Podcasts about sydney environment institute

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 42:14

Heat in sport is discussed on the Australian Broadcasting Commission - "Heat risks in sport"; "Preparing for the unpredictable: communities reducing disaster risk"; "Homes lost as bushfires give way to flood fears"; "The climate crisis is also a health crisis"; ""Our Fragile Moment" Author Dr. Michael Mann"; "New documents: EPA and Forestry Corporation at loggerheads over forests, koala protection"; "Australia's Secret Weapon in the Battle Against Bushfires This Summer Could Be AI"; "Hurricane Michael's catastrophic change"; "Key Takeaways From “Climate Changes Everything”"; "Gun violence rises with the temperature"; "Why So Many Americans Are Losing Trust in Science"; "Climate change could impose ‘substantial financial costs' on U.S. household finances, Treasury warns"; "Senate chatter grows louder on carbon tariff"; "EU launches first phase of world's first carbon border tariff"; "September shattered global heat record — and by a record margin"; "What's Going On In The Arctic Should Worry You"; "Off-grid living may look easy on Instagram but this family's tragic ending tells a different story"; "Britain needs to explain PM's green shift, says Australia's high commissioner"; "Pope Francis scolds U.S., ‘irresponsible' Western lifestyle in climate plea"; "Australia at risk of losing 20 per cent of its frogs to climate change, analysis shows"; "Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change"; "Peoples Climate Alliance"; "‘Mind-boggling' rain and wild winds slam Victoria, NSW"; "Faster disaster: climate change fuels ‘flash droughts', intense downpours and storms"; "Climate change is driving many amphibians toward extinction"; "The green energy surge still isn't enough for 1.5 degrees. We'll have to overshoot, adapt and soak up carbon dioxide"; "Bradfield's pipedream: irrigating Australia's deserts won't increase rainfall, new modelling shows"; "Alan Kohler: The new bushfire warning system is in danger of ‘crying wolf'"; "People with Alzheimer's disease face higher risks in heat waves"; "When is ‘naming and shaming' effective as climate enforcement? And when isn't it?"; "Tallinn: Cars were a status symbol after the Soviets. Now bike, bus and tram are overtaking"; "Global heat is now ‘gobsmackingly bananas', but there's hope humanity can limit the climate damage"; "On the rise: One in four cases of ESG risks linked to greenwashing"; "Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink"; "The United States has caused the most global warming.When will China pass it?"; "‘Absolutely perverse': climate scheme could reward Australian coalmines whose emissions rise"; "Americans don't hate living near solar and wind farms as much as you might think"; "Mandatory Composting Is Coming to New York City: What You Need to Know"; "In the Ambitious Bid to Reinvent South Baltimore, Justice Concerns Remain"; "COP28 Presidency launches new SME climate hub;" "Claire Coutinho: Net-zero Minister welcomes ‘sensible adjustments' to climate policies"; "Climate Crisis: Will we ever get to the heart of the challenge?"; "MTA falls short of climate change plan goals, audit says"; "‘They are not slowing down': The rise of billion-dollar disasters"; "Why September's record-warm temperatures have scientists so worried". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Greening healthcare

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2023 48:28

Can we save lives and save the planet? Hear how the healthcare sector is tracking, finding solutions and making changes, to be more sustainable and green. Healthcare is both significantly affected by, and is a contributor to, climate change. If the global health sector were a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. So, how can Australia work towards a more sustainable healthcare system, without compromising on quality and safety? Hear from cardiologist David Celermajer, sustainability researcher Amanda Irwin and global public health professional Rashmi Venkatraman – with host and science communicator Dr Naomi Koh Belic. The recording of this conversation is from a live public event held on 22 August 2023 at the University of Sydney, presented with Sydney Environment Institute. Visit the Sydney Ideas website for more info: bit.ly/44yp6u2

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50th anniversary World Environment Day

Wide Open Air Exchange

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2023 40:37

Professor of Environmental Politics, David Schlosberg is Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and joins the Wide Open Air Exchange this week for a discussion of global environmental governance on reflection of 50 years of World Environment Day. It was at the United Nations 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (pictured) that the idea for World Environment Day was proposed and the following year on 5th June 1973 that it commenced as an annual day of public outreach. Professor Schlosberg remarks on how little has changed or been accomplished with regards to the same conflicts and tensions that were evident then continuing to be present fifty years later. This conversation also covers some of the developments with environmental movements and related discourses including reference to environmental justice which is a concept that Professor Schlosberg has been influential in defining and developing as a political and social theorist. We also hear about a more recent development in thinking about "multispecies justice" which Professor Schlosberg is engaged with in collaboration with a collective of researchers at the University of Sydney.

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50th anniversary World Environment Day

Wide Open Air Exchange

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2023 40:37

Professor of Environmental Politics, David Schlosberg is Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and joins the Wide Open Air Exchange this week for a discussion of global environmental governance on reflection of 50 years of World Environment Day. It was at the United Nations 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (pictured) that the idea for World Environment Day was proposed and the following year on 5th June 1973 that it commenced as an annual day of public outreach. Professor Schlosberg remarks on how little has changed or been accomplished with regards to the same conflicts and tensions that were evident then continuing to be present fifty years later. This conversation also covers some of the developments with environmental movements and related discourses including reference to environmental justice which is a concept that Professor Schlosberg has been influential in defining and developing as a political and social theorist. We also hear about a more recent development in thinking about "multispecies justice" which Professor Schlosberg is engaged with in collaboration with a collective of researchers at the University of Sydney.

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Heat stress scale similar to a UV index could be lifesaving

RNZ: Nine To Noon

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2023 25:24

As the world heats up, researchers in Australia have developed a heat stress scale to help people avoid the risk of health problems from heatwaves which are intensifying globally. Professor Ollie Jay is the director of the University of Sydney's Heat and Health Research Incubator, and he is leading the world-first project, in collaboration with the Sydney Environment Institute. The heat stress scale in conjunction with an accompanying app aims to help the public handle the heat and also minimise, or avoid, health risks arising from more frequent heatwaves. Professor Jay says his team is striving to reduce the health impacts of extreme heat across a person's lifespan - as the growing extremes of climate ultimately affect everyone

A Home on Their Back: A Conversation with Thom Van Dooren on Snails and Extinction

ASLE EcoCast Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 36:40

This month's episode is no slog. It's no slug, either. This month is all about the wonderful world of snails! Lindsay and Brandon are joined by Thom Van Dooren, Deputy Director at the Sydney Environment Institute and an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Sydney, Australia. Thom joins EcoCast to discuss his most recent book, A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinction. Thom's Info: https://www.thomvandooren.org/ A World in a Shell: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047029/ Deborah Bird Rose: Wild Dog Dreaming: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4294/ ASLE EcoCast: If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast Lindsay Jolivette: @lin_jolivette If you're enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)! Episode recorded October 26, 2022. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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389) Dany Celermajer: Multispecies justice and more-than-human entanglements

Green Dreamer: Sustainability and Regeneration From Ideas to Life

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2023 56:46

“I use the language of entanglement rather than interdependence because entanglement implies that what's fundamental is relationships.” What are some of the limitations of human rights frameworks and the institutions that uphold them? What does it mean to go beyond recognizing our interdependence to seeing our deep entanglements with our more-than-human world? And how is the much more holistic framing of “multispecies justice” still reductive in terms of the forms of beings that they recognize? In this episode, we welcome Professor Dany Celermajer, Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney who leads the Multispecies Justice project. Through the experience of living through the black summer bushfires with a multispecies community, she began writing about a new crime of our age, Omnicide and subsequently Summertime. Green Dreamer is a community-supported podcast. Join our Patreon and contribute a gift of any amount today to help keep our platform alive: greendreamer.com/support // The musical offering featured in this episode Don't Ask Me by RVBY MY DEAR. //

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Hannah Della Bosca, Lidia Thorpe for APAN, Raina MacIntyre on mask research & Sarah Rogan on ending gas reliance in Victoria.

