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Go Simone
by Go Simone
Exploring sustainable change and the women inspiring it.Women make up more than half the world’s population, and although they are often disproportionately impacted by climate change, their voices are not always heard due to lack of inclusion and representation at the decision-making level. Go Simone gives them a voice.Each episode, we meet with an academic, activist, artist, entrepreneur, politician, researcher or student who shares her story, roots, passions, and hopes for the future. She tells us more about the alternatives and strategies she has developed to tackle climate change.
Episodes
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Juliette Deseilligny on movement and sustainability, minimalism vs maximalism, and caring art
Juliette Deseilligny is based in Paris. She is an ecosophist, an artist, a writer, a zero-waster, a rewilding advocate. With Juliette, we talked about being homeschooled and the opportunities it offered, art as a mean to respond to big questions, upcycling, movement, sedentary living and its...
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Lis Dingjan on systems thinking as a response to the climate crisis
Lis Dingjan has a background in design, international development and law, and community building. She splits her time between several organisations she founded - the experience design studio Identity Division, a community centre in Cambodia, a social enterprise Nowhere and Everywhere where she...
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Sarah Hanson-Young on addressing climate change in the Australian political bubble
Sarah Hanson-Young has been senator for South Australia since 2008, representing the Australian Greens. With Sarah, we talked about human rights activism, feminism, what a Green New Deal should look like, systemic greed in today's world, and being real. The transcript and references mentioned in...
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Corinna Dengler on feminist degrowth and a care-full radical transformation
Corinna Dengler studied Economics, Development Studies, and Socio-ecological Economics and Policy in Vienna, Moscow and Quito. Her research focuses on making degrowth more feminist and on how care can be organized in a degrowth society. With Corinna, we talked about why degrowth is ecologically...
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Heather Alexander on forest ecology and the danger of simple solutions to complex climate issues
Heather Alexander is an assistant professor in forest ecology in Auburn University, United States. She is an expert in the areas of forest, fire and disturbance ecology. She studies the impacts of changing fire regimes of forest succession, dynamics influence of tree traits on forest flammability...
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Aoife O'Leary on decarbonising the shipping industry to unlock a global energy transition
Aoife O'Leary is the Director of international climate at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). She is a lawyer and as specialised on the environmental impacts of international shipping in aviation, she's also a board member of Rethinking Economics, a charity campaigning to reform the economics...
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Karen Ellis on the role of individuals in creating change and the rights to repair
Karen Ellis founded Mend It, Australia with her husband, Dan. They offer their help to repair and mend, building capacity to upcycle and promoting a circular economy culture within their community. With Karen, we talked about the myth of recycling, the need for coordinated repair movement…
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Hongqiao Liu on the power of investigative journalism and advocating for a fair and just transition
Hongqiao Liu is an independent consultant on policy research, strategic communication and advocacy, and a multi-award winning journalist. With Hongqiao, we talked about following one's passion, writing for change, the environmental and social issues relating to rare earth in China, promoting a…
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Dekila Chungyalpa on uniting faith leaders to bolster climate activism
Dekila Chungyalpa heads the Loka Initiative, a project which she co-founded with Buddhist scholar researchers, Dr Richard Davidson and Dr John Dunne of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Healthy Minds. Launched in 2018, the initiative unites religious leaders with environmental...
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Arnagretta Hunter on the impacts of the climate crisis on human health and rethinking our society
Arnagretta Hunter is a cardiologist based in Canberra and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University Medical School. She is also Human Futures Fellow at the ANU College of Health and Medicine and part of the Commission for the Human Future, an ANU initiative which brings...
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Ailsa Lamont on the role of higher education in propelling climate action
Ailsa Lamont has had a long career in Australian universities, leading various international and social innovation departments. In 2016, she founded Pomegranate Global, a start-up dedicated to helping the education sector to tackle climate change, and co-founded the Climate Action Network for...
