A panel discussion led by Margaret Klein Salamon, author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to transform yourself with climate truth Yes, we're facing catastrophic collapse. Yes it’s terrifying. But you don't have to be paralyzed by your fear, grief, and other painful feelings. You can use your pain to transform yourself, your friends, and your world. You can become the hero humanity needs. I want to show you how. - Margaret Klein Salamon Margaret Klein Salamon, author of Facing the Climate Em...
Mar 27, 2020•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 186
Pilot episode of a series by the Climactic Collective exploring the intersection of social enterprise and consumer choice during our time of climate crisis. Tip us off about a great social enterprise with a story to tell, or interested in helping tell these stories? Reach out to [email protected] . MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH EVERY BREW. "Crema Joe is an Australian owned business passionate about helping you get more from your daily cuppa. It’s why we’ve hand selected a range of innovative and sus...
Mar 26, 2020•36 min•Ep. 185
Join RMIT lecturers and researchers to discuss how we can shape the future of our cities Cities shape us and we shape our cities. We are living in uncertain times. Can cities hold significant answers to addressing some of the challenges facing us today? We all have heard about nature-based solutions, low-carbon futures, liveable, socially just, smart and climate resilient cities. What do they mean? Join RMIT lecturers and researchers to discuss how we can shape the future of our cities to find o...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 184
How quickly can we achieve climate justice? Does climate justice mean we need to be careful and considered and/or hurry up? In what ways does declaring and responding to the 'climate emergency' contribute to climate justice, or potentially undermine it? What steps need to be taken to ensure that declaring a climate emergency doesn’t lead to ‘states of emergency’ and authoritarianism? Recent events in Australia highlight the need to consider the pros and cons of declaring a ‘climate emergency’. E...
Mar 22, 2020•2 hr 46 min•Ep. 183
In November 2019 I caught up with an old friend and fellow conservationist, Jimmy Nails. This throwback episode meanders through conversations from the role of the NGO in multilateral governance, to dealing with the insurmountable grief that the knowledge of climate change brings, to tough decisions about how we move forward in our careers and passion projects. Jimmy’s invigorating stories and contagious laughter are the perfect diversion away from the eeriness felt across the globe this week. S...
Mar 20, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 182
Harry is not just trainee General Practitioner, he's also a climate activist. So he's a great person to talk to about how to continue organising for climate action, while the COVID-19 virus understandably dominates the world's attention. Support Climactic Links: SNAP ACTION: Join our digital rally against new fossil fuels in VIC - Friends of the Earth Melbourne Healthy Futures Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) | Department of Health and Human Services Victoria See /privacy for privacy and opt-out i...
Mar 17, 2020•11 min•Ep. 181
Youth on Strike is an exciting new series you can watch on YouTube. With support from Screen Australia and Junkee, this project brings you vlog footage from SS4C organisers, and past Climactic guests, in the lead-up to the March 15 2019 School Strike. Rob Innes was the producer of this project, and he generously jumped on an interview the same day as Episode 1 was released. Listen in, share the series, and let's get behind great climate media! Special Guest: Rob Innes. Support Climactic Links: Y...
Mar 17, 2020•27 min•Ep. 180
Sci-Fight hits Kalaide Theatre for this special National Sustainable Living Festival event! Academics, scientists and comedians put forth the case as to whether this is fine or whether it's time to unleash chaos. Come and make your breakdown evidence based! Humans have made it through some pretty tricky times. We survived that ice age 40,000 years ago. The black plague epidemic wasn’t exactly a bundle of laughs. Then there was a world war, AND its sequel, which was even worse than the original. ...
Mar 13, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 179
Madeleine Habib is a master mariner and activist who has worked on and captained many vessels around the world. Madeline recorded her story of climate activism aboard the very vessel her story takes place, The Aurora Australis. Special Guest: Madeleine Habib. Support Climactic Links: "I will not be silenced" Deep in Antarctica Madeleine Habib fights for her right to speak on climate - Breakfast - ABC Radio Life in 500 Words: Madeleine Habib makes waves while on them - Turning Point - Life Matter...
Mar 11, 2020•6 min•Ep. 178
Marco is running a half-marathon in the Tarkine rainforest, and he's fundraising to help protect this beautiful and unique ecosystem. You can support him here. Imagine if students all across Australia started to call for their schools to declare a climate emergency. That’s what some of the biggest names in the youth climate movement are now striving to achieve. This special workshop, facilitated by some of Australia’s leading young strategists, will help students create a roadmap for getting sch...
Mar 09, 2020•52 min•Ep. 177
Bob Doppelt is the Executive Director of the Resource Innovation Group (TRIG) and the founder and Coordinator of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC). Trained in both counseling psychology and environmental science, he has combined the two fields throughout his careeer. He is also a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction instructor from the University of Massachusettes Medical School, Center for Mindfulness. From 2003 to 2011 he directed the Climate Leadership Initiative (C...
Mar 07, 2020•57 min•Ep. 176
Zoe Pook and her family live in Cobargo, NSW. She was travelling with her 2 children to Adelaide for a wedding when the firewall hit Cobargo and incinerated much of the town. Her husband, a volunteer firefighter, stayed to battle the fire and save their house. He is one of our nation's heroes. Fortunately he survived. Unfortunately, like many others in Cobargo that day, they lost everything. This is Zoe's story. Catastrophic is a dual podcast and political protest. Catastrophic tells the tales o...
Mar 04, 2020•29 min•Ep. 175
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is happening in this climate emergency. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their support. We'll be taking a break next week but if you want more information abo...
