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Tune in to in depth interviews and reports featuring environmental leaders and experts exploring the challenges, solutions and opportunities for our threatened ecologies, climate and civilisation. Presented and produced by Sean O'Shannessy (Feel free to rebroadcast any content from this podcast for non commercial purposes with proper attribution) https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything/
Scott "Sooty" Daines on the legal battle to save our gliders in Styxx River State Forest and across NSW
Al Oshlack discusses the result of the case to protect Cherry Tree State Forest and a recent case in NSW Land & Environment Court which looks likely to remove barriers to community groups taking legaql action for our forests. He also discusses the latest news for the North Lismore Plateau mega development threatening ecological and cultural values left on Wijabul Wiabl country
Everyone in Bundjalung country has a story to tell of the devastating effects of the climate emergency and the incompetence and corruption of the official responses to the disatsers they have created. Very few are as poignant and powerful as the tale told by Susan Anderson of how her community has been excluded from their homes to make way for developers. Bec Horridge and Sean O'Shannessy went to visit the site and hear and see the story for themselves.
At the end of the hottest year in human history, a Rising Tide of everyday people shut down the world’s largest coal port for 32 hours. This is a report from the Lismore launch of the film about how we did it. Revisit the epic People’s Blockade with footage from the beach, the water, and the sky - and hear from Rising Tide organisers and blockaders about how this historic event came together.
https://www.risingtide.org.au/
Northern Rivers man, Surya McEwen, is setting sail with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to bring desperately needed food and medicine to Palestinians in Gaza. Spokesperson for the Northern Rivers Friends of Palestine, Subhi Awad, spoke to us on this dangerous humanitarian mission of hope.
https://www.suryasailsforgaza.org.au/
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Professor david Lindenmayer is one of the worlds leading experts on forest ecology. He has spent the past 40 years researching and writing about the intricacies of how our forests function as sanctuaries for wildlife and plants as well as water, fire and cllimate. He has just written a myth busting tour de force of a book called "The Forest Wars - The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests"
He talked Sean O'Shannessy through a few of those myths for Environemntal as Anything. Please share this informative interview as widely as possible
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Over half a million Victorians went without power and at least 60 homes were reported destroyed in extreme storms, heat and fires but somehow the capitalist media managed to report all this without mentioning the "C" word once. Bravo! Courageous effort (NOT!)
For those first responders and aghast observers in the midst of the #climateEmergency what they want is a government response that addresses the best science and gives timely and forceful warnings of the scale of the climate emergency we are in the midst of.
Sam Galvin is a volunteer firefighter who has spent much of the past week battling to protect the people of his home district around the Dandenong Ranges. He shares his first hand experience of the climate disaster wracking his communty. Freja Leonard is a campaigner for the Friends of the Earth, she brings a broader perspective to bear on the political and economic issues that are driving the disasterous events in her home state.
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The NSW community is increasingly impatient to #endNativeForestLogging and Australians are becoming increasingly frustrated with the failure of the Albanese government to answer the tough questions on #climate actionThis week in Ballina Court forest defendants Kashmir Miller and Valerie Thompson had justice delayed until at least 31st July when they will appear again and hope to have the charges against them for protecting our life support system dismissed.Meanwhile the NSW EPA keeps fiddling while our endangered greater gliders are being exterminated by loggers.Naomi Hodgson (with her ex coal worker dad) managed to ask Aussie Prime Minister Anthony Albanese a few real questions on an end to fossil fool exploitation last week.Tune in to this podcast episode for the full story from Eddie Lloyd, Kashmir Miller, Valerie Thompson and Susie Russell all calling for justice and reason to prevail in our forests and Naomi telling the story of her action to keep the big questions of a just transition to renewable prosperity on the national agenda.------------------------------------------------------------------------->
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The gorgeous coastal village of Brunswick Heads in Arawkwal Country in the Shire of Byron Bay is home not only to the archetypal "Sea Change" community but also to some extraordanarilay rare and endangered ecologies. Right now it is also home to a David and Goliath struggle between megabucks corporate developers and a local community campaign determined to protect their precious wallum heathland from rapacious profiteers. In this episode of Environmental as Anything local environmental scientist, Svea Pittman speaks to Sean O'Shannessy about the values her community is defending. We also hear from "Zoe" who has just completed a tree climbing training to help prepare her for the non violent direct action campaign that has now started on the site.
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Peter Dutton has threatened to reduce access to independent legal representation for community groups attempting to enforce the law against the climate crimes of the fossil fuel industry. Dutton was speaking to an event organised by the Council for Minerals Energy in Perth to an audience including some of the Liberal Party's biggest donors.
Independent Federal MP Zali Steggall (OAM) spoke to Environmental as Anything on the politics of Duddo's threats and Dr Chris McGrath (Barrister specialising in environmental law and researcher and University of Queensland) spoke to Sean O'Shannessy regarding some of the legal implications of these threats.
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On Environmantal as Anything this week Action for Climate in our Courts, Forests, Streets and Boardrooms:
- COP28 & Geo Engineering - George Pick
- Knitting Nannas Constitutional Challenge to Anti Protest Laws - Helen Kevelde & Sue Higginson
- Climate Energy Finance Year's Round up - Tim Buckley
- Tarkine Forest Action - Scott Jordan from Bob Brown Foundation
- Disrupt Burrup Hub NOPSEMA Blockade in Perth - Veterinarian "Maz"
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On this weeks show:
- Action in Myrtle State Forest & Styxx River State Forest for koalas and gliders this week - Luca Lamont, Dailan Pugh, Sue Higginson and Fridays4Forests
- Faith based communities rising up for the creation - Thea Ormerod and Anne Lanyon
- COP28 speed bumps and the real transition to renewable prosperity - George Pick
- Aussies call for a ceasefire in Palestine
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A special report from The Rising Tide People's Blockade of the World's Biggest Coalport, including:
- Bob Brown
- Adam Bandt MP
- Sue Higginson (MLC)
- Grant Howard - Coal miner for #NoNewCoal
- Riff Raff Radical Marchinig Band
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On this week's show:
- Forest Pledge Launch - Sophie Scamps MP https://www.sophiescamps.com.au/pledge_to_end_native_forest_logging
- Forest Protest Charges Dismissed - Susie Russell
- School Strike 4 Climate - Voices from across Australia at the frontlines for climate justice https://www.schoolstrike4climate.com/
- Australian Climate Case - Isabelle Reinecke https://www.gratafund.org.au/australian_climate_case_melbourne_hearings
- Tuvalu/Australia Climate Migration Treaty - Dr Tamara Wood (Kaldor Centre) https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/introducing-kaldor-centre-principles-climate-mobility
- The CoCo Report - Violet CoCo
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On this weeks show:
- Sail4Sanity - Two Illawarra grandfathers are sailing and paddling a kayak between two of Australia’s key coal ports, Port Kembla and Newcastle, to draw attention to the need to halt the burning of fossil fuels, while hopefully demonstrating that a great deal of fun can be had in water craft that don’t burn up the planet. Calling for more immediate and effective action by our government to reduce fossil fuel mining and effectively address climate change. They hope to connect with politicians and climate action groups at events along the way and to encourage people to get involved in the Rising Tide Protest. Tom Hunt spoke to Environmental as Anything on his epic voyage.
- https://sail4sanity.au/
- Prof Bill Mitchell is one of Australia's most emminent economists. Last week the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised interest rates for the 13th time. He spoke to Sean O'Shannessy and said the RBA's broken policies are transferring income and wealth from poor to rich at rates not seen before in this country. The inflationary episode is a supply-side phenomenon and the major drivers will not fall as a result of interest rate increases, in fact they are actually causing inflation.The RBA is systematically wiping out wealth at the bottom end and transferring to the top end. - RBA monetary policy decision represents a terminally broken policy model in Australia
- Violet Coco - The Coco Report - Across Australia people are rising up against the madness of ecological destruction and for a safer more just society. The front lines of that struggle are held by courageous humans like Violet Coco. She joins us again to keep us all up to date on the events we can all become part of to strengthen our case for a viable future for us all.
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Our fire seasons keep getting hotter and longer. The world has been burning all year, North America is ablaze, and Queensland has suffered tragic losses to the out of control fires burning there. Here in NSW we are yet to see the worst of it but our courageous fireies are breathing a sigh of relief as rains fall to dampen the dozens of fires threatening a Black Spring. Daniel Ainsworth from the Northern Rivers Regional Fire Service (RFS) joins Environmental as Anything to report on the progress of their ceaseless vigil over our fire safety.
Meanwhile across Australia the legitimacy of democracy is under threat as citizens are charged with speaking the truth while the climate criminals walk away scott free. We have reports from canberra and Grafton where The APPEA5 and Ellis Forest Protectors faced court for peacefully resisting extinction.
