Podcast appearances and mentions of miriam lyons

G'day mates! As you all know, I'm in Australia at the moment, on a whirlwind speaking/listening tour regarding this country's response to the Inflation Reduction Act.I've been learning a ton about Australia's history with climate policy, its clean-energy resources, and its current politics. It's all much more complex and interesting than I appreciated before coming, so I thought it would be cool to record a podcast “in the field,” while I'm here, with someone who could provide an overview of all that stuff. To my great delight, I was joined — live! in studio! — by Miriam Lyons. Lyons' resume is … daunting. She founded a progressive think tank called the Centre for Policy Development and led it for seven years; she led the climate justice campaign at GetUp, the Australian equivalent of Moveon.org; she has written or co-written two books on economics and the clean-energy transition; and currently, she is director of the Australian Economic Transformation program at the Sunrise Project, which works to scale social movements and accelerate the transition.Needless to say, she is quite familiar with the ins and outs of Australian climate politics! We had a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion. Enjoy. Get full access to Volts at www.volts.wtf/subscribe

30th March 2020THE NEW NEW DEAL from the National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne Town Hall Produced by Vivien Langford. Broadcast at 3CR and Radio Skid RowIn the month since these speakers were talking about transforming the economy,we have seen an uncanny slowing of our economy and cooling of global emissions caused by the pandemic. Now more than ever, we need to know how to use this opportunity to make an economic transition. Miriam Lyons  Organising director from Get Up! Spoke on a vision for a safe climateJohn Altman from ANU on inviting Indigenous People to assist in zero emissions industriesBlair Palese from Climate Risk on Insurance and Green BondsCatherine Welles from ACF on Rationing, massive economic change and  governance needed to take us along.Simon Shaw - Song : This changes EverythingIdeas arising in this session are:Developing Northern Australia must be done in partnership with indigenous people. Bio diversity conservation and drawdown strategies need their expertise. JAAt 2 degrees of warming insurance risk goes off the charts. Homeowners need to demand access to data collected by Insurance companies.The ABC site " Looking at the rise of red zones" is a start. Look up your house and see how vulnerable it is to climate risk.BPAs the climate emergency intensifies, power will be more centralised.We can learn from the US wartime transformation of their economy. Rationing and other regulation will be more acceptable as destabilising climate events become the norm and it will be hard to maintain our democratic rights.CWThere is huge popular support for renationalising such things as transport.MLBZE plans are not the whole deal. The Drawdown industry will be bigger than coal,oil and gas combined.It will not be profitable in the time we have so it must be paid for by government.PS    

We're signing off for the year with an episode of highlights from our brilliant array of guests throughout 2019. With sincere thanks for tuning in, continuing to share and rate the podcast, and of course for donating and supporting its production. It couldn't happen without you. Thanks also for getting in touch throughout the year to share stories, questions and insights, and to tell us how much you've valued the podcast. It's been great to see our listener numbers spike further this year, and even more fulfilling to hear how the stories are landing and what the podcast means to you. Thank you very much! You'll see the track list for our 2019 Soundtrack below. Have a wonderful festive season and we hope to join you again for a regenerative new year. 1. Podcast Theme, featuring Let Them Know, by the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra (& a range of guests from the podcast's first year in 2017) 2. Albert Wiggan (young Aboriginal leader from episode #034) 3. Stephen Jenkinson (from #035) 4. Mother Canoe, by Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins (Stephen's choice) 5. Michael Shuman (from #036) 6. Nora Bateson (from #037) 7. Damon Gameau (from #038 live at the premiere of the film ‘2040') on Velvet's Unicorn, by Bryony Marks on the ‘2040' original motion picture soundtrack 8. David McLean (from #039) 9. Emma Lee (from #040) 10. Douglas Rushkoff (from #041) 11. Karen O'Brien (from #042) 12. Darren Sharpe (from #043 live at the National Sustainable Living Festival) 13. David Pollock (from #044 at Wooleen Station) 14. Miriam Lyons, Ian Dunlop and Jan Owen AM (from #045 live at the National Sustainable Living Festival) on The System, by the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra 15. Kate Raworth (from #046) 16. Economic Man vs Humanity a Puppet Rap Battle, a collaboration between Kate Raworth, puppet designer Emma Powel, and song-writer Simon Panrucker 17. Amy (from #047 live at the Global Climate Strike) 18. Katherine Trebeck (from #048 live at The Platform in Perth) 19. Frank Fisher (tribute feature from #050 live at Swinburne University in Melbourne) 20. Hazel Henderson (from #049 and #050) 21. What If? (Impact: The Musical), by Jacqueline Emerson and co. (Hazel's choice) 22. Jake Claro (from #051) on Food, by Land of Milk and Honey Due to licencing restrictions, most of our guests' nominated music can only be played on radio or similarly licenced broadcasts. We hope podcast licencing falls into line with this soon. Get more: To access the full catalogue of episodes, head to our website https://www.regennarration.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Title pic: Anthony introducing episode #048 live at The Platform in Perth. (Joni Sercombe) Thanks to our community of donors and partners for making the podcast possible. Please consider joining them by donating or becoming a podcast partner at https://www.regennarration.com/support And say hello & send us your comments by text or audio any time - https://www.regennarration.com/story Thanks for listening!

