Climate Action Show

Canberra People's Assembly Produced by Vivien Langford and Andy Britt 4th May 2020  The climate community converged on Canberra as bush fire smoke still billowed over the lawns. It was a people's assembly to deal with the climate emergency that has now fallen out of the popular news. Emissions have fallen with a global shutdown but the tipping points have already been passed for our great barrier...

We also spoke with Maryanne Slattery. Up until recently Maryanne was the senior water researcher at the Australia Institute. Before that she worked for the Murray Darling Basin Authority as the   for 12 years. Whilst there Maryanne didn't like what she saw. So much so she left and blew the whistle on them. We're going to find out about this and why the river system came to be in such bad health. W...

20th April. Interviews: Vivien Langford    Podcast: Andy BrittHOLDING A BRAVE SPACE and EMPATHY CAFEGUESTSRita Gyorrfy- The Empathy Cafe. Raven Karin Steiniger - Deep Ecology and XR Regenerative CultureRev Glen Loughry - Indigenous leader, minister and artist. Professor Helen Berry- Expert in public mental health during climate catastropheDr Sebastian Rosenberg - ANU Centre for Mental Health Resea...

PAUSE EMISSION! IT'S A PANDEMIC.The Beyond Zero Emissions Community show produced by Vivien Langford and Michaela Stubbs. Broadcast at Radio 3CR in Melbourne  and  Radio Skid Row in SydneyGUESTSGilbert Rochecouste - Founder of Village WellChristine Milne - Greens International  AmbassadorJohn Grimes  - Smart Energy CouncilTragic times for many as hospitals and unemployment agencies are overwhelmed...

30th March 2020THE NEW NEW DEAL from the National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne Town Hall Produced by Vivien Langford. Broadcast at 3CR and Radio Skid RowIn the month since these speakers were talking about transforming the economy,we have seen an uncanny slowing of our economy and cooling of global emissions caused by the pandemic. Now more than ever, we need to know how to use this oppor...

We spoke with Australian journalist Paddy Manning about his new book Inside the greens. Reefs worldwide are under threat from overfishing, industrial and agricultural runoff and of course climate change. Today the Great Barrier Reef is a boneyard in comparison to its former vivid glory. Yet Fiji are two decades into a reef conservation effort that draws on traditional indigenous knowledge and mode...

SNOWY 2.0 THE NUMBERS DONT STACK UPProduced by Vivien Langford for Beyond Zero Emissions at Radio 3CR and Radio Skid rowPodcast by Andy BrittGuests:Bruce Mountain - Director of Victorian Energy Policy CentreTed Woodley - Treasurer National Parks Association and Energy expertGary Dunnett -  EO National Parks Association and ecology specialist Could the Goverment's huge project called Snowy 2.0 be a...

HEALING THE CLIMATE CHANGED MIND9th March 2020Producer: Andy Britt  Interviews: Vivien LangfordGuests: Greta Thunberg,  Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng , Bruce Shillingsworth, Rev Glenn Loughry, Vanessa Petrie  and Rhys Anderson  "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced" James Baldwin Greta Thunberg spoke to the EU parliament just 4 days ago. The speaker...

ECOSYSTEMS IN COLLAPSE2nd March 2020Presented by Vivien Langford from The National Climate Emergency Summit. Melbourne town hall. The speakers  are three top scientists:David Lindenmayer - Professor of Ecology at ANU on Forest conservationCharlie Veron- Marine  Scientist and world coral expert on a Noah's Ark scheme for coralsMichael Mann- Director of Earth System Science Pennsylvania State Univer...

FUTURE MAKERS - Transitions Film Festival24th February 2020Andy Britt:Production , Vivien Langford: InterviewsGuestsCarmen Modjito and Nir Tsafaty singing "House on Fire"Deborah Hart  Author of Saving Eden on GLOBAL THERMOSTAT  a film by Arthur RiffletZelda Grimshaw from the Australasian Theatre in  Cairns on FUTURE MAKERSMark Pearson director of PILLIGA RISING   

BUSINESS COLLAPSE and TRANSITION FILM FESTIVAL17th February 2020. Andy Britt -Production Vivien Langford - InterviewsPaul Gilding - Author of Climate Contagion 2020-2025Heidi Lee - BZE Business and Industry ManagerJulian O'Shea - Film "Solar Tuk" Bob Brown -  Film "Convoy"Bruce Shillingsworth - Film " When the rivers run dry"Christine MIlne - Ambassador for International GreensAt the Climate Emerg...

BUSHFIRES 2019/2020Podcast:Andy Britt.    Interviews and production :Vivien LangfordElise Papineau - Anthropologist and XR BrisbaneJamie Hanson - Campaign Manager-Greenpeace Asia pacificMark Ogge - The Australia Institute. author of  National Climate Disaster FundMusic - Rachel Collis "Wired and Awake" and Kavisha Mazzella -Italian songsNSW Parliament Item:Simon Clough- Lock the gate allianceAaron...