Denialists continue to badger the adults in the room with their ignorance. Every now and then they actually get a chance to have their delusions comprehensively put to bed by a truly emmminent scientist. This week in the NSW Parlliamentary Inquiry into the ALP's Zero Futures Bill which proposes to weaken our climate targets, MP for the LDP John Ruddick, dusted off his Phd in Non Seqiturs from Dunning Kurger University and challenged former cheif scientist of Australia Prof Penny Sackett to explain why he didn't understand the climate emergency. She knocked his mischevious questions out of the park with grace and dignity. We have an illuminating extract from that exchange and more from the bipartisan committee looking into that legislation.
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In this weeks show:
- A report on the Brisbane Magistrates Court appearance by the "Parliament 14" climate activists charged under the criminal code with “disturbing the legislature”, which carries a maximum sentence of 3 years in jail.
- Activist, educator, academic & writer, Aidan Ricketts shares his analysis of the current state of anti-protest laws in Australia.
- Sue Higginson explains how the NSW ALP government's climate targets are actually weaker than the former LNP government's regulations
- Violet Coco joins us with an update from the fornt lines of the climate rebellion
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Aussie's freedom of speech, assembly and association are under a nationwide concerted attack.
Dr. Colette Harmsen, released on Friday 13/10/23 from her three months sentence in Tasmania and prison for having stood up for the protection of our precious native forests spoke to Sean O'Shannessy on the day of her release about her reasons for taking the actions that got her locked up, her experience of prison and her intentions for future actions for our environment.
In this episode of Environmental as Anything we also speak to a couple of other people who are facing down the threat of some fairly stiff penalties for their courageous and peaceful actions to try to highlight the climate emergency and to persuade governments, in both in Brisbane and in the ACT to do something effective about it.
John Wurker from Extinction Rebellion ACT brings us his story as one of the 'APPEA 5', who stood up against the fossil fuel industry headquarters there in Canberra, blocking several of their entrances for a couple of hours and are now charged with "unreasonable obstruction"
Sasha Seindl from XR Brisbane, who was part of the 'Parliament 14', the group of citizens who spent three minutes in the gallery of the Queensland Parliament calling for an end to new coal gas and oil exploration and and development and are now facing the possibility of three years in prison for being charged with "Disturbing the Legislature".
We also have Lismore as leading legal expert on the defense of the protectors of our climate and forests. Eddie Lloyd criminal lawyer who has been defending environment protectors through the courts and has got a unique perspective on the legal issues not only here but around the country and she joins us to wrap up the show with an analysis of the bigger picture.
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The fundamental freedoms of all Aussies are under attack from dark forces that would silence us and shackle and oppress us. On this week's show we shine a light on three courageous campaigns to stand up and be heard against the will of the corporate capitalist state
- John Shipton - Free Assange
https://www.assangecampaign.org.au/
- Tahlia Stolarski - Disrupt Burup Hub
https://www.disruptburruphub.com/
- Rachel Perkins on the Indigenous Voice
https://www.yes23.com.au/
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Dr Steve Sutton has nearly two decades of experience working in and researching bushfires . As Chief Fire Control Officer in the Northern Territory, Steve was responsible for Territory-wide bushfire control, hazard reduction and bushfire mitigation, and oversaw the operations of the Territory’s volunteer bushfire brigades. He is an advocate for grass-roots initiatives to weave networks of belonging that foster resilience to climate change and disasters. He spoke to Sean O'Shannessy on Environmental as Anything in his capacity as a member of the Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, about the state of preparedness of our governments and agencies for the oncoming fire season
Kerry O'Brien is a living legend of Australian journalism. He has been tirelessly touring the the nation trying to cut through the clouds of disinformation around the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Referendum with his typically sharp factual analysis. Param Berg caught his speech at the Rally for a Voice in Lismore on Sat 30 Sept '23
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David McBride blew the whistle on the culture of covering up murder in the Australian Defense Forces, now he is facing 50years in prison for his courageous defense of the ANZAC tradition. Sean O'Shannessy spoke to him on how and why he did what he did and what is next for this story.
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Jo Dodds is the President of the Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action. She is living on the NSW South Coast where this week dozens of schools had to be shut in the face of "catastrophic" fire conditions (in mid spring) . She spoke to Environmental as Anything about the feelings of her community in this stressful time and their calls for an pause on all fossil fool development until the federal environment laws have been made fit for purpose.
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This week in Lismore Local Court forest protector MJ Johnston had her day in court and had ALL charges dismissed by the magistrate. This momentous result was due in large part to the tenacious persistence and powerful advocacy of solicitor Eddie Lloyd. arguing that a person of such good character standing up for community values does not deserve to face punishment. Sean O'Shannessy interviewed these two extraordinary women to get their story on how and why this legal outcome was necessary and possible.
Trevor Acfield is a social scientist with a background in dealing with issues of housing and community development. He is also a Sth Lismore resident and survivor of the climate emergency floods that devastated Lismore in Feb 2022. He spoke to Environmental as Anything about the process of developing a rational policy response to flood emergencies and the political obstacles that stand in the way of implementing it.
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There is a widespread view in the community that Lismore City is still reeling from the catastrophic climate emergency floods of 2022, largely because the Lismore City Council is a chamber of horrors run by a pack of clowns. Adam Guise is one of the minority of councilors committed to dealing with the real issues that confront his city of housing and habitat. He joins Environmental as anything fresh from this months shambolic council meeting to share his perspective on what went on there.
Brunswick Heads is an idyllic coastal village in the Byron Shire whose character and charm rests on its natural beaty. Unfortunately the qualities that make the district an international tourist mecca are under threat from rampant developers. Meg Neilsen from Celebrating Earth and Art interviewed local Ecologist James Barrie on the threats to Brunswick Heads' Scribbly Gums.
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Gumbaynggirr custodian Sandy Greenwood, NEFA's Dailan Pugh and Fiona York fromthe Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) in Victoria discuss the state of play in our forests from the mid North Coast NSW to Victoria.
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Our Native Forests are under assault from powerful forces under the control of the NSW government.
Self described "bush lawyer", Al Oshlack has been working with the Gumabngyirr people of the Mid North Coast to launch legal action to protect their lands. He speaks to us about the success of this strategy this week.
Sue Higginson (MLC) works in the NSW Parliament's Upper House (and across the community) to defend nature. She has some good news from there of progress toward a Nature Positive future for NSW.
Both spoke to Environmental as Anything's Sean O'Shannessy on Saturday 26/8/23
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On 19/8/23 the Australian Labor Party (ALP) held its once a term National Conference in Meanjin Brisbane. Bob Brown and Felicity Wade have been fighting for our native forests for many decades and each of them turned up to make their voices heard in their own ways. Bob outside with a large vociferous crowd of people energised for an end to Native forest logging and Fellicity inside with the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) team pushing for the Labor powerbrokers to listen to the urgent need for nature positive policies to be adopted by Australia's self declared natural party of government.
Sean O'Shannessy recorded them both speaking on the issues for Environmental as Anything.
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Native forest logging has lost its last vestiges of social license in Australia as thousands of Australians have rallied nationwide to finally protect our carbon sinks, biodiversity refuges, water catchments and tourist attractions from industrial logging. On Saturday 12/8/23 hundreds of Northern Rivers locals joined the rally in Lismore to express their impatience with the NSW and Australian Government's delays in protecting our forests. Environmental as Anything's Sean O'Shannessy was there reporting live on the day
At the same time 340 ALP branches have voted for a resolution to be put to their National Conference to end the outdated and destructive practice. Surely the Australian governments will finally heed the science and the voices of the vast majority to end the malicious damage being done to our koalas homes?
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Sean O'Shannessy and Violet Cocoa interview Gurridyula:
Gurridyula's Bandcamp Profile (https://gurridyula.bandcamp.com/)
"I am Wangan and Jagalingou from Central Queensland Australia. I have been living in a tent performing ceremony at Waddananggu across the road from the Adani Carmichael mine for over 400 days.
Recording my music in a small trailer to get the message of our fight to the world."
www.standing-our-ground.org
"The Wangan and Jagalingou people are the proud Traditional Owners of a vast area of land in central-western Queensland’.
For thousands of years, we have been custodians of this land and it is our responsibility to protect our land, water, people, history and totems. Our totem is the bee, or Kub-bah in our traditional language."
" It is the responsibility of the W&J Nagana Yarrbayn Cultural Custodians to sustain our group’s connection to, and presence on Country to maintain ongoing cultural custodianship of the land and waters, especially our sacred Doongmabulla Springs.
We are a self-determined group of Traditional Owners who maintain permanent presence on country to care for our lands and waters. Our role includes monitoring damage and destruction on our Country and holding those who harm our lands and waters to account. "
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For over a decade Felicity Wade led the Wilderness Society in NSW, working to protect forests and end land clearing. Now she is National Co-convenor of the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) . Felicity spoke to Environmental as Anything's Sean O'Shannessy about the upcoming Labor National Conference and the high hopes of Labor membership for an end to native forest logging across Australia.
Dailan Pugh (OAM) is the president of the North East Forest Alliance and is widely acknowledge as one of Australia's leading experts on the forest ecologies of NE NSW. He spoke to Sean on NEFA's ongoing court actions and their potential to tip the balance in favour of protecting our public native forests from logging.