Thursday Breakfast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2023

Hannah Della Bosca, Lidia Thorpe for APAN, Raina MacIntyre on mask research & Sarah Rogan on ending gas reliance in Victoria. Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Geographer Hannah Della Bosca joins us to discuss the phenomenon of seeking sensory comforts to insulate against the physical effects of climate change. Hannah is currently a PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney. Her work and expertise span generational coal mining communities, community resilience, and energy transitions.// We'll hear edited excerpts of Djabwurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman Senator Lidia Thorpe speaking at the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network's inaugural Palestine Solidarity Conference from 27th to the 29th of January. Senator Thorpe participated in the opening plenary of the conference, ''Organising for Palestine on stolen land: Solidarity and Intersectionality''.// Major flaws have been flagged in an updated Cochrane Review. Published last week it is the latest review to suggest face masks don't work in the community. The Cochrane Review's use of meta-analysis to support the idea that masks are ineffective in reducing transmission of respiratory infections has been challenged by a number of experts. Today Raina MacIntyre joins us to shed light on some of the underlying issues within the review, and how we can make more informed decisions when it comes to safeguarding ourselves and our community against infectious disease. Raina MacIntyre is a National Health and Medical Research Council Research Fellow, Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, and Professor of Global Biosecurity at UNSW. Raina is an international leader in emerging infections, and is involved in research on face mask, vaccines, influenza, COVID-19 and other infectious diseases research studies that directly inform national and international policy and practice in communicable disease control.// As Victorian homes face up to 25 per cent increase in gas prices this week, Environment Victoria has renewed calls to the Victorian government to break the state's addiction to polluting gas. Next up, we will be joined by Sarah Rogan, Climate Campaign Manager from Environment Victoria. Sarah is a senior campaigner with a values-driven approach to human rights and social justice. She is an advocate, gender expert & respected leader who has had over 15 years experience in rights-based activism. Today we will be discussing the impacts of gas usage, what the Victorian Government is doing to move away from gas and how these strategies could be improved and accelerated to better support residents.// Songs// love like water - Leah Flanagan// Neon moon - Miiesha // Running with the hurricane - Camp Cope// Days Go By - Pirra & Dirty Vegas //

385) Thom van Dooren

Green Dreamer: Sustainability and Regeneration From Ideas to Life

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2022 52:54

In this episode, we welcome Thom van Dooren, a field philosopher and writer. Thom is Deputy Director at the Sydney Environment Institute and teaches at the University of Sydney and the University of Oslo. His current research and writing focus on some of the many philosophical, ethical, cultural, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places. This research works across the disciplines of cultural studies, philosophy, science and technology studies, and related fields. He has explored these themes in depth in three books: Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia University Press, 2014), The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (Columbia University Press, 2019), and A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions (MIT Press, 2022). (The musical offering featured in this episode Hummingbird by Lea Thomas. The episode-inspired artwork is by Haruka Aoki.) Green Dreamer would not be possible without direct support from our listeners. Help us keep the show alive by reciprocating a gift of any amount today! GreenDreamer.com/support

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120: "The Politics of Love" - Writer Philip McKibbin - Sentientism

Sentientism

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2022 84:58

Philip is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, of Pākehā (NZ European) & Māori (Ngāi Tahu) descent. He is a PhD candidate at the Uni of Sydney, affiliated with the Sydney Environment Institute. He holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy from The Uni of Auckland & diplomas in te reo Māori (the Māori language) from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Philip has written for publications such as the Guardian, Newsroom, & Takahē. His book, Love Notes: for a Politics of Love, is published by Lantern Books. In 2018, he co-organised 'The Politics of Love: A Conference' at All Souls College, Oxford. Philip was also kaiwhakatipu (editor) of He Ika Haehae Kupenga. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what's real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube. We discuss: 00:00 Welcome 01:54 Philip's Intro - Writing on animals, Maori issues & "The Politics of Love" 03:10 What's Real? - Neither parent very religious so grew up agnostic? - Anglican Christian high school - Sermons talked more about love than god - Confirmed at 14 yrs... "ridiculous... what do 14 yr olds know?" - "A lot of the metaphysical background was smuggled in" - Anglicanism to comparative religion to philosophy - Turning from metaphysical to normative/ethics/politics - "The final nature of reality is unknowable to us & we just have to proceed on our senses" - Albert Camus - The risk of being distracted by esoteric philosophical questions... instead "We need to be engaged in work that tried to bring about a better world in the light of obvious suffering" - "I do believe there is something transcendent that is true... spiritual... love" - "Communing with the spiritual... but through a critical filter" - "Prophets of love... Martin Luther King Jr & Te Whiti O Rongomai" - God, purpose, meaning, spirit, love... "Our attempts to name it... project our own interpretations on to it... prevent us from fully understanding..." - Ethical risks from religious or spiritual epistemologies (unchallengeable, unknowable, incommunicable, obedience, higher purposes, constrained/conditional compassion) - Old, new testaments, "what would the next step be?... Something like love?... a more mature ethical outlook." - Is something missing from a purely naturalistic ethics? "Not necessarily... we should & can find reasons for acting in a loving way independently from this spirituality I have described." 26:30 What Matters? - "I understand ethics in relation to love & relationship" - Constructing & affirming the morality we want to see in the world - "We are living in an absurd world... we need to determine & assert our own values... try to act lovingly" ...and much more. Full show notes at Sentientism.info. Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form. Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is here on FaceBook. Come join us there! Thanks Graham.

Living for the Future during Climate Crisis with Dany Celermajer

In Context with pattrice jones

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2022 39:53 Transcription Available

Professor Dany Celermajer is a director of the Sydney Environment Institute and the Multi Species Justice Project and the author of Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future. She joined pattrice for a deeply moving discussion about her experiences of the Australian bushfires of 2019, which devastated animal life and ecosystems in ways that are becoming all-too familiar as climate catastrophe changes the world around all of us. You can read more from Dany here: https://www.abc.net.au/religion/danielle-celermajer-learning-to-live-in-jimmy%E2%80%99s-world/12000232 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/07/who-killed-summertime-how-do-we-trace-the-complex-roots-of-responsibility

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A flood of emotions: climate anxiety and trauma in Australia

Beyond Zero - Community

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022

Produced by Carly Dober. In the aftermath of devastating climate disasters like Australia's recent east-coast floods, how do communities – those at the centre of the crisis and those on the periphery – support each other emotionally during times of climate distress? Hear from climate emotions experts and residents of Lismore. – Maddy Braddon, community organiser – Professor James Bennett-Levy, mental health expert – Aidan Ricketts, academic and environmental activist – Samuel Savage, emergency services coordinator – Jeanti St Clair, journalism lecturer and storycatcher – Moderator: Dr Blanche Verlie, social scientist. The recording for this podcast is from a live Sydney Ideas online event, presented in collaboration with Sydney Environment Institute; held on Thursday 21 April, 2022. https://www.sydney.edu.au/engage/events-sponsorships/sydney-ideas/2022/flood-emotion-and-climate-change.html

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Quick Climate Links: We didn't have a civil war, but we did boot out the Scott Morrison Governmemt

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Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2022 7:24

Bob Carr (pictured) has written the story - "On back of urgency on climate, Australia is tipping centre-left" - on Pearls and Irritations that just as slavery initiated the American civil war, it was climate issues that saw the Scott Morrison Government tossed out of government. The Sydney Environment Institute from the University of Sydney staged an event in April - "Why Can't We Talk About a Just Transition From Coal in Australia?" Paul Krugman recently wrote in The New York Times - "The heat is already on" - warning readers: "Investors — and, more important, human beings — need to worry about climate risks right now. For climate change isn't something that will happen decades in the future; its effects are happening as you read this." Climate Action tells readers that: "Isle of Man TT races set to be completely carbon neutral". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message

A flood of emotions

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2022 51:05

In the aftermath of devastating climate disasters like Australia's recent east-coast floods, how do communities – those at the centre of the crisis and those on the periphery – support each other emotionally during times of climate distress? Hear from climate emotions experts and residents of Lismore. – Maddy Braddon, community organiser – Professor James Bennett-Levy, mental health expert – Aidan Ricketts, academic and environmental activist – Samuel Savage, emergency services coordinator – Jeanti St Clair, journalism lecturer and storycatcher – Moderator: Dr Blanche Verlie, social scientist The recording for this podcast is from a live Sydney Ideas online event, presented in collaboration with Sydney Environment Institute, held on Thursday 21 April, 2022. For more information and resources, visit the Sydney Ideas website: https://bit.ly/395MYOC To connect with research, news or join upcoming events at the Sydney Environment Institute, visit https://sei.sydney.edu.au/

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Quick Climate Links: 'A hotter future'; 'Adapt or die' the NYT; IPPC report explained

