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Earth Hour: is it a waste of time? Updated: 2009-03-27 19:30:11 Description: Earth Hour is on again – tonight 28th March at 8.30pm. The event asks people and businesses to turn off lights and appliances for one hour. It ran for the first time in Sydney only a few years ago. Since then the idea has been picked up by man...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Emissions Trading: what the ….? Updated: 2009-02-24 08:55:19 Description: Just at the time Australia is launching into an emissions trading scheme, the EU one appears to be faltering. Eek. In this post we’ve collected links to articles and videos on the European scheme and the political stoush that’s happening...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Christmas Lights doco on tonight. Merry Christmas! Updated: 2008-12-24 22:48:16 Description: Here’s a Christmas present. Check out the trailer to this interesting documentary about Christmas Lights (and why people do it.) Video: Christmas Lights documentary trailer. The film is on the ABC tonight at 10pm. Related story: Our rece...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Christmas Month v. Earth Hour: a snapshot of our sustainability schizophrenia Updated: 2008-12-21 20:41:45 Description: Climate crisis, what climate crisis? Audio: Have a listen to our Christmas lights podcast. In it we hear from people with ‘over-the-top’ Christmas lights on their houses to find out why they’ve done it. It seems pretty obvio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD New film shows nature’s energy answers Updated: 2008-12-20 01:11:19 Description: A new documentary called ‘The Future Makers’ shows how the answers to our environmental problems are there in nature itself. It includes renewable energy innovations in solar, wave and geothermal. And discusses the application of biomimi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD First World polluters could save Third World trees: deforestation proposal at Poznan Updated: 2008-12-07 06:28:36 Description: It’s less than a year until the major UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen – where the nations of the world are meant to settle on an agreement that will take us the next step on from the Kyoto Protocol. In the lead-up to Copenhagen,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD ‘It’s time’ for a Green New Deal – an answer to climate change, peak oil and the financial crisis Updated: 2008-11-18 13:22:37 Description: It’s estimated governments have collectively found about $5 trillion to rescue banks and galvanize economies. Now the Head of the United Nations Environment Program and the leaders of some European countries are saying the time is right for t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD International Bicycle Film Festival rolls into town Updated: 2008-11-12 00:53:56 Description: Fresh from its gig in Paris, the Bicycle Film Festival is about to start the Australian leg of its world tour. First stop Sydney this Friday and Saturday night, 14 and 15 November. Then onto Melbourne from 21 to 23 November. Video: Have a sneak pee...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Why Australia has the best beaches (from the man who’s been to every one) Updated: 2008-11-02 04:13:41 Description: Theres one person whos been to every beach in Australia – all 12,000 of them. It’s Professor Andy Short, Director of the Coastal Studies Unit at the University of Sydney. In this interview Andy explains how he came to visit every one an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD National Surfing Reserves: Australia recognises its iconic surf sites Updated: 2008-10-28 05:52:55 Description: Not that long ago, surfing was seen as a renegade sport in Australia. In the early 60’s, surfers were even required to have a license to use some beaches. Just how far things have come can be seen in the establishment of a number of ‘National ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Woodford’s grid-life crisis: one man’s journey to leave the city and live sustainably Updated: 2008-10-19 13:00:51 Description: Lots of people dream of making a ’sea change’ to escape the rat race of the city. Some people even do it. But how many leave with the intention of living sustainably? To live on the land, grow their own food, generate their own power a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bicycles v cars: Adam Spencer on city commuting Updated: 2008-10-10 05:54:17 Description: You may know Adam Spencer as a presenter of ABC Radio in Sydney and from ABC TV. But did you know he cycles everywhere and hardly ever drives? In the lead up to ‘Ride to Work Day’, Adam goes into bat for the bike. In fact, in this inte...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Why Germany has 1000% more solar power, with half the sunshine Updated: 2008-10-04 10:01:25 Description: A decade ago Germanys uptake of solar energy was on par with Australia. But thanks to an innovative financial incentive, Germany has surged ahead. So much so, its renewable energy is now a mainstream industry and a leading employer in that country....