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In the Eco-Miser's Guide to Super we are looking at all the ways you can make money and save the planet from Climate Change:We Speak toTom Swann: Tom is a research assistant at The Australia Institute on a project looking at opportunities and obstacles for fossil fuel divestment in Australia. He is also a spokesperson for the Fossil Free ANU Campaign and a student in the Master of Climate Change. Last year Tom Swann published the report High Carbon from a Land Down Under where he confronted the political talking point that Australia is a tiny carbon emitter.Dan Gocher:  Director of Climate and Environment at Australian Center for Corporate Responsibility. They specialise in shareholder activism a chance to confront decisions made in the interests of shareholders by those in the general public concerned about climate change.Maryanne Campbell: Principal Financial Adviser and Ethical Investment Specialist and founder of Gold Leaf Financial Services. 

 2019 The climate action year in roundupProduction: Andy BrittInterviews by Vivien Langford and Kurt Johnson As we face over a hundred Bushfires in Australia, the Madrid Climate Conference carries on and some Extinction Rebels go on hunger fast in order to get commitments from parliamentarians, we look at some of the campaigns that are hot at the end of 2019. Vanessa Petrie CEO of BZE talks about Australia's first Zero Carbon Factory. What we could do with 700% renewable energy and the groundswell of job creation in coal country.  Naomi Hogan from Lock the Gate Alliance defends the Traditional Owners of the Beetaloo Basin in NT. They are protecting their land against gas fracking. We can stand up with them for our future, especially if we are customers of gas companies.  Rev Alex Sangster takes us to the frontlines of resistance to Adani. The sacred springs of the Wangan and Jagalingou people are now "owned" by Adani and she calls out to us to go up to the Galilee and s

2019, Nov 25thPresenter/Producer: Erin JonesGuests:Maia SchweizerCleanCo QueenslandChief Executive OfficerTimestamp- 01:54https://cleancoqueensland.com.au/Maia was appointed CleanCo’s inaugural permanent CEO in September 2019. She has extensive global experience in theenergy and infrastructure industries, including as a management consultant in McKinsey & Company’s London, Houston,Shanghai and Sydney offices. Most recently Maia held general management roles in the gas and retail businesses of OriginEnergy. Harry Hartman- Constructionarium Australia - Executive DirectorTimestamp - 31:53https://www.constructionariumaustralia.com.au/Constructionarium Australia exists to help the next generation of infrastructure, engineering and construction professionals to gain skills and build networks by working on a real project. We talk with Harry Hartman about the energy storage technology of Water Batteries/Pumped HydroJohn Shiel - BZE - Energy Freedom Home WorkshopsTimestamp - 46:28https://bze.org.au/calendar/

18th November 2019Produced by Andy Britt. Interviews by Vivien Langford Collie at the Crossroads is about a town 200 Kms from Perth where coal is on the way out.What will give new life and new jobs to this town whose identity is based on coal.Beyond Zero Emissions has researched a plan for the future beyond coal. James Kahn – A Noongar elder tells us about Collie in its heyday and his vision for Collie’s future. Jaime Yallop Farrant - Climate Justice Union. She has worked with the Collie locals to see what community led projects would fly. Retrofitting homes for energy efficiency is one. Implementing projects an.d building trust would be another.She tells us about English coal towns where the last coal was mined decades ago but the town retains its identity and the miners are honoured.If government genuinely listens to what the community is offering, BZE  has many options that fit their skills. Lachlan Rule - who was the lead author on the report gives us his policy recommendations fo

HOW TO SURVIVE WITH REGENERATIVE CULTURE  11th November Produced by Vivien LangfordWith help from Leanne and Andy  at 3CR and Raul at Radio Skid Row Tonight we will meet climate activists talking about nurturing a new way of being together. Some have rallied and blockaded and written their body weight in submissions as emissions rise. Some are newly awake to the climate crisis we are causing and grieve the children they will never have. They realise we need a regenerative culture to prevent social collapse and extinction. We are all crew. We are here for the long haul. The media wants heroes and villains. They remind us often of the greed and egotism all around. This podcast reminds us of our more empathic and co operative nature. We meet a scientist, a novelist,and environmental expert, a man who briefed the PM, an  Extinction rebel from Germany and a nun from PlumVillage  Guests: Gail Bradbrook , UK Extinction RebellionJonathan Doig - Sydney Tom Colley