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2022 2:54

Dr Simon Bradshaw (pictured) helps us better understand the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the explainer: "Breaking Down the Latest IPCC Report". Also, the "Big Ideas in Action" podcast from the World Resources Institute gives us "A Deeper Dive Into Electric Mobility." And from Mint we hear about the evolving challenges for India being brought on by a changing climate. Other Quick Climate Links for today are: "Risks of climate change are ‘unavoidable' and growing deadlier, says UN climate report"; "Sydney Environment Institute"; "How do we force our leaders to lead and ourselves to take action in the face of multiple crises?"; "As extreme weather ravages the Pacific, there is much to do and no time to waste"; "'Prepare now': Woman dies, as lethal weather heads for Sydney"; "What caused the ‘rain bomb'? How the unprecedented Queensland and NSW 2022 floods unfolded"; "Climate Change Brings Extreme, Early Impact to South America"; "Aussie farms face 'disruption and decline' due to climate change: IIPC report"; "Dorset police's shiny HQ could pose ‘lethal threat' to birds, says council"; "California debates naming heatwaves to underscore deadly risk of extreme heat"; "How one of Florida's most beloved animals may be close to climate extinction"; "Deforestation emissions far higher than previously thought, study finds"; "How Climate Change Affects Health and How Countries Can Respond"; "‘Fudged': Has the federal government spent $17b on disaster relief?"; "Climate change will cost Australia hundreds of billions of dollars: UN report"; "Europe looks to fossil fuels as Russian invasion sends energy shockwaves"; "Renewable energy drives fall in Australia's carbon pollution"; "Our climate window is closing, this is what needs to happen"; "The climate-change changes the politicians don't want to talk about"; "While Australia fights for coal, the Pacific fights for its survival"; "‘We can't wait to fix this': Why the latest IPCC report should spur action"; "The facts we need to face if Australia's coastal towns are to survive devastation"; "We must adapt how we live in face of floods, fires"; "The IPCC climate report is grim – but there is still room for hope"; "Britain's weather is becoming ever more extreme. Why are we failing to prepare?"; "Supreme Court Considers Limiting E.P.A.'s Ability to Address Climate Change"; "U.S. Oil Industry Uses Ukraine Invasion to Push for More Drilling at Home"; "Time Is Running Out to Avert a Harrowing Future, Climate Panel Warns"; "Athens Is Only Getting Hotter. Its New ‘Chief Heat Officer' Hopes to Cool It Down"; "‘Adapt or Die,' U.K. Environment Agency Warns on Climate Change"; "A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us."; "Sea Ice Around Antarctica Reaches a Record Low"; "These Climate Scientists Are Fed Up and Ready to Go on Strike"; "Sale of Leases for Wind Farms Off New York Raises More Than $4 Billion"; "China Banished Cryptocurrencies. Now, ‘Mining' Is Even Dirtier."; "Extreme heat raises risk for mental health crises in U.S., study finds"; "Using Science and Celtic Wisdom to Save Trees (and Souls)"; "Natural gas flares were behind dozens of early deaths in 2019"; "IPCC report forecasts impending and unavoidable climate hazards over the next two decades"; "UK Government announces boost for new renewable energy storage technologies"; "Sea-level rise could bring toxic floods to California coast"; "Climate change and Russia's invasion of Ukraine: A nexus?"; "New IPCC report highlights urgency of climate change impacts"; "The Latest U.N. Climate Report Paints Another Grim Picture"; "Reef protection money is useless if we're still refusing to properly cut emissions"; "What does the IPCC climate report mean for the Pacific"; "Huge renewable energy deal for 25 councils in NSW"; "Why scientists are 'weeding' coral reefs"; "NSW's severe weather hits Sydney; fourth death confirmed in Lismore"; "Canadian filmmaker, Avi Lewis"; "Climate Emergency Australia"; "UK overrules scientific advice by lifting ban on bee-harming pesticide"; "EXCLUSIVE Tax energy firms' windfall profits to raise green cash, EU to tell countries - sources"; "In Lismore, this is more than a flood, it is a catastrophe – and I am still praying we will be saved"; "Want to help people affected by floods? Here's what to do – and what not to"; "IPCC report: Coastal cities are sentinels for climate change. It's where our focus should be as we prepare for inevitable impacts"; "As petrol prices rise, will carbon emissions come down?"; "Flood death toll mounts as Australians brace for more wild weather"; "How India Can Grow Its Economy Through Stronger Climate Action"; "Summary for Policymakers Headline Statements"; "After the floods comes the disaster of underinsurance: we need a better plan"; "‘One of the most extreme disasters in colonial Australian history': climate scientists on the floods and our future risk"; "George Monbiot: Regenesis"; "Britain's weather is becoming ever more extreme. Why are we failing to prepare?"; "The High Cost of Ikea Furniture"; "Tasmania endures driest summer in 40 years, fourth driest since 1900"; "Climate change: IPCC report reveals how inequality makes impacts worse – and what to do about it"; "On land and sea, climate change causing 'irreversible' losses: UN": "Addressing global warming". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

Interview: Love letter to Gardens of Stone campaigners: Hannah Della Bosca

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2021 41:03

PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at the Sydney Environment Institute from the University of Sydney, Hannah Della Bosca (pictured), set out to write a love letter to the campaigners who saved the Gardens of Stone and ended up writing an article for The Conversation. The New South Wales Gardens of Stone are, at first glance, something of an illogical fit for Climate Conversations, until you realise the area is already being mined for coal and the miners had plans to expand their operations to include an open cut mine. Nine decades of unwavering effort from campaigners associated with the Colong Foundation for Wilderness, the Lithgow Environment Group and other individuals and groups were rewarded last month when the NSW State Government declared the Gardens of Stone was to become a conservation area bringing protection from any further exploitation by mining companies. Hannah's love story to the campaigners became an article published by The Conversation - "Breathtaking wilderness in the heart of coal country: after a 90-year campaign, Gardens of Stone is finally protected". An article from The Guardian helps us better understand Hannan's excitement over the Gardens of Stones decision - "‘Storybook of nature': a landmark win as Gardens of Stone in NSW's Blue Mountains protected". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

Quick Climate Links: Richard Heinberg; stopping Scarborough gas plant; to breed or not to breed

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2021 29:23

Author and reporter, Richard Heinberg, was a guest on a recent webinar organized by the Security and Sustainability Forum where he talked about his latest book, "Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival". The University of Sydney's "Sydney Environment Institute" has a podcast series entitled "How Can Finance Address Climate Change?". A fascinating array of episodes can by found the "Temparature Check" podcasts. The planned Scarborough gas plant has raised considerable ire and we are being asked to support the cause - "Scarborough can be stopped. But we need you to Say NO now!". Other Quick Climate Links for today are: "Finance group fails to deliver at COP26"; "Hanukkah story can inspire energy conservation, rabbi says"; "To Breed or Not to Breed?"; "Cheap renewables to keep pushing power bills down, even after Liddell exit"; "COP26: Commitments and Policies"; "Buttigieg: Families who buy electric vehicles 'never have to worry about gas prices again'"; "Australia accused of trying to block Unesco process that could put Great Barrier Reef in danger list": "‘Confronting': Great Barrier Reef faces frequent extreme coral bleaching at 2C heating, research finds"; "Climate change has driven farmers to despair and all we get is callous disregard"; "Acommunity of mental health professionals who educate climate-aware therapists and inform the public about the mental health impacts of climate change"; "Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope"; "Nissan to invest £13bn on speeding switch to electric cars"; "Battery power: five innovations for cleaner, greener electric vehicles"; "Annual Conference Postponed to December"; "Emissions rise 2% in Australia amid increased pollution from electricity and transport"; "CSIRO in race with Dutch corporate giant DSM to get low emissions cattle feed to market"; "Civil Disobedience and Climate Politics"; "A Willfully Misunderstood Earmark Can Help Reduce Climate-Change Heat Deaths"; "Australia Climate Factsheets - Vehicle Emissions"; "Rain to replace snow in the Arctic as climate heats, study finds"; "Native forest worth more than logs: report"; "Carbon emissions down on the back of COVID"; "Sweden's flight-free movement: how views about holiday air travel are changing"; "More than 200 Australian birds are now threatened with extinction – and climate change is the biggest danger"; "Climate activism has gone digital and disruptive, and it's finally facing up to racism within the movement"; "Breathtaking wilderness in the heart of coal country: after a 90-year campaign, Gardens of Stone is finally protected"; "The US Clean Energy Transition Isn't Equitable — But it Could Be"; "G20 Economies Have Tools for Green Recovery — They Just Aren't Using Them Yet"; "To Turn the Tide on Ocean Health, A Collaborative Data Platform Can Help"; "The best thing my mentor ever taught me"; "On mentorship: Climate leaders in conversation"; "Climate change is making one of the world's strongest currents flow faster"; "A powerful and underappreciated ally in the climate crisis? Fungi"; "These Australian Coal Mines Are Methane Super-Emitters"; "One in six Australian birds are now threatened, landmark action plan finds"; "Buzz off: David Attenborough intervenes after Adelaide shopping centre bee plaque misquotes him"; "Seven municipalities in Costa Rica put an end to all fossil fuel exploitation"; "Engie and Macquarie to fund 150MW big battery at Hazelwood"; "Wildfires are erasing Western forests. Climate change is making it permanent". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

