As overconsumption continues to drive the climate crisis, Tasmanian building designer, Jane Hilliard, is quietly trumpeting the idea that less is actually more.

Jane Hilliard is on a mission to claw back the overconsumption rampant in the building industry. Swimming against the metaphorical tide that promotes ever-expanding McMansion-style developments, Jane champions the concept of ‘enoughness’ in her professional life and in her everyday life, too. 

In Jane’s own words, enoughness is about “working out what you need to be happy and healthy, without taking more than your fair share.” And when our homes are created with this in mind, the positive impacts radiate.

Robyn talks to Rod Angelo, The Happy Farmer, about making his business viable by turning waste streams into inputs that would otherwise have cost money.

Robyn Rosenfeldt speaks with Helena Norberg-Hodge about the localisation movement, and why we need to be creating stronger local food systems and stronger connections within our community.

Author and film maker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localisation Day.

Over the past few years, we have been experiencing increasing problems with our country’s supply chains that are leaving us with empty supermarket shelves and issues accessing fresh produce and other supplies.

To combat this, we need to be creating stronger local food economies, where the food we eat is grown within our local communities and not shipped in from across the globe.

How is it that food shipped from the other side of the planet is cheaper than the food grown locally? And why is food grown in one country shipped across the world to be processed, only to be returned and sold back to that country again?

It comes down to global supply chains and trade agreements that favour big business and industrialised agriculture, which make it almost impossible to survive as a small grower.

Creating local food economies increases not only our local food security but also our happiness, as it is connection and community that humans crave.

Norberg-Hodge shares her knowledge and experience of creating local food economies across the globe and ideas about how we can do the same.

To find about more about Helena’s work and the localisation movement go to www.localfutures.org

A discussion with Nick Rose about how we can feed our nation with local ethical food that will help our food security. Nick discusses how we can create change to create a more secure food system.

Welcome to Pip Podcast #36. Today we speak to visual artist, business owner, creative director and proud Walbunga and Ngarigo woman, Cheryl Davison.

Best known for her prints and paintings, Cheryl’s work has hung in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is part of the National Museum of Australia’s permanent collection, is also the Aboriginal Creative Director with Four Winds Festivals and has recently opened Mungala Bugaali Gallery in Central Tilba, NSW, where as well as selling her own artwork and products, she sells the wares of other local artists and producers.

In the Pip Podcast, Cheryl shares with us her journey of becoming an artist. She reveals how her art plays a far more important role than simply being an outlet for her creativity, in that it’s an important meeting point for Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures, and a really useful tool with which to build long-overdue awareness and to help develop deep respect of the oldest culture on earth.

Cheryl also displays her other artistic talent by performing a song for us. As Cheryl says, “I know that through singing and what we do and learning our culture and our language again, it heals us. And when we sing to Country, we heal Country and when we heal Country, we heal people because without healthy Country we don’t have healthy people.”.

We hope you enjoy our discussion with Cheryl Davison.

You can read more about Cheryl’s story in Issue #23 of Pip Magazine.

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Pip Podcast is back! With the wonderful and inspiring Hannah Moloney. In this episode Robyn chats to Hannah about how she balances making change in the world with work, parenthood, and living a healthy sustainable life. Hannah shares her journey from starting ‘Goodlife Permaculture’ to becoming a regular guest presenter on ABC’s Gardening Australia and now finishing her first book.

To read more about Hannah and her exciting projects check out the celebratory 20th issue of the Pip magazine:

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It’s Pip Podcast time and this week we speak with Climate Council chief, scientist, conservationist, Australian of the Year and one of the country’s leading writers on climate change, Tim Flannery.

In this podcast, Tim discusses where we stand in the fight against climate change and where the future is really heading based on current actions, attitudes and trends.

Tim believes that it’s important to keep doing what we’re doing in our personal lives when it comes to living more sustainably, but that the most important thing that needs addressing is political change.

Tim shares his ideas around what we can do to help create the momentum around changing the current political policies.

Since we recorded this podcast, the NSW government has committed to a 20-year electricity infrastructure roadmap, which will see the government award long-term contracts for three different types of technology – wind and solar farms to be built in three regional renewable energy zones, pumped hydro and battery long-duration storage, and fast-start “firming” generation that ensures grid stability.

We look forward to seeing the other states follow suit!

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In this podcast Diego shares his passion for the ancient art of foraging. He shares some of his favourite cooking tips and theories on the reasons why many of us are rediscovering the lost art of foraging for wild food. We hope you enjoy.

In this episode Pip editor, Robyn Rosenfeldt speaks with local food pioneers Emma-Kate Rose and Robert Pekin from Food Connect in Brisbane. Food Connect is a local food CSA, supporting local farmers and providing customers with access to good quality, organic local food at a fair price to farmers and to customers. They are revolutionising our food systems.

Welcome to Pip podcast number 31. Today we journey to the central Victorian countryside to visit Mara Ripani.

Mara Ripani is a photographer, cook, grower and Pip writer who is living the homesteader dream. In this podcast she chats to Pip editor Robyn Rosenfeldt about the simple rituals of her daily life. She also shares her journey to the country. The perfect listen for those of us who dream of a home on the range!