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This is an episode of Climate Conversations , on the Climactic Collective network. You have over 300+ more episodes to enjoy after this.  Dr Jonica Newby hosted  Catalyst on ABC television  for two decades and because of the knowledge that brought, she found herself suffering from climate grief and so with the support of  NewSouth Publishing  wrote " Beyond climate grief ". She covers the whole ga...

From Kyla Brettle : A copy of David Attenborough's ‘A Life on Our Planet; my witness statement and a vision for the future' arrived in the post from my dad.  In the accompanying letter dad said he'd read it whole and thought I'd like it. Anticipating a day spent in bed with David - I got up to make a cup of tea - that was my mistake. In a moment my partner had David I turn just in time to see him...

Season 2 Episode 2 of Art Breaker Lloyd Richards bring this interview and audio doco about artist Tom Day to Art Breaker. Tom Day is a solo artist residing in Main Ridge, Australia and has been creating ambient and electronic music since 2005. Characterised as “effortless and raw”, Tom's tracks couple elegant beats and piano melodies to an array of personally-collected field recordings, his style...

This was performed as a livestream as part of the National Sustainable Living Festival . The Climactic Collective is the podcast network by and for Australia's climate community. Curation is the monthly audio magazine show that highlights the best of the network – and the broader community. Participants get to see the live episode recorded and streamed live. Clips: Nourishing Matters to Chew On  |...

Full notes available from the Centre for Climate Safety. Thank you to the Sustainable Hour for sharing this episode with us.  The climate revolution begins in your head Science tells us time is running out. We just have a few years to get it right. More than new tools, we need a new politics and a new economics, says David Wallace-Wells. We need awareness and education, says Greta Thunberg. If sol...

Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this five-part series with you. There is an unlikely hero that could help deliver us from climate catastrophe, and that hero is found washed up on our beaches and lives deep in our oceans. In this final UTS 4 Climate conversation, Professor Bob Carr sits down with Australia's best-known climate author and scientist,  Professor Tim F...

Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this five-part series with you. A striking development has occurred in the world of corporate finance in 2020. Over the past months, a string of corporations have divested from thermal coal, starting with US investment giant BlackRock and extending to Japan's Mizuho and the Norwegian Government Pension Fund. But the world's financie...

Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this five-part series with you. The devastating effects of the 2019-2020 bushfires saw Australian communities ravaged by the impacts of climate change. Many viewed the tragedy as a long overdue wake-up call, and one that should spur rapid action to address the ecological challenges facing us. But as the ash settles, what will the ne...

End Game brings story, music and sound together to explore a local response to the global problem of climate change. It deals with the difficult and emotional side of getting our heads around being the heroes of this mess. A mother facing the mother of all threats - Melanie Scaife shares her ‘head-cracking moment' - when climate change became a real rather than abstract part of her daughters futur...

Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this five-part series with you.  Maybe the mention of our climate future makes you feel anxious, angry, scared or just detached. If so you're not alone. Learning to talk about climate change and having meaningful conversations with those who agree and disagree with you on the subject is a powerful step we can take to get the action...

Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this first episode of this five-part series with you.  In 2007 it looked like there was a political consensus to price carbon in Australia, in a move that would provide a transition to a post-carbon economy. So how did Australia's climate policy fall foul of a global political agenda? In this episode of UTS 4 Climate, Professor Bob...

What do you get when audio creators from an award-winning production agency work with Greenpeace to create a mini series on climate engagement? You get Heaps Better! Listen to the amazing Episode 1 of this four-part miniseries right here on Climactic. Then, stick around for a chat with the creators Jess and Ash, with interviewer and science communicator Lee Constable. Climate Australia, Lee's live...

Warwick Smith reads aloud his article on Doughnut Economics for economic recovery, and climate action, which recently ran in The Conversation, ABC , and New Daily .  Before the recession we were on a collision course with environmental disaster. The recovery provides a rare opportunity to do things differently; to rebuild a better economy that can support living standards without irretrievably dam...

