Part 1 of a 2-part episode. Or, watch the whole panel on YouTube here . A Quiet Chat About Climate Change Climate change is seemingly never talked about in the tones used by friends when talking about their weekend plans, their kids grades at school, their mum's health. Instead climate is either shouted about, during rallies and marches, and for very good reason. Or in hushed, anxious tones, with lots of knowing looks exchanged. And yet like any social movement, making choices due to climate cha...
Dec 23, 2021•59 min•Ep 309•Transcript available on Metacast Get all episode of Nourishing Matters to Chew On from https://www.climactic.fm/show/nourishing-matters-to-chew-on/ . Nourishing Matters to Chew On is a podcast that takes its cue from big picture, healthy and sustainable food system agendas and digs in to explore what these change agendas mean for us here, in Australia. It looks at how we produce and enjoy food in a Climate Change future, as well as how we value the people, places and animals that nourish us. Join host Anthea Fawcett - sustainab...
Dec 17, 2021•57 min•Ep 308•Transcript available on Metacast Find and subscribe to the series from https://www.climactic.fm/show/at-risk-in-the-climate-crisis/ . In this episode, we dive into how the climate crisis is playing out locally and across the globe, and what that teaches us about our connection to the earth and each other. Our guests take us from the Birrarung River in southern Australia to the Mongolian Steppe, and to visit the shearwaters feasting on plastic on Lord Howe Island in the Pacific Ocean. With so many lives at risk, including our ow...
Dec 10, 2021•46 min•Ep 307•Transcript available on Metacast Mark speaks to GG, who along with Anna, are fur parents of Lyka. Anna and GG started feeding GG home-prepared meals, and it turned around Lyka's health. They started a pet food - no, a pet wellness - company also called Lyka. And the rest is history! Lyka: Australia's only carbon negative dog food. There is no time to waste for climate action. The change happens with us and we are committed to helping the planet, one bowl at a time. That's right. No hidden agenda, no greenwashing – just the fact...
Dec 02, 2021•55 min•Ep 306•Transcript available on Metacast Blockade Australia ran actions targeting fossil fuel extraction and exportation this month. In this episode, we feature an episode of Saltgrass that further explains and humanises the movement. We add a clip of Art Breaker's documentary about the Black Finch Project , for the whole thing here's a link . This episode was recorded and first released in May 2020. This is an updated version with a new intro. The interview remains exactly the same. In this episode we speak with a family of activists ...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 305•Transcript available on Metacast Join climate justice activist and science communicator Simon Moore, from Leeds (UK), for a walk through the streets of Glasgow during COP26. Listen to the perspectives of Indigenous leaders, youth strikers, scientists, musicians, and locals, as you experience a taste of the climate activism that occurred during this historic occasion. You'll be transported into the heart of two enormous climate marches, hear speeches from Vanessa Nakate, Raki Ap, and Greta Thunberg, and meet a variety of delegat...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep 304•Transcript available on Metacast Find more and follow Saltgrass from the Saltgrass website. Or, now from Climactic.fm . Also recommended listening after this episode is the episode of Climate Ready Stories about small-hold farmers from Burundi and Congo in Mildura. Following on from our last episode with Rob Law we head up to Mildura, over 400km to the north of Castlemaine. My interest in Mildura has been growing lately. It is a regional city sitting right on the mighty Murray River, and at the heart of a region called the Mall...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 303•Transcript available on Metacast Today featuring Climate Ready Stories . Visit the page to subscribe and learn more about the show. Also, check out Endgame Project for more incredible audio exploration of climate change . As the coordinator of Maldon Neighbourhood House, Amy Atkinson is at the heart of a vibrant, engaged and active community where the median age is approaching 60. Climate change isn't talked about much in Maldon - even though the impacts of are likely to have a disproportionately negative affect on older people...
Nov 05, 2021•24 min•Ep 302•Transcript available on Metacast This is episode 3, season 2 of A Positive Climate . Find more and subscribe from their website ( www.apositiveclimate.com ). Julia Kay, co-founder of Great Wrap chats to us about how we can make cling wrap GREAT again! Great Wrap has created Australia's first certified compostable cling wrap - it's not only made from food waste but it also contains zero plastic. Great Wrap makes residential wrap (the sandwich wrapping kind), catering wrap and pallet wrap (the stuff heaps of things get wrapped in...
