeley, Oli Moraes, and Tim Baxter.
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