Greening the Apocalypse (RRR FM)
by Triple R
There is a crack in everything, that's where the light gets in. Each week the Greening the Apocalypse team talk to the tinkerers and thinkerers, the freaks and geeks from permaculturists and eco-farmers to alt-tech innovators and peer-to-peer information networkers who are growing fascinating new systems through the fault lines of the old., 3RRR.
Episodes
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A doomer and a recovering communard walk into a radio station, with Peter Harley and Kate Gracey (27 November 2018)
Someone who's heading to Tasmania to survive the fall of civilisation gets some advice from someone who's been there, done that. Kate Gracey is a self described “doomer” who is moving to southern Tasmania this December to grow potatoes while living on a farm with her son. Peter Harley, spent most...
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Peak Economy?, with James Ward (13 November 2018)
There's probably no more important single number than how much energy we produce as a globe, nor a more important prediction of what direction that trend is heading. It's almost impossible to think of anything we care about that won't somehow be shaped by those numbers. So Adam and Jed speak with...
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Why this historian praises the burger, with Rachel Laudan (20 November 2018)
Is Slow Food and organic produce an elitist form of status signalling? What's so good about McDonalds?! And why do we need food waste? Food historian Rachel Laudan joins Adam Grubb and Sarah Coles to talk reasons why she thinks many in the ethical and sustainable food movements could use a little...
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Emergency Climate Action, with Jane Morton (6 Nov 2018)
Our climate is too hot. We are in an emergency. How do we get this message out to the wider public? Bushy and Jed are with clinical psychologist Jane Morton, making the case for emergency climate action.
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At The Coalface, with Nikola Van de Wetering (30 Oct 2018)
Bushy and Jed chat with Nikola Van de Wetering from 4ZZZZ in Brisbane on her audio documentary At The Coalface and the general attitude towards coal in QLD. You can hear the documentary here: https://www.cbaa.org.au/article/nfds-2018-coalface
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War on Climate Change (23 October 2018)
Bushy, Kate and Jed are in the studio, fronting up to climate change. They look at examples of what has been done in the past and what needs to be done in the future - A war scale effort is necessary!
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Embodied Energy in our Buildings, with Rob Crawford (16 October 2018)
Adam and Kent welcome first time host David Spratt, author of What Lies Beneath: The scientific understatement of climate risks. They chat with Rob Crawford - Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne - on the...
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Energy and Attitudes, with Manfred Lenzen (9 October 2018)
Adam chats to Manfred Lenzen, Professor in the School of physics of the University of Sydney, about his study on the energy, carbon emissions, water, biodiversity loss and labour that goes into powering our lives. They talk energy slaves, nuclear energy and reconciling your attitudes towards...
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Milkwood, with Kirstin Bradley (2 October 2018)
Bushy, Adam, Kent and Sarah are in to chat with Kirstin Bradley, one third of the sustainability skills and permaculture education project Milkwood team. They cover various aspects of Milkwood's new book, ranging within The Tomato, Mushroom Cultivation, Natural Beekeeping, Seaweed and Wild Food.
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Energy Talk, with Dylan McConnell (25 September 2018)
Arianne and Kate are with Dylan McConnell, an energy analyst from the Australian-German Climate and Energy College. On this episode, they talk about where we get our electricity from, the transition to clean energy in Australia, and a fact check on electricity prices.
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Grey Matters, with Matiu Bush (18 September 2018)
Kate, Bushy and Kent are joined by Matiu Bush, to look at loneliness - Matiu is the founder of One Good Street, a social networking platform for encouraging neighbour initiated care for older residents at risk of social isolation and loneliness.
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Fair Wood, with Pete Smith and Raphy Kruse (4 September 2018)
Bushy, Jed and Ariane Wilkinson chat with Pete Smith (Manager of CERES Fair Wood and Raphy Kruse (general skills collector) about some of the harrowing phenomena born from illegal logging, and potential avenues for ethical consumption.
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Market Gardening and the Farm Raiser, with Chris Williams and Charlotte Bartlett-Wynne (28 August 2018)
Adam, Peta and Jed chat to Dr. Chris Williams and student Charlotte Bartlett-Wynne from Burnley Campus of Melbourne University's Urban Horticulture associate degree. Along with Pat Turnbull and Kirsty Edwards they have started the not-for-profit Farm Raiser, an organisation that sets up market...
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Climate change, with Ian Dunlop and David Spratt (7 August 2018)
Adam, Kate and Jed chat to Ian Dunlop (former corporation executive and head of coal council, turned activist) and David Spratt (climate activist, author and businessman). They unravel risk/scientific/political understatement, and the lack of imagination to think the unpalatable, when it comes to...
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The 'Myth' of Progress? with KMO (14 August 2018)
Adam is joined by KMO, host of the C-realm podcast to discuss whether our world is on an unstoppable trajectory of material, social and technological progress, or if perhaps if faith in that process might be allowing us to defer responsibility for addressing some environmental and humanitarian...
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Conservation and activism, with Justin Cally (31 July 2018)
Bushy and Jed chat with Justin Cally from WOTCH (Wildlife of the Central Highlands) about the conservation, activism and citizen science of our forests.
