We need nothing less than a climate revolution, and that revolution begins in your head. Enter our new podcast series, The Climate Revolution.

Podcast content – in order of appearance00:01 Sir David King: We have to move rapidly00:12 Mark Carney, How We Get What We Value: We’ve been trading off the planet against profit00:19 Sir David King: We are in a very very desperate situation00:22 Alexandria Octavio-Cortez: Money alone will not save us00:28 Roy Scranton, author of ‘We’re Doomed, Now What’: Climate change is bigger than World War II00:55 William Moomaw: What it will take to achieve a safe climate02:16 Greta Thunberg: If I can ask one thing of you, it would be to educate yourself02:57 9News: United Nations calls on all governments to declare a climate emergency03:08 Antonio Guterres: Call on all governments to declare a climate emergency03:53 Mark Carney, How We Get What We Value: The sustainable revolution04:12 Mik Aidt: This is the sound of the Climate Revolution06:29 David Wallace-Wells: How we could change the planet’s climate future17:46 United Nations and Emmanuel Macron: Make the planet great again18:54 Johan Rockström, ABC On The Science Show: Fixing the climate emergency must start now22:18 Jess Hamilton and Ash Berdebes: Heaps Better – podcast trailer27:09 Michelle Maloney in Post Growth Australia Podcast: Reimagining an Earth centered economy35:24 Melanie Scaife: End Game: “Everything you hold dear” – podcast excerpt47:20

Welcome to our 349th Sustainable Hour.

We start today’s show with a brief clip from Sir David King, a former English Chief Scientist. The clip was taken from the National Climate Emergency Summit’s first webinar on the science of our climate emergency as part of the Sustainable Living Festival. It reinforces the strong message about how dire the situation we face is and how little time we have to address it:

“We have to move rapidly. What we do over the next two-three years, I believe, is going to determine the future of humanity.”

In The Tunnel on 10 February 2021 we have five guests:

[07:25] Bryony Edwards from Council & Community for the Climate Emergency, CACE. We learn from Bryony that although around 90 councils in Australia have declared a climate emergency so far, none have developed a serious council-wide climate emergency plan. To this end they have developed resources to guide councils to develop these plans as well to guide and support residents and ratepayers to lobby for such plans.

[21:41] Dr Jim Crosthwaite, a friend of the show and an economist, tells about his research into gas in response to the Morrison government’s ill fated ‘gas-led recovery’ plan. Jim recommends listening to the Boyer Lectures where fossil fuel tycoon Twiggy Forrest outlines what he sees as the future of energy in Australia. Jim then proceeds to explain why he disagrees on both economic and environmental grounds.

[43:09] Sal Fisher is co-founder of GasFreeGeelong – a group formed to counter Viva refinery’s proposal for a gas hub in Corio Bay and to educate Geelong and district residents about the alternatives that will help us face up to the climate emergency we face. Sal outlines what this education process will involve, including two community events which are coming up soon.

[52:45] Out in the Australian landscape, our Roving Reporter Rusty is working on a series of Regenerative Hours. But he wants to call it something else – because he wants to talk about what he likes to call “Ecological Agriculture”. He has been discovering that there’s a lot more to Regenerative Agriculture than the regenerative element of it. In his first podcast in the series, he talks with Kim Deans, a regenerative farmer from Inverell. Kim introduces Rusty – and now us, who are listening – to the concept of Syntropic Farming, which is a climate-friendly farming practice developed by a Swiss farmer over some 30 years in a logged area of the Brazilian rain forest.

[1:01:20] Carly Dober is a psychologist and yoga instructor who works in sc...

Welcome to our 349th Sustainable Hour.

We start today’s show with a brief clip from Sir David King, a former English Chief Scientist. The clip was taken from the National Climate Emergency Summit’s first webinar on the science of our climate emergency as part of the Sustainable Living Festival. It reinforces the strong message about how dire the situation we face is and how little time we have to address it:

“We have to move rapidly. What we do over the next two-three years, I believe, is going to determine the future of humanity.”

In The Tunnel on 10 February 2021 we have five guests:

[07:25] Bryony Edwards from Council & Community for the Climate Emergency, CACE. We learn from Bryony that although around 90 councils in Australia have declared a climate emergency so far, none have developed a serious council-wide climate emergency plan. To this end they have developed resources to guide councils to develop these plans as well to guide and support residents and ratepayers to lobby for such plans.

