Podcasts about earth foe

Join us on the PIEL UK Podcast for an insightful discussion with Niall Toru, Senior Lawyer at Friends of the Earth (FoE). With expertise in climate litigation and planning law, Niall shares his journey from government lawyer to environmental advocate. In this episode, Niall provides a concise overview of FoE's mission and the UK's role in climate law. Learn about key legal victories, including challenges against government climate policies. Explore the intricacies of the Climate Change Act and its impact over fifteen years. Gain insights into biodiversity protection under the UK Environment Act and practical steps for local environmental activism. Discover Niall's advice for law students seeking impact-driven careers and the importance of legal training in private practice. Get a glimpse into the intersection of politics and environmental policy in upcoming elections. For a succinct exploration of climate justice and the power of legal advocacy, tune in to our conversation with Niall Toru.

Japan is not doing great when it comes to climate action. Absent from COP27, awarded "the infamous 'fossil' award and leading a revitalized push by for Nuclear energy, there is a lot to be desired for a healthy climate. To better understand it Earth Matters presenter Eiddwen speaks with Japan Friends of the Earth (FOE) campaigners Houze and Ayumi. Their conversation looks at FOE's anti-nuclear campaign, concerns of overdevelopment, grassroot action and the similarities between Japan and Australia. More information for FOE Japan can be found at their website at: https://foejapan.org/en/

Dr. Kendra Klein, senior staff scientist at Friends of the Earth (FOE) is a writer, researcher, and advocate with expertise in environmental sustainability, food, agriculture, and public health. Tune in to learn more about: The women who inspired her to pursue her career  About FOE and their projects in Food and Agriculture How neonicotinoids and glyphosate kill pollinators The Organic for All study The power of pesticide corporations in the United States The new study on the impact of pesticides on soil and invertebrates FOE's new report on the school lunch program in California and their  recommendations To learn more about FOE's and Dr. Klein's work, go to https://www.foe.org. 

The recent delivery of the "People's Climate Strategy" to the Member for Nicholls, Damian Drum, on behalf of Friends of the Earth (FoE) was not to be, according to FoE, an ambush and although I tried to ensure it was not that, it still became an energetic conversation about the climate crisis. Damian and I talked about many things, among them the alarming outbreak of heat in north-western America and part of Canada, a reality addressed by many organizations from within the world's media And among them was: "British Columbia sees 195% increase in sudden deaths during Canada heatwave"  - from The Guardian; "A Deadly Summer in the Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves, and More Deaths to Come"  - from Inside Climate News; "Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans" - from The Guardian; "Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide" - from Inside Climate News; "This is What Happens When You Irrigate a Desert" - from The New York Times; "I Moved to Portland Because It Seemed Like a Safe Bet in the Face of Climate Change. I Was Naive" - from Rolling Stone magazine; "Hundreds of deaths linked to record-breaking heat in Canada" - from The New Daily; "Joe Biden blames climate crisis for deadly heatwave in western US and Canada" - from The Guardian; "How did a small town in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth?" - from The Guardian; "That Heat Dome? Yeah, It's Climate Change" - from The New York Times. Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".  

Just recently, we received a Press Release from Friends of the Earth (FOE), Walmart annouces industry-leading policy to protect pollinators from pesticides. Walmart takes a step to save our bees! Walmart is the world’s largest food retailer in the world so this is a big deal. Bees and other pollinators are responsible for one in […] The post Walmart Takes A Step to Save the Bees appeared first on Food Integrity Now.

In this episode we speak with Cam Walker who has been working at Friends of the Earth (FoE) for 30 years and has been an activist for even longer than that.  If you want someone who really understands the push and pull, the nuance and dynamics of running a long term campaign for the environment Cam is your guy. Today I talk to him about friends of the Earth, his life, what he sees as important in regional communities like central Victoria and what is the most important thing you can do today to help keep our government on track in this time of Covid 19 management and recovery.   Links:   To learn more about Friends of the Earth and their campaigns check out their websites: FoE Melbourne FoE International   If you want to hear more from Cam he has a blog called The Mountain Journal   If you are inspired to write to your local or federal politicians about the need to keep our post Covid 19 economic stimulus clean and green go to:  Prime Minister   Find your local minister or a particular one such as the minister for energy or environment.   Book Review: To borrow audio books and e-books from your local library you can use the app Borrow Box  Tim Flannery: The Weather Makers  

