A continuous conversation about climate change - news, views and interviews.
Dr Alan Finkel Oration: 'Little things are important, but won't achieve what we are looking for; we need to think big, very big and we need to act with urgency'
55 mins; September 14, 2022
King Charles - our most significant environmentalist in history
3 mins; September 14, 2022
AELA webinar: 'Wasteful consumption by the minority of the world and obscene expenditure on military expenditure must be drastically reduced', Professor Ian Lowe
14 mins; September 12, 2022
Earth Laws Alliance webinar: Using art to process collective trauma
45 mins; September 12, 2022
Prince Charles was passionate about climate issues, but what will King Charles do about it?
4 mins; September 11, 2022
Healthy Futures: Kate and Harry talk about how climate change concerns and it's impact on health fostered the organization
4 mins; September 10, 2022
Parallel universes: The challenge of understanding the climate crisis and of having friends who see it as a conspiracy
3 mins; September 09, 2022
Better Futures Australia Forum: Making low carbon transport accessible for all
10 mins; September 08, 2022
Better Futures Australia Forum: CAHA boss says we need to tackle climate change as we do human health with a whole of body approach
21 mins; September 08, 2022
Climate Council Bookclub event: 'Humanity's Moment' author, Joƫlle Gergis talks with Dr Simon Bradshaw
8 mins; September 07, 2022
Better Futures Australia Forum: 'How stunningly stupid that is' - Pastor Ray Minniecon
14 mins; September 07, 2022
Better Futures Australia: 'Can't get to net zero without getting to nature positive' - Kelly O'Shannassy, Australian Conservation Foundation, CEO
68 hours 6 mins; September 07, 2022
Better Futures Australia Forum: ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr talks about what his governement is doing to achieve net-zero
17 mins; September 06, 2022
Better Futures Australia: 'Custodianship belongs to all of us' - Nidala Barker
9 mins; September 05, 2022
iDEA Conference: Researcher Dr Rebecca Huntley encourages medical practitioners to engage with climate change.
38 mins; September 05, 2022
iDEA Conference: 'Soak up the environment' - Heather Campbell from Bush Heritage
25 mins; September 05, 2022
iDEA Conference: Tim Buckley spells out, in fanancial terms, why Australia needs to do something about its export of carbon emissions
27 mins; September 05, 2022
iDEA Conference: A bumpy transition from fossil fuels to zero cabon economy - Professor Judith Brett
29 mins; September 04, 2022
iDEA Conference: 'We have to get into the fray ' - Professor Brett Sutton on climate change
30 mins; September 04, 2022
Interview: An epiphany is finalized as a project to eliminate plastic from our waterways - Louise Hardman
31 mins; September 02, 2022
Climate change ignored: Intentional ignorance, actual ignorance or is it something that exceeds individual comprehension?
3 mins; August 30, 2022
Climate dystopia: Pakistan's devastating floods suggest the crossing of climate rubicon; Joƫlle Gergis writes about 'Humanity's Moment'
3 mins; August 29, 2022
Tatura Transition Towns' Film Festival: A day of inspiring conversations and films
68 hours 54 mins; August 29, 2022
Program launch: 'COP was such a disappointment for me, I would go back home literally in tears' - Jennifer Uchendu
18 mins; August 25, 2022
Webinar: Jonathan Barnett and Matthijs Bouw joined the Smart Growth Network to outline how adaptation and preventive measures address climate-related threats
4 mins; August 24, 2022
Interview: Brisbane's BIEN conference will consider 'What can basic income offer in a time of crisis and transformation?'
22 mins; August 23, 2022
Climate news: New Zealand PM emphasises the challenges of climate change; Al Gore's timeless and important book 'Earth in the Balance'
5 mins; August 22, 2022
David Suzuki Foundation: Quebec bans all fossil fuel developments, setting a standard for the world
12 mins; August 22, 2022
Short episode: Cambridge University discusses its world-leading divestment plans
1 min; August 18, 2022
The Conversation: Understanding the perils of net-zero
27 mins; August 18, 2022
Interview: Canberra forum is about building a better future for Australia - Program Director, Lisa Cliff
21 mins; August 18, 2022
Climate activist: 'I thought the adults knew what they were doing' - Jean Hinchliffe
14 mins; August 16, 2022
Critical care doctor explores the impact of climate change on mental health
10 mins; August 16, 2022
Interview: Doctors for the Environment conference aims to create a community spirit to tackle climate change
12 mins; August 15, 2022
Observation: Zora Teirstein from Grist magazine says the American West is descending into the most significant drought in 1,200 years
3 mins; August 13, 2022
Carbon Clock tells us we haven't much time left!
