Climate Action Show

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWFEBRUARY 26TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford GOOD FOR THE GONG Episode 2 - BUILDING OUR FUTUREGuests:  

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWFEBRUARY 19TH 2024Produced by Vivien LangfordG O O D   F O R    T H E    G O N GILLAWARRA OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTGuests:Darryl Best - Ex coal minerKristen Mac Donald -  Rewiring Australia and Good for the GongMartin Cubby - NTEU Rep at Wollongong University

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWDECEMBER 11TH 2023Produced by Vivien Langford NEWCASTLE PEOPLE'S BLOCKADE - EPISODE 2 Guests:Sue Higginson MP in NSW Parliament on achieving 75% emissions reduction by 2030+100%by 2035 Dominique Jacobs from the Knitting Nannas  reporting on the arrests after Newcastle Blockade Sinead Francis-Coen on the Transition of Hunter Valley Coal miners into new training and jobs. Sarah El...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWDECEMBER 4TH 2023PRODUCED BY Vivien LangfordNEWCASTLE PEOPLE'S BLOCKADE - EPISODE 1 GuestsManjot Kaur -  SAPNA South Asian Climate Solidarity Sapna South Asian Climate Solidarity (sapnasolidarity.org)Grant Howard - Coal Miner + Climate communicatorDr  John Vander Kallen Doctors for the Environment- Doctors for the Environment Australia - DEASenator Janet RiceSenator Barbara Poco...

 CLIMATE ACTION SHOWNOVEMBER 27TH 2023PRODUCED BY Vivien Langford CO2 REMOVAL- HOT TOPIC AT COP28DR KATHRYN HAYHOE AND SIR DAVID KINGCOURTESY OF COVERING CLIMATE NOW What’s the difference between “carbon dioxide removal” (CDR) and “carbon capture and storage” (CCS)? And what role might each play in decarbonizing the global economy fast enough to avoid climate breakdown? CCNow held a press briefing...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWNOVEMBER 20TH 2023PRODUCED 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 TO and Bradley Frarrar- Alawa Beetaloo TO who travelled from NT to this AGM of TamboranDr Emma Skowronski - Doctors for the Envir...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWNOVEMBER 13TH 2023PRODUCED BY Vivien LangfordARE LEADERS JUST 'ACTING' ON CLIMATE ON THE WAY TO COP?THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE Guests:Mark Spencer - Podcaster and Founder of Climactic Collective(link is external)Meg Clancy - Actor, Dancer and  Major Contributor to NITVLyn Bender - Psychologist and former Manager of Lifeline Melbourne Hope lies beyond latest climate shock therap...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWNOVEMBER 6TH 2023Produced by Vivien LangfordKIM STANLEY ROBINSON - THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTUREInterview with Kim Hill Courtesy of Radio NZ  Guests:Kim Hill from Radio New Zealand  in a recent interview with author Kim Stanley Robinson. Their subject is THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE   and  The High Sierra: A Love Story Climate Action ahead:School Strike4 climate Friday November 17t...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWOCTOBER 30THProduced by Vivien Langford PLAYING GOD WITH THE CLIMATE "Artificial Intelligence and the latest technological innovations start with the notion of the human being with no limits, whose abilities can be infinitely expanded thanks to technology, a paradim which monstrously feeds upon itself" Pope Francis Laudate Deum. Guests:Thea Ormerod - Chair of ARRCC- ARRCC Winton...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordOctober 23rd 2023VETERINARIANS FOR CLIMATE ACTION 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 mosquito-borne viruses - Vets for Climate Action (vfca.org.au) Dr Mic...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWOCTOBER 16TH 2023Produced by Vivien Langford "LIVING WONDERS" LOSE IN COURT The Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek was not in court to defend the challenge to her approval of two coal mine extensions. On her side were barristers for MACH Energy and  WHITEHAVEN coal. Justice Mc Elwaine dismissed the case. He said "Ultimately (this)...... raises matters for parliament to conside...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWOCTOBER 9th 2023Mark Diesendorf : SUSTAINABLE CIVILISATION As the world’s ecosystem and climate is collapsing around us, due to humanity’s uncontrolled carbon emissions, is a transition to a civilisation that is sustainable, socially just, healthy and less militarised even possible? Associate professor Mark Diesendorf and science journalist Rod Taylor think so, and they have rec...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWOCTOBER 2ND 2023Produced by Vivien Langford STOP COAL SEAM GAS RALLY AT NSW PARLIAMENT  " If the LNG build out continues in USA, Canada and Australia - its sheer size will overwhelm our efforts to rein in global warming" Bill Mc Kibben Speakers :  Gomeroi, NSW Farmers ,Unions NSW and Climate activists defend the Pilliga against Santos GasBernie Hobbs M.C.- Knitting Nannas Gomero...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWSEPTEMBER 25th 2023Produced by Vivien Langford "TIME TO WAKE UP AND STEP UP" Antonio Guterres at climate ambition summit. Antarctica melting/ Libya flooding/ Corporations v Co-ops Guests:Antonio Guterres - Former Socialist  PM of Portugal and defender of East TimorSir David King in conversation with Nick Breeze - from Climate Genn in U.KNoam Chomsky in conversation with Dru Oja...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWSEPTEMBER 18th 2023Produced by Vivien LangfordRISING TIDE - THE PEOPLE'S BLOCKADE Recorded at Redfern Town Hall  at the end of the Rising Tide speaking tour to call people to the People's Blockade of Newcastle Port. About Us — Rising Tide Speakers :M.C. Fahimah Badrulhisham - Australian Religious Response to Climate Change + Sean Murray -Rising TideIan Dunlop - Australian Securi...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWSEPTEMBER 11th - 2023PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORDSAVING FORESTS IS CLIMATE ACTIONImmediate 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. Guests:Mark Graham -  Meet the team: Mark Graham, ecologist — The White Bluff Project(lin...