In the Eco-Miser's Guide to Super we are looking at all the ways you can make money and save the planet from Climate Change:We Speak toTom Swann: Tom is a research assistant at The Australia Institute on a project looking at opportunities and obstacles for fossil fuel divestment in Australia. He is also a spokesperson for the Fossil Free ANU Campaign and a student in the Master of Climate Change....

 2019 The climate action year in roundupProduction: Andy BrittInterviews by Vivien Langford and Kurt Johnson As we face over a hundred Bushfires in Australia, the Madrid Climate Conference carries on and some Extinction Rebels go on hunger fast in order to get commitments from parliamentarians, we look at some of the campaigns that are hot at the end of 2019. Vanessa Petrie CEO of BZE talks about...

2019, Nov 25thPresenter/Producer: Erin JonesGuests:Maia SchweizerCleanCo QueenslandChief Executive OfficerTimestamp- 01:54https://cleancoqueensland.com.au/Maia was appointed CleanCo’s inaugural permanent CEO in September 2019. She has extensive global experience in theenergy and infrastructure industries, including as a management consultant in McKinsey & Company’s London, Houston,Shanghai and Syd...

18th November 2019Produced by Andy Britt. Interviews by Vivien Langford Collie at the Crossroads is about a town 200 Kms from Perth where coal is on the way out. What will give new life and new jobs to this town whose identity is based on coal. Beyond Zero Emissions has researched a plan for the future beyond coal. James Kahn – A Noongar elder tells us about Collie in its heyday and his vision for...

HOW TO SURVIVE WITH REGENERATIVE CULTURE  11th November Produced by Vivien LangfordWith help from Leanne and Andy  at 3CR and Raul at Radio Skid Row Tonight we will meet climate activists talking about nurturing a new way of being together. Some have rallied and blockaded and written their body weight in submissions as emissions rise. Some are newly awake to the climate crisis we are causing and g...

In this episode we looked at how climate movement embraced direct action. In the previous week  scenes spread over television screens across Australia of the IMARC Blockade was a manifestation of a movement that has collectively realised that the traditional avenues of power and influence have failed within this country at generating anything like meaningful action on climate change.  We talked to...

SACRIFICE ZONE: The story of gas  from  NORTHERN TERRITORY to NARRABRIProduced by Vivien Langford in Sydney. Thanks to Michaela and Andy,3CR in Melbourne and Raul at Radio Skid Row in SydneyThe Beetaloo Gas Basin and The Great Artesian Water Basin are remote from us but tonight we hear the authentic voices of Traditional Owners and farmers. They want our help to stop new gas projects which will ha...

Presenter/Producer: Erin JonesGuests:Greg Mullins  - Climate Council - Councillor, Former Commissioner of Fire & Rescue NSWTimestamp- 00.07Greg Mullins is an internationally recognised expert in responding to major bushfires and natural disasters and developed a keen interest in the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events. He coordinated responses to many major natural disasters...

Presenter/Producer: Erin JonesGuests:Behyad Jafari - CEO Electric Vehicle CouncilTimestamp- 03:44https://electricvehiclecouncil.com.au/https://fleets.chargetogether.org/We speak with Electric Vehicle Council CEO Behyad Jafari about the new tool - Charge together. Charge Together Fleets is a program to assist fleet and sustainability managers transition to electric vehicles and future mobility mode...

When we look back at 2019 I think it will be the moment the tide began to turn. From this year on we will no longer be tackling widespread apathy within the population but we will be directly taking on the system, the politicians and the corporations that are pushing us towards oblivion. Greta Thunberg - the woman of the moment has called out platitudes and empty gestures. Her uncompromising deman...

September 30thSYDNEY CLIMATE STRIKE Produced by Vivien Langford in Sydney. Thanks to Michaela and Andy in MelbourneSpeakers:Gadrian Hoosen – Garawa and Yanyuwa man from Boroloola, Pacific Warriors, Jean Hinchcliff, Tommy John Herbert MUA, President of Teachers’ Federation, ASU,PSA, ETU, CFMMEU, APHEDA, Parents and Grandparents and a Concerned Scientist .Music: Ready by Montaigne and New Orleans by...

September 23rdA GREEN NEW DEAL FOR AUSTRALIAProduced by Vivien Langford at Radio Skid Row in Sydney. Thanks to Raoul, and Andy. Speakers:Naomi Klein – Her new book is On Fire- The Burning case for a Green New Deal Professor Peter Sheldon – UNSW Industrial Relations Research Centre “The Ruhr or Appalachia?”Jaime Yallop Farrant – Climate Justice union in W.AMichelle Maloney – New economics Network A...

September 20th Strike for Climate. Episode 4 Interviews: Vivien Langford,Production :Andy Britt and Michaela Stubbs JAGVEER SINGH from the Students Strike4Climate group tells Vivien the logistics of getting as many people as we can to show up on Friday 20th September.  Research by Chernowith says that significant shifts can be achieved if 3.5% of the population are visible. The students have calcu...