Climate Conversations
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Climate News: Invite to talk with EarthX CEO, Peter Simek, about April conference at the Hilton Anatole
32 mins; March 22, 2026
Webinar: “Degrowth vs. green growth: can capitalism solve climate change?
71 hours 41 mins; March 17, 2026
Climate News: The late Edward O. Wilson understood some critical issues about human nature: 'Humanity has paleolithic emotions, medieval Institutions and God-like technology'
43 mins; March 11, 2026
Webinar: Sunshine not trapped in the Straits of Hormuz - The Iran War and the Climate Emergency
63 hours 56 mins; March 09, 2026
Interview: 'The whole industry does not make any sense, economically, socially, environmentally, financially, it doesn't work'; Professor David Lindenmayer on Australia's forest industry
27 mins; March 07, 2026
Degrowth Festival: 'There has to be time for dancing, if we can't do that, we done!' - Tonié, from the festival organising committee
22 mins; March 05, 2026
Climate News: Footy for Climate teams with Mansfield Foorball/Netball Club to put a score on the board before season proper has even begun
52 mins; February 28, 2026
Climate News: Letter writer wonders how court can find in Santos favour; New peak oil demand is increasingly cloudy; 'Torching our kids future'
43 mins; February 26, 2026
Webinar: We can't wait for others to act, we have to tell the climate change story and lead our communities toward change
57 mins; February 22, 2026
Interview: David Brian is enthusiastic about hemp and wants others, particularly Northern Victorian famers to be equally enthusiastic
12 mins; February 19, 2026
Webinar: 'Why We Shouldn’t Be Held Hostage to the Past: Unlocking the Consensus on Pricing Pollution' with Kosmos Samaras from polling firm, Redbridge
58 mins; February 14, 2026
Event: Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick and Mark Howden at the ANU Climate Update 2026
47 mins; February 12, 2026
Webinar: New Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Conservation Foundation, Adam Bandt, is excited about Australia's future
48 mins; February 11, 2026
Climate News: From backyard shed to global marketing titan, Jeff Bezos, has U.S. Presidents's ear and Trump's making use of his wealth
45 mins; February 10, 2026
Climate News: Personal experience illustrates that if we feel something is important and needs to be attended to, we should act now - 'later' is simply too late
52 mins; February 08, 2026
Climate Council webinar: Former NSW fire officer Greg Mullins, discusses how climate change both increases and worsens fire risk
61 hours 58 mins; January 28, 2026
Climate News: The Australian of the Year, Katherine Bennell-Pegg, reminds us how all life on Earth depends upon the planent's thin blue envelope
29 mins; January 25, 2026
Interview: Brisbane family, Jon and Emelie Watson, and their kids, have escaped the W.E.I.R.D. world and are now 'Living More With Less'
27 mins; January 24, 2026
Climate News: Some 55 years ago, Edwin Starr sang about war asking, 'What is good for'? He came to the conclusion, 'Absolutely nothing'; Listen to Canadian PM Mark Carney take on the world at Davos
49 mins; January 24, 2026
Climate News: We have been warned, Richard Denniss argues we are going to be so busy recovering from so-called natual disasters that wil not have the capacity to mitigate or adapt to climate change
64 hours 38 mins; January 17, 2026
Climate News: It was 2005 and the Australian LNP Government knew about the perils of climate change ands continued with business as usual
35 mins; January 01, 2026
Climate News: Parenting in a climate crisis with Bridget Shirvell - turning fear into action
31 mins; December 31, 2025
Climate News: David Spratt from Breakthrough is not a sensationalist, he prefers facts, evidence and science, but is not afraid of telling the truth, no matter how grim - here he looks back at 2025
31 mins; December 21, 2025
Climate News: Different views about what's best for northern Victoria's Goulburn River; Indoor plants the secret to a cooler home; Australia's car 'mobesity'Car
48 mins; December 20, 2025
Book author interview: Paul Koberstein explains the connection between great forests, salmon, beavers and climate change - yes, everything is connected
29 mins; December 11, 2025
Climate News: City Council breaks covenant with climate emergency declaration; Fecderal Government's river water processes creates controversy
56 mins; December 10, 2025
Climate News: Richard Denniss warns that recovery could outstrip either mitigation or adaptation; The problem with climate-induced bushfires again troubling New South Wales
11 mins; December 07, 2025
Climate News: The American Prospect explores the cost of climate change; Hundreds die after simultaneous storms devastate Asia; Moving outside the room at Symposium 25 symbolic of climate challenge
47 mins; December 06, 2025
Climate News: Renewable power grid prompts myths, misinformation, disinformation and blatant likes; Fire threat greater in fossil fuel powered cars that EVs
48 mins; December 02, 2025
Climate News: Canada brushes aside climate concerns; Shepparton News has plethora of climate-related stories; 'What world are you living in?' - Michael Mann quizes Bill Gates
34 mins; November 30, 2025
Interview: 'We've always been confronted by forces bigger than ourselves, but we've always survived - there's no reason why we can't still fall in love, laugh, play games and have fun' - Ben Pederick
11 mins; November 29, 2025
COP30, Belem, Brasil - Austrailia surrenders to Turkey, but according to Climate and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen, it's a win!
