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Dr Shahir Masri is an assistant specialist in air pollution exposure assessment and epidemiology at the University of California, Irvine where he works on air pollution exposure modelling as well as climate change communication research. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University where he teaches courses on environmental health and pollution, and an adjunct faculty member at National University where he teaches online graduate and undergraduate science courses.

He is the author of the book Beyond Debate: Answers to 50 Misconceptions on Climate Change, which has been acclaimed by Citizens' Climate Lobby founder Marshall Saunders, among prominent scientists at MIT, UCLA, and elsewhere.

He is also a co-founder of the project “On the Road for climate action” which is an effort to raise awareness about climate change by organizing educational climate events and giving public presentations across all 50 American States.

We interviewed him in an effort to learn from his wealth of knowledge and experience with regards to the anthropogenic climate acceleration we are all experiencing, its causes, its symptoms and the solutions that are out there, at arms reach for us all. 

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His Book: Beyond Debate 

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In this episode, we talk to Andy Straisfeld, Chief Strategist for LifeCycle Revive. Located in Brantford, Ontario, LifeCycle Revive is Canada's first polypropylene Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) waste recycler, diverting tons of medical waste from landfills. A fantastic start-up idea that has received Canadian Government funding to scale. Some facts about medical waste:

• About 85% of medical waste is non-hazardous.
• About 3% of all drug costs come from drug wastage. In the US alone, this translates to over $1 billion a year.
• In the US, almost 5000 acute hospitals are generating about 7000 tons of waste every day. About $10 billion is spent each year to dispose of it all.

Andy and his team have developed a way to recycle a vast amount of this waste and divert it from landfill.

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This week is International Compost Week, and composting is something that we can all do to make a difference.

A series of events and information highlighting the need and benefits of composting - Sunday 2nd May - Saturday 8th May 2021

Some facts

• Over 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted each year.
• Wasted food amounts to over $1 trillion of loss and wastage annually.
• A total of 3.3 billion tons of CO2 is produced by food waste yearly.

So to talk to us further about food waste and composting, we were delighted to be joined by Hannah Churton. She is the founder of The Worm Monger, an educational platform dedicated to helping people better manage food waste in their own homes.

Links

https://www.thewormmonger.com/

Centre for Organic Research & Education (CORE)

National Organic Week Australia (NOW)

National Food Waste Strategy

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In this episode, we are delighted to talk to Pollyanna Darling, the Head of Community Engagement & Strategy for TreeSisters.

TreeSisters is a UK registered social change and reforestation charity that places tropical forest restoration into everyone’s hands. Through individuals and businesses that give back to Nature every month, TreeSisters has so far funded the planting of over 15 million trees across 12 locations in Brazil, Borneo, Cameroon, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Madagascar, Nepal and West Papua.

The Vision: To envision a world in which it is normal for everyone to protect and restore themselves and their world.

The Mission: To rapidly accelerate tropical reforestation by inspiring and channelling women's Nature-based feminine leadership into local and global action.

Pollyanna, a vital part of the team, talks about how she got involved, what she is doing and the need for effective change, restoration and reforestation.  She also explains why climate change is going to have a more significant effect on women than men.

We also discuss how we have partnered with them to grow the How To Be Good forest, a challenge that we would love you to join us in.  By becoming a Patreon you help us plant trees and help us continue bringing you these podcasts. With two of the membership levels, we will also plant 3 or 5 trees in your name. We will also give you a mention in one of the shows. 

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In this episode, we talk to Dr Bergur Sigfusson, Head of CO2 Capture and Injection at Carbfix.

Bergur is a geochemist. He has many years of experience in commissioning, operating, and monitoring new methods and technologies related to CO2 capture and injection and geothermal power plants.

Carbfix, the company that Bergur works for, is using a natural and permanent storage solution turning co2 into stone underground in less than two years.

Bergur tells us more about this unique technology and how it can be a game-changer in the climate crisis.

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Carbfix

Carbfix in documentaries

Meltdown

Down to Earth

Ice on Fire


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Laura Hamilton-O'Hara

From growing up in South Africa, studying law, working in Taronga zoo Sydney to CEO, we talk to Laura Hamilton-O'Hara about her journey. Her passions, the future of sustainability in building, and the Living Future Institute's role.

The Living Future Institute Australia (LFIA) is part of a powerful network of informed and active global citizens committed to redefining humanity's relationships with the ecosystems we inhabit.

Together, they seek to redirect our future towards a socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative society.

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Living Future Institute of Australia

Taronga Zoo Sydney

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Thomas is Senior Risk Scientist at Risk Frontiers where he leads the development of physical climate risk modelling services and Risk Frontiers' coastal, flood and tropical cyclone catastrophe loss models. He has worked for over 12 years in the fields of climate science, catastrophe risk and insurance, resilience, and coastal and flood modelling. Thomas is a Chartered Engineer and an Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University. He holds a PhD in the field of Coastal Geoscience.

