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CARBON RATIONS OR CARBON ALLOWANCES?Mon 18th Dec 2017How would carbon rationing work? Would it be forever? Would it hurt? BZE’s Vivien Langford talks to author Stan Cox in Salina Kansas about his book “Anyway you slice it”.Some people  are aware of the Climate Emergency, but others behave as if unaware. Australia’s per capita aviation emissions for example  are 18 metric tonnes compares to 5 for a...

Mon 11th Dec 2017BZE radio has spoken often to Christine Milne because she has always been at events to defend the Renewable energy target, the clean energy package and to rid parliament of fossil fuel influence. Her memoir  shows “how hard it is not to become bitter about the ruthless ” people in power. Even at a time of bereavement  they pressured her to perform. Her awareness of the urgency of...

Mon 4th Dec 2017World Antarctic Day, December 1st- 2017 was celebrated by a huge Marine Protected Area in the Ross Sea coming into force. As the head of International Greenpeace Antarctic Campaign Frida Begtsson said “Healthy oceans take in vast quantities of CO2 and are essential in tackling climate change”Tonight BZE radio goes to the cryosphere where you will meet scientists and sustainability...

Subscribe: Android | Email | RSS | MoreMon 27th Nov 2017If Marco Polo returned from China today he’d be telling barely credible stories of wind turbines with livestock grazing beneath them. Australians coming back from Europe tell the same stories, with the kicker that Australia itself is sitting on a FABULOUS wind resource. If we could think BIG wouldn’t we be able to hurry to 100% and then beyon...

Mon 20th Nov 2017Erin interviews Vanessa Petrie(BZE CEO) about BZE accomplishments in 2017 and what is planned for the coming year.

 Mon 6th Nov 2017What lessons can we learn from  Bangladesh? The 2017 floods in the north of Bangladesh coincided with over half a million refugees staggering in from Myanmar in the east. India has built a security fence with armed guards around its border with Bangladesh. But despite being on the frontline, this country is NOT intending to create climate refugees. Vivien learns how Bangladesh is...

Mon 30th October 2017In the land of the lyrebirds  everyone is enthralled. Scientists  measuring the carbon stock, citizens battling the pulp mill, visionaries with maps of the linked up forests, all pause. The first people who came in to this moist forest with its giant trees going back hundreds of years, must have laughed to hear the lyrebird imitate a kookaburra, imitate a cracking branch, imit...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 23rd October 2017 “Every parrot in the pet shop is talking about Energy Policy” ACCCBut for a summit , a lot of voices were absent. Big Wind, Big Solar and the growing movement of citizens, intellectuals and NGO’s demanding the rapid energy descent away from coal oil and gas. The chiefs who supply us with over 80% of our dirty energy were there as the...

Coming up …..This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 16th October 2017Rethinking CementGuests:Jordi Bates, Kathryn Bennett, Michael Lord and Tim BuckleyYou may not have been thinking very much about cement, but BZE researchers have. Manufacturing cement makes up 8% of world carbon emissions and rising. Could it be made without these emissions? Would a price on carbon make us look differentl...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 9th October 2017Carbon Sinking in KenyaDr David Kimiti- Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in KenyaClimate blind Journalism from Texas to Bangla DeshGeorge Monbiot-  Author of ” OUT of the Wreckage” on misreporting Hurricane HarveyProfessor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen- Cardiff University on Disaster reporting as climate changes. We continue our series on carbon seque...

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This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 18th September 2017CLIMATE WARS in a time of man made disaster  When millions are displaced by floods in Bangladesh we call it a “natural disaster”. At the same time refugees are flooding INTO Bangladesh and we call it a human rights disaster. What sort of disaster is it when an educated country like Australia is paralysed by climate wars at the centr...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 11th September 2017Guests:Dr Alecia Bellgrove – Deakin UniversityJane Hammond -Film Maker “A crude injustice”Nathaniel Pelle- Greenpeace Ocean CampaignerHow can seaweed help us draw down the millions of tonnes of CO2 we emit daily? How can seaweed farmers, ruined by the Montara Oil Spill, find justice? When will the climate changing oil industry forge...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 4th Sept 2017“The majority of the Emissions Reduction Fund is poured into questionable abatement schemes to discourage land clearing, while mass deforestation cancels out any climate gains.” Mike Seccombe Guests:David Gallan – Director of the film “Understorey”Dr Mehreen Faruqi –  Environment spokesperson for the Greens in NSW ParliamentJessica Panegy...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 28th August 2017Tune in today at 5pm for Mark Butler MP, Christine Milne and Dr John Hewson on Australia’s time-wasting ‘climate wars’.How did we become the first country to repeal a carbon tax? How did we discourage investment in renewable energy and end up with costly electricity? Why  have citizens lost confidence in parliament’s capacity to unify...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 21st August 2017 This week we speak to “Farmers for Climate Action”, an alliance of farmers and  leaders in agriculture. Vivien Langford interviews the CEO Verity Morgan-Schmidt about her work advocating for climate conscious farmers to have their voices heard. Verity calls on PM Turnbull to get out of bed with the fossil fuel companies and invest in...

 This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 14th August 2017

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 7th August 2017 Erin Jones hosts a busy show with the theme being Divestment

Subscribe: Android | Email | RSS | More This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 31st July 2017Cities are facing the fact that a certain amount of climate change is locked in. Their creativity and co-operation was on display at The EcoCities World Summit. Vivien Langford talks to Professor Rob Roggema about what the Dutch have learned from living partly below sea level. Could cities work mor...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 24th July 2017 Guests: Professor of Ethics at CSU Clive Hamilton and Philosopher Dr Tim Dean The School of Life welcomed Clive Hamilton and Tim Dean to rethink our responsibility towards the earth.   Earth System Scientists are showing that while humans have massive power now, Earth also is more energised and tempestuous. Will we continue to rip up it...

This BZE Radio episode will be broadcast on Monday 17th July 2017 Today, in our second creature feature we talk to those in the front line working with animals, trying to mitigate the ruinous effects of climate change. We will learn which organisations are feverishly operating to keep these iconic Australian critters from oblivion. We talk to Dr John Kanowski of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 10th July 2017 Al Gore and climate leaders from around the world will give life to ideas now gestating in Melbourne. We will ask Professor John Wiseman why it is important. Vanessa Petrie will outline BZE’s presentations to the summit about Zero Carbon Communities and Zero Carbon Cement. Cities and States are leading us off the path of runaway climate...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 3rd July 2017