Climate Action Show

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWOCTOBER 7th 2024 Produced by Vivien Langford with Simon Walker in UK"CLIMATE MELTDOWN" Antonio Guterres As England closes its last coal fired power plant,  UK Just Stop Oil keeps up the pressure to stop licensing new oil and gas projects. The jail sentences  for acts of non violent civic action are extreme. UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk described the sentences as "dee...

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordSeptember 23rd 2024 TAKING CLIMATE TO THE WORLD'S HIGHEST COURT -  THE TALBOT ORATION "Will it take losing all our islands before the world listens to our stories? Still today slowly the once beautiful island that some of my relatives and family call home is being eaten away day by day by the sea"Cynthia Houniuhi, President of the Pacific Islands...

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWSEPTEMBER 16TH 2024PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORD   SLICK by Royce Kurmelovs and PEAK OIL by Peter Sainsbury "Slick" suggests the oil slick spilling out of broken tankers and covering sea birds but Royce Kurmelovs takes us to the Industry conferences and the Climate Conferences where the slick operators of the oil industry are delaying the transition to  a zero emissions worl...

We hear journalists Keerti Gopal, a New York City-based reporter covering activism and grassroots mobilisation in the climate movement, and author educator and environmentalist Bill McKibben discussing coverage of climate activism.  These recordings are from a webinar ‘Talking Shop - How to Cover Climate Activism’ moderated by Kyle Pope from Covering Climate Now. 

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordAugust 5th 2024ENERGY, ARCHITECTURE +BRAVERY AT RISING TIDE GuestsDr Peter Sainsbury - Climate&Environment writer at Pearls and IrritationsSimon Knott and Deb Adams - B_K_K ArchitectsDavid Rovics - Song "Humanitarian Pause"Polly Hemming - Director of the Australia Institute's Climate and Energy Programme at the launch ofThe People’s Blockade Tues...

CLIMATE  ACTION  SHOW (Rpt)July 29th 2024Produced by Vivien Langford ROSS GARNAUT -  SUPERPOWER  TRANSFORMATIONKAY WENNAGEL  - ELECTRIC VEHICLE BULK BUY Guests ROSS GARNAUT -  Professor Emeritus in  Economics at Melbourne University. His recent book isThe Superpower Transformation  - Making Australia's Zero Carbon Future.https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/superpower-transformation(link is exte...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWJuly 22nd 2024 PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORDS A V I N G   F O R E S T S   I S   C L I M A T E   A C T I O N (rpt)Immediate protection of Australia’s native forests is one of the most effective ways to tackle climate and biodiversity crises. Our Federal government could do it. NZ has banned Native forest logging since 2002. Why are we logging the Great Koala National Park? Video 11...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWJuly 15th 2024 (repeat)PRODUCED BY Vivien LangfordTAMBORAN AGM - "DON'T FRACK THE NT"andPACIFIC CLIMATE WARRIORS TOUR GOMEROI COUNTRYGUESTS:Aunty Rhonda Dixon-Madden - Welcome to countryTamika Sadler and Larissa Baldwin-Roberts - Get UpMilima May -Larrakia  and Bradley Farrar- Alawa   from Beetaloo  who travelled from NT to this AGM of TamboranDr Emma Skowronski - Doctors for th...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWJULY 8TH 2024PRODUCED BY VIVIEN  LANGFORD D O N ' T    L O O K   A W A Y.FROM PLUMES OF SMOKE IN THE FOREST, FROM FUGITIVE METHANE NEAR GAS WELLS AND FROM STARVATION IN PALESTINEGuests: Dr Philip Zylstra - Curtin University and UNSW -Expert at nipping bushfires in the bud.https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/prescribed-burning-could-be-making-...(link is external) Piper Rollins...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWPRODUCED  by Vivien Langford and Rosie GaninoJuly 1st 2024 BLASTED SEA    and   DESERT JUNGLE Guests:Tomothy Erik Strom -  Editor of Arena on linehttps://arena.org.au/blasted-sea/ Professor Laurie Laurenson - Clean Ocean Foundation OCEAN activists care of We are Explorers- Act Local https://weareexplorers.co/act-local/Jeannie Baker - Author of Desert JungleDavid Rovics singing "...

 CLIMATE ACTION SHOWJune 17th 2024Produced by Vivien Langford and Rosie GaninoRETROFITTING THE PUBLIC HOUSING TOWERSGuests:Chris Barnett – The Australian Institute of ArchitectsGeorge Avraam – Peddle Thorp Architects Melbournehttps://pta.com.au/our-people/Simon Knott - B_K_K Architects - https://b-k-k.com.au/projects/tower-turnaroundReimagining the 44 public Housing towers set for demolition inMel...

 CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordMAY 20TH 2024"O Artifical Saviour" Re- broadcast by permision of Radio EcoShock. You can tune in to Radio Ecoshock every Sunday 6am at 3CR or get it here: https://www.ecoshock.org/EXTREME HEAT 2023 – THE FULL STORYSarah Perkins-KirkpatrickIn 2023, extreme heat waves rolled across Earth’s surface so fast and so long – who can remember? In some pl...

