Climate Action Show

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 26th June 2017 In this episode we spare a thought for the people made homeless by the Lismore floods as insurance companies deny a connection with the cyclone. Find out how communities rebuild in the months after the media has moved on, and what forward thinkers are doing now to build up climate resilience in the community. ALL PODCASTS HEREThank you...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 19th June 2017This episode contains excerpts from the April 2017 national Breakthrough tour by Sherri Goodman and Ian Dunlop with the film The Age of Consequences. Sherri is a former Pentagon and US Dept of Defence official, now heading up the Consortium for Ocean Leadership and getting military minds to understand climate change. GUESTSSherri Goodman...

 This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 12th June 2017  If you missed it last year, then you missed BZE producer Viv Langford kicking John Hewson off the phone so that Christine Milne could say hi! Anything can happen at a 3CR BZE Radiothon and sometimes does. But mainly we would just like to cover our costs for the year.  So if you’ve been on the show – or would like to one day – or have...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 5th June 2017

 We could consider earth as a rental property. God comes down to do an inspection and he/she says ”What are all these holes in the property? Why is all my coral bleached? What have you done with all the trees? …. ?” I can tell you. You won’t get your bond back. #StopAdani Roadshow MC  Films demand and bring out our human and emotional responses and that’s no less true when the subject is the clima...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 22nd May 2017   This week BZE is chewing over food security and climate from a global perspective, as BZE Radio’s Vivien Langford interviews Clare Westwood in Penang and Alan Broughton – Vice President Organic Agriculture Association, with special guest Robin Laurie aka Professor Pym. Thank you to our guests:Clare Westwood –  Clare is a researcher for...

This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 15th May 2017“One of the common misconceptions is that a lot of the ERF money is for planting trees”  Jess Panegyres The Wilderness Society    A transformation is beginning to get underway in the agricultural land uses sector. And not before time – without a much-needed U-turn, agriculture, especially northern zone export beef production, is set to be...

“It’s about time the role agriculture plays in the climate crisis – and the role it COULD  play in the solution –  got a concentrated dose of attention.” Bill Mc Kibben Our 26 million head-strong beef cattle – and 75 million head of sheep – ruminant meat and livestock industry is now responsible for more than half of Australia’s GHG’s and methane, and the near term climate change they are creating...

 This BZE Radio episode was broadcast on Monday 1st May 2017 The 2017 Energy Productivity Summit at the maritime Museum in Sydney in April 2017 drew a number of international experts. Here are just some who joined BZE Radio for a chat: thank you to Benoit Lebot (IPEEC) , Monica Frassoni, Mary Ritter and Reynald Gallis. The theme is perfectly captured by the chairman of the Australian Alliance for...

Beyond Zero Emissions CommunityThis show was broadcast on Monday 24th  April 2017

This show was broadcast on Monday 17th  April 2017 The Zero Carbon Australia Industry Plan is shaping up nicely. The Zero Carbon Industry and Cement research will be presented at Australian Manufacturing Week and at the Ecocity World Summit. Listen in to hear BZE’s research director Michael Lord talk about zero carbon cement, renewable heat, zero carbon steel and how the circular economy can apply...

This show was broadcast on Monday 10th April 2017Guests:Elena Garcia and Alan Broughton, the authors of the bookSustainable Agriculture versus Corporate Greed. Quinn Ollivier, ecologist and expert on sea grass and mangrove sequestration of carbonIn this show we go from a North Queensland cattle farm to the seagrass beds of coastal Australia. Climate change prompts us to think about threats to crop...

This show was broadcast on Monday 3rd  April 2017Joining the show wasColin Seis – Pasture Cropping and carbon sequestration, from Gulgong NSWMark Diesendorf  UNSW – South Australia and beyond Colin Seis and his son Nicholas own and run the 2000-acre property “Winona” which is situated north of Gulgong on the central slopes of NSW. You can hear Colin speak to BZE’s Viv Langford in a 2014 interview...

Vivian Langford, Suresh Kumar & Datuk Idris. Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Email | RSS | MoreThis show was broadcast on Mon 27th March 2017 Listen here to the podcast Podcast Page: http://bze.org.au/malaysia-part-1/  MONDAY BZE Radio Mon 5-6pm TUNE in http://3cr.org.au/streaming  LIVE CATCH Podcasts @ http://bze.org.au/podcasts TWEET it in : @beyondzeronews and #bzelive FB conversation: https://ww...

