TRASH TORQUE

Nat Isaacs is the charming and afffable brainiac behind climate change charity 1 Million Women. She is a total superstar in the sustainability space and it was a real privilege to pick her brains on all things conservation.

www.1millionwomen.com.au

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Jimmy Halfcut is the founder of Halfcut.org, a conservation charity dedicated to preserving rainforests - half of which have already been lost.

Jimmy’s a handsome fella, with a luscious Ned Kelly beard that he has shaved vertically down the middle. Goes without saying that it’s a striking look, but as he says, vanity is a small price to pay in exchange for engaging somebody about the state of the natural world around them. I wholeheartedly agree!

By halfcutting his beard, Jimmy is producing the chance for people to contribute towards rainforest conservation, which is a frighteningly urgent need. Especially when it only costs $2.50 to protect an ENTIRE ACRE. Can you believe that?! One coffee in the morning is somehow equivalent to 2 acres of ancient, priceless biodiversity. Insane.

Halfcut.org is a wonderful grassroots organisation dedicated to real, measurable conservation, and I absolutely loved chatting with him. A link to donate is below, and I’ll be halfcutting my own follicles this Saturday 31/8 for Halfcut Day.

Every bit counts!

https://halfcut.org/rolanddavies

www.luckyroland.com.au

THE CIRCADIAN CONSULTANT

Tom Eadie is on it. Like, really on it.

How to even begin describing this man?! Weapon chef, sourdough king, allround niceguy. Quiet, unassuming, shockingly powerful. Full tilt legend!

Tom’s a foodie, and he’s hellbent on reconnecting people with nature by reconnecting them with their food. @berkelo bakery has taken the northern beaches by storm but it’s not just the insane sourdough or dangerously moreish pastry - it’s the vertical integration of serving food grown literally up the road, true exemplification of paddock-to-plate eating.

Tom’s organic garden in Terrey Hills is a sight to behold, and provides food for his three bakeries with surplus produce sold at weekend markets. We had a bloody delightful stroll through it on a recent crispy morning, sampling bits and bobs and chatting our way through the universe.

It was an epic experience start to finish, and I can‘t wait to get back out there! Please listen in and let this 10/10 bloke’s wisdom into your brain. The garden is always in need of volunteers too, so if you’re at a loose end and keen to stoke your soul, definitely reach out. The catharsis will change your life.

www.berkelo.com.au

www.luckyroland.live

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There are few things I love more than wandering into the bush for a yarn with my mate Fob. This was our latest.

Follow our bant at @sunkenplacepodcast!

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We lit a couple of homemade candles to kick this one off. Speaking of, there’s a tiny bit of wobbly sound around the 10minute mark as nature joined us shooting the breeze, but otherwise it’s yet another cracking, crystal clear yarn from yet another laughably picturesque cove of Sydney harbour!

Stuff we covered?

Well, we definitely reckon mozzies need new PR representation. And our legal system is a bit confusing in that you are “innocent until proven guilty... unless you wanna try and prove you’re innocent again, and again and again”....... sry wut?

Also wtf’s up with some peoples uber aggressive aesthetics. You know what I’m talking about. Like when someone has a hectic hair style that basically says “fuck off” without them opening their mouths? Yeh that’s pretty weird. Cults are weird too. Cults are SUPER weird. And it’s just the same response to both hey, a tiny bit of morbid curiosity but mainly it’s BACK THE F UP BRUH, no thanks, I’m good.

Look all in all it was a bloody treat to be back in the bush with the microphone after an extended hiatus. Hope you missed our bullshit as much as we missed each other’s xx #gossipboys

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Greenwashing is scary shit. Scary in that there are humans out there (plenty of them) willing to put profits over the health of the planet.

This post is a brief overview of what greenwashing is, why you might fall victim to it more easily than is comfortable to think about, and how it's gone down in the past in Australia.

As for the second half of this podcast... hmm.

I guess if you claim to be 100% anything, as soon as you slip up - no matter how seemingly minor the deviation - your credibility stands to suffer. That's the crux of this current Patagonia situation, as - despite all their good work - a mission statement claiming "cause no unnecessary harm" means that profiteering of any kind will be pretty much unacceptable. Certainly that is the feedback being offered by the environmental community in the wake of their new food line, which is sold in single-use plastic packaging.

Sigh. I guess nobody's perfect right? It almost seems unfair - Patagonia does a lot more than most in the fight against climate change, but ironically that is what makes them an easy target for specific criticism according to the above rhetoric. But they're still a business after all! Maybe we are the fools for expecting transparently benevolent corporate activity? It should not go without acknowledging that Patagonia does a SHITLOAD more for the environment than the overwhelming majority of other companies.

Anyway, listen in and decide for yourself. Links to all material referenced is up on the blog. Stay vigilant legends!

www.everydaygreen.org

Is Erich Abetz trawlin' out of control? Even if not, this yarn is legit.

SOME NOTES:

Further contextualising Abetz in this story are his swift attacks on Greenpeace Australia and environmentalists in general, which he made almost immediately after stepping into the office of ‘Special Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation’ for the Howard Cabinet in 2006. Was it because he accurately foresaw such activists as potential impediments to his future supertrawler conspiracy with Parlevliet and Van Der Plast?

I think I said on the recording that Abetz invented his role as Special Minister - THIS IS FALSE. It is true however, that he was the last to hold that office, as it was mysteriously abolished after his occupation. Could it be though, that he engineered the closure of the department in order to grant himself permanent title of ‘most recent Fisheries Minister’… whereby appointing himself as undisputed chief parliamentary advisor to any future government on all things fishing? Such circumstances would surely enable legal flexibility for any corporation with which he was associated?

There are a lot of potentially nefarious loose ends about this story and nothing seems out of the question. I would like to make it abundantly clear that I'm not making any official allegations but it is in my view an inarguably compelling narrative which appears yet unresolved.

www.everydaygreen.org

Picked up a little gem during some beers over the weekend.

Note to self: either make curtains for Big Suse, or significantly limit partial nudity during future podcasts.

www.everydaygreen.org

Australia is the biggest global exporter of coal and has the highest per capita carbon emissions of the developed world. It's as bad a rap sheet as we could dread, yet we burn less than 15% of the coal we produce... imagine if we burned more.