Climate Conversations

Professor Dr Johan Rockström (pictured) from the Potsdam Univerity fears both environmental catastrophe and catastrophe reversal of human progress if we don't bend the curve away from fossil fuels. " A Kennedy daughter offers a hand to Pacific nations threatened by climate change "; " Foodprint Melbourne: Building the Resilience of Melbourne’s Food System "; " Poorer nations need $1tn a year by 20...

Berry takes us on a journey into the mind of Doug Abrams on this recent episode of " Wisdom and Action ". " ‘Summer of grass fires’: Authorities warn of increased fire risk "; " On the Benefits of Changing One's Mind in Public ": " Biden races to Trump-proof his climate legacy" ; " Where the trees once stood "; " Despite Likely Setback for Climate Action With This Year’s Election, New Climate Cham...

" Americans elect a climate change denier (again) "; " What Is COP29? Here’s What to Know About Global Climate Talks Next Week. "; " A Donald Trump presidency is bad for climate action, but Australia should get on with the job "; " U.S. Election Sends Alarming Message for Global Climate Efforts "; " What Trump’s Victory Says About America "; " This year ‘virtually certain’ to be hottest on record,...

One of Australia’s preeminent philosophers, Raimond Gaita (pictured), a conversation enthusiast, delivered the second annual oration following the annual general meeting of the Melbourne-based " Climate at the Crossroads ". The Importance of Conversation in the very Idea of our Common Humanity". H e is a Honorary Professorial Fellow, at the Melbourne Law School and Emeritus Professor of Moral Phil...

The State of the Climate 2024 - good and bad news, but mostly bad. " State of the Climate 2024: Australia is enduring harsher fire seasons, more ocean heatwaves and sea-level rise "; " Screams from retirement home in Spanish town where dozens died in flooding "; " Spain floods disaster: death toll rises to 205 as extra troops mobilised "; " Spain’s floods have killed more than 200. Why have they b...

The Member for Shortland, Pat Conroy (pictured), most certainly got the memo. He parrots the words "keeping Australians safe" but then does nothing practical, other than talking the talk, about keeping Australians safe from the impacts of climate change. " Almost 100 including Briton killed in flash floods in Spain "; " At least 95 people dead in Spain’s worst floods in three decades "; " Death to...

Yael Stone (pictured) has become a force in Hollywood, she had just been afforded the Green Card when a Black Summer epiphany saw her switch from her movie dreams to doing what she could to combat the climate emergency, and out of that came " Hi Neighbour ". Yael's story, and that of her partner, Jack Manning Bancroft, is told on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's, Australian Story, " The T...

There is no need to search the world for news about what's happening with the climate crisis - the stories are 'banging the door down'. " Hurricane misinformation is just one piece of America’s rumor habit "; " Everyone loves rooftop solar panels. But there’s a problem. "; " Once we pass 1.5°C of global warming, there is no going back "; " Climate change top of the agenda as Samoa hosts Commonweal...

Afflicted by the tyranny of the immediate journalists around the world, report on conflicts and try to tell their stories about the tragedy of war while integrating the exploding costs of climate change. No one group is more aware of this challenge than those behind Covering Climate Now and so to further understand this dilemma it staged the press briefing " War and Climate Change ". Neta C. Crawf...

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, the author of " What If We Get it Right? ", has been described as the"rock star" of the climate movement. Here, she appears on " Climate One " with Bill McKibben and Abigail Dillen. " Hot, wet summers becoming the norm in Australia "; " Pollution from cremations is set to double. Can saying goodbye be a greener process? "; " Australia still a contender in green hydrogen ra...

Richard Denniss (pictured), the Executive Director of The Australia Institute laughingly said in an ABC interview, that Nature Positive can be anything you want it to be. And on the 7:00 am podcast, we are told " Why Plibersek’s "nature positive" plans won’t fix the environment ". " Is our Government less “nature positive” than a mining magnate? "; " Eighteen years since warning of climate refugee...

A Senior Fellow with the World Resources Institute , Dr Karl Hausker (pictured), delivered a public lecture on October 10 at the University of Melbourne on "Recent developments in US climate policy." And it was during the lecture, thanks to what Dr Hausker said, that I realised I was a purist as opposed to being a pragmatist when it came to my approach to the climate crisis. " Earth’s ‘vital signs...