[21:41] Dr Jim Crosthwaite, a friend of the show and an economist, tells about his research into gas in response to the Morrison government’s ill fated ‘gas-led recovery’ plan. Jim recommends listening to the Boyer Lectures where fossil fuel tycoon Twiggy Forrest outlines what he sees as the future of energy in Australia. Jim then proceeds to explain why he disagrees on both economic and environmental grounds.

[43:09] Sal Fisher is co-founder of GasFreeGeelong – a group formed to counter Viva refinery’s proposal for a gas hub in Corio Bay and to educate Geelong and district residents about the alternatives that will help us face up to the climate emergency we face. Sal outlines what this education process will involve, including two community events which are coming up soon.

[52:45] Out in the Australian landscape, our Roving Reporter Rusty is working on a series of Regenerative Hours. But he wants to call it something else – because he wants to talk about what he likes to call “Ecological Agriculture”. He has been discovering that there’s a lot more to Regenerative Agriculture than the regenerative element of it. In his first podcast in the series, he talks with Kim Deans, a regenerative farmer from Inverell. Kim introduces Rusty – and now us, who are listening – to the concept of Syntropic Farming, which is a climate-friendly farming practice developed by a Swiss farmer over some 30 years in a logged area of the Brazilian rain forest.

[1:01:20] Carly Dober is a psychologist and yoga instructor who works in sc...

Hi all sustainable listeners – here we go for yet another year of our podcasts where we focus on solutions to the climate emergency we face, and in the process give you, our valued listeners, hope and motivation to become part of the solution along with us. As we discuss in today’s podcast, the solution will have to be to become nothing less than a revolutionary. Welcome to the climate revolution of 2021.

We have two guests in ‘The Tunnel’ of the 348th Sustainable Hour.

It’s February and that only means one thing in Victoria, Australia: The SLF, or the National Sustainable Living Festival. Once again we have its director Luke Taylor outlining what wonders we can expect in this year’s program, which runs all through February. He directs us to www.slf.org.au to find out what is happening each and every February day, and also how the National Climate Emergency Summit 2021 will present a series of critical conversations – Reset.21 forum series – to advance strategy and responses to the climate emergency.

Following Luke, we zoom over to Sweden, where we meet one of that country’s leading sustainability consultants Mats Larsson who has just written a book that has been receiving very good reviews. We hear him reflect on why he wrote the book – titled ‘Blind Guardians of Ignorance: Covid-19, Sustainability and Our Vulnerable Future – A Handbook for Change Leaders, Young and Old’ – and what he hopes it will achieve. In the process we learn much about the political process in his country.

Rounding out the show today we have an item from our youth reporter Ben Pocock. In it, Ben reflects on his school’s Climate Council by interviewing friends who were on that Council with him. We learn about what they consider to be their successes as well as what they could have done better during a very Covid-19-interrupted 2020 school year.

Ben has just started high school and is keen to continue filing youth reports for The Sustainable Hour. We wish him all the very best in his secondary education and look forward to getting reports when he finds his feet at his new school.

Before Colin Mockett starts his Global Outlook, Mik Aidt chimes in excitedly with news of the historic findings of a

Hi all sustainable listeners – here we go for yet another year of our podcasts where we focus on solutions to the climate emergency we face, and in the process give you, our valued listeners, hope and motivation to become part of the solution along with us. As we discuss in today’s podcast, the solution will have to be to become nothing less than a revolutionary. Welcome to the climate revolution of 2021.

We have two guests in ‘The Tunnel’ of the 348th Sustainable Hour.

It’s February and that only means one thing in Victoria, Australia: The SLF, or the National Sustainable Living Festival. Once again we have its director Luke Taylor outlining what wonders we can expect in this year’s program, which runs all through February. He directs us to www.slf.org.au to find out what is happening each and every February day, and also how the National Climate Emergency Summit 2021 will present a series of critical conversations – Reset.21 forum series – to advance strategy and responses to the climate emergency.

Following Luke, we zoom over to Sweden, where we meet one of that country’s leading sustainability consultants Mats Larsson who has just written a book that has been receiving very good reviews. We hear him reflect on why he wrote the book – titled ‘Blind Guardians of Ignorance: Covid-19, Sustainability and Our Vulnerable Future – A Handbook for Change Leaders, Young and Old’ – and what he hopes it will achieve. In the process we learn much about the political process in his country.