Peter Kalmus – Making Climate Change Real & Learning from Coronavirus – EP155 Hello there & welcome to this week’s 1% Better interview. This is the First interview proper of S4. During the off season, following some Climate Change news, I noticed the name Peter Kalmus popping up regularly – when I read more about him, I was fascinated by his career story as well as his activism.When we did record – 2nd March I think things were heating up on COVID19 with Italy getting bad but nothing yet in Ireland, and very little elsewhere in Europe and US. Things have changed since so it was good we had the opportunity to discuss Coronavirus and how we could learn from it in the climate change movement. Please do share this one broad and wide….if you disagree or would like to add more to it, get in touch too. Just to note, Peter was speaking on his own behalf and his views and opinions. I’ve shared links to climate activists groups at the end. But for now, here is a summary of the topics covered in the podcast.Introduction Peter Kalmus (born May 9, 1974) is a climate scientist, writer and climate activist based in Altadena, California. He is a data scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an Associate Project Scientist at UCLA’s Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering. In addition to authoring articles about climate change, he is the founder of the website noflyclimatesci.org and co-founder of the app Earth Hero: Climate Change.Topics covered in detail:•Peter’s background – studying physics, programming on Wall Street and then following his quest of learning•Astrophysics and getting a PhD in this area working on waves travelling through space and time•In mid-2000s, taking a big interest in the climate crisis and the radical energy imbalance•Inspired by Jim Hansen – one of the leading voices on climate crisis •Moving into Earth Science with a post doc – switching fields which was a big deal •Sitting on the side-lines during the discovery of gravitational waves but it was a worthy sacrifice •Dedicating his life now to working to save the life support system of our planet! •Now moving toward biodiversity and ecosystem breakdown •Getting depression during an undergraduate in physics at Harvard so didn’t have confidence to go straight to graduate school •Taking a year to get over this and working in New York during this period •After 4 years, the confidence came back to apply for the PhD•Depression almost leading to suicide during his time at Harvard •In 2006, Peter’s first son was born, and this really was a big change in his life and had him start thinking much clearer on the suffering the planet •Starting to meditate around this time has helped develop compassion more•Emotional Intelligence v Intelligent Quotient•Non-Human Intelligence and how smart tress are for example •Feeling the darkness at the edges of Peters's consciousness and knowing how difficult this is…•The Practice more than anything to develop EQ is meditation and having kids•Vipassana meditation – observing the reality of change!•Working and disciplining the mind to notice a change •Bio-chemical changes creating sensations •Climate Change being abstract compared to the Shark Bite Concern•The tangible nature with the Coronavirus is more real whereas Climate Change feeling less real •This analogy about fear - Read into why people are more scared of a shark bite than client change? •People are responding now as they are in emergency mode as people now believe they could die but with Climate Change, people don’t believe they can die•Would calling it pollution or waste – make it more real?•Have we faced a similar challenge in the past and overcome it?•Bright spots idea – anywhere doing it well and replicate this?•Becoming an Activist is not a choice for Peter when he sees what is happening!•How Peter takes action in his own life – flying less as a starting point •Getting to a Carbon Free environment has to be the goal•How quickly Coronavirus has managed to slow flying but Climate Change is not having this impact…•The Coronavirus has been very useful for climate activists as they can look at this for new approaches to make it real•How to make Climate Change more real and scare people now! •3 Actions to make Climate Change more real?1.Create more fear as the current approach is not working! Create more Fear!2.Non-violent direct action – the house on fire analogy! Act like it’s an emergency and wake people up! The Greta Thunberg movement is a great start…much more is needed here. Civil disobedience – once enough people do this, behaviours will start to change…but it needs to be in mass numbers. 3.Taking Action to reduce emissions - Leading climate activists living our lives as this is happening now – again Greta Thunberg got a boat to the US and back. Activists need to stop burning fossil fuel and more. This will send a clear message to the public. •Are scientists in general agreement on Climate Change? •How to solve this challenge is still to be agreed on?•Are there bright spots emerging?•How can we get better? •What actions can we take to reduce emissions? 1.Planning out – your day, week, month year – to make the change! 2.The Flying Less Movement?3.Use the Earth Hero Apps – reduce our emissions 4.Become more conscious on what you’re using? 5.Burn less fossil fuel6.Become activist – join the movement and take action!!7.Lean in more…leads to more learning:More on Peter•The Earth Hero App – download this on all the App stores •Web – Peterkalmus.net•Twitter - @climateHumanBecome a Climate Activist •Ireland – Stopclimatechaso.ie•Friends of the Earth FOE.ie•Plan-International.org