32 mins; November 20, 2025
Climate News: From COP30 in Brasil with California's Governor Gavin Newsom, to the self-destructive behaviour of Australia's conservative political parties
55 mins; November 17, 2025
Climate News: Sussan Ley chances her arm, and her Liberal Party leadership on net zero - the conversation is becoming increasingly irrelevant to all Australians
38 mins; November 12, 2025
Interview: Marian Wilkson takes to the fossil fuel companies, and our politicians, like a chainsaw to a daisy patch
77 hours 47 mins; November 11, 2025
Event: Workers are on the front line of climate change - Danae Bosler, assistant secretary Victorian Trades Hall Council
13 mins; November 10, 2025
New book: Climate scientist Kate Marvel has broken the mold with her book, 'Human Nature' illustrating that beyond being climate specialists, they are also people, just like us
22 mins; November 09, 2025
Climate News: Discussion about net zero irrelevant; Exhibits were baffling, leaving me bemused, flummoxed and intrigued; New BOM website controversy
52 mins; November 03, 2025
Webinar: Robin Bell's great grandmother helps us understand the impact of rising sea levels
57 mins; October 21, 2025
Interview: Mik Aidt has found a new 'connection', he's empowered, excited and it 'gets him up in the morning'
13 mins; October 20, 2025
Climate News: Talking Treaty; Bill McKibben on the solar energy revolution; And it's bioregioning
128 hours 42 mins; October 11, 2025
Event: A trio of commentators at the Royal Society of Victoria tackles: 'What is Australia Risking? Future Impacts of Climate Change'
106 hours 27 mins; October 09, 2025
Climate News: 'We should be less of an individual' - Bill McKibben; Mik Aidt introduces his listeners to the 'Climate Revolution'
39 mins; October 03, 2025
Climate News: 'Toughest job I've ever had' - Australia's Climate Change and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen
62 hours 14 mins; October 03, 2025
Interview: Climate change epiphany leads to book and then 'The Clean Energy Solutions Index'
28 mins; October 01, 2025
Climate Forward Conference: Interviews with Australia's Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and the CEO of Fortescue, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest
44 mins; September 26, 2025
Climate News: David Spratt warns of a troubling future; Councillor successfully calls review of Shepparton City's net zero by 2030 target
38 mins; September 25, 2025
Climate News: Climate scientists say Australia has 'one of the dirtiest economies on Earth'; Call for more urgent climate action, story from McPherson Media Group
50 mins; September 23, 2025
Climate News: From the Great Teapot in the Sky to climate change; Climate podcast praise from Feedspot; PM takes each way bet on climate
42 mins; September 22, 2025
Climate News: Bowen damns the Nationals; Matt Kean talks up climate decision/target; Twiggy lashes Trump on climate as Aussies hit New York; How Kirk's shooting death equates with climate confusion
30 mins; September 21, 2025
Climate News: Some days Australia is a petrostate, others it is not - read 'Science Under Siege'
74 hours 45 mins; September 20, 2025
Climate News: Australia announces 2035 climate target of 62-70% emissions cut
38 mins; September 18, 2025
Climate News: Events in Gaza City may have no apparent connection to climate change, but it is the catastrophe writ large
31 mins; September 17, 2025
Climate Risk Assessment: Alarming, jump in death rates, coastal flooding, more hot days and hotter, drier droughts
42 mins; September 16, 2025
Interview: 'Spending now can save huge costs in the future' - Haoning Xi, University of Newcastle , on Australia's rail network
20 mins; September 03, 2025
Climate News: Tatura native, Dr Linden Ashcroft, explains climate change and Goulburn Valley as the idea that is Transition Towns takes another deep breath; ICN on Sunday explores AI centres
21 mins; September 01, 2025
Webinar: Dr David McCoy discusses the importance of good governance, something a critical importance to global health and in the world's approach to climate change
29 mins; August 26, 2025
Interview: Ryan Batchelor chaired a Victorian State Government committee considering climate resilience - near two years of work resulted in a report of more than 450 pages
22 mins; August 25, 2025
Climate News: Late U.S. stand-up comedian, George Carlin, talks plastic: 'The planet will be fine, but we're going away'
56 mins; August 18, 2025
Interview: 'Unless we solve climate change, all these other issues are going to be unsolvable': Dr David Holmes, Climate Communications Australia
34 mins; August 16, 2025
Climate News: State Government Committee of Inquiry into Climate Resilience warns of hotter summers, longer bushfire season, more intense rainfall events, more flooding, high intensity wind and storms
45 mins; August 13, 2025
Climate News: Economist Ross Garnaut among those urging Australian Government to use 'roundtable discussions' to resurrect the carbon price
43 mins; August 05, 2025
Conference: 'We are at an exponential state of change in our lifetime and it is terrifying': Dubbo lawyer, Claire Booth
