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Rare Air with Meri Fatin

Dec 3, 2022

"Overshoot means we consciously and willingly allow to go above 1.5 while waiting for the right technology...to then rapidly bring down the overshoot.  It would fulfill the goal laid out in the Paris Agreement however the damage done on the way is tremendous.

The obligation of scientists is to lay out different...


Nov 19, 2022

"We changed the world to start to see that automobile dependence was not a good thing...we were much hated by the automobile associations, the vehicle companies, the oil companies.  They used to run people who would follow us everywhere. And they were given money to write papers attacking us."

Professor Peter Newman...


Feb 26, 2022

If you follow thought leaders on the energy transition, you’ll be familiar with the hashtag Electrify Everything.

The argument is that a huge proportion of ‘global energy needs’ can be met with electricity sourced from renewables – and to use it we simply need to – electrify everything.

This is the message of...


Sep 8, 2021

"I think it’s a scandal in this country that so much wealth is being extracted and Aboriginal people are no better off."

Paul Cleary is author of "Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant".  For over a decade he followed this story as a journalist, before finally sitting down to the task...


Aug 29, 2021

The power of great storytelling has never been more evident than in the fight to change hearts and minds around sustainability, environmental care and climate action.

 The people who can sweep us along in their enthusiasm and can-do attitude offer solid foundations for optimism as we witness the earth struggling …and...