In this episode, we find out more about peoples and businesses risks due to climate change..

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Risk Frontiers

Mark Carney: Breaking the tragedy on the Horizon - Climate Change and Financial Stability

CSIRO - climate change models and research

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Part 2
From rescuing abandoned dogs in Romania to rehoming a lion cub in South Africa, actor and Born Free Patron Dan Richardson is a compassionate voice for animals everywhere.
Dan has a lifelong love of animals and an unrivalled dedication and commitment to Keep Wildlife in the Wild.

"My position as an actor with a public profile, albeit a relatively small one, affords me the great privilege of being able to get actively and directly involved with more conservation projects than might otherwise be possible," Dan says. "As long as there's cruelty and exploitation being inflicted on animals, I will be motivated to do everything I can to end it."

In July 2018, Dan was a member of the Born Free team who relocated King the lion cub from his temporary home in Belgium to its big cat sanctuary in South Africa.

"King became a bit of a Born Free poster boy because the details of his tragic start in life affected us all so deeply," Dan explains. "The international collaboration that followed in conjunction with Natuurhulpcentrum in Belgium, Kenya Airways, Shamwari Private Game Reserve and others, is exemplary of how Born Free can operate and get the job done in the most complex and challenging circumstances."

Beyond Born Free, Dan is also a Patron of Voice For Asian Elephants Society and Naturewatch Foundation and an Ambassador for the International Aid for the Protection & Welfare of Animals.

Dan: "I know there are a huge number of people who share my passion for the cause. The only difference between them and me is that I'm in the public eye. They are just as much a hero as me or anyone else, and more importantly, without them and their continued efforts, we couldn't do this."

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Born Free

International Aid for the Protection & Welfare of Animals

The bitter Bond: Award-winning Short Film by Born Free Foundation

Blood Lions Film

Narikos Voyage / Film

Claws Out

Please help with Dan's 20 X 50 challenge - and keep posted as we look to put together some challenges here in Perth too. 

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Part 1
From rescuing abandoned dogs in Romania to rehoming a lion cub in South Africa, actor and Born Free Patron Dan Richardson is a compassionate voice for animals everywhere.
Dan has a lifelong love of animals and an unrivalled dedication and commitment to Keep Wildlife in the Wild.

"My position as an actor with a public profile, albeit a relatively small one, affords me the great privilege of being able to get actively and directly involved with more conservation projects than might otherwise be possible," Dan says. "As long as there's cruelty and exploitation being inflicted on animals, I will be motivated to do everything I can to end it."

In July 2018, Dan was a member of the Born Free team who relocated King the lion cub from his temporary home in Belgium to its big cat sanctuary in South Africa.

"King became a bit of a Born Free poster boy because the details of his tragic start in life affected us all so deeply," Dan explains. "The international collaboration that followed in conjunction with Natuurhulpcentrum in Belgium, Kenya Airways, Shamwari Private Game Reserve and others, is exemplary of how Born Free can operate and get the job done in the most complex and challenging circumstances."

Beyond Born Free, Dan is also a Patron of Voice For Asian Elephants Society and Naturewatch Foundation and an Ambassador for the International Aid for the Protection & Welfare of Animals.

Dan: "I know there are a huge number of people who share my passion for the cause. The only difference between them and me is that I'm in the public eye. They are just as much a hero as me or anyone else, and more importantly, without them and their continued efforts, we couldn't do this."

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Food for Thought Documentary

Born Free

International Aid for the Protection & Welfare of Animals

The bitter Bond: Award-winning Short Film by Born Free Foundation

Blood Lions Film

Narikos Voyage / Film

Claws Out

Please help with Dan's 20 X 50 challenge - and keep posted as we look to put together some challenges here in Perth too. 

If you want to volunteer - Pod Volunteer - these people help to make sure it's inspiring and ethical.

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Our guest today is Extinction rebellion Member Heath Greville.

She is a Public Health Researcher at UWA.
Throughout her career, she was involved in setting up a housing cooperative in the mid-1980s; her first degree was in Chinese and Communications studies, then became a teacher and worked at the Centre for Aboriginal studies for most of the 1990’s in the Aboriginal Community Management and Development program. She worked in public health also and the Mental health Commission.

She lived in China between 2014 and 2017, helping to start up a charity devoted to improving educational opportunities for children in rural villages using music and English language teaching. For 18 months, she lived in the province of Ningxia, which had recently re-located half a million people who were recognised as displaced off their farmlands due to climate change. That area has heated 2.6 degrees C above the pre-industrial average already. This is when the reality of climate change hit her.
Moving back to Perth, WA, she joined Extinction Rebellion to continue her fight against climate change.

To find out more about Extinction Rebellion, follow the link to the main page. You will also be able to find out if there is an extinction rebellion group close to you.

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Extinction Rebellion

Please read the Climate Health Report that Heath has recommended.

If you live in Australia, please join us on the 22nd March and be a Rebel for Life.

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