In this episode we looked at how climate movement embraced direct action. In the previous week  scenes spread over television screens across Australia of the IMARC Blockade was a manifestation of a movement that has collectively realised that the traditional avenues of power and influence have failed within this country at generating anything like meaningful action on climate change.  We talked to representatives of concentrations of direct action namely APSARA SABARATNAM from Blockade IMARC and Rilka Laycock-Walsh from the ADANI Blockade. We gained an understanding about what these activists hope to achieve, why they consider direct action so important and what life is like on the ground of these historically vital actions. As a change in tone we also spoke with Calum McFarlane: Calum is a father of two boys who has thought and written very deeply on the subject of climate change and being a parent. In particular his piece "IF YOU’RE FREAKING OUT ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE (ESPECIALLY IF Y

SACRIFICE ZONE: The story of gas  from  NORTHERN TERRITORY to NARRABRIProduced by Vivien Langford in Sydney. Thanks to Michaela and Andy,3CR in Melbourne and Raul at Radio Skid Row in SydneyThe Beetaloo Gas Basin and The Great Artesian Water Basin are remote from us but tonight we hear the authentic voices of Traditional Owners and farmers. They want our help to stop new gas projects which will have local health impacts such as low birth weight babies and contamination  of water. They came from so far away to tell us city people their story. Please take up the campaign to stop Origin Gas Projects in the NT and Santos Gas in Narrabri." Water is life"...... The Great Artesian Basin is a priceless national Treasure" ......"The fire risk from flaring doesn't make sense!".... "This is a national call to action".Speakers: At Angel Place outside ORIGIN AGMRay Dixon, Bradley Farrar and Naomi Wilfred from the Northern TerritoryThe MUA, CFMEU(Construction Division) Doctors for the Environment Dr Kim LooS

Presenter/Producer: Erin JonesGuests:Greg Mullins  - Climate Council - Councillor, Former Commissioner of Fire & Rescue NSWTimestamp- 00.07Greg Mullins is an internationally recognised expert in responding to major bushfires and natural disasters and developed a keen interest in the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events. He coordinated responses to many major natural disasters over more than 2 decades and retired as Commissioner of Fire & Rescue NSW in January 2017.During his 39 year career he served as President, Vice President and Board Chair of the Australasian Fire & Emergency Service Authorities’ Council, Deputy Chair of the NSW State Emergency Management Committee, Australian Director of the International Fire Chiefs Association of Asia, NSW representative on the Australian Emergency Management Committee, Australian representative on the UN’s International Search & Rescue Advisory Committee, and as a member of the NSW Bushfire Coordinating Committee. He is currently Chair of th

Presenter/Producer: Erin JonesGuests:Behyad Jafari - CEO Electric Vehicle CouncilTimestamp- 03:44https://electricvehiclecouncil.com.au/https://fleets.chargetogether.org/We speak with Electric Vehicle Council CEO Behyad Jafari about the new tool - Charge together. Charge Together Fleets is a program to assist fleet and sustainability managers transition to electric vehicles and future mobility models.  Tony Fairweather - SEA Electric - Group Managing DirectorTimestamp - 29:53https://www.sea-electric.com/SEA Electric is a local success story - in the electrification of vans and light to medium commercial trucks. Having developed their SEA Drive in Victoria, they are rapidly expanding into international markets including North American, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand and Europe.They are expanding from they Dandenong HQ to also establish an assembly plant in the La Trobe Valley.  A great initiative for a community affected by the closure of old coal infrastructure.Also listen to our

When we look back at 2019 I think it will be the moment the tide began to turn. From this year on we will no longer be tackling widespread apathy within the population but we will be directly taking on the system, the politicians and the corporations that are pushing us towards oblivion. Greta Thunberg - the woman of the moment has called out platitudes and empty gestures. Her uncompromising demand for action has rung out around the world and her demand for action has been heard by ordinary people with everything to loose.Following on from last week's show where Viv took us to the climate strike in Sydney - I chatted with Jane Morton a very eloquent spokesperson from Extinction Rebellion, I also had in the Studio Cindy Makabory from Pacific Climate Warriors who spoke at the strike about Australia's role in the potential cultural extinction of Pacific island nations - something we take very seriously on our show. Between each of the interviews I played some sound bites I got from the climate strike - ordinary

