Climate Action Show

Monday 9th April 2018

LOW CARBON WITH LOVE  from W.A, Canada  and India Monday 26th March 2018Three inspiring stories about lowering our carbon footprint. Frances Jones and her partner manage half a million hectares in W.A.Destocking gave them a chance to slowly  restore the land and sequester carbon. Wetlands came to life, perennial grasses came back and feral numbers went down. They featured on AUSTRALIAN STORY TV an...

Monday 19th March 2018Erin Jones discusses future Industrial energy needs with Michael Lord 

12 March 2018BZE (Community)Radio ShowPresenter/Producer: Erin JonesTopic: National Energy GuaranteeOn today’s show we focus on the National Energy Guarantee. We speak with Climate Council Councillor Greg Bourne about their latest report:Clean & Reliable Power: Roadmap to a Renewable Futurehttp://www.climatecouncil.org.au/renewables-roadmap-2018This report is a response to the National Energy Guar...

Mon 5th March 2018BULGA to BYLONG- Locking the Gates This is an audio voyage up the Hunter Valley where brave communities are holding out against climate changing coal expansions. We meet:     Wannarua Elder- Pat Hansson     Ex Miner- Frank Turnbull     Community Leader – John Krey     Local Historian – Stewart Mitchell     Goldman Prize Winner – Wendy Bowman     Veteran Campaigner – Bev Smiles  ...

Mon 26th Feb 2018Ocean DrawdownDo you get seasick out on the ocean? Is the sea sick of climate change? Alanna Mitchell overcame her sea sickness and went down to the bottom of the ocean. She is an award winning Canadian Science journalist. After her show “SEASICK”, she spoke to Vivien about the erotic thrill of witnessing coral spawning. Her play dramatises the enormity of climate change affecting...

LOW CARBON AND LOVING IT +FIGHT FOR THE BIGHT AT TRANSITIONS FILM FESTIVALMon 19th Feb 2018 Mark Delaney brought his kids up in the poor suburbs of Delhi. Returning to Australia he and his son Tom were shocked at our apathy round climate change. Their story is a fresh look at the “small picture solutions” we can all take to reduce our 23 tonnes per person to the 8 tonnes of a European or even the...

Mon 12th Feb 2018We meet Dr Bob Brown to talk about restoring the Tarkine Forest to its indigenous custodians and sequestering carbon in its soils. Bob also discussed his case defending the right to protest  logging or mining operations and his win in the High court . This protects the Tarkine defenders in Tasmania but protestors in NSW and other states are still facing draconian penalties like 7...

 BZE Community  Mon 5th Feb 2018

Summer Series Mon 29th Jan 2018

 Beyond Zero Community       22-1-18 Summer Programming

  Beyond Zero Community           15-1-18 Summer Programming Special

Beyond Zero CommunityMon 1st Jan 2018

CARBON RATIONS OR CARBON ALLOWANCES?Mon 18th Dec 2017How would carbon rationing work? Would it be forever? Would it hurt? BZE’s Vivien Langford talks to author Stan Cox in Salina Kansas about his book “Anyway you slice it”.Some people  are aware of the Climate Emergency, but others behave as if unaware. Australia’s per capita aviation emissions for example  are 18 metric tonnes compares to 5 for a...

Mon 11th Dec 2017BZE radio has spoken often to Christine Milne because she has always been at events to defend the Renewable energy target, the clean energy package and to rid parliament of fossil fuel influence. Her memoir  shows “how hard it is not to become bitter about the ruthless ” people in power. Even at a time of bereavement  they pressured her to perform. Her awareness of the urgency of...

Mon 4th Dec 2017World Antarctic Day, December 1st- 2017 was celebrated by a huge Marine Protected Area in the Ross Sea coming into force. As the head of International Greenpeace Antarctic Campaign Frida Begtsson said “Healthy oceans take in vast quantities of CO2 and are essential in tackling climate change”Tonight BZE radio goes to the cryosphere where you will meet scientists and sustainability...

Subscribe: Android | Email | RSS | MoreMon 27th Nov 2017If Marco Polo returned from China today he’d be telling barely credible stories of wind turbines with livestock grazing beneath them. Australians coming back from Europe tell the same stories, with the kicker that Australia itself is sitting on a FABULOUS wind resource. If we could think BIG wouldn’t we be able to hurry to 100% and then beyon...

Mon 20th Nov 2017Erin interviews Vanessa Petrie(BZE CEO) about BZE accomplishments in 2017 and what is planned for the coming year.

 Mon 6th Nov 2017What lessons can we learn from  Bangladesh? The 2017 floods in the north of Bangladesh coincided with over half a million refugees staggering in from Myanmar in the east. India has built a security fence with armed guards around its border with Bangladesh. But despite being on the frontline, this country is NOT intending to create climate refugees. Vivien learns how Bangladesh is...

Mon 30th October 2017In the land of the lyrebirds  everyone is enthralled. Scientists  measuring the carbon stock, citizens battling the pulp mill, visionaries with maps of the linked up forests, all pause. The first people who came in to this moist forest with its giant trees going back hundreds of years, must have laughed to hear the lyrebird imitate a kookaburra, imitate a cracking branch, imit...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 23rd October 2017 “Every parrot in the pet shop is talking about Energy Policy” ACCCBut for a summit , a lot of voices were absent. Big Wind, Big Solar and the growing movement of citizens, intellectuals and NGO’s demanding the rapid energy descent away from coal oil and gas. The chiefs who supply us with over 80% of our dirty energy were there as the...

Coming up …..This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 16th October 2017Rethinking CementGuests:Jordi Bates, Kathryn Bennett, Michael Lord and Tim BuckleyYou may not have been thinking very much about cement, but BZE researchers have. Manufacturing cement makes up 8% of world carbon emissions and rising. Could it be made without these emissions? Would a price on carbon make us look differentl...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 9th October 2017Carbon Sinking in KenyaDr David Kimiti- Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in KenyaClimate blind Journalism from Texas to Bangla DeshGeorge Monbiot-  Author of ” OUT of the Wreckage” on misreporting Hurricane HarveyProfessor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen- Cardiff University on Disaster reporting as climate changes. We continue our series on carbon seque...

 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 centr...