This special 2-part miniseries is from a panel held as part of ARTS1241, Environmental Advocacy and Activism , from the University of New South Wales. Mark Rudd is a political organizer and an anti-war activist. He first burst onto the political landscape in the United States as a member, and ultimately the leader of the Columbia University chapter of Students for Democratic Society (known as SDS). SDS was the leading student anti-war social movement in the United States in the 1960s. Mark Rudd'...
Jan 01, 2021•44 min•Ep 248•Transcript available on Metacast This special 2-part miniseries is from a panel held as part of ARTS1241, Environmental Advocacy and Activism , from the University of New South Wales. Mark Rudd is a political organizer and an anti-war activist. He first burst onto the political landscape in the United States as a member, and ultimately the leader of the Columbia University chapter of Students for Democratic Society (known as SDS). SDS was the leading student anti-war social movement in the United States in the 1960s. Mark Rudd'...
Jan 01, 2021•51 min•Ep 247•Transcript available on Metacast Nourishing Matters to Chew On has launched on the Climactic Collective. Subscribe to get new episodes at Climactic.com.au , or Foodswell . 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. Anthea Fawcett...
Dec 18, 2020•47 min•Ep 245•Transcript available on Metacast This is an audio adaptation of an article written by Laura Phillips , host of Hypecast , published December 7th, 2020 on Resilience.org . It includes a short message from Dale Martin , author of the Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit ( LGCET ). It was produced and edited by Lloyd Richards . Music from Tom Day . If you have a suggestion for a podcast adaption, or any comments/feedback, please reach publisher Mark Spencer at hello@climactic.fm . See /privacy for privacy and opt-out informa...
Dec 14, 2020•10 min•Ep 244•Transcript available on Metacast Our thanks to the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife for sharing this episode with us. Find the whole series and more information about the Wildlife Heroes project . Australia's 15,000+ wildlife volunteers work hard, under intense conditions. The Wildlife Heroes: Caring for Carers Podcast aims to start a mental health conversation to support our volunteers to look after themselves and each other. The Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife (FNPW) teamed up with podcast producer Gretch...
Dec 10, 2020•50 min•Ep 243•Transcript available on Metacast Ruth Bookbinder, a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, in the UK, talks to Professor Anna Mdee and Dr Katy Roelich about their research studying the University of Leeds' transition to net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. Their project aims to create a theory of change that can also help other institutions respond to the climate crisis. They discuss some of their key findings, including the barriers and opportunities to changing complex institutions - at the University of Leeds and beyond. T...
Dec 06, 2020•36 min•Ep 242•Transcript available on Metacast This is a special audio documentary from Ruby Marshall . Join us in this podcast to hear from local residents and workers from the Latrobe Valley about the just transition away from the fossil fuel industry that is happening there right now. What is currently happening in the Latrobe Valley with their transition away from the fossil fuel industry? How is the community preparing for the closing of the coal mines, and creating new industries with jobs to replace the mines? How is the Latrobe Valle...
Dec 04, 2020•34 min•Ep 241•Transcript available on Metacast Thanks to the Women's Climate Justice Collective for sharing this event with us and allowing us to adapt it to a podcast episode. WCJC is a national collective led by women, aiming to mainstream feminist climate justice and support women in the climate and women's rights movements. Meet us at the intersections of gender and environment, rise above the noise and distraction, and be transported by the magic of story. Cut through the confusion and divisiveness of statistics, politics, vested intere...
Nov 30, 2020•49 min•Ep 240•Transcript available on Metacast Thanks to the Feminist Writers Festival for sharing this excellent episode with us. In this episode, Ecofeminism , Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe and novelist Alice Robinson chat with nature writer Inga Simpson about a feminism that centres itself around country. Reading Notes Rachel Carson: The Life and Legacy On Judith Wright: Judith Wright in a new light, by Kevin Brophy Louisa Atkinson: Louisa Atkinson's Nature Notes Protecting the Djab Warrung , Lidia Thorpe Other recommended reading Some othe...
