The Fair Food Forager & Friends Show

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Alice Forrest is a conservationist & marine biologist based in the hills of Byron Bay on Australia’s east coast. Alice’s passion for the natural world and the creatures who inhabit it has led to a range of incredible adventures, from studying blue whales in the Indian Ocean to documenting the most plastic polluted beach i...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. This podcast was recorded Tuesday November 3, 2020 and will be published the same day.  I catch up with friend and inspirational Federal Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson while he's on a short break, driving around beautiful Tasmania in an RV. The main reason for this chat was to highlight amendments to the governments p...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Senator Janet Rice works for the Australian Greens , is a former councillor and mayor of Maribyrnong , environmentalist and one of the founding members of the Victorian Greens . Janet was elected to the Senate in 2014, speaking on behalf of; Foreign Affairs, Multiculturalism, Forests, LGBTIQ community, Transport & Infrast...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. The media has called her "Australia's Greta Thunberg" but Izzy Raj-Seppings is simply fighting for what would seem the only sensible approach to climate action. At 13 Izzy is concerned about the state of our earth and wants action on climate now, and who can blame her? She became the face of climate change acti...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Bob Brown has been campaigning and leading action on climate and the protection of our natural environments for at least 50 years. Inspiring fellow environmentalists and changing / challenging legislation as an Australian Senator. In 1978 Bob Brown was appointed director of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society and was a leader of...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Professor Colin Woodroffe is a coastal geomorphologist currently at the University of Wollongong. He has an international research focus on the morphology, stratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of tropical and subtropical coasts, and the application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to the study of processes and chang...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Alexx Stuart is an educator, activist, podcaster and author for anyone wanting to reduce their toxic load in everyday life. Alexx is all about helping you improve your health by reducing the toxins you consume, yet considering the planet. Low Tox Life is for anybody who wants to help the environment, from joining the war agai...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. The Growing Illawarra Natives website showcases native plant species local to the Illawarra to encourage greater appreciation and cultivation of native plant species in the Illawarra. The website lists 500 indigenous plant species, with information like size, distribution, leaf and flower colour, edibles and growing requireme...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. In this episode I talk with Cate Faehrmann NSW Greens MLC in a very quiet NSW parliament on a wet winters afternoon. We chat about the good, the bad and the ugly in NSW politics, Cate's passions, her road to politics, mining under Sydney's water supply, the things we can do as individuals and the things we can feel...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Kate Druhan of Green School Bali Kate has worked at this amazing environment and sustainably minded school in Bali for 6 years. Her current role is head of community. Green School Bali is a private and international pre-kindergarten to high school located along the Ayung River near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. The school was founde...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. For the past 6 years Ellen Sandell has represented the electorate of Melbourne in the Parliament of Victoria as a member of the Australian Greens. She is currently the Deputy Leader of the Victorian Greens. Ellen was the Young Environmentalist of the Year in 2009 and was a former director of the Australian Youth Climate Coali...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Katlin Tilly is an environmental conservationist with a passion for food security, sustainable living and marine protection. Since leaving high school Katlin has travelled the world working with not-for-profits to implement sustainable practices and educate youth. Her most recent adventure was sailing across the South Pacific...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Lyndi Cohen is an author, dietitian and nutritionist who puts the fun back into food. Her program “Back to Basics” is about recipes, fitness and head space. Lyndi's Instagram is full off simple, tasty recipes, motivating statements and self portraits that go against the insta norm. Diets and self image aren't about...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Robyn Rosenfeldt is the founding editor and publisher of Pip Magazine, the Australian permaculture magazine. Robyn has a love of photography, design and sharing stories, permaculture and natural world. PIP magazine is full of simple, positive, practical solutions to living a more sustainable life. Robyn manages the magazine f...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. In this chat we talk about Costa's years of learning, in talking and presenting and how that has created his ability to motivate and inspire people. We talk about resilience in strange times, including Costa having some free weekends and our theories around caring for our community and not letting fear control us. Costa...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Costa is a landscape architect who is well known as the host of the ABC's Gardening Australia as well as the former Costa's Garden Odyssey on SBS. He works tirelessly to spread the good word on gardening, growing food, growing native plants, volunteering, repurposing yesterdays rubbish and basically being there for...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Ash Grunwald is a blues musician with nine studio albums and five ARIA Music nominations. His latest album is Mojo . His book, released last year is called " Surf by Day, Jam by Night " with a series of interviews with surfing / musicians and musical / surfers Ash has his own podcast called Soulful Conversations tha...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. With portfolios including Consumer Affair s, Treasury & Finance , Small Business , Healthy Ocean s and Waste and Recycling Peter Whish-Wilson has a lot on his plate. Lucky for us he is also one of the good guys of Australian politics with the intellect and passion needed to put people and the planet back in priority over...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Jamie Lepre is the creative director and CEO at Mane Collective an environmentally conscious filmmaker for the planet and the people!   He is the co-creator of The Peloton Against Plastic, an eco-tourism impact model and documentary. Paul and Jamie rode bicycles from Hanoi to Bangkok to generate conversation around the preven...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. This episode is about easing wasteful ways, mental health and learning as you go. Welcome to the fair food forager & friends show, episode 3. A chat with Damien Clarke of Green Caffeen. A mobile application and reusable coffee cup solution that allows you to scan and swap reusable coffee cups. Its FREE and growing quickly...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Monica Mudge is the founder of Treading Lightly inc and Dean Howcroft is a member of the organisation, also running the Treading Lightly podcast. In this episode we do a duel podcast that will be shared on both fair food forager and treading lightly. We chat about the south coast bushfires, current and future environmental pl...

I'd love feedback and messages of support - please send an sms here. Susie Crick is the National Chairperson of Surfrider Australia, Rise Above Plastics Campaign Director and South Coast Branch President. Susie will be a crew member of 2020 Exxpedition, an all-female research expedition to investigate the causes of and solutions to ocean plastic pollution. She's also an international Flig...