Mar 03, 2020•10 min•Ep. 174
Karen Viggers lives in Canberra, she is a Vet who works with native wildlife in the field. This January she volunteered her services to help the animals and saw first hand the impact of the catastrophic bushfires on flora and fauna. Karen has had experience with a number of big bushfires throughout her life, including the Black Saturday fires of 2009 but has never seen anything like the fires of this past Christmas and New year. She gives an interesting scientific perspective on the impact, caus...
Mar 02, 2020•31 min•Ep. 173
It has been 160 years since Charles Darwin first published ‘On the Origin of Species,’ detailing the amazing ability of living things to evolve through natural selection. Today, human activities and Earth’s rapidly changing climate require that species adapt and evolve at an unprecedented rate in order to survive a great ecological disruption. What genetic tools are available to enable species to evolve? Which species are most at risk? How can we avoid a collapse in biodiversity, and what can hu...
Feb 29, 2020•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 172
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their support. For more information about events included head to [Transitionaustralia.net]( www.transitionaustr...
Feb 26, 2020•7 min•Ep. 171
On the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, the Barkindji Maraura Elders Environment Team are re-familiarising themselves with their 'country' as a living museum. It is hot and windy. On the banks of the rivers it is lush and green but just a little way away their lake, Fletcher's Lake, is dry and salinated. But this is territory that has a vibrant history for the Barkindji people. The team, known as BMEET, know exactly where to find the artefacts that show their connection. Stone tools li...
Feb 22, 2020•29 min•Ep. 170
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their support. For more information about events included head to [Transitionaustralia.net]( www.transitionaustr...
Feb 18, 2020•9 min•Ep. 169
Part 2 of a three-part series. Listen to part one first at www.climactic.fm/103 In December, as this intense summer got into full swing, most of the country dried out. Drought held tight in western Queensland, Perth swooned through a series of record breaking heatwaves, and then the south-east and west caught fire with powerful implications for human life, livestock, native animals, plants, and our landscape. In the Hot Summer Land project RN Earshot and ABC Open teamed up to ask our audience—yo...
Feb 15, 2020•29 min•Ep. 168
Sulari Gentill lives in the NSW town of Batlow, home of the Batlow apple. Her husband, Michael and son, Edmund, are both volunteer firefighters with the RFS. They have been fighting fires for years but they have never experienced anything like this. In the first weekend of January 2020 the town of Batlow was decimated by a mega fire. Sulari evacuated their home, while Michael and Edmund almost lost their lives fighting to save their beloved town. This is Sulari's story. Catastrophic is a dual po...
Feb 12, 2020•42 min•Ep. 167
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their support. For more information about events included head to [Transitionaustralia.net]( www.transitionaustr...
Feb 11, 2020•9 min•Ep. 166
Climactic member Gretchen Miller brings us a three part series from ABC and Radio National, Hot Summer Land. Intense fires, drought, rain in unexpected places, and temperature records smashed—this El Niño summer in Australia both lived up to expectations, and surpassed them. In the Hot Summer Land project RN Earshot and ABC Open teamed up to ask our audience—you—to paint us a word picture of how your landscape changed over the three months of summer. You posted over 200 evocative stories from ar...
Feb 08, 2020•36 min•Ep. 165
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their support. For more information about events included head to [Transitionaustralia.net]( www.transitionaustr...
Feb 05, 2020•9 min•Ep. 164
Pamela Cook is an Author living on the South Coast of NSW. Her daughter, son in law and 2 year old grandson all live and work on her property in Milton. The young family run their business out of that property, it is how they earn a living. Not anymore. This Christmas saw them lose that business and very nearly lose their home. The town of Milton is decimated, people have lost everything and they aren't out of the fire season yet. This is Pamela's story. If you or anyone you know has a story the...
Feb 04, 2020•21 min•Ep. 163
Sophie Masson is an author living near Armidale in Northern NSW. Sophie has always thought she was safe out there and water was a given. In 2019 both drought and fires hit for the first time. She did not lose her home but she now knows what fear of fire and climate change feels like. This is Sophie's story. If you or anyone you know has a story they would like to share from or about the Aussie bushfires please instant message us via the Catastrophic Podcast Facebook page (@CatastrophicPod)or ema...
Feb 03, 2020•15 min•Ep. 162
Ever wondered about the phrase ‘think globally, act locally’? Or how your local community could transition to zero emissions? Well we are stoke to say that this visionary work is underway right now! In this episode we chat with the delightful Imogen Jubb, Australian National Manager of Zero Carbon Communities, a Beyond Zero Emissions initiative. Imogen has had an impressive sustainability focused career, beginning in ecology, then climate change communications and now on one of the biggest and m...
Feb 01, 2020•40 min•Ep. 161
This is one cinema with a difference! Powered by bicycles, the Climate Emergency Cinema invites you to experience a series of outdoor films at MPavilion celebrating the urgent grassroots action around climate change. Co-curated by the Transitions Film Festival and the Little Projector Company, the curated program of short films and award-winning feature documentaries will be introduced by leading thinkers and activists leading the climate emergency campaign here in Melbourne. You’ll even have th...
Jan 30, 2020•33 min•Ep. 160
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Jan 30, 2020•5 min•Ep. 159
Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on. We are very grateful to our podcast partners particularly Climactic and the Sustainable Hour for their support. For more information about events included head to [Transitionaustralia.net]( www.transitionaustr...
Jan 28, 2020•9 min•Ep. 158
First thing, Climactic has a newsletter. Sign up ! Liking the show? Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here! Support us directly on Pozible! Mark and Evan met on the Project Drawdown group on Facebook, but didn't realise it at the time. Then they were put into a group thread by a fellow connector, Daniel Poynter. Evan reached out to be on the podcast, and Mark just loved that. In this episode Mark and Evan go into the likelihood of a US Green New Deal, but more importantly into what ...
Jan 25, 2020•50 min•Ep. 157
