Environmental as Anything Interviews

Celebrating Earth and Art's Meg Nielsen spoke at length to clinical psychologist and community organiser Wayne Sommerville on the Art of Living in a Dangerous World. Here are the edited highlights. (Celebrating Earth and Art airs on 92.9 River FM every Tuesday from 10-2) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

As Energy Finance Analyst – Gas/LNG for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis Bruce Robertson understands the gas industry's dirty secrets better than most. He shares his analysis of the Morrison government's Gas Fuelled Recovery and reveals how they are lying to us about it and why. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Tim Beshara is Manager of Policy and Strategy at The Wilderness Society Australia, former Media Adviser Office of Senator Peter Whish-Wilson and previously olicy adviser to incoming Environment Minister the Hon Robyn Parker MP, responsible for National Parks, Marine Park reforms, Threatened Species policy and Native Vegetation reforms. He shares his inside knowledge and analysis of the recent mach...

We've all wondered what on earth could motivate our federal government to ignore the science, economics and public opinion so blatantly and insist on pouring our Covid recovery funds into their ludicrous "gas led recovery". John Hewson is one of Australia's most emminent economists and has been leader of the Federal Liberal Party and he calls it "corruption". Listen in to a revealing conversation...

Michael Mazengarb from RenewEconomy gets us up to speed with this week's big stories on our transition to renewable prosperity --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Bella Burgemeister is a seasoned youth activist and author who has stepped up to the challenge of joining the class action against the Federal Minister for the Environment to protect young people from the climate change impacts of the proposed Vickery Extension Coal Project. She tells us why and what she hopes to achieve with this action. https://equitygenerationlawyers.com/cases/sharma-v-minister...

This week we are taking a good look at the how NSW National Party's attack on our koalas and attempts at bullying the premier is damaging their credibility and hastening their slide into complete irrelevance. We will have Cate Faehrmann giving us the story from inside the NSW parliamentary "Bear Pit" and Sue Higginson speaking to Meg & Peter Nielsen bringing us the farmers perspective on the koala...

Kate Washington is the NSW Shadow Minister for Environment. She spoke to Environmental as Anything about the ALP's vision for our koala's future. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Annie Kia works with communities to defend themselves from unsustainable development. She has recently been applying her considerable talents to the problem of the proposal to dam Dunoon in the beautiful rainforest hinterland of Byron Bay NE NSW. She spoke to Environmental as Anything to break the news of an important report by Professor Stuart White of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS...

Federal Member for Warringah Zali Steggall hasjust returned from a sitting fortnight in parliament where the Scumo regime rammed its gutting of the Environmental Protectiona and Biodiversity Protection Act under cover of the Covid19 pandemic. She speaks to us about the flaws in the new act and the process and about her proposed amendments which were not even debated. She also explains how the prop...

Legendary environmental protector and rainforest ecologist Nan Nicholson tells us why the proposal to dam Dunoon must be stopped to protect Aboriginal culture, rainforest ecology and the limits to growth --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Michael Mazengarb writes prolifically for Renew Economy on the energy transition. He talks Environmental as Anything through the big headlines in Coal, Gas and Renewable NEWS from the past fortnight. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Matt Kean has been Minister for Environment and Energy in NSW for just over a year and he has turned his state from a laggard to a leader in the race to become a renewable energy superpower. This week he has seized the forest conservation nettle and promised to turn around the trajectory of our koalas from extinction to doubling in population by 2050. Environmental as Anything asked him to specify...

#Familes4Forest is a new movement of parents and children committed to protecting our public native forests from destruction by the NSW govt. They kicked off their campaign in Myrtle State Forest this week and it was a lot of fun. Environmental as Anything was there to report. Sue Higginson has been a legal advocate for our forests for decades. She speaks to us about some the various legal fronts...

Gomeroi Traditional Custodian Maria Cutmore, Boggabri resident David Watt and LIsmore Environment Centre's Naomi Shine were just 3 of the hundreds of NSW citizens who spoke out at the Narabri public hearings of the Independent planning commission against Santos' proposal to contaminate the Great Artesian Basin, trash the Piliga Forest, worsen climate chaos and undermine Australia's economy. --- Se...

Simon Holmes à Court is senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and sits on the board of the Smart Energy Council. He recently wrote and article in the Guardian on " How Australia's state energy ministers are turning the tables on Angus Taylor " We asked him to respond point by point to Angus Taylors recent presentation to the Clean Energy Council's Energy Minister...

Humpback whales have come back from the brink of extinction and are approaching sustainable population levels. This year's whale watching season has been a bumper. Wally has been involved in humpback whale research for 20 years and has undertaken the management and marine operations of The Oceania Project since its inception in 1988. He gives a fascinating interview to Environmental as Anything on...

Al Oshlack has been a legal advocate for the Indigenous people and environment of NE NSW for decades. Lately he has been working with the Gumbaynggirr people to challenge the threat of logging of their country. Their legal action sought to challenge the anti democratic nature of NSW Forest Corps status being above the law. He explains to us the effects of this action MUSIC: Southern Forest Stand-A...

Energy Ministers from every State in Australia as (and the Federal Minister for Emissions) met under the auspices of the Clean Energy Council on 8 July, 2020 to discuss their plans for rapid transition to renewable prosperity (and offer obfuscation & excuses for his Abject Failure). Environmental as Anything edited their presentations into this report. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.f...

Amanda King from Lock The Gate Alliance speaks to us on the situation this week regarding the threat of fossil exploitation in NSW Meg Nielsenm speaks to Dailan Pugh about the situation for our forests and the urgent need for us to get active to protect them and Sandy Greenwood Speaks to us from the Gumbangyiir country about their growing resistance to public native forest logging in Wild Cattle C...

Meg Nielsen from Celebrating Earth & Art interviews Dailan Pugh OAM (President of the North East Forest Alliance) on the recently released NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Koala Populations Report --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Dr Kristin Den Exter speaks to Sean O'Shannessy onsite at the Wilsons River Landcare Group's regeneration project at Simes Bridge Lismore --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

NSW MLC Cate Faehrmann has for the past year been the Chair of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the NSW Koala Population which released its "groundbreaking" report this week. Among its findings was the alarming realisation that NSW Koalas will be extinct by 2050 if our government doesn't urgently act on a set of recommendations. Cate spoke to Sean O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything to fill us...

Amanda King from Lock the Gate speaks with Sean O'Shannessy about the Narabri gasfield threat and Tim Buckley from IEEFA speaks to Meg Nielsen on the economic failure of fossils. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

Michelle Chapman and Mark Dunphy tell us about their new book "Australian Rainforest Seeds - A guide to collecting processing and propagation" & Dailan Pugh from the North East Forest Alliance talks about the NSW government's decision NOT to log our protected Old Growth Forests --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message