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  • Climactic Features | Katerina Cosgrove - We almost lost our home to bushfire last year
    Author Katerina Cosgrove reads aloud a recent piece of writing, published by SBS Voices. 
    This feature vignette was produced and sound designed by Lloyd Richards featuring music by Omer Haber. 
    The coverart is by @leio on Unsplash. 
    To get in touch with us, to contribute your own creativity to engaging with the climate crisis, drop us a line at [email protected]. Or a voicemail from climactic.com.au.
     
     
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    6 min
  • Degree of Difference | Pilot - Who's a Climate Denier?
    This is the pilot episode of a new series on the Climactic Collective podcast network, that will be recorded live on streaming TV platform Cimpatico.tv. We're calling it 'Degree of Difference' and it's like Jerry Springer. For the climate community. If Jerry Springer had been about mutual respect and constructive engagement over differences of opinion. So, less Jerry and more civil discourse. 
    In this episode Daniel Bleakley and Asher Coleman discuss their perspectives and the difference between them about:
    If it's fair or constructive to call Victorian Environment Minister Lily D'Ambrosio a climate denier. 
    If Twitter activism is productive. 
    If Tesla is going to save, or at least substantially change, the world. 
    The benefit and utility of climate reduction and net zero targets by a certain date. 
    It's fascinating, fractious, and dare we say even fun. 
    You can watch the video at https://www.facebook.com/301351893724797/videos/2961492227418558/
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    Support the Collective at https://www.climactic.com.au/p/support-the-collective/
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    1 hr 17 min
  • Climactic Candid | Cities, climate and migration - With Kate Brick, MMC and Toby Kent, Melbourne's first Chief Resilience Officer
    The International Organization for Migration estimates that between 25 million and 1 billion people will move as a result of climate change within the next 30 years.
    Toby Kent, the City of Melbourne's first Chief Resilience Officer, joins Mark Spencer to talk to the Deputy Executive Director of the Mayors Migration Council to talk migration, urbanisation, climate change, and the collision of these factors. 
    Kate is an immigration policy expert with over a decade of experience working on international, national, state, and local policymaking and advocacy.
    Toby Kent is an entrepreneur, professional speaker, and business advisor. His work focuses on helping organisations thrive in the face of challenge. He is a board member of the  Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia and for over five years was metropolitan Melbourne’s Chief Resilience Officer.
    Mayors Migration Council
    MMC COVID-19 Response
    MMC Twitter
    And, for a migration crisis right on the doorstep of Australia, happening to Australian citizens, please take part in this campaign to call on the Australian Federal Government to act on climate change with the urgency required - as we see the Torres Strait Islands being inundated by rising seas. 
    https://ourislandsourhome.com.au/ - Sign the petition, watch the video, share it with a friend.
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    48 min
  • Introducing Clean State | Bright Sparks in Our Energy Transition: Schools, solar & social enterprise, with ClimateClever co-founder Dr Vanessa Rauland
    The Climactic Collective is proud to host the Clean State WA Podcast Series, by Anthony James, creator of The RegenNarration.
    You might recognise Dr Vanessa Rauland from the recent ABC TV series Fight for Planet A. Vanessa’s the co-founder with Alexander Karan of ClimateClever, one of a growing number of WA social enterprises that are starting to realise some of the enormous opportunities in our energy transition. The ClimateClever team has nearly doubled in recent months (even during COVID-19), working with an increasing number of schools, their communities and now businesses, to help them reduce emissions, save money and up skill the next generation around regenerative living.
    Vanessa’s long-dedicated her days to addressing climate change and increasing awareness about the vast benefits of sustainability. And in the wake of the extraordinary youth-led global climate strikes, it seems fitting that schools would lead the way in the energy and related transitions we so urgently need. Today, Vanessa takes us to one of the WA schools doing just that.
    The Clean State WA podcast is produced and hosted by Anthony James, Perth-based creator of The RegenNarration podcast. For more stories of regeneration around WA, Australia and the world, tune into The RegenNarration wherever podcasts are found, or at https://www.regennarration.com.
    Music:
    Eden is Lost, by Selfless Orchestra.
    Get more:
    On Vanessa and ClimateClever - https://www.climateclever.org/
    For more on the emerging Perth hub of ‘clean technology’ start-ups, visit PowerLedger and ClearView solar window technology. 
    And check out the Clean State WA website, where you’ll see more on the Jobs Plan and how you can get involved - https://www.cleanstate.org.au/jobs-plan
