The Magnitude of All Things is a cinematic exploration of the emotional and psychological dimensions of climate change . When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown, drawing intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker's childhood on Ontario's Georgian Bay. What do these stories have in common? The ...
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep 278•Transcript available on Metacast This is an episode of PCAN, you can find more here ( www.climactic.fm/show/pcan-podcast ). In episode three we talk to two key players in the PCAN story, Andy Gouldson, Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Leeds, and Polly Cook, Chief Officer for Sustainable Energy and Air Quality from Leeds City Council. Andy set up the independent Leeds Climate Commission in 2017, which works closely with Leeds City Council. The Leeds Commission has led to the formation of ten other climate c...
Jun 04, 2021•37 min•Ep 277•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's topic: Scientists go to heaven. Scientists do God's work. They seek truth; divorced from opinion or ambition. They put society's needs ahead of their own. They pursue their research with diligence, patience, and humility. Some of them even do it sober. That's most of the seven Heavenly virtues! Surely that's enough Freq...
May 29, 2021•2 hr 33 min•Ep 276•Transcript available on Metacast Special guest host Amruta Nargundkar from Heckin' Concerned ( www.heckinconcerned.com ). Inconceivable is a film that recently ran on ABC Compass . Amruta and I speak to the director Jayde Harding about the making of and response to the film, her engagement with the climate crisis, and the broader topic of 'birthstrike'. In the age of the global climate crisis many young Australians are struggling with the part of them that has always wanted and imagined having kids and the part of them that is ...
May 28, 2021•53 min•Ep 275•Transcript available on Metacast We're so happy to share the first episode of the new season of Hypecast with you! Ever since Zali Steggall won the Sydney seat of Warringah as an independent candidate in the 2019 election she has been a force for change in our federal parliament. Championing legislation on climate action, parliamentary integrity, and recently an amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act, she has demonstrated refreshing leadership and transparency in Canberra. In this episode Laura Phillips, Head of Urban Advocacy...
May 21, 2021•30 min•Ep 274•Transcript available on Metacast Get the full episode and subscribe to Going There from https://goingtherepodcast./episode-124-hope-in-anti-climactic-times (sorry for the full URL, but Apple Podcasts is currently a 🗑️🔥 so 🤷🏻). Climactic Collective publisher Mark was invited on the excellent Going There podcast so popped along - and had a blast! Thanks to Matt and the team we can share episode for you here. But, if you enjoy this please do get along and get more of their deep seam of great shows. The hosts turn to speakers i...
May 13, 2021•54 min•Ep 273•Transcript available on Metacast Get more of Nourishing Matters to Chew On from https://www.climactic.fm/show/nourishing-matters-to-chew-on/ A complete treat and fun, to speak with Nicole Abadee this week about her wonderful podcast Books, Books, Books and how books nourish and share joy and hope at times like these. Two talkative women, Nicole and I, went on a roadtrip to Scone last March to what was to then be the last ‘live' Writers Festival for more than a year as COVID restrictions kicked in. Within a month or so, Nicole's...
May 07, 2021•34 min•Ep 272•Transcript available on Metacast Books, Books, Books is a podcast by Nicole Abadee, book critic for Good Weekend, where she interviews top Australian and International authors. This episode is especially of interest to Climactic listeners, as was the first episode of hers we featured, with Rebecca Huntley . Please enjoy! Leah Kaminsky and Meg Keneally discuss their new anthology, “Animals Make us Human”, a passion project for them and their contributors. SHOW NOTES: Nicole Abadee Website: https://www.nicoleabadee.com.au Faceboo...
Apr 30, 2021•53 min•Ep 271•Transcript available on Metacast Climactic was launched April 22nd, 2018. Now, three years on, we've released over 300 episodes. Kept our weekly schedule through it all. And, grown to be the flagship show of a Collective of 20+ climate-engaged podcasts. We're proud, and here we're highlighting why, with some of our finest moments! The recent, the topical, the unrehearsed. Enjoy, and if you enjoy the show please drop us a line to hello@climactic.fm to share some of your favourite moments, or what the show means to you. Thanks, k...
Apr 22, 2021•50 min•Ep 270•Transcript available on Metacast This is an episode of Nourishing Matter to Chew On. Find more episodes, and subscribe, here . In this episode I speak with Dr Colin Chartres, CEO of The Crawford Fund, and Dr Daniel Walker, Chief Scientist of ACIAR, about an inspiring workshop that was held in March to bring leading Australian farmers and researchers together to present and discuss success stories, research challenges and paths forward. Farmers and researchers across the country have high ambitions and believe it's possible for ...
