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 Beyond Zero Community show             25-9-17  New Zealand

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 18th September 2017CLIMATE WARS in a time of man made disaster  When millions are displaced by floods in Bangladesh we call it a “natural disaster”. At the same time refugees are flooding INTO Bangladesh and we call it a human rights disaster. What sort of disaster is it when an educated country like Australia is paralysed by climate wars at the centre of government? We see government being told to “get out of the way” by Clean Energy Finance ex chief Oliver Yates, as our clean energy target morphs into a dirty energy target.We see government trying to prevent the shut down of coal fired power and offering subsidies to new coal mines.AND We see pumped hydro,  demand /response and batteries answering the question about when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. In an extended talk with Vivien Langford, Mark Butler examines how Australia came to politicise”climate”in such a disastrous way. His b

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 11th September 2017Guests:Dr Alecia Bellgrove – Deakin UniversityJane Hammond -Film Maker “A crude injustice”Nathaniel Pelle- Greenpeace Ocean CampaignerHow can seaweed help us draw down the millions of tonnes of CO2 we emit daily?How can seaweed farmers, ruined by the Montara Oil Spill, find justice?When will the climate changing oil industry forget the Great Australian Bight?We start with the potential of seaweed, which Dr Tim Flannery brought to a wide audience on Catalyst and ask “What could possibly go wrong?”Dr Alecia Bellgrove appeared in that film and explains to us why she sounded a note of caution.Journalist Jane Hammond found that West Timorese seaweed farmers had been encouraged by Ausaid. Yet when their green gold turned to porridge at the same time as the oil spill reached Indonesian waters, it was denial all round. Her film is timely because their class action is still before the Australian Federal Court.Nathaniel Pelle is campaigning with Gre

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 4th Sept 2017“The majority of the Emissions Reduction Fund is poured into questionable abatement schemes to discourage land clearing, while mass deforestation cancels out any climate gains.” Mike Seccombe Guests:David Gallan – Director of the film “Understorey”Dr Mehreen Faruqi –  Environment spokesperson for the Greens in NSW ParliamentJessica Panegyres – Wilderness Society – National Nature CampaignerSummary:State laws are failing to prevent massive landclearing. Regional Forest Agreements are giving loggers a victory.What new mindset will  cause  us to value forests for their carbon? The HistorianDavid Gallan recounts the 40 year battle to save the South East Forests of NSW round Bega. His film celebrates the growing awareness of how  many species lived there with rare footage of quolls and lyrebirds. Farmers wanted to preserve the water catchment. Locals realised that forests are “worth more standing”. Sc

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 28th August 2017Tune in today at 5pm for Mark Butler MP, Christine Milne and Dr John Hewson on Australia’s time-wasting ‘climate wars’.How did we become the first country to repeal a carbon tax?How did we discourage investment in renewable energy and end up with costly electricity?Why  have citizens lost confidence in parliament’s capacity to unify round climate policy?The Hon Mark Butler, in a conversation with Vivien Langford, takes an unflinching look at the time wasting climate wars.As Naomi Klein says ” No is not enough” .We need a plan for a future we can say yes to.Mark Butler’s book gives us part of a new narrative  and he consults widely in the community.Former parliamentary leaders Christine  Milne and John Hewson will round out the picture.http://www.3cr.org.au/streaming 3CR Community Radiohttps://www.mup.com.au/books/9780522871685-climate-wars 28 Aug 2017|Categories: Community Show

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 21st August 2017 This week we speak to “Farmers for Climate Action”, an alliance of farmers and  leaders in agriculture.Vivien Langford interviews the CEO Verity Morgan-Schmidt about her work advocating for climate conscious farmers to have their voices heard. Verity calls on PM Turnbull to get out of bed with the fossil fuel companies and invest in farmers adapting to changed conditions.Vivien  also speaks with Farmer Charlie Prell, about his experiences pioneering wind energy on farms including the proposed Crookwell 2 project.Finally Kurt Johnson interviews Anika Molesworth who is 2015 Australian Young Farmer of the Year. She has been researching farming methods in Laos and Cambodia and farming at Broken Hill. She says ” Farmers are feeling the heat, from subsistence rice farms in SE Asia to arid outback grazing properties in Australia.”Tune in to hear what a young person finds in farming and why Farmers are taking