September 30thSYDNEY CLIMATE STRIKE Produced by Vivien Langford in Sydney. Thanks to Michaela and Andy in MelbourneSpeakers:Gadrian Hoosen – Garawa and Yanyuwa man from Boroloola, Pacific Warriors, Jean Hinchcliff, Tommy John Herbert MUA, President of Teachers’ Federation, ASU,PSA, ETU, CFMMEU, APHEDA, Parents and Grandparents and a Concerned Scientist .Music: Ready by Montaigne and New Orleans by David RovicsIt felt like an historic turning point. Not just the 100,000+ in the Domain but the new energy in the climate movement. One of the marshalls was Jenny, a climate activist I knew from 12 years ago. She reminded me of the street theatre we used to do down at Circular Quay, dramatising the climate emergency. I’d borrow a polar bear suit from a Greenpeace Giant and was glad of the disguise as I didn’t want to be recognised from my workplace. I had piles of fur around my ankles but Japanese Tourists would put their arms around me and want a cute photo. Most people didn’t understand at all that

September 23rdA GREEN NEW DEAL FOR AUSTRALIAProduced by Vivien Langford at Radio Skid Row in Sydney. Thanks to Raoul, and Andy.Speakers:Naomi Klein – Her new book is On Fire- The Burning case for a Green New Deal Professor Peter Sheldon – UNSW Industrial Relations Research Centre “The Ruhr or Appalachia?”Jaime Yallop Farrant – Climate Justice union in W.AMichelle Maloney – New economics Network AustraliaProfessor Boris Frankel -  MSSI – “Fictions of Sustainability: The Politics of Growth and Post Capitalist Futures.”Natasha Heenan – Climate Justice Collective  Building a Green New Deal for Australia The Green New Deal is an idea in gestation. We explore the work that needs to be done in Australia to inspire a groundswell of civil society to take personal and collective responsibility for averting climate catastrophe. The CFMMEU asked Peter Sheldon to find out what’s best practice in the transition away from coal fired po

September 20th Strike for Climate. Episode 4 Interviews: Vivien Langford,Production :Andy Britt and Michaela Stubbs JAGVEER SINGH from the Students Strike4Climate group tells Vivien the logistics of getting as many people as we can to show up on Friday 20th September.  Research by Chernowith says that significant shifts can be achieved if 3.5% of the population are visible. The students have calculated that is about 850,000 Australians. Will you be one of them? Behind that there is a large group who know the urgency of climate action but cannot be there on the day. Can you use this week to invite as many people as you can to Treasury Gardens in Melbourne 2pm. 2-18 Spring St or the gathering that is nearest to you in one over 50 cities.  At 9.30 am if you can get to Brighton Beach there is a DEEP TIME WALK to give you an insight into the interconnectedness of all life. "We are in the thick of a climate crisis. Yet we just elected a Government that wants to open up t

In this episode we follow the question: Can we consume our way out of climate change? We talk with The Australia Institute senior Economist Richard Denniss where we discover if it's an economic question.Then we speak with Behavioural scientist Stefan Kaufman about Advertising and then with Kilian David and make an advert of our own.

2019, Sept 2 Presenter/Producer:Erin JonesGuests:Alan Crabbe - Birchal Timestamp- 00:50https://www.birchal.com/We speak with co-founder Alan Crabbe of equity crowdfunding platform Birchal about the evolution of crowdfunding. Richard Romanowski - Co-Founder & Executive Director of Planet Ark PowerTimestamp - 29:47https://planetarkpower.com/https://www.worldenergy.org/experiences-events/start-up-energy-transition-awardshttps://youtu.be/ajw1TQC8DZ8Planet Ark Power a Queensland based Energy Startup has recently won an award at the Start Up Energy Transition Awards in Berlin, GermanyStart Up Energy Transition Award 2019 winner in the category Intelligent Grids, Platforms & Cyber Security We speak with Co-founder Richard Romanowski about the ground breaking technology that ensures behind the meter voltage stabilisation, allowing upto 13x more solar to feed into the grid. Adam Bumpus - RedGrid - CEO & Co-FounderTimestamp -56:00https://www.birchal.com/company/redgridhttps://www.youtube.com/wa

