Episodes
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Australia to Canada without flying - Sacha Shaw's odyssey
Could you travel halfway around the globe, without getting on a plane? I met Sacha in the enviromental movement while attending (and recording) at protests in Naarm/Melbourne. Sacha's been on a journey since leaving Australia earlier this year, as they relocate to Canada. But they're doing this...
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Under One Blue Roof
Climactic is a production of Here Media - and today's that very literal. Under One Blue Roof is a podcast miniseries from Maroushka Saldhana on the intersection of homelessness and the climate crisis, and one we had the pleasure of producing. This is one of episode from that series, highly...
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Simon Moore | Unite to survive at The Big One, London
On the 1st January 2023, Extinction Rebellion (XR) made a shock announcement titled simply ‘We Quit’. After years of public disruption raising the alarm on the climate and ecological emergency, they had decided to shift their focus into mobilising larger numbers of people – to unite to survive....
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Climactic Returns!
Climactic has returned. Now a production of Here Media this feed will feature the best of our climate-engaged work, and curate the best of other climate podcasts. Get in touch with us at [email protected] to pitch us a show, work with us, suggest a show to feature, or just say g'day. This...
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An update, and a (pre)announcement
It's been 159 days since the last episode on the Climactic feed. This is a (pre)announcement of plans for the return of Climactic in the new year, and an update (and thank you) to all of you who've stayed tuned. See you in 2023! Mark
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Disbanding the Climactic Collective
Who are we? Storytellers and podcasters. The climate crisis is going to take all of us to address, and before long everyone will be climate change-effected. Isn't it time our podcasts engaged with that reality? And yet, on June 24th, 2022, the Climactic Collective will disband, and the website...
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The Sustainable Hour | Finding our voice: Bridging arts, advertising and activism
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Climate Media Centre | Election Reactions
Dylan Quinnell from the Climate Media Centre recorded with members of some of Australia's leading climate action groups, the day after the election. This short episode is a great way to listen back on their excitement from the election results, and a great way to get yourself pumped to take…
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🧪🥊 Sci Fight — Pleasure is a false God | Science Comedy Debates
Sci Fight is a quarterly science comedy debate, with your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley (citation needed). Sci Fight brings together science folk and comedy folk, and makes them debate the big issues in a silly way. This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it…
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Ross Anderson, AQUNA Sustainable Murray Cod - inspiring, land-based aquaculture
In this episode a great conversation with Ross Anderson, all about the truly inspiring story of AQUNA Sustainable Murray Cod and the premium, murray cod they produce for consumers, restaurants, international markets and leading chef's like Josh Niland. It's an uplifting, can-do story about…
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Foraging adventures and pursuing your interests with Mike King
Mike King shares his journey transitioning from professional arborist to foraging tour guide and plant educator, with a focus on how to create space in life to be creative and follow your interests. We talk about native spices, edible plants, taking over an abandoned horticulture project, where…
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Beyond Gas Network | Vote Gas Out: Renewables are our future
Vote Gas Out: Renewables are our future As the federal election campaign is upon us, the webinar aims to inspire and assist us to challenge the Governments' gas expansion schemes in our local federal election campaigns.Speakers: Freja Leonard, Lock the Gate Saul Griffith, author of ‘The Big…
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Serially Curious | Pinkish Pods...?
Get your Pinkish Pods! What does your laundry have to do with the climate crisis? What's a Pinkish Pod? Can Mark make Eav interested in Unique Selling Points, marketing, and revising Milton Friedman economics? Find out in this episode! See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Climate Conversations | Interview: Bardee co-founder and CEO, Phoebe Gardner, talks about a climate champion, the Black Soldier Fly
Get more of Climate Conversations here. Phoebe Gardner (pictured), co-founder and CEO of Bardee, is so excited about her young company, that her positivity is almost palpably and, most certainly, infectious. The Melbourne-based Bardee is built around, or upon, the wonders of what could be one of...
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The Sustainable Hour | Geelong gas hub moral and economic madness
Get more episodes here. Guest in The Tunnel on 6 April is Robert Patterson from Geelong Renewables Not Gas. We hear excerpt of speeches from UN Chief Antonio Guterres, Labor leader Anthony Albanese and Geelong climate activist Lauren Dillon. Read the full notes, full of tweets, videos and more…
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NMTCO | Alex McClean on his work in East Timor, Central Australia & the Pacific - food security, ecosystem restoration, permaculture & change in extreme times
Get more of Nourishing Matters To Chew On. A great conversation with Alex about his experiences, reflections and the perspectives he brings to his work that's all about people centred development for community and ecosystems resilience, livelihoods and food security in a changing climate. Alex…
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Climate Conversations | Interview: Seymour Alternative Farming Expo; Farmers for Climate Action; climate roadshow
Learn more about food security and farming in Melbourne's last market gardens. The last chance lands: Werribee South's market gardens - by Jess Fairfax, on ABC Earshot. This episode is from Climate Conversations, get more here. Jamie Gilbert is the key player behind the Seymour Alternative…
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The Good You Can Do | Discovering the future of food at Wairarapa Eco Farm
Find more of The Good You Can Do here. The Wairarapa Eco Farm was born out of a desire to produce quality food with ecological integrity. The farm is situated on the Tauherenikau Plains in South Wairarapa. Over the last 20+ years, it has grown from bare paddocks into a secluded oasis. The owners,...