    Including on the Bright Sparks Solar Powered School Program and the energy transition - https://www.cleanstate.org.au/bright_sparks_solar_schools
    Clean State is an independent initiative advocating for action on climate change and jobs in Western Australia. We represent thousands of individuals and hundreds of businesses and other organisations who are dedicated to climate action across the state. We promote solutions that create thousands of jobs supporting businesses, families and communities and make our state a regenerative, fair and prosperous place to live and work. 
    More than ever before, we have an opportunity to invest in a sustainable future for WA. The coronavirus pandemic is expected to put as many as 64,000 Western Australians out of work and an economic downturn is underway. That’s why Clean State has worked with industry experts from across WA to develop a plan for over 200,000 jobs that will also deliver action on climate change, conservation, and the care economy. This is the Clean State Jobs Plan.
    The Clean State office acknowledges that it resides on the land of the Nyoongar people. We pay respect to their Elders, past and present, and acknowledge the important role all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play in advancing a Clean State of WA. 
    Thanks to the team at Clean State WA, and to the generous volunteers, supporters and active partners who are making this plan a reality.
    If you’d like to get in touch with ideas, questions or thoughts generated by the plan or this podcast, you can email Clean State at [email protected] or simply join our mailing list https://www.cleanstate.org.au/join
    And thanks for listening!
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    34 min
  • BONUS | Sky Was Blue - Bonesy | Climate Act
    It’s Saturday, the 7th of November.
    November 9th, next Monday, a bill will be tabled in the Australian federal parliament.
    It’s called the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020. Also known as the Climate Act. It is a net zero carbon emissions pledge, and plan, for Australia to achieve by 2050. It is the same pledge, and broad plan, already adopted by the UK.
    "Climate change is real for Australia, with immediate and deepening risks to our natural environment, economy and way of life. Last summer’s unprecedented bushfires are a mark of the worst of those risks, and how they will affect some communities more than others. But there are also opportunities to prosper, given our enormous natural, human and financial wealth."
    You, reading this, already know. But we all have people in our lives who have heard the facts, but don’t feel the urgency. So rather than reciting the facts, I’m honoured to now play you a song. It’s called Sky Was Blue (The Bushfire Song) and is performed by Bonesy.
    If you get the chance, in the next 48 hours ahead of November 9th, play this song for a friend or family member. I’m sure it’ll cast their minds back to this summer, and let all the other distractions fade. And after this song, take them to climateactnow.com.au, and sign to support what really is a bare minimum commitment, to honour the losses our communities suffered over that summer.
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    8 min
  • Catastophic | Sulari Gentill | Update with Bushfire Royal Commission and Climate Act
    Rebroadcast of an episode of Catastrophic, with a new introduction. 
    Sulari Gentill lives in the NSW town of Batlow, home of the Batlow apple. Her husband, Michael and son, Edmund, are both volunteer firefighters with the RFS. They have been fighting fires for years but they have never experienced anything like this. In the first weekend of January 2020 the town of Batlow was decimated by a mega fire. Sulari evacuated their home, while Michael and Edmund almost lost their lives fighting to save their beloved town. This is Sulari's story.
    New introduction includes reading from this article in The Conversation. And a video by Sara Rickards about the Climate Act. 
    Catastrophic is a dual podcast and political protest.
    Catastrophic tells the tales of the Australian bushfires and calls for all-partisan political action around Climate Change. Each episode of Catastrophic features an Australian talking about their experience of living through the bushfire crisis, what their fears are now and for the future and what they would like to see done about it on a government level.
    But it doesn’t end when the episode goes out. We at Listen Up Podcasting are taking every story we gather, every episode we release of the Catastrophic podcast and putting them together into one big audio file and sending it to ALL the politicians.
    These are our demands: They are the same demands people have been protesting about and calling for over the last few years:
    No new coal, oil and gas projects, including the Adani mine and the Wallarah 2 coal project.
    100% renewable energy generation & exports by 2030
    Fund a just transition & job creation for all fossil-fuel workers & communities.
    Hand over land conservation management to First Nations Australians
    Start preserving our water and treating it as a precious resource not a commodity.
    SHOW NOTES:
    Catastrophic Facebook @CatastrophicPod
    Listen Up Podcasting - www.listenuppodcasting.com.au
     
