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
No Home to Go To. Homeless people falling through gaping holes in Covid19 responses.
As the Covid19 virus proliferates humans watch in horror at how nature can disrupt and destroy our lives. While those with a place to live retreat to their homes the most vulnerable have no home to …
Sun 19 Apr 2020
Can sharks provide hope in a time of crisis?
Australian waters are an ecological hotspot for sharks and rays populations. It's a fact that might concern some and be a cause for celebration for others. During times of global crisis, what can we …
Sun 12 Apr 2020
Future histories [encore]
Can we simply innovate our way out of the present climate crisis? Or do technological fixes hide another problem - that of a deeply unequal and unjust world? Until we start to understand that climate…
Sun 05 Apr 2020
Doing it ourselves: Renewables & bio-hacking COVID-19
Doing it ourselves: Renewables & bio-hacking COVID-19As the COVID-19 pandemic escalates, the neo-lib stance on privatised & for-profit "herd-culling" healthcare has directly precipitated a drastic sh…
Sun 29 Mar 2020
Harriet Swift: Close the Eden chipmill and end Native forest logging.
A hundred thousands tons of woodchips and the Eden wood chip mill burned in January bushfires. 80% of the New South Wales, South East state forests were incinerated. Harriet Swift tells us what's …
Sun 22 Mar 2020
Indigenous Science: Water knowledge systems
Indigenous Science: Water knowledge systemsBrad Moggridge, Kamilaroi man & geologist, and Tyson Yunkaporta of the Apalech Clan from Western Cape York, and author of Sandtalk: How Indigenous Thinking …
Sun 15 Mar 2020
BIPOC Women’s Resistance: IWD 2020
BIPOC Women’s Resistance: IWD 2020BIPOC women in the global south are necessarily at the forefront of climate activism, as it is their communities that are the most adversely affected by climate chan…
Sun 08 Mar 2020
Still threatened, Still fighting: Tassie Forests Frontline
Still threatened, Still fighting: Tassie forests frontlineLisa Searle (Bob Brown Foundation) gets us up to speed with the rapidly shifting landscape of forest activism in Tasmania - as the end of the…
Sun 01 Mar 2020
Windara Reef Restoration: Reinvigorating ocean ecosystems
Windara Reef Restoration: Reinvigorating ocean ecosystems Most of the continent now known as colony-Australia was once surrounded and protected for thousands of years by massive reefs built up by she…
Sun 23 Feb 2020
Not Quiet Australians: On the Steps Rally, Parliament House, Canberra, 4th, February 2020
Exceptional speeches calling for climate action ring with rising anger in response to government denial and inaction. MC: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki makes climate science segways. Zali Stegall the Indep…
Sun 16 Feb 2020
Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part2): Narm protest rally & march
Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part2): Narm protest rally & marchPart 2 of a two part Invasion Day tribute features selected speakers from the Narm protest rally & march Earth Matters #1229 was produc…
Sun 09 Feb 2020
Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part1): Narm Dawn Service
Invasion Day 2020 Highlights (Part1): Narm Dawn ServicePart 1 of a two part Invasion Day tribute features the Dawn Service in Narm last weekend, as we pay our deepest respects to all the First Nation…
Sun 02 Feb 2020
Workers responding collectively to bushfire pollution
As bushfires have been raging across Australia since October last year, cities have been blanketed in toxic smoke. What are the health impacts of this? And how might workers respond to this new envir…
Sat 25 Jan 2020
Animals burnt out and injured. Join the Wildlife feeding, rescue, care and release responses.
We are in a terrible, fiery climate emergency. Humans and animals are in crisis. We have seen at least a billion animals die [not including billions of insects. This number is rapidly rising as ani…
Sun 19 Jan 2020
Heal the Ancestors: East Gippsland bush fires
Heal the Ancestors: East Gippsland bush firesElders Robbie and Mick Thorpe on 3CR’s Fire First discuss bushfires and the Law of the Land, while Mick shares his first hand account of the evacuation fr…
Sun 12 Jan 2020
Tiny House Warriors: Secwepemc struggle
Tiny House Warriors: Secwepemc struggleSecwepemc land protector Kanahus Freedom on how Secwepemc people are resisting the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion and ongoing impacts of colonialism & white …
Sun 05 Jan 2020
In excess - debunking the myths of floods of migrants and scarcity of resources in Australia's border regime
What does it mean when we talk of floods of migrants? Is it accurate or even useful? Or does it distract from the real floods, the disasters brought on by climate change? Lauren Piko, presents her pa…
Sun 29 Dec 2019
Richard Flanagan's call to climate action. Extinction Rebellion tells Capitalism to bite the dust!
As our eyes sting from the ashes of the forests, Richard Flanagan's call for climate action becomes prophetic . Extinction Rebellion rebels blockade Canberra streets preventing politicians from…
Sun 22 Dec 2019
For the love of Soil: Urban Tilth
For the love of Soil: Urban TilthDoria Robinson from Urban Tilth speaking this year at the Community Alliance for Global Justice about dismantling extractive culture. She gets the ball rolling with a…
Sun 15 Dec 2019
Fungi fights forest fire and builds the Global Carbon Soil Sponge
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 he…
Sun 08 Dec 2019
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