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Esther Onyango on climate change and its impacts on viral diseases
Esther Onyango is a research fellow at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She is part of a trans-disciplinary research program on the impacts of climate change and vector-borne diseases. With Esther, we talked about her roots in Kenya, her passion for microbiology, how she became…
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Jojo Mehta on establishing a law of ecocide and drastically changing the rules
Jojo Mehta is the co-Founder of Ecological Defence Integrity and Stop Ecocide. She carries on the legacy left by Polly Higgins, a UK lawyer who found for the recognition of ecocide as an international crime. With Jojo, we talked about how criminalising ecocide internationally can drastically…
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Stacy Levy on combating climate change with land art
Stacy Levy is an American eco-artist. She is a sculptor making large-scale public installations in rivers, streets, parking lots, airports and nature centres. She merges the principles of art, ecology, science and collaborative engagement. Her latest completed art piece is called Collected...
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Cecile Gauthier on how the ad industry can use its power for good
Cecile Gauthier co-founded the marketing consultancy and design agency Lime, based in Singapore. It’s 100% women-owned. It is a purpose driven agency which is building brands for businesses with a purpose and helping to create purpose for traditional brands. With Cecile, we talked about how she...
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Rita Naumenko on being a climate activist in Russia
Rita Naumenko is a 16 years-old Russian environmental activist and part of the Fridays for Future initiative. When she is allowed to strike by the Russian government, she stands in downtown Moscow with other young activists chanting, brandishing posters and demanding the government to take…
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Helene Grosbois on embracing the degrowth way of life
Helene Grosbois started working for the finance industry (Societe General and Natixis) in Paris and Hong Kong. Realising about climate change, she transitioned to lobbying activities for NGOs, such as WWF and Finance Watch, created by Pascal Canfin. Since May 2019, she “transitioned” to an...
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Emma-Kate Rose on creating a sustainable food system & turning climate despair into creative energy
Emma-Kate Rose has over three decades of experience in working in business, social justice, environmental sustainability, food system advocacy, and political activism. In 2006, she co-created a start-up developing a car sharing service in Brisbane and after selling it in 2008, she joined Food...
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Johanna Nalau on moving the climate change agenda from planning to action through brave leadership
Johanna Nalau is an adaptation scientist with a PhD in climate change adaptation at Griffith University based on the Gold Coast, Australia. Her research is focused on understanding how, why and when people make decisions to adapt to climate change, and what role science can and should play in…
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Kylie Newberry on reconnecting with what we eat through food citizenship
Kylie Newberry is a public health nutritionist by training. She has worked in Australia and abroad in the UK in particular. More recently she completed a master in food policy in London. She created an organization called Our Food System advocating for healthy, sustainable, and fair food system....
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Carly Wilson on wildlife conservation, climate change as a class issue, and building resilience
Carly Wilson has a long background in wildlife care and habitat management. She worked for the RSCPA Wildlife Clinic in Canberra for several years and has also worked as a fauna spotter, relocating animals away from sites of habitat destruction. She is now a film producer. She recently released…
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Alana Mann on shaping sustainable food systems through agroecology and gender justice
Alana Mann is Chair of Media & Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a key researcher at the University’s Sydney Environment Institute. She is also a Chief Investigator on the project FoodLab Sydney with partners including the City of Sydney and FoodLab Detroit. Her research...
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Sabrina Chakori on circular economy and re-creating the commons
Sabrina Chakori founded the Brisbane Tool Library, a social enterprise based on degrowth and sharing economy which aims to reduce household consumption. During our conversation, Sabrina tells us more about what shaped her strong political engagement and her motivations to fight for a better...
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Cle-Anne Gabriel on degrowth and wellbeing economies
Cle-Anne Gabriel is a lecturer at the University of Queensland, and the Business School's Director for the United Nationals Principles for Responsible Management Education. Her research focuses on the areas of sustainable development and postgrowth futures. During our conversation, Cle-Anne…
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Exploring sustainable change and the women inspiring it.Women make up more than half the world’s population, and although they are often disproportionately impacted by climate change, their voices are not always heard due to lack of inclusion and representation at the decision-making level. Go Simone gives them a voice.Each episode, we meet with an academic, activist, artist, entrepreneur, politician, researcher or student who shares her story, roots, passions, and hopes for the future. She tells us more about the alternatives and strategies she has developed to tackle climate change.
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