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Tim Buckley founder and director of Climate Energy Finance public interest think tank, has 30 years of financial market experience covering the Australian, Asian and global equity markets and is a highly influential energy finance commentator. He talks Environmental as Anything's Sean O'Shannessy through this months headlines for the transition to renewable prosperity.
PRODUCTIVITY OMISSION: PC’S EPIC FAIL ON CLEANTECH: Productivity Commission's myopic Trade and Assistance 2022 Review decries state capital support for cleantech, and pretends the energy transition can be left to non-existent global free markets.
AEMO ENERGY UPDATE: DOWN, DOWN (PRICES ARE DOWN): The Australian Energy Market Operator's (AEMO) says wholesale electricity prices down 59% year-on-year
GAS ON THE NOSE AND OUT OF THE HOUSE: Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio has announced a bold and much needed policy reform – a ban on gas in new homes from 2024.
NSW COAL ROYALTY BOOST ON THE AGENDA – JUST DO IT!: At long last, NSW is considering upping its grossly inadequate coal royalty regime.
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The NSW Government is so determined to carry out its plans to exterminate our koalas that it has established a regime of logging under marshal law. When 80 NSW citizens gather in their forest to confront the criminal damage being done there they are greeted by a 5 police cars and a police rescue truck. when asked why the police on site can't answer.
This report from Sean O'Shannessy who was on site
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This year is the 20th anniversary of the US/Australian invasion of Iraq. It is also the 10th anniversary of the confinement of Julian Assange. To commemorate these two important related events Lismore people gathered at the War Memorial to speak out against the suppression of free speech that is flourishing in the world today and to call for Assange to be released and anti public protest laws to be repealed.
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Tessa Campesi has been seeking answers on what is going on in our forests so she went to Bulga Plateau where one of the most effective community campaigns to end native forest logging in Australia is located.
She interviewed a wide range of community members and seasoned campaigners about why they are standing up to the might of the NSW government and the corporate logging industry.
Our Federal government has finally decided to take some moderately effective action to reign in fossil fool price gouging. Tim Buckley, Director of the Climate Energy Finance think tank ( https://climateenergyfinance.org/ ) tells us how this will really affect the coal and gas cartels and Aussie energy consumers.
President of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, Jo Dodds, has a unique perspective to offer on the experience of having her home engulfed in the climate emergency. Her response to that crisis has been outstanding. Far from being shattered by the experience she has been forged into an extraordinarily effective activist for climate justice.
She explores her heroic journey in this conversation with Sean O'Shannessy on Environmental as Anything
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean says he is proud to have made the EPA into a "tough cop on the beat" with "teeth" but when they are called out to investigate dozens well documented breeches of the logging rules they behave like a paper tiger.
Ecologist Mark Graham says this is "existential stuff" and that the NSW LNP Government are "an outfit of koala killers"
Listen in to him speaking to Peter Nielsen and Sean O'Shannessy in this episode of Environmental as Anything Interviews
A peaceful and lawful walk-on by about 40 local community members into illegal Forestry Corporation (FCNSW) old growth forest industrial logging operations was held on Wednesday 10th August 2022 to measure recently destroyed giant trees and to bear witness to the crimes currently being committed in Ellis State Forest by FCNSW and its contractors.
Local ecologist and private conservation reserve operator Mark Graham spoke to Sean O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything on Sat 13/8/22 to describe what they found and what must happen next for our State Forests
Sue Higginson is our representative in the NSW Parliament Upper House. She spoke to Sean O'Shannessy about the recently released report from the Parliamentary Inquiry into NSW floods and the upcoming parliamentary debate on ending public native forest logging on Environmental as Anything on Saturday 13/8/22
Lismore City Councilor Adam Guise was rescued from his North Lismore home in February during the cataclysmic floods that engulfed the region surrounding it. He has been calling on the Local, State and Governments to act effectively to secure the homes of every flood affected resident. There is an alarming prospect that the homes of many of those people will just be left in harms way or worse bulldozed.
Adam spoke to Sean O'Shannessy on Environmental as Anything on Saturday 13/8/22 about the issues involved in building back better in the face of the climate emergency.
End Native Forest Logging Petitioner Takesa Frank has started something important with her parliamentary e-Petition. NSW Parliament will now debate the protection of our State Forests. Hear her tell Environmental as Anything what got her started and where to next.
She says "We saw the bushfires destroy 80 per cent of South Coast forests and less than a month later Forestry NSW came into these and started logging,"
"It was really devastating to see that firsthand and watch them destroy the forests we helped protect."
Ms Frank's petition on the parliamentary website asked the Legislative Assembly to:
- Develop a plan to transition the native forestry industry to 100 per cent sustainable plantations by 2024
- In the interim, place a moratorium on public native forest logging until the regulatory framework reflects the recommendations of the leaked Natural Resources Commission report
- Immediately protect high-conservation value forests through gazettal in the National Parks estate
- Ban the use of native forest materials
Both major parties are yet to support the transition out of native forest logging.
"This is what the people want, and if you don't start acting on it that's when the voters are going to change [their vote]," Ms Frank said.
"We're so close to a state election that they're going to have to start listening to the people." Takesa reckons
With a federal election in progress our airwaves are being swamped with voodoonomics. Fortunately a growing group of economists is exposing the absurdity of the neoliberalist ideology that dominates the what passes for economics discussion among the capitalist commentariat and offering a cool analysis of how modern economies actually work.
Our guest on today's show is Professor Steven Hail of Torrens University and the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and he is eminently qualified to help blow away the cobwebs from our our understanding of modern monetary systems.
Professor Hail lived and worked in London in the 90's, published a number of economics text books, and was involved in the provision of financial training to staff from all the major UK banks including the Bank of England. He has developed an analysis of the flaws in neoclassical economics, which led to his study of Post Keynesian economics, and modern monetary theory.
His book, Economics for Sustainable Prosperity, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.
When flood ravaged Lismore got wind of Scott Morrison's plans to visit 9 days after the climate emergency had devastated their city they felt obliged to welcome him and share some of their experiences and hopes for the future with him. Unfortunately he wasn't in a listening mood and so the concerned citizens were locked out of the event. Unperturbed the notoriously resilient and creative community had a good humored and energetic gathering outside the bunker where the PM was hosting a select band of politicians and media.
This report is compiled from the edited highlights of those parallel events.
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The people of LIsmore rallied again today against the half baked ideas of a new councilor who has put forward a motion to resurrect the unfeasible Dunoon Dam on Wednesday 16th February at the first Rous meeting since he was voted in.Speakers at the rally detailed the importance of protecting cultural heritage & burial sites, the big scrub rainforest remnant (6.7% of the 1% that is left), and koala habitat (72ha), let alone resilient water security. The mindless push to promote the damming of Dunoon was condemned by all present as reckless and irresponsible on four key levels: Cultural Heritage, Ecology, Finances and Water Security.The community gathered in their hundreds outside the Rous building in Lismore, to support the current IWCM, and their rejection of the motion to waste ratepayers money re examining the well resolved issues around this white elephant dam proposal.
The fight to save our region from this wasteful boondoggle is clearly far from over.
Tim Buckley is a financial analyst covering the global electricity markets. His analysis highlights the technology and finance driven inevitability of a global transition towards a lower emissions system. Meg Nielsen asks him to tell us why he is so upbeat about the transition to renewable prosperity in the face of the climate emergency.
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Our first Aussies have had over 200 years of theft of their land to contend with. Last year the Lismore City Council made a nationally significant gesture of returning some of the Bundjalung Nation back to its owners. This year an ideologically driven rookie councilor tried to break that promise by proposing to stop the hand back but he didn't reckon with the strength of the Wijabul Wiabul mob.
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Byron Shire Councillor Cate Coorey speaks to Sean O'Shannessy on the motion she just had passed demanding reforms of the recent NSW Koala SEPP
Margie Pestorius & Miriam Torzillo from Wage Peace talk Sean through the Disrupt Land Forces actions planned for Lismore and Brisbane
Julie Beesley interviewing Jo Immig from National Toxics Network re. Aus regulations on glyphosate
Dione Green interviewing Greenpeace Asia Pacific CEO David Ritter re coal industry in Europe v Aus
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Zianna Fuad speaks to Sean O'Shannessy on the frontlines against Adani and for our koalas
Damien Cole from the Surf Rider Foundation talks to Catherine Coxal and Michelle Michels from Eco Futures
The Shine Report with Naomi from the Lismore Environment Centre illuminating the week ahead.
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Jeff Johnson - Ballina Shire Council Divestment
Jo Evans - SANTOS PIlliga plans & obstacles
The Shine Report - Naomi Shine from LIsmore Environment Centre illuminates the week ahead.