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Food, ethics and social media with Rohan Anderson (24 July 2018)
Jed, Bushy and Adam chat to Rohan Anderson; author of Whole Larder Love and A Year Of Practiculture, about his article "How being ethical made me hate being ethical", the online world and the way we communicate ethics and food.
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Natural Law with Katie O'Bryan and Erin O'Donnell (17 July 2018)
Katie and Jed speak with Erin O'Donnell; a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School, and Katie O'Bryan; lecturer in the Faculty of Law, and an Associate of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University, about the law and rights of the natural world.
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Astrophysics with Dr Rachael Livermore (03 July 2018)
Bushy, Adam and Jed talk to Dr Rachael Livermore; ARC DECRA Fellow in the Astrophysics Group at the University of Melbourne, about the formation the universe, and what coronal mass ejections (sunspots) can have on Earth.
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Pandemics with Professor Peter Doherty (10 July 2018)
Bushy, Katie and Jed chat to Professor Peter Doherty about Pandemics. Peter has shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine in 1996 with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel, for their discovery of how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells. He was Australian of the Year in 1997, and...
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River health, with Chris Walsh (26 June 2018)
This week the team chats with Chris Walsh, expert in the health of rivers, streams and their landscapes at the University of Melbourne and a senior member of the Melbourne Waterway Research- Practice Partnership with Melbourne Water. They talk about biodiversity in rivers around the world,...
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Democracy in the Workplace, with Mark Tyler and Ella Ryan (19 June 2018)
Adam and Jed chat with Mark Tyler (organiser at Earthworker) and Ella Ryan (worker/owner at Redgum Cleaning Coop) about co-ops, economic democracy and democracy in the workplace. What are the challenges to unions and cooperatives working together?
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Future of Work, with Dr Josh Healy (12 June 2018)
Bushy, Adam and Jed sit down with Dr Josh Healy, chatting about the changing nature of “work” from traditional manual jobs with long careers to gigs with turbulent change and no long-term stability. They discuss a range of solutions and promising directions in this space.
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Retrosuburbia, with David Holmgren (5 June 2018)
Adam and Sarah talk to David Holmgren on Retrosuburbia: Energy descent, what Melbourne might look like in 40 years, and the retrofits people can implement at home.
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Finding Infinity, with Ross Harding (29 May 2018)
Ross Harding is a creative sustainability consultant. His business, Finding Infinity, provides self sufficiency advice, with projects ranging from houses to city blocks. They work not only on the technical and financial solutions, but equally the culture required to create the transformation. The...
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Neo-peasantry, with Patrick Jones (22 May 2018)
Patrick Jones calls himself a 'neo-peasant'. Bushy, Adam and Jed chat to the writer, community gardener, artist and author of The Art of Free Travel with Meg Ulman, about his lifestyle.
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Urban Design and Changing Climate (15 May 2018)
Bushy, Kate and Jed chat with Lisa Howard of the Bendigo Botanical Gardens. They talk planting and planning for a changing climate, the roles of urban design, and botanical gardens in cooling the city and suburbs.
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Bugs Galore (1 May 2018)
Bushy, Kate, Jed chat to Ary Hoffman, expert in insect ecology and the decline of flying bugs. The team look at the historical context and evolution of insects on Earth, the War on Bugs and looking ahead to our ecological future with insects.
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Country Women's Association (24 April 2018)
Bushy and Jed chat with Margot and Louise from the Country Women’s Association, who are here to show that the CWA is about more than cake. They are advocating for and facilitating social change and support to those in need in their many branches.
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Council and co-benefits (17 April 2018)
Adam and Jed hear from Kat Lavers (Hobson’s Bay City Council) on her research into the co-benefits (psychological, social, health etc) of urban food growing and how to approach councils.
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Country vs City (10 April 2018)
Bushy, Kate and Jed are chatting country vs city. How do our carbon footprints compare depending on where we inhabit? The team look at how community, choice and resilience are factors in our way of life and our environmental impact.
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Hot or Not? (3 April 2018)
Adam, Kate, Jed are joined by former guest Rafael Schouten, who studies plant physiology and energy dynamics. Together, they use some scientific literacy to consider viral environmental videos, talking thermodynamics, algae for biofuel and indoor grow-light vertical farming. Plus, they look to…
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Bees and Comedy, with Alanta Colley (27 March 2018)
Alanta Colley chats all things bees with Bushy, Adam and Jed ahead of her Comedy Festival show “Days Of Our Hives”. Colley is public health practitioner, comedian and co-founder of Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate held at the Spotted Mallard. She has performed for the Gates Foundation, Adelaide’s...
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Connection and Community, with Julian Able (20 March 2018)
Are we lonelier than we have ever been? Jed, Kate and Adam chat with Julian Able, Director of Compassionate Communities UK and a consultant in palliative care, currently in Cornwall. Together, we look at ways of dealing with connection and community.
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Sustainable Food Systems, with Dr Lenore Newman and Andrew Butt (13 March 2018)
Adam chats with keynote speaker, Dr Lenore Newman, at the Urban Agriculture Forum. They tackle urban food security, peri-urban farming and sustainable food systems. Adam, Kate and Jed sit down in studio with Andrew Butt, Senior Lecturer in community planning and development at La Trobe, to follow...
