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Felicity Jefferson speaks to Mark about the psychological concepts and tools that can be useful to the climate community, and the course she is running through What Can I Do Australia .  As promised, here's some photos of the beautiful Hamilton Gardens . Mark and Eav talk about the concept of deep ecology, the small steps we took/are taking at the start of our climate engagement. We hope this is h...

Subscribe to the PCAN Podcast from https://www.climactic.fm/show/pcan-podcast In episode six, two special guest hosts report back from COP26 in Glasgow. Jamie Brogan, from Edinburgh Climate Change Institute and Simon Moore, from the University of Leeds, talk to a variety of delegates about the relationship between global negotiations and local level climate action. Gill Rodriguez from the Internat...

Subscribe to The Red Line here : https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/post/episode-55-the-privatisation-of-warfare Warfare is becoming increasingly privatised, and the rules of the battlefield are shifting. With more and more PMCs involved in warfare around the world, many fronts have become companies fighting companies, and the international justice system has no framework to deal with it. This week...

Part 2 of a 2-part episode. Or, watch the whole panel on YouTube here .  A Quiet Chat About Climate Change Climate change is seemingly never talked about in the tones used by friends when talking about their weekend plans, their kids grades at school, their mum's health. Instead climate is either shouted about, during rallies and marches, and for very good reason. Or in hushed, anxious tones, with...

Part 1 of a 2-part episode. Or, watch the whole panel on YouTube here .  A Quiet Chat About Climate Change Climate change is seemingly never talked about in the tones used by friends when talking about their weekend plans, their kids grades at school, their mum's health. Instead climate is either shouted about, during rallies and marches, and for very good reason. Or in hushed, anxious tones, with...

Get all episode of Nourishing Matters to Chew On from https://www.climactic.fm/show/nourishing-matters-to-chew-on/ . Nourishing Matters to Chew On is a podcast that takes its cue from big picture, healthy and sustainable food system agendas and digs in to explore what these change agendas mean for us here, in Australia. It looks at how we produce and enjoy food in a Climate Change future, as well...

Find and subscribe to the series from https://www.climactic.fm/show/at-risk-in-the-climate-crisis/ . In this episode, we dive into how the climate crisis is playing out locally and across the globe, and what that teaches us about our connection to the earth and each other. Our guests take us from the Birrarung River in southern Australia to the Mongolian Steppe, and to visit the shearwaters feasti...

Mark speaks to GG, who along with Anna, are fur parents of Lyka. Anna and GG started feeding GG home-prepared meals, and it turned around Lyka's health. They started a pet food - no, a pet wellness - company also called Lyka. And the rest is history! Lyka: Australia's only carbon negative dog food. There is no time to waste for climate action. The change happens with us and we are committed to hel...

Blockade Australia ran actions targeting fossil fuel extraction and exportation this month. In this episode, we feature an episode of Saltgrass that further explains and humanises the movement.  We add a clip of Art Breaker's documentary about the Black Finch Project , for the whole thing here's a link . This episode was recorded and first released in May 2020. This is an updated version with a ne...

Join climate justice activist and science communicator Simon Moore, from Leeds (UK), for a walk through the streets of Glasgow during COP26.   Listen to the perspectives of Indigenous leaders, youth strikers, scientists, musicians, and locals, as you experience a taste of the climate activism that occurred during this historic occasion.    You'll be transported into the heart of two enormous clima...

Find more and follow Saltgrass from the Saltgrass website. Or, now from Climactic.fm .  Also recommended listening after this episode is the episode of Climate Ready Stories about small-hold farmers from Burundi and Congo in Mildura.   Following on from our last episode with Rob Law we head up to Mildura, over 400km to the north of Castlemaine. My interest in Mildura has been growing lately. It is...

Today featuring Climate Ready Stories . Visit the page to subscribe and learn more about the show.  Also, check out Endgame Project for more incredible audio exploration of climate change .  As the coordinator of Maldon Neighbourhood House, Amy Atkinson is at the heart of a vibrant, engaged and active community where the median age is approaching 60. Climate change isn't talked about much in Maldo...