Victoria's Shadow Minister for Energy, Affordability and Security, David Davis (pictured) was the keynote speaker at the recent Victoria Bioenergy Network forum in Shepparton. Nearly 100 people enjoyed the forum at Shepparton's Carrington Hotel, being welcomed by the network's president, " Elizabeth Lewis-Gray ". During his address, Mr Davis mentioned a Volts podcast on which Victorian Minister fo...

Prolific Australian writer, Tim Winton, has published " Juice " and in doing so has unveiled a dystopian future - " Can Tim Winton’s new book save us? With six grandkids, he had to try "; " Tim Winton goes cli-fi – his dystopian novel Juice breaks new ground to face the climate emergency "; " Why Tanya Plibersek is ‘absolutely prepared to put the blowtorch on Peter Dutton’ "; " Hurricane Milton ai...

Dr Friederike Otto (pictured), a Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, was one of two speakers at a recent event staged by " Covering Climate Now ". The press briefing staged by Covering Climate Now was aimed at equipping reporters with the knowledge and confidence to report the story; the story that is climate change. You can view the...

Ragini Prasad (pictured) is the Executive Officer of the Victorian Bioenergy Network and will play a key role in the Shepparton Bioenergy Forum , which is scheduled for Tuesday, October 8. The forum will be held at Shepparton's Carrington Hotel, starting at 8:30 am, in the city's Wyndham St. The day-long program includes an impressive array of speakers, including Victoria's Shadow Minister of Ener...

Capitalism is consuming the planet and as it endlessly consumes to satiate its ever-growing appetite, it's taking all life, including you and I, to a rather gloomy conclusion. Writing on " Meditations " - Journal of the Marxist Literary Group - Jodi Dean says: "Many associate Fredric Jameson’s remark, “It’s easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism” with Mark Fisher. For good...

Luisa Neubauer (pictured) was a guest on a recent webinar organised by the Yale Center for Environmental Communication and the Yale School of the Environment’s Climate Learning Community and that is where you will find the webinar featuring the young German climate activist. Luisa, responsible for the " 1.5 Degrees " podcast, used the Japanese Cherry Blossoms to broaden our understanding of the cl...

Joseph Camilleri, convenor of the Melbourne-based "Conversation of the Crossroads", introduced the third gathering in the six-part series " Ethics in Turbulent Times " with the provocative proposal, "To avert disastrous global warming, we need drastic change to politics, lifestyles, and consumption patterns of the affluent West." The guest speaker at the third session in the six-part series was th...

Greg Foyster (pictured) is the Rivers and Nature Campaign Manager for Environment Victoria and wants to have a broad conversation to help us understand where we are heading and what sort of future we want. Greg and others from Environment Victoria will be at Mooroopna's Gemmill Swamp early next month to check the bird life and talk about rivers and the important connection between what happens...

Justin J. Pearson (picured) arrived publically and politically when he made his point about the need for gun control in the U.S. Pearson has also been outspoken about the need for climate justice. In this episode of Climate Conversations the American activist and politician, a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the 86th district, talks with Greg Dalton from "Climate...

A new podcast from the University of New South Wales, " Preppers " gives us a new take on an old idea. " ‘Climate breakdown’: State of calamity in Portugal as fires rage out of control "; " George Monbiot: Neoliberalism, Nature and Negative Consequences "; " I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia "; &...

Mark Bachelder (pictured) orchestrates the community calls for the Foundation for Climate Restoration from his home in California, reaching out to the world. I met Mark by chance and in an illustration of how small the world is, he and a recent guest on this podcast, Osprey Orielle Lake , know each other well. Mark is interested in climate matters and sees much of the solution to the present dilem...

Mark Carter (pictured) from Flight Free Australia was clearly the first person to call when it was announced that Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport would receive Federal Government cash to make the complex's third runway a reality. A story in The Melbourne Age - " Melbourne Airport’s $3 billion third runway cleared for take-off " - told of this development. Mark explains how his gr...

Shepparton's Ray Russell (pictured) and his Mooroopna business partner, Marty Rogers, built their first electric bike, "The Phantom" in 1987. Building the bike was, in a sense, the easy part, bringing changes to Victorian State Government road rules was truly the hard part - it took months and months of dedicated lobbying by many people, including a former CEO of Victoria's Bicyc...