Introducing Kyla Brettle, radio and audio creative veteran, reading aloud her review of Rebecca Huntley's latest, and much-loved, look at what makes effective climate conversation.  Then, hear an episode from the phenomenal End Game Podcast Project, from Castlemaine. The work of Kyla and Rob is audiophonic theatre for your ears.  If it inspires you to campaign for your local council to declare a c...

This special 2-part miniseries is from a panel held as part of ARTS1241, Environmental Advocacy and Activism , from the University of New South Wales. Mark Rudd is a political organizer and an anti-war activist. He first burst onto the political landscape in the United States as a member, and ultimately the leader of the Columbia University chapter of Students for Democratic Society (known as SDS)...

This special 2-part miniseries is from a panel held as part of ARTS1241, Environmental Advocacy and Activism , from the University of New South Wales. Mark Rudd is a political organizer and an anti-war activist. He first burst onto the political landscape in the United States as a member, and ultimately the leader of the Columbia University chapter of Students for Democratic Society (known as SDS)...

Nourishing Matters to Chew On has launched on the Climactic Collective. Subscribe to get new episodes at Climactic.com.au , or Foodswell .  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...

This is an audio adaptation of an article written by Laura Phillips , host of Hypecast , published December 7th, 2020 on Resilience.org .  It includes a short message from Dale Martin , author of the Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit ( LGCET ).  It was produced and edited by Lloyd Richards . Music from Tom Day .  If you have a suggestion for a podcast adaption, or any comments/feedback, p...

Our thanks to the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife for sharing this episode with us. Find the whole series and more information about the Wildlife Heroes project .  Australia's 15,000+ wildlife volunteers work hard, under intense conditions. The Wildlife Heroes: Caring for Carers Podcast aims to start a mental health conversation to support our volunteers to look after themselves and eac...

Ruth Bookbinder, a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, in the UK, talks to Professor Anna Mdee and Dr Katy Roelich about their research studying the University of Leeds' transition to net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. Their project aims to create a theory of change that can also help other institutions respond to the climate crisis. They discuss some of their key findings, including the ba...

This is a special audio documentary from Ruby Marshall .  Join us in this podcast to hear from local residents and workers from the Latrobe Valley about the just transition away from the fossil fuel industry that is happening there right now. What is currently happening in the Latrobe Valley with their transition away from the fossil fuel industry? How is the community preparing for the closing of...

Thanks to the Women's Climate Justice Collective for sharing this event with us and allowing us to adapt it to a podcast episode. WCJC is a national collective led by women, aiming to mainstream feminist climate justice and support women in the climate and women's rights movements. Meet us at the intersections of gender and environment, rise above the noise and distraction, and be transported by t...

Thanks to the Feminist Writers Festival for sharing this excellent episode with us.  In this episode, Ecofeminism , Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe and novelist Alice Robinson chat with nature writer Inga Simpson about a feminism that centres itself around country. Reading Notes Rachel Carson: The Life and Legacy On Judith Wright: Judith Wright in a new light, by Kevin Brophy Louisa Atkinson:  Louisa...

Author Katerina Cosgrove reads aloud a recent piece of writing, published by SBS Voices.  This feature vignette was produced and sound designed by Lloyd Richards featuring music by Omer Haber .  The coverart is by @leio on Unsplash .  To get in touch with us, to contribute your own creativity to engaging with the climate crisis, drop us a line at hello@climactic.fm . Or a voicemail from climactic....

This is the pilot episode of a new series on the Climactic Collective podcast network, that will be recorded live on streaming TV platform Cimpatico.tv. We're calling it 'Degree of Difference' and it's like Jerry Springer. For the climate community. If Jerry Springer had been about mutual respect and constructive engagement over differences of opinion. So, less Jerry and more civil discourse.  In...