Peter Kalmus – Making Climate Change Real & Learning from Coronavirus – EP155 Hello there & welcome to this week’s 1% Better interview. This is the First interview proper of S4. During the off season, following some Climate Change news, I noticed the name Peter Kalmus popping up regularly – when I read more about him, I was fascinated by his career story as well as his activism.When we did record – 2nd March I think things were heating up on COVID19 with Italy getting bad but nothing yet in Ireland, and very little elsewhere in Europe and US. Things have changed since so it was good we had the opportunity to discuss Coronavirus and how we could learn from it in the climate change movement. Please do share this one broad and wide….if you disagree or would like to add more to it, get in touch too. Just to note, Peter was speaking on his own behalf and his views and opinions. I’ve shared links to climate activists groups at the end. But for now, here is a summary of the topics covered in the podcast.Introduction Peter Kalmus (born May 9, 1974) is a climate scientist, writer and climate activist based in Altadena, California. He is a data scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an Associate Project Scientist at UCLA’s Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering. In addition to authoring articles about climate change, he is the founder of the website noflyclimatesci.org and co-founder of the app Earth Hero: Climate Change.Topics covered in detail:•Peter’s background – studying physics, programming on Wall Street and then following his quest of learning•Astrophysics and getting a PhD in this area working on waves travelling through space and time•In mid-2000s, taking a big interest in the climate crisis and the radical energy imbalance•Inspired by Jim Hansen – one of the leading voices on climate crisis •Moving into Earth Science with a post doc – switching fields which was a big deal •Sitting on the side-lines during the discovery of gravitational waves but it was a worthy sacrifice •Dedicating his life now to working to save the life support system of our planet! •Now moving toward biodiversity and ecosystem breakdown •Getting depression during an undergraduate in physics at Harvard so didn’t have confidence to go straight to graduate school •Taking a year to get over this and working in New York during this period •After 4 years, the confidence came back to apply for the PhD•Depression almost leading to suicide during his time at Harvard •In 2006, Peter’s first son was born, and this really was a big change in his life and had him start thinking much clearer on the suffering the planet •Starting to meditate around this time has helped develop compassion more•Emotional Intelligence v Intelligent Quotient•Non-Human Intelligence and how smart tress are for example •Feeling the darkness at the edges of Peters's consciousness and knowing how difficult this is…•The Practice more than anything to develop EQ is meditation and having kids•Vipassana meditation – observing the reality of change!•Working and disciplining the mind to notice a change •Bio-chemical changes creating sensations •Climate Change being abstract compared to the Shark Bite Concern•The tangible nature with the Coronavirus is more real whereas Climate Change feeling less real •This analogy about fear - Read into why people are more scared of a shark bite than client change? •People are responding now as they are in emergency mode as people now believe they could die but with Climate Change, people don’t believe they can die•Would calling it pollution or waste – make it more real?•Have we faced a similar challenge in the past and overcome it?•Bright spots idea – anywhere doing it well and replicate this?•Becoming an Activist is not a choice for Peter when he sees what is happening!•How Peter takes action in his own life – flying less as a starting point •Getting to a Carbon Free environment has to be the goal•How quickly Coronavirus has managed to slow flying but Climate Change is not having this impact…•The Coronavirus has been very useful for climate activists as they can look at this for new approaches to make it real•How to make Climate Change more real and scare people now! •3 Actions to make Climate Change more real?1.Create more fear as the current approach is not working! Create more Fear!2.Non-violent direct action – the house on fire analogy! Act like it’s an emergency and wake people up! The Greta Thunberg movement is a great start…much more is needed here. Civil disobedience – once enough people do this, behaviours will start to change…but it needs to be in mass numbers. 3.Taking Action to reduce emissions - Leading climate activists living our lives as this is happening now – again Greta Thunberg got a boat to the US and back. Activists need to stop burning fossil fuel and more. This will send a clear message to the public. •Are scientists in general agreement on Climate Change? •How to solve this challenge is still to be agreed on?•Are there bright spots emerging?•How can we get better? •What actions can we take to reduce emissions? 1.Planning out – your day, week, month year – to make the change! 2.The Flying Less Movement?3.Use the Earth Hero Apps – reduce our emissions 4.Become more conscious on what you’re using? 5.Burn less fossil fuel6.Become activist – join the movement and take action!!7.Lean in more…leads to more learning:More on Peter•The Earth Hero App – download this on all the App stores •Web – Peterkalmus.net•Twitter - @climateHumanBecome a Climate Activist •Ireland – Stopclimatechaso.ie•Friends of the Earth FOE.ie•Plan-International.org

Celebrating 45 years of Friends of the Earth - FoE & 3CR. Today's program is the final one of this series, and looks at the bonds between Friends of the Earth and 3CR Community Radio. Presenters: Megan Williams and Em Gayfer. Guests: Mick Harris (a FoE volunteer from the late 70s and an early representative on 3CR's Community Radio Federation), Larissa MacFarlane (who in 1994 started Green Beat, a Friends of the Earth radio show on 3CR), Juliet Fox (a Green Beat presenter from 1996 - the show became Earth Matters - and current 3CR Projects Coordinator), Michaela Stubbs (anti-nuclear campaigner with the ACE collective at FoE and current 3CR Program Coordinator), and Cam Walker (FoE Campaigns Coordinator).