Rounding out the show today we have an item from our youth reporter Ben Pocock. In it, Ben reflects on his school’s Climate Council by interviewing friends who were on that Council with him. We learn about what they consider to be their successes as well as what they could have done better during a very Covid-19-interrupted 2020 school year.

Ben has just started high school and is keen to continue filing youth reports for The Sustainable Hour. We wish him all the very best in his secondary education and look forward to getting reports when he finds his feet at his new school.

Before Colin Mockett starts his Global Outlook, Mik Aidt chimes in excitedly with news of the historic findings of a

27TH EPISODE OF THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Can we turn the 2020s into ‘The Regenerative Decade’? In this series of interviews about what that would imply, we talk ecology, deep adaptation, grief, compassion and passion, connecting with nature, resilience, revitalisation, restoration, revolution… – the bigger picture, in other words.

In our summer series of programs for 2021, we are introducing a series of interviews in The Regenerative Hour about rehydrating the Australian landscape, regenerative and natural sequence farming, and ecosystem restoration. These are generally longer interviews where we investigate important issues in more detail.

We’ll also be revisiting our major focus areas of indigenous wisdom, and the last frontier of climate action: the potential for elite sport players and administrators to use their influence in our sports-obsessed country to help us get to where we need to be on climate.

How to achieve climate safety by rebuilding our landscape with its ancient blueprint

In The Regenerative Hour no 27, we talk with three champions of regenerative farming, land management and conservation farming practices:

Rob Skinner is a businessman and thoughtleader currently setting up organisational and business structures for Australian landscape science. He outlines a vision for a “council of leading scientists” in this space, plus what he sees as the benefits of the guidance of the combination of the knowledge. He discusses the experience that such a council would bring to anyone working to repair land in Australia.

“After 230 years of European settlement, we have completely denuded this country. We have used up all the resources, we have taken all of the carbon out of the soil, we have taken from the bank and put nothing back.”~ Rob Skinner, businessman and thoughtleader, in The Regenerative Hour no 26

Paul Anderson is a hydrogeologist who has worked with Peter Andrews for many years. He talks about the importance of a body of people that advises and overseas regenerative farming and land management practices, and which role local Councils can play. He also discusses how to measure land productivity based on plants.

“If we increase soil carbon by one per cent on our arable land, Australia will be carbon-negative no matter what carbon emissions we are doing. This is very doable with Peter Andrew‘s and Rain for Climate‘s methods. So my overarching goal is to provide some good scientific paradigmes behind it.”~ Paul Anderson, hydrogeologist, in The Regenerative Hour no 27

John Anderson, former head of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister, is a sixth generation farmer in Northern New South Wales. He is very enthusiastic about what he calls “conservation farming”. He sees it as having great potential to improve overall farm productivity as well to increase the nutritional value of the food, improve the vitality of the soil and allow more carbon to be sequestered. He sees this as making this way of farming a winner on so many fronts.

“The Australian community is worried about climate change and wants us to move towards net-zero. Well, here is a brilliant way where a whole set of management practices,

27TH EPISODE OF THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Can we turn the 2020s into ‘The Regenerative Decade’? In this series of interviews about what that would imply, we talk ecology, deep adaptation, grief, compassion and passion, connecting with nature, resilience, revitalisation, restoration, revolution… – the bigger picture, in other words.

In our summer series of programs for 2021, we are introducing a series of interviews in The Regenerative Hour about rehydrating the Australian landscape, regenerative and natural sequence farming, and ecosystem restoration. These are generally longer interviews where we investigate important issues in more detail.

We’ll also be revisiting our major focus areas of indigenous wisdom, and the last frontier of climate action: the potential for elite sport players and administrators to use their influence in our sports-obsessed country to help us get to where we need to be on climate.

How to achieve climate safety by rebuilding our landscape with its ancient blueprint

In The Regenerative Hour no 27, we talk with three champions of regenerative farming, land management and conservation farming practices:

Rob Skinner is a businessman and thoughtleader currently setting up organisational and business structures for Australian landscape science. He outlines a vision for a “council of leading scientists” in this space, plus what he sees as the benefits of the guidance of the combination of the knowledge. He discusses the experience that such a council would bring to anyone working to repair land in Australia.

