Amy Ciara.

Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence

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Have you noticed that new suburbs are more car dependant, less green, less community orientated and painfully bland? Do you spend time on the internet dreaming of a future home in a beautiful green neighbourhood? Things don't seem to be changing, do they? Infact, that dream is turning out to be difficult to reach. Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence asks why are things like this and what can we do about it? Listen to a variety of people and communities who are doing something to change this. We have an overabundance of resources including food and housing. We can redesign our urban environments...

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Amy Ciara.

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Wildlife Victoria: The Wildlife Road Toll Part 2 | Speeches from She Matters Geelong 01.05.2025

In this episode we hear the second part to the interview with Aleisha Hall from Wildlife Victoria and speeches from She Matters, Geelong. In the interview with Aleisha we get into a disscussion of how possums and birds are fairing in our urban environments and of course what we can do to protect them. Find out more at https://www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/ AND save the Wildlife Victoria number incas...

Kicking Fences with Anitra Nelson | Urban Wasteland Survival Guide 17.04.2025

Have you ever wanted to join a housing co-operative, collective or eco-village? Then this is the episode for your green fuzzy ears! Listen to a conversation all about kicking down fences with Anitra Nelson, author of Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet. We discuss her ideas for eco-collaborative housing and the problems with our cities and suburbs. Also catch the first installment...

Wildlife Victoria: The Wildlife Road Toll Part 1 | Water Managment with Ana from the APR Collective 03.04.2025

In this episode we talk to Aleisha from Wildlife Victoria on impacts our urban envirnoments have on native wildlife. This Episode focuses on Kangaroos and in Episode 10 we will hear more about other marsupials and birdlife. Following that conversation we chat to Ana from the Alliance for Praxis Research Collective. We talk about her work in water managment with Boon Wurrung Elders and navigating t...

40 Hectares of Endangered Grasslands Destroyed for Development | The Gentrification of Queerness 06.03.2025

We start this episode with a press release from the Grassy Plains Network(link is external) on the destruction of protected and endangered grasslands by property developpers. We relate this back to the the previous weeks conversations on decolonisation. Following this Vasi and Sayang join us again to continue our previous conversation on the unique relationships the LGBTQIA+SB+ community to gentri...

Decolonise Your Lawn with Keiran Stewart-Asherton from Yillamin and Matt Bassalt Buddies! 20.02.2025

This is episode starts with a deep dive into the embbedded racism and colonising in european political ideologies with Keiran. We then discuss the cities and suburbs as monuments to the colonial regem before Matt from Bassalt buddies joins us to talk about alternative actions we can take to decolonise our lawns and public green spaces. Links:Listen to Keiran on Yillamin - 3cr.org.au/yillaminThe BP...

Climate Adaptation Fair with India from Friends of the Earth | Rachel Iampolski from the APR Collective and the Greens Party 06.02.2025

The episode opens with a response from Amy to the attacks of LIFE SAVING gender affirming health care for Trans & Gender Diverse children. Following this AMy chats with India from Friends of the Earth, Act on Climate Collective. They discuss the Climate Adaptiation Fair event on Februrary 8th and what participants can expect. The final interview for the episode is with member of the Alliance for P...