Tune in to in depth interviews and reports featuring environmental leaders and experts exploring the challenges, solutions and opportunities for our threatened ecologies, climate and civilisation. Presented and produced by Sean O’Shannessy on Bundjalung Country Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything (Feel free to rebroadcast any content from this podcast for non commercial purposes with proper attribution) https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalAsAnything/ Tune in to the Environmental as Anything Show live on 92.9 River FM every Saturday 2-5pm AEST http://2ncr.org.au/streaming.html
Episodes
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Simon Holmes à Court is senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and sits on the board of the Smart Energy Council. He recently wrote and article in the Guardian on "How Australia's state energy ministers are turning the tables on Angus Taylor" We asked him to respond point by point to Angus Taylors recent presentation to the Clean Energy Council's Energy Ministerial Forum. His analysis is most illuminating.
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Humpback whales have come back from the brink of extinction and are approaching sustainable population levels. This year's whale watching season has been a bumper. Wally has been involved in humpback whale research for 20 years and has undertaken the management and marine operations of The Oceania Project since its inception in 1988. He gives a fascinating interview to Environmental as Anything on whale population, culture and sleeping habits.
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Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Al Oshlack has been a legal advocate for the Indigenous people and environment of NE NSW for decades. Lately he has been working with the Gumbaynggirr people to challenge the threat of logging of their country. Their legal action sought to challenge the anti democratic nature of NSW Forest Corps status being above the law. He explains to us the effects of this action
MUSIC:
Southern Forest Stand-Al Japaljarri and the Komradz
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Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Energy Ministers from every State in Australia as (and the Federal Minister for Emissions) met under the auspices of the Clean Energy Council on 8 July, 2020 to discuss their plans for rapid transition to renewable prosperity (and offer obfuscation & excuses for his Abject Failure). Environmental as Anything edited their presentations into this report.
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Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Amanda King from Lock The Gate Alliance speaks to us on the situation this week regarding the threat of fossil exploitation in NSW
Meg Nielsenm speaks to Dailan Pugh about the situation for our forests and the urgent need for us to get active to protect them and Sandy Greenwood Speaks to us from the Gumbangyiir country about their growing resistance to public native forest logging in Wild Cattle Creek and Nambucca State Forest
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Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Meg Nielsen from Celebrating Earth & Art interviews Dailan Pugh OAM (President of the North East Forest Alliance) on the recently released NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Koala Populations Report
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Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Dr Kristin Den Exter speaks to Sean O'Shannessy onsite at the Wilsons River Landcare Group's regeneration project at Simes Bridge Lismore
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Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
NSW MLC Cate Faehrmann has for the past year been the Chair of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the NSW Koala Population which released its "groundbreaking" report this week. Among its findings was the alarming realisation that NSW Koalas will be extinct by 2050 if our government doesn't urgently act on a set of recommendations. Cate spoke to Sean O'Shannessy for Environmental as Anything to fill us in on the details.
https://saveourkoalas.org/
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Amanda King from Lock the Gate speaks with Sean O'Shannessy about the Narabri gasfield threat and Tim Buckley from IEEFA speaks to Meg Nielsen on the economic failure of fossils.
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Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Michelle Chapman and Mark Dunphy tell us about their new book "Australian Rainforest Seeds - A guide to collecting processing and propagation"
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Dailan Pugh from the North East Forest Alliance talks about the NSW government's decision NOT to log our protected Old Growth Forests
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