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
- 507
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Under the cover of COVID
There’s so many things we had to stop and put on hold when COVID hit. But one thing that didn’t stop was the relentless resource extraction of mining and forestry. On today’s show we hear about tw…
Sun 24 Jan 2021
False Promises & Real Solutions: Part 2
False Promises & Real Solutions: Part 2Part two of a two part series with long time anti-geoengineering watch orgs—ETC Group & Friends of the Earth crew fighting against geoengineering and "net zero"…
Sun 17 Jan 2021
Fungi fights forest fire and builds the Global Carbon Soil Sponge [Encore]
We must start cooling the planet.Walter Jehne and Cindy Eiritz explain how to restore the Earth s hydrological cooling system AND restore the “soil carbon sponge” offering resilience to global heatin…
Sun 10 Jan 2021
Sydney's newest suburbs are too hot to live in
Sydney's newest suburbs are too hot to live inTemperatures in western Sydney, home to 2.3 million of Sydney’s poorest residents, are already peaking at unliveable highs. Bureau of Meteorology weather…
Sun 03 Jan 2021
Massive opposition to 850 fracking holes in the Pilliga
When Polly Cutmore heard that Minister Susan Ley had approved the 850 gas fracking wells in the Pilliga she immediately took a detour to Canberra to rally against the announcement. She talks…
Sun 27 Dec 2020
Can legislation strangle a river system?
The practice of diverting floodwaters into private storages is being legislated in the NSW northern Murray-Darling. What will this mean for environment and communities that depend on it. We speak wit…
Sun 20 Dec 2020
Drinking water for coal
The ground is cracking and subsiding, water is vanishing, wetlands are being drained, and habitats are destroyed. Why? Because successive New South Wales governments have allowed mining in Sydn…
Sun 13 Dec 2020
False Promises & Real Solutions: Part 1
False Promises & Real Solutions: Part 1We've all heard the extremely disturbing hype about geoengineering as a so-called solution for climate change—but how much do we really know about it? Where did…
Sun 06 Dec 2020
And the REST is history
A young ecologist, Mark McVeigh, took his super fund REST to court over its failure to consider the risk of climate change to his investments. Today on Earth Matters we hear about this historic legal…
Sun 29 Nov 2020
Follow the Money: federal budget recap
Follow the Money: federal budget recapIn the federal budget announced last month, A$52.9 million was allocated to expanding Australia’s gas industry, and an extra A$8.7 million was slipped to NSW’s V…
Sun 22 Nov 2020
How good is hemp. Grow it and Regenerate Earth.
What detoxes CO2 out of the air, regenerates the soil, needs little pesticide or water and helps prevent deforestation?Hemp is a strain of Cannabis Sativa that contains only a trace of the psychoacti…
Sun 15 Nov 2020
Indigenous Environment Network: Soil not Oil
Indigenous Environment Network: Soil not OilThe Indigenous Environmental Network presents at the Soil not Oil conference 2020 on Indigenous traditional farming, loss of biodiversity and disease, and …
Sun 08 Nov 2020
Against Eco-Fascism [encore]
Against Eco-fascism: an environmentalism without nature [encore] We often think of environmental politics as inherently progressive and humane. But from more mainstream far right parties with a p…
Sun 01 Nov 2020
Plans to Pump the Fitzroy
The Martuwarra or Fitzroy River in the Kimberely, WA, is one of the last pristine rivers on Earth, but farming magnates are seeking to open up this unique ecosystem to irrigation and undermine decade…
Sun 25 Oct 2020
Lessons from the fires - Climate change and threatened species
12 months on from the start of last year's horror bushfire season, four experts discuss what we can learn from last summer's fires to better protect not just property and assets, but Australia's biod…
Sun 18 Oct 2020
Guardians of the Forest: Indigenous youth global call out
Guardians of the Forest: Indigenous youth global call outThis week on Earth Matters four young indigenous rights activists from around the world discuss impacts of COVID on their communities, and on …
Sun 11 Oct 2020
Calling for a referendum on the environment and a renewables led recovery. & NSW, VIC, TAS forest campain updates
The school strikers for climate action are back! Rosie and Jimmy will tell you clearly what they want. Into the lawns of Parliament House Canberran, they plant hundreds of placards made by scho…
Sun 04 Oct 2020
Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 3—Final)
Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 3—Final)The Gates Foundation funded project ‘Golden Rice’ is an unnecessary and unwanted GMO technology driven by big agriculture corp…
Sun 27 Sep 2020
Workers for Climate Action
At the beginning of the pandemic the Morrison Federal government announced the creation of the COVID commission. Stacked with mining and fossil fuel interests, it’s little surprise that now in Septem…
Sun 20 Sep 2020
Inquiry Into Fast Tracked Dams
NSW Upper House inquiry underway into impacts of dams in Murray Darling fast tracked by NSW Gov.The Murray-Darling supports RAMSAR wetlands and critical ecosystems for endangered fish & migratory bir…
Sun 13 Sep 2020
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