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Australia's no.1 environment podcast. Features environmental and sustainability issues, innovations, leaders, films, books, jobs, places and events. Presented by Phil Stubbs. Primary Format : Environment Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Sydney User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of The Environment Show Podcasts Methings.com listings of The Environment Show Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of The Environment Show Emissions Trading: what the ….? Just at the time Australia is launching into an emissions trading scheme, the EU one appears to be faltering. Eek. In this post we’ve collected links to articles and videos on the European scheme and the political stoush that’s happening here in Oz. (We predict it’s only a matter of time before the Opposition here [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kayakers conquer ocean’s Everest Two Australians’ determination to paddle from Australia to New Zealand demonstrate the hallmarks of the late Sir Edmund Hillary.Click on this link to see the SMH news article on Sir Ed Hillary, who along with Tenzing Norgay, were the first to climb Mt Everest. Click on this link for an article from the Sydney Morning Herald [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kayaker speaks about food, beer and life after the expedition James Castrission discusses the “ravenous mind” (food), beer, how he’s changed as a person, the welcome in New Plymouth and life after the expediton. Food, beer, and life after the expedition (Catrission 5) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kayaker describes how their use of the net has re-shaped expeditioning James Castrission discusses how their use of the internet has re-shaped expeditioning, why their expedition has been so professional, their thoughts on Andrew McAuley who a year earlier had disappeared 90km short, the relentless gnawing of the sea on them and their gear, and why their daily washing was so critical. How the internet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kayaker speaks about sleep deprivation training, the vast ocean, the next trip and Justin James Castrission discusses training (including sleep deprivation exercises), his friendship with Justin, their next trip and feeling small in the vast ocean. Sleep deprivation, Justin, the next trip, and the vast ocean (Catrission 2) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kayaker tells of 4m shark and “the massive whirlpool” James Castrission tells of the 4 metre shark that tested if their kayak was food. And the massive whirlpool which forced them to paddle back towards Australia to get out of it and thereby loose 10 days. (In fact the boys paddled an extra 1000km.) Sharks and whirlpool (Castrission 4) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kayaker explains why he paddled from Australia to NZ James Castrission discusses: why they did it, the highs and lows of the trip, his sea legs, what he and his partner Justin Jones missed most from their old lives, and how they felt about hitting dry land. Why they did it and the highs and lows (Catrission 1) Castrission speaks by satellite phone in an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is carbon trading and can it work? How do we go about reducing our carbon emissions? Increasingly we’re hearing about carbon trading, but what exactly is carbon trading, aren’t there schemes running already, do they work, and what’s the best configuration for Australia? Phil Stubbs spoke to Matt Dever from Emit Environmental Brokers to find out. For a fuller explanation, I’ve added this link [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trouble at mill - Gunns (the largest pulp mill in the southern hemisphere) The key issues in the Gunns Pulp Mill controversy, as discussed with Sean Cadman from The Wilderness Society. Late last year the Australian government gave the go-ahead to building what will be one of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest pulp mills. The Gunns Pulp Miill is planned for the state of Tasmania, the scene of many [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website And now time for an ad break …. (animators get political) A compacted view of what commerce is doing to the planet. Actually, I do have a Commerce degree, and I have worked in the corporate world, but this commercial is pretty good and pretty telling. But it doesn’t have to be like this. If business worked more like nature (in a cyclical instead of linear way), we’d [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Watson: eco-terrorist or eco-hero? Sea Shepherd tangle with Japanese Whalers in the Antarctic Paul Watson is a man on a mission. He has played a leading role in alerting the world to what he calls the illegal actvities of Japanese whalers. In 2007 I spoke by satellite phone to Paul in the Antarctic, the day after his ship the Farley [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why are the Japanese so hell-bent on killing whales? Another year begins and whaling is in the news again, with two activist groups disrupting the activities of Japanese whaling vessels. Both Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd argue the Japanese whalers are carrying out commercial operations in what has been designated by Australia as a whale sanctuary. But the Japanese don’t recognise Australia’s territorial claim or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ‘Into the Wild’ film review and interview with author Jon Krakauer This is a review of the Sean Penn film Into the Wild. You may be interested in this one if you’ve ever had the itch to ditch your hum-drum routine and see the world. The real world. It includes an interview with author Jon Krakauer who wrote the original book. Listen to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Byron Bay: nature has more in store Ever been to Byron Bay? I have, just recently. And each year hordes of international visitors and Australians go there. Why wouldn’t you? Nature has carved out one of the most brilliant, beautiful coastal niches in the world. But most visitors would be oblivious to the fact nature hasn’t quite finished its work [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Howard ignored climate change and lost: election day vox pops The previous conservative government in Australia may well have been the first in the world to have lost office because it ignored climate change (and refused to sign the Kyoto protocol.) The day of the election at the end of 2007, I went to a polling both to gauge the mood of the people - for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Karl: clean coal is a furphy Dr Karl gets down and dirty on ‘clean coal’. Is it a furphy? A key part of clean coal is burying CO2 under ground. Isn’t this the kind of thinking that got us in this mess in the first place? Listen to the Clean Coal Dr Karl interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why won’t the government seriously back rainwater tanks? Bucketloads of water went down the drain in the last few weeks here. Wouldn’t it be good if people collected it? Isn’t that water better than any stuff that might be recycled from poo. Or taken from the ocean? Or pumped from a dam with an algal bloom in it? I spoke [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do we need desalination when rain goes down the drain? Is desalination the answer to the water shortages in Australian cities when we waste so much water? Or do we need the desal “insurance policy” for our water supply as the politicans say? I spoke with Kate Noble, sustainable cities campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation, to find out. Listen to the desalination interview [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Community supported agriculture: a new way to get your fruit and veg Ever dreamed of having your own farm? Don’t have the capital, the time or the expertise? Here’s a way for you have a direct connection with a farm and still live in the city. It’s called ‘community supported agriculture’ and it’s rapidly growing in the U.S. Under the scheme, you pay the CSA farmer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Major parties fail the green test What do green groups think of Peter Garrett? I asked the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Campaign Director, Denise Boyd. The interview followed ACF’s analysis of the environment policies of Australia’s political parties. Both major parties, including Garrett’s Labor party, failed the test. Listen to this independent rating of our political parties. The interview was just [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website