This is episode 3, season 2 of A Positive Climate . Find more and subscribe from their website ( www.apositiveclimate.com ). Julia Kay, co-founder of  Great Wrap  chats to us about how we can make cling wrap GREAT again!  Great Wrap has created Australia's first certified compostable cling wrap - it's not only made from food waste but it also contains zero plastic. Great Wrap makes residential wra...

A quick catch-up from Mark, and then an episode of the fantastic daily Climate Quick Links from Robert McLean's Climate Conversations .  Subscribe to the show for more from here . See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello! I'm back, huge thanks to Eav Brennan for guest publishing for the last 4 weeks! Check her out on Instagram if you don't already where she does super important science communication using super approachable comics! This week I'm sharing the awesome Sci Fight with you to ease myself back into the publisher's chair. Because with COP26 just scant days away, things will get heavy quick enough by...

In this episode, we discuss misinformation and disinformation on climate change, what it is, how it is manufactured, its impacts, and how you can identify and protect against it. Misinformation and disinformation may be one of the most influential weapons that powerful individuals and companies use to stifle action on climate. It's time to call it out and talk about what to look for, how to break...

Sci Fight ( www.scifight.com.au/ ) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it come from, and can I have some please? Pleasure is part of our biological make-up; evolution's way of prodding us to consume calories, procreate, and not freeze to dea...

Get inspired and get involved in ‘Working Together' to heal country. Listen in to this episode, Part 1, of a two-part great conversation with Craig Aspinall, who is the Community Aboriginal Engagement Officer, with Landcare NSW. It's an Australian first in the Landcare movement and not before time! Craig leads Landcare NSW's forward looking Working Together program that is all about empowering Abo...

This is a conversation with Andrew , the Solarpunk Anarchist from Trinidad and Tobago behind the YouTube channel ' Saint Andrewism .' Topics Discussed What is Solarpunk? Solarpunk Anarchism? The problem with Greenwashing How to talk about the climate & problems with the climate movement Generational shifts in the climate movement The importance of intersectionality Switzerland's voting pattern...

This episode is an interview from climactic member and artist Eav Brennan. Eav's spent the last year interviewing some climate leaders and making upcycled portraits of them. In this episode, Mark and Eav run through the portrait subjects and the stories that stuck with Eav, as well as touching on the long history of textile art as a medium of social change. Music Dig the Uke by Stefan Kartenberg (...

Find more of Nourishing Matters to Chew On here . Tilth, glomalin, exudates … luscious words from the world of soils and a great conversation with Matthew Evans and Sadie Chrestman about Matthew's new book  Soil – The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy.  Matthew and Sadie Chrestman are the well known and much loved co–creators and operators of Fat Pig Farm, collaborators in...

Find more and subscribe to The Overview Effect here. I have a treat for you today. This episode is the final live headline conversation from Renew Fest in May, with living legend, esteemed author, thinker, and Co-Originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren. We've all heard of permaculture; it's been a massive movement and so many people have taken on the concepts of permaculture design...

Recorded in November 2019 for Raising the Bar, an event series from the City of Melbourne.  We're so grateful to the RTB team for allowing us to share this audio, from past guest and collaborator Dr Jen Rae. Raising the Bar is "for curious minds and lifelong learners. We're here for those hungry for innovation and inspiration. For the citizens and dreamers of our world. We're here to make knowledg...

What's the Climactic Collective? Well, that's in a state of development and flux.  How our collective of independent shows work with and support each other is changing and morphing, but where it's now is shared in this episode.  Also, hear an exclusive preview of a new show, a collaboration with Climatebase - the world's best place to find a climate-engaged job - to get you updated on this week's...

Congratulations on reaching double digits - Talking In This Climate! Feeling anxious about climate change? Reflect and recharge with this unique episode where we explore emotional responses to climate change with Dr. Blanche Verlie, member of the Sydney Environment Institute and author of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation . In this conversation we flip the teache...