Oct 29, 2021•35 min•Ep 301•Transcript available on Metacast A quick catch-up from Mark, and then an episode of the fantastic daily Climate Quick Links from Robert McLean's Climate Conversations . Subscribe to the show for more from here . See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Oct 22, 2021•24 min•Ep 300•Transcript available on Metacast Hello! I'm back, huge thanks to Eav Brennan for guest publishing for the last 4 weeks! Check her out on Instagram if you don't already where she does super important science communication using super approachable comics! This week I'm sharing the awesome Sci Fight with you to ease myself back into the publisher's chair. Because with COP26 just scant days away, things will get heavy quick enough by themselves. So first let's have a laugh! Sci Fight ( www.scifight.com.au/ ) is a quarterly Science ...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep 299•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we discuss misinformation and disinformation on climate change, what it is, how it is manufactured, its impacts, and how you can identify and protect against it. Misinformation and disinformation may be one of the most influential weapons that powerful individuals and companies use to stifle action on climate. It's time to call it out and talk about what to look for, how to break it down and what measures can be taken together to negate its effects. In this conversation, we refe...
Oct 08, 2021•59 min•Ep 298•Transcript available on Metacast Sci Fight ( www.scifight.com.au/ ) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it come from, and can I have some please? Pleasure is part of our biological make-up; evolution's way of prodding us to consume calories, procreate, and not freeze to death, so surely seeking pleasure is only natural? If nothing else, pleasure is a small compensation fo...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep 297•Transcript available on Metacast Get inspired and get involved in ‘Working Together' to heal country. Listen in to this episode, Part 1, of a two-part great conversation with Craig Aspinall, who is the Community Aboriginal Engagement Officer, with Landcare NSW. It's an Australian first in the Landcare movement and not before time! Craig leads Landcare NSW's forward looking Working Together program that is all about empowering Aboriginal people to help lead and deliver Landcare projects in NSW and to support and encourage existi...
Oct 01, 2021•50 min•Ep 296•Transcript available on Metacast This is a conversation with Andrew , the Solarpunk Anarchist from Trinidad and Tobago behind the YouTube channel ' Saint Andrewism .' Topics Discussed What is Solarpunk? Solarpunk Anarchism? The problem with Greenwashing How to talk about the climate & problems with the climate movement Generational shifts in the climate movement The importance of intersectionality Switzerland's voting patterns and the reaction to Covid-19 (tangent on my part) Why the revolution needs therapy (Reading Ashant...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep 295•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is an interview from climactic member and artist Eav Brennan. Eav's spent the last year interviewing some climate leaders and making upcycled portraits of them. In this episode, Mark and Eav run through the portrait subjects and the stories that stuck with Eav, as well as touching on the long history of textile art as a medium of social change. Music Dig the Uke by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://...
Sep 17, 2021•51 min•Ep 294•Transcript available on Metacast Find more of Nourishing Matters to Chew On here . Tilth, glomalin, exudates … luscious words from the world of soils and a great conversation with Matthew Evans and Sadie Chrestman about Matthew's new book Soil – The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy. Matthew and Sadie Chrestman are the well known and much loved co–creators and operators of Fat Pig Farm, collaborators in arms and life and both strong advocates for open, fair, accountable food and farming systems and delic...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep 293•Transcript available on Metacast Find more and subscribe to The Overview Effect here. I have a treat for you today. This episode is the final live headline conversation from Renew Fest in May, with living legend, esteemed author, thinker, and Co-Originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren. We've all heard of permaculture; it's been a massive movement and so many people have taken on the concepts of permaculture design into their homes and gardens. So rather than just talk about what permaculture is or how we implemen...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 292•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Aug 27, 2021•52 min•Ep 291•Transcript available on Metacast What's the Climactic Collective? Well, that's in a state of development and flux. How our collective of independent shows work with and support each other is changing and morphing, but where it's now is shared in this episode. Also, hear an exclusive preview of a new show, a collaboration with Climatebase - the world's best place to find a climate-engaged job - to get you updated on this week's climate news, no matter what episode of Climactic you're listening to! See /privacy for privacy and op...
