January 18th, 2012
Over Christmas I took the opportunity to look back over some of the talk from 2011. Here I bring you the words of the ‘moral leaders of the nation’. The first comes from the American nation. The second comes from the Australian nation.
The first comes from American author Bill McKibben, and the second comes from Australian senator Bob Brown. The first speech comes from Washington DC., from Powershift, a coming together of youth climate activists in Washington early in 2011. You’ll hear Al Gore after McKibben has spoken. In the second half of the show we return to Australian politics. In May of last year Bob met the press and turned the tables on some of the journalists in the Canberra media scrum. Along with the recording of Bill McKibben and Al Gore, this bit of audio rated for me as one of the most interesting as I looked back on 2011. Here is this week’s show.
December 28th, 2011
Three of the most important environmental decisions you make each day:
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
With that in mind, Alissa Bilfield co-founder and director of the Cookbook Project is on the line from Boston in the US to kick off the show and tell us about her new slow food initiative. Later we will hear from Tim Marshall, author of the just published bible on organic gardening in Australia: The New Organic Gardener. Here is the show this week (remember you can also podcast the show off this site by following the ‘podcast’ link on the right).
December 21st, 2011
This week we hear from Executive Director of The Australia Institute Richard Denniss about the real story of the mining industry in Australia. With the high cost of living in Perth in mind, partly caused by the mining boom, more people are turning to shared living to be able to afford a house to live in. David Holgrem comes onto the show to discuss the benefits of large households. Here is this week’s Understorey.
