Climate Action Show

Monday 15th October 2018Can the Law and Corporations adapt to IPCC advice in time? What struck me about the IPCC report was that we have 12 years to put in place massive drawdown projects. The funny thing is we know what to do.  What is in the way? In this show we find out how the legal system and the myths under which business operates are preventing them really reading the IPCC report and behavi...

Councils confronting climate impactsGuests:Lyn SavillePeterLaneGreg ClancyDanielle WheelerAmanda CotlashThe Mayor of BellingenJohn LevinMichelle EnglishNina KeathHallie EakinMusic by Shane Howard and Garrumal Marika

Monday 1st October 2018Guests:Paul HawkenJoelle GergisDavid Ritter   

 Monday 24th Sept 2018Presenter / Producer: Erin JonesTopic: Electrifying Industry Pt 2 – Victorian State Govt & IndustryToday Erin Jones continues the discussion of the Electrifying Industry work. We look at Victorian State Government support for Industry in their energy use, and the opportunities they have to take more control of these. We also talk to industry about what energy means for their...

Presenter/Producer: Erin JonesTopic: Electrifying Industry Pt 1 – Frontline Action on Coal – Newcastle & Save Westernport updateToday Erin Jones discusses the latest BZE research – Electrifying Industry. Download the report (for free) here:http://bze.org.au/electrifying-industry-2018/We speak with Head of Research at BZE – Michael Lord.  Michael is the lead author of the Electrifying Industry Repo...

After the Smoke Clears – Episode 2For more information go to: www.afterthesmokeclears.com.auToday we return to the Latrobe Valley – to ask “what is a just transition?”  In other words how can we phase out coal and phase in renewables without hurting the families and communities that relied on coal for income and power. We are joined by:Michael Mersmann: the Director of Globalisation and European P...

Monday 3rd Sept 2018Guests:Ian Dunlop –  Former Int Oil, Coal and Gas industry executive.  Now Co author “What lies beneath”Louise FraserLouise Fraser– 350.Org campaigner for RISE FOR CLIMATE  global event   Sarah and Tim – Frontline Action on Coal – They stopped the coal trains into Newcastle for 3.5 hours TODAY!Giles ParkinsonGiles Parkinson –  Editor of Renew Economy.orgDid you know that Austra...

Monday 27th Aug 2018 NT Gas expansion possibilities:https://www.reuters.com/article/australia-lng-conocophillips/australias-darwin-seeks-to-shed-frontier-image-to-become-world-class-lng-export-hub-idUSL4N1TV2FGWhy increased LNG exports is bad for the climate:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060069129Link to the article mentioned in the article abovehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...

Monday 20th Aug 2018Dr Jeyakumar DevarajDr Jeyakumar Devaraj lost his seat in the last election but he is exhilarated that the change of government in Malaysia has permitted a new optimism. Vivien Langford  asks him how a new Bandung Spirit would unleash strong climate action.  While waiting and waiting for UN green funds maybe ASEAN nations can work together for a new dispensation. He says Malays...

Monday 13th Aug 2018Presenter/Producer: Erin JonesTopic: Zero Emissions Noosa, NEG – Update, Save Westernport – UpdateToday Erin Jones talks the campaign for Zero Emissions in Noosa, we get an update on the National Energy Guarantee, and the latest in the Save Westernport campaignWe speak with Vivien Griffin who is the President of Zero Emissions Noosa about the community initiative to move the No...

Monday 6th August 2018Presenter/Producer: Erin JonesTopic: Electric Vehicles – Commercial Vans & TrucksToday Erin Jones talks Electric Vehicles – but of the commercial – truck and van variety. We speak with Tony Fairweather from Sea Electric about the Vans and trucks they are producing using their SEA – Drive Technology for emissions free transport solutions – and hear about the cost savings that...

 Monday 30th July 2018This show we are going to the Latrobe Valley in Victoria – a place that is experiencing the opportunities and issues surrounding the transition from Coal to Renewables. For more information visit the website for After the Smoke ClearsWendy FarmerWendy Farmer: Prominent community activist, Wendy Farmer rose up in the aftermath of the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire.  She has since be...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download () | EmbedSubscribe: Android | Email | RSS | MoreAs large parts of Australia are in drought and some farmers are having to shoot their livestock for lack of feed,  how can regenerative agriculture help farms become more resilient? As there is a growing demand for meat and dairy products for export to Asia,  will we resist the land clearing and overstocking to...