Aug 20, 2021•23 min•Ep 290•Transcript available on Metacast Congratulations on reaching double digits - Talking In This Climate! Feeling anxious about climate change? Reflect and recharge with this unique episode where we explore emotional responses to climate change with Dr. Blanche Verlie, member of the Sydney Environment Institute and author of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation . In this conversation we flip the teacher/student dynamic and have one of Blanche's previous students, our co-host Zoe, interview her. Join ...
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 289•Transcript available on Metacast The Women's Climate Justice Collective and One Woman Project warmly welcome you to come along to our poetry night celebrating intersectional feminism and climate justice. WCJC is a national collective aiming to mainstream intersectional feminist climate justice. WCJC strives to be feminist, intersectional, inclusive, diverse, child-friendly, and safe. Our mission is to: 1) mainstream intersectional feminist climate justice; 2) support women and nb folks in the feminist and climate justice moveme...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep 288•Transcript available on Metacast Full notes available from the Centre for Climate Safety. Thank you to the Sustainable Hour for sharing this episode with us. The threat, the solution and the plan. Here's the why, the who and the how. This podcast episode is dedicated to the climate campaigner who has burned out. Podcast content – in order of appearance - apologies these are 2:31 earlier than they appear in the Climactic release. 00:05 Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General 00:25 Movie clip: Marvel, Thor: Kaorg speak...
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 287•Transcript available on Metacast The Climactic Collective is the podcast network by and for Australia and NZ's climate community.Curation is the monthly audio magazine show that highlights the best of the network – and the broader community.This curation is focused on climate solutions.Attendees are able to participate as the episode is recorded and streamed live, then a listener Q+A with host Mark Spencer plus special guests. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Jul 24, 2021•48 min•Ep 286•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe and listen to the Sustainable Futures Report here. Anthony Day helps you plan a sustainable future with expert guests and reports on green technologies from across a warming world. We're halfway through our July Solutions Showcase. Join us on July 25th for a live recorded taping of Climactic Curation looking back on the episodes we've featured, highlighting some particular moments. Watch on Facebook , or our YouTube channel . See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Jul 16, 2021•23 min•Ep 284•Transcript available on Metacast How does the profession of facilitation relate to the climate crisis, and how might it be a potential solution? Find out in this bonus episode where Mark talks to showrunner of the new podcast from the Groupwork Centre, Jim Buckell, about the new show, it's purpose, and why it might be just the show for you! Find and subscribe from https://groupwork.com.au/podcast See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Jul 10, 2021•18 min•Ep 283•Transcript available on Metacast Listen to the series here. Giant corporations are retooling their business models, setting their sights on the climate problem and hoping to capitalize on offshore wind. But some of these corporations — including BP and Shell — are the same companies arguably responsible for climate change in the first place. Windfall is the story of a promising green technology and the potential of wind power in a changing climate. And it's a story about power… and who has the power to reshape our energy future...
Jul 09, 2021•57 min•Ep 282•Transcript available on Metacast Climactic's July Spotlight on Climate Solutions Week 1 This episode of Robert McLean's Climate Conversations is a perfect way to start this month's solutions focus. If you have a recommendation please just drop us a line: hello@climactic.fm Music in intro | In Paler Skies by Blue Dot Sessions Graeme Wiggins (pictured with two of his enthusiastic students) has created what he believes is the world's first project where young girls, about 26 of them, are working together on a project to convert a ...
Jul 02, 2021•40 min•Ep 281•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the newest show on the Climactic Collective from https://www.climactic.fm/show/regenonomics-downunder-podcast/ Why Regenomics Downunder? RE - because the best solutions are REgional GEN - because the best solutions reGENerate (not just reduce harm) OMICS - because the best solutions create better economies (especially regional) Down Under - because our focus is our region - Australia and New Zealand - with stories from across the Pacific, through the “global south” and around the wo...
Jun 25, 2021•38 min•Ep 280•Transcript available on Metacast It's another changing of the guard at PEN Pod as Cam Kaufman prepares the pass to the keys to the next steward of the Postgraduate Environment Network podcast. In this episode she speaks to the founder and lead staff at Climate for Change. In the 10th episode of PENpod, Cam Kaufman chats with Katerina Gaita, the founder of Climate for Change, as well as Marta (fundraising coordinator at C4C) and Serena (fellowship coordinator at C4C), a organization uses personal connections as a powerful lever ...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 279•Transcript available on Metacast 