Nov 26, 2020•37 min•Ep 239•Transcript available on Metacast Author Katerina Cosgrove reads aloud a recent piece of writing, published by SBS Voices. This feature vignette was produced and sound designed by Lloyd Richards featuring music by Omer Haber . The coverart is by @leio on Unsplash . To get in touch with us, to contribute your own creativity to engaging with the climate crisis, drop us a line at hello@climactic.fm . Or a voicemail from climactic.com.au . See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Nov 22, 2020•6 min•Ep 238•Transcript available on Metacast This is the pilot episode of a new series on the Climactic Collective podcast network, that will be recorded live on streaming TV platform Cimpatico.tv. We're calling it 'Degree of Difference' and it's like Jerry Springer. For the climate community. If Jerry Springer had been about mutual respect and constructive engagement over differences of opinion. So, less Jerry and more civil discourse. In this episode Daniel Bleakley and Asher Coleman discuss their perspectives and the difference between ...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep 237•Transcript available on Metacast The International Organization for Migration estimates that between 25 million and 1 billion people will move as a result of climate change within the next 30 years. Toby Kent, the City of Melbourne's first Chief Resilience Officer, joins Mark Spencer to talk to the Deputy Executive Director of the Mayors Migration Council to talk migration, urbanisation, climate change, and the collision of these factors. Kate is an immigration policy expert with over a decade of experience working on internati...
Nov 13, 2020•47 min•Ep 236•Transcript available on Metacast The Climactic Collective is proud to host the Clean State WA Podcast Series , by Anthony James, creator of The RegenNarration. You might recognise Dr Vanessa Rauland from the recent ABC TV series Fight for Planet A. Vanessa's the co-founder with Alexander Karan of ClimateClever, one of a growing number of WA social enterprises that are starting to realise some of the enormous opportunities in our energy transition. The ClimateClever team has nearly doubled in recent months (even during COVID-19)...
Nov 06, 2020•34 min•Ep 235•Transcript available on Metacast It's Saturday, the 7th of November. November 9th, next Monday, a bill will be tabled in the Australian federal parliament. It's called the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020. Also known as the Climate Act. It is a net zero carbon emissions pledge, and plan, for Australia to achieve by 2050. It is the same pledge, and broad plan, already adopted by the UK. "Climate change is real for Australia, with immediate and deepening risks to our natural environment,...
Nov 06, 2020•8 min•Ep 234•Transcript available on Metacast Rebroadcast of an episode of Catastrophic , with a new introduction. 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 ...
Oct 31, 2020•53 min•Ep 233•Transcript available on Metacast "The Long View on Environmental and Social Justice for Botany Bay: Interdisciplinary partnerships between UNSW and the community" This year's Hillier lecture will provide an opportunity to reflect on the past, present, and future of work on environmental and social justice issues in and around Botany Bay from the perspectives of researchers with the University of New South Wales. While UNSW and Council are partners in presenting the annual Hillier lecture, the interrelations between the communit...
Oct 30, 2020•2 hr 51 min•Ep 232•Transcript available on Metacast Simon Moore, from the Priestley International Centre for Climate, talks to a variety of people at the University of Leeds who are working to bring about a net-zero, socially just future. Dr Cat Scott explains the important role of trees and forests in tackling climate change. Then Dr Kirsty Pringle talks about her citizen science project in Bradford, looking at how air pollution impacts children's health. PhD researcher Jefim Vogel discusses a wellbeing economy, the Climate and Ecological Emerge...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr•Ep 231•Transcript available on Metacast What's the Grot? Or, what happens to form The Grot? A barely recognisable, muddy dystopia of a future? Or, a near at hand present with just a slap of mud and touch of humour? Eav Brennan explores graphic novel The Grot with author Pat Grant, and get into why he made it, what it reflects, and what he hopes you take away from it. You can already read it for free on his site, so get the director's commentary here while you're at it, you beautiful cheapskates! Links: Pat Grant The Grottiest Book Lau...
Oct 21, 2020•31 min•Ep 230•Transcript available on Metacast This is the Climactic adaptation of Everybody Now, a "podmarch". "A Podcast Climate Protest March, or Climate Podmarch, if you will." First we feature some audio from the excellent new Climate Ads project , then an introduction/explanation by Climactic founder Mark Spencer, a recording from Mark ahead of the September 20th, 2019 School Strike, before the Everybody Now podmarch. Please find below the shownotes and credits of Everybody Now. Everybody Now Climate Emergency and Sacred Duty We've cau...
Oct 21, 2020•2 hr 56 min•Ep 229•Transcript available on Metacast This is a guest episode from the Books, Books, Books podcast Rebecca Huntley on looking your children in the eye, managing eco-anxiety, and how to use emotions such as guilt, anger, fear and hope to change hearts as well as minds in the climate change debate. Rebecca Huntley is one of Australia's most experienced social researchers and former director of The Mind and Mood Report, the longest running measure of the nation's attitudes and trends. She holds degrees in law and film studies and a PhD...