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Interest in sustainable housing goes through the roof! Updated: 2008-09-11 15:29:01 Description: The number of ’sustainable houses’ is growing worldwide. And if you’re interested in making your place more sustainable, the best way to get going is to see one in action. But where are they? This weekend is Sustainable House D...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Cars That Ate China, Part 1 (how Western auto makers are scrambling to feed the beast) Updated: 2008-08-30 11:25:25 Description: At the recent Sydney Film Festival I saw a great new documentary called ‘The Cars That Ate China’. In this podcast the director Stefan Moore discusses the background to the film and we hear a clip with Joe White, China correspondent for ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Cars That Ate China, Part 2 (why the Chinese have gone car mad) Updated: 2008-08-30 11:10:59 Description: Western marketing has moved into China in a big way. In this podcast we hear a clip from the film ‘The Cars That Ate China’ with Tom Doctoroff from J Walter Thompson Advertising. He explains how marketers have tapped into Chinese think...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Cars That Ate China, Part 3 (implications for the world’s environment) Updated: 2008-08-30 11:05:06 Description: Industrialisation and consumerism at warp speed – China’s economy is growing so rapidly and there are so many people in that country, we will need 4 planets of resources to cope with the demand. In this podcast we hear from James Kyng wh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Cars That Ate China – epilogue Updated: 2008-08-30 09:00:58 Description: China now has car hoons too. A new generation of hot rodding has grown up as China taken to the car. (Another interesting revelation from the film.) In this podcast we also hear some of the Chinese hip hop music that’s currently firing up Bei...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Green business sees opportunity in a lower carbon economy Updated: 2008-08-29 10:12:49 Description: Instead of banging on about risks, threats and costs, some in business have seen what needs to be done and are just getting on with it. We’re talking here about how our economy will need to change if we’re ever going to deal with climate...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sydney City Farm struggles to plant its roots Updated: 2008-08-16 07:35:13 Description: Will Sydney get its own urban farm? In the first of our series on city farms, we look at the proposal to put an organic farm at Callan Park in the city’s inner west. The proposal draws ideas from successful farms that have ready been establish...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Garnaut lashes out at climate change sceptics (in his own gentile way) Updated: 2008-07-18 03:52:28 Description: The good professor has a message for the sceptics who still don’t believe in climate change and the scaremongers who would have us believe the sky will fall in if we re-gear our economy to lower our carbon emissions. Listen to the podcast inte...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The new carbon emissions trading scheme: will it be choked by competing ambitions? Updated: 2008-07-14 19:23:55 Description: A carbon emissions trading scheme is coming soon. In 18 months in fact. But what will it look like? It seems the two majors parties are heading for a showdown on the shape of it. And thrown into the mix is a newly configured senate. A strange assor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The car lobby lobs back – on peak oil and the Fuelwatch ad Updated: 2008-07-10 05:43:10 Description: The car lobby is given the right of reply in this podcast. I speak with Alan Evans, President of the NRMA, Australia’s largest motoring body. He says the GetUp organisation need to get real. To build public transport to all parts of Sydney a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD FuelWatch ad: the future is f***ing expensive Updated: 2008-07-10 03:00:53 Description: This commercial takes the p**s out of the government’s FuelWatch scheme. Made by GetUp to make the point that we need long term planning for a sustainable transport system. Watch the FuelWatch commercial. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Is peak oil more urgent than climate change? Updated: 2008-07-09 14:38:58 Description: In this interview I speak with Bruce Robinson, Convenor of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil. (ASPO is a leading international group of concerned scientists on the issue.) Bruce says governments should be informing people and prep...