71 hours 45 mins; July 30, 2025
Keynote address:Tony Wood warns of different and challenging times ahead as those in the agricultural industry transisition to a new and renewable energy source
30 mins; July 24, 2025
Interview: Phnxx will be one of many exhibitors at the Bendigo National Renewables in Agriculture Conference and Expo on July23
22 mins; July 19, 2025
Climate News: Hometown newspaper goes digital, benefit for you and me
53 mins; July 15, 2025
YouTube: Sheldon Whitehouse gives his 300th climate presentation to the Senate, urging his fellows to 'wake up'
38 mins; July 12, 2025
Climate News: Public transport can ease our road network dilemmas; The Conversation is a wonderful resource of informative climate facts
50 mins; July 10, 2025
Climate News: Texas flash floods kill more than 100, many still missing, climate change fingerprints evident
69 hours 32 mins; July 08, 2025
Interview: Five things our councils can do to keep our cities cooler - Dr Timonthy Welch, urban planner
23 mins; July 02, 2025
Climate News: Climate scientist Professor Michael Mann damns podcaster Joe Rogan; Europeans suffers as heatwave intensifies
18 mins; July 01, 2025
Interview: Climate change demands a World War Two-like response from Australia, and the world, according to climate analyst and author, David Spratt
21 mins; June 27, 2025
Climate News: The secrets of climate deniers explained: Caitlin Fitzsimmons delves into their playbook
50 mins; June 24, 2025
Climate News: Donald Trump's Iranian attacks bring fresh meaning to the 'tyranny of the immediate'
23 mins; June 23, 2025
Climate News: From darkness to the spotlight - climate change now regularly features on national media
45 mins; June 21, 2025
Press briefing: Covering Climate Now helps us understand the tyranny of the immediate in global conflicts
61 hours 35 mins; June 21, 2025
Frightening: Guardian story alerts readers to reality of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project
3 mins; June 18, 2025
Interview: Geoff Rose tells the wonderful story of how an E-bike gave a lady her life back
26 mins; June 17, 2025
Environmental Film Festival: 'We can't forget about mitigation, if we do that's light out stuff': Dr Philip Lawn
54 mins; June 16, 2025
Climate News: Bicycle Network CEO, Alison McCormack, pedals her way to fitness and leads by example
37 mins; June 11, 2025
Climate News: Booming population and capitalism incompatible with Earth's ecosystem: Jean-Luc Mélenchon
37 mins; June 09, 2025
Climate News: Justifying a flight to Queensland; 'Wet hair' denotes decent rainfall says farmer; Albanese's 'do nothing' plan
19 mins; June 07, 2025
Climate News: Climate fuelled precipitation, rain bombs, rivers falling from the sky: Greens MP Sue HIgginson
65 hours 11 mins; June 01, 2025
Interview: 'We're all living in a climate changed world, whether you are experiencing this year or not, you will experiece it at some point in your lifetime' - Dr Kristina Dahl, Climate Central
24 mins; May 31, 2025
Climate News: Many unhappy about Labor Party's decision on major gas project - I feel like weeping
25 mins; May 29, 2025
Climate News: Woodside attibute blame for Spain's power blackout on unreliable renewables
34 mins; May 27, 2025
Climate News: Australia's PM, Anthony Albanese, utters promises about climate change from both sides of his mouth
45 mins; May 26, 2025
Climate News: 'The Nationals are idiots,' he said. 'You can quote me on that' - a vetinarian from the NSW mid-north coast
69 hours 21 mins; May 24, 2025
Climate News: Melbourne's CBD should be car-free according to Salvador Rueda
39 mins; May 19, 2025
Climate News: Violet Coco is a chameleon-like climate protestor
12 mins; May 17, 2025
Event: Sharon Brettkelly goes to the top of a wind turbine to better understand energy in New Zealand
25 mins; May 13, 2025
Webinar: 'It's an enornmous sense of relief, can you imagine if it had gone the other way, we'd be sittting here pondering how are we going to deal with this nonsensical policy mix' - Tim Flannery
61 hours 34 mins; May 13, 2025
Climate News: Chinese electric car manufacturers build vehicles that are both nimble and fast
71 hours 3 mins; May 12, 2025
Climate News: Rebecca Huntley appears on Q&A questioning the future of Australia's National Party
20 mins; May 09, 2025
Webinar: 'Hazard reduction burning is so last century as a medieval fire practice , we need to looking at smarter ways of dealing with fires' - Prof David Lindenmayer
69 hours 48 mins; May 06, 2025
Interview: Sue Inches says: 'Like you, I want to build a better world
27 mins; May 04, 2025
Keynote address: Simon Molesworth wants to bring back the exhibitions of old as he sees them as a means to combat climate change
41 mins; May 02, 2025
Interview: Covid-19 gave us the 'Power-Droid' and now Equori is off and running
11 mins; May 01, 2025
Climate News: Treating an 'emergency' as a real emegency; Coastal council dumps climate emergency; Covering climate activism
88 hours 8 mins; April 25, 2025
Interview: 'The only thing we've got left now is one another, we can't rely on the government': Rob Bakes, from Vote Climate One
33 mins; April 21, 2025