Between land clearing, climate changed induced bushfires and native forest logging our cute and cuddly koala have had a rough trot.  Michael Jones from 2NVR interviewed Susie Russel from North Coast Environment Council, and NSW MPs Justin Field and Cate Faehrmann Episode #1300 was produced by Megan Williams Donate to Earth Matters this radiothon via https://www.givenow.com.au/crowdraiser/public/earthmattersradiothon2021

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Protecting through reconnecting with ecopsychology & eco art therapy

Guest presenter Terri Dry from 3CR's Brainwaves program engages in conversation with eco-psychologist & eco art therapist Deb Punton, from the Port Phillip EcoCentre about how our mental health and the health of the planet are indivisible.Music: 'Mother Earth' (track) by Liliian Allen

Earth Matters #1299 was produced by Terri Dry, Cailin Thompson & Nicky Stott

The School Strike 4 Climate Australia movement is back on the streets!Tens of thousands of students are back on the front line with mass climate strikes for the first time since Covid hit last year—and young Indigenous & POC activists are front and centre in the fight. This episode amplifies just some of their powerful speeches and words from 'School Strike 4 Climate Australia' May 2021 rallies across the country.Speakers (from both Meanjin & Djubuguli/Cadi rallies):Lisa Sipaia Baker & Pelepesite Matangi Pacific Climate WarriorsMark Kabay-Saleh Our Islands Our HomeMusic:'My Island Home' (Tribute); Christine Anu, Zaachariaha Fielding, Emma Donovan & NGAIIREThis week's show is #1298 and was produced by Nicky Stott

Something's fishy in water management. This weeks episode brings you two special productions - Baaka the Forgotten River and In Murky Waters. Feast your ears on art and activism for the Darling Baaka.Guests:In Murky WatersBadger Bates, Proud Barkandji manKate McBride,Tolarno StationAlan Whyte, former citrus grown from WentworthGo to https://www.inmurkywaters.com.au/ for moreBaaka - the Forgotten RiverJustine Muller, ArtistMonica Kerwin, Proud Barkandji womanGo to https://www.mymaitland.com.au/event/barka-the-forgotten-river/ for exhibition details Music:No Baaka, No Barkandji by Leroy Johnson, Barkindji/Malyangaapa Man This week's show is #1297 and was produced by Megan Williams

Tomorrow Movement & the Sunbury against Toxic Soil CampaignGuest presenter Eiddwen Jeffery chats with Desiree Cai all about the new Tomorrow Movement—a broad collective focused on climate & economic justice for young people.And our other guest presenter Paddy Dobson gets an update from Chris O'Neil from the Sunbury against toxic soil campaign in Naarm, about their ongoing battle against what is shaping up—potentially—to be Australia's biggest toxic soil dump. Music: Anarka & Poppy, All that is shattered, 'If it dies, we die' This week's show is #1296 and was produced by Nicky Stott

People of the Pacific Islands are already feeling the ravages of climate change - be that loss of food production as sea levels rise, the erosion of shorelines, king tides, and the increased occurrence and severity of cyclones.  But Pacific Islanders are speaking out. So on today’s show we are tuning-in to Pasifika voices and amplifying their messages.    This episode we feature 'Winston' a podcast about the cyclone that hit Fiji in 2016. Winston is prodiced by Am Kanngieser and features poems written and read by Atueta Rabuka, Krystelle Lavaki Danford, Amelia Rigsby and Peter Sipeli.  So pull up a seat and get ready to listen.    Earth Matters #1295 (#1129) was produced by Teishan Ahearne.

Since 2016 Lake Menindee has laid desolate, dry as a bone. But this week flows returned and with them hope for people and the environment. This week on Earth Matters we talk to 5th generation farmer Kate McBride about the filling of Menindee Lake and activist Tuesday Browell about the Darling Baaka Convoy Today's show No. 1294 was produced on the lands of the Barkindji people by Megan Williams.