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWProduced by Vivien Langford May 13th 2024 RISE UP FOR SMART ENERGY   /    PUSH BACK AGAINST COAL&GAS Rise up at Kirribili House. Smart Energy Conference in Sydney. ETU secretary Interviewand why Australia has missed the boat for nuclear power in this energy transition Music by ECOPELA CHOIR Natasha Abhayawickrama AYCC leader at the Rise Up Gadigal  Rally  May 8th  https://...

 Climate Action Radio showProduced by Vivien LangfordMay 6th 2024PALESTINE - The climate impacts of war and occupationGuestsProfessor Mazin Qumsiyeh - Bethlehem University - Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability. https://www.bethlehem.edu/ic/pmnh/ Nina Lakhani - Guardian Journalist- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-changeHadeel...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 29TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford "IT'S LIFE OR DEATH FOR OUR DREAMING" Gurridyula WangguPROTECTING THE DOONGMABULA SPRINGS IN THE QLD SUPREME COURTandThe real cost of burning our future with guest researcher Sarah Biermann Becker from Global WitnesGuests:Adrian Burrugubba - Senior Custodiuan Wangan and Jagalingou People Gurridyula Wanggu - Environmentalist of the year...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordApril 22nd 2024 First broadcast on October 23rd 2023VETERINARIANS FOR CLIMATE ACTIONhttps://www.vfca.org.au/volunteer Guests: Dr Ron Glanville Former Chief Veterinarian Officer for Queenslandtalks about livestock and the increase of vector borne diseases in floods and rising heat. Biosecurity consultant says Victorian farmers need to be more aware of m...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 15TH 2024PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORDRISE UP AGAINST MORE COAL AND GASGuests:Gavan Mc Fadzean - Climate and Energy Programme Manager AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION Court Case 2024 (acf.org.au) Natasha Abayawickrama - Australian Youth Climate Co alition- Rise Up! 12 Days of Action: 29 April - 10 May - Move Beyond Coal David Rovics -  "Land and Freedom" a song from his ne...

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWAPRIL 8TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford "MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE"-  REVISITEDGuests:Part 1. A dramatisation and discussion of the scene in the novel where the manager of the Ministry is held hostage by a distraught survivor of  an horrific climate event in India. Millions have died and he demands she does more. Mark Spencer - Podcaster and Founder of Climactic Collective...

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWAPRIL 8TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford "MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE"-  REVISITEDGuests:Part 1. A dramatisation and discussion of the scene in the novel where the manager of the Ministry is held hostage by a distraught survivor of  an horrific climate event in India. Millions have died and he demands she does more. Mark Spencer - Podcaster and Founder of Climactic Collective...

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWAPRIL 1ST 2024Produced by Vivien Langford D O N ' T    L O O K   A W A Y.FROM PLUMES OF SMOKE IN THE FOREST, FROM FUGITIVE METHANE NEAR GAS WELLS AND FROM STARVATION IN PALESTINEGuests: Dr Philip Zylstra - Curtin University and UNSW -Expert at nipping bushfires in the bud.https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/prescribed-burning-could-be-making-aussie-forests-more-flammable ...

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWMARCH 18TH, 2024FOREST PROTECTION AND COP 28 GUESTS;MARK GRAHAM - Ecologist in the Gondwanaland forests of Northern NSW- Great Koala National Park areaDORO BABECK - Bob Brown Foundation organiser of the March in March AT COP28 on Transforming the food system KIRTANA CHANDRASEKERERKELLY DENT, ARNOLD PADILLA 

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWMARCH 11TH 2024Produced by Vivien LangfordINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY- ARTISTS FOR CLIMATE ACTIONGuests:Kerrie LeishmanJanet Laurence BUSHFIRES AND FLOODS- HOW TO BE PREPAREDFreja Leonard interviewed by Sean O'Shannessy - Environmental as anything

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWMARCH 4TH 2024Produced by Vivien LangfordTOXIC RHETORIC . SOCIAL LICENCE  and TARKINE OPTIMISM"The  future  is  shaped  by  those  who  can  see  it." Guests:John Grimes - CEO Smart Energy CouncilDr Freya Croft - Blue Futures Lab at Wollongong University - https://www.uow.edu.au/ancors/blue-energy-futures-lab/Dr Colette Harmsen - Bob Brown FoundationTOXIC RHETORIC"Turbines make...

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWFEBRUARY 26TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford G O O D   F O R   T H E   G O N G Episode 2 - BUILDING OUR FUTUREGuests:Abigail Boyd - NSW Parliament -  Greens MLC  We talk about getting the Energy sector back into Public hands as we make the big transition from centralised utilities to a multiplicity of providers. Denmark leads the world in Wind Power with publicly owned en...