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    53 min
  • Climactic Live | 2020 Nancy Hillier Memorial Lecture

    "The Long View on Environmental and Social Justice for Botany Bay: Interdisciplinary partnerships between UNSW and the community"

    This year's Hillier lecture will provide an opportunity to reflect on the past, present, and future of work on environmental and social justice issues in and around Botany Bay from the perspectives of researchers with the University of New South Wales.

    While UNSW and Council are partners in presenting the annual Hillier lecture, the interrelations between the communities of Botany Bay and the University are much deeper.This year's lecture will take the form of a round-table reflecting upon the broader lessons we can learn from the work done at UNSW addressing environmental, social, policy, water, planning, legal and urban issues around Botany Bay, and what these lessons might mean for new and existing interdisciplinary partnerships with Botany Bay's communities.

    Panel members: 

    Ian Tyrrell - Emeritus Professor, Environmental Historian. Author of "River Dreams: The people and landscape of the Cooks River" (2018)

    Sharyn Cullis - Georges River Environmental Alliance and Recent UNSW PhD Graduate.

    Emma Golledge - Director, Kingsford Legal Centre, UNSW Law

    James Weirick - Professor and Director of the Urban Development & Design Program, UNSW

    Anne Maree Kreller, Postgrad, Expert on planning for sea level rise in the Botany Bay Area, author: "Fair for whom? How residents and municipalities evaluate sea level rise policies in Botany Bay, Australia" (2018)

    Suhelen Egan - Associate Professor, UNSW School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) & The Centre of Marine Science and Innovation (CMSI)

    About Nancy Hillier:

    Nancy Hillier was a tireless campaigner on behalf of people and places in the Botany Bay area of Sydney. This annual lecture acknowledges Nancy's legacy by providing a forum to discuss major social and environmental issues from the perspective of campaigners and activists.

