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

From the archives.

Our guest this week will be Jo Clay, environmentalist, author and project developer who has extensively explored ways to reduce her carbon impacts, including through looking at what she and her family eat. This is sure to be a fascinating conversation - who isn't interested in food and reducing climate impacts? And Jo may challenge many of our closely held assumptions!

Food generates a lot of carbon dioxide and equivalent emissions. There's the agricultural impact to grow it (think fertiliser, feed and farting cows). Then there's transport, processing, packaging, disposal and food waste. What we eat matters. But which area has the biggest impact? What's the best way to cut back?

In The Carbon Diet, Jo Clay tries to cut her carbon footprint by 75%, testing out a different method each week. She uses carbon accounting to get her results and compares the changes against her lifestyle and that of the 'average' Australian. Jo road tested several ways to cut her food carbon footprint, including intermittent fasting, veganism, vegetarianism, food packaging, food miles, reducing food waste and making simple swaps at the supermarket.

From the archives.

Retaining our focus on Community Response to COVID-19 Social Isolation Restrictions, our second guest will be Renaire Druery, Human Rights Director at GETUp! who will be speaking to us about the #ViralKindness phenomenon as well as other GETUp! campaigns current at the time.

Tim Hollo, director of the Green Institute has recently published Living Democracy - An Ecological Manifesto for the End of the World as we Know It.

This is a fantastic book, giving a thorpugh and realistic analysis of where we are at right now, and telling the story of many solutions already in place and working.

This is a corker!

This week we will be speaking with food, farming and science author Julian Cribb AM FRSA FTSE about his collected work: A Matter of Survival - The Human Existential Emergency: the challenge and its possible solutions.

His books include Food or War; Earth Detox; Surviving the 21st Century; and The Coming Famine.

Julian is an Australian author and science communicator. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society for the Arts, the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering (ATSE) and the Australian National University Emeritus Faculty.

His published work includes over 9000 articles, 3000 science media releases and 12 books. He has received 32 awards for journalism. He was nominated for ACT Senior Australian of the Year in 2019. He is a co-founder of the Council for the Human Future. He was appointed a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2021.

For the past two decades his main literary focus has been the self-inflicted existential emergency faced by humanity.

As a grandfather, Julian is deeply concerned about the future our descendants will face unless humanity as a whole acts with urgency to overcome all the megarisks.

https://www.juliancribb.net/

Nick Rose is co-coordintor of NENA's Food Hub.

He works with communities, institutions, enterprises and organisations around Australia to co-create a vision and a practice of fair food systems. These are systems that are democratically and collaboratively developed, and that prioritise human health and well-being, and eco-system integrity. These are systems in which the economy is consciously designed to serve people and the environment, not the other way round.

Nick has been the Executive Director of Sustain since its establishment in January 2016. With a background In law and community development, Nick brings more than a decade of working at the grassroots and institutional level in several Australian states in food sovereignty and sustainable food systems. He is the editor of "Fair Food: Stories From a Movement Changing The World (2015)" and the co-editor of "Reclaiming The Urban Commons: The Past, Present and Future of Food Growing in Australian Towns And Cities (2018)." Nick is also a lecturer in food systems, food policy and governance and food movements for William Angliss Institute in their Bachelor of Food Studies and Master of Food Systems and Gastronomy.

Some links the Nick mentions in this episode:

- Pandemic Gardening Survey - https://sustain.org.au/projects/pandemic-gardening-survey-report/

- Urban Agriculture Month - https://uaf.org.au/uam

- Oakhill Food Justice Farm - https://oakhillfarm.org.au

- Sustain membership - https://sustain.org.au/membership/

- Cancer Stage of Capitalism article - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4024.html

This week, as part of our ongoing Federal Election series, we welcome live in studio, environmental scientist and engineer Natasa Sojic - Greens Candidate for Fenner, who is hoping to unseat Labor MP Andrew Leigh, and Dr Kim Huynh, ANU politics and philosophy lecturer, published author, local ABC Radio presenter, and Kim Rubenstein’s recently announced running mate with Independent Kim For Canberra.

This week, continuing with our Federal Election series, we welcome live via phone, Federal Member for Canberra, Alicia Payne MP, and live in studio, ACT Greens candidate, Tim Hollo for Canberra, joining us in conversation to discuss their respective platforms and policies, motivations, visions and passions for the future of Canberra and our Nation.

This week, continuing with our Federal Election series, we welcome live in studio, Independent Candidate for the Senate, Law Professor Kim Rubenstein, a law professor, author, human rights advocate, mum and proud Canberran running as an Independent for the Senate with her. Kim For Canberra campaign. You may also recognise Kim from previous successful appearances on Q&A, Insiders, SkyNews and TED Talks, lending her extensive experience as a legal expert and human rights defender to the conversations.

In the lead up to our federal elections candidate series, this week we welcome back Dr. Peter Tait from the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy and Active Democracy Australia to get us on track for the upcoming Federal Election.

Peter will give us a detailed rundown, with an introduction to Australian style democracy and how to make your vote count at the polls.

This week, to kick off our Federal election series of candidate interviews, joining us live in studio this morning we welcome former Wallaby and ACT Brumby, passionate climate action advocate and conservationist, David Pocock, who is making his bid for the Senate, as an Independent in the 2022 Australian Federal Election.

David will be chatting with us about his vision of building a policy platform in partnership with the community and dealing with the important issues we face today, and they are myriad, if we want to build a better tomorrow.