#53: Renewables, climate targets & the accountability trap with Prof. Susan Park

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2021 58:29

This week India & Heidi learn about 'the accountability trap' with Prof. Susan Park from the Sydney Environment Institute. What you'll learn:What incentives do states have to meet their agreed climate targets? (hint: not a lot)What happens if states don't meet these targets (hint: not a lot)What is the 'accountability trap'?How can we hold states responsible for not meeting these targets?Also listen in at 17:48 to hear the sweet sweet voice of Sir David Attenborough as he calls out the Aus Gov for their lack of action on climate change.Susan Park is Professor of Global Governance at the USYD and acting deputy director of the Sydney Environment Institute, where she focuses on how state and non-state actors use formal and informal influence to make the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) greener and more accountable.Support the show (https://www.patron.com/lifeonplanetapodcast)

Quick Climate Links: China could surprise at Glasgow - Al Gore

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2021 5:20

World-renowned environmentalist and broadcaster Dr David Suzuki (pictured) has told Yahoo News Australia that the outlook for our planet is “very grim” but humanity may survive in pockets. Read the Yahoo News story: “‘What a mess': David Suzuki rates the planet's chances of survival”; Next, we hear about an organization called: “Climate Concern”; Now we have two stories from ABC News: “Looming closure of Lithgow coal mines fuels concern over transition plans for hundreds of workers”; “Research into seaweed impact in reducing livestock methane takes scientists to Eureka award finals”; From The New York Times: "Skateboards, Climate Change and Freedom: Germany's Next-Generation Parliament”; And it's “Welcome to Climate 200”; From Inside Climate News: “Is it Time for the World Court to Weigh in on Climate Change?”; And from EnviroNews it's: “Climate change: "Nowhere is safe, if Africa isn't' – Adenike Oladosu warns”; Four stories from The Guardian: “Confront climate change to stop military being diverted to natural disasters, former ADF chief warns”; “UK electricity generation to be fossil fuel-free by 2035, says Boris Johnson”; “Scott Morrison says he wants to explain emissions plan to Australians before ‘people overseas”; “Nearly 25% of world population exposed to deadly city heat”; Inside Story tells readers about: “Matt Kean's electric vehicle diplomacy”; From Yahoo Finance: “Nuclear Gains Ground in Europe's Plan to Phase Out Gas”; From The Canberra Times: “Government backs NSW gas-fired power plant”; France 24 tells readers: “World airlines commit to 'net zero' CO2 emissions by 2050”: Two stories from Reuters: “Al Gore: China could surprise the world at Glasgow climate talks”; “Fossil fuel demand shakes off pandemic in blow to climate fight”; From The New Yorker: “Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?”; Climate Conscious tells readers: “When We Can't See the Climate for the Trees”; Let's visit the “BlackOak Collective”; Different news from a different source: “EurekaAlert”; From The Threatened Species Recovery Hub: “Webinar 1: Saving wildlife after bushfires: what is the evidence for effective action?”; From Rewiring Australia: “Electrify everything to demolish power bills”; And from the Sydney Environment Institute a webinar: “Protecting Country, or Extraction?”; Finally, we have two stories from The Saturday Paper, they are behind a paywall, but you might like to go there: “Biden adviser: "I don't know whether Angus Taylor is an ideologue or an idiot'”; “John Hewson: Morrison must tell the truth on climate”. Enjoy “Music for a Warming World”. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

#49: We're all just stardust: Intergenerational Environmental Justice with Dr Christine J Winter

Play Episode Play 26 sec Highlight Listen Later Sep 22, 2021 46:14

For Episode 3 of Australian Politics month, Heidi and Bella spoke with the inspirational Dr Christine J Winter about intergenerational environmental justice theory, and more specifically...What is Intergenerational Environmental Justice (IEJ)?What is our relationship to nature?Time is a spiral of past, present and future in which, we are all connected.Why have some people lost their connection to nature? How can we repair this?How can we (as individuals and the gov.) work with Australian Indigenous communities to re-connect with nature and embrace IEJ?Christine is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Sydney Environment Institute where her research focuses at the intersection of intergenerational, indigenous and environmental justice. Thank you again for joining us Christine!Some of the concepts this week were tricky so we'll be posting helpful socials throughout the week to help, as well as a summary in our monthly resource sheet available on our website: https://www.lifeonplanetapodcast.com/

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Quick climate links: Take note, watch closely, the climate crisis is everywhere

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2021 4:55

The World Resources Institute has announced that Stientje van Veldhoven (pictured) has been appointed to a senior role: "Stientje van Veldhoven Selected to be the Next Head of WRI Europe"; Giles Parkinson from RenewEconomy reports: "Green hydrogen could help solve the puzzle of getting to 100 pct renewables"; Inside Climate News reports about: "Farming Without a Net"; At Yale Climate Connections tells readers about: "Young activist works to shut down oil drilling across Los Angeles"; From Grist we hear: "Can a tiny clothing company force the shipping industry to clean up its act?"; More from Inside Climate News: "Warming Trends: Tuna for Vegans, Battery Technology and Climate Drives a Tree-Killer to Higher Climes"; From NPR it is: "Climate Change Is The Greatest Threat To Public Health, Top Medical Journals Warn"; And from The New Daily: "‘Missing in action': Huge super funds slammed on climate voting"; The Atlantic writes about: "When the Climate Crisis Becomes Unignorable"; The New York Times: "She's Green. She's Young. And She Wants to Change Germany"; From The Guardian, Helena Horton writes: "Animals ‘shapeshifting' in response to climate crisis, research finds"; Again from the Guardian, we discover: "Coal companies allowed to delay environmental offsets on NSW mines for up to 10 years"; We can hear the latest podcast from Juice Media: "Podcast 24: Bullsh|t climate solutions: CCS & Blue Hydrogen | with Richie Merzian"; A 2019 story from the ABC says: "'Passive' home more expensive to build but cheaper to run, achieves highest bushfire risk rating"; And in another ABC story: "Wind farm nuisance test case starts in Victoria Supreme Court"; George Monbiot tells us: "We cannot build our way out of the environmental crisis"; Scientific American carries the story: "To Solve the Environmental Crisis, We Must Foster the Power to Imagine"; Blanche Verlie writing in Scientific American says: "What the Acrid Smoke from Wildfires Can Teach Us"; From the Sydney Environment Institute comes another story from Blanche Verlie: "New Book Tackles Climate Anxiety, Transformation and Possible Futures"; And the Sydney Environment Institute reports: "Accounting for Climate Change: Translating Climate Data into Financial Risk"; Margaret Simmons writes an opinion piece in The Melbourne Age: "News Corp's shift on emissions reveals limitations of power". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

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S2 Living Through Fire with Danielle Celermajer

Sentient Planet

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2021 55:07

This week's guest is the profound Australian author, https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/danielle-celermajer.html (Professor Danielle Celermajer). Dany is a philosopher, the director of the Multispecies Justice Project at the University of Sydney, and the author of Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Penguin Books Australia 2021). Dany started writing Summertime in situ during the peak of the Black Summer Climate Fires that decimated Australia in 2019-20. Through her book, she attempts to honor the voices and emotions of the wild and domestic animals who experienced the Great Fires - beings, she says, who are just as terrified and bewildered by the changes occurring on Earth as we humans. In our interview, Dany bravely relives what it was like to encounter the fires, which raged for months, as she unravels and beautifully articulates some of its most valuable lessons - especially the deep love many of us feel for who and what we are losing. She begs us to see that animals are knowing individuals. And she helps us understand that human survival hinges on choosing the more difficult of two paths - the one in which we become fully responsible to the other species who live amongst us. Be sure to listen to the related bonus episode. Dany reads a short chapter of Summertime exclusively for Sentient Planet listeners. Calls to Action: Follow Dany's work by signing up for the https://sei.sydney.edu.au/ (Sydney Environment Institute's monthly newsletter). Support these Australian organizations, which are doing critical work on animal advocacy and climate change: https://www.animalsaustralia.org/ (Animals Australia) https://www.greenpeace.org.au/ (Greenpeace Australia) https://www.greeninstitute.org.au/ (The Green Institute.) Get involved in the worldwide movement to divest from the fossil fuel industry: https://gofossilfree.org/ (Go Fossil Free) https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/what-you-need-to-know-about-fossil-fuel-divestment/ (Climate Council) (Australia) https://www.divestinvestaustralia.org.au/about (Australia Institute) http://Fossil%20Free%20Australia (Fossil Fuel Australia) Intro music: "The Spaces Between" by Scott Buckley. Interstitial music: "Twilight" by Stellardrone.