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Thanks for tuning in to Environmental as Anything. This week on the show we have:
Eco News
Cate Faehrmann - Koala SEPP 21
Dailan Pugh - Koala action
Michelle Michels - Circular Economy interview
Naomi Shine - Events and actions for this week
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Rob Garbutt transports us through the beautiful and surprising sounds of the rivers of NE NSW with his contribution to the Speaking With the River – NRCG Exhibition
David Shoebridge is the chair of the NSW Parliamentary Committee on Public Accountability. He has been working hard to expose the Berejiklian Government's shameless pork barrelling and he uncovered the recent scandalous corruption of the Bushfire Recovery Fund. He spoke to Sean O'Shannessy to explain the depths of the scam.
Eve Sinton from Fossil Fool Bulletin speaks to Sean about:
- AGL's proposed gas import terminal at Crib Point has drawn a lot of flack at an environmental assessment hearing, and is strongly opposed by the local community.
- The gas industry, while being showered with big dollars by the government aiming for a 'gas-fired'economic recovery, has actually cut its workforce by 10%.
- Tiny underground critters might get in the way of fracking the Northern Territory.
Dailan Pugh reports in from Doubleduke State Forest on the threat to this precious native forest and the endangered wallabies there
Naomi from Lismore Environment Centre Shine's a light on the NE NSW Environmental actions and news
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A huge show for Environmental as Anything this week:
- Tamara Smith speaks to Mia Armitage about how the Berijicklian government's Bushfire Recovery Fund scandal has harmed her electorate of Ballina.
- Janelle Saffin tells Sean O'Shannessy how her electorate of Lismore was also ripped off in the Bushfire fund rorts.
- Susie Russell from the NCEC reveals how the EPA backed the Cape Byron Power Company's legal bid to keep us in the dark about their burning our forests.
- David Morris briefs Sean on the EDO's impressive caseload including a few significant wins and ongoing actions defending the environment.
- Miriam Torzillo gets us up to speed on the Wage Peace movement and their work to stop arms dealers plying their trade in Brisbane.
- Eco News - Weekly environmental news round up from the Community News Room courtesy of Mia Armitage and the Byron Youth Radio team.
- Naomi Shine sheds light on the actions and events for the Earth on the Northern Rivers from the Lismore Environment Centre.
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Vanessa Ekins - Lismore's freshly appointed Green Mayor reveals her vision for a cleaner more prosperous shire.
Dailan Pugh - Analysies what is going on with the federal government and their ongoing failure to fix the EPBC Act
Naomi Shine - Shines some light on local news and events from the Lismore Environment Centre
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Sean O'Shannessy Interviews Professor Roberta Ryan on the Great Koala National Park Economic impact analysis and environmental benefit assessment (MUSIC: Twisted Folk "Too Precious to Plunder" - LockOn!)
Wendy Bacon speaks to Sean on her Lies, Debates, and Silences: How News Corp produces climate scepticism in Australia report (MUSIC: Mick Daley: "Miranda Devine's Adventures on the Vanilla Frontier" - Tiny Violins)
Bangalow Koalas protest meeting at Rifle Range Rd illegal development site
Jodi Adams reviews Ben Moore's new book "For the Love of Bees"
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Eve Sinton - January edition of the Fossil Fool Bulletin
Ian Lowe - NEW REPORT: AUSTRALIA TAKES MASSIVE FINANCIAL HIT FROM CLIMATE CHANGE - Climate Council Report Hitting Home: The Compounding Costs of Climate Inaction.
Cate Faehrmann - NSW Koala Inquiry progress
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Susie Russell & Dailan Pugh - NSW Renewable Energy Plan Fatally Flawed
Michael Mazengarb - January RenewEconomy Round up
Jim Beatson - Zombie Murder Rats
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Eve Sinton - Fossil Fool Bulletin
Fossil Fool Bulletin is a resource for people working to end the fossil fuel era in Australia. It combines a fully referenced weekly news summary with original articles, presented as a PDF newsletter with live links. Fossil Fool Bulletin has been published weekly since November 2017 by journalist Eve Sinton of Focus Publications, who has 35 years of experience in journalism and publishing.
Ian Sutton - Murray Darling Basin United We Stand
"We the people of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) have been disgusted in the way we have been betrayed, with the desecration, drainage and destruction of our ground water, river systems, wetlands and lakes. This has resulted in the devastation of our plants and animals, the expansion of desertification throughout the MDB, increased climate extremes and a rural economic collapse.
We have been protesting, rallying and lobbying successive government for over 30 years and in that time, we have been ignored. We feel that you no longer represent the people and instead are colluding with corporate interests to the detriment of our nation."
Peta Goodwin - Knitting Nanas for Native Forests (WA)
Native forest logging is not smart business. It is foolhardy, unsustainable and unnecessary. We need our wild forests for our children, for our grandchildren, for climate and for life. Nanas for Native Forest are determined to convince our leaders to stop this madness before it is too late.
Lydia Kindred - Secretary of Northern Rivers Rail Limited
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Merry Xmas & Happy Summer Solstice everyone
-Councilor Vanessa Ekins will be giving us the good news on the decision of Rous County Council to not dam Dunoon
- Tim Buckley from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis shares his glad tidings for the transition to renewable prosperity and how China has decided it doesn't want our coal for Xmas
-Pablo Brait from Market Forces raises our spirits with the seasons good cheer on Lloyds of London decision to stop insuring fossil fools
- John Gertsakis from Ewaste Watch gives us the gift of sustainable consumer goods with right of repair
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Catherine Cusack, Mark Pearson, Justin Field and Cate Faehrmann all stood up and spoke against the koala killer bill in the NSW Legislative Council on the 19/11/2020 and their voices were heard. The bill was defeated, referred to committee and withdrawn by the government. A reprieve for our koalas and a big win for people power in NSW. Listen here to their speeches to parliament and Cate's sumation afterwards
Meanwhile people are outraged and taking action over our forests being thrown into the furnaces and called renewable energy at Condong Mill, our wildlife and cultural heritage being threatened with damming at Dunoon and Santos plans to release methane from under the PIliga forest and the Great Artesian Basin.
We have audio reports and interviews from all of them in this jam packed episode.
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Rational honest people understand and acknowledge that climate action brings massive economic benefits and failure to act creates much worse damage to our prosperity.
In this episode:
- Zali Steggall talks us through her proposed Climate Bill before the Federal Parliament that will remove the corruption from our energy debate and place us on track for a stable climate and economy.
- Mark McVeigh tells us about his David Vs. Goliath legal victory over his superannuation fund Rest.
- Deloitte Access Economics' Dr Phillip discusses the findings of their recent report "A new choice: Australia’s economy – and $680 billion in economic potential – relies on climate action"
- Blair Palese shares her insights into the possibilities for positive action in the first 100 days of the Biden Presidency.
- Simon Clough analyses Rous Water's underhanded tactics in pushing for its 19th C response to 21st C water problems.
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Chris Gulaptus and Geoff Provest voted for the LLS Bill rammed through the NSW lower house on the 14th of October. Their actions along with the rest of the #KoalaKiller faction of the Berejiklian government is causing outrage amongst all who understand what has been done. The bill won't be passed into law until it passes the upper house so there is still a chance that voters can persuade our representatives to do their jobs and vote it down.
- NCEC President Jim Morrison and Grafton local Tim Watson speak to the crowd of voters outside Chris Gulaptus' office in Grafton (audio courtesy of Jimmy Malecki)
- Meg Nielsen from Celebrating Earth and Art interviews Susie Russell from the North East Forest Alliance
- Julie Beasley form Eco Futures interviews President of Northern Rivers Guardians Scott Sledge.
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Greg Mullins talks us through the The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Report
Professor Leanne Wiseman words us up on the Right to Repair movement and Productivity Commission Inquiry
Bungabee ecologists inspect our local forests for their ecological values before they are destroyed by logging (as reported by Omega Breakspear)
Elly Bird LCC EPA
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The ALP keeps shifting its unsustainable position on fossils
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In this episode of our gripping radio noir drama lovelorn femme fatale, Princess Gladys, is looking for options but is rudely interrupted by the shocking return of #KoalaKiller Don Porky Barrell and the unexpected arrival of some even more unwelcome guests - #ICAC
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Tim Buckley, Director Energy Finance Studies, Australia/South Asia for IEEFA, has 25 years of financial markets experience and has been a keen analyst of the global transition to renewable prosperity. He tells Sean O'Shannessy that last week he was very doubtful that the world's financial markets could act fast enough to get us safely to the goals of the Paris Climate Accord but this week he is "bullish". Listen in and find out why he is so hopeful.
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Radio noir is back in style as all our favourite villains and anti-heroes from the #KoalaKiller Gangster State display their moral turpitude, corrupt underbellies and bad relationship choices for all the world to see (all in less than 2minutes)
(WARNING: May contain traces of nuts)
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Michael Mazengarb is well known to regular Environmental as Anything listeners. He delivers his insights into the transition to renewable prosperity with the calm assurance of genuine expertise. Here he is speaking to Sean O'Shannessy on the news from September.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/author/michael-mazengarb/
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Last Thursday the government passed legislation to close sections of the Casino to Murwilumbah railway line. The Casino to Bentley section will be closed and the Murwillumbah to Crabbes Creek section and the railway tracks ripped up for a rail trail.