This is a special extra to podcast 45 with Jan Owen, Ian Dunlop and Miriam Lyons. Here's the rest of the powerful and vital conversation between our panellists and the capacity audience of 300 people at the 2016 National Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne, Australia. Title slide pic: NASA, from the ABC website https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-02/gdp-flawed-and-out-of-date-why-still-use-it/9821402 Get more: Listen to the main episode – https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/045-economic-growth-to-save-the-planet. Thanks for listening!

Economic growth is stagnating, hitting up against a range of limits. Last week's news that GDP growth in Australia is at its lowest since the GFC, with interest rates already at an unprecedented low of 1% (they are negative in many places around the world), emphasises what is increasingly apparent to people around the world – the old model isn't working, and it's not coming back. So what's the future of the growth-based system, and how do we transition to a new model of work, business and economics, while avoiding collapse? Around 300 people filled the Greenhouse in Melbourne, Australia, at the 2016 National Sustainable Living Festival, with a highly credentialed panel exploring these questions. While the conversation took place a few years ago, its relevance and importance only seem to heighten. You'll hear from: - Jan Owen AM, CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians, the Inaugural Australian Financial Review/Westpac Woman of Influence 2012, and former director for the Australian National Development Index (ANDI). - Miriam Lyons, a campaigns director for the prominent progressive advocacy network GetUp!, co-author of Governomics, and previously the founding CEO of the Centre for Policy Development. - Ian Dunlop, formerly an international oil, gas and coal industry executive, chairman of the Australian Coal Association and CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a director of Australia21 and a Member of the Club of Rome. Each panellist speaks for 10 minutes, leading off with a little story on how they came to do what they do. Then we're into another powerful Q&A with the capacity audience (featuring in a special extra to this podcast). In the words of Ross Gittins, celebrated economics writer and Economics Editor at the Sydney Morning Herald: "The beginning of economic wisdom is to understand that the advanced economies – including ours – have stopped working the way they used to and won't be returning to the old normal." So what is the future of the growth-based economic system? Especially in the context of planetary limits, resource constraints, rising inequality, increased automation, increasing mental illness, and worsening extinction and climate crises. What's an economy even for? And how can we recreate it for the better, and quickly? Thanks to Chris Grose from Scout Films for this recording, and the team at the Understandascope who supported this event. The Understandascope builds on the legacy of the late Professor Frank Fisher. An interim website can be found at https://www.regennarration.com/understandascope. Music: The System, by the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra Get more: Listen to the special extra - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/045-economic-growth-to-save-the-planet Ian Dunlop - https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/contributors Miriam Lyons - https://www.getup.org.au/media# Jan Owen AM - https://www.fya.org.au/author/jan-owen-am/ Title slide pic: as used by the National Sustainable Living Festival for this event. Join us at our first live conversation event in Perth, on how we Arrive at Wellbeing Economy, Monday the 23rd of September at The Platform - www.regennarration.com/events/trebeck2019 Say hello & send us your comments by text or audio - www.regennarration.com/story Thanks to our community of listeners and partners for making each episode possible. Please consider supporting the podcast by donating or becoming a podcast partner at www.regennarration.com/support. Thanks for listening!

