Dr Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning Australian climate scientist and writer, currently teaching at the Australian National University. She's the author of the book “The Sunburnt Country. The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia”. Joëlle is also one of the dozen or so Australian lead authors working on the IPCC's upcoming 6th assessment - in addition to her full-time teaching load. The results of the refined climate models that she and her fellow scientists are working on terrify he...
Aug 10, 2020•56 min•Ep. 216
The Climactic Collective is a podcast network of shows engaged with the climate crisis, and other pressing social issues. The network now numbers more than ten shows, with more in development - and we welcome new members. But we now have a happy problem, it's hard to stay up-to-date with so much content. So, we're starting something new; monthly Climactic Curation episodes. They'll bring you the best of the Climactic Collective and friends, once a month. Sometimes on a theme, but not always. In ...
Aug 03, 2020•52 min•Ep. 215
This is not the next episode of Climactic. It's an announcement of a new format of show from the Climactic Collective, a monthly 'audio magazine' featuring some of the best from across the shows on the network. It's coming soon, early in the week starting August 3rd. We'd love to hear what you think of this new style, what works and what doesn't. Get in touch at [email protected] and let us know! Cheers, The Climactic Collective. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Aug 01, 2020•1 min•Ep. 214
Guest episode from the BZE Community radio show. Our thanks to the team for allowing us to share it with you. Also, we're announcing two new shows on the Climactic Collective. thEMPOWER and Sustainable You . Check out all the shows on the network at www.climactic.com.au . CLIMATE CRISIS FRONTLINES Episode 1- BANGLADESH 13th July 2020 Guests: Runa Khan - Founder of "Friendship" floating hospitals in Bagladesh https://friendship.ngo/floods-in-bangladesh-and-friendships-response/ https://friendship...
Jul 25, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 213
Thanks for joining us for this bonus episode. My name's Mark, and when I'm not publishing Climactic, and helping out in the Climactic Collective, I work in the podcasting industry. That's how I know the great team at Soundcartel. They've allowed us to share this episode of their new program Business Essentials Daily, this short, sweet, and in plain business English interview with Anna Skarbek of the thinktank Climate Works, on how businesses taking action on climate change isn't just the right t...
Jul 23, 2020•15 min•Ep. 212
An event from the Bayside Climate Crisis Action Group. Recorded and adapted from a June 25th event. This is about making money from your money (Super). Putting it to work for a Safe Climate Future. You won't want to miss this. Hear from Will van de Pol, Asset Management campaigner at strategic lobby group Market Forces, describing how Market Forces have shifted millions of investment dollars away from fossil fuels. You will also hear from Seán Marsh who states, "The finance industry is the worst...
Jul 18, 2020•53 min•Ep. 211
Simon Moore, a climate activist and science communicator, brings us another dispatch from Leeds in England. As a contributor to Climactic, he's told stories of Extinction Rebellion protests, community activist groups and the first UK Climate Change Citizens' Jury. In this episode Simon discusses the boundary between activism and academia with Professor Julia Steinberger from the University of Leeds. Julia Steinberger is an IPCC lead author and Professor of Ecological Economics. She studies the r...
Jul 10, 2020•38 min•Ep. 210
On June 29 2020, Beyond Zero Emissions launched The Million Jobs Plan. The launch included a stellar line up including Christiana Figueres and Mike Cannon-Brookes. You can watch the webinar launch here . Climactic has adapted the event to audio, by shortening and producing the webinar recording into a version you can enjoy over headphones. The Million Jobs Plan is the framework to restore our economy. We've mapped out how we can rebuild our nation through practical projects that can restore our ...
Jul 02, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 209
Building Briefing: The Million Jobs Plan Webinar Series - Podcast Adaptation We welcome you to join us for this Buildings Briefing webinar. Beyond Zero Emissions are hosting this briefing ahead of the release of our Million Jobs Plan and we welcome you to join us for this one-off event. The Million Jobs Plan building initiative will create over 180,000 jobs and deliver 2.5 million energy-efficient home upgrades, 150,000 new high performing, low-cost homes, and rooftop solar installations across ...
Jun 29, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 208
This episode is an adaptation of the launch event for the People's Climate Strategy, held by Act on Climate on June 3rd. Friends of the Earth Melbourne's Act on Climate collective officially launched its push to write a People's Climate Strategy for Victoria with over one thousand people watching the online launch via Zoom and Facebook live . The strong level of interest is a vote of confidence in the idea. Writing a People's Climate Strategy for Victoria to present to the Andrews government lat...