Beth Shelley, Chairperson of the Northern Rivers Railway Action Group says, “The government and Labor have stated there has been extensive community consultation to find out if this community wants to have trains running again or a bike path. This isn’t true. There has been no proper community consultation at all, except for the Rail Trail group’s endless lobbying”.
Abigail Boyd, NSW Greens MLC, stated, “When properly built, funded and designed, public transport has immeasurable social, economic and environmental benefits for the health and wellbeing of entire communities. The delivery of services such as the passenger rail on the Casino to Murwillumbah line should be considered a core part of the job of government”.
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On Monday WATER Northern Rivers Alliance launched a campaign for smart water options in the Northern Rivers, instead of the Dunoon Dam. The launch coincides with the start of National Water Week, with its message ‘Let’s re-imagine our water future”. Annie Kia is one of the leading spokesp people for water in NE NSW and she spoke to Sean O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything to clarify the positive agenda on water management for our region.
“We want Rous to take on board what the experts are saying about smart options and policies” says Annie. “The Dunoon dam is last century’s thinking. If we add new supply it should be independent of rainfall. That’s the way to drought-proof our region, not by adding another dam, costing $245,000,000”.
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The Morrison regime is as ideologically committed to the neo-liberal agenda as just about any government in the world. When confronted with the global Covid 19 pandemic however they have responded by turning on the economic stimulus taps, briefly. Professor Bill Mitchell, one of the worlds experts in Modern Monetary Theory, speaks to Sean O'Shannessy and offers his assessment of the effectiveness of the budget measures as post pandemic stimulus measures and the prospects for our future prosperity under neo-liberalism.
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/
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Energy Program Director for the Grattan Institute, Tony Woods had a long career in the gas industry but he tells Sean O'Shannessy that he doesn't see the Morrison government's gas plan effectively stimulating the Australian economy
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Mark Carney (former head of the Bank of England) agree.
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SANTOS has had its gas attack on the Piliga forest legitimised by the NSW "Independent" Planning Commission but locals and the wider NSW public are overwhelmingly outraged at the corruption of democratic processes and threats to our climate, biodiversity and water security that this decision represents. Roy Butler is the representative of the NSW Seat of Barwon elected on promises to protect his community from this assault. He speaks to Sean O'Shannessy about the political and economic reasons that this project cannot be allowed to proceed.
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Greg Mullins developed a keen interest in the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events in his period as Commissioner of Fire & Rescue in NSW and is an internationally recognised expert in responding to major bushfires and natural disasters. In this interview with Sean O'Shannessy he speaks on the issues raised by the climate infernos sweeping across the West Coast USA and the politics driving Australia's budget response to the climate emergency.
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The knitting Nanas are a force to be reckoned with as are our School Strikers for Climate. Both have declared they will be ramping up actions for a genuinely sustainable economic recovery from covid and that massive government subsidies and reckless approvals for fossil fuels are not party of that.
Sean O'Shannessy attended actions by both Nanas and strikers and filed these reports for Environmental as Anything
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Simon Holmes à Court is senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and sits on the board of the Smart Energy Council. He helps Sean O'Shannessy and Meg Nielsen see through the smoke kicked up by the spinning wheels of the Morrison regime's energy roadblock plan.
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Southern Cross University whale researcher Dr Wally Franklin speaks to Sean O'Shannessy on the heroic whale rescue carried out this week on the SW coast of Tasmania
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Steve Rogers is a dry land rice farmer and Operations Manager for the Natural Rice Company based in Kyogle. He speaks to Sean O'Shannessy & reveals some of the ecological and economic advantages of dry land rice growing and dispels some furphies about the so called Australian "Rice Crisis"
Peter Holding is a third-generation farmer in south east NSW, growing crops such as canola and wheat, as well as running sheep for wool. Peter is also a member of the Climate Kelpie – a central location for farmers after practical information and tools with which to manage climate change risk and impacts. Wearing his hat as the Farm Outreach Officer for Farmers for Climate Action Peter speaks to Environmental as Anything about the Morrison government's Energy Roadmap, the National Farmers Federation's commitment to zero emissions by 2050 and the dirty politics of the koala killers besmirching the reputation of farmers.
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Celebrating Earth and Art's Meg Nielsen spoke at length to clinical psychologist and community organiser Wayne Sommerville on the Art of Living in a Dangerous World. Here are the edited highlights.
(Celebrating Earth and Art airs on 92.9 River FM every Tuesday from 10-2)
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As Energy Finance Analyst – Gas/LNG for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial AnalysisBruce Robertson understands the gas industry's dirty secrets better than most. He shares his analysis of the Morrison government's Gas Fuelled Recovery and reveals how they are lying to us about it and why.
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Tim Beshara is Manager of Policy and Strategy at The Wilderness Society Australia, former Media Adviser Office of Senator Peter Whish-Wilson and previously olicy adviser to incoming Environment Minister the Hon Robyn Parker MP, responsible for National Parks, Marine Park reforms, Threatened Species policy and Native Vegetation reforms. He shares his inside knowledge and analysis of the recent machinations within the NSW Coalition Government and the likely electoral ramifications for them if they can't effectively bring their Koala Killer faction to heel.
Sydney Morning Herald article by Tim Beshara: I worked for the NSW government and I've seen Barilaro's tactics before
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We've all wondered what on earth could motivate our federal government to ignore the science, economics and public opinion so blatantly and insist on pouring our Covid recovery funds into their ludicrous "gas led recovery". John Hewson is one of Australia's most emminent economists and has been leader of the Federal Liberal Party and he calls it "corruption". Listen in to a revealing conversation as he shares his insights with Environmental as Anything.
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Michael Mazengarb from RenewEconomy gets us up to speed with this week's big stories on our transition to renewable prosperity
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Bella Burgemeister is a seasoned youth activist and author who has stepped up to the challenge of joining the class action against the Federal Minister for the Environment to protect young people from the climate change impacts of the proposed Vickery Extension Coal Project. She tells us why and what she hopes to achieve with this action.
https://equitygenerationlawyers.com/cases/sharma-v-minister-for-environment/
Holly Richards is a local leader of the School Strike 4 Climate movement and she shares with us their plans for local action on Friday the 25th of Sept 2020 as well as reflections on her motivations, hopes and experiences of the School Strikes.
https://www.facebook.com/StrikeClimate
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This week we are taking a good look at the how NSW National Party's attack on our koalas and attempts at bullying the premier is damaging their credibility and hastening their slide into complete irrelevance. We will have Cate Faehrmann giving us the story from inside the NSW parliamentary "Bear Pit" and Sue Higginson speaking to Meg & Peter Nielsen bringing us the farmers perspective on the koala killer faction of the NSW Coalition government from Celebrating Earth and Art.
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Kate Washington is the NSW Shadow Minister for Environment. She spoke to Environmental as Anything about the ALP's vision for our koala's future.
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Annie Kia works with communities to defend themselves from unsustainable development. She has recently been applying her considerable talents to the problem of the proposal to dam Dunoon in the beautiful rainforest hinterland of Byron Bay NE NSW. She spoke to Environmental as Anything to break the news of an important report by Professor Stuart White of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS on "The Rous Sustainable Water Program: Towards a secure, reliable and affordable water future"
(MUSIC: "Pure Water" - Songs of the Bentley Blockade)
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Federal Member for Warringah Zali Steggall hasjust returned from a sitting fortnight in parliament where the Scumo regime rammed its gutting of the Environmental Protectiona and Biodiversity Protection Act under cover of the Covid19 pandemic. She speaks to us about the flaws in the new act and the process and about her proposed amendments which were not even debated. She also explains how the proposed Climate Change Act can ensure there are equitable, transparent and science-based plans to address the impacts of climate change, prevent worsening consequences and take advantage of economic opportunities.
https://climateactnow.com.au/
Music Mick Daley "In the Right Place at the Right Time" (Accoustic Demo)
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Legendary environmental protector and rainforest ecologist Nan Nicholson tells us why the proposal to dam Dunoon must be stopped to protect Aboriginal culture, rainforest ecology and the limits to growth
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Michael Mazengarb writes prolifically for Renew Economy on the energy transition. He talks Environmental as Anything through the big headlines in Coal, Gas and Renewable NEWS from the past fortnight.
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Matt Kean has been Minister for Environment and Energy in NSW for just over a year and he has turned his state from a laggard to a leader in the race to become a renewable energy superpower. This week he has seized the forest conservation nettle and promised to turn around the trajectory of our koalas from extinction to doubling in population by 2050. Environmental as Anything asked him to specify how he intends to achieve this heroic goal.
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Familes4Forest is a new movement of parents and children committed to protecting our public native forests from destruction by the NSW govt. They kicked off their campaign in Myrtle State Forest this week and it was a lot of fun. Environmental as Anything was there to report.
