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Local Environment Heroes
by Canberra Environment Centre
Local Environment Heroes brings you a series of chats with amazing local heroes from Canberra and further afield who are doing ace things for our world. This podcast is produced and supported by the Canberra Environment Centre, including hosts Julie Boulton, Jennifer Pinkerton, Ryan Lungu and Fiona Veikkanen.
Episodes
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Bonus: Mark Howden AC — Climate Reality, Climate Hope
We couldn't fit all of Mark Howden's insights into our Local Environment Heroes conversation, so we're sharing his full Impact Hour talk as bonus content. In this June Impact Hour session, Emeritus Professor Mark Howden AC takes a clear-eyed look at where we are heading on climate change — and...
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Season 4, Episode 3: Mark Howden — What Has Changed, What Hasn’t, and What Keeps Us Going
In this episode of Local Environmental Heroes, we talk with Emeritus Professor Mark Howden AC about the long game of climate action — and what it feels like to spend almost four decades working on one of the biggest challenges facing the world. Mark reflects on what's changed since he first…
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Bonus: Mike Mulvaney — Regenerating Red Hill
We couldn't fit all of Michael Mulvaney's stories and insights into our Local Environment Heroes conversation, so we're sharing his full Impact Hour talk, as bonus content. As part of our collaboration between SEE Change, the Conservation Council of the ACT Region & Canberra Environment Centre,...
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Season 4, Episode 2: Mike Mulvaney — The Gang-gang Capital of the World
In this episode of Local Environment Heroes, we talk with long-time Red Hill Regenerator Dr Michael Mulvaney about the extraordinary transformation of one of Canberra's much-loved landscapes — and the Gang-gang Cockatoos that helped reveal just how special it is. Mike has spent more than 60 years...
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Bonus: Amy Carrad — Changing the System: People, Power, Policy
We couldn't fit all of Amy Carrad's insights into our Local Environment Heroes conversation, so we're sharing her full Impact Hour talk as bonus content. In this April 2026 Impact Hour session, a collaboration between SEE Change, the Conservation Council of the ACT Region & Canberra Environment...
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Season 4, Episode 1: Amy Carrad — Changing the Way We Eat
In this episode of Local Environment Heroes, we talk with Dr Amy Carrad about the power of food to create environmental and social change. Amy explores how the way we grow, produce, share and eat food is shaped not just by individual choices, but by the systems, policies, and communities around…
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Adapt for Climate Toolkit: Hannah Hoyne – Visual Artist
Have you got a favourite sweater that's starting to get holes? Perhaps you’re trying to save money on clothes and keep garments out of landfill? In this episode, Visual artist Dr. Hanna Hoyne will show you some valuable tips and tricks for mending your clothes in a colourful and beautiful way!...
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Adapt for Climate Toolkit, Episode 5: Cid Riley – Global Worming
Join Cid Riley from Global Worming Canberra and learn how to establish a worm farm, how to improve your worm farming skills and how to use the product at the end, hopefully inspiring you to spend more time with your worms and more time in your garden! Note: This podcast was recorded on-site; some...
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Adapt for Climate Toolkit, Episode 4: Fiona Buining – Ainslie Urban Farm
Fiona Buining and Michael Wilson have a background in permaculture and have over 30 years of experience growing their own vegetables and fruit. Their quarter-acre block has over 50 fruit trees, vegetables, chickens, bees and working rabbits. Join Fiona from Ainslie Urban Farm and learn how to…
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Adapt for Climate Toolkit, Episode 3: Paris – Canberra By Bike
Join Paris from Canberra By Bike for a conversation on active travel in Canberra! In this episode, we chat with Paris about the benefits of choosing a bike over your car, acoustic and electric bike types and active travel groups in Canberra that you can join today. You can find more of Paris on…
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Adapt for Climate Toolkit, Episode 2: Lish Fejer – Green It Yourself
Join Lish Fejer from Green It Yourself (GIY) and learn how to be in control of your household energy! In this podcast, we chat with Lish about some simple but effective energy-efficient changes that you can utilise in your own home, which will make you more comfortable, save you money, and allow...
