Align in the Sound - New Economy Network / Radio BTL / CoCanberra

In the 6th New Economy Network of Australia (NENA) Podcast, Anna Garnock talks with Monique Potts. The New Economy Network of Australia is a network of individuals and organisations working to transform Australia’s economic system so that achieving ecological health and social justice are the foundational principles and the primary objectives of the economic system. Monique Potts is holding the sp...

Simon Kerr is cocreator of the music / multi-media project Music for a Warming World, using music and visuals to tell the new stories needed to help create a safer future. This project includes songwriting, video making and essay writing. We have performed our work in many places from Tasmania to Queensland, from Universities to music festivals such as Woodford. Simon is a current director of NENA...

From the archives. We are school students of all ages, races, genders, backgrounds and sexualities from every part of Australia. United by our concern for the future of the planet that we live in, we have bridged the thousands of kilometres that separates us to create one of the biggest movements in Australian history. We are striking from school to demand that our politicians take our future seri...

From the archives. Our guest this week will be Jo Clay, environmentalist, author and project developer who has extensively explored ways to reduce her carbon impacts, including through looking at what she and her family eat. This is sure to be a fascinating conversation - who isn't interested in food and reducing climate impacts? And Jo may challenge many of our closely held assumptions! Food gene...

From the archives. Retaining our focus on Community Response to COVID-19 Social Isolation Restrictions, our second guest will be Renaire Druery, Human Rights Director at GETUp! who will be speaking to us about the #ViralKindness phenomenon as well as other GETUp! campaigns current at the time.

Tim Hollo, director of the Green Institute has recently published Living Democracy - An Ecological Manifesto for the End of the World as we Know It. This is a fantastic book, giving a thorpugh and realistic analysis of where we are at right now, and telling the story of many solutions already in place and working. This is a corker!

This week we will be speaking with food, farming and science author Julian Cribb AM FRSA FTSE about his collected work: A Matter of Survival - The Human Existential Emergency: the challenge and its possible solutions. His books include Food or War; Earth Detox; Surviving the 21st Century; and The Coming Famine. Julian is an Australian author and science communicator. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal...

Nick Rose is co-coordintor of NENA's Food Hub. He works with communities, institutions, enterprises and organisations around Australia to co-create a vision and a practice of fair food systems. These are systems that are democratically and collaboratively developed, and that prioritise human health and well-being, and eco-system integrity. These are systems in which the economy is consciously desi...

This week, as part of our ongoing Federal Election series, we welcome live in studio, environmental scientist and engineer Natasa Sojic - Greens Candidate for Fenner, who is hoping to unseat Labor MP Andrew Leigh, and Dr Kim Huynh, ANU politics and philosophy lecturer, published author, local ABC Radio presenter, and Kim Rubenstein’s recently announced running mate with Independent Kim For Canberr...

This week, continuing with our Federal Election series, we welcome live via phone, Federal Member for Canberra, Alicia Payne MP, and live in studio, ACT Greens candidate, Tim Hollo for Canberra, joining us in conversation to discuss their respective platforms and policies, motivations, visions and passions for the future of Canberra and our Nation.

This week, continuing with our Federal Election series, we welcome live in studio, Independent Candidate for the Senate, Law Professor Kim Rubenstein, a law professor, author, human rights advocate, mum and proud Canberran running as an Independent for the Senate with her. Kim For Canberra campaign. You may also recognise Kim from previous successful appearances on Q&A, Insiders, SkyNews and TED T...

In the lead up to our federal elections candidate series, this week we welcome back Dr. Peter Tait from the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy and Active Democracy Australia to get us on track for the upcoming Federal Election. Peter will give us a detailed rundown, with an introduction to Australian style democracy and how to make your vote count at the polls.

This week, to kick off our Federal election series of candidate interviews, joining us live in studio this morning we welcome former Wallaby and ACT Brumby, passionate climate action advocate and conservationist, David Pocock, who is making his bid for the Senate, as an Independent in the 2022 Australian Federal Election. David will be chatting with us about his vision of building a policy platfor...

In the lead up to our federal elections candidate series, today we will be speaking with Craig Blakely from Vote Easy, a non-biased, independent online platform, making elections easy by connecting voters and candidates. We chat about how it could help to get the approx. 40% of undecided voters to connect with the candidates that align with their values, leading to more informed decision making at...

This week we will be speaking with Cid Riley and Paige Davis from CATTI, Communities Against The Tarago Incinerator. CATTI is a community-led organisation opposing Veolia's proposal to build a waste-to-energy (WTE) garbage incinerator near Tarago, in the NSW Southern Tablelands, close to Lake George. The predicted range of the incinerator's toxic plume would cover a large area of NSW east of Canbe...

This week we are reaching out to our listeners to support flood victims and the relief efforts driven by civilian mobilised response teams. With things on the ground changing daily, it can be unclear how best to help those in need. Joining us at 9am, Dotti Janssen from Aussie Helping Hands will be giving us an update on the reality of the situation, what is needed most right now and how we can hel...

This week we will be speaking with Steven Liaros and Nilmini de Silva about Circular Economy Villages, one of several global megatrends that are changing the way we live and work. The convergence of these trends, taken to their logical conclusion, suggests that future cities should be planned as a network of community-scale precincts. These would incorporate precinct-scale circular economy infrast...

At this month's CoCanberra / NENA Canberra Regional Hub we welcomed Sam Byrne, secretary of the Co-op Federation, and Richard O'Leary, Chair of the Co-op Federation. The Co-op Federation is a peak body co-operative representing and servicing co-operative enterprise in Australia. They do a great job of providing on the ground, practical support for their members, including extensive training for bo...

we welcome playwright, producer and activist Michael Gray Griffith from Cafe Locked Out along with former veteran QUANTAS airline pilot and Captain, Graham Hood. Michael has to leave the interview early due to a police raid on the camp.` Graham gives us some history and connects that to what's been happening with the Convoy to Canberra and the Freedom Protest currently taking place on Patrick Whit...

Please note this interview is from July 2020. Young people have suffered the largest increases in unemployment, and the biggest falls in jobs, since the start of the pandemic. COVID has the potential to leave a whole generation of people behind, creating an entire generation who will be battling to rise above poverty. Throughout this pandemic unions have been fighting to protect worker’s rights an...

A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.

A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.

A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.

A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.

A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.