 CLIMATE ACTION SHOW SEPTEMBER 4TH 2023A REPEATEDEN /MONARO A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FORESTPRODUCED BY ANDY BRITT IN 2020 AFTER THE MEGA BUSH FIRESINTERVIEWS BY VIVIEN LANGFORD  GUESTS:DAN MORGAN - YUIN MAN AND EXPERT ON CULTURAL BURNINGPETER HAGGAR - "CAFE EVOLVE" IN BEGA. PHILOSOPHICAL HEART OF THE RESISTANCEVIVIAN HARRIS - CLIMATE ACTION NOW ACTIVIST AT WEEK 71 OF HER REMINDER TO BEGA AUTHOR...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAUGUST 28TH 2023PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORDSAVING FORESTS IS CLIMATE ACTIONImmediate 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. Guests:Mark Graham -  Meet the team: Mark Graham, ecologist — The White Bluff Project Dorothee...

 CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAUGUST 21ST 2023PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORD THE SECURITY RISKS OF CLIMATE INACTIONGUESTS: Senator David Shoebridge - Federal Greens Party Portfolio :Defence and veterans affairsIan Dunlop - Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration. Veteran Climate Warrior and former head of The Australian Coal Assciation David Spratt's briefing is the basis of our discussion   Read...

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW AUGUST -14TH 2023PRODUCED BY Vivien Langford GO BACK Lobbyists in Canberra - GE in Bangladesh - Fossil fuelled AMOC in the Atlantic Go Back! We don't approve! These are the words from Bangladeshi artists in the ELECTRIC BANGLADESH exhibition in Boston Bangladeshi Artists Paint A True Picture of GE's Greenwash by Market ForcesGuests: Munira Chowdhury from Market Forces visited t...

 CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAugust 7th 2023Produced by Vivien Langford KICK PROFITEERS OUT OF THE DRIVER'S SEAT FORESTRY, COAL AND  OUR FUTURE Guests :Professor Christopher Wright - Sydney University co author of Organising Responses to Climate Change 'The barriers to climate action today aren't technological. They're political. Read this book to understand how polluters have created obstacles to the task...

THE CLIMATE ACTION SHOWJULY 31ST 2023Produced by Vivien LangfordC O L L A P S EEpisode 4 : SYSTEM CHANGE NOT  CLIMATE CHANGE Guests:Professor Jem Bendell - BREAKING TOGETHER – a freedom-loving response to collapse – Professor Jem Bendell He speaks from Bali to the Meer Forum on deep adaptation. The late Professor Will Steffan - The Climate Council- He's back: what the return of El NiÑo means | Cli...

CLIMATE  ACTION SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordECO-SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVES  FROM CANADAEpisode 3 - SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGEPLUSFIREANTS ON THE MOVE interview by Simon Walker When the young Blockade Australia person, dangling over the container port of Brisbane, said "I don't have all the answers, but others are surely working on the system change we need", it was a challenge to us to go and...

THE CLIMATE ACTION SHOWJULY 17TH 2023PRODUCED By Vivien Langford with guest interviewer Simon Walker THE  EXTINTINCTION CURVEEPISODE 2 in the  SERIES : SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGEPlus REWILDING BENEATH THE EARTHAuthors of The Extinction Curve: Growth and Globalisation in the Climate Endgame, John van der Velden and Rob White argue that the climate crisis is happening now and they are proposin...

 CLIMATE ACTION SHOW  JULY 10TH 2023Produced by Vivien Langford HOPE LIES IN RESISTANCEYou'll die waiting for a climate election Guests:Blockade Australia's Munro, Wenzel and Jem who arrested the flow of commerce in the ports of Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane over the last week of June. Videos Archives - Blockade Australia Professor Emeritus Rob White - University of Tasmania. He is an...