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An event from the Bayside Climate Crisis Action Group. Recorded and adapted from a June 25th event. This is about making money from your money (Super). Putting it to work for a Safe Climate Future. You won't want to miss this. Hear from Will van de Pol, Asset Management campaigner at strategic lobby group Market Forces, describing how Market Forces have shifted millions of investment dollars away...

Simon Moore, a climate activist and science communicator, brings us another dispatch from Leeds in England. As a contributor to Climactic, he's told stories of Extinction Rebellion protests, community activist groups and the first UK Climate Change Citizens' Jury.    In this episode Simon discusses the boundary between activism and academia with Professor Julia Steinberger from the University of L...

On June 29 2020, Beyond Zero Emissions launched The Million Jobs Plan. The launch included a stellar line up including Christiana Figueres and Mike Cannon-Brookes. You can watch the webinar launch here . Climactic has adapted the event to audio, by shortening and producing the webinar recording into a version you can enjoy over headphones.  The Million Jobs Plan is the framework to restore our eco...

Building Briefing: The Million Jobs Plan Webinar Series - Podcast Adaptation We welcome you to join us for this Buildings Briefing webinar. Beyond Zero Emissions are hosting this briefing ahead of the release of our Million Jobs Plan and we welcome you to join us for this one-off event. The Million Jobs Plan building initiative will create over 180,000 jobs and deliver 2.5 million energy-efficient...

This episode is an adaptation of the launch event for the People's Climate Strategy, held by Act on Climate on June 3rd. Friends of the Earth Melbourne's Act on Climate collective officially launched its push to write a People's Climate Strategy for Victoria  with over one thousand people watching the online launch via Zoom and  Facebook live . The strong level of interest is a vote of confidence...

The Climactic Collective is thrilled to be able to bring you this special feature, an audio documentary from Jess Fairfax -  https://www.jessfairfax.com/ TO FEED TWO BIRDS WITH ONE SCONE An audio documentary by Jess Fairfax Over the past year or so, I have found inspiration in the work of Michel Foucault, who believes in the power of discourse as both “an instrument and an effect of power, but als...

This is the fourth episode of Aftermath, a show on the Climactic Collective. Listen and subscribe at https:///shows/aftermath-1 This episode features Jo Dodds of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action and Elaine Johnson of the Environmental Defenders Office. They talk Eav through the basis for their case against the Environmental Protection Agency, to compel them to mitigate greenhouse gases to pre...

On May 28th Richie Merzian, Climate and Energy Director of the Australian Institute joined the Bayside Climate Crisis Action Group to talk the Australian Federal Government's post-COVID "gas-fired recovery" plans.  Excerpts from 'Shipping Sunshine': Renewables, Gas, and Australia's Energy Mix | Q+A, May 25, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzuBX6xpxI Get more from BCCAG at https://bccag.org....

Recently 2040 director Damon Gameau and Independent MP Zali Steggall for Warringah shared a livestream. They explored how we can ensure government accountability during COVID-19, how we #BuildBackBetter , and the importance of a Climate Change Act for Australia. Thanks to the 2040 team for allowing us to share this adaptation of the webinar with you.  www.climateactnow.com.au https://whatsyour2040...

Climactic's newest show, Aftermath.  Released weekly. Listen, rate and review at https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/aftermath-1183678 Let's start at the very beginning. Plants are critical to all life on land, and they are the organisms most acutely impacted by fire. In this episode, Eav talks to Dr Brett Summerell of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney about how Australian plants are (and aren'...

How does an unstable planet increase the risk of pandemics like COVID 19? In this episode, Eav interviews not one but two Professors of Public Health - Tony Capon and Ro MacFarlane The impacts of environmental destabilisation on human health is discussed, as Ro and Tony propose an alternative vision for society where human and environmental health are treated as one system. Further reading Ro and...

