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Dirt Radio Co-Host Lucinda Walker steps up to speak with Friends of the Earth's Yes 2 renewables Coordinator Pat Simons about the Coalition's economic plan to prop up gas instead of investing in renewables at this critical moment for the climate and economic recovery.Relevant links:1. Feds dial up attacks on renewable energy and environment 2. TAKE ACTION > Tuesday 8th August 11am: Call Blitz the Gas Guzzlers3. Petition: Get a move on with offshore wind

The North-East Link could be the biggest major toll road in the country - up to 24 lanes in some places and preliminary works are now underway.Sustainable Cities collective member and researcher into air and noise pollution Barry Watson and President of the Friends of Banyule Michelle Giovas join Megan and Lucinda to talk about the impacts of this mega road, fears local have for air and noise and what alternatives are on offer.Sustainable CitiesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeSustainCities/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeSustainCitiesInstagram: @we.sustain.citiesWebsite: https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/sustainable_citiesEmail: [email protected] of Banyule Website: https://friendsofbanyule.wordpress.com/the-ne-link/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Friends-of-Banyule-153722784678987/Email: [email protected] Residents united against north east link https://www.facebook.com/groups/NoNEALink/Contact the North East Link Project on 1800 105 105 or email [email protected] the Petition https://www.change.org/p/daniel-andrews-say-no-to-ne-link-m3-widening

Health workers of all kinds have been on the front lines right from the very start of the coronavirus crisis. But even during this time, some have still been able to turn their attention and energies to the environmental and climate crisis inevitably in front of us once the pandemic subsides. Doctors Harry Jennens and Kate Lardner, co-founders of Healthy Futures (an affiliate of FoE), talk about their activism and campaign work in the health sector.

From bushfires, lawsuits, and community tree sits, it has been a HUGE year for forests! Join us for a National Tree Day Special with Chris Schuringa from the Goongerah Environement Centre Find out more and sign up for emails at http://geco.org.au/The FoE food Coop is OPEN - order online https://www.foefood.org/Emergency Meeting for Emissions Reductions Targets https://www.actonclimate.org.au/emergency_meeting

A small genetic "edit" to cattle for more efficient food production? Solar radiation management to protect the Great Barrier Reef? Louise Sales, co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth's Emerging Tech Project provides a critical assessment of the science behind these innovations and argues for a serious rethink about their proposed rollout.

Friends of the Earth's SKAT (Strezlecki Koala Action Team) Collective have been working on surveying koala habitat in Victoria's south-east since 2013. They are working to create comprehensive mapping of the state's only endemic koala population. Today on the show we chat with Anthony Amis, who has been involved with forest conservation in the area since the 1990s and who has been heading up the koala mapping project. This year he has surveyed around 200 sites, and we get an update on the project as it stands. You can find the mapping work here: https://strzkoala.australianmap.net/

Today on the show Megan speaks with Peta Thornton - a citrus grower from Swan Hill, community sustainability leader and fierce opponent to the floodplain infrastructure that is being pushed ahead in the Nyah Vinifera Forest.Tune in for an indepth discussion about the Murray Floodplain and what's happening right now. See Friends of the Earth Melbourne Events page for upcoming collective meetings and online eventshttps://www.facebook.com/pg/foemelbourne/events/

This June, the Lock the Gate Alliance marks ten years of campaign work aimed at confronting the potentially devastating impacts of unchecked mining for coal and coal seamed gas for rural and regional Australia. Georgina Woods, NSW Lock the Gate co-ordinator and spokesperson, looks back on those early days of organizing, recounts some memorable successes, and foreshadows the on-going challenges still ahead.

In this week's episode of Dirt Radio, Em brings you a snippet of one of last year's Acting Up series episodes that celebrated Friends of the Earth's 45th birthday. The episode looks at the Barmah Millewa collective that was set up in solidarity with the Yorta Yorta people in 1998 to support their fight for Native Title and the designation of the Barmah Millewa national park. Hear Aunty Monica Morgan, Jono La Nauze and Indira Narayan interviewed by Megan Williams.

It's Global Wind Day! For today's show we talk to Friends of the Earth's Yes2Renewables Coordinator, Pat Simons, Voices of the Valley's Wendy Farmer, and Strezlecki Sustainable Future group's Cath Thompson about the Latrobe Valley and how the winds of change are blowing in a renewable energy future.Get involved:Friends of the Earth's Global Wind Day actionVoice of the ValleyStrezlecki Sustainble Futures