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This Earth Science Week on Fuzzy Logic we chat with experts from Geoscience Australia about harnessing the power of space technology to tackle our biggest challenges.
For fifty years, the partnership between Geoscience Australia and the United States Geological Survey has revolutionized our understanding of the Earth from space.
Through the Landsat program, we’ve gained invaluable insights into our environment, from monitoring deforestation and urban growth to managing water resources and agricultural lands.
Tune in to hear David Hudson, Medhavy Thankappan and Eloise Birchall from Geoscience Australia chat to Broderick about Landsat and Landsat Next.
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A triumph of our civilisation are the things that go on under the covers without us even noticing. When you pour stuff down the sink or flush it down the toilet, where does it go? Luckily, we don't need to think about it...until somebody does the wrong thing.
That's when we should hail the invisible, unsung heroes of this story. That's right, these are the people that go down into the bowels - literally - of a city's plumbing to do what must be done.
We can do our bit, it's not difficult... think before you flush.
Here, Rod interviews Davina McCormick, General Manger Customer Engagement at ICON water.
If you're in Floriade this weekend (21-22 Sep), be sure to see their display. Gritty, but highly recommended.
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A guest podcast from Valerie Albrecht.
This podcast offers reflective space to consider the relationship between sustainability and spirituality. Is there one? Could practising sustainability nurture spirituality? Could practising some form of spirituality help us to live more sustainably? Could spirituality help us to give right place to all that is losing sustainability? Contributors from a cross section of professions and viewpoints share their knowledge, perspectives and wisdoms: a Heritage Officer Anthropologist Activist; a gardener; a writer and artist; a priest; a physics teacher, and some Australian Aboriginal healers I have had the privilege of learning with. Share your sustainability and spirituality reflections at www.theoceansofenergy.com Thank you contributors. Music: Tony O’Connor Uluru.
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The race to net-zero is accelerating.
Governments around the world are increasingly committing to achieve net-zero emission targets. But what does that mean and can clean energy help achieve this?
Join Broderick as he discusses the move to net zero in Australia with Dr Andrew Feitz, Director Low Carbon Geoscience and Advice and Dr Marcus Haynes, Computational Geoscientist.
Thanks to Geoscience Australia for this week's guests.
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Happy National Science Week!
This episode Broderick talks to two event holders for National Science Week. Heather Massie shares her story in bringing the life of Hedy Lamar to the stage through her one-woman play HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr. Then, Liz Lea and the Chameleon Collective share their experience telling a story of a reef through dance in the show Reef Up!
For more details on HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr and to book tickets head to www.HeatherMassie.com/Hedy
For more details on Reef UP! and to book tickets head to https://www.thestellarcompany.com/
More National Science Week events can be found at www.scienceweek.net.au
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How far off 'sustainability' are we today? How did we get here, and where do we go next? These are questions tackled by Rod Taylor at a U3A event in June.
This wide ranging talk is based on the book co-authored with Mark Diesendorf, The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation.
Other links: Sustainable Population Australia https://population.org.au Steady State ACT https://steadystateact.org Touching the Void https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHYwxoYsK0A&ab_channel=WackyWanderlust
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If you know the term cognitive dissonance, it applies to ability of a person to hold entirely incompatible ideas in their head at the same time. If people can have it, so can a government. Take these two statements:
1) We will work towards a sustainable future
2) We will pursue economic growth
The evidence is overwhelming: we cannot do both of these things because economic growth is the antithesis of sustainability. Pasting a veneer over this chasm are terms such as green growth and weightless economy.
Jonathan Miller is the Director of Steady State ACT.
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How do you cope with the dire trajectory of climate change? It's a tough question that we all now face. In this episode, ACT Greens MLA tells the story of her climate journey.
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If there were a single invention of humanity that you remove, what would that be? In this episode we revisit a personal story broadcast on Radio National in 2006.
This is part of our series, Rethinking Sustainability.
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So it's okay to clear the Amazon jungle?
Almost certainly you disagree with that statement, but how do you respond when someone says that to you? In this episode we think about 'that' conversation. How do you convince somebody that they're wrong?
But first, is it even worth even trying?
You'll find a summary of Fran Peavey's Strategic Questioning at commonslibrary.org/strategic-questioning
and the full PDF commonslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/strat_questioning_manual.pdf.
From our series Rethinking Sustainbility.
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When somebody makes a statement that is foreign to your thinking, how do you react? In this episode, Rod Taylor recounts a conversation with the Brazillian, Fernando. What does it mean to raze the Amazon jungle, why should somebody like him care? Why should anybody care?
The answer of course, is that it this cannot be sustained. While we hear that word thrown around so often, we should remember the end point of something that is unsustainable - is literally - the end.
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Today's episode should prompt us to ask, how should we measure the success of our society?Is it the growth, consumption, GDP and the size of our armies? Or perhaps it should be about opportunity, the strength of our communities and how we care for people less well off.Michael Bayliss from Sustainable Population Australia looks at what growth is really doing to social equality. Michael invites you to sign the Position Statement on Population. If you would like to contribute to these podcasts, please get in touch.
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As Andrew Skeoch says in this episode, there is much we can learn from Nature, if only we sit quietly and listen. Andrew takes that a step further by recording the beautiful songs of birds around the world. And, as he says, it's more than simply enjoying the aesthetics because the birds use their song to build relationships and navigate a shared environment.
Andrew is author of Deep Listening to Nature.
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On page 2 of the newspaper there's a story about melting icecaps. On page 3 there's a full page ad for this week's bargains. Somewhere here there's a disconnect. Meanwhile, shopping is - literally - sold to us as something we should do more of. But does it really make us feel better?
Artist and thinker Jeremy Barrett ponders these things as he wanders through his local shopping maul.
Jeremy's exhibition of paintings & mono prints is at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 2 February - 28 March. The opening Talk & Tea will be Tuesday 13 February, 12 — 1pm
This podcast is part of the Rethinking Sustainability series.
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It seems every day we're hit with more bad news. War in the Ukraine, floods, droughts and melting ice caps. In this episode, Rod Taylor mulls over how we cope. Do we give up and fall into a pit of despair, or do we carry on regardless?
This episode is part of the Rethinking Sustainability series.
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The standard line is that governments* are always short of money and must balance their budgets. But what if that's not true? It changes everything if government money is not the contraint we're told it is.In this episode, Stephen Williams describes a way of thinking about economics that should revolutionise our approach.
* Federal governments of monetary sovereign countries.
Stephen Williams and Rod Taylor are editors of Sustainability and the New Economics.
To learn more about MMT, we highly recommend the Modern Money Lab and Stephanie Kelton's film, Finding the Money. -
What could happen when people decide to do something about unemployment in their community?
In this episode of our new series, Rethinking Sustainability, Robin Krabbe describes an initiative of Live Well Tasmania.
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In 2024 we have smart phones, smart cars and even smart washing machines. We also have climate change.
So are we intelligent but not wise? These are questions Sue Ferris ponders as part of our new series Rethinking Sustainability.
Sue Ferris is the author of Let’s Not Lose Them
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It's a fair bet that if you're listening to this podcast, you care about sustainability. But unfortunately has become grossly abused, almost to the point of meaningless.
This podcast marks the start of a new series, Rethinking Sustainability, where each week we'll be broadcasting a new episode. And if you'd like to contribute an episode, please get in touch.
https://rethinkingsustainabilitypod.blogspot.com/
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What makes a system fragile? In this short talk, Rod sketches what drives a system towards collapse.
Can you see the parallels to our civisliation today?
Proceedings from the NENA conference, November 2023 in Canberra.
More about the book, The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation here.
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