Climate Conversations

Clare Hymer (pictured) took to Twitter to explode the conspiracies around the 15 minute city and talked with George Monbiot about his then new book, " Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis " . " People Live in Cities: An Analysis of Urban Planning’s Role in Loneliness "; " Administration to Approve Huge Alaska Oil Project on Monday, Two Officials Say "; " What is the '15-minute...

Humanity's efforts to avoid the worst of the climate crisis hinge on bold, charismatic, innovative and farseeing leadership and it fell to Miriam Mohammed (pictured) o explain something about leadership when she appeared on ABC's " The Drum ", although she was talking about Australia's indigenous Voice to Parliament, rather than climate change. Good leadership is, however, interchangeable and not...

 Economic anthropologist,   Dr. Jason Hickel (pictured), takes us on a journey through degrowth and exposes the failures of our existing economic system - hear him in conversation with neoclassical economist, Barbara Baarsma . Read Jason Hickel's latest book " Less is More ". " China strengthens role of courts in meeting carbon targets "; " Meet the Teenage Private Jet Detective "; " Aus...

About 50 people gathered at Shepparton's "Woolshed" on Tuesday, March 7, to acknowledge and celebrate the launch of the City of Greater Shepparton's " Climate Action Emergency Plan ". The speakers included a member of Australia's " Climate Council ", Professor David Karoly , a representative of the Waranga Landcare Management Collective, Ms Lou Costa,  and the Director of La Trobe University'...

Zali Steggall (pictured) was elected as an Independent Member for the Federal Seat of Warringah with the mandate to take action on climate change and here you can see, hear and read the message that Ms Steggall took to parliament - " Zali Steggall MP calls government to regulate methane emissions ". Also, Greens leader Adam Brandt has called on the Albanese Labor Government to end its coal and gas...

Zoe Richards (pictured) discussed coral reefs and hope on Ockham's Razor - " The coral reef you didn't know you needed to know about "; " 60 Scientists Call for Accelerated Research Into ‘Solar Radiation Management’ That Could Temporarily Mask Global Warming' ; " NSW government called out on net zero goal as own data projects coal and gas emissions until 2050 "; " Alan Kohler: To defeat climate ch...

Rushworth's Lou Costa (pictured) joined those who gather Beneath the Wisteria in Shepparton (imagined only as the wisteria that was once the group's home a fallen prey to so-called progress) to talk about the personal and global challenges of having children in the face of a quickly unfolding climate crisis. During her presentation, Lou mentioned that Wales had a " Well-being of Future Generations...

Brynn Fuller-Becker explains the goals and ambitions of People versus Fossil Fuels . " US backs Ajay Banga to lead World Bank in climate fight "; " Thinking of having a baby as the planet collapses? First, ask yourself 5 big ethical questions "; " $26.7 Million Injection as Arcimoto Resumes Production "; " To Shift Away from Oil and Gas, Developing Countries Need a ‘Just Transition’ to Protec...

People need to acknowledge that we are in the midst of humanity's most profound moment and that, according to climate scientist and author, Joëlle Gergis (pictured), is the most immediate thing people do regarding the climate crisis. The Australian National University doctor was in conversation with the deputy director of Psychology for a Safe Climate , Dr Charles Le Feuvre, discussing her latest...

Love letters to Mother Earth - " Ten Love Letters to the Earth "; " Hundreds airlifted as flooding hits remote NT communities "; " Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict "; " Do people yet to be born have climate change rights? "; " Tornadoes Injure at Least a Dozen in Oklahoma "; " 5 Priorities for Urban Climate Action in 2023 and Beyond "; " Electric vehicle rebates and...

Cecilia Sorensen  (pictured), who is the director of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University and is an Emergency  Medicine physician-investigator in the area of climate change and health, told a Columbia University Climate School webinar of a hospital emergency department which had no other way of cooling heat stroke victims outside putting them in a...

Performer Neil Young is still searching for a " Heart of Gold " and the choir-like unison he encourages is what the world needs if it is going to genuinely, and honestly,  tackle the climate crisis. Entrepreneur and engineer, Saul Griffith, is back in Australia after about 20 years in the U.S. where he had pretty much convinced the country it urgently needed to electrify everything and now he...

Melbourne-based sociologist, author and podcaster, Terry Leahy (pictured), was one of three speakers at the Sunday, February 26, launch of Degrowth Network Australia (DNA) at Northcote's Black Spark Cultural Centre . The two other speakers were Earthworker board member and a Victorian Trades Hall Council Just Transitions Organiser, Colin Long, and activist-scholar, Anitra Nelson, an honorary princ...

