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
Festivals and the Environment: talking trash, transport and toilets
Summer is here again and for many people - it is festival season! But when you hit the dancefloor, what will be the environmental impact? And what are festivals doing about transport, trash and toile…
Sun 24 Dec 2023
The People's Blockade of the World's Largest Coalport
Thousands of climate activists took to the water on the weekend of November 25-26, blockading the coal port in Muloombinba Newcastle.Jacob spoke to blockade organiser Zack Schofield, and school strik…
Sun 17 Dec 2023
War and the Environment: Palestine
“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”H.G. WellsAs true as it was back in 1936, it is still true today. And whilst the human cost of war is undeniable, not often considered is the environmental dama…
Sun 10 Dec 2023
World Disability Day: Dee Mould and Bec Horridge chat about Health Sovereignty and give praises to the Newcastle coal port blockade.
Dee and Bec respond to the Earths urgent screaming; the luscious, living system all around us and really try to help. Global boiling activists Dee Mould and Bec Horridge met on the ground at the ins…
Sun 03 Dec 2023
Emissions impossible and "Biodiversity on a knife edge"- Alpine insect decline
Nurrdalinji Aboriginal Corporation Members and Directors outside a flaring exploration well on Tanumbrini Cattle Station.Photo courtesy of Thomas Houlie kindly provided by Original Power and the Nurr…
Sun 26 Nov 2023
Fighting for Banaba Part 2
Professor Katerina Teaiwa and Itinterunga Rae Banteiti join Priya to discuss the colonial history of phosphate mining on Banaba and the fight by Banabans for reparations and an end to extraction. Thi…
Sun 19 Nov 2023
Fighting for Banaba Part 1
Professor Katerina Teaiwa and Itinterunga Rae Banteiti join Priya to discuss the colonial history of phosphate mining on Banaba and the fight by Banabans for reparations and an end to extraction. Thi…
Sun 12 Nov 2023
Fire threatens endangered purple-crowned fairy-wren
Fire threat to purple-crowned fairy-wren Wildfire threatens the survival of the endangered purple-crowned fairy-wren, a tiny bird that lives in riparian zones, along the rivers and creeks of Australi…
Sun 05 Nov 2023
Jail can not rehabilitate forest defender Dr Collette Harmsen. Just tear up the wood supply agreements.
Dr. Colette Harmsen, in lutruwita (Tasmania) was released on Friday 13/10/23 from her three months sentence in prison, for having stood up for the protection of our precious native forests. She spoke…
Sun 22 Oct 2023
Women bringing new agendas to COP28: Part Two
At a time when the world has moved from global warming to 'global boiling' according to the UN Secretary General, all eyes are on COP 28 (UAE, Dec 2023) for the world to take the actions needed to dr…
Sun 15 Oct 2023
Ecuador votes to 'keep oil in the soil'
Waorani leader Alicia Cahuiya standing next to a tree near her community marked to be cut down by Petroecuador, the company now banned from drilling in Yasuní National Park.Ecuador votes to keep oil…
Sun 08 Oct 2023
Women bringing new agendas to COP28: Part One.
At a time when the world has moved from global warming to 'global boiling' according to the UN Secretary General, all eyes are on COP 28 (UAE, Dec 2023) for the world to take the actions needed to dr…
Sun 01 Oct 2023
Outcomes of the call to End Native Forest Logging in Australia at the ALP National Conference.
Sean O Shannessy talks with Felicity Wade from the Labor Environment Action Network about outcomes for our native forests at the recent ALP National Conference in Meanjin. Bob Browns with trumpets an…
Sun 24 Sep 2023
Rising Tide: civil resistance for climate justice
With the effects of climate change being felt around the globe, a small grassroots civil resistance movement is reforming, and they are called Rising Tide.We spoke with Shaun Murray and 19 year old A…
Sun 17 Sep 2023
Uncle Bunja Smith: " A vote for Yes is a vote for hope and opportunity". 43 climate groups support writing Yes. With Djaarmby Band. Transcript too.
Uncle Bunja Smith says he wants "to see a permanent voice to parliament so we may be able to close the gap”. Uncle Bunja is asking people to find out about The Voice referendum coming up on October 1…
Sun 10 Sep 2023
Unpacking the "Save the Bees" campaign
"Save the bees" has become an environmental catch cry – but with honeybees colonies on the rise, what bee species are in need of saving and how should we go about saving them?This episode we chat wit…
Sun 03 Sep 2023
Saving Westernport Bay: A community takes on AGL
Saving Westernport Bay: A community takes on AGL On October 17th 2017 AGL announced it would install a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) in Westernport Bay on the Mornington Peninsula i…
Sun 27 Aug 2023
Nuclear waste and what to do with it
A 2021 national inventory found Australia’s low and intermediate waste has a combined volume greater than seven Olympic swimming pools. This episode looks at the Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Co…
Sun 20 Aug 2023
Environmental dimensions of the 'war on drugs'
Environmental Dimensions of the 'war on drugs' We investigate the environmental dimensions of the war on drugs and the international drug prohibition regime. Liliana Davalos, an evolutionary biologi…
Sun 13 Aug 2023
AUKUS: a feminist perspective
Australia is preparing for war, but is there an alternative?Margaret Reynolds from the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom joins the show to discuss what AUKUS means for Australian soci…
Sun 06 Aug 2023
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