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
Land rights and the fight for enviromental justice in Palestine
Land rights and fight for environmental justice for PalestineProfessor Mazin Qumsiyeh is a scientist, author, activist and academic at Bethlehem University and Director of the Palestine Institute for…
Sun 12 May 2024
Surging interest in the work that reconnects: Deep Ecology workshops with John Seed happening now. [Transcript included]
Reconnecting with nature; the living world, through Deep Ecology workshops is taking off in Australia. John Seed and his colleagues are helping people all over this country and overseas find thei…
Sun 05 May 2024
The fight to save Wallum
Right now in Brunswick Heads in northern NSW, hundreds of activists are fighting to save an important ecosystem.Property developers have been given the greenlight to build apartment blocks across Wal…
Sun 28 Apr 2024
Fracking in the Wild West
We take a look at how the campaign to stop fracking and unconventional gas mining in WA is going.The long running campaign has had many successes along the way, and has managed to keep the industry a…
Sun 21 Apr 2024
Bid for World Heritage Listing for the Nullarbor and the Great Australian Bight
Bid for World Heritage listing for the Nullarbor and the Great Australian Bight Mirning Elders supported by the Wilderness Society of South Australia are calling for the Great Australian Bight and th…
Sun 14 Apr 2024
Peter Dutton Threatens Independent Community Legal Representation
Peter Dutton has threatened to reduce access to the Environmental Defenders Organisation; the independent legal representation for community groups attempting to enforce the law against the climate c…
Sun 07 Apr 2024
Environmental histories and futures in lutruwita
On Saturday March 23, Tasmanians headed to the polls in an early election – but one issue seemed to be absent in the public debate: the environment.With the Liberals likely to govern for a fourth ter…
Sun 31 Mar 2024
Whalers Way: a space oddity
Whalers Way is a peculiar choice for a new orbital rocket launch complex. The remote conservation area is one of the last remnants of uncleared land on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.We speak with …
Sun 24 Mar 2024
Building an anti-colonial environment movement
On today’s program, you'll hear a selection of conversations from and about this year's Anti-colonial Student Environment Network (ASEN) Training Camp, featuring zinemaker and ASEN organiser Willow, …
Sun 17 Mar 2024
"Women Speaking out about COP 28": A "Womens Climate Congress Conversation"
Humanity is at a cross-roads for reducing carbon emissions to secure the climate. At COP28 women played a significant role in bringing greater ambition to the fore. And the international women's mov…
Sun 10 Mar 2024
Queer Ecologies
In celebration of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras this weekend, Jacob delves into the relationship between queer identities and the natural world.'Queer ecologies' is a school of thought that r…
Sun 03 Mar 2024
Stopping Seismic: The Great Ocean Rescue Tour
Stopping Seismic: The Great Ocean Rescue Tour The Great Ocean Rescue Tour to stop seismic blasting in the Otway Basin rolled out across the southwest coast of Victoria over January, organised by OCEA…
Sun 25 Feb 2024
Pooing in nature
This week we look at the best ways that humans can interact with nature, errr when nature calls.We talk to Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick about the Poo Project which looked at the ecological impact of h…
Sun 18 Feb 2024
Drug policy reform: The missing link to climate justice
Drug policy reform: The missing link to climate justice The International Coalition on Drug Policy Reform and Environmental Justice has published its first report, Revealing the Missing Link to Clima…
Sun 11 Feb 2024
How to prepare for a 'once in a lifetime' natural disaster... again
The 2020s have been a story of fire, floods, and natural disasters. Communities are still recovering from 'once in a lifetime' natural disasters, and preparing for the next one.This week, we speak wi…
Sun 04 Feb 2024
From the Coal Port Blockade: First Nations Panel: How can we best show solidarity with first nations people?
This amazing First Nations panel responds to the questions: “How can the environment and climate movement best show solidarity with first nations people?”“What does First Nations justice have to do w…
Sun 28 Jan 2024
From the Coal Port Blockade: Speeches on the Beach and the power of washing up!
Deep thinking Grant Howard, who works in the coal industry, shares his realisation that politicians:“deliberately lied; not to protect mine workers but lied and used mine workers to protect their ow…
Sun 21 Jan 2024
Seismic testing in Gunditjmara Ocean
This episode was inspired by a recent a Nyamat Yarkeen Karween - Southern Ocean Dreaming Gunditjmara Ceremony that host Phil Evans attended recently in Narrawong, VIC. Audio from the ceremony is hear…
Sun 14 Jan 2024
Tragedy of the Water Commons
Transcript and Reference ListWhen most Australians can access all the water they could ever want with the simple twist of a tap it’s easy to think that water is a common resource. But even in our own…
Sun 07 Jan 2024
What we need in Australia's new nature laws
What we need in Australia's new nature laws The Federal government is overhauling the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act or EPBC Act (1999) after a damning review published in …
Sun 31 Dec 2023
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