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peak oil: the world’s looming oil crisis Updated: 2008-07-03 01:41:28 Description: In case you hadnt noticed, the price of oil is on the march. And there’s analysts saying we’ll look back at 2008 in the years to come and think we were lucky. That petrol was cheap. So what is happening with oil? There’s no doubt ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD ‘Sharkwater’ will change how you think of sharks Updated: 2008-06-14 02:23:05 Description: Sharks have had a pretty bad rap for a long time. Now a new film, busts the myths about sharks and highlights the dire situation for shark populations around the world. Rob Stewart, an underwater photographer, set out to show the beauty of sharks in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Just add water (to food labels) Updated: 2008-05-03 02:54:14 Description: Here in Australia we know we should be watching how much water we use for things like showers, gardens and washing cars. But really, it’s a drop in the ocean compared to how much water goes into the products we consume. Now an Australian academic h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Biofuels: blessing or curse? Updated: 2008-04-25 00:11:39 Description: In many developed countries food prices have skyrocketed. So much so there’s been riots and demonstrations in a range of countries from Cameroon and Senegal to Haiti, Mexico and Egypt. One factor is believed to be the increasing use of crops to p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Grow your own says The Green Gardener Updated: 2008-03-22 19:30:49 Description: Josh Byrne is a presenter on the ABCs Garden Show. He’s also written a book called ‘The Green Gardener’. Josh reckons people have seen the light and are now using their backyards to grow food. In this interview, he talks about how...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Back to the backyard: the permaculture answer to peak oil Updated: 2008-03-22 07:19:54 Description: Permaculture is real counter-culture. Thats what I thought after attending the Australian Permaculture Convergence last weekend. It combines traditional farming techniques and thinking about nature with modern technology to enable people to live dif...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cataret Islands: world’s first climate change refugees? Updated: 2008-03-14 20:14:03 Description: As the world continues to debate what to do about climate change, the people living on a small atoll to Australia’s north are about to become our region’s first climate change refugees. The Cartaret Islands, north east of PNG, are only a metr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jan Gehl – the urban planning rock star (part 2) Updated: 2008-03-08 19:00:31 Description: Cities like Sydney and New York can shake their car culture and get people to walk and ride bikes. It can be done. It’s happened in Copenhagen. It’s even part of the Danish national health policy. Jan Gehl tells us all about it. He al...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The ‘urban planning rock star’ changing city environments around the world Updated: 2008-03-01 23:12:48 Description: Wall to wall vehicles. Thats how Jan Gehl describes Sydney’s CBD. He says Sydney has squandered its beauty and it’s time something was done about it. Professor Gehl was commissioned by the City of Sydney to re-think its centre. He’s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Major parties fail the green test Updated: 2008-02-28 02:53:34 Description: What do green groups think of Peter Garrett? I asked the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Campaign Director, Denise Boyd. The interview followed ACF’s analysis of the environment policies of Australia’s political parties. Bot...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Community supported agriculture: a new way to get your fruit and veg Updated: 2008-02-19 08:30:08 Description: Ever dreamed of having your own farm? Don’t have the capital, the time or the expertise? Here’s a way for you have a direct connection with a farm and still live in the city. It’s called ‘community supported agriculture’...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Do we need desalination when rain goes down the drain? Updated: 2008-02-10 20:08:48 Description: Is desalination the answer to the water shortages in Australian cities when we waste so much water? Or do we need the desal “insurance policy” for our water supply as the politicans say? I spoke with Kate Noble, sustainable cities campaigner for...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Why won’t the government seriously back rainwater tanks? Updated: 2008-02-10 19:44:27 Description: Bucketloads of water went down the drain in the last few weeks here. Wouldn’t it be good if people collected it? Isn’t that water better than any stuff that might be recycled from poo. Or taken from the ocean? Or pumped from a dam wit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr Karl: clean coal is a furphy Updated: 2008-02-06 17:41:14 Description: Dr Karl gets down and dirty on ‘clean coal’. Is it a furphy? A key part of clean coal is burying CO2 under ground. Isn’t this the kind of thinking that got us in this mess in the first place? Listen to the Clean Coal Dr Karl interview. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Howard ignored climate change and lost: election day vox pops Updated: 2008-02-01 23:08:23 Description: The previous conservative government in Australia may well have been the first in the world to have lost office because it ignored climate change (and refused to sign the Kyoto protocol.) The day of the election at the end of 2007, I went to a pollin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Byron Bay: nature has more in store Updated: 2008-01-26 07:40:53 Description: Ever been to Byron Bay? I have, just recently. And each year hordes of international visitors and Australians go there. Why wouldn’t you? Nature has carved out one of the most brilliant, beautiful coastal niches in the world. But most visito...