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Adapt for Climate Toolkit, Episode 1: Julie Armstrong – ACT for Bees
Join Julie, the founder of ACT for Bees & Other Pollinators, for a buzzing episode where we learn about our native bees. This video will focus on the importance of our native bees and pollinators and guide you on what to plant to attract them and provide the perfect habitat. You can find more ACT...
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Season 3, Episode 1: Fiona & Julie - Launching New Season
Fiona and Julie are back with Season 3 of Local Environmental Heroes. This series is all about food. In this opening episode, Fiona and Julie discuss all of the amazing guests they have interviewed for this series Local Environment Heroes is a Canberra Environment Centre podcast celebrating the...
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Season 3, Episode 2: Lucy Ridge - Fair Food
Lucy is a Canberra based food writer and qualified chef with a passion for food sovereignty and sustainability. SHe is currently finishing her first book which documents her year of internships all over Australia in the food industry.Julie and Fiona have a fascinating chat with Lucy about food...
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Season 3, Episode 3: Philippa Lawrence - Kitchen Gardens
Philippa is the Garden Specialist with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program at Majura Primary School. She is a trained horticulturist and supports students to grow, eat and enjoy fresh food.Fiona and Julie recorded this episode on site and were lucky enough to be taken on a tour of the...
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Season 3, Episode 4: Andy de Groot - Queer Food
Andy De Groot is a chef and the founder of Queer Food, a sustainable catering company and food retailer run by Trans* and Queer* People. Andy has an incredibly strong belief in the power of community inclusion and he works to celebrate and honour queer histories and stories through food. Andy…
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Season 3, Episode 5: Amy Blaine - Community Food
Amy Blaine is a co-founder and volunteer for the Ainslie Community Pantry. She’s passionate about meeting the needs of the local community through building social networks that share and distribute food, seeing food as an integral part of our social fabric.In this episode, Fiona and Julie are…
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Season 3, Episode 6: Aaron Chatfield - Talks Indigenous Foods
Aaron is the owner operator of Dreamtime Connections a business he has built to share Indigenous Culture and native foods with the community especially schools. Aaron’s vision is for every school to have a bush tucker garden. Fiona and Julie chat to Aaron about the role of native plants within…
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Season 3, Episode 7: Josie Grenfell - Food2Soil
Josie’s primary role is co-CEO & co-founder of Food2Soil, an innovative circular economy business that makes biologically alive fertiliser from fermented commercial food and coffee waste, transforming waste destined for landfill into soil gold. Fiona chats to Josie about her journey as a…
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Season 3, Episode 8: Sam Vincent - Regenerative Farming
Julie and Fiona managed to sneak in a quick visit to Sam’s farm for this recording. This meant they met the magical fig tree which you will hear Sam speak about so fondly in this episode. Local Environment Heroes is a Canberra Environment Centre podcast celebrating the people working to create a...
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Season 3, Episode 9: Naomi Lacey - Community Gardens
Be inspired by listening to Naomi talk about how community gardens future proof our food systems and why more support for urban localised systems is so critical. Local Environment Heroes is a Canberra Environment Centre podcast celebrating the people working to create a healthier, more…
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Season 2, Episode 12: Gabby Millgate
After a career in film, theatre, television and radio, Gabby Millgate has put all those communication skills to work in Early Childhood Education. She is now the Nature Pedagogy lead educator at Woden Valley Early Learning Centre, the first role of its kind in the ACT. Julie and Fiona chat to…
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Season 2, Episode 11: Zoe McMahon & Fred McGrath Weber
Zoe and Fred are young farmers at Majura Valley Farm. With the support of their families, they practise regenerative farming techniques with impressive yields. Fred and Zoe are local food advocates, both with farming and art backgrounds, together they create, grow and nurture sustainable farming...
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Season 2, Episode 10: Kate Harriden
A wiradyuri woman, Kate grew up in the creek behind the family home and still spends lots of time in streams, even if many of them are now storm water channels. She completed her PhD in Indigenous water sciences (decolonising streams: a confluence of Indigenous and western sciences) at the Fenner...
