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
Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 2)
Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 2) The Gates Foundation funded project ‘Golden Rice’ is an unnecessary and unwanted GMO technology driven by big agriculture corporati…
Sun 06 Sep 2020
200 Years in Antarctica: Australia's bicentenary development plans
200 Years in Antarctica: Australia's bicentenary development plans On the 200th anniversary of the first European sighting of Antarctica, Australia is planning the biggest single development in Antar…
Sun 30 Aug 2020
"The extinction crisis in Australia's cities and towns "
A new report titled "The extinction crisis in Australia's cities and towns " has just been released by the Australian Conservation Foundation.It shows that there a lot of threatened plants and anima…
Sun 23 Aug 2020
Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 1)
Not-so-golden rice: Agro-imperialism in a time of COVID-19 (Part 1)The Gates Foundation funded project ‘Golden Rice’ is an unnecessary and unwanted GMO technology driven by big agriculture corporatio…
Sun 16 Aug 2020
A history of the world in seven cheap things [encore]
On today’s show, Raj Patel helps us un-pack the history of capitalism, and how it has radically altered the ecology of this planet. Patel is the co-author, with Jason W. Moore of the book 'A History …
Sun 09 Aug 2020
"Leave Our Lakes Alone" - Darling-Baaka Community Says No
"Leave Our Lakes Alone" - Darling-Baaka Community Says NoThe Menindee Lakes in far west NSW are the site for large water savings project under the Murray Darling Basin Plan. After seeing this unique …
Sun 02 Aug 2020
‘Once in a decade chance’: Australia’s environment law review and why it matters
‘Once in a decade chance’: Australia’s environment law review and why it mattersLidia Thorpe, Gunai/Brabwauloong/Briakaloong/DjapWurrung/Gunditjmara Greens Senator; and Suzanne Milthorpe, Environmen…
Sun 26 Jul 2020
Non-violence verses direct action: We need both!
Non-violence verses direct action: We need both!Leslie James Pickering, Burning Books co-owner & former ELF spokesperson, and radical treatise 'Eco-Warriors' author Rik Scarce, debate non-violent civ…
Sun 19 Jul 2020
Tall trees trashed for pulp and planks. We wont buy it!
Jenny Weber works alongside Bob Brown. She takes us to the heart of the campaign to save Tasmania's Tarkine wilderness where 20 people recently occupied tree sits. Bunnings hardware store has just…
Sun 12 Jul 2020
The NT Fight Against Fracking
NT Fight Against FrackingThe Federal government's National Covid-19 Coordination Commission (NCCC) has proposed a boost to the country's economy through an increase to the gas industry.Wiradjuri and …
Sun 05 Jul 2020
Cloud Frightening: Techno-spin & false solutions
Cloud Frightening: Techno-spin & false solutionsLouise Sales (FoE Emerging Tech Project) & Silvia Ribeiro (ETC Group) discuss environmental, safety and green washing concerns of global proportions ov…
Sun 28 Jun 2020
Gomeroi vs Environment Minister
Extractive industries threaten Indigenous heritage across this continent and the Shenhua Watermark Coal Mine is no exception.Gomeroi woman Dolly Talbott has taken the Federal Environment Minister Sus…
Sun 21 Jun 2020
From #NoDAPL to #BlackLivesMatter and beyond
"Police violence is an environmental justice issue...Abolition should be a demand of environmental justice." - Nick Estes. This week we bring you an edited extract from a wide-ranging discussion b…
Sun 14 Jun 2020
Environmental Racism: BIPOC in climate movements
Environmental Racism: BIPOC in climate movementsPatrisse Cullors—climate justice & decarceration activist— and one of the original founders of the Black Lives Matter movement— speaks with Khristen Ha…
Sun 07 Jun 2020
Save the Swift Parrot. New research: Logging increases bushfire intensity.
BirdLife Australia has launched a campain calling for logging to stop in the habitat of the critically endangered Swift Parrot. Armed with Forestry Harvest Plans we take a drive into a partially bur…
Sun 31 May 2020
First People First: Pay the Rent
First People First: Pay the RentGunai & Gunditjmara activist Lidia Thorpe speaks with Teishan Ahearne about the ongoing impacts of colonisation on Country, and her vision for how non-indigenous allie…
Sun 24 May 2020
Victoria's forests and a tribute to Jack Mundey
This week we’re looking at the fight to save Victoria’s native forests, and what the government and their logging agency are getting away with under cover of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then later in the…
Sun 17 May 2020
Bleached Again?! Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef, one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet has experienced its third mass coral bleaching event in 5 years. But what impact is this having across the whole…
Sun 10 May 2020
Something in the Water? Regional contamination of our water supply
Australia is known to have high quality drinking water, and standards that ensure the health and safety of the population. But is this really the whole picture? Although most Australians are accustom…
Sun 03 May 2020
Pandemic in a time of Big Oil: When holding down a blockade is an Essential Activity
Pandemic in a time of Big Oil: When holding down a blockade is an Essential ActivityThe 3 day Climate Strike Action planned for April 22-24 to coincide with Earth Day 50th anniversary was cancelled …
Sun 26 Apr 2020
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