2019, Aug 26 Presenter/Producer:Erin JonesGuests:Louise Page - Save Westernport Timestamp- 2:43 minshttps://savewesternport.org/We continue following the campaign against new fossil fuel developments in the RAMSAR listed wetlands of Westernport Bay in Victoria Lachlan Rule - BZE Project Lead - Repower Our Regions - Collee WATimestamp - 13:40https://bze.org.au/research/We have a prelude of the research due to be lauched in October looking at potential for energy tranisition in Collee, Western Australia Jane Kou - Bring Me Home - Founder & CEOTimestamp - 35:35Bring Me Home is a startup business that connects consumers with local cafes and restaurants to minimise foodwaste.  If foodwaste were a country it would be the 3rd highest CO2 contributor https://www.birchal.com/company/bringmehomehttps://www.bringmehome.com.au/

 STRIKING FOR CLIMATE ACTION Episode 3 ON THE FRONT LINESPresenter: Vivien LangfordProducer: Andy BrittIndigenous people are on the front lines of climate action all over the world. If you strike or take action on September 20th let their example and words ring in your ears."The traditional rules and laws of indigenous peoples would never allow this stripping of resources from our traditional homelands on this planet at a net cost to future generations and to life itself."Lil 'Wat elder from Wisdom of the Elders by David Suzuki & Peter Knudtson Vincent Sicari from The Pacific Calling Partnership at the Edmund Rice Centre talks about how Australia needs to live up to its international obligations. Pacific peoples want to live in harmony with us as family. However as Anote Tong says "Your policy cannot be dictated by the coal industry". Listen here to an ABC Radio National interview with Anote Tong from the 19th of August 2019. Andy Paine speaks to us from Central Qld. Frontline Action on Co

STRIKING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE: Episode 2/ Trade UnionsPresenter: Vivien Langford Producer: Andy Britt Trade Unions are responding to the global call for action on September 20th. Will you join them?This will be 3 days before the UN Emergency Climate Summit in N.Y. Greta Thunberg will arrive by sailboat bringing with her the hopes of many children unable to vote.Naomi Klein starts the show with a question "What are climate jobs?".Dr Colin Long answers. He is the Just Transition Officer for the Victorian Trades Hall Council. STRIKING in Australia involves harsher penalties than in any other OECD country. But workers from many unions are up for the task of a transition whose scale and cost is unprecedented. They want jobs they can be proud of but do not want to be abandoned as in previous restructuring.  Dr Janet Roden takes us to the coal and gas communities she visits for the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association. You will be horrified to learn of the impact on babies even born 200km

Presenter: Vivien Langford     Production: Andy Britt Students are calling on adults to strike for climate action on September 20th.We start with emotional voices from Melbourne City Council as they declare a Climate Emergency. As Mayor Cathy Oke says "If we don't, I don't think I could say, hand on my heart, that we have done enough".Vivien then talks to secondary students in Sydney, Daisy Jeffrey and Jean Hinchcliff.From Geelong, Australian Youth Climate Commission's Kai Bowie tells us how his knowledge about Climate Chaos and the ability to act was massively boosted by AYCC. He calls on teachers to permit a free discussion and sharing knowledge in the classroom. Uni students are represented by Cooper Forsyth whose objective in  striking on September 20th is not to leave workers behind.These students have been on a steep learning curve since the "climate election" and are determined that the transition to a zero emissions society is a fair one and urge all worker

In the last few years, Kiribati has become one of the most potent symbols of climate change. The previous president Anote Tong toured around Paris in 2015 trying to get the message out that his island the unique way of life of his people are drowning, that is under existential threat due to climate change and rising seas. I have been to the tallest point of the South Tarawa is a paltry 3 metres above sea level.  Without the small dented sign there there would be no other way to know.We will spend the whole show today in the Pacific. We have Paul S. Kench, the Dean of science at Canada's Simon Fraser University. Paul has done some fascinating research on the nearby coral Islands of Tuvalu. His research might offer some hope for Kiribati - as the atolls that he had studied over multiple years appear to be dynamic structures actually expanding in area as sea levels rise. We will also ask him about the role of narrative within the climate change movement. We will also have Dr Aaron Jenkins on the show.