    1 hr 52 min
  • Wading into "The Grot" | Dr Pat Grant
    What’s the Grot? Or, what happens to form The Grot?
    A barely recognisable, muddy dystopia of a future? Or, a near at hand present with just a slap of mud and touch of humour?
    Eav Brennan explores graphic novel The Grot with author Pat Grant, and get into why he made it, what it reflects, and what he hopes you take away from it.
    You can already read it for free on his site, so get the director’s commentary here while you’re at it, you beautiful cheapskates!
    Links:
    Pat Grant
    The Grottiest Book Launch!
    Clips:
    Sydney Morning Herald - 'There's nothing to celebrate': Cronulla Riots 10 years on
    2040 - Seaweed Crowdfunding Campaign
    Elysium
    Credits:
    Host | Eav Brennan
    Host | Mark Spencer
    Mix/Master | Seán Marsh
    Music/Production Assistance | Lloyd Richards
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    31 min
  • Special | Everybody Now: Climate Emergency and Sacred Duty
    This is the Climactic adaptation of Everybody Now, a "podmarch". "A Podcast Climate Protest March, or Climate Podmarch, if you will."
    First we feature some audio from the excellent new Climate Ads project, then an introduction/explanation by Climactic founder Mark Spencer, a recording from Mark ahead of the September 20th, 2019 School Strike, before the Everybody Now podmarch. 
    Please find below the shownotes and credits of Everybody Now. 
    Everybody Now
    Climate Emergency and Sacred Duty
    We’ve caused a turning point in the Earth’s natural history. Everybody Now is a podcast about what it means to be human on the threshold of a global climate emergency, in a time of systemic injustice and runaway pandemics. Scientists, activists, farmers, poets, and theologians talk bravely and frankly about how our biosphere is changing, about grief and hope in an age of social collapse and mass extinction, and about taking action against all the odds.
    On 19th October 2020, Everybody Now is being released by podcasters all over the world as a collective call for awareness, grief and loving action.
    With contributions from:
    Dr. Gail Bradbrook - scientist and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion
    Prof. Kevin Anderson - Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester
    Dámaris Albuquerque - works with agricultural communities in Nicaragua
    Dr. Rowan Williams - theologian and poet, and a former Archbishop of Canterbury
    Pádraig Ó Tuama - poet, theologian and conflict mediator
    Rachel Mander - environmental activist with Hope for the Future
    John Swales - priest and activist, and part of a community for marginalised people
    Zena Kazeme - Persian-Iraqi poet who draws on her experiences as a former refugee to create poetry that explores themes of exile, home, war and heritage
    Flo Brady - singer and theatre maker
    Hannah Malcolm - Anglican ordinand, climate writer and organiser
    Alastair McIntosh - writer, academic and land rights activist
    David Benjamin Blower - musician, poet and podcaster
    Funding and Production:
    This podcast was crowdfunded by a handful of good souls, and produced by Tim Nash and David Benjamin Blower
    Permissions:
    The song Happily by Flo Brady is used with permission.
    The song The Soil, from We Really Existed and We Really Did This by David Benjamin Blower, used with permission.
    The Poem The Tree of Knowledge by Pádraig Ó Tuama used with permission.
    The Poem Atlas by Zena Kazeme used with permission.
    The Poem What is Man? by Rowan Williams from the book The Other Mountain, used with permission from Carcanet Press.
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    1 hr 56 min
  • Books, Books, Books | Rebecca Huntley "How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference"
    This is a guest episode from the Books, Books, Books podcast
    Rebecca Huntley on looking your children in the eye, managing eco-anxiety, and how to use emotions such as guilt, anger, fear and hope to change hearts as well as minds in the climate change debate.
    Rebecca Huntley is one of Australia's most experienced social researchers and former director of The Mind and Mood Report, the longest running measure of the nation's attitudes and trends. She holds degrees in law and film studies and a PhD in gender studies, and is a mum to three young children. It was realising she is part of the problem older generation that caused her change of heart and to dedicate herself to researching our attitudes to climate change. She is a member of Al Gore's Climate Reality Corps, carries out social research for NGOs such as The Wilderness Society and WWF, and writes and presents for the ABC. This is her sixth book.
    A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.'
    Osher Gunsberg
    'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide to understanding ourselves and each other as we face the climate crisis. Let's take down the walls that divide us. Collectively, with compassion and courage, we can make real change happen.'
    Kylie Kwong
    'Explains whether and how we will choose to solve the climate problem. Immensely important analysis in a great read.'
    Professor Ross Garnaut
    Why is it so hard to talk about climate change?
    While scientists double down on the shocking figures, we still find ourselves unable to discuss climate change meaningfully among friends and neighbours - or even to grapple with it ourselves.
    The key to progress on climate change is in the psychology of human attitudes and our ability to change. Whether you're already alarmed and engaged with the issue, concerned but disengaged, a passive skeptic or an active denier, understanding our emotional reactions to climate change - why it makes us anxious, fearful, angry or detached - is critical to coping on an individual level and convincing each other to act.
    This book is about understanding why people who aren't like you feel the way they do and learning to talk to them effectively. What we need are thousands - millions - of everyday conversations about the climate to enlarge the ranks of the concerned, engage the disengaged and persuade the cautious of the need for action.
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    51 min

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In each of Australia’s capital cities, there are more events about the climate crisis happening than one person can attend. And with events now digital, there’s even more available.