Apr 16, 2021•59 min•Ep 269•Transcript available on Metacast This is an episode of Art Breaker, find the show and all episodes here . But this is also a guest episode, adapted from Saltgrass , a podcast and radio show on Main FM , and the work of Alison Hanley . Jessie Boylan is a PhD candidate at RMIT's School of Art. She has work in the upcoming Castlemaine State Festival called The Smallest Measure. Her thesis and upcoming art installation has taken her out to the wilds of a remote outpost at the edge of Tasmania… to a place called Cape Grim where ther...
Apr 09, 2021•39 min•Ep 268•Transcript available on Metacast Gretchen Miller , radio documentary-maker and podcaster, interviews Tema Milstein , co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity , about the key findings from the book, and a new term of this epoch, and why it's not the Anthropocene . To read excerpts from the book please do so here . See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Apr 02, 2021•47 min•Ep 267•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is from The Overview Effect with James Perrin Usually I'm on Bundjalung country, but THIS episode was recorded on takayna land in lutruwita (otherwise known as Tasmania), and I'd like to pay respects to the takayna people, and all first nations people of beautiful lutruwita. I have been here in Tasmania for the last 5 days and if you've been listening to recent episodes or following me on Instagram, you'll know that I was running the takayna ultramarathon . This is a 51km trail thro...
Mar 26, 2021•49 min•Ep 266•Transcript available on Metacast Happy belated International Day of Forests , which is March 21st, since 2012. Mark here, publisher of the Climactic Collective, podcast network for the Australian and New Zealand climate community. This episode is late because yesterday I travelled home to Aotearoa New Zealand, and am now quarantining in Christchurch. I can't wait to get involved in New Zealand's climate community, and help expand Climactic to a collective of Australian, as well as New Zealand, climate-engaged podcasters. But to...
Mar 21, 2021•11 min•Ep 265•Transcript available on Metacast Brenna Quinlan is an illustrator and educator who strives to make the world a better place through her art and her actions. She lives at Australia's most well-known permaculture demonstration site, Melliodora , where she grows food, milks goats, builds soil and engages with the community - or, she did. Mark and Eav caught up with Brenna on her last day at Melliodora to talk about her art and illustration, her process, and Our Street , the new book for kids about permaculture that brings Retrosub...
Mar 18, 2021•47 min•Ep 264•Transcript available on Metacast Simon Moore is an environmental activist and science communicator from Leeds, in the UK. In this episode he chats to his local member of parliament (MP), Alex Sobel, about politics and the climate crisis. Alex is MP for Leeds North West, Shadow Minister for Tourism, and Chair of the Net Zero All-Party Parliamentary Group. The conversation covers how Alex got into politics and his views on political cronyism and corruption during the Covid pandemic. They discuss his hopes for COP26 and the privat...
Mar 14, 2021•42 min•Ep 263•Transcript available on Metacast This is an episode of Climate Conversations , on the Climactic Collective network. You have over 300+ more episodes to enjoy after this. Dr Jonica Newby hosted Catalyst on ABC television for two decades and because of the knowledge that brought, she found herself suffering from climate grief and so with the support of NewSouth Publishing wrote " Beyond climate grief ". She covers the whole gamut of human emotions, including courage, humour, love, anger and creativity, and with regard the latter,...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep 262•Transcript available on Metacast From Kyla Brettle : A copy of David Attenborough's ‘A Life on Our Planet; my witness statement and a vision for the future' arrived in the post from my dad. In the accompanying letter dad said he'd read it whole and thought I'd like it. Anticipating a day spent in bed with David - I got up to make a cup of tea - that was my mistake. In a moment my partner had David I turn just in time to see him leave. So I had to wait, which roused my interest - but that I didn't have to wait for long intrigued...
Mar 06, 2021•13 min•Ep 261•Transcript available on Metacast Season 2 Episode 2 of Art Breaker Lloyd Richards bring this interview and audio doco about artist Tom Day to Art Breaker. Tom Day is a solo artist residing in Main Ridge, Australia and has been creating ambient and electronic music since 2005. Characterised as “effortless and raw”, Tom's tracks couple elegant beats and piano melodies to an array of personally-collected field recordings, his style alternating between promising swells and restful plateaus. Having grown up on a farm on the Morningt...
Mar 05, 2021•28 min•Ep 260•Transcript available on Metacast This was performed as a livestream as part of the National Sustainable Living Festival . The Climactic Collective is the podcast network by and for Australia's climate community. Curation is the monthly audio magazine show that highlights the best of the network – and the broader community. Participants get to see the live episode recorded and streamed live. Clips: Nourishing Matters to Chew On | On Eating Meat Part 1 "It's Not the Cow, It's the How" Overview Effect with James Perrin | 14 - Cath...