Jun 21, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 207
The Climactic Collective is thrilled to be able to bring you this special feature, an audio documentary from Jess Fairfax - https://www.jessfairfax.com/ TO FEED TWO BIRDS WITH ONE SCONE An audio documentary by Jess Fairfax Over the past year or so, I have found inspiration in the work of Michel Foucault, who believes in the power of discourse as both “an instrument and an effect of power, but also a hindrance, a stumbling point of resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy” (Foucau...
Jun 20, 2020•40 min•Ep. 206
This is the fourth episode of Aftermath, a show on the Climactic Collective. Listen and subscribe at https:///shows/aftermath-1 This episode features Jo Dodds of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action and Elaine Johnson of the Environmental Defenders Office. They talk Eav through the basis for their case against the Environmental Protection Agency, to compel them to mitigate greenhouse gases to prevent further catastrophic bushfires. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Jun 12, 2020•26 min•Ep. 205
On May 28th Richie Merzian, Climate and Energy Director of the Australian Institute joined the Bayside Climate Crisis Action Group to talk the Australian Federal Government's post-COVID "gas-fired recovery" plans. Excerpts from 'Shipping Sunshine': Renewables, Gas, and Australia's Energy Mix | Q+A, May 25, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzuBX6xpxI Get more from BCCAG at https://bccag.org.au/ See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Jun 03, 2020•29 min•Ep. 204
Recently 2040 director Damon Gameau and Independent MP Zali Steggall for Warringah shared a livestream. They explored how we can ensure government accountability during COVID-19, how we #BuildBackBetter , and the importance of a Climate Change Act for Australia. Thanks to the 2040 team for allowing us to share this adaptation of the webinar with you. www.climateactnow.com.au https://whatsyour2040.com/ https://www.facebook.com/2040Film/videos/1182373688809818/ https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/c...
May 30, 2020•50 min•Ep. 203
Climactic's newest show, Aftermath. Released weekly. Listen, rate and review at https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/aftermath-1183678 Let's start at the very beginning. Plants are critical to all life on land, and they are the organisms most acutely impacted by fire. In this episode, Eav talks to Dr Brett Summerell of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney about how Australian plants are (and aren't) adapted to fire, the way that plants are recovering from the 2019/2020 bushfires and what we can a...
May 23, 2020•25 min•Ep. 202
How does an unstable planet increase the risk of pandemics like COVID 19? In this episode, Eav interviews not one but two Professors of Public Health - Tony Capon and Ro MacFarlane The impacts of environmental destabilisation on human health is discussed, as Ro and Tony propose an alternative vision for society where human and environmental health are treated as one system. Further reading Ro and Tony's article in the Conversation A tale of two emergencies published in the Lancet Frank Fenner an...
May 16, 2020•21 min•Ep. 201
How did a community climate action group get their city council to not only declare a climate emergency, but commit to emergency level emissions reduction measures, during a global pandemic? Coalitions, campaigning, determination and good old-fashioned organizing! Coalition members Belinda Haydon and Elinor Hasenfratz share their story. For more check out: https://www.facebook.com/JewishCN/ http://gecan.org.au/ Recordings from the Tuesday, March 5th Glen Eira Council session are also featured in...
May 09, 2020•49 min•Ep. 200
Climactic contributor Gretchen Miller saw a post from Protect Warburton Ranges, of a young woman named Alice up a tree, trying to protect old-growth native forest from clear-felling, forest just a kilometre from her home - her literal backyard. Alice, the same Alice you may have already heard on Climactic. So introductions were made, and from Gretchen in Sydney, to Alice up a tree in the Victorian Central Highlands, this interview was conducted late last night. Today we release it for you, becau...
May 05, 2020•23 min•Ep. 199
Luke Skinner, secretary of the Climate Justice Union of Western Australia, joins Mark and Angelica from Climactic to talk climate justice, Government action in the face of COVID, and the power of unions - and those of us working essential jobs - in these times. To learn more about the CJU, check out https://climatejusticeunion.org/ - you can become a solidarity member for even a dollar, to make your support for the transition they're working on tangible. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out info...
May 01, 2020•47 min•Ep. 198
Climate Emergency. What can one do? Presented as part of the Sustainable Living Festival, Melbourne Playback Theatre Company in collaboration with Climate for Change are hosting an evening of conversation and performance - sharing stories, knowledge, and empowering action. Part workshop, part improvisational performance, The Power For Change will recap the climate science, offer a pathway for change and use the power of playback theatre to deepen the conversation. Audience reflections and storie...
