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- Coming out 2: Art & Intersectionality in The Valley with Ronald Edwards Peppers
Josie and Steph speak with local Gunaikurnai artist Ronald Edwards Pepper about everything from creativity to cul-de-sacs. We learn about the power art has to change spaces, and how Ronald's sexuality and connection with the land intersect with his work.
Find Ronald here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1590978367Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aN6mIyvXmcYb0UBu5Uad80C2S_P99D-5SA0_J9_agl0/edit?usp=sharing50 min - ”No one is going to swim in that” EES Spectacular with Bronya Lipski from Environment Victoria and Chloe Babcock from Environmental Justice Australia
Josie and Steph speak with Environment Victoria's Bronya Lipski and Environmental Justice Australia's Chloe Babcock on the newly released draft of the Environmental Effects Statement scope for the Hazelwood Mine Rehabilitation project. We learn what an EES is, what this one gets right, and wrong, and why it's important for people to have their say during the submission window. (or you know, we might end up living next to an acidic lake)
Show notes + how to submit:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ykk8Wjw-ewsWhNDU3J0pazy-6kHWqChkuNcZi3x0-e0/edit?usp=sharing
34 min - Renewable Energy Revolution: Coal Face goes to the Gippsland New Energy Conference.
Join Josie & Steph as they speak with special guests Darren McCubbin, Ashley Hall, Edwina Vega, Dr Jarra Hicks, Mayor Kellie O'Callaghan & Marianne Robbinson as they discuss the Gippsland New Energy Conference, what community-owned renewable energy projects could look like and what a 40 billion dollar renewable energy sector could mean for Gippsland and the Latrobe Valley.
This episode was sponsored by The GNEC | we have retained full editorial control
Show notes:https://docs.google.com/document/d/17wZDWit-1dT0rvbBdLls8bCQsvc3oDgHUJwqlEMCkr8/edit?usp=sharing1 hr 4 min - Smoke Stacks & Explosions - Art, Identity & The Environment at The Latrobe Regional Gallery
Josie and Steph take you on a whirlwind recap of the Hazelwood Exhibit that was on display at The Latrobe Regional Gallery. The Coal Face team discuss the role of art in shaping collective identities, how space can facilitate conversations around trauma and a Morwellian myth about the Hazelwood landowner who would drive his Rolls Royce around the paddocks of the power station.
Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PF0NyZgbU-NZXgsFx2DlR_tHFCtCCHVqL7XYcA5902g/edit?usp=sharing58 min - The True Cost of Water — With Hayley Sestokas from Friends of Latrobe Water & Environment Victoria
Water feeds the arteries of all life on earth, what is that truly worth? Josie & Steph chat with activist, chef and mushroom farmer Hayley Sestokas about growing up in the Latrobe Valley, coal ash dams, mine rehabilitation, and the important advocacy work of Friends of Latrobe Water & Environment Victoria.
Show Notes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VC4K2o1lksVa4F-2eQybOGFzI9_OC0jmf34dNX_S3fE/edit?usp=sharing
1 hr 5 min - Co-ops, Climate Change and the Future — With Dan Musil from the Earth Worker Manufacturing Co-Op
Your voice will be heard. You control the capital. You can do something for your community even as you keep succeeding. Sounds pretty good right?
Josie and Steph chat with worker, musician and Weet-Bix enthusiast Dan Musil about cooperative workplaces. Could cooperative energy manufacturing help to rebuild the Latrobe Valley as we move towards a life after coal?
Resources/ Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F_tnrEO7dk4g70u_3MJuWPMiFAnbqZdx5wt0WZpOCrw/edit?usp=sharing
1 hr 9 min - After the Smoke — The Hazelwood Mine Fire with Wendy Farmer
Eight years ago the Hazelwood mine caught fire with devastating consequences to the people of the Latrobe Valley. Josie and Steph chat to local legend and activist Wendy Farmer about how the Hazelwood mine fire changed the Latrobe Valley and the course of her life.
Resources/ Show Notes
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kyORq_98-jphG80tpE4PuCA0_KLDPGta_ffk9RIn0xU/edit?usp=sharing1 hr 2 min - Wow, that’s a really big hole — With Rhonda Hastie / Mine Land Rehab Authority
Josie & Steph learn about the complexities of mine rehabilitation in the Latrobe Valley from horse-loving, environmental scientist and acting CEO of the Mine Land Rehabilitation Authority Rhonda Hastie.
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About Coal Face
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Best friends and Gippslanders Josie and Steph try to unpack what life after coal could look like in Australia, a nation still reliant on fossil fuels, one story at a time.