Climactic

A panel discussion led by Margaret Klein Salamon, author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to transform yourself with climate truth Yes, we're facing catastrophic collapse. Yes it’s terrifying. But you don't have to be paralyzed by your fear, grief, and other painful feelings. You can use your pain to transform yourself, your friends, and your world. You can become the hero humanity needs. I wa...

Pilot episode of a series by the Climactic Collective exploring the intersection of social enterprise and consumer choice during our time of climate crisis. Tip us off about a great social enterprise with a story to tell, or interested in helping tell these stories? Reach out to hello@climactic.fm . MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH EVERY BREW. "Crema Joe is an Australian owned business passionate about he...

Join RMIT lecturers and researchers to discuss how we can shape the future of our cities Cities shape us and we shape our cities. We are living in uncertain times. Can cities hold significant answers to addressing some of the challenges facing us today? We all have heard about nature-based solutions, low-carbon futures, liveable, socially just, smart and climate resilient cities. What do they mean...

How quickly can we achieve climate justice? Does climate justice mean we need to be careful and considered and/or hurry up? In what ways does declaring and responding to the 'climate emergency' contribute to climate justice, or potentially undermine it? What steps need to be taken to ensure that declaring a climate emergency doesn’t lead to ‘states of emergency’ and authoritarianism? Recent events...

In November 2019 I caught up with an old friend and fellow conservationist, Jimmy Nails. This throwback episode meanders through conversations from the role of the NGO in multilateral governance, to dealing with the insurmountable grief that the knowledge of climate change brings, to tough decisions about how we move forward in our careers and passion projects. Jimmy’s invigorating stories and con...

Harry is not just trainee General Practitioner, he's also a climate activist. So he's a great person to talk to about how to continue organising for climate action, while the COVID-19 virus understandably dominates the world's attention. Support Climactic Links: SNAP ACTION: Join our digital rally against new fossil fuels in VIC - Friends of the Earth Melbourne Healthy Futures Coronavirus disease...

Youth on Strike is an exciting new series you can watch on YouTube. With support from Screen Australia and Junkee, this project brings you vlog footage from SS4C organisers, and past Climactic guests, in the lead-up to the March 15 2019 School Strike. Rob Innes was the producer of this project, and he generously jumped on an interview the same day as Episode 1 was released. Listen in, share the se...

Sci-Fight hits Kalaide Theatre for this special National Sustainable Living Festival event! Academics, scientists and comedians put forth the case as to whether this is fine or whether it's time to unleash chaos. Come and make your breakdown evidence based! Humans have made it through some pretty tricky times. We survived that ice age 40,000 years ago. The black plague epidemic wasn’t exactly a bu...

Madeleine Habib is a master mariner and activist who has worked on and captained many vessels around the world. Madeline recorded her story of climate activism aboard the very vessel her story takes place, The Aurora Australis. Special Guest: Madeleine Habib. Support Climactic Links: "I will not be silenced" Deep in Antarctica Madeleine Habib fights for her right to speak on climate - Breakfast -...

Marco is running a half-marathon in the Tarkine rainforest, and he's fundraising to help protect this beautiful and unique ecosystem. You can support him here. Imagine if students all across Australia started to call for their schools to declare a climate emergency. That’s what some of the biggest names in the youth climate movement are now striving to achieve. This special workshop, facilitated b...

Bob Doppelt is the Executive Director of the Resource Innovation Group (TRIG) and the founder and Coordinator of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC). Trained in both counseling psychology and environmental science, he has combined the two fields throughout his careeer. He is also a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction instructor from the University of Massachusettes Medica...

Zoe Pook and her family live in Cobargo, NSW. She was travelling with her 2 children to Adelaide for a wedding when the firewall hit Cobargo and incinerated much of the town. Her husband, a volunteer firefighter, stayed to battle the fire and save their house. He is one of our nation's heroes. Fortunately he survived. Unfortunately, like many others in Cobargo that day, they lost everything. This...

Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is happening in this climate emergency. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustai...

Karen Viggers lives in Canberra, she is a Vet who works with native wildlife in the field. This January she volunteered her services to help the animals and saw first hand the impact of the catastrophic bushfires on flora and fauna. Karen has had experience with a number of big bushfires throughout her life, including the Black Saturday fires of 2009 but has never seen anything like the fires of t...

It has been 160 years since Charles Darwin first published ‘On the Origin of Species,’ detailing the amazing ability of living things to evolve through natural selection. Today, human activities and Earth’s rapidly changing climate require that species adapt and evolve at an unprecedented rate in order to survive a great ecological disruption. What genetic tools are available to enable species to...

Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their suppor...

On the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, the Barkindji Maraura Elders Environment Team are re-familiarising themselves with their 'country' as a living museum. It is hot and windy. On the banks of the rivers it is lush and green but just a little way away their lake, Fletcher's Lake, is dry and salinated. But this is territory that has a vibrant history for the Barkindji people. The team,...

Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their suppor...

Part 2 of a three-part series. Listen to part one first at www.climactic.fm/103 In December, as this intense summer got into full swing, most of the country dried out. Drought held tight in western Queensland, Perth swooned through a series of record breaking heatwaves, and then the south-east and west caught fire with powerful implications for human life, livestock, native animals, plants, and ou...

Sulari Gentill lives in the NSW town of Batlow, home of the Batlow apple. Her husband, Michael and son, Edmund, are both volunteer firefighters with the RFS. They have been fighting fires for years but they have never experienced anything like this. In the first weekend of January 2020 the town of Batlow was decimated by a mega fire. Sulari evacuated their home, while Michael and Edmund almost los...

Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their suppor...

Climactic member Gretchen Miller brings us a three part series from ABC and Radio National, Hot Summer Land. Intense fires, drought, rain in unexpected places, and temperature records smashed—this El Niño summer in Australia both lived up to expectations, and surpassed them. In the Hot Summer Land project RN Earshot and ABC Open teamed up to ask our audience—you—to paint us a word picture of how y...

Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their suppor...

Pamela Cook is an Author living on the South Coast of NSW. Her daughter, son in law and 2 year old grandson all live and work on her property in Milton. The young family run their business out of that property, it is how they earn a living. Not anymore. This Christmas saw them lose that business and very nearly lose their home. The town of Milton is decimated, people have lost everything and they...

Sophie Masson is an author living near Armidale in Northern NSW. Sophie has always thought she was safe out there and water was a given. In 2019 both drought and fires hit for the first time. She did not lose her home but she now knows what fear of fire and climate change feels like. This is Sophie's story. If you or anyone you know has a story they would like to share from or about the Aussie bus...