“After 230 years of European settlement, we have completely denuded this country. We have used up all the resources, we have taken all of the carbon out of the soil, we have taken from the bank and put nothing back.”~ Rob Skinner, businessman and thoughtleader, in The Regenerative Hour no 26

Paul Anderson is a hydrogeologist who has worked with Peter Andrews for many years. He talks about the importance of a body of people that advises and overseas regenerative farming and land management practices, and which role local Councils can play. He also discusses how to measure land productivity based on plants.

“If we increase soil carbon by one per cent on our arable land, Australia will be carbon-negative no matter what carbon emissions we are doing. This is very doable with Peter Andrew‘s and Rain for Climate‘s methods. So my overarching goal is to provide some good scientific paradigmes behind it.”~ Paul Anderson, hydrogeologist, in The Regenerative Hour no 27

John Anderson, former head of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister, is a sixth generation farmer in Northern New South Wales. He is very enthusiastic about what he calls “conservation farming”. He sees it as having great potential to improve overall farm productivity as well to increase the nutritional value of the food, improve the vitality of the soil and allow more carbon to be sequestered. He sees this as making this way of farming a winner on so many fronts.

“The Australian community is worried about climate change and wants us to move towards net-zero. Well, here is a brilliant way where a whole set of management practices,

The Sustainable Hour no 347

Our two guests in The Tunnel on 30 December 2020 are involved in a grassroots group that started out in Adelaide in 2013. Since then, it has grown to such an extent that it has projects all over the country. It is called CORENA, which stands for Citizen-Owned Renewable Energy Network Australia.

Margaret Hender, who founded CORENA, has recently passed on the chair-baton to Briony O’Shea. Briony has accepted this very enthusiastically and outlines what CORENA will do under her leadership. They will continue to look for grassroots projects that will result in carbon emissions being reduced. A particularly exciting new area for them will be helping people get off gas. One of their projects almost ready to go is a collaboration with the Geelong Bowls Club which is very close to reaching its target. You can find out more about this at corenafund.org.au

Our attention then shifts to Margaret Hender who, as well as founding CORENA, co-founded the Climate Emergency Declaration petition and mobilisation – and Cedamia. We learn how something that started out in Australia in 2016 has grown to an international movement where almost 2,000 local governments authorities in 33 countries have declared a climate emergency.

The number of Aussies who live in local jurisdictions that have declared a climate emergency now exceeds 35 per cent of the population – a number that must make our elected representatives at state and federal parliaments realise just how out of touch they are with the people they are elected to represent.

We also learn how Margaret has maintained the list of all the climate emergency declarations, but isn’t confident that she has all of them, especially in non-English speaking countries. She outlines her plans for making these figures more reliable.

“Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back – and it is already doing so with growing force and fury. Biodiversity is collapsing. One million species are at risk of extinction. Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes. Human activities are at the root of our descent towards chaos. BUT that means that human action can help to solve it.”~ Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

In this our last podcast for 2020, Colin Mockett‘s Global Outlook starts out with this powerful quote from Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. He then wraps up the global year with a couple of alarming facts, including the number of extreme weather events that caused more than $1 billion in damage, and the number of billionaires now in the world. He then takes us to California where there’s better news. Their government has taken an example from Germany in an attempt to create more demand for green energy. Finally for today and for 2020, Colin gives us the World Climate Watch ranking of countries in terms of their climate action and laws. Unfortunately no surprises as to where Australia appears on that ranking of 61 countries.

It’s all part of our Truth-Telling-approach, but rest assured that we at The Sustainable Hour will be doing all that we can in the new year to improve Australia’s embarrassing world ranking.

The Sustainable Hour no 347

Our two guests in The Tunnel on 30 December 2020 are involved in a grassroots group that started out in Adelaide in 2013. Since then, it has grown to such an extent that it has projects all over the country. It is called CORENA, which stands for Citizen-Owned Renewable Energy Network Australia.