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Season 2, Episode 9: Kate Flood
Kate Flood AKA @Compostablekate is a compost coach based in NSW. Through social media and a new book, Kate shows people how to compost effectively in the comfort of their own home. Julie and Fiona talk dirty with Kate, chatting about why composting is such excellent climate action. Local...
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Season 2, Episode 8: Dr Katherine Trebeck
Dr Katherine Trebeck is a political economist, writer and advocate for economic system change. Katherine has Bachelor Degrees in Economics and in Politics (University of Melbourne) and holds a PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University. Julie chats to Katherine in this…
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Season 2, Episode 7: Scotty Foster
Scotty Foster is a solar powered, radio broadcasting, organic growing, co-operative creating, earth and people-protecting worker from Canberra, Australia. Scotty is powering CoCanberra, creating a co-operative commonwealth, through community groups, and on Community Radio- 2XXFM98.3 with the...
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Season 2, Episode 6: Elle Lawless
Elle Lawless is the Executive Director of the Conservation Council, Elle has environmental and climate advocacy experience at both the local and national level. A diversity of experience including growing up in regional NSW has formed a deep passion for ecological justice which has seen Elle...
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Season 2, Episode 5: Ryan Mcgee
Ryan Mcgee is a Primary School Sustainability Teacher- inspiring her community to observe and respond to nature by living more sustainably. Fiona and Julie chat to Ryan about her experience communicating practical sustainability behaviours throughout a school community and beyond. Ryan reflects…
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Season 2, Episode 4: Dr Bjorn Sturmberg
Dr Bjorn Sturmberg is a Research Leader in the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program, as well as the author of kids book Amy’s Balancing Act. Fiona and Julie ask Bjorn about renewable energy and find out about some of the challenges and possibilities for a sustainable future. Local...
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Season 2, Episode 3: David Trood - The Weedy Garden
Weedy AKA David Trood is a prize-winning travel and commercial photographer who pushes the boundaries of visual storytelling. His passionate narrative of people and nature, shines through in his YouTube channel -The Weedy Garden. Julie and Fiona chat with David about his experience setting up an...
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Season 2, Episode 2: Diego Bonetto
Diego Bonneto- “The Weedy One” grew up on a dairy farm in northern Italy when it was still common practice to collect the wild produce of the land. Now living in Australia, Diego is passionate about telling the story of plants and runs regular walks and workshops on plant identification, role...
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Season 2, Episode 1: Julie and Fiona with Holly Trueman
Canberra Environment Centre (CEC) welcomes you to a whole new season of the Local Environment Heroes Podcast with Julie Boulton and new host for Season 2 Fiona Veikkanen. With guest Dr Holly Trueman- insect scientist and Executive Director of CEC. Local Environment Heroes is a Canberra…
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Season 1, Episode 21: Season Wrap Up
Julie and Ryan reflect on what they have learnt from the incredible people they have interviewed in season 1 of the podcast and discuss some exciting developments for season 2. Local Environment Heroes is a Canberra Environment Centre podcast celebrating the people working to create a healthier,...
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Season 1, Episode 20: Daniel Fitzpatrick
Dan Fitzpatrick owns and operates Megaflora, a boutique construction company based in Canberra. He focuses on the importance in the relationship between materials, the built form and our environment. Dan takes sustainability seriously and chats to Julie and Ryan about how best to design and build…
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Season 1, Episode 19: Corey Tutt
Corey Tutt is a proud Kamilaroi man and the founder of Deadly Science, an organisation bringing science and technology to remote schools around Australia. Corey works to inspire Indigenous children to believe in themselves and understand their environment for the benefit of Australia and all its...
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Season 1, Episode 18: Kelli Donovan
Kelli Donovan is a Canberra based sustainable fashion designer and the founder and CEO of Pure Pod. She designs ethical clothes and has a vision for a fashion industry that puts planet and people before profits. Kelli has done her time in mainstream fashion and has seen firsthand the devastating...
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Season 1, Episode 17: Sarah Reid
Sarah Reid is the ACT representative of the Australian Conservation Foundation Council and the newly elected President of the Conservation Council ACT. Sarah is passionate about working with the local community to achieve the climate goals that will provide a better future for out children. Sarah...