Sue Higginson has been a legal advocate for our forests for decades. She speaks to us about some the various legal fronts on which NSW Forestry Corps is in trouble
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Gomeroi Traditional Custodian Maria Cutmore, Boggabri resident David Watt and LIsmore Environment Centre's Naomi Shine were just 3 of the hundreds of NSW citizens who spoke out at the Narabri public hearings of the Independent planning commission against Santos' proposal to contaminate the Great Artesian Basin, trash the Piliga Forest, worsen climate chaos and undermine Australia's economy.
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Simon Holmes à Court is senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and sits on the board of the Smart Energy Council. He recently wrote and article in the Guardian on "How Australia's state energy ministers are turning the tables on Angus Taylor" We asked him to respond point by point to Angus Taylors recent presentation to the Clean Energy Council's Energy Ministerial Forum. His analysis is most illuminating.
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Humpback whales have come back from the brink of extinction and are approaching sustainable population levels. This year's whale watching season has been a bumper. Wally has been involved in humpback whale research for 20 years and has undertaken the management and marine operations of The Oceania Project since its inception in 1988. He gives a fascinating interview to Environmental as Anything on whale population, culture and sleeping habits.
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Al Oshlack has been a legal advocate for the Indigenous people and environment of NE NSW for decades. Lately he has been working with the Gumbaynggirr people to challenge the threat of logging of their country. Their legal action sought to challenge the anti democratic nature of NSW Forest Corps status being above the law. He explains to us the effects of this action
MUSIC:
Southern Forest Stand-Al Japaljarri and the Komradz
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Energy Ministers from every State in Australia as (and the Federal Minister for Emissions) met under the auspices of the Clean Energy Council on 8 July, 2020 to discuss their plans for rapid transition to renewable prosperity (and offer obfuscation & excuses for his Abject Failure). Environmental as Anything edited their presentations into this report.
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Amanda King from Lock The Gate Alliance speaks to us on the situation this week regarding the threat of fossil exploitation in NSW
Meg Nielsenm speaks to Dailan Pugh about the situation for our forests and the urgent need for us to get active to protect them and Sandy Greenwood Speaks to us from the Gumbangyiir country about their growing resistance to public native forest logging in Wild Cattle Creek and Nambucca State Forest
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Meg Nielsen from Celebrating Earth & Art interviews Dailan Pugh OAM (President of the North East Forest Alliance) on the recently released NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Koala Populations Report
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Dr Kristin Den Exter speaks to Sean O'Shannessy onsite at the Wilsons River Landcare Group's regeneration project at Simes Bridge Lismore
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NSW MLC Cate Faehrmann has for the past year been the Chair of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the NSW Koala Population which released its "groundbreaking" report this week. Among its findings was the alarming realisation that NSW Koalas will be extinct by 2050 if our government doesn't urgently act on a set of recommendations. Cate spoke to Sean O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything to fill us in on the details.
https://saveourkoalas.org/
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Amanda King from Lock the Gate speaks with Sean O'Shannessy about the Narabri gasfield threat and Tim Buckley from IEEFA speaks to Meg Nielsen on the economic failure of fossils.
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Michelle Chapman and Mark Dunphy tell us about their new book "Australian Rainforest Seeds - A guide to collecting processing and propagation"
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Dailan Pugh from the North East Forest Alliance talks about the NSW government's decision NOT to log our protected Old Growth Forests
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Sandy Greenwood is a Gumbaynggir woman working to protect Nambucca State Forest from the threat of logging. She speaks to Environmental as Anything about the cultural and ecological significance of this extraordinary unburnt remnant of coastal forest and the community emerging to stand up for it.
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Meg Nielsen & Charlie Prell discuss Farmers for Climate Action's new report
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Meg Nielsen & Marion Lloyd Smith discuss the National Toxics Network
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Dr Emma Carmody, EDO Special Counsel and water law expert spoke to Environmental as Anything about "Are our water laws climate ready?"
https://www.edo.org.au/2019/12/19/are-water-laws-climate-ready/
(MUSIC: "Pure Water" - Songs of the Bentley Blockade)
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Anna Christie is an environmental advocate & educator who has been engaged in the fossil fuel front line for nearly 7 years, organising tours of the Narrabri region particularly the Leard and Pilliga Forests (which have been dedicated by the NSW government to coal mining and gas extraction) and field monitoring of coal and gas expansion in the Namoi Valley. Anna is a foundation member of the Australian Citizen Science Association and a co-founder of the Leard Forest Research Node. Since 2017, Anna has been a contributor to North West Protection Advocacy which has focused particularly on coal seam gas advocacy in NSW.
She spoke to Environmental as Anything about her recent article on the NW Protection Advocacy blog - "Portrait of a Gasfield Workforce – The Jobs Myth" in which she says that one of the gas industry’s cruellest and most poisonous false claims – that it will generate a jobs boom for Australia – is now threatening to undermine the good work of countless groups, individuals and business owners in moving towards a more sustainable future.
(Music "98.6%" from the Songs Of The Bentley Blockade CD)
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Meg Nielsen Interviews IEEFA's Bruce Robertson on the realities of the so called "Gas Led Recovery"
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With Covid19 restrictions being lifted the people of NSW are finding that while they have been restrained in their movements and behaviours the logging industry has not and the results are horrific. Myrtle State Forest just south of Casino was burned by the climate infernos last summer and now is threatened with imminent logging destruction. The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) & Extinction Rebellion (XR) went out to bear witness to the forestry operations in progress there. Environmental as Anything was there to report.
MUSIC: Mark Laurent & Brenda Liddiard - Forest Song - Lock On! Songs To Save Australia's Forests
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Tim Buckley from IEEFA speaks to Environmental as Anything & exposes the fossil fuelled cronyism & magical thinking at the heart of Australia's plans for a "Gas Led Recovery"
(MUSIC: Luke Vassella - The Mighty Dollar - 01 The Word Is Out - https://lukevassella.bandcamp.com/album/the-mighty-dollar)
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Mel McAuliffe, who lived through the impacts of climate change during the Millennium drought on her family farm in Central Queensland speaks for from Youth Verdict on their groundbreaking case against Clive Palmer's Galilee coal mine proposal to Environmental as Anything.
The EDO website says "Youth Verdict is a group of brave young Australians who are challenging Clive Palmer’s proposed Galilee Coal Project in Queensland’s Land Court, arguing the mine will contribute to catastrophic climate change and increase the risk of bushfires, drought, floods, heatwaves and cyclones.
It’s a case that is set to make legal history; one that asks us to consider what kind of climate future we are leaving for future generations.
For the first time an Australian coal mine is being challenged on human rights grounds. It’s also the first climate case brought by young people in Australia. "
https://www.edo.org.au/young-australians-take-on-clive-palmer-coal-mine-over-hr/
https://www.youthverdict.org.au/media
(MUSIC: "We Believe In Spirit" from the Bentley Blockade CD)
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Secrecy, a lack of accountability and stacked with unrepresentative fossil fools the National Covid Co-ordination Comission is a star chamber of Scott Morrisons hand picked mates and it looks likely they are heading in the opposite direction to the leap forward we need according to many commentators.
Lucy Manne spoke to Environmental as Anything top explain the situation and Sarah Hanson Young backed her comments.
Music: Mick Daley "Open Karma Surgery
https://mickdaley.bandcamp.com/track/open-karma-surgery
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A news round up from the week on our forests with Naomi Shine and the Stimulus Summit on the prospects for a A Renewables-Led Economic Recovery hosted by the Smart Energy Council and RenewEconomy.
https://www.smartenergy.org.au/renewablesled-economic-recovery
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Adam Bandt has been representing the seat of Melbourne in the Australian Parliament for 10 years and has recently been promoted to the leadership of the Greens in a typically civil and orderly fashion. He spoke to Environmental as Anything about The Greens plan for a New Deal for Australia based on regenerative culture, renewable energy and a fair go for all.
The song that follows this interview is Lisa Yates singing - Behind Enemy Lines from Lock On! Songs to Save Australia's Forests by N.E.F.A.
https://nefa.bandcamp.com/track/behind-enemy-lines
Thanks to Chris Fisher for our theme song "Hand in Hand"
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Shay Dougall is an expert safety professional who through her 20 years of consultancy, has provided health and safety support in Australia, UK and USA across a range of industries with a strong connection to the construction/waste/gas to energy industry. Most recently, Shay has become deeply engaged with advocating on behalf of farmers required to host the unconventional gas industry in Queensland.
She tells Environmental as Anything that the trouble with these three GISERA reports is the deceptive slicing and dicing of data and the broad-brush interpretations that have led to the sensational and misleading headlines.
https://nwprotectionadvocacy.com/why-the-latest-study-by-gisera-fails-to-prove-that-fracking-is-safe/
The Music for this episode "Leave It In The Ground" was kindly provided by Davey Bob Ramsey
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Michael Mazengarb is an Energy and Environmental Markets analyst, with a strong focus and history with renewable energy markets and policy who writes prolifically for RenewEconomy.
