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
Ask the Elders: Budj Bim Protection
Ask the Elders: Budj Bim ProtectionGuest presenter Will Mathews yarns with Uncle Denis Rose from the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners' Corporation about how the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape's nomina…
Sun 07 Jul 2019
Listening to Nauru [encore]
Listening to Nauru - colonialism and climate change.Over a century of phosphate mining has eaten out the small Pacific island nation of Nauru. While the mining continues, today Nauru is better known …
Sun 23 Jun 2019
The Vanishing River, Voices from the Darling
Produced in the Barkindji nation by Earthling Studios, Executive Producer Mark Merrit "This is serious, very seriousAn ever increasing and multiplying crime has been occurring against our peopl…
Sun 16 Jun 2019
Anti-politics
On this week's show we’re analysing the federal election with Elizabeth Humphrys. With growing distrust of politicians and disillusionment with the electoral system, how does the environment movement…
Sun 09 Jun 2019
Fight for the Bight
Fight for the BightCoastal whale peoples from all over are concerned about oil drilling operations in the Southern Ocean's Great Bight. Norwegian multi-national Equinor released an environmental impa…
Sun 02 Jun 2019
Sneaky, dirty business: BHP Olympic Dam Expansion
Sneaky, dirty business: BHP Olympic Dam expansionBHP is up to their old tricks again, trying to expand their dirty uranium mine and sneaky industrial practices, by spinning it with the tired old hype…
Sun 12 May 2019
Passing the torch: A history of nuclear survival in the Pacific
Passing the torch: A history of nuclear survival in the PacificFrom 1946 to 1998 world players in the nuclear armaments industry conducted more than two thousand nuclear test explosions around the wo…
Sun 05 May 2019
My Extremely Long Walk
This week we welcome you to a program with our guest Shannon and he yarns about his own initiative the MY EXTREMELY LONG WALK. And this walk from Melbourne to Canberra is to create awareness and chan…
Sun 28 Apr 2019
Water: Kwatye for Wilora
On the 26th of January 2019 at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in a a yurt, I interviewed three women from Wilora ... a small town just off the Stuart Hwy 300 ks North of Alice Springs .Th…
Sun 21 Apr 2019
'Our History is the Future' the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
'Our History is the Future.' Nick Estes on the Long Tradition of Indigenous ResistanceNick Estes is Kul Wicasa, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. His new book is ‘Our History Is the Future: S…
Sun 14 Apr 2019
Traditional savanah burning cuts CO2 emissions and earns carbon credits for aboriginal communities.
The vision of the Aboriginal carbon foundation is to catalyse life-changing, community prosperity through carbon farming.The main method used is a return to traditional ways of burning off savanna.…
Sun 07 Apr 2019
Local Whittlesea council environment and recycling initiatives
this week on Earth Matters our guest JOCELYN HARTE - The Resource Recovery Officer City of Whittlesea as we yarn about environmental initiatives at the recent Whittlesea Community Festival and we are…
Sun 31 Mar 2019
School Strike for Climate Action
On March 15th more than 1,5 million young people in 2069 cities of 125 countries across world went on strike from school calling for real climate action. In Canberra students spoke to a massive crowd…
Sun 24 Mar 2019
Coal to hydrogen
Hydrogen has been touted as the next technology for power storage, in both large and small scale. It’s often talked about as a green energy, but it all comes down to how the hydrogen is produced. In…
Sun 17 Mar 2019
Dear Mr Gates, We Do Not Consent
Big profits for agribusiness & military are recklessly risking the spread of a new GMO technology called Gene Drives around the world, regardless of their currently largely unknown consequences. Gene…
Sun 10 Mar 2019
The National Shark Summit 2019
The National Shark Summit 2019This week on Earth Matters a conversation on the latest from the NATIONAL SHARK SUMMIT which took place in Sydney from the 21st to the 22nd of February 2019In this progr…
Sun 03 Mar 2019
Thunder and Enlightenment. No Water Mining
Wadu, a Gidabal and Arakwal elder sat down with Muzz, and dozens of others, in the middle of Uki's main street to block a water extraction truck. They needed to make the point that there is nothing …
Sun 24 Feb 2019
Water is Life - First Nations fight for water justice
Water is Life - First Nations fight for water justiceToday, we’re bringing you First Nations voices in the fight for water. First up, the Royal Commission. Rene Woods, Nari Nari man and Chairperson t…
Sun 17 Feb 2019
Saving The Murray Darling part 3 with local traditional owners
In what is a national environmental disaster this week on the program we yarn about the health of the Murray-Darling river systems. I’m joined by our guests William Brian Bates also known as 'Badger …
Sun 03 Feb 2019
Ten Eighty Summit, Part 2: The effects of 1080 poison use in Australia focusing on dingos.
Part 2 of the 1080 Summit focuses on the poisons impact on dingos. Australia and New Zealand use almost 95% of the world's supply of 1080. It is rated a category 1 poison by the WHO - their most toxi…
Sun 27 Jan 2019
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