Monday 16th July 2018Today’s guests:Mark Crossweller –  Head of the National Resilience Task ForceJo Dodds – Councillor at Bega Valley Shire CouncilRob Roggema – Professor of Sustainable Urban Environments UTSAre global climate disruptions finding us unprepared for some emergencies, even in countries with high tech warning systems?  Psychologists say it is bad to paralyse people with frightening p...

Monday 9th July 2018Sarah Brenan talks about the role philanthropy plays in seeding climate action.  She admires the boldness of BZE with its reports showing the way to decarbonise our society.“Rethinking Cement” was one of our projects supported by the Hamer Family Fund and we talk about how brave ideas need to be nurtured and are underpinned by a wonderful team of pro bono researchers and public...

Monday 2nd July 2018Giles ParkinsonThis show is about the Energy Revolution from three points of view and what are the hurdles in its path. We chat to GILES PARKINSON about the Large-Scale Solar Industry Forum that was held in May.  Is Industry united about the National Energy Guarantee?  Does the Business Council of Australia represent industries that are already signing up for wind and solar pow...

Monday 25th June 2018Dr Bob Brown at the Sustainable Living Festival aroused the audIence to save the TARKINE.  He speaks to a young doctor perched as a protector in a tree to bring that remote forest to the city audience.  We hear from Jane Goodall about young people restoring the web of life or falling into despair and dramatic moments from the Sea Shepherd as it is nearly squashed by two whalin...

Monday 18th June 2018Today Erin Jones talks Sustainable Transport. Starting with the potential of powering Melbourne’s trains with renewable energy with campaigners Pat Simons – Yes 2 Renewables Community Coordinator and Rachel Lynskey, Friends of the Earth’s Sustainable Cities Campaigner. We chat with Richard McNeall a volunteer with the Tesla Owners Club of Australia (TOCA) who coordinated the R...

Subscribe: Android | Email | RSS | MoreMonday 4th June 2018Tina FawcettTina Fawcett speaks to Vivien Langford from Oxford. She was involved in a UK Government report into the feasibility of Personal carbon rations. She wrote Suicidal Planet and thinks that by focusing on our personal carbon budget more people would engage realistically with the problem of global warming. The British decided that t...

Port Augusta  Podcast of 28 May 2018BZE played a major part in this story of Port Augusta which is turning from being a coal fired powerhouse to becoming a Renewable Energy Hub. BE radio presenter Vivien Langford took the bus from Adelaide passing hills resplendent with wind turbines and talks to people involved in this transformation. Dan Van Holst Pelikaan DAN VAN HOLST PELIKAAN,  the Minster fo...

Monday 14th May 2018 Amanda CahillAmanda Cahill is the founding director of the Centre for Social Change.  She has worked extensively in developing countries and worries that climate change will force us to trust people who are just perpetuating a colonialist system.  The impact is falling on people who already do not have access to water and electricity and unless we phase out fossil fuels fast,...

Monday 7th May 20187th May 2018 BZE Community Radio Show with Andy, Kurt, Viv and RogerGiles ParkinsonGiles Parkinson, Founder and Editor of REneweconomy tells Vivien about new developments on the desert road to transition. Sanjeev Gupta’s Green Steel investments will boost the need for renewable energy at Whyalla and elsewhere.. He thinks that energy intensive industry is set to expand in Austral...

Monday 30th April 2018Accelerating Climate Action: Taking on the giantsBill Mc Kibben is in Australia. President Macron is also visiting and he calls for a removal of all obstacles as we scale up.(1)As new coal mines and gas wells open up in NSW ,Qld and NT, not to mention the Adani Project we need to accelerate climate action. You can invite people to livestream Bill Mc Kibben’s talk in Melbourne...

BZE Community Radio Show podcast 23 April 2018 covering:The Local Government Climate Review,Bill McKibben’s Accelerate Speaking Tour,Sustainability Victoria on Victorians’ Perception of Climate Change. We talk to authors of the 2018 Local Government Climate Review, which will be launched at the Resilient Cities Conference in Bonn, Germany this week. The review is a joint initiative between BZE, Ir...

Monday 16th April 2018Although climate change seems to be an alarming new problem without precedent in pre-industrial civilization, maybe historians can help us.  What can we learn from them? Sunburnt CountryDr Joelle Gergis talks to Vivien Langford about her new book “Sunburnt Country”. It is subtitled “The History and Future of Climate change in Australia” and won the Eureka prize for interdisci...