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Season 1, Episode 16: Hannah Moloney
Hannah Moloney is a landscape designer, permaculture educator and bestselling author. Her enterprise ‘Good Life Permaculture’ and her recent book ‘The Good Life’ focus on education for a better world and radical hope in the face of a climate emergency. Hannah chatted online with Julie and Ryan...
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Season 1, Episode 15: Olympia Yarger
Olympia Yarger is the Founder and CEO of Goterra, an insect farm based in Canberra. Olympia started Goterra with a focus on insects as a sustainable livestock feed and soon realised that the amount of food waste required to keep the insects provided an opportunity for the business to transition...
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Season 1, Episode 14: Siwan Lovett
Siwan Lovett is the Director of the not-for-profit Australian River Restoration Centre, an organisation she established after undertaking a Winston Churchill Trust Fellowship in 2008. Siwan’s work focuses on research and science communication and developing future leaders. She has a PhD from the...
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Season 1, Episode 13: Rebecca Vassarotti
Rebecca Vassarotti is a member of parliament in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the ACT Greens. In 2020 she was appointed as the Minister for Environment and Heritage, Minister for Homelessness and Housing Services, and Minister for Sustainable Building and...
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Season 1, Episode 12: Charles Massy
Charles Massy gained a Bachelor of Science at ANU in 1976 before going farming for 35 years, developing the prominent Merino sheep stud ‘Severn Park’. Concern at ongoing land degradation and humanity’s sustainability challenge led him to return to ANU in 2009 to undertake a PhD in Human Ecology....
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Season 1, Episode 11: Quick catch up with Julie and Ryan
Julie and Ryan catch up for a virtual Sunday afternoon hang out and chat about what they have learnt from the Environmental Heroes so far. Local Environment Heroes is a Canberra Environment Centre podcast celebrating the people working to create a healthier, more sustainable and connected...
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Season 1, Episode 10: Karissa Preuss
Karissa Preuss is the CEO of ACT Landcare, the peak body for Landcare groups in the ACT. Karissa works with landholders wanting to manage their farm sustainably, community groups monitoring conservation efforts and stewardship groups improving ACT Government land. She sees her role as supporting...
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Season 1, Episode 9: Mia Swainson
Mia Swainson is passionate about leadership and waste reduction. She has worked in government, politics, international development and the non-profit sector and now runs her own boutique management consulting company. Mia is current Chair of the Canberra Environment Centre and of Zero Waste...
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Season 1, Episode 8: Fiona Buining
Fiona Buining runs Ainslie Urban Farm where she grows microgreens in green houses in her backyard for local restaurants and cafes. Fiona’s property has over 50 fruit trees, nuts, berries, vegetables, two beehives, chickens and working rabbits. Working with teenagers as a teacher she has seen...
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Season 1, Episode 7: Brook Clinton
Brook Clinton is the founder and operator of Capital Scraps Composting, a not-for-profit social enterprise motivated by the direct climate benefit and wider social benefits of composting at the community scale. Brook has a PhD in biodegradation and most mornings she can be found riding around the...
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Season 1, Episode 6: Chris Dennis - Two Before Ten
Chris Dennis is the man behind Two Before Ten cafes. From humble beginnings in Aranda Shops to a network of cafes across the city, Chris has made an effort to make business decisions that are in line with the UN Sustainable Development goals. This has led to the purchasing of an industrial...
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Season 1, Episode 5: Edwina Robinson
Edwina Robinson is the founder of The Climate Factory, a social enterprise that is empowering people to plant the planet. In 2020-21 Edwina created Canberra’s first urban community micro-forest which has transformed a dusty, weedy park in Downer into a dense pocket of native vegetation. There are...
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Local Environment Heroes brings you a series of chats with amazing local heroes from Canberra and further afield who are doing ace things for our world.
This podcast is produced and supported by the Canberra Environment Centre, including hosts Julie Boulton, Jennifer Pinkerton, Ryan Lungu and Fiona Veikkanen.
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