Earth Matters
Local and global environmental issues from grassroots, activist perspectives with a strong social justice focus. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Episodes
- 506
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Ngarrindjeri shellfishing on Coorong affected by algal bloom
This week on Earth Matters we put the spotlight on the devastating South Australian algal phenomena that is rocking communities and scientists. While the causes of the bloom are becoming clearer, the…
Sun 07 Sep 2025
Systemic feminist changes and climate action.
Dr. Radha Wagle started in life herding goats in a Nepalese village. She tells her story, how she came from there to lead Nepal's delegation in international climate negotiations. Radha somehow manag…
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Interview with Manju from ANFA
Earth Matters presents local, national and international grassroots perspectives on environmental concerns and broadcasts weekly to a national audience since 1996. In this episode, host Keiran interv…
Sun 24 Aug 2025
Speaking Up: Voices from the Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice
"So we refuse that idea that we can accept any forms of gender-based violence and any forms that kill ourselves, other species and the living planet." Noelene Nabulivou, Pacific Islands Feminist Alli…
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Frontline Communities in the Energy Transition
It’s been three months since we sent a clear message at the ballot box: climate action matters. In the lead-up, communities fought hard, running creative actions, countering fossil fuels propaganda a…
Sun 03 Aug 2025
"So Many Different Voices"; Women's Climate Congress. [with transcript]
"So many different voices” is about the ways that we bring diverse voices into all the roomsFive speakers representing student women, rural women, First Nations women, women with disabilities, and ol…
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Two Billion Dead: Australia’s Cat Crisis
Australia’s most prolific killer isn’t a mining company or a bulldozer — it’s the common cat. Feral and domestic cats are responsible for over 2 billion native animal deaths every year, pushing speci…
Sun 20 Jul 2025
Climate Adaptation Pt. 2: Urban Resilience
Climate change is upon us. We are the first responders. How will we keep each other safe? How will we meet our needs? Who gets to have a say? These questions, and many others, are being tackled by ev…
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Climate Adaptation Pt 1: Extreme Weather Events
We are living on a compromised planet. Alongside acting to slow the pace of change, we have to adapt; and prepare for increasingly challenging conditions. Communities everywhere are already doing thi…
Sun 06 Jul 2025
Food Sovereignty Pt. 2: Local Initiatives
Food sovereignty is the ability to make informed choices about our food, to define our own food systems, and to access healthy, culturally appropriate food that is produced sustainably. Food sovereig…
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Genocide + Ecocide = Suicide
Genocide and ecocide are not separate crimes — they are two sides of the same colonial system that has brought the planet to the brink of collapse. From the invasion of these lands to the global clim…
Sun 22 Jun 2025
The need for Climate Adaptation/ Industrial burning of Victorian Forests
Vicky Ellmore is an organiser from the Act on Climate initiative within Friends of the Earth Melbourne. Vicky joined us to chat about the need for climate adaptations, and findings from recent resea…
Sun 15 Jun 2025
Tackling Plastic Waste: Producer Responsibility + Plastic-Free July
Tackling Plastic Waste: Producer Responisibility + Plastic-Free July ‘…85% of Australians are hugely concerned about plastic pollution…We need our leaders to lead by example and show that the circula…
Sun 08 Jun 2025
Wreck Bay PFAS
In this episode of Earth Matters, host Keiran Stewart-Assheton discusses the ongoing impacts that PFAS contamination has had on the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community, as well as a look at the broader im…
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Yuin Orcas
In his introductory show, host Keiran Stewart-Assheton talks about his people's historic connecion to Beowa (Orcas) of the South Coast, and the impacts of the extractive whaling industry post-colonis…
Sun 25 May 2025
Food Sovereignty Pt. 1: Brazil's Landless Workers Movement
The food system accounts for about 25% of total greenhouse gas emissions, yet it is commonly left out of discussions about the climate emergency. Over half of the land on this continent is used for a…
Sun 18 May 2025
Challenging aqua nullius through education, decolonising water management
Western hubris about water leads to really bad water policy - kate harriden Australia’s First Peoples looked after the country’s waterscapes for millennia before colonisation brought Western ways th…
Sun 11 May 2025
International Seed Day with Canberra Seed Savers
Join the throng of Seed Savers with their small table stalls of free seeds and activities at the Canberra City Farm. Why save seeds?How to save seeds.Make a Seed bomb. Guests:Arien MacVeigh; Founder…
Sun 04 May 2025
Calls for national Moratorium on Seismic Blasting
Calls for national Moratorium on Seismic BlastingCommunities gathered in Warrnambool to call for an end to gas exploration in the Otway Basin and a national moratorium on seismic blasting to stop the…
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Restoring Democracy in the Disinformation Age
Restoring Democracy in the Disinformation Age Access to reliable, accurate information is essential for democracy. From misleading health advice to conspiracy theories, unchecked disinformation risks…
Sun 20 Apr 2025
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