Anitra Nelson (pictured) has long been a key player in Australia's degrowth conversation, even talking about the issue before it had been formally described as such. She is also known throughout the world for her work on advancing the degrowth philosophy. The activist-scholar affiliated with the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at the University of Melbourne, Australia, was one of three spe...

Colin Long (pictured) was one of three speakers at the Sunday, February 26, launch of the Degrowth Network Australia (DNA) at Northcote's Black Spark Cultural Centre . The board member from Earthworker , environmental activist and Just Transitions Organizer from the Victorian Trades Hall Council was joined as a speaker by activist/scholar and an honourary principal fellow at the Informal Urbanism...

Rethinking capitalism and climate and taking the advice of Tim Dunlop - " How the Reserve Bank is undermining democracy ". " Faster, higher, hotter: What we learned about the climate system in 2022 - Part 3 "; " Australia to Triple Size of Macquarie Island Protection Zone to Shield ‘Remote Wildlife Wonderland’ in Southern Ocean "; " Despite Oil Company Ties, COP28 President-Designate Vows to Uphol...

The book by Oreskes and Conway illustrates that it is an ideology, not facts that matter. " Wild week of extreme weather ahead in the Lower 48: 5 things to know "; " France, Italy, Belgium: The European regions most at risk from floods and sea level rise" ; " Why Tasmania and Victoria dominate the list of Australia’s largest trees – and why these majestic giants are under threat "; " Warming...

Melbourne's David Spratt is back with the second part of " Faster, higher, hotter: What we learned about the climate system in 2022 "; " Wild storms spark hundreds of call for help "; " As La Nina wanes, what follows could be even worse "; " Great Lakes ice cover plummets to record mid-February low "; " Increasingly extreme heat could cost Phoenix $2 billion every year "; " IEA: Global energy cris...

Melbourne's David Spratt looks back at the 2022 climate and sees the dominoes falling - " Faster, higher, hotter: What we learned about the climate system in 2022 "; " Climate Integrity is on the line "; " ‘Much more work’ needed to plug electricity shortfalls "; " Snowy delays add supply tensions to grid, but new big batteries ease short-term worries "; " Coal giant Glencore pushes for law change...

" The Merchants of Doubt " by Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway was one of the standard bearers in climate literature and now they have turned their attention to " The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market " (pictured). "O ne in five developments threatening koala habitat are renewable energy projects "; " Beyond roads, rates and rubbish: Australian...

Federal Member for Nicholls, Sam BIrrell (pictured), with the aid of Environmental Leadership Australia , is staging an invite-only meeting this week in Shepparton to talk about growth and economic survival during the rigours of the climate crisis, while in Melbourne on Sunday, February 26, a group of enthusiasts from the Degrowth Network Australia (DNA) will be talking about taking the opposite a...

Kate McBride (pictured) was one of  four young people who presented on a Farmers for Climate Action webinar - " Harvesting Hope - How young people can shape the future of agriculture ". " Cyclone Gabrielle: Survival, resilience and losing everything in Hawkes Bay "; " At COP27, Activists Say Europe Wants Africa to Become Its ‘Gas Station’ "; " 1.5°C – dead or alive? The risks to transformatio...

Emily Jones (pictured) will be among the hosts when Farmers for Climate Action bring an electric utility to Shepparton , illustrating that the future for farmers is electric. “ Brazenly co-opted”: experts confront CSIRO for gas industry infiltration, greenwashing fossil fuels "; " Emissions divide now greater within countries than between them – study "; " Private Jet Emissions in 2022 "; " Wind T...

Lyla June (pictured) uses both song and word via TEDx to help us both see and understand that the solutions of her people can still be applied to modern day problems. Her TEDx presentation is entitled: " 3000-year-old solutions to modern problems ". In this profoundly hopeful talk, Diné musician, scholar, and cultural historian Lyla June outlines a series of timeless human success stories focusing...

Chris Vanderstock has challenged the Victorian Government over costs against his electric car and was interviewed on ABC radio by Patricia Karvelas (pictured). " Electric utes can now power the weekend – and the work week "; " Stopping native forest logging could deliver billions in climate benefits, study says "; " ‘Real threat to lives’: Cyclone wreaks havoc across NZ "; " Can clouds of Moo...