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Talking In This Climate | Why it's ok to feel eco-anxious, learning to live with climate change, a conversation with Dr Blanche Verlie

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2021 61:45

Congratulations on reaching double digits - Talking In This Climate! Feeling anxious about climate change? Reflect and recharge with this unique episode where we explore emotional responses to climate change with Dr. Blanche Verlie, member of the Sydney Environment Institute and author of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation. In this conversation we flip the teacher/student dynamic and have one of Blanche's previous students, our co-host Zoe, interview her. Join our discussion on feeling the realities of climate change and embrace ways to support each other and live with climate change. Together, we reflect on what living with climate change can feel and look like and delve into environmental education and its impacts on students and teachers. We explore the power of laughter and vulnerability in communicating climate change and unpack some powerful concepts such as: more than human, the human nature binary, relational climate justice and bearing worlds with climate. Access the free e-book of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation: https://bit.ly/3jJPBHB Our sincere thanks to Blanche Verlie for taking the time to speak with us for this episode, and to Zoe Goodman for hosting this discussion. Recorded on 12 July 2021. Join the Facebook group to comment, ask questions and provide feedback: http://bit.ly/3vMZZCL See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Talking In This Climate | Why it's ok to feel eco-anxious, learning to live with climate change, a conversation with Dr Blanche Verlie

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2021 64:17

Congratulations on reaching double digits - Talking In This Climate! Feeling anxious about climate change? Reflect and recharge with this unique episode where we explore emotional responses to climate change with Dr. Blanche Verlie, member of the Sydney Environment Institute and author of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation. In this conversation we flip the teacher/student dynamic and have one of Blanche's previous students, our co-host Zoe, interview her. Join our discussion on feeling the realities of climate change and embrace ways to support each other and live with climate change. Together, we reflect on what living with climate change can feel and look like and delve into environmental education and its impacts on students and teachers. We explore the power of laughter and vulnerability in communicating climate change and unpack some powerful concepts such as: more than human, the human nature binary, relational climate justice and bearing worlds with climate. Access the free e-book of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation: https://bit.ly/3jJPBHB Our sincere thanks to Blanche Verlie for taking the time to speak with us for this episode, and to Zoe Goodman for hosting this discussion. Recorded on 12 July 2021. Join the Facebook group to comment, ask questions and provide feedback: http://bit.ly/3vMZZCL Support the show: https://www.climactic.fm/p/support-the-collective/

Talking In This Climate | Why it's ok to feel eco-anxious, learning to live with climate change, a conversation with Dr Blanche Verlie

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2021 61:45

Congratulations on reaching double digits - Talking In This Climate! Feeling anxious about climate change? Reflect and recharge with this unique episode where we explore emotional responses to climate change with Dr. Blanche Verlie, member of the Sydney Environment Institute and author of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation. In this conversation we flip the teacher/student dynamic and have one of Blanche's previous students, our co-host Zoe, interview her. Join our discussion on feeling the realities of climate change and embrace ways to support each other and live with climate change. Together, we reflect on what living with climate change can feel and look like and delve into environmental education and its impacts on students and teachers. We explore the power of laughter and vulnerability in communicating climate change and unpack some powerful concepts such as: more than human, the human nature binary, relational climate justice and bearing worlds with climate. Access the free e-book of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation: https://bit.ly/3jJPBHB Our sincere thanks to Blanche Verlie for taking the time to speak with us for this episode, and to Zoe Goodman for hosting this discussion. Recorded on 12 July 2021. Join the Facebook group to comment, ask questions and provide feedback: http://bit.ly/3vMZZCL Support the show: https://www.climactic.fm/p/support-the-collective/

Talking In This Climate | Why it's ok to feel eco-anxious, learning to live with climate change, a conversation with Dr Blanche Verlie

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2021 61:45

Congratulations on reaching double digits - Talking In This Climate!Feeling anxious about climate change? Reflect and recharge with this unique episode where we explore emotional responses to climate change with Dr. Blanche Verlie, member of the Sydney Environment Institute and author of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation.In this conversation we flip the teacher/student dynamic and have one of Blanche's previous students, our co-host Zoe, interview her. Join our discussion on feeling the realities of climate change and embrace ways to support each other and live with climate change.Together, we reflect on what living with climate change can feel and look like and delve into environmental education and its impacts on students and teachers. We explore the power of laughter and vulnerability in communicating climate change and unpack some powerful concepts such as: more than human, the human nature binary, relational climate justice and bearing worlds with climate.Access the free e-book of Learning to live-with climate change: From anxiety to transformation: https://bit.ly/3jJPBHB Our sincere thanks to Blanche Verlie for taking the time to speak with us for this episode, and to Zoe Goodman for hosting this discussion.Recorded on 12 July 2021.Join the Facebook group to comment, ask questions and provide feedback: http://bit.ly/3vMZZCL See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

IN-DEPTH: How is veganism integral to climate change mitigation? W/ Alana Mann

Global Questions

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2021 40:20

Emma chats to Alana Mann about the intersection between food security, veganism and climate change. Alana Mann is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), University of Sydney, Australia, and a key researcher in the University's Sydney Environment Institute. Her research focuses on food sovereignty and social movements, citizen engagement, and collective action in food systems planning and governance. In this episode Emma and Alana discuss: The impact of food systems on countries around the world Changing the culture around food consumption Greenwashing of vegan food and the politicisation of the food industry What individuals can do through food consumption to help mitigate climate change Find Alana Mann on Linkedin here, and check out her Twitter. FOLLOW US: Follow Global Questions on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter for more content! Find more about Young Diplomats Society on our website. CREDITS: This episode is produced by the Young Diplomats Society on the lands of the Wurundjeri/Gadigal people. We pay our respects to the traditional custodians of the lands upon which we operate and live.

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10: Monica Gagliano | The Perennial Herbaceous

The Octarine Tree

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2021 71:37

In todays episode we speak with groundbreaking botanical researcher Monica Gagliano. In collaboration with various disciplines across the Sciences and the Humanities, Monica's research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants and more generally Nature. In the process of learning how to do this, she has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics and extended the concept of cognition to plants, re-igniting the discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience and ethical standing.Monica is a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology at the Biological Intelligence (BI) Lab, Southern Cross University, a Research Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the University of Western Australia, a Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney & an all round, swell human bean.We also tip-toe through the following proverbial tulips:-Indigeneity -Linear time-Astrology-Ethnobotany-Science Vs Scientism-New, old and novel epistemologiesand like HEAPS more...SHOW NOTESMonica Gaglianohttps://www.monicagagliano.com/https://www.themindofplants.com/The Bard McKennahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22F6pZU_PC8BYRON JOEL'S WORK IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTUREwww.oaktreedesigns.com.auBYRON'S MUSIC ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Reflections on a vanishing future - Danielle Celemajer

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2021 57:52

Danielle Celemajer from the Sydney Environment Institute has written a rather personal book about the climate catastrophe, the life of herself and her partner, and that of her animals, on her rainforest property in New South Wales. Her book - "Summertime: reflections on a vanishing future" - gives us a glimpse of the climate crisis through a whole new prism and helps us better understand Australia's incomprehensible "Black Summer", the bushfires that devastated much of the country's east coast. Critical to the book is Celemajer's grasp and understanding of social and environmental justice, not just for humans, but for all those other species with whom share our home. I urge you to enjoy the sounds of "Music for a Warming World".

