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

This week, we are excited to welcome back Mycologist, Natural Historian and Photographer, Alison Pouliot, to chat about her new book Underground Lovers, a gorgeous journey that reaches down to earth, and deeper, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain. Told through first-hand stories from the Australian desert to Iceland’s glaciers to America’s Cascade Mountains Alison shares encounters with glowing ghost fungi and unearths the enigma of the lobster mushroom. Melding science and personal reflection, she explores the fungi that appear after fire, how fungi and climate change interact, the role of fungi in our ecosystems.

Joining Alison via phone, we also welcome back Peter Wenzel, Mushroom Designer and Grower, and co-Founder of Fungi Co, who has been fascinated by the form and function of funky fungi since the last millennium, exploring science, art, food, myco-design, education and novel growing techniques.

This week in a continuation of our coverage of the logging of vulnerable NSW south coast forests post the 2019-2020 bushfire devastation, we welcome forest activists, Harriet swift, Deputy Convener of the South East Region Conservation Alliance Inc who will be joining us via phone from the South Coast and in studio, Sean Burke, Committee Member South East Region Conservation Alliance Inc, to discuss the ongoing logging of state forests despite the majority of South Coast residents opposing the activities and Forestry NSW and Victoria admitting to losing millions of dollars supplying pulplogs to the woodchip mills.

This morning we are fortunate to have Mark Chenery, Co-Founder & Director of Common Cause Australia, joining us live in studio. Common Cause Australia is a growing network of people working to engage cultural values to create a more equitable, sustainable and democratic society.

This week we talked with Iain Mcintyre. Iain is a radical historian, community radio broadcaster and author, with books ranging from science fiction to blockading to the industrial workers of the world. Iain will be discussing The Commons Social Change Library, which exists to make activism smarter and stronger. The library gathers the collective wisdom of people engaged in social change in one accessible online place. All of their materials are free, digital, and directly available. The Commons Library includes educational resources on campaign strategy, community organising, digital campaigning, communications and media, working effectively in groups, fundraising, diversity and inclusion and much more. Resources are available in a range of formats including videos, podcasts, manuals, case studies, articles, practical how-to guides, and training materials.

Today we meet Charlie McGee and Brenna Quinlan, a very dynamic duo in the emerging field of permaculture arts.

Charlie heads up the Formidable Vegetable Sound System, so far as we know, the worlds first "permaculture band".

Brenna is a well renowned illustrator, having contributed to several key permaculture texts, and prolifically publishing her works through social media. Brenna is also the most recent recruit to the Formidable Veg!

David Rovics continues a long line of travelling musical storytellers. Woody Guthrie, Ewan MacColl, Peggy and Pete Seeger, Utah Phllips come to mind, and David would not be out of place in that company.

Enjoy a bunch of Davids songs as we play telephone tag to continue our conversation!

In the 9th New Economy Network of Australia (NENA) Podcast, Anna Garnock talks with Morag Gamble.

The New Economy Network of Australia is a network of individuals and organisations working to transform Australia’s economic system so that achieving ecological health and social justice are the foundational principles and the primary objectives of the economic system.

For the past 25 years, as a Global Permaculture Ambassador, Morag Gamble has led programs in 22 countries. Local food systems and permaculture education have seen her teach in communities and universities around the globe - most recently at Schumacher College in England - and leading a Food Politics course at Griffith University.

Morag lives amidst an award-winning permaculture education garden in a UN recognised permaculture village, and works with city farmers, school farmers, community gardeners, and educators. She sees the direct social and ecological impact of industrial farming on marginalised farming communities around the world - in Indonesia, India and most recently in East Africa.

Today we heard an episode of the NENA Podcast.

NENA is a network of individuals and organisations working to transform Australia’s economic system so that achieving ecological health and social justice are the foundational principles and the primary objectives of the economic system.

NENA is a Co-operative, organised through geographic hubs and through sectoral hubs. The NENA Podcast talks to hub convenors and individuals throughout the NENA network, so you can find out what is happening in all of our places and conversations.