 This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 14th August 2017

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 7th August 2017 Erin Jones hosts a busy show with the theme being Divestment

Subscribe: Android | Email | RSS | More This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 31st July 2017Cities are facing the fact that a certain amount of climate change is locked in. Their creativity and co-operation was on display at The EcoCities World Summit. Vivien Langford talks to Professor Rob Roggema about what the Dutch have learned from living partly below sea level. Could cities work more with nature, with Sand Machines and Porous Courtyards? At a session on disaster management strategies Vivien meets Karibaiti Taoaba. She tells us how communications during and after an emergency area terrific challenge for local governments in small island states. Also foreign aid can be unhelpful “They built a clinic right where our main road used to be”. Alliances were formed at this summit to share expertise and minimise the impact of climate change. The key is to listen to the locals. It was not all about emergencies. David Holmgren

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 24th July 2017 Guests: Professor of Ethics at CSU Clive Hamilton and Philosopher Dr Tim Dean The School of Life welcomed Clive Hamilton and Tim Dean to rethink our responsibility towards the earth.   Earth System Scientists are showing that while humans have massive power now, Earth also is more energised and tempestuous. Will we continue to rip up its resources and dump the waste in our biosphere?Is leaping to action a way to avoid thinking? Let’s sit with the new Anthropocene realities. You will find this broadcast uncomfortable. But, like the Sydney  audience, maybe you will find facing the worst strangely steadying.  MONDAY BZE Radio Mon 5-6pm TUNE in http://3cr.org.au/streaming  LIVE CATCH Podcasts @ http://bze.org.au/podcasts TWEET it in : @beyondzeronews and #bzelive FB conversation: https://www.fac

This BZE Radio episode will be broadcast on Monday 17th July 2017 Today, in our second creature feature we talk to those in the front line working with animals, trying to mitigate the ruinous effects of climate change. We will learn which organisations are feverishly operating to keep these iconic Australian critters from oblivion. We talk to Dr John Kanowski of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy – about some of the marvellous work he’s doing. Then to ‘Batman’ Tim Pearson – who works saving flying foxes around Sydney, bringing to you one of the last recorded calls of the now extinct Pipistrelle bat. Also chatting to Griffith University’s Professor Brendan Mackey who co-authored a recommendation for a vast conservation corridor that runs the length of our East Coast – and we see how that went! Finally we will discuss the plight of amphibians (who will be most heavily impacted by climate change) with expert Professor Jean Marc Hero

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 10th July 2017 Al Gore and climate leaders from around the world will give life to ideas now gestating in Melbourne. We will ask Professor John Wiseman why it is important.Vanessa Petrie will outline BZE’s presentations to the summit about Zero Carbon Communities and Zero Carbon Cement. Cities and States are leading us off the path of runaway climate change and on to the path of RECOVERY. It is up to all of us to make it happen. Stephanie Ziersch will tell us how businesses are signing up to decarbonise with Sustainability Victoria. https://www.ecocity2017.com/  MONDAY BZE Radio Mon 5-6pm TUNE in http://3cr.org.au/streaming  LIVE CATCH Podcasts @ http://bze.org.au/podcasts TWEET it in : @beyondzeronews and #bzelive FB conversation: https://www.facebook.com/beyondzeroemissions/

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 3rd July 2017

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 26th June 2017 In this episode we spare a thought for the people made homeless by the Lismore floods as insurance companies deny a connection with the cyclone. Find out how communities rebuild in the months after the media has moved on, and what forward thinkers are doing now to build up climate resilience in the community.ALL PODCASTS HEREThank you to our guests:Janet Phillips : Foundation for Rural and Regional RenewalRev Dr Margaret Mayman :  Disaster Recovery Chaplaincy NetworkLeigh Ewbank :  Friends of the Earth   As climate change intensifies disasters, it rips up more than trees and bridges.Vivien Langford speaks to Janet Phillips and Rev Dr Margaret Mayman who are helping people cope with the disaster.As the Federal MP for this region, Justine Elliott says, we need “government commitment to long term planning” – to address housing and homelessness issues as well as helping to

