What Can We Do? with Mitch Pope

Tishiko King is a proud Kulkalaig woman from the island of Masig in the Torres Straight. She is a marine biologist, climate justice advocate, and all round incredible human fighting for the betterment of our home planet, and it’s inhabitants. Tish is the founder of Just Futures Collab, an aboriginal and Torres straight island led giving circle, shifting money and power to aboriginal and Torres Str...

Louise Morris is an advocate with the Australia Institute who has spent her whole life fighting for the planet, and fighting against the big corporations trying to destroy it. We spoke about Louise’s recent trip to the Conference on the Transition away from Fossil Fuels in Colombia, the fossil fuel industry and state capture of our governments and how we can help build the world we need in the fac...

Kate is someone who is bursting with passion for making a positive impact in the world. She ran as an independent candidate in Fremantle at both the federal election and state election last year in Western Australia and came so close to winning with a margin of less than 1 percent both times. The cool thing about Kate though, is she would never strike you as a politician. She’s a photograher, she...

Clancy Lester is an environmental creator and educator, native bee, insect and plant nerd who is passionate about the climate and environment, indigenous knowledge, science communication, and making the case for ripping up the nature strips we currently have in our streets, and turning them into real nature strips, full of native flowers, plants and biodiversity. You might’ve seen Clancy’s videos...

Peter Whish-Wilson is a Greens Senator for Tasmania, who has spent 14 years inside the belly of the beast fighting for the world’s oceans, climate and people. We spoke about his journey from being a banker in New York to to becoming an Australian Greens Senator, his proudest moments from his time in parliament, how history can teach us to remain optimistic and keep fighting for a better future and...

Welcome to What Can We Do? My name is Mitch Pope, and in this podcast I chat with different people who’re working in the space of politics, climate and social justice. We hear their stories, discuss what on Earth is going on in the world at the moment and answer the question, What Can We Do?