Align in the Sound - New Economy Network / Radio BTL / CoCanberra

Conversation with Dr Michelle Maloney, the Co-founder and Director of the New Economy Network Australia (NENA). Michelle is also the Co-Founder & National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, promoting the understanding and practical implementation of Earth centred law and governance.

Introductory episode of the NENA Podcast. Host Anna Garnock outlines what the podcast is all about and gives a little taste tester of what’s to come!

Joining us this Friday morning to talk about the current and future impact of nuclear and uranium issues, we have three stellar guests, well actually two stellar guests and one stellar activist group!

First up, from 9-9:30am, we will have Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Nuclear Free Campaigner, Dave Sweeney, from the Australian Conservation Foundation joining us via phone.

Then in studio from 9:30-10am, we will welcome, Beyond Uranium Canberra, a group which focuses on the impacts of uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and radioactive waste on First Nations communities. They will be followed by fellow Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr. Sue Wareham OAM - President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War and Secretary of Australians for War Powers Reform from 10-10:30am.

Both of our guests won their 2017 Peace Prize as founders of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, in which they are both still active.

It's going to be one helluva big show about why nuclear weapons and uranium mining still represent a major existential threat to our planet!

We are privileged to have live in studio with us this morning, Federal GREENS candidates Tim Hollo and Dr. Tjanara Goreng Goreng.

Tim is the executive director of the Green Institute and the founder of Greens Music Australia, who will once again run in the seat of Canberra, alongside Wakka Wakka woman Dr. Tjnara Goreng Goreng,

academic at ACU and secretary of the Australian Greens First Nations Network, who will seek to secure Canberra’s second Senate seat.

Tim and Tjanara, who bring a wealth of experience from the NGO, university, public and community sectors, as well as a lifetime of community and environmental activism, will be introducing us to their platforms and vision of what two extra Greens seats in parliament could accomplish towards a sustainable Green recovery and brighter future.

This month:

Jason Richards joins us from the Resource Work Co-op in Hobart, Tasmania, believed to be the largest worker owned coop in Australia.

The Resource Co-op is a worker owned coop with 33 worker / owners, and has been running since 1993.

What began as a tip face recycling effort is now flourishing, despite many setbacks that may have folded a different type of enterprise.

Amongst other things, they currently:

- run a tip shop, including 2nd hand arts supplies

- pull large buildings apart by hand - reducing massive demolition waste

- collect unwanted reusable things from the public

- collect recyclables from building sites

- run an annual art from trash exhibition

- run education programs

They are completely self funding through their activities.

Find out more at https://www.resource.coop/resource-work-cooperative

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A recording from our archives from 2006. Christine Jones is a renowned soil scientist, she is still focused today on the importance of soil carbon, which has so many benefits in so many ways.

The Blue Tongue Coop is a Co-operative development agency, specialising in business successions which transform existing businesses to worker owned cooperatives.

Mark Huston and Rob McMaster joined us to have a yarn about the worker owned Co-op format, how they have been going about helping the transformations, creating a cooperative culture in the workplace, and how workers can adjust to a truly democratic workplace - not an easy thing!

A recording of the CoCanberra / NENA Canberra region meetup for July 2021.

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This week, we speak with Anna Garnock, Project Officer with Parliament of Youth on Sustainability, an annual SEE-Change program.

Students research and develop proposals on how we can make Canberra and the region more sustainable, and the program finishes off with a Parliament Presentation Day, where they act as Parliamentarians and present, discuss and debate each others proposal in committee groups, then pitch their proposal to Members of the ACT Legislative Assembly, before all students vote on the best proposal.

A release from our archives from 2012, about the fight against logging in Tasmania.