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Farming Culture and Community, with Melissa Connors (6 March 2018)
Bushy, Kate and Jed chat with special guest and agrarian pioneer Melissa Connors. Melissa packed up her bags and took to the countryside, eventually founding ‘This Farm Needs a Farmer’, building a bridge in the gap of hand-me-down knowledge in agriculture and farmers.
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Cooking with compost, with Samuel Alexander (27 February 2018)
Bushy, Jed and Adam chat with Dr Samuel Alexander, founder of the Simplicity Institute and author of many books, and a new as-yet-unpublished essay 'Carbon Civilization and the Energy Descent Future', written with Joshua Floyd. They talk about making cooking gas (biogas) from your household...
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Placemaking, with Gilbert Rochecouste (20 February 2018)
Bushy, Kate and Jed chat with Gilbert Rochecouste from Village Well. Gilbert is a leading voice in placemaking. His catalyst ideas have regenerated iconic places and enlivened many urban and rural communities. Gilbert sees the potential of placemaking to inspire a deeper cultural and social...
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What Caught Our Eyes? (13 February 2018)
Adam, Kate, Sarah and Jed are back in the studio for the first episode of 2018, reflecting on what caught their eyes over the summer break; From the state of Adani, to Soul Food Farms, varying ecological cultures across the globe, and more.
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Group Dynamics and Communication (12 December 2017)
One of the many battles we face going forward in a world of resource depletion, economic instability and political upheaval, is that it seems that our ability to organise and coordinate as a group is dying. The whole team is here to close 2017, talking about group dynamics, communication and how…
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Carbon farming, with Connor Stedman (5 December 2017)
Can we help reverse climate change while creating more productive, profitable, ecologically functional and beautiful rural landscapes? Connor Stedman joins us to argue the case that yes, we can. Connor is a field ecologist, environmental planner, and farm planner at Appleseed Permaculture in New...
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Player hating on Elon Musk, with Rafael Schouten (28 November 2017)
Sometimes it feels like billionaire Elon Musk – the Paypal co-founder and and main force behind SpaceX and Tesla Motors – is single handedly revitalising that mid-20th Century spirit of can-do capitalism, upgraded with a eco-green racing stripe. He's a company owner that's captured the public...
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Novel crops for a novel climate, with Dr Chris Williams (21 November 2017)
What exciting crops can we grow in the backyard that you can't readily get in the supermarket, and what crops are adapted to a warming climate? We're joined by Dr Chris Williams who researches and teaches about the social, cultural and technical aspects of urban agriculture at the Burnley Campus…
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Two futures, with Seona Candy (14 November 2017)
We need to rapidly draw down carbon from the atmosphere, and radically reduce the amount we are pumping out at the same time. If that were achievable, what might the world look like? What would our lives be like in 2040? To explore this, we welcome back Seona Candy, research fellow with the...
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To procreate or not in an age of climate change (7 November 2017)
Bushy, Kate and Jed (all parents) and Adam (who's childless) take some time to consider the reasons or not for bringing kids into the world, a world threatened by resource depletion, climate change and other ecological crises.
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Call of the Reed Warbler, with farmer Charles Massy (31 October 2017)
Charles Massy gained a Bachelor of Science in the 70s before returning to the family farm near Cooma and the Snowy Mountains. He has been farming since, and in 2009 Charles Massy returned to ANU to complete a PhD in Human Ecology. In his latest book Call of the Reed Warbler he explores…
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Art in a heat wave, with climate scientist Andrew King and Refuge organiser Tara Prowse (24 October 2017)
On 11 November, Arts House will transform the North Melbourne Town Hall into an Emergency Relief Centre. The project is called Refuge, and we're joined by Arts House producer Tara Prowse to discuss this collaboration between artists, emergency services and the public. The theme of Refuge this…
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Learning community resilience from Black Saturday, with Daryl Taylor (17 October 2017)
We speak with Daryl Taylor, a survivor of the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Kinglake. In 2009 when that enormous tragedy hit, Daryl already had over a decade’s experience in community and organisational development roles. And since that day in February he has been involved on many informal and...
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Can we avoid another financial crisis? With Prof. Steve Keen (10 October 2017)
Steve Keen is professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. He’s credited with being one of the few economists who warned of the Global Financial Crisis and his books include 2001’s Debunking Economics and his just published Can We Avoid...
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Tinkering and thinkering with Katherine Wilson (3 October 2017)
We chat with Katherine Wilson, author of Tinkering: Australians Reinvent DIY Culture. She says "home-based tinkering — the everyday commitment to material problem-solving — is emerging as a legitimate vocation, in ways we haven’t seen since pre-industrial times." We talk about the joys of pulling...
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There is a crack in everything, that's where the light gets in. Each week the Greening the Apocalypse team talk to the tinkerers and thinkerers, the freaks and geeks from permaculturists and eco-farmers to alt-tech innovators and peer-to-peer information networkers who are growing fascinating new systems through the fault lines of the old., 3RRR.
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