Local Environment Heroes

Julie and Ryan chat with Dr Kate Ringvall about how circularity can assist in removing the word 'waste' from our vocabularies.  

Dr Kate has been a leader in the sustainability field for more than 25 years.  From her first job as a graduate in a recycling processing plant in Fremantle to becoming the Sustainability Lead for IKEA Australia, Kate has worked for all levels of government, large corporations and universities to implement and integrate sustainability principles and practices.  

She holds a Master in Public Policy and a PhD in Planning and has most recently founded her own consultancy focusing exclusively on the circular economy.  Dr Kate describes herself as a ‘solutionary’ who is driven to cultivate her multiple ‘creative, strategic, and systems thinking skills in order to address the underlying causes of entrenched and interconnected problems’.   

Local Environment Heroes is a Canberra Environment Centre podcast celebrating the people working to create a healthier, more sustainable and connected community.

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Professor Mark Howden is Director of the Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions at the Australian National University.  He is also Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a member of the ACT Climate Change Council.  He has been a major contributor to the IPCC since 1991 and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with other IPCC participants and Al Gore.  

Alongside this Mark is a keen gardener and jam maker who forages for wild plums and rides his bicycle to work.  He sat down with Julie and Ryan at the Canberra Environment Centre to talk about his work, his heroes and the simple things we can do at home to lower our emissions while maintaining a positive outlook on life.

Local Environment Heroes is a Canberra Environment Centre podcast celebrating the people working to create a healthier, more sustainable and connected community.

Find out more and get involved: canberraenvironment.org

Follow the Canberra Environment Centre on Facebook and Instagram for upcoming events, workshops, and stories from our community.

Thanks for listening; environmental change starts with people. 🌱

Dr. Robert Costanza is a professor of ecological economics and Vice Chancellor's Chair in Public Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.  

Dr. Costanza's work focusses on breaking our societal addiction to growth, replacing GDP with a measure of wellbeing and integrating natural and social capital in our economic decision making.

He is co founder and past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and founding editor of the society's journal, 'Ecological Economic'.  He currently serves on the editorial board of ten other international academic journals.  He is also founding editor-in-chief of 'Solutions' a unique hybrid academic/popular journal and editor in chief of 'The Anthropocene Review', and an ambassador of the 'Wellbeing Economy Alliance'.

Local Environment Heroes is a Canberra Environment Centre podcast celebrating the people working to create a healthier, more sustainable and connected community.

Find out more and get involved: canberraenvironment.org

Follow the Canberra Environment Centre on Facebook and Instagram for upcoming events, workshops, and stories from our community.

Thanks for listening; environmental change starts with people. 🌱

Centre Director Ryan Lungu and sustainability professional Julie Boulton have both some microphones and are on a mission to interview their local environmental heroes.   

Get to know your hosts in episode 1 and watch this space for future interviews with Canberrans who are getting things done in the filed of sustainability.

Local Environment Heroes is a Canberra Environment Centre podcast celebrating the people working to create a healthier, more sustainable and connected community.

Find out more and get involved: canberraenvironment.org

Follow the Canberra Environment Centre on Facebook and Instagram for upcoming events, workshops, and stories from our community.

Thanks for listening; environmental change starts with people. 🌱