Ep. 35 - Monica Gagliano - Scientist, Author & On Plant Intelligence

The Universe Within Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 99:47

Hey everybody! Episode 35 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Monica Gagliano. Monica is a scientist and the author of the very good book, Thus Spoke the Plant. Monica's scientific research has focused on plant intelligence, communication through sound, and cognition. She has a really interesting story and has not only experienced plants and life through her scientific work, but also with her own direct experience of plants through ceremonial practices. I think Monica really embodies the true spirit of a scientist, someone who is willing to question the world, even in the face of adversity, and to come to conclusions that help to illuminate and deepen our understanding of the world we live in and our relationship to it. I think she is doing very important work and I imagine her work will only continue to grow and expand as it becomes more accepted. It was a pleasure speaking with her and I think you all will gain a lot out of it. To view bonus material and extended conversations, check out my Patreon page below. Enjoy! “My main research is broadly focusing on key aspects of the ecological processes by which organisms are able to gather information on the variable conditions of their surrounding environment in order to thrive.In collaboration with various disciplines across the Sciences and the Humanities, my research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants and more generally Nature. In the process of learning how to do this, I have pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics and extended the concept of cognition to plants, re-igniting the discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience and ethical standing. I am a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology at the Biological Intelligence (BI) Lab, Southern Cross University, a Research Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the University of Western Australia Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney.”To learn more about Monica, visit her website at: https://www.monicagagliano.com/And to learn about the Mind of Plants book and symposium she spoke of, visit: https://www.themindofplants.com/This episode of the show is sponsored by the Temple of the Way of Light. To learn more or sign up for a retreat, visit: https://templeofthewayoflight.org/Share the show, Subscribe or Follow, leave comments, and if you can go on Apple Podcasts and leave a starred-rating and a short review. That would be super helpful with the algorithms and getting this show out to more people. Thank you in advance!For more information about me and my upcoming plant medicine retreats with my colleague Merav Artzi, visit my site at: https://www.NicotianaRustica.orgTo support this podcast on Patreon, visit: https://www.patreon.com/UniverseWithinTo donate directly with PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/jasongrechanikMusic courtesy of Nuno Moreno. See his work at: https://m.soundcloud.com/groove_a_zen_sound and https://nahira-ziwa.bandcamp.com/https://www.facebook.com/UniverseWithinPodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/UniverseWithinPodcast

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Climate crisis warning comes at 2021 Iain McCalman lecture

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2021 9:44

Dr Dalia Nassar (pictured) warned while delivering the 2021 Iain McCalman Lecture at the Sydney Environment Institute on February 3 of humanity's inability to psychologically deal with the climate crisis. She declared the climate crisis as the greatest dilemma humanity had ever faced. The presentation by Dr Nassar was both inspiring and exciting and equally exciting was the arrival the same day of my new book written by renowned U.S. climate expert, Michael E. Mann - "The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet". I urge you to listen to an enjoy the music from the Melbourne-based group, "Music for a Warming World".

S01: Epilogue

One Bite

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 6:41

That's a wrap for season 1 of One Bite. Thanks to Jaimee, Vanessa, Kylie, Costa, Sinead, Gabrielle, Alice, Tammi, Jen, Amy, Liz, Jess, Lee Tran and Tyson for your time, story, knowledge and expertise. Thanks to my academic advisors Alana Mann and Michelle St Anne from the Sydney Environment Institute. Thank you for listening, following, engaging, sharing and reaching out. The response has been a bit overwhelming, but I am so glad this project has reached so many people and is starting conversations. Stay interested and engaged, challenge the status quo, ask questions, get active, have conversations, connect and take back agency. I am not sure what 2021 holds but would like to be able to bring you another season of One Bite and continue to connect and build something bigger. Keep in touch at onebitepod.com and @onebitepod across social media. It’s been a pleasure, see you next time, bye.

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Geographers declare (a climate emergency)?

There's no place like ...

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2020 118:01

In this special episode recorded live at the Geographers Declare Symposium, hosted by UOW's ACCESS and the Geographical Society of NSW, Geographers from around Australia gathered to discuss how they would or should declare a ‘Climate Emergency'.The longevity and severity of the bushfires along Australia's east coast this Summer prompted many local governments, industries, organisations, peak bodies and academics to declare a climate emergency and pledged to reduce their own emissions. Climate scientists, engineers, architects, planners, medical professionals, lawyers, religious groups, small business and the arts have already declared, but not yet Geographers. This symposium brought together a panel of experts from around Australia to discuss how Geographers, who habitually research and teach about climate change, social and environmental justice, should best declare a ‘Climate Emergency'. Speakers include: Carrie Wilkinson PhD Candidate with University of Wollongong's, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, Dr Susannah Clement an early career feminist geographer, Professor Pauline McGuirk Director of University of Wollongong ACCESS (Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space), Rosie Goslett-King Coordinator of the Women Rangers Environmental Network (WREN) at World Wildlife Fund, Professor Richie Howitt at Macquarie University, Tim Wall UOW Geography honours student, Associate Professor Lauren Rickards at RMIT University, Associate Professor Fiona Miller at Macquarie University, Madeleine Bretag Geography teacher at Trangie Central School and Dr Blanche Verlie a postdoctoral fellow at the Sydney Environment Institute. Produced by: Jennifer MaceyMusic by: Kevin Brand, Blue Dot Sessions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

3: The scallop's gaze: visual culture in the aquarium

Object Matters

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2020 26:56

Art historian Dr Ann Elias came across the haunting image of a scallop in an aquarium while researching ocean histories and early 20th century underwater photography. Captured by the camera while opening its valves, the scallop almost appears to be grinning at us. Dr Elias was immediately reminded of the work of artist Odilon Redon, who created hybrid human and non-human creatures in his paintings and drawings. The gaze of the scallop also captured the attentions of philosopher Henri Bergson and University of Sydney marine biologist William John Dakin, who proposed contradictory theories about the similarities of scallop eyes and human eyes. Science, philosophy, art and dreams are all on the table in this deep dive into an underwater lantern slide. Guest: Associate Professor Dr Ann Elias is Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney and researcher with the Sydney Environment Institute. Host: Dr Craig Barker, Manager of Education and Public Programs, Chau Chak Wing Museum and Director, Paphos Theatre Archaeological Excavations. Follow @DrCraig_B on Twitter and Instagram. Collection item details: 'Mollusca - Pecten', Zoology Department Lantern Slide Collection, c. 1909-10. Photograph by Francis Ward. __ Subscribe to Muse Extra, our monthly newsletter and follow @ccwm_sydney on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Learn more about the Chau Chak Wing Museum at sydney.edu.au/museum

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#10 Multi Species Justice with David

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2020 60:49

In Sustainability news today we spoke about Carbon Capture and Storage, how natural gas should not be pursued as strongly as the Australian government is pursuing it, acid rain has turned to micro plastic rain and there are whales getting stuck in shark nets but no one is doing anything about it...Here is the article for more information on carbon capture technology, the trouble with gas, plastic rain and issues with whales getting stuck in the nets:https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/09/27/carbon-capture-technology/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/03/trouble-with-gas-the-coalition-is-betting-on-the-fossil-fuel-for-recovery-but-the-sums-dont-add-uphttps://www.wired.com/story/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain/https://7news.com.au/news/qld/queensland-authorities-working-to-free-whale-caught-in-shark-net-off-gold-coast-c-1111657EPISODE #10 is with the one and only David Schlosberg. David is a Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute. His work focuses on contemporary environmental justice movements, the environment and everyday life, and climate adaptation planning and policy. We'll be talking to him about environmental justice in the contemporary world and what this would look like in practice.He is the author of Defining Environmental Justice (Oxford, 2007); co-author of Climate-Challenged Society (Oxford, 2013); and co-editor of both The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (Oxford 2011), and The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (Oxford 2016). His latest book, Sustainable Materialism: Environmental Movements and the Politics of Everyday Life, will be published later this year

#5: Double Dutch Irish Sandwiches

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Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 42:00

This week, apart from learning how to make a Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich, we interviewed the incredible Dr Ainsley Elbra to break-down some key concepts surrounding renewable energy and mining. You'll learn about:- the renewable energy race and its environmental impacts- the concerns we should have about renewable energy- the effect of mining on community displacement- mining multi-national company (MNC) tax avoidanceIn a recent article titled ‘A typology of Avoidance' (we'll post the link) for the Sydney Environment Institute, Ainsley highlighted how the global race to address the climate crisis has overlooked the negative impacts of the global shift to renewable energy.We tackle a lot of big questions this week, so strap your boots on and get ready to learn!About Dr Elbra:For her masters thesis Ainsley examined private governance as a solution to Africa's resource curse. Lately Ainsley's research seeks to understand the displacement effects of mining and renewable energy, with a focus on developing states. She is currently co-leading a research project on multinational corporate tax avoidance. This work looks at voluntary governance solutions and firms' responses to calls for greater tax transparency.

IN-DEPTH: Charlotte Owens & Nassim Khadem - What effects will Covid-19 have on Government Relations, Business and Cyber Security in Australia?