Margaret Hender, who founded CORENA, has recently passed on the chair-baton to Briony O’Shea. Briony has accepted this very enthusiastically and outlines what CORENA will do under her leadership. They will continue to look for grassroots projects that will result in carbon emissions being reduced. A particularly exciting new area for them will be helping people get off gas. One of their projects almost ready to go is a collaboration with the Geelong Bowls Club which is very close to reaching its target. You can find out more about this at corenafund.org.au

Our attention then shifts to Margaret Hender who, as well as founding CORENA, co-founded the Climate Emergency Declaration petition and mobilisation – and Cedamia. We learn how something that started out in Australia in 2016 has grown to an international movement where almost 2,000 local governments authorities in 33 countries have declared a climate emergency.

The number of Aussies who live in local jurisdictions that have declared a climate emergency now exceeds 35 per cent of the population – a number that must make our elected representatives at state and federal parliaments realise just how out of touch they are with the people they are elected to represent.

We also learn how Margaret has maintained the list of all the climate emergency declarations, but isn’t confident that she has all of them, especially in non-English speaking countries. She outlines her plans for making these figures more reliable.

“Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back – and it is already doing so with growing force and fury. Biodiversity is collapsing. One million species are at risk of extinction. Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes. Human activities are at the root of our descent towards chaos. BUT that means that human action can help to solve it.”~ Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

In this our last podcast for 2020, Colin Mockett‘s Global Outlook starts out with this powerful quote from Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. He then wraps up the global year with a couple of alarming facts, including the number of extreme weather events that caused more than $1 billion in damage, and the number of billionaires now in the world. He then takes us to California where there’s better news. Their government has taken an example from Germany in an attempt to create more demand for green energy. Finally for today and for 2020, Colin gives us the World Climate Watch ranking of countries in terms of their climate action and laws. Unfortunately no surprises as to where Australia appears on that ranking of 61 countries.

It’s all part of our Truth-Telling-approach, but rest assured that we at The Sustainable Hour will be doing all that we can in the new year to improve Australia’s embarrassing world ranking.

In The Sustainable Hour no 346 on 23 December 2020, we depart from our usual format, as all of our guests come from the one overseas country. They are all very involved in environmental and climate campaigns in Malaysia.

Khoo Shama is a long time social justice and environmental campaigner based in Penang. She writes and publishes environmental books.  We hear what campaigns she is currently working on – this mainly revolves around land reclamation projects in Penang. These will destroy the fishing grounds of hundreds of traditional fishers in that area. This, so more residential units can be built – units the average Malaysian can’t afford. You can find out more about Khoo’s work at: Climate Change Solutions | JEDI Network for Ecology and Climate.

Indigenous Malaysian artist and activist Shaq Korok is a passionate defender of his people’s rights – his whole life is dedicated to improving the way his people are treated. He is a trainer in a South-Pacific Indigenour group called Savage Club. We learn how he feels that his education has given him a responsibility to do this important work. Shaq has a strong connection with Climate Action Malaysia – KAMY.

Nadiah Dzulfakar is KAMY’s co-founder. Their planned activities have been restricted by Covid-19, but like many other determined youth groups working the world over for a better world, they have persisted and consequently grown in numbers. They have also connected with youth climate groups from all over South East Asia – these are becoming a force to be reckoned with both within their countries and collectively. You can find out more about KAMY at www.klimaactionmalaysia.org

Thary Gazi Goh is a nature educator and urban naturalist. His current interests are the novel ecosystems that humans create, how to make urban areas more liveable for Malaysians and discover wildlife in the city. You can find out more about his work at Urban Biodiversity Initiative (UBI).

Colin Mockett‘s Global Outlook starts with very concerning news which has just come out of the Wiseman Institute in Israel – It compares  what humans have made to nature’s creations and the consequences of this.For the rest of today’s outlook he takes us to places that he highlighted during the year for environmental destruction/accidents and gives their current status. We revisit the  disastrous diesel oil spill at Norilsk in Russia, the devastating fires in the United States & the oil spill from a Japanese ship that ran aground in Mauritius.

A very different Sustainable Hour for our second-last podcast of the year. If you found this interesting, please let us know. In these days of ‘Zoom enlightenment’, it is so much easier to organise international content for future shows. Let us know if this is something you’d like us to pursue in the future.

2020 became the year where we transitioned from a local radio show to a national and international podcast via the magic of Zoom. We wish everyone a very sustainable Christmas where you tread as lightly as possible on our more and more fragile existence. Until next Wednesday, we hope that you enjoy our podcast as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you. As always, Live the difference.