After the virus – talking about an innovative recovery from COVID-19 in South-East Queensland
Overview of the podcast series
The Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment organisation (HOPE) welcomes you to this podcast series: After the virus – talking about an innovative recovery from COVID-19 in South-East Queensland. The series is produced by HOPE in the form of structured interviews of 25 to 45-minute duration. Invited guests talk about a range of ways in which our region could become more sustainable as we move to control and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
HOPE is a sustainability education and capacity building, not for profit organisation founded in the 1990s. Based in Toowoomba, Queensland, we respond to a range of local through to national sustainability concerns. Our main objective for this podcast series is to contribute to a regional public conversation which can support the creation of a bold, evidence-based, regional vision and strategy for an innovative, green stimulus recovery in S.E. Queensland.
Each podcast episode contains an overarching vision, reflective of the particular interests of our guests; a vision for what a green ‘built forward better’ stimulus and recovery from COVID-19 in this part of Queensland might look like. Guests also describe some of the immediate steps which could be taken to start to realise that vision.
HOPE’s key rationale in creating this project lies in its support for an innovative recovery from COVID-19 which can, simultaneously, tackle major regional, longer-term problems, such as uncontrolled climate change, biodiversity loss, and water security; and at the same time that we move to end the pandemic and ultimately move beyond it. Such a vision would align this region with the scale of ambition and innovation emerging from within a growing global, and national movement; one which advocates a rapid transformation toward a low carbon, ecologically sustainable, socially fair, and economically prosperous move away from current ‘business as usual’ models of development.
In Australia, momentum is building rapidly behind this crucial, low carbon transition goal. In just several months across 2020 we saw four, well-researched reports outlining a path toward a low carbon future in this country, produced by the organisations Climate Works, Beyond Zero Emissions the Climate Council and most recently, The Next Economy. Through broadcast of the After the Virus podcast series, HOPE aims to bring some of the ideas, forward thinking and energy behind this capacity building momentum into the South East Queensland region.
HOPE acknowledges the original, indigenous custodians of this region: including the Jarowair, Wakka Wakka, Juggera and Giabal peoples. We acknowledge their elders, past, present and emerging, and we celebrate the continuous living cultures of all First Nation Australians, their spiritual respect and care for country; their responsible stewardship of the natural world, undertaken over many thousands of years; and their other ongoing contributions made to Australia today.
Artwork: Daniela Dal'Castel Music by: James Nicholson
Overview of the podcast series
The Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment organisation (HOPE) welcomes you to this podcast series: After the virus – talking about an innovative recovery from COVID-19 in South-East Queensland. The series is produced by HOPE in the form of structured interviews of 25 to 45-minute duration. Invited guests talk about a range of ways in which our region could become more sustainable as we move to control and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
HOPE is a sustainability education and capacity building, not for profit organisation founded in the 1990s. Based in Toowoomba, Queensland, we respond to a range of local through to national sustainability concerns. Our main objective for this podcast series is to contribute to a regional public conversation which can support the creation of a bold, evidence-based, regional vision and strategy for an innovative, green stimulus recovery in S.E. Queensland.
Each podcast episode contains an overarching vision, reflective of the particular interests of our guests; a vision for what a green ‘built forward better’ stimulus and recovery from COVID-19 in this part of Queensland might look like. Guests also describe some of the immediate steps which could be taken to start to realise that vision.
HOPE’s key rationale in creating this project lies in its support for an innovative recovery from COVID-19 which can, simultaneously, tackle major regional, longer-term problems, such as uncontrolled climate change, biodiversity loss, and water security; and at the same time that we move to end the pandemic and ultimately move beyond it. Such a vision would align this region with the scale of ambition and innovation emerging from within a growing global, and national movement; one which advocates a rapid transformation toward a low carbon, ecologically sustainable, socially fair, and economically prosperous move away from current ‘business as usual’ models of development.
In Australia, momentum is building rapidly behind this crucial, low carbon transition goal. In just several months across 2020 we saw four, well-researched reports outlining a path toward a low carbon future in this country, produced by the organisations Climate Works, Beyond Zero Emissions the Climate Council and most recently, The Next Economy. Through broadcast of the After the Virus podcast series, HOPE aims to bring some of the ideas, forward thinking and energy behind this capacity building momentum into the South East Queensland region.
HOPE acknowledges the original, First Nations custodians of the S.E. Queensland region: including the Jarowair, Wakka Wakka, Juggera and Giabal peoples. We acknowledge their elders, past, present and emerging, and we celebrate the continuous living cultures of all First Nation Australians, their spiritual respect and care for country; their responsible stewardship of the natural world, undertaken over many thousands of years; and their other ongoing contributions made to Australia today.