Global Questions

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 33:16

For this episode we cover Covid-19 and its effects on businesses, government relations and cyber security in Australia. What does the future of Australia look like as Covid-19 restrictions ease? Will Australia bounce back quickly? What does this mean for our relationship with China? How will the airline industry be effect? What have businesses learnt about cyber security? How will work life change? For this episode I am joined with Charlotte Owens and Nassim Khadem. Charlotte Owens is the Policy Manager of Young Australians in International Affairs and the Executive Assistant at the Sydney Environment Institute. She is a Masters candidate in International Security, with an interest in public health, climate change, and international law. Nassim Khadem is an award-winning journalist, she is currently a reporter for the ABC on business news across online, radio and TV. She has an impressive history in journalism as evident through her work across economics and business at The Australian Financial Review and The Age to name a few. Have a suggestion for a podcast? tell us via this link! https://www.theyoungdiplomats.com/suggestions

DANCE MATTERS: Michelle St Anne

Artemis Projects

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2020 32:10

Podcast with Artistic Director of the Living Room Theatre and Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute, Michelle St Anne. Created as part of the WHY DANCE MATTERS NOW project, commissioned by Delving into Dance and Critical Path for the Interchange Festival. Recorded on 8 January 2020 on the Gadigal land of Eora nation, traditional custodians of the land on which we live, work, and dance. We pay our respect to their elders, past present and emerging. MUSIC by @trevorbrownmusic PRODUCED by Artemis Projects Recording location: Sydney Environment Institute (The University of Sydney) Artwork by Lena Kramaric (http://lenakramaric.com/) For the full transcript of this podcast and additional information about Michelle St Anne see this page: https://www.artemisprojects.com.au/dance-matters-michelle-st-anne To listen to other podcasts on this theme click here: https://www.artemisprojects.com.au/why-dance-matters-now

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Sustainable World Radio- Ecology and Permaculture Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2020 106:25

How quickly can we achieve climate justice? Does climate justice mean we need to be careful and considered and/or hurry up? In what ways does declaring and responding to the 'climate emergency' contribute to climate justice, or potentially undermine it? What steps need to be taken to ensure that declaring a climate emergency doesn't lead to ‘states of emergency' and authoritarianism? Recent events in Australia highlight the need to consider the pros and cons of declaring a ‘climate emergency'. Efforts to outlaw climate protests demonstrate that some groups are threatened less by climate change than protests about it. Yet ‘climate emergency' was the Oxford English Dictionary's 2019 Word of the Year, demonstrating the reach and power of this phrase to capture the world's imagination and inspire urgent climate action. Join leading climate change researchers and practitioners as we tackle the pressing questions that the ‘climate emergency' raises.Panelists (Recently added) Dr Briony Towers, Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Social and Urban Studies (GUSS), RMIT University Briony has been conducting disaster risk reduction research with children and young people for over ten years. Her PhD in socio-cultural psychology at the University of Tasmania involved an in-depth investigation of children's knowledge of vulnerability and resilience to wildfire risk in south eastern Australia. She is currently the lead investigator on the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC project 'Building Best Practice in Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction'. She is also a member of the National Disaster Resilience Strategy group and a research advisor on the European Commission's CUIDAR project. Briony's primary research interests concern the root causes of disasters and how these can be addressed through place-based critical pedagogies and children's genuine participation in disaster management policy, research and practice. She is also interested in intergenerational climate justice and student-led climate activism. Associate Professor Lauren Rickards, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS), RMIT University. A Lead Author with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's forthcoming Sixth Assessment Report on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation, Lauren co-leads the Climate Change Transformations research program at the Centre for Urban Research and teaches on climate change into undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Sustainability and Urban Planning area of GUSS. Among other realms of climate in/justice, Lauren's research has investigated climate change's ‘slow emergencies' such as drought, as well as the logics through which societies ignore, normalise, deny or tolerate the harms climate change inflicts on marginalised people and the non-human world. Dr Bronwyn Lay, Ecological Justice Coordinator for Jesuit Social Services and Coordinator of the Climate Change Exchange at RMIT University. Bronwyn has engaged with the intersection of grassroots communities and ecological justice for the past 13 years. With a background in criminal and family law she completed her PhD on land governance and ecology at the European Graduate School in 2014 with a focus on ecocide law. While living in France she worked as a legal consultant for international NGO's and expert organisations on environmental crime at the Hague and United Nations and was the Director of the International Caux Dialogue on Land and Security. She has published in a wide variety of forums on the subject of ecological justice, including her book Juris Materiarum: Empires of Earth, Soil and Dirt. Dr Mittul Vahanvati, Lecturer at RMIT University in the Sustainability and Urban Planning Discipline. Mittul completed her PhD research in 2018, investigating the long-term impacts of post-disaster housing reconstruction projects in terms of building community resilience. She entered academia after 10 years of practice in architecture industry in Australia, Switzerland and India. She is co-founder of a Melbourne-based design + build studio Giant Grass (GG) and coordinator of RMIT's Urban Futures Early Career Researchers' Network. She is currently the lead researcher working with rural communities in Victoria to co-produce their climate resilience action plan. She is also part of a team of researchers involved in a large-scale action-research project in the Solomon Islands, 'Climate Resilient Honiara', funded by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund and administered by UN-Habitat. Her teaching, practice and research lies in co-creation of knowledge around issues of housing, ecologically sustainable built environment, urban design, disaster recovery and community resilience. David Mieklejohn, Executive Officer of the Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA) and PhD Candidate in RMIT's Centre for Urban Research. David currently works as the Executive Officer for the Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA), a network of nine Melbourne metropolitan councils working together on climate change projects. In this role, David coordinates climate action among a broad range of Victorian actors. David's research as a PhD student investigates how local councils in Australia are implementing behaviour change programs to respond to climate change, as well as how their declarations of a climate emergency are changing their governance practices. Moderator Dr Blanche Verlie, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sydney Environment Institute, the University of Sydney. Blanche has been teaching climate change mitigation and adaptation at RMIT University in the Sustainability and Urban Planning Discipline since 2015, and completed her PhD in climate change education at Monash University in 2019. Her research investigates people's emotional responses to learning about climate change, and how this affects their identity and relationships, including how this is an issue of intergenerational in/justice, which you can read about here: https://theconversation.com/the-terror-of-climate-change-is-transforming-young-peoples-identity-113355. Blanche has recently moved to the University of Sydney to continue her research, and is working on the Multispecies Justice research program there. **This event is part of the 2020 National Sustainable Living Festival. We acknowledge this event is taking place on stolen and unceded Wurundjeri Country. This event is free but we encourage you to donate to Seed Youth Indigenous Climate Network https://www.seedmob.org.au/donate** Special Guest: Dr Blanche Verlie. Support Climactic Support the show: https://www.climactic.fm/p/support-the-collective/

Alana Mann on shaping sustainable food systems through agroecology and gender justice

Go Simone

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2019 46:23

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 focuses on the communicative dimensions of citizen engagement, participation, and collection action in food systems, planning and governance. She has written two books, her most recent Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics, published in 2019, and Global Activism in Food Politics: Power Shift, in 2014. During our conversation, we talked about the food sovereignty movement and its emergence in Latin-America, agroecology as a pathway towards sustainable food systems and the importance of politicising our food consumption. References mentioned during the episode include: - Alana Mann, Voice and participation in Global Food Politics - Alana Mann, Global activism in food politics: power shift - Christopher Mayes, Unsettling food politics - Bill Gammage, The biggest estate on Earth: how Aborigines made Australia - Charles Massy, Call of the Reed Warbler: a new agriculture, a new Earth - Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics - Anna Tsing, The mushroom at the end of the world - Rachel Carsen, Silent spring and Under the sea wind - Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu - Antonio Roman Alcala, Looking to food sovereignty movement for post-growth theory - Philipp McMichael, Global development and the corporate food regime

Plant Speak

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2019 72:34

Episode 150: Join us for a mind and heart expanding conversation with Dr. Monica Gagliano about her research in plant cognition and her direct experiences with the botanical world. A pioneer in the field of Plant BioAcoustics, Monica's peer-reviewed work has furthered the concept of plant sentience. Monica's experiences with plants have altered her life, her research, and are the subject of her new book, Thus Spoke the Plant. In this interview, Monica talks about her experiments with plants- including her groundbreaking studies with Peas, which provided evidence that plants, at least Peas, are capable of associative learning. Monica tells us about the invitation that she received from the Vegetal World to delve more deeply into direct contact with plants and how her decision to say yes to that invitation changed her life. Monica also explains how listening is a key to establishing a relationship with plants and what listeners can do to connect with the plants in their lives. To hear more about Monica's earlier scientific research, listen to our first podcast together: Learning, Memory, and Decision Making in Plants. To get her new book, Thus Spoke the Plant,visit: NorthAtlanticBooks.com/shop/thus-spoke-the-plant/ Dr. Monica Gagliano's research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants, and Nature. She is a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney and a Senior Research Fellow at the Biological Intelligence (BI) Lab, University of Sydney. Monica's website is: MonicaGagliano.com

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The 2030 agenda: Is Australia on track?

