Climate Action Show

 Monday 30th July 2018This show we are going to the Latrobe Valley in Victoria – a place that is experiencing the opportunities and issues surrounding the transition from Coal to Renewables. For more information visit the website for After the Smoke ClearsWendy FarmerWendy Farmer: Prominent community activist, Wendy Farmer rose up in the aftermath of the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire.  She has since be...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download () | EmbedSubscribe: Android | Email | RSS | MoreAs large parts of Australia are in drought and some farmers are having to shoot their livestock for lack of feed,  how can regenerative agriculture help farms become more resilient? As there is a growing demand for meat and dairy products for export to Asia,  will we resist the land clearing and overstocking to...

Monday 16th July 2018Today’s guests:Mark Crossweller –  Head of the National Resilience Task ForceJo Dodds – Councillor at Bega Valley Shire CouncilRob Roggema – Professor of Sustainable Urban Environments UTSAre global climate disruptions finding us unprepared for some emergencies, even in countries with high tech warning systems?  Psychologists say it is bad to paralyse people with frightening p...

Monday 9th July 2018Sarah Brenan talks about the role philanthropy plays in seeding climate action.  She admires the boldness of BZE with its reports showing the way to decarbonise our society.“Rethinking Cement” was one of our projects supported by the Hamer Family Fund and we talk about how brave ideas need to be nurtured and are underpinned by a wonderful team of pro bono researchers and public...

Monday 2nd July 2018Giles ParkinsonThis show is about the Energy Revolution from three points of view and what are the hurdles in its path. We chat to GILES PARKINSON about the Large-Scale Solar Industry Forum that was held in May.  Is Industry united about the National Energy Guarantee?  Does the Business Council of Australia represent industries that are already signing up for wind and solar pow...

Monday 25th June 2018Dr Bob Brown at the Sustainable Living Festival aroused the audIence to save the TARKINE.  He speaks to a young doctor perched as a protector in a tree to bring that remote forest to the city audience.  We hear from Jane Goodall about young people restoring the web of life or falling into despair and dramatic moments from the Sea Shepherd as it is nearly squashed by two whalin...

Monday 18th June 2018Today Erin Jones talks Sustainable Transport. Starting with the potential of powering Melbourne’s trains with renewable energy with campaigners Pat Simons – Yes 2 Renewables Community Coordinator and Rachel Lynskey, Friends of the Earth’s Sustainable Cities Campaigner. We chat with Richard McNeall a volunteer with the Tesla Owners Club of Australia (TOCA) who coordinated the R...

Subscribe: Android | Email | RSS | MoreMonday 4th June 2018Tina FawcettTina Fawcett speaks to Vivien Langford from Oxford. She was involved in a UK Government report into the feasibility of Personal carbon rations. She wrote Suicidal Planet and thinks that by focusing on our personal carbon budget more people would engage realistically with the problem of global warming. The British decided that t...

Port Augusta  Podcast of 28 May 2018BZE played a major part in this story of Port Augusta which is turning from being a coal fired powerhouse to becoming a Renewable Energy Hub. BE radio presenter Vivien Langford took the bus from Adelaide passing hills resplendent with wind turbines and talks to people involved in this transformation. Dan Van Holst Pelikaan DAN VAN HOLST PELIKAAN,  the Minster fo...

Monday 14th May 2018 Amanda CahillAmanda Cahill is the founding director of the Centre for Social Change.  She has worked extensively in developing countries and worries that climate change will force us to trust people who are just perpetuating a colonialist system.  The impact is falling on people who already do not have access to water and electricity and unless we phase out fossil fuels fast,...

Monday 7th May 20187th May 2018 BZE Community Radio Show with Andy, Kurt, Viv and RogerGiles ParkinsonGiles Parkinson, Founder and Editor of REneweconomy tells Vivien about new developments on the desert road to transition. Sanjeev Gupta’s Green Steel investments will boost the need for renewable energy at Whyalla and elsewhere.. He thinks that energy intensive industry is set to expand in Austral...

Monday 30th April 2018Accelerating Climate Action: Taking on the giantsBill Mc Kibben is in Australia. President Macron is also visiting and he calls for a removal of all obstacles as we scale up.(1)As new coal mines and gas wells open up in NSW ,Qld and NT, not to mention the Adani Project we need to accelerate climate action. You can invite people to livestream Bill Mc Kibben’s talk in Melbourne...

BZE Community Radio Show podcast 23 April 2018 covering:The Local Government Climate Review,Bill McKibben’s Accelerate Speaking Tour,Sustainability Victoria on Victorians’ Perception of Climate Change. We talk to authors of the 2018 Local Government Climate Review, which will be launched at the Resilient Cities Conference in Bonn, Germany this week. The review is a joint initiative between BZE, Ir...

Monday 16th April 2018Although climate change seems to be an alarming new problem without precedent in pre-industrial civilization, maybe historians can help us.  What can we learn from them? Sunburnt CountryDr Joelle Gergis talks to Vivien Langford about her new book “Sunburnt Country”. It is subtitled “The History and Future of Climate change in Australia” and won the Eureka prize for interdisci...

Monday 9th April 2018

LOW CARBON WITH LOVE  from W.A, Canada  and India Monday 26th March 2018Three inspiring stories about lowering our carbon footprint. Frances Jones and her partner manage half a million hectares in W.A.Destocking gave them a chance to slowly  restore the land and sequester carbon. Wetlands came to life, perennial grasses came back and feral numbers went down. They featured on AUSTRALIAN STORY TV an...

Monday 19th March 2018Erin Jones discusses future Industrial energy needs with Michael Lord 

12 March 2018BZE (Community)Radio ShowPresenter/Producer: Erin JonesTopic: National Energy GuaranteeOn today’s show we focus on the National Energy Guarantee. We speak with Climate Council Councillor Greg Bourne about their latest report:Clean & Reliable Power: Roadmap to a Renewable Futurehttp://www.climatecouncil.org.au/renewables-roadmap-2018This report is a response to the National Energy Guar...

Mon 5th March 2018BULGA to BYLONG- Locking the Gates This is an audio voyage up the Hunter Valley where brave communities are holding out against climate changing coal expansions. We meet:     Wannarua Elder- Pat Hansson     Ex Miner- Frank Turnbull     Community Leader – John Krey     Local Historian – Stewart Mitchell     Goldman Prize Winner – Wendy Bowman     Veteran Campaigner – Bev Smiles  ...

Mon 26th Feb 2018Ocean DrawdownDo you get seasick out on the ocean? Is the sea sick of climate change? Alanna Mitchell overcame her sea sickness and went down to the bottom of the ocean. She is an award winning Canadian Science journalist. After her show “SEASICK”, she spoke to Vivien about the erotic thrill of witnessing coral spawning. Her play dramatises the enormity of climate change affecting...

LOW CARBON AND LOVING IT +FIGHT FOR THE BIGHT AT TRANSITIONS FILM FESTIVALMon 19th Feb 2018 Mark Delaney brought his kids up in the poor suburbs of Delhi. Returning to Australia he and his son Tom were shocked at our apathy round climate change. Their story is a fresh look at the “small picture solutions” we can all take to reduce our 23 tonnes per person to the 8 tonnes of a European or even the...

Mon 12th Feb 2018We meet Dr Bob Brown to talk about restoring the Tarkine Forest to its indigenous custodians and sequestering carbon in its soils. Bob also discussed his case defending the right to protest  logging or mining operations and his win in the High court . This protects the Tarkine defenders in Tasmania but protestors in NSW and other states are still facing draconian penalties like 7...

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