Apr 28, 2020•17 min•Ep. 197
Katerina Cosgrove went from being a contributor to Climactic, to being an interviewer in record time. Listen to her first piece on Climactic here . Given the chance to use the podcast as a platform, she reached out an author she greatly respected, and booked him for an interview. What followed was something fantastic. Derrick Jensen is a prolific, and controversial author. In another interview he has said "I get accused of being the 'violence guy'...but I don't ever think that's really fair, bec...
Apr 24, 2020•53 min•Ep. 196
Today we're talking online activism and keeping the ledger straight. We all get our news online - social media is our town square and the news pages are the town criers. I follow a bunch of these pages and while plenty of the articles they share demonstrate great empathy and compassion for the complexities of life lived and a commitment to science and waking the world up to climate change - there is an equally powerful commitment from people who seem to find social justice, equality, fairness an...
Apr 18, 2020•39 min•Ep. 195
Transitions Film Festival brought a film screening to Port Phillip in Melbourne, and Mark from Climactic was able to moderate and record the post-screening panel as a live episode. Featuring two young members of the Port Phillip community, and a marine scientist and science communicator from the Port Phillip EcoCentre, this panel grapples with Australia's vulnerability to climate impacts, the present threats of the climate crisis, and looking ahead from the perspective of young people. For more ...
Apr 13, 2020•28 min•Ep. 194
Bronwyn Gresham hosts a conversation between four psychologists about facing the climate crisis. About Sally Sally Gillespie, PhD, worked as a Jungian psychotherapist for over twenty years before completing her doctoral research in climate psychology. Her recent publication, Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our owrkd and ourselves is an intriguing and essential read, venturing into our collective stories and consciousness and guiding us towards a space that has promise even in our ...
Apr 11, 2020•51 min•Ep. 193
Recorded in November 2019 for Raising the Bar, an event series from the City of Melbourne. We're so grateful to the RTB team for allowing us to share this audio, from past guest and collaborator Dr Jen Rae. Raising the Bar is "for curious minds and lifelong learners. We're here for those hungry for innovation and inspiration. For the citizens and dreamers of our world. We're here to make knowledge accessible outside of the traditional classroom and transform our city's popular culture. We're Rai...
Apr 09, 2020•50 min•Ep. 192
Organizing member Lizzie Webb joins Mark to bring this Engineers Declare event to Climactic. This podcast is an excerpt from the NSW Region Connect session, where Lizzie and Chris provide an overview of the Engineers Declare movement and Engineers Act strategy development. The Australian engineering profession has the opportunity to lead a rapid and just transition towards healthy, thriving communities and ecosystems. Over 160 organisation signatories and 2,300 individuals have signed Engineers ...
Apr 07, 2020•30 min•Ep. 191
Beth Spencer in conversation with Kit Kelen about his creative practice as poet, artist, publisher, collaborator, academic, mentor, musician and blogger. Kit reads selections from some of his many books intercut with original guitar tracks. They discuss Holden cars, bushfires, coal-addiction, and the role of place in his work -- as a writer who uses a lot of Australian idiom, colloquialisms and reference to landscape in his poetry, and who has also been widely translated. The process and benefit...
Apr 04, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 190
Reflections on a recent river trip during the COVID lockdown, from Alice Hardinge. A reminder of the persistence of the natural world, and our duty to it. Read her writing here. Send us a story from our new website: www.climactic.com.au See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Apr 03, 2020•15 min•Ep. 189
Director Mirjam Leuze’s The Whale and the Raven illuminates the many issues that have drawn whale researchers, the Gitga’at First Nation, and the Government of British Columbia into a complex conflict. As the people in the Great Bear Rainforest struggle to protect their territory against the pressure and promise of the gas industry, caught in between are the countless beings that call this place home. Seasters co-host Tess Chapman delves into the climate justice, whale habitat, economic, and nat...
Apr 02, 2020•35 min•Ep. 188
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an independent non-profit which sets a standard for sustainable fishing. Mark and new Climactic member Eav talk to Matt Watson, Senior Fisheries Manager. Eav is a marine scientist by training, so has some great questions for Matt around the MSC approach to sustainable fisheries, an ecosystems approach. Mark - as an untrained enthusiast - wants to know how consumers can use the MSC tickmark on canned tuna to send fishing companies a message. It was great to...
Mar 29, 2020•48 min•Ep. 187