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 19th June 2017This episode contains excerpts from the April 2017 national Breakthrough tour by Sherri Goodman and Ian Dunlop with the film The Age of Consequences.Sherri is a former Pentagon and US Dept of Defence official, now heading up the Consortium for Ocean Leadership and getting military minds to understand climate change. GUESTSSherri Goodman – Former US Deputy Under Secretary of Defence, now CEO of the Consortium for Ocean LeadershipDavid Spratt – Author, Climate Code Red and coauthor with Ian Dunlop of new book ‘Disaster Alley‘Ian Dunlop – Ian is a former chair of the Australian Coal AssociationLuke Taylor – Luke is the director of Sustainable Living Foundation and is also a director of Breakthrough, the National Centre for Climate Restoration.Dr Malte Meinshausen – Malte is Senior Researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany and Senior Research Fellow at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbour

 This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 12th June 2017  If you missed it last year, then you missed BZE producer Viv Langford kicking John Hewson off the phone so that Christine Milne could say hi! Anything can happen at a 3CR BZE Radiothon and sometimes does. But mainly we would just like to cover our costs for the year.  So if you’ve been on the show – or would like to one day – or have listened in and learned something new in the last year, then please make a pledge today before 6.  Read More: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/09/lets-expose-everyday-climate-denial-heres-how  

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 5th June 2017

 We could consider earth as a rental property. God comes down to do an inspection and he/she says ”What are all these holes in the property? Why is all my coral bleached? What have you done with all the trees? …. ?” I can tell you. You won’t get your bond back. #StopAdani Roadshow MC  Films demand and bring out our human and emotional responses and that’s no less true when the subject is the climate crisis and climate solutions.Go ahead and ride the highs and lows of this emotional rollercoaster as this week BZE’s Vivien Langford covers just some of the highlights from the first ever Sydney screening of the 2017 Transitions Film Festival, plus an excerpt from Danny Kennedy’s presentation for the recent #StopAdani Roadshow.  Featuring:David Ritter  – David is CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, introducing the Sydney screening of the Josh Cox film How To Let Go of the World – and love all the things climate change can’t chang

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 22nd May 2017   This week BZE is chewing over food security and climate from a global perspective, as BZE Radio’s Vivien Langford interviews Clare Westwood in Penang and Alan Broughton – Vice President Organic Agriculture Association, with special guest Robin Laurie aka Professor Pym.Thank you to our guests:Clare Westwood –  Clare is a researcher for the Third World Network and Penang Peace and Justice CommissionAlan Broughton –  co-author of “Sustainable Agriculture v Corporate Greed”Robin Laurie – Robin, aka Professor Pym, with a lively radio drama about the incongruity of food as fuel for cars  Climate change is making it hard for poor farming communities in Asia. Clare Westwood talks about agro-ecology communities in the Philippines and the women who are building  social capital to ride out the storm. Clare motivates resilience and takes hea

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 15th May 2017“One of the common misconceptions is that a lot of the ERF money is for planting trees”  Jess Panegyres The Wilderness Society    A transformation is beginning to get underway in the agricultural land uses sector. And not before time – without a much-needed U-turn, agriculture, especially northern zone export beef production, is set to be the single biggest GHG-emitting sector of Australia’s economy over the next 2 decades.BZE’s Vivien Langford talks to two of Australia’s foremost landuse experts and a film maker about carbon sinks and the film Cultivating Murder.Guests:Prof Brett Bryan – from Deakin UniversityGregory Miller – Film Director of Cultivating MurderGerard Wedderburn-Bisshop – BZE Land Use Report author     We are expecting a lot from the land: to feed us, to feed livestock, to fuel cars and now to draw down carbon. And the carbon is not ju