He joins Environmental as Anything to lift the lid on our federal minister for shameful emissions secret report into his plans for our future.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/author/michael-mazengarb/page/2/
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David Ritter is the Chief Executive Officer of Greenpeace Australia Pacific. He has been with Greenpeace for nine years, campaigning to secure an earth capable of nurturing life in all its amazing diversity. He says "People, working together, can achieve almost anything. We can still secure an earth capable of nurturing life in all of its magnificent diversity."
He spoke to Sean O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything (via Zoom) about the possibilities for post Covid 19 recovery in the face of the climate emergency.
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Ross Garnaut is an economist whose career has been built around the analysis of and practice of policy connected to development, economic policy and international relations in Australia, Asia and the Pacific. He has held senior roles in universities, business, government and other Australian and international institutions. His latest book Superpower: Australia’s low carbon opportunity continues his long & illustrious contribution to clear policy development on the climate emergency.
Hear him speak to Meg Neilsen from River FM's "Celebrating Earth & Culture" show on the Coronavirus crisis and how we can emerge in best shape from it economically.
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Rob McBride of Tolarno Station downstream of Menindee Lakes holds a Bachelor of Economics (Accounting), Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment. He is Director of the Australian Wool Growers Association and a member of the Wool Carbon Alliance and Australian Wool Innovation. His family have been prominent pastoralists in South Australia for over 150 years.
Rob calls out corruption killing the Murray / Darling-Barka in this interview he gave to Geoff Reid in mid March 2020 on the occasion of the Wilcania Bridge blockade protesting the theft of that communities river.
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Ruth Rosenhek has been a tireless worker for the health of our planet and its people for decades now. Having played an instrumental part in the Rainforest Information Centre, North East Forest Alliance, Gasfield Free Northern Rivers and Extinction Rebellion she now applies her masters in Psycho Therapy to her private psycho therapy practice and working to build personal and community resilience in the face of the cluster of crises we now face. She shared some of her insights with Sean O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything.
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Independent NSW Upper House member Justin Field speaks to Environmental as Anything's Geoff Reid on the recent report into New South Wales land clearing regime and the disastrous effects it is having on our ecological viability
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Blair is the co-founder of 350.org Australia and was CEO from 2009 to 2018. She is a 350.org Australia director and chair of the Green Music Australia board with a 30 year career of working with organisations, businesses and government agencies on climate change and environmental protection. She spoke to Environmental as Anything about the Green Stimulus concept and the future for post Coronavirus capitalism.
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One of Australia's leading experts in all things energy transition, Tim Buckley from IEEFA, spoke to us this week about the seismic shift that the Corona virus global pandemic is creating in the structure of the global energy industry.
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Scott Jordan from the Bob Brown Foundation speaks to Environmental as Anything on the state of the Tarkine Forest
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Renowned environmentalist & President of the North East Forest Alliance, Dailan Pugh (OAM) & NSW Greens MLC, Cate Faehrmann (Chair of the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Koalas speak to Environmental as Anything about the dire state of NSW Koala population
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Andrew Bray is the National Co-ordinator of the Australian Wind Alliance, which represents farmers, wind-workers, small business and community members who value wind power as a clean, safe and effective source of energy. He joins Environmental as Anything to talk about Angus Taylor's road map to the apocalypse
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Week four with Ian Sutton on his odyssey from the Headwaters of the Murray Darling Basin travelling downstream sharing his first hand account of the many issues facing Australia's greatest river system.
This week he is joined by Menindee local Margo who speaks from the heart about the disrespect of her river community.
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Week three with Ian Sutton on his odyssey from the Headwaters of the Murray Darling Basin travelling downstream sharing his first hand account of the many issues facing Australia's greatest river system.
This week he is joined by Menindee local Barry Stone who speaks from the heart about the killing of his river.
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Energy Finance Analyst – Gas/LNG, Bruce Robertson has been a fund manager and professional investor for over 32 years and is an active participant in the national debate on energy issues in Australia. He currently works for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) conducting research and analyses on financial and economic issues related to energy and the environment (http://www.ieefa.org/)
He spoke to Environmental as Anything about the price fixing and fundamental instability of the Australian gas oligopoly.
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The Northern Rivers Region has been Gasfield Free since we beat the fossil fools at Bentley. NSW still has one proposed fracking operation in our most important recharge space for the Great Artesian Basin - The Piliga near Narabri. For years now Jo Holden has been a tireless campaigner for our water and against toxic fossil fuel exploitation and she joined us to let us know how the local campaign is gearing up again to finally end this threat to our environment and economy.
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Week two of us joining Ian Sutton on his journey from the Headwaters of the Murray Darling Basin travelling downstream telling his first hand stories of the many issues facing Australia's greatest river system.
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Come on a journey from the Headwaters of the Murray Darling Basin travelling downstream with Ian investigating the many issues facing Australia's greatest river system.
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Ian Lowe is an eminent Australian academic and writer on environmental issues. Emeritus Professor of Science, Technology and Society and former Head of the School of Science at Griffith University. He spoke to Environmental as Anything at the Woodford Folk Festival in the closing days of 2019 on the politics of science denial and the path toward a sustainable civilisation. This is the second half of that wide ranging interview.
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Richard Denniss Chief Economist and former Executive Director of The Australia Institute speaks to Environmental as Anything about the real economics of the climate emergency
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Ian Lowe is an eminent Australian academic and writer on environmental issues. Emeritus Professor of Science, Technology and Society and former Head of the School of Science at Griffith University. He spoke to Environmental as Anything at the Woodford Folk Festival in the closing days of 2019 on the politics of science denial and the path toward a sustainable civilisation. This is the first half of that wide ranging interview.
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Too many politicians are playing with fire by politicising the climate emergency. Science denial is delaying effective responses and adding fuel to the flames of Australia's greenhouse emergency killing and burning the homes of Aussies, human and animal. Professor Phil Zylstra and Sue Higginson join us to discuss the science and politics behind actual fire hazard reduction.
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Professor Will Steffen is a climate change expert and researcher at the Australian National University, Canberra. He has recently co-written a paper in the journal Nature "Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against." Arguing that the growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions. He spoke to Environmental as Anything about his work.
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Our climate emergency is threatening the most precious places on our planet. Our homes and the irreplaceable Gondwanan forests. In the face of the hostility of the Scumo regime to nature and civilisation we are forced to organise our communities to fight the inferno ourselves. Terri Nicholson has been a key organiser of the peoples movement to save Terrania Ck (again)
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Anastasia Guise is a local environmentalist and author brought up around the Kalang Forest which is being defended from the NSW Government's assault on forests by the people of the Mid North Coast
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Naomi Shine reports from Braemar State Forest on the impact of the climate emergency on our koalas
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OzFish Unlimited is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping the millions of Aussie recreational fishers take control of the health of their rivers, lakes and estuaries and shore up the future of the sport they love. OzFish Unlimited partners with fishers and the broader community to invest time and money into the protection and restoration of our waterways, counteracting decades of degradation.
Cassie is driven by a passion for sustainable resources, a love of fishing and her farming background. Her career spans more than 15 years in aquatic habitat restoration and sustainable agriculture projects, predominantly in NSW and Queensland. Cass has a keen understanding of community driven conservation from her experience working with WetlandCare Australia as a Program Manager and more recently with Landcare NSW as Operations Manager.
Based in Ballina, Northern NSW, Cass is a keen recreational fisher, taking time when she can to enjoy ocean fishing the east coast and occasionally getting back to her childhood home in South Australia to fish the Gulfs or the Coorong beach.
As the habitat director of Oz Fish she speaks to Geoff about making recreational fishing sustainable.
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Ru and Kai are part a team of tree climbers protecting the forests of the Kalang River Headwaters NSW (Australia) from logging by occupying the canopy of these forests. They spoke to Environmental as Anything from high up in the canopy of their magnificent forest.
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Our execrable PM Scumo's response to the global movement of students striking to protect their future is to patronise and belittle them. Greta Thunberg has more courage and integrity in her little finger than his whole clown car of fossil fools.
Hear why in this short editorial piece.
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Bridie Schmidt is the lead reporter for The Driven. She joined us from somewhere between Sydney and Byron Bay to talk about new technology and the role that zero emissions transport has to play in sustainability and to make us Green with envy over her new electric ride.
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Gladys Berejiklian's NSW Government is waging a secret war against our koalas and their forest homes. Protected old growth is on the chopping block and protections for endangered species and water values have been removed. The people of NSW are waking up to this disgraceful situation and are understandably outraged. At a meeting in Lismore attended by about a hundred people they began preparing for action.
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The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) was founded 30 years ago to protect Old Growth and high conservation value forests of North East NSW. This recording was made at the gathering that took place in the Bungawalbyn forest on 17/8/19 to celebrate the history and strategise for the future of our forests. Dailan, Pugh, Greg Hall, Susie Russell, Jeremy Bradley, Jane Walker, Cath Eaglesham and many others stood up to tell the stories and sing the songs of the campaign and Environmental as Anything was there to live broadcast and record the event for 92.9 River FM. This episode is the fifth podcast of the edited highlights of that event. There will be more to come...