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2019 54:27

From ending poverty to climate action, reducing inequality and ensuring quality education — the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The aim is to set the agenda for 2030 with a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity, now and into the future. Where does Australia sit with this plan now, almost five years since its inception? Hear from leading advocates including John McArthur, Dr Alana Mann, Patricia Garcia AO and Sam Mostyn. Anthony Capon, Professor of Planetary Health at the University of Sydney moderated the conversation. This event was held on Thursday 28 March at the University of Sydney, and was co-presented with the University's Planetary Health Platform and Sydney Environment Institute. https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/sydney-ideas/2019/sustainable-development-goals-john-mcarthur.html

Are you smarter than a plant? | Monica Gagliano PhD

The Dr. Gundry Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2018 40:44

Dr. Gundry and biologist Monica Gagliano sit down to get to the bottom of plant intelligence, plant memory, and Monica’s new book, which she says “may freak some people out” simply because of the exciting plant wisdom she uncovers.WATCH THE INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE HERE.Want to have your questions answered on The Dr. Gundry Podcast? Use “#AskGundry” on social media.I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOU, PLEASE TAKE THIS SURVEY.Monica Gagliano, PhD, is a research associate professor of evolutionary ecology at the Centre of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia, a research affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney and former fellow of the Australian Research Council.She pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, experimentally demonstrating for the first time that plants emit their own ‘voices’ and detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and their ethical and legal standing.In collaboration with various disciplines across the Sciences and the Humanities, her research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants and more generally Nature. In the process of learning how to do this, I have pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics and extended the concept of cognition to plants, re-igniting the discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience and ethical standing.Monica Gagliano:Website – https://www.monicagagliano.com/Twitter – https://twitter.com/monica_gagliano?l…Buy Thus Spoke the Plant here – https://amzn.to/2PPRketSHARE, SUBSCRIBE and RATE “THE DR. GUNDRY PODCAST” HERE on ITUNES.

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Why food isn’t free from politics - Dr Alana Mann

Open for Discussion

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2017 17:10

From supermarkets, to farms, to our own home gardens and kitchens, we all participate in the mega industry that is food, every day. But what do we know about this global network and how can we sustain it long into the future? Dr Alana Mann from the Department of Media and Communications and the Sydney Environment Institute joins Open for Discussion to discuss why the food industry is tricky business.

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Ep 24: Scientist Monica Gagliano

All The Dirt Gardening, Sustainability and Food

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2017 46:44

Scientists are beginning to understand that plants have abilities that we've only ever associated with animals. They can learn, have memory and decision making capabilities. Steve Wood and Deryn Thorpe discuss the latest research with scientist Monica Gagliano, a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia & Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney.

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#65 - Clean Coal And The History Of Climate Denial

Think: Sustainability

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2017 28:52

Australia is in the middle of a debate about coal. The Queensland government is determined to expand its coal production. Indian billionaire Gautam Adani continues to gather support from politicians for his Carmichael Coal Mine in the Galilee Basin. There has been significant push back from scientists and citizens who know that coal production is the leading cause of CO2 emissions and a huge contribute to global climate change. Despite this fact, politicians and resource companies either are convinced the science is wrong, or are choosing to deny the overwhelming evidence in favor of their commercial interests. Did climate change denial start with coal, or is it a historical and systemic issue tied to the resource industry and conservative ideologies? Producer/Presenter: Miles Herbert Speakers: Tom Morton: Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney David Schlosberg: Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney, and Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute. Nick Enfield: Professor of Lingustics, and Co-Director of the Post Truth Initiate at the University of Sydney

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Professor Michael Mann - The Madhouse Effect: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2017 90:56

With the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States, it now seems climate change denial has reached into the most powerful political office in the world. In this special Sydney Ideas public lecture, world-renowned climate scientist Professor Michael Mann provides a somewhat light-hearted take on a very serious issue - the threat of human-caused climate change and what to do about it. Based on his recent collaboration with Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles, Professor Mann reviews the scientific evidence of climate change, the reasons we should care, and the often absurd efforts by special interests and partisan political figures to confuse the public and attack the science. Despite the monumental nature of the challenge this poses to human civilization, and the seeming inability of political leadership to respond to the climate crisis, Professor Mann highlights ways forward in mitigating future harm and reasons for cautious optimism. SPEAKER: Professor Michael E Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Pennsylvania State University Presented by Sydney Ideas and the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney on 8 February 2017 http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/michael_mann.shtml

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Food@Sydney Comprehending the Justice In Food Justice

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2016 67:34

In recent years, we have seen an explosion in the number of community organisations that orient themselves around the production and distribution of food. These food justice groups often focus on improving the availability and quality of food in urban environments, on reducing food waste, and on building local economies. How, though, does the “justice” of food justice manifest itself in practice? How do groups articulate, value and embody social and environmental justice concerns? And how is it that we can best achieve these goals? This event draws together academic and community perspectives on these questions. Panel David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, Luke Craven is a PhD student at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Environment Institute. Sharelle Polack, Community Gardens Team Leader at Cultivating Community A Sydney Ideas and Sydney Environment Institute event in the Food@Sydney series http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2015/food@sydney_series_2015.shtml

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2016 91:33

If a Climate Emergency is Possible, is Everything Permitted? Professor Stephen Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment, University of Washington In the face of escalating climate change, some scientists are pushing for a serious research program on a dramatic global ‘techno-fix’: the injection of sulphate particles into the stratosphere to block incoming sunlight. This approach to geoengineering - roughly, the ‘intentional manipulation of the planetary environment’ - is often justified by appeal to the threat of a climate emergency. Professor Stephen Gardine argues that this argument threatens to be ethically short-sighted and to encourage creative myopia. It also underestimates what some opponents mean when they refer to sulfate injection as ‘a necessary evil’. As a result, even if the emergency argument is in some sense valid, it misses much of what is at stake in thinking about geoengineering, especially from an ethical point of view. Responses by Professor Jim Falk, Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne School of Land and Environment and Lauren Rickards, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, at the University of Melbourne A Sydney Ideas and Sydney Environment Institute on 29 July 2014 sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2014/professor_stephen_gardiner.shtml

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Iain McCalman, 'Shooting An Elephant: Why I am Writing a History of Human-Animal Emotions'

Emotions Make History

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2016 45:01

Iain McCalman is a Research Professor in History at The University of Sydney, co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and an Advisory Board Member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. In this lecture, delivered at The University of Western Australia on 29 August 2016, Professor McCalman outlines why and how a small episode of elephant killing during Theodore Roosevelt’s eleven-month African Safari of 1909–1910 led to his current book-in-progress on hunting and human-animal emotions.

Food@Sydney. Food Insecurity: putting good food back on the table

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2016 84:16

According to recent reports, 1.2 million Australians regularly struggle to put good, healthy food on the table. From low incomes to high living costs, casualised labor markets to government policies, more and more Australians don’t have enough money to eat or to eat well. In policy jargon, problems like these are often referred to as food and nutrition insecurity. This panel focuses on the problem of food insecurity here in Sydney, its causes, consequences, and – ultimately – what can be done to put good food back on the table. Drawing together academic, policy and practitioner perspectives we hope to open up a space to talk about pathways to and opportunities for a more just food system. Professor David Schlosberg (Chair, Co-director, Sydney Environment Institute Elizabeth MillenProgram Manager, Healthy Environments, South Western Sydney Local Health District Health Promotion Service Tegan Picone, Nutrition Programs Manager, SecondBite Luke Craven, Phd Candidate, University of Sydney A Sydney Ideas and Sydney Environment Institute event in the Food@Sydney series http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/food@sydney_series_2016.shtml

Food@Sydney. Agricultural land grabs: what are their impacts in Australia and globally?

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Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2016 81:20

Since the global food crisis of 2007, agricultural land has become an attractive asset for large private corporations and state-owned entities wanting to secure food supplies. These investments have had varying effects. At times, they have been associated with forced removals of pre-existing landholders with weak tenure rights. On other occasions they have driven up local property prices and altered production priorities towards export markets. Either way, they have been implicated in creating a more vertically integrated food system aligned to global markets. This panel discusses these issues from international and Australian perspectives. PANEL: Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Lawrence, University of Queensland Dr Sarah Sippel, Senior Researcher, Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany Professor Bill Pritchard, Human Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney A Sydney Ideas and Sydney Environment Institute event in the Food@Sydney series http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/food@sydney_series_2016.shtml

Saving Indonesia’s Rainforests: using maps, brands and politics to end deforestation