 We could consider earth as a rental property. God comes down to do an inspection and he/she says ”What are all these holes in the property? Why is all my coral bleached? What have you done with all the trees? …. ?” I can tell you. You won’t get your bond back. #StopAdani Roadshow MC  Films demand and bring out our human and emotional responses and that’s no less true when the subject is the climate crisis and climate solutions.Go ahead and ride the highs and lows of this emotional rollercoaster as this week BZE’s Vivien Langford covers just some of the highlights from the first ever Sydney screening of the 2017 Transitions Film Festival, plus an excerpt from Danny Kennedy’s presentation for the recent #StopAdani Roadshow.  Featuring:David Ritter  – David is CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, introducing the Sydney screening of the Josh Cox film How To Let Go of the World – and love all the things climate change can’t change. David Ritter talks about the emotional blow of seeing the Great Barrier Reef bleaching. From the poignant singer in the flooded subway after Superstorm Sandy to the man weeping after the film, but wanting to talk to us about the feelings climate change is flooding him with, this is a show with a difference.Miriam Lyons, Blair Palese, Piers Grove – GetUp!, 350.org and Energy Lab on the panel discussing the film There Will be Water. Blair and Miriam talk about the exhilaration of being part of the change, how they stay informed, stand their ground on social license and even wax philosophical about Elon Musk and Malcolm Turnbull and what their tweets and phone calls might mean for just what chance we have of a future. Piers talks about Canberra company Reposit Power and the potential of the technology as an exciting evolution, not just a solution to a problem.Danny Kennedy – Co-founder of Sungevity, Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF),  and #StopAdani Roadshow presenter. Danny is an Australian entrepreneur who sees so many start-ups and positive signs that you just want to get on board. Thanks Danny – BZE is all for that too!  MONDAY BZE Radio Mon 5-6pm TUNE in http://3cr.org.au/streaming  LIVE CATCH Podcasts @ http://bze.org.au/podcasts TWEET it in : @beyondzeronews and #bzelive FB conversation: https://www.facebook.com/beyondzeroemissions/

Today Kevin speaks with Miriam Lyons from get up looking at electricity prices etc.

Given the urgency of climate action we are looking at the roadblocks which are stopping us going full steam ahead.Senator Lee Rhiannon sees corruption from the fossil fuel industry sapping the vitality of our political process. Without their corrupting influence would our government be capable of delivering the rapid change we need?"If our politicians are serious about climate change, then they need to stop taking money from and giving money to the big polluters."We talk to Blair Palese about  350.org's  Pollution Free Politics Campaign.Miriam Lyons and Nicky Ison are the authors of The Homegrown Power Plan.They drill down into policy depths where most of us would fear to go. They come up with some golden ideas to end energy poverty. They make it easy for us to see how to remove the roadblocks, ensuring new renewables aren’t held back by the legacy of a bygone era. Further Reading:If Malcolm Turnbull or freshly appointed Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg stood on Queensland’s coast and saw a coal-fired power station float past, they’d notice, right? If more than half a million new cars drove past, they’d surely raise an eyebrow. Or would they? Each day, more than a million tonnes of Australian coal sails up that coast, past the Great Barrier Reef, to power stations or steel mills elsewhere, quietly fuelling climate change and bleaching the reef.https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2016/07/23/truth-about-australias-coal-industry-and-climate-policy/14691960003525https://350.org.au/campaigns/pollution-free-politics-2/http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2016/05/23/4465448.htm

Miriam Lyons is Senior Campaigner - Renewable Energy at GetUp! She is co-author (with Nicky Ison) of the new report by GetUp! and Solar Citizens called "Homegrown Power Plan", which shows how we can repower Australia's homes and businesses with 100% renewable power by 2030. 

Miriam Lyons is an Australian policy analyst, writer and commentator. She was the founding Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Development, an independent public interest think tank set up in 2007. She recently released a book with Ian McAuley, Governomics: Can We Afford Small Government? The book argues that cutting public services often leads to false economies, costing more in the long-term and undermining the basis of a successful capitalist system.

As the dust settles on this year's federal budget, the Fifth Estate turns its eye to matters economic with Ross Gittins, economics editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, and public policy experts Miriam Lyons and Ian McAuley. While the Federal Government expects to spend more in 2015 than at the height of the global financial crisis, it appears that well-funded health and higher education are inching further out of reach – not to mention an economy that addresses climate change or the growing divide between rich and poor. Must the ‘path back to surplus' entail a leaner, meaner government? Doesn't public sector involvement make sound economics? What is the role of government in Australia today? Join Sally Warhaft and guests as they illuminate the complexities and contradictions of the modern economy – and its effects on our daily lives.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 13: In the week that Clive Palmer announced his tilt at federal Parliament, Amber and Ben are joined by Miriam Lyons of the Centre for Policy Development.