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD ‘Into the Wild’ film review and interview with author Jon Krakauer Updated: 2008-01-23 07:22:25 Description: This is a review of the Sean Penn film Into the Wild. You may be interested in this one if you’ve ever had the itch to ditch your hum-drum routine and see the world. The real world. It includes an interview with author Jon Krakauer who wrote th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Why are the Japanese so hell-bent on killing whales? Updated: 2008-01-18 20:46:14 Description: Another year begins and whaling is in the news again, with two activist groups disrupting the activities of Japanese whaling vessels. Both Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd argue the Japanese whalers are carrying out commercial operations in what has been ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Paul Watson: eco-terrorist or eco-hero? Updated: 2008-01-17 21:30:10 Description: Sea Shepherd tangle with Japanese Whalers in the Antarctic Paul Watson is a man on a mission. He has played a leading role in alerting the world to what he calls the illegal actvities of Japanese whalers. In 2007 I spoke by satellite phone to Paul in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD And now time for an ad break …. (animators get political) Updated: 2008-01-16 00:00:00 Description: A compacted view of what commerce is doing to the planet. Actually, I do have a Commerce degree, and I have worked in the corporate world, but this commercial is pretty good and pretty telling. But it doesn’t have to be like this. If business w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Trouble at mill – Gunns (the largest pulp mill in the southern hemisphere) Updated: 2008-01-14 01:42:12 Description: The key issues in the Gunns Pulp Mill controversy, as discussed with Sean Cadman from The Wilderness Society. Late last year the Australian government gave the go-ahead to building what will be one of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest pulp mil...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What is carbon trading and can it work? Updated: 2008-01-12 23:45:58 Description: How do we go about reducing our carbon emissions? Increasingly we’re hearing about carbon trading, but what exactly is carbon trading, aren’t there schemes running already, do they work, and what’s the best configuration for Australia? Phil...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kayaker explains why he paddled from Australia to NZ Updated: 2008-01-12 00:11:50 Description: James Castrission discusses: why they did it, the highs and lows of the trip, his sea legs, what he and his partner Justin Jones missed most from their old lives, and how they felt about hitting dry land. Why they did it and the highs and lows (Catri...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kayaker tells of 4m shark and “the massive whirlpool” Updated: 2008-01-11 23:45:55 Description: James Castrission tells of the 4 metre shark that tested if their kayak was food. And the massive whirlpool which forced them to paddle back towards Australia to get out of it and thereby loose 10 days. (In fact the boys paddled an extra 1000km.) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kayaker speaks about sleep deprivation training, the vast ocean, the next trip and Justin Updated: 2008-01-11 23:30:00 Description: James Castrission discusses training (including sleep deprivation exercises), his friendship with Justin, their next trip and feeling small in the vast ocean. Sleep deprivation, Justin, the next trip, and the vast ocean (Catrission 2) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kayaker describes how their use of the net has re-shaped expeditioning Updated: 2008-01-11 23:18:07 Description: James Castrission discusses how their use of the internet has re-shaped expeditioning, why their expedition has been so professional, their thoughts on Andrew McAuley who a year earlier had disappeared 90km short, the relentless gnawing of the sea on...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kayaker speaks about food, beer and life after the expedition Updated: 2008-01-11 23:08:56 Description: James Castrission discusses the “ravenous mind” (food), beer, how he’s changed as a person, the welcome in New Plymouth and life after the expediton. Food, beer, and life after the expedition (Catrission 5) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kayakers conquer ocean’s Everest Updated: 2008-01-11 09:00:25 Description: Two Australians’ determination to paddle from Australia to New Zealand demonstrate the hallmarks of the late Sir Edmund Hillary.Click on this link to see the SMH news article on Sir Ed Hillary, who along with Tenzing Norgay, were the first to climb...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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