How did a community climate action group get their city council to not only declare a climate emergency, but commit to emergency level emissions reduction measures, during a global pandemic? Coalitions, campaigning, determination and good old-fashioned organizing! Coalition members Belinda Haydon and Elinor Hasenfratz share their story.  For more check out: https://www.facebook.com/JewishCN/ http:...

Climactic contributor Gretchen Miller saw a post from Protect Warburton Ranges, of a young woman named Alice up a tree, trying to protect old-growth native forest from clear-felling, forest just a kilometre from her home - her literal backyard.  Alice, the same Alice you may have already heard on Climactic. So introductions were made, and from Gretchen in Sydney, to Alice up a tree in the Victoria...

Luke Skinner, secretary of the Climate Justice Union of Western Australia, joins Mark and Angelica from Climactic to talk climate justice, Government action in the face of COVID, and the power of unions - and those of us working essential jobs - in these times. To learn more about the CJU, check out https://climatejusticeunion.org/ - you can become a solidarity member for even a dollar, to make yo...

Climate Emergency. What can one do? Presented as part of the Sustainable Living Festival, Melbourne Playback Theatre Company in collaboration with  Climate for Change  are hosting an evening of conversation and performance - sharing stories, knowledge, and empowering action. Part workshop, part improvisational performance, The Power For Change will recap the climate science, offer a pathway for ch...

Katerina Cosgrove went from being a contributor to Climactic, to being an interviewer in record time. Listen to her first piece on Climactic here . Given the chance to use the podcast as a platform, she reached out an author she greatly respected, and booked him for an interview. What followed was something fantastic.  Derrick Jensen is a prolific, and controversial author. In another interview he...

Today we're talking online activism and keeping the ledger straight. We all get our news online - social media is our town square and the news pages are the town criers. I follow a bunch of these pages and while plenty of the articles they share demonstrate great empathy and compassion for the complexities of life lived and a commitment to science and waking the world up to climate change - there...

Transitions Film Festival brought a film screening to Port Phillip in Melbourne, and Mark from Climactic was able to moderate and record the post-screening panel as a live episode. Featuring two young members of the Port Phillip community, and a marine scientist and science communicator from the Port Phillip EcoCentre, this panel grapples with Australia's vulnerability to climate impacts, the pres...

Bronwyn Gresham hosts a conversation between four psychologists about facing the climate crisis. About Sally Sally Gillespie, PhD, worked as a Jungian psychotherapist for over twenty years before completing her doctoral research in climate psychology.  Her recent publication, Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our owrkd and ourselves is an intriguing and essential read, venturing into...

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...

Organizing member Lizzie Webb joins Mark to bring this Engineers Declare event to Climactic. This podcast is an excerpt from the NSW Region Connect session, where Lizzie and Chris provide an overview of the Engineers Declare movement and Engineers Act strategy development. The Australian engineering profession has the opportunity to lead a rapid and just transition towards healthy, thriving commun...

Beth Spencer in conversation with Kit Kelen about his creative practice as poet, artist, publisher, collaborator, academic, mentor, musician and blogger. Kit reads selections from some of his many books intercut with original guitar tracks. They discuss Holden cars, bushfires, coal-addiction, and the role of place in his work -- as a writer who uses a lot of Australian idiom, colloquialisms and re...

Reflections on a recent river trip during the COVID lockdown, from Alice Hardinge. A reminder of the persistence of the natural world, and our duty to it.  Read her writing here. Send us a story from our new website: www.climactic.com.au See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Director Mirjam Leuze’s The Whale and the Raven illuminates the many issues that have drawn whale researchers, the Gitga’at First Nation, and the Government of British Columbia into a complex conflict. As the people in the Great Bear Rainforest struggle to protect their territory against the pressure and promise of the gas industry, caught in between are the countless beings that call this place h...

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an independent non-profit which sets a standard for sustainable fishing. Mark and new Climactic member Eav talk to Matt Watson, Senior Fisheries Manager. Eav is a marine scientist by training, so has some great questions for Matt around the MSC approach to sustainable fisheries, an ecosystems approach. Mark - as an untrained enthusiast - wants to know how co...