 This show was broadcast on Mon 20th March 2017  The Environment Minister for Penang, The Hon Phee Boon Poh 彭文宝 and Federal MP, Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj talk to Vivien about how Malaysia is working on its Paris Climate Commitments. MONDAY BZE Radio Mon 5-6pmTUNE in http://3cr.org.au/streaming LIVE 3CR Community Radio

 This show was broadcast on Mon 13th March 2017   A 15 megawatt solar farm is being built on 24 hectares in Valdora, Queensland. It will be the fifth largest solar farm in Australia. At its peak, the solar farm will generate 15,000 kilowatts of electricity from the sun into the Energex network. The electricity generated over one year is enough to power about 5000 homes.36,000 trees will also be pl...

 This show was broadcast on Mon 6th March 2017  The focus of today’s show is the Coalition for Community Energy Congress 2017 – which happened on Feb 27 & 28. Guest interviews include: Professor Søren Hermansen, director of Samsø’s Energy Academy and Nicky Ison, director and founder of Community Power Agency. And various participants from the congress including the Future Super #ReInvest event.  M...

Sydney Peace Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture   The 2016 Sydney Peace Foundation Prize was presented to Naomi Klein at Sydney Town Hall on Friday 11 November. This inspiring lecture and award ceremony featured an opening song by Missy Higgins, an introduction by Senator Patrick Dodson and the awarding of the Prize by Professor Gillian Triggs.“The Jury commended Klein for proposing solutions that n...

This show will be broadcast on Mon 20th Feb 2017We talk to Katerina Gaita (CEO of Climate for Change), who hopes they will have talked to 500,000 Australians by next year and has had interest in the model of community building from Singapore and Canada. Carol Ride is a Psychologist (Psychology for a Safe Climate) who is fortifying those who are already active but weighed down by the frustration an...

Coal Citizens or Solar Citizens? This show was broadcast on Mon 13th Feb 2017  Our guests are Economist Dr Rod Campbell, Research Director of The Australia Institute. Solar Citizens National Director Claire O’Rourke, and Peter Yacono, Director of the new documentary “Our Power” about the Latrobe Valley, it’s people, and the Hazelwood power station.  MONDAY BZE Radio Mon 5-6pm TUNE in http://3cr.or...

This show was broadcast on Mon 6th Feb 2017.Thank you very much to Canberra’s 2XX team and Clayton McDonald for the recording and airing at Behind The Lines. MONDAY BZE Radio Mon 5-6pm TUNE in http://3cr.org.au/streaming  LIVE CATCH Podcasts @ http://bze.org.au/podcasts TWEET it in : @beyondzeronews and #bzelive FB conversation: https://www.facebook.com/beyondzeroemissions/

This show was broadcast on Monday 30th January 2017 – Kate Auty, Philip Sutton, Luke TaylorThe annual National Sustainable Living Festival starts this week and runs from 4 Feb to 28 Feb – with the Big Weekend in Melbourne Friday-Sunday, 10-12 February. In the first interview Vivien talks to Luke Taylor about the Festival program, the film The Age of Consequences, communicating the climate emergenc...

The Unforgiving Math of Staying Under 2 Degrees  This show was broadcast on Mon 16th January 2017“In the landmark Paris accord, 195 countries from around the world agreed that they would collectively keep average global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees, and that they would pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees. But what does science have to say on actually keeping those goals?...

This show was broadcast on Mon 9th January 2017Today we rebroadcast a topic that is of timely importance as we head into summer. Greg Foyster brings us the hot facts about heatwaves. Maggie Baron recalls the devastating impact of one fateful heatwave on her own family. Stephen Bygrave and Andrew Bray on RET games and how to get with the world trend on renewables. Heatwave Fact Sheet  (160Kb PDF) M...

This show will be broadcast on Mon 2nd January 2017In conversation with Lyn Bender, Deb Hart and Blair Palese The title of this broadcast refers to the Pope’s words: “We are at the limit of suicide, to say a strong word. Our world is on a suicidal course unless we  pay attention and pull out of this nosedive into the sixth great extinction.”Our guests joining the show:Lyn Bender – Former Manager o...