Oct 17, 2020•50 min•Ep 228•Transcript available on Metacast This is an episode of Growing Concern by Seán Marsh. Listen to more of the show and subscribe here . In this episode, I chat with an old friend, recent father and Qantas pilot grounded indefinitely by COVID-19. Concerned for the future, Nick Thorne's on a new path, albeit a somewhat begrudging one, to become an atmospheric climate scientist. Added bonus: tune in to hear Nick's passionate speech in front of the Bayside City Council late last year. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Oct 10, 2020•52 min•Ep 227•Transcript available on Metacast This is an episode of Climactic Candid, honest talks with climate engaged people from across society. I'm Mark Spencer, publisher of the Climactic Collective Podcast Network. My guest for this episode is entrepreneur Sara Bell. Sara Bell founded AMPLIFY in the belief that conscious consumers have the power to generate the pressure points needed to drive rapid change before 2030. The companies whose business models cause climate change have too much vested in the status quo to change willingly. Y...
Oct 05, 2020•48 min•Ep 226•Transcript available on Metacast In 2019 close to a thousand people gathered in Brisbane for a Climate Reality Leadership Corps training. In 2020, thousands met online as COVID19 reshaped the world in mere months. What do 8 recently trained leaders think about the virtual Climate Reality Project flagship 3-day training? What's next for them? Join former APAC Climate Reality lead Linh Do, and Climactic publisher Mark Spencer, for a roundtable chat with Masters of Environment at University of Melbourne students and alumni. "Train...
Sep 27, 2020•44 min•Ep 225•Transcript available on Metacast Beyond Zero Emissions is an independent Australian research organisation developing detailed plans for how Australia can develop a zero-carbon economy. Their most recent work includes the Million Jobs Plan and their Zero Carbon Communities platform. In September 2020, Beyond Zero Emissions hosted an online Discussion Group to follow up on the ABC's Fight For Planet A: Our Climate Challenge Their star-studded speakers list included comedian and documentary producer Craig Reucassel (who made Fight...
Sep 23, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep 224•Transcript available on Metacast THE GAS FALLACY: why we need a renewable led recovery for our climate, health and economy Event description Drought, floods and the recent catastrophic bushfires have brought home the reality of the climate crisis to Australia - the burning of fossil fuels is destroying our world. The Covid caused recession creates an opportunity to transition rapidly to renewables as part of economic recovery, but the federal government maintains a gas-led approach to recovery is necessary. This is despite the ...
Sep 19, 2020•59 min•Ep 223•Transcript available on Metacast Listen to the full episode on Climactic, or Climactic Live. This an abridged version of the longer adaptation of the recent event, The Gas Fallacy. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Sep 18, 2020•9 min•Ep 222•Transcript available on Metacast On the weekly flagship feed of the Climactic Collective, this week an episode of the Sustainable You Podcast. This week there's been multiple new episodes of shows on the network - check them all out at www.climactic.com.au . There are tons of easy swaps that we can make in our lives to be more environmentally friendly. Waste is a crucial problem for today's environment, but there are plenty of eco-friendly substitutes for single-use products that we use every day. Lisa and Jacqui troubleshoot s...
Sep 12, 2020•32 min•Ep 221•Transcript available on Metacast The Climactic Collective is a podcast network of shows engaged with the climate crisis, and other pressing social issues. The network now numbers close to 20 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 th...
Sep 05, 2020•30 min•Ep 220•Transcript available on Metacast Across Australia, there are more events about the climate crisis happening than one person can attend. And with events now digital, there's even more available. Climactic Live adapts these events to audio, cutting the fluff and leaving the substance. Hear from Australia's leading speakers, and grass roots voices, whenever and wherever you like. This episode is adapted from an event by Australia at Home - a lunchtime conversation with Paddy Manning , author of Body count: How climate change is ki...
Aug 29, 2020•53 min•Ep 219•Transcript available on Metacast This episode features an episode of Catastrophic , the tales of the Australian bushfires from the 2019/2020 summer. But first, it contains a message about the August 2020 wildfires in California, and the relevance to Australia. Why is this relevant? Because California is going through a transformation of their energy system, and the transition to renewables is being blamed in some quarters for the failure and blackouts wracking California. But it has been poor management and mistakes that have c...
Aug 24, 2020•35 min•Ep 218•Transcript available on Metacast 