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Our children are revolting! Rising up against having their futures stolen from them in front of their eyes (to Quote Ella). Environmental as Anything went out on Friday 20th September to collect the sounds of the student strike on the streets of LIsmore
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The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) was founded 30 years ago to protect Old Growth and high conservation value forests of North East NSW. This recording was made at the gathering that took place in the Bungawalbyn forest on 17/8/19 to celebrate the history and strategise for the future of our forests. Dailan, Pugh, Greg Hall, Susie Russell, Jeremy Bradley, Jane Walker, Cath Eaglesham and many others stood up to tell the stories and sing the songs of the campaign and Environmental as Anything was there to live broadcast and record the event for 92.9 River FM. This episode is the fourth podcast of the edited highlights of that event. There will be 1 more to come...
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Every credible professional group in the world is getting behind strong action on climate now. Dr John Van Der Kallen is interviewed by Grace O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything explaining how and why doctors are supporting the global School Strike for Climate on 20th Sept 2019
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Teachers are strongly supporting students in their global strike for climate action on 20th Sept 2019.
IEUA secretary John Northam tells Grace O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything how and why
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In the lead up to the Global Student Strike for Climate on 20th Sept 2019 we dedicated our show to the strikers. Student striker Grace O'Shannessy came in to the studio and acted as guest presenter & Arky Ryall phoned in for an interview. Hear what they have to say on the strike in this exciting episode of Environmental as Anything Interviews.
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The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) was founded 30 years ago to protect Old Growth and high conservation value forests of North East NSW. This recording was made at the gathering that took place in the Bungawalbyn forest on 17/8/19 to celebrate the history and strategise for the future of our forests. Dailan, Pugh, Greg Hall, Susie Russell, Jeremy Bradley, Jane Walker, Cath Eaglesham and many others stood up to tell the stories and sing the songs of the campaign and Environmental as Anything was there to live broadcast and record the event for 92.9 River FM. This episode is the third podcast of the edited highlights of that event. There will be more to come...
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Nurses and midwives endure extraordinary privations to care for humanity at its most vulnerable. Their courage and commitment is a beacon of hope for us all. Today they are calling for a global climate strike to address the emergency we all face. Nurses Heather and Daisy spoke to Environmental as Anything.
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Jeremy Bradley is a farmer and soil microbiologist from Beechwood, near Port Macquarie. He has been active in sustainable soil education and research for many years. He and his wife Cathy run a small mixed farm enterprise that focuses on soil health and a bio-lab that produces fungi for soil regeneration and bio-herbicides.
The Beechwood couple were recently awarded Outstanding Performance in New Product and Management Process at the National Carbon Farming conference, recognising their world-first method of growing and introducing beneficial fungi to the soil. Their popular product, Soil Trooper, is a native fungus that decomposes dead plant material to build topsoil and cycle nutrients.
Jeremy very kindly agreed to speak to Environmental as Anything about the exciting carbon farming opportunities hot out of the lab.
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The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) was founded 30 years ago to protect Old Growth and high conservation value forests of North East NSW. This recording was made at the gathering that took place in the Bungawalbyn forest on 17/8/19 to celebrate the history and strategise for the future of our forests. Susie Russell, Jeremy Bradley, Jane Walker, Cath Eaglesham and many others stood up to tell the stories of the campaign and Environmental as Anything was there to live broadcast and record the event for 92.9 River FM. This episode is the second podcast of the edited highlights of that event. There will be more to come...
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The Northern Rivers Science Hub has been casting an eye to the sky. Bureau of Meteorology’s Senior Forecaster NSW & ACT/Acting Severe Weather Manager NSW & ACT Mohammed Nabi helped us ride the storm as we improved our weather literacy and got deep into the science of storms. Environmental as Anything spoke to him at the Lismore Bowling Club event and got some hot tips for staying cool when the storm season hits.
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Adani has created a flash point for conflict between citizens opposing the climate crisis. Bec Horridge went to the front line and spoke to the courageous people putting their lives on the line to defend our civilisation.
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Ian Dunlop is a former senior Executive of Royal Dutch Shell and has worked in oil, gas and coal exploration and production, and in scenario and long-term energy planning. He chaired the Australian Coal Association 1987-88, and the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading 1998-2000, which developed the first emissions trading system design for Australia.
Ian Dunlop has wide experience in energy resources, infrastructure, and international business. He has worked at senior level in oil, gas and coal exploration and production, in scenario and long-term energy planning, competition reform and privatisation.
He is Chairman of Safe Climate Australia, a Director of Australia 21, Deputy Convenor of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil, a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development, a member of The Club of Rome and of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Climate Change Taskforce.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science at the University of NSW, and an Associate of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, writing extensively on governance and sustainability issues.
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The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) was founded 30 years ago to protect Old Growth and high conservation value forests of North East NSW. This recording was made at the gathering that took place in the Bungawalbyn forest on 17/8/19 to celebrate the history and strategise for the future of our forests. Dailan Pugh, Susie Russell and many others stood up to tell the stories of the campaign and Environmental as Anything was there to live broadcast and record the event for 92.9 River FM. This episode is the first podcast of the edited highlights. There will be more to come...
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Isaac Smith has been Lord Mayor of LIsmore since 2016. This week may well have been the best and the worst of times for his administration. He speaks at length on the Lismore City Council's recent declaration of a climate emergency, the disastrous recycling centre fire and issues vexing our rail corridor.
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A report by Annie O'Shannessy on the koala surveys being conducted by citizen scientists from the North East Forest Alliance in Braemar State Forest. Includes interviews with Dailan Pugh, Nan Nicholson, Jim Morrison and Anne Jones.
(First aired on the Environmental as Anything show on 92.9 River FM on Saturday 24th of August 2019)
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Today hundreds of thousands of hectares of Old Growth and High Conservation Value Forests are being stripped of their hard won protections, koalas are being logged into extinction and their forests burned for fake "renewable" energy. Renowned conservationist, Order of Australia Medallist and hero of Terannia Ck and North East Forest Alliance campaigns to save our endangered forest ecosystems, Dailan Pugh takes the time speak to Environmental As Anything about the current threats to our forests and the actions we can take to protect them as well as the history of the campaigns to save our forests from destruction.
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Extinction Rebellion hit Brisbane with a festival of dissent on the 6th of August 2019 making it impossible for anyone in that city to ignore the climate emergency for the day. Rebel Kate was part of the huge Northern Rivers contingent there on the day and came in to Environmental As Anything to report back to the region on how it went.
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At the heart of an agrarian landscape long since cleared of vegetation lies half a million hectares of rare intact temperate eucalypt woodland. The Pilliga forest.
It’s more than a wildlife refuge. This area feeds clean water into the Great Artesian Basin — the crucial life support system for much of inland Australia. It’s here that the company Santos plans to drill up to 850 coal seam gas wells. (According to the Wilderness Society)
For years Dan Lanzini has been on the front line of the community action to stop the Pilliga being pillaged by SANTOS' plan to release as much methane safely stored under it as they can and contaminate the precious aquifer in the process. He took the time to speak to Environmental As Anything about this vital action.
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Dr Kevin Glencross has been actively involved in the replanting of forests for over 20 years, with particular interest and expertise in carbon sequestration, design and monitoring of biodiversity- environmental plantings, timber plantations and mixed species forest systems. He is actively involved in reforestation, agroecology and agroforestry research programs in Australia, China and the Pacific region specialising in integrating agriculture and trees, restoration of degraded land and building rural livelihoods since 2007.
Kevin is currently involved in projects that look to link reforestation to broader environmental services (reducing erosion, protection catchments and building soil fertility), ecotourism and food production. He has also been involved in designing, establishing and managing large scale tree planting programs as well as ecosystem restoration projects for Community based groups (Subtropical Farm Forestry Association), Government agencies and industry (Water and Carbon Group - 2 Million Trees Project- Brisbane City Council).
Dr Kevin made time in his busy schedule to come in and talk to Environmental as Anything.
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The Northern Rivers rail system has been under serious attack for over a decade now. Significant numbers of locals have maintained what seemed to be a hopeless rearguard action to return our trains. A recent report has lent significant weight to thier campaign. Beth Shelley has been tireless in her efforts to restore a sustainable transport option for our region and came in to share the good news with Environmental as Anything
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Dr Kristin den Exter has a diverse background in community and industry engagement, environmental science and management with a strong focus on community engaged learning, She works as part of a dynamic team fostering relationships between Southern Cross University and our communities. She is central to the highly effective Wilsons River Landcare Group and an articulate and inspiring interviewee for Environmental as Anything
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Jo Nemeth has been living a radically low impact life for 4 years now. She has put her money where her mouth is by living without money for that whole period. If that sounds improbable listen in and hear this remarkable woman tell Environmental as Anything how we can do a lot more with a lot less.
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North East NSW forests are under assault from the NSW government.
Dailan Pugh (OAM) has been fighting the destruction of our precious forest ecosystems for 40 years now. He gave Environmental as Anything a half an hour of his time to update us with the latest the situation in the forest & encourage us all to join him in standing up against extinction.
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