Homelessness Week II we speak to Zoe from the Roomination's Crew about how homelessness is a year round affair and public housing is the answerIPAN on peace II Shirley Winton speaks at the recent Fair Go For Pensioners conferenceWaste in the North of Melbourne II Sheridon from the Broadmeadows Progress Association speaks frankly about the waste management crisis in her area as the SKM class action finishes and a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into waste management is under way.this is the week that wasDoes Victoria need fracking? II We talk to Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth (FOE) about the campaign by the fossil fuel industry and their allies the Federal Government & conservative media outlets in the main stream are pushing the fracking message to remove the Victorian moratorium on fracking due to be reviewed in 2020. What is the truth behind the high prices we are paying for gas?

Kroger has updated its pollinator policy after pressure from the Friends of the Earth (FoE). FoE's Tiffany Finck-Haynes joins Earth911 to talk about what the decision means for bees and other pollinating species, as well as the additional progress and transparency needed for customers who want to spend in support of sustainable food sources. Learn what chlorpyrifos, glyhosates, and neonicotinids to do pollinating insects and the human body. We dig into whether Kroger's decision can be enforced (it can't) and how the company, just one of many grocers who need to update their supply chains to eliminate pollinator-damaging pesticides and preservatives in our food supply. Tiffany also shares information about FoE's 2018 retailer scorecard, how to get involved to support the campaign for grocery changes, and the other "steps in the right direction" that Kroger, WalMart, and others, including Whole Foods, to improve their sustainability scores.

Kroger has updated its pollinator policy after pressure from the Friends of the Earth (FoE). FoE's Tiffany Finck-Haynes joins Earth911 to talk about what the decision means for bees and other pollinating species, as well as the additional progress and transparency needed for customers who want to spend in support of sustainable food sources. Learn what chlorpyrifos, glyhosates, and neonicotinids to do pollinating insects and the human body. We dig into whether Kroger's decision can be enforced (it can't) and how the company, just one of many grocers who need to update their supply chains to eliminate pollinator-damaging pesticides and preservatives in our food supply. Tiffany also shares information about FoE's 2018 retailer scorecard, how to get involved to support the campaign for grocery changes, and the other "steps in the right direction" that Kroger, WalMart, and others, including Whole Foods, to improve their sustainability scores.

On today’s episode of Rootstock Radio, we’re chatting with Kendra Klein, senior staff scientist at Friends of the Earth (FOE) and a seasoned writer, researcher and advocate (Kendra’s been at this kind of work for a full 17 years!). Kendra shares what that FOE is doing to change our food and agriculture system for the better. This includes an exciting new study that found switching to organic food can dramatically reduce your exposure to pesticides—we’re talking drops of 60% in just 6 days, and up to 95% depending on the compound! The study also found 14 specific pesticides in every single participant (a fact that should thoroughly alarm us all).  The hopeful news is that this study, and others like it, shows it IS POSSIBLE to seriously reduce the amount of pesticide residues in our bodies through our diet. And in a world where a lot of things feel completely out of our control, our food choices are something that’s still in our own hands. 

We cover the opinions of people at the RTBU February launch to return Victorian Public Transport back to public hands - the fight back against privatisation takes form.The attack on renewables by the Federal Government after South Australian blackouts has led to Friends of the Earth (FOE) going to the streets we cover their message. Report from Vivien Langford from BZE.This is the Week that Was from Kevin Healey.Dr David Giles from Deakin University  who is an Anthropologist who looks at Humans in Urban Environments comes out against the Melbourne City Council Homeless Peoples Ban. Check out Homeless Persons Union and #NoHomeleesBan 

Sustainable Breakfast, live from Friends of the Earth, Melbourne.Australian News:Outrage over NSW anti-protest law; https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61287Childcare workers demand better pay on International Women's Day; https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61297International News:'Stop funding murder in Honduras!' Activists slam US government; https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61317Interviews:Cam Walker, campaigns co-ordinator at Friends of the Earth (FOE), talks about the current campaigns FOE are involved in.Teishan Ahearne talks about the 3CR 40th Anniversary Exhibition.Margarita Windisch, long term feminist and activist talks about a thesis she has written about, women, heatwaves and food.Melissa Corbett from Earthworker co-op, talks about eco-socialism. 

In this episode Vivien talks to Rod Quantock, Dagmar Graczyk and Leigh Ewbank and finds out the projected date for the last Tim Tam on earth. In early 2014, Rod Quantock became a research associate at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne, working on the presentations of climate change impacts and resource crises. Dagmar Graczyk, Manager for South Asia, works for IEA (International Energy Agency).Leigh Ewbank, Yes 2 Renewables Community Coordinator, for Friends of the Earth (FOE).