4 mins; August 12, 2022
Climate Denial: The man behind 'Sceptical Science', John Cook, helps us better understand climate denial
7 mins; August 11, 2022
Simone Fox Koob tells us it's all 'smoke and mirrors'
3 mins; August 10, 2022
Coming up: Bill McGuire to talk with Climate Conversations about his new book: 'Hothouse Earth"
4 mins; August 10, 2022
Webinar: Australian Security Leaders Climate Group discussing the unfolding challenges
5 mins; August 08, 2022
Webinar: Advice about the challenges of reporting on our changing climate
12 mins; August 05, 2022
Climate Bill: 'It's not a perfect Bill, it's not everything everyone wants, but it's much better to get on with it' - Helen Haines
7 mins; August 04, 2022
National Press Club: 'The climate crisis is caused by the mining and burning of coal, oil and gas' - Adam Bandt
64 hours 19 mins; August 03, 2022
Interview: 'Climate change is massive global problem and we need to be all in' - Dr Kate Wylie
19 mins; August 02, 2022
Sam Birrell addresses the climate directly in his maiden speech, but then deftly steps around it in a shadowy form of denial
24 mins; August 02, 2022
Interview: Zero Carbon Tatura tackling its target from all angles
40 mins; August 01, 2022
Hothouse Earth: Bill McGuire's latest book is both timely and of critical importance.
4 mins; July 31, 2022
Interview: Brett Lemin tells us about waste operators gathering in Shepparton to "talk rubbish"
24 mins; July 30, 2022
Al Gore equates climate inaction with a failure by police to act at Ulvade mass shooting - he sees it as a failure to walk through the door!
3 mins; July 25, 2022
Anika Molesworth again emphasises why we need to be urgently concerned about the climate crisis
4 mins; July 22, 2022
Interview: Clinton Rodda talks about Jet Charge and the future for electric cars in Australia
40 mins; July 21, 2022
National Press Club address: Australia's newly elected/appointed Enivornment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, launches 2021 State of the Environment Report
70 hours 38 mins; July 19, 2022
Australia's Friends of The Earth heap praise on quick climate moves by Federal Government, but sets rigid agenda
3 mins; July 18, 2022
Cold water poured on climate induced hot and melting roads to allow Tour de France to continue
2 mins; July 17, 2022
Climate protesters stop Tour de France momentarily, but the climate crisis could stop it permanently
5 mins; July 15, 2022
Webinar: Bill McKibben explains how off-shore wind can match, and exceed, a nuclear power station
58 mins; July 13, 2022
Quick Cimate Links: France 24 tells us about devasating heatwaves in Pakistan.
3 mins; July 11, 2022
Quick Climate Links: America's hottest city now has a department exclusively looking at living with heat.
2 mins; July 08, 2022
Interview: John Perkins - five ideas from an economic hit man to make you, and the world, a better place
42 mins; July 07, 2022
A postcapitalist vision: Anitra Nelson talks about a life beyond money
3 mins; July 02, 2022
Webinar: 'How good is it that we can now move forward': Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth.