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Climate Conversations | Interview: Manik Suri and his company 'Therma' wants to make the world is a 'cooler place'
Find more of Climate Conversations here. Manik Suri (pictured) through his company "Therma" is working to ensure the temperature of the world is just right - not too hot and not too cold. Those Goldilocks-like conditions - not too hot, not too cold, but just right - are aimed at ridding the world...
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Re-release | Cities, climate and migration - With Kate Brick, MMC and Toby Kent, Melbourne's first Chief Resilience Officer
In light of the flooding on Australia's east coast, and the invasion of Ukraine, a re-release of a highly relevant episode. 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...
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The Independents | Zoe Daniel | Independent voice for Goldstein
Find more episodes from The Independents here. Journalist and foreign correspondent Zoe Daniel talks about how her work has taught her to listen, to suspend judgement, and how to synthesise the best information available, to position Australia as a valuable player in climate-positive futures. She...
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@ Risk in the Climate Crisis | Ep. 3: Technoscientific Interventions
Get the full miniseries here. Do it! As the prospect of runaway climate change becomes tangible, serious consideration is given to technoscience to lessen the likelihood of triggering this tipping point. What's to gain and what's at risk when technoscience is proposed to manipulate the global...
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Talking In This Climate | Ep. 12: Playing for deeper engagement on climate change
Find the whole show here. In this episode, learn how play can be used to provoke productive conversations about climate. We chat with Harry Lee Shang Lun, the game designer of Convergence. Written in collaboration with Noongar researcher Cass Lynch, and commissioned by Arts House for Refuge 2021,...
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Reversing Climate Change | S3E1: Aldyen Donnelly on climate-crypto, COP26, and carbon accounting rules
Subscribe to Nori's Reversing Climate Change podcast here: https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change Prior to COP26, there was a big problem in international carbon accounting. Both the country where a carbon credit was generated and the country where it was sold could count those very...
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SSCAN | Storyteller Collective: On making a climate-engaged podcast network
The Scottish Community Climate Action Network invited Climactic publisher Mark Spencer to talk starting a climate-engaged podcast network. Follow their YouTube channel here. Hear Mark Spencer, Climactic Collective, on Setting up a Podcast Network - by and for the climate community. Mark Spencer…
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Serially Curious | So... what can I do?
Felicity Jefferson speaks to Mark about the psychological concepts and tools that can be useful to the climate community, and the course she is running through What Can I Do Australia. As promised, here's some photos of the beautiful Hamilton Gardens. Mark and Eav talk about the concept of deep...
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PCAN | From global negotiations to local action | Jamie Brogan, Simon Moore and Rosanna Harvey-Crawford
Subscribe to the PCAN Podcast from https://www.climactic.fm/show/pcan-podcast In episode six, two special guest hosts report back from COP26 in Glasgow. Jamie Brogan, from Edinburgh Climate Change Institute and Simon Moore, from the University of Leeds, talk to a variety of delegates about the...
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The Red Line | The Privatisation of Warfare: Russian PMC Operations in Africa
Subscribe to The Red Line here: https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/post/episode-55-the-privatisation-of-warfare Warfare is becoming increasingly privatised, and the rules of the battlefield are shifting. With more and more PMCs involved in warfare around the world, many fronts have become…
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2 of 2 | NonFictioNOW | 5 Podcasters on climate-engaged audio
Part 2 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...
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1 of 2 | NonFictioNOW | 5 Podcasters on climate-engaged audio
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...
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Nourishing Matters to Chew On | Dr Anika Molesworth – Our Sunburnt Country, climate courage & action
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...
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At Risk in the Climate Crisis | Loss and Care
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...
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Serially Curious | What food is good for your pooch - and planet?
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…
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Saltgrass | REPEAT: Adani Coal Mine + Blockade Australia
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...
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Simon Moore | On the streets at COP26
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...
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Saltgrass | The Mallee, the Murray and the Mayor
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...
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Climate Ready Stories | Joining the dots in Maldon
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…
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An episode from A Positive Climate, season 2
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...
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Featuring some of the great pre-COP26 content on the Collective
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.
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🧪🥊 Sci Fight — Should we upload our brains to the cloud? | Science Comedy Debates
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…
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Talking in this climate | How to spot and protect against climate mis- and disinformation
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…
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🧪🥊 Sci Fight — Should we upload our brains to the cloud? | Science Comedy Debates
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...
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Nourishing Matters | Working Together, Landcare NSW Aboriginal Engagement
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…
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The Fire These Times | Solarpunk, Youth Liberation and Why Revolution Needs Therapy (with Saint Andrew)
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...
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Artbreaker | Eav Brennan makes rubbish portraits
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...
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Nourishing Matters | Incredible story of SOIL - Matthew Evans & Sadie Chrestman
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...
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The Overview Effect | David Holmgren sees a resilient future
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...
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Archive || Raising the Bar | Who needs artists in a climate crisis? - Dr Jen Rae
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…
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Climactic | Collective Update and Pilot of 'Climatebase Weekly Update'
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...
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Talking In This Climate | Why it's ok to feel eco-anxious, learning to live with climate change, a conversation with Dr Blanche Verlie
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…
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