You can also find our webinars and presentations from our annual national conferences here on Align in the Sound.

NENA is volunteer run, so if you like what you heard on this episode, join us, and BECOME the new economy!

To connect with the New Economy Network of Australia, or to help our editing team bring a mountain of great NENA content to the podcast (which includes editing training), sign up at neweconomy.org.au

The Assad family ruled Syria under dictatorship for 40 years, formally denouncing the existence of Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians, Turkmen and many other minorities, despite the rich tapestry of cultures and languages that have always inhabited these lands.

In 2012, in the midst of the Syrian Civil War, the rule of the Assad Regime weakened in the Kurdish majority northern regions. Out of this conflict, and the Rojava Revolution in 2012, three pillars formed in the regions today governed by the Autonomous Administrations of North and East Syria (AANES) democracy, women’s freedom and ecology. Birthing co-operatives, and a strong communal and women’s economy.

This morning, we are priviledged to welcome, live via phone, Salih Muslim, calling in from in Kobani, Syria, to chat with us about what’s been happening in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.

Salih Muslim Muhammad (Kurmanji Kurdish: Salih Muslim Mihemed, is the former co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main party of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. As the deputy coordinator of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change, he was the most prominent Kurdish representative for much of the Syrian Civil War.

He was born in a Syrian village close to Kobani in 1951. After an education in Syria, he studied at the Chemical Engineering faculty of Istanbul Technical University from 1970 until graduating in 1977. After a brief stint in London, he worked in Saudi Arabia between 1978 and 1990, and opened an engineering office in 1993 in Aleppo

Synergia is running its 5th Massive Online Open Course (or MOOC) on Towards a Co-operative Commonwealth - Transition in a Perilous Century.

We talk today with founder and author Michael Lewis, and participant and study group organiser Ken Ross from New Zealand.

The course goes in depth into many areas of need, developing a wide understanding of both problems and solutions, and bringing the diverse modules into a synthesis through various systems frameworks.

Contact our guests here https://synergiainstitute.org/

Exploring the problems and the solutions, working Behind The Lines. Long format interviews, lectures, talks, protest speeches, conferences and more – covering people and organisations from Canberra, from Australia and from the rest of the world.

To help out with BTL, or to help our editing team finish off a mountain of great shows (which includes editing training), contact us at behindthelines98.3 @ gmail.com,

and see 2xxfm.org.au where you can subscribe, donate, and volunteer to Australia’s only alternative voice – Community Radio

If you’re not in Canberra, there’s definitely one near you!

Radio Behind the Lines (BTL) talks with people and organisations trying to make the world a better place.

In this episode of Radio BTL from 11th November 2022, we talk with Cid Riley from Citizens Against The Tarago Incinerator, or CATTI.

Cid will give us an update on the Tarago Incinerator and CATTI’s fight to keep the toxic fumes out of their community and many surrounding communities. Tarago is a small community which has been taking trainloads of Sydneys rubbish for years, at a significant cost due to reglaur, thick "stench bombs" floating through the area.

Now Tarago is ground zero for a gigantic rubbish incinerator to burn more of Sydneys rubbish, operated by VEolia, the same company responsible for unleashing the stench bombs for many years.

The toxic plume of this incinerator will also reach many other communities, including Bungendore, Canberra, Goulburn, Braidwood and more.

Anybody drinking rainwater in the region should be very concerned about this proposal.

Tune in and learn how you can take action against this polluter - and pass this on to anyone you know who drinks from a rain tank!

You can find CATTI here: https://www.notaragoincinerator.com/

Exploring the problems and the solutions, working Behind The Lines. Long format interviews, lectures, talks, protest speeches, conferences and more – covering people and organisations from Canberra, from Australia and from the rest of the world.

To help out with BTL, or to help our editing team finish off a mountain of great shows (which includes editing training), contact us at behindthelines98.3 @ gmail.com,

and see 2xxfm.org.au where you can subscribe, donate, and volunteer to Australia’s only alternative voice – Community Radio

If you’re not in Canberra, there’s definitely one near you!