Five months ago  Bones and friends halted logging in Olney State forest with a blockade camp across the road.  Earth Matters visited this quiet camp in lush rainforest humming with gliders, goannas, black cockatoos and lyre-birds.  Bones knows that if the camp packs up the loggers will be back to cut the trees and  further fragment the forest. Thus Bones stays. Having twice survived stage 4 cancer  and now disabled, living in the forest for the trees and animals is where Bones wants to be. Winiata is there too, singing sublime and supporting as always.    Meanwhile other forest logging blockades are springing up in the Newry State Forest, NSW,  in the Tarkine, Tasmania and on the Errinundra plateau East Gippsland, Victoria. The  North East Forest Alliance is calling for an immediate 10% reduction in wood supply commitments to north-coast sawmillers from public forests  because of the widespread death of trees due to the Black Summer bushfires, as well as a freeze on any new commitments. Guests: Bones and WiniataMusic: Winiata Links: Forest Defence NSW | Facebook           Camp Olney | Facebook           Environmental Blockading in Australia and Around the World - Timeline 1974-1997 - The Commons (commonslibrary.org) Todays show No. 1293 was produced on the lands of the Darkinjung people by Bec Horridge.

Climate urgency spawns more pledges to disrupt using non-violent civil disobedience. Sergei, Greg and The Treason March supporters are walking from Sydney to Canberra along the edge of the  Hume Highway. " Their signs say:  "  Climate Crisis: We Will Starve @LASTGENERATION "    " We are F%U£ED, We are young. We are coming"    "Climate Criminals Kill Kids" They are calling on people to  join them in a future event  using non- violent civil disobedience to block the Hume Highway  that takes most traffic between the power hubs: Sydney and Canberra, to force the laggard Australian government to take urgent  action on climate change. This Earth Matters reveals the values and motivation that would call  on people to block a highway.  It is important that the Australian people and government understand why many people  who are very concerned  about global warming impacts, including ecological and social collapse are now engaging  in non violent civil disobedience.  They are getting in harms way in order to stop a greater harmer. As Sergei Rebel says : "Its time to do something  because with 510 ppm equivalents of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, 3 degrees of warming is locked  in, and  what is often omitted from the narrative of global warming is what that actually means.  That means our young people in the future will be rounded up and sent to war. What that  means is there is going to be mass migration  of people and unfarmable land to live on. What that means is social collapse. What that means is massive rape and slaughter of my generation,  the people that are alive today.  Its 2021  and the future they have been warning us about is here and its up to us to get it  the way of this death machine; which  of course is  non violent civil disobedience which involves arrest and prison.  This is called getting in harms way in order to stop a greater harmer. So  am calling on all young people to join me." Isabell is organising with  Blockade Australia. She explains the urgent need to immediately avoid climate tipping points of no return. This urgency and her values led her to adopt climate activism as her work  in order to  act on what she knows is true and bring about the needed change. Guests: Sergei, Lesley, Greg: Treason March,  @LASTGENERATION                            Isabell:  Blockade Australia Music: Andy Paine: Song: Your Mission, Album: The Politics of Possibility Find it on "Bandcamp" Links: Blockade Australia             Last Generation | Facebook            Last Generation  Last Generation News: Seriously ugly: here's how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C this century (theconversation.com)  This weeks show  #1292 was produced by Bec Horridge

What if the government stopped you from sharing videos of police violence? Or spied on your private communications? And did it in the name of keeping you safe?  These are some of the possible outcomes of the Federal government’s proposed Online Safety Bill. The Bill would give broad and unchecked powers to the Australian eSafety Commissioner to censor the internet and further extend the government’s ability to intercept our private communications.  Environmental activists and campaigns might not be mentioned by the government, but there is a history of politicians and police framing activism as a criminal threat. And there’s nothing to stop them from using the Online Safety Bill to do just that.  And then later on the show, it’s 150 years since the Paris Commune. What can those 19th century revolutionaries teach us about our digital world today?     Guest: Lizzie O'Shea (Digital Rights Watch).    Links:  'Explainer: The Online Safety Bill' Digital Rights Watch  'The Judgment of Paris: Facebook vs. the Communards' Lizzie O'Shea  '#HeyASIO: data retention and the threat to activism' Earth Matters October 2015     Earth Matters #1291 was produced by Teishan Ahearne.