Feb 26, 2021•59 min•Ep 259•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 climate revolution begins in your head Science tells us time is running out. We just have a few years to get it right. More than new tools, we need a new politics and a new economics, says David Wallace-Wells. We need awareness and education, says Greta Thunberg. If solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself.” A...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep 258•Transcript available on Metacast Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this five-part series with you. There is an unlikely hero that could help deliver us from climate catastrophe, and that hero is found washed up on our beaches and lives deep in our oceans. In this final UTS 4 Climate conversation, Professor Bob Carr sits down with Australia's best-known climate author and scientist, Professor Tim Flannery to discuss the innovative ways we could draw down the carbon that exists in our atmosphere, a...
Feb 20, 2021•28 min•Ep 257•Transcript available on Metacast Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this five-part series with you. A striking development has occurred in the world of corporate finance in 2020. Over the past months, a string of corporations have divested from thermal coal, starting with US investment giant BlackRock and extending to Japan's Mizuho and the Norwegian Government Pension Fund. But the world's financiers haven't suddenly become climate activists overnight - instead it's economics that is driving this...
Feb 12, 2021•36 min•Ep 256•Transcript available on Metacast Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this five-part series with you. The devastating effects of the 2019-2020 bushfires saw Australian communities ravaged by the impacts of climate change. Many viewed the tragedy as a long overdue wake-up call, and one that should spur rapid action to address the ecological challenges facing us. But as the ash settles, what will the next steps for climate policy look like in an Australia reeling from a catastrophic fire season? In th...
Feb 05, 2021•37 min•Ep 255•Transcript available on Metacast End Game brings story, music and sound together to explore a local response to the global problem of climate change. It deals with the difficult and emotional side of getting our heads around being the heroes of this mess. A mother facing the mother of all threats - Melanie Scaife shares her ‘head-cracking moment' - when climate change became a real rather than abstract part of her daughters future, and doing nothing ceased to be an option. Kyla's notes: I identify deeply with Melanie's story. I...
Feb 03, 2021•22 min•Ep 254•Transcript available on Metacast Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this five-part series with you. Maybe the mention of our climate future makes you feel anxious, angry, scared or just detached. If so you're not alone. Learning to talk about climate change and having meaningful conversations with those who agree and disagree with you on the subject is a powerful step we can take to get the action on climate we need. Hear from UTS Professor of Climate and Business Bob Carr in conversation with soc...
Jan 29, 2021•34 min•Ep 253•Transcript available on Metacast Climactic thanks the Impact Studios team for allowing us to share this first episode of this five-part series with you. In 2007 it looked like there was a political consensus to price carbon in Australia, in a move that would provide a transition to a post-carbon economy. So how did Australia's climate policy fall foul of a global political agenda? In this episode of UTS 4 Climate, Professor Bob Carr picks through forensic investigative journalist Marian Wilkinson 's book, The Carbon Club to dis...
Jan 21, 2021•34 min•Ep 252•Transcript available on Metacast What do you get when audio creators from an award-winning production agency work with Greenpeace to create a mini series on climate engagement? You get Heaps Better! Listen to the amazing Episode 1 of this four-part miniseries right here on Climactic. Then, stick around for a chat with the creators Jess and Ash, with interviewer and science communicator Lee Constable. Climate Australia, Lee's livestreamed interview show has just launched as a podcast on Climactic . Subscribe and watch out for Le...
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep 251•Transcript available on Metacast Warwick Smith reads aloud his article on Doughnut Economics for economic recovery, and climate action, which recently ran in The Conversation, ABC , and New Daily . Before the recession we were on a collision course with environmental disaster. The recovery provides a rare opportunity to do things differently; to rebuild a better economy that can support living standards without irretrievably damaging the environment. The closer we get to irreversible climate change, the harder that will become....
Jan 09, 2021•9 min•Ep 250•Transcript available on Metacast Introducing Kyla Brettle, radio and audio creative veteran, reading aloud her review of Rebecca Huntley's latest, and much-loved, look at what makes effective climate conversation. Then, hear an episode from the phenomenal End Game Podcast Project, from Castlemaine. The work of Kyla and Rob is audiophonic theatre for your ears. If it inspires you to campaign for your local council to declare a climate emergency, here's some resources that'll help! https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/ https:/...
Jan 08, 2021•33 min•Ep 249•Transcript available on Metacast 