11 mins; July 01, 2022
Radio 3CR interview: 'All you need is a post hole digger and an Allen key and you can tap into the world's cheapest and cleanest energy' - Smart Energy Council CEO John Grimes on 3CR
26 mins; June 27, 2022
Interview: 'We don't want the renewable industry to become part of the problem' - Oliver Yates from the Sentient Impact Group
33 mins; June 27, 2022
Webinar: 'What we need is civilization change' - Jeff Wells from The Living Earth Movement
35 mins; June 25, 2022
Conference: 'It's a massive build-out program and we have to start today, not in 2025' - John Grimes from the Smart Energy Council
27 mins; June 22, 2022
'I am planet Earth', so says John Bell in a script for TV advertisement
14 mins; June 19, 2022
Vale Phillip Sutton: I'll miss the comforting voice and the world will miss his sweeping knowledge
26 mins; June 19, 2022
Quick Climate Links: 'Climate change is a bigger threat than war' - Fiji tells Shangri La conference
Quick Climate Links: 'Climate change a bigger threat than military conflict' - Fiji tells Shangri La conference
5 mins; June 13, 2022
Quick Climate Links: 'Birds fell down to the ground and died in the air it was so hot' - Saleemul Huq
7 mins; June 11, 2022
Interview: 'A simpler, a caring life can actually be far more humanizing, satisfying than the wasteful lives we lead' - David Korten
42 mins; June 10, 2022
Interview: Episode opens with an apology, but then hears from Andrew Crawford who prefers 'cycle' to change
10 mins; June 08, 2022
Interview: 'The world's got an enormous problem and the magnitude is underrated' - Barry Croke
26 mins; June 08, 2022
Interview: Graeme Hanigan calls me out on the incorrect use of climate skeptic
18 mins; June 07, 2022
Interview: Allan Wilson is concened about our inattention to climate change
14 mins; June 06, 2022
Quick Climate Links: Cruising ships are back and with them their devastating carbon emissions
5 mins; June 04, 2022
Inteview: Heather Smith is steering the Coalition for Community Energy toward greater success
36 mins; June 04, 2022
Interview: 'It's stories that sustain us' - John B. Cobb Jr. from The Living Earth Movement
20 mins; June 03, 2022
Quick Climate Links: 'A Positive Climate' wraps up its second season; Fegus Green tells us which countries are serious about countering climate change
4 mins; June 01, 2022
Webinar: 'We must re-appropriate the power of money we have ceded to capitalism' - Anitra Nelson
30 mins; May 31, 2022
Interview: 'The whole eco-system is going backwards' - - Mooroopna birder, Don Roberts
21 mins; May 30, 2022
Quick Climate Links: Rather than being an in-your-face, on the ground climate activist, Mark Spencer has created The Climactic Collective to allow the telling of critical climate stories
8 mins; May 29, 2022
Quick Climate Links: We didn't have a civil war, but we did boot out the Scott Morrison Governmemt
7 mins; May 28, 2022
Interview: City seeks respondents for Climate Change Youth Leadership program
11 mins; May 28, 2022
Webinar: 'We are the ones we have been waiting for': Dr David Korten
26 mins; May 27, 2022
Interview: Dr John B Cobb sees a safe future in cooperation and collaboration
20 mins; May 25, 2022
Quick Climate Links: 'Going up to COP26 last year was a reminder just how out of step we are' - David Pocock
12 mins; May 25, 2022
Quick Climate Links: Marty Kady had a notebook and pen in his crib, but now takes us through Politico's second Sustainability Summit
3 mins; May 23, 2022
Quick Climate Links: Sydney's Opera House climate goals at Echuca/Moama Market
7 mins; May 23, 2022
Quick Climate Links: Musicians using their craft to help us better understand the climate crisis
2 mins; May 20, 2022
New Book: 'Humanity's Moment' - Joƫlle Gergis spells out a 'Case for hope'; Quick Climate Links
3 mins; May 20, 2022
Interview: 'We have to keep trying, that is our bond with the future' - Dr Haydn Washington
30 mins; May 19, 2022
Quick Climate Links: Much happening at Climate Conversations; Preparing to interview Dr Haydn Washington
2 mins; May 18, 2022
Fusion Party Senate candidate, Kammy Cordner Hunt, deserves your consideration
5 mins; May 18, 2022
Quick Climate Links: 'Same isn't Safe' - Zoe Daniels; Labor's climate change policy tops that of LNP; We don't need to return to 'normal'
3 mins; May 17, 2022
Interview: Barrie Slatter talks about climate change here in Australia and what's happening in Great Britain
19 mins; May 16, 2022
Quick Climate Links: Christiana Figueres on Australian catastrophe; Kate Grenville urges authors to encourage people to 'vote climate'; Rob Priestly spices up Nicholls contest
10 mins; May 14, 2022
Quick Climate Links: It's 'Planet Critical' - Rachel Donald talks with Richard Heinberg
3 mins; May 13, 2022
Quick Climate Links: The Sweaty Penguin; The Net-Zero Innovate podcast; Great Barrier Reef bleached, again
