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
PEP11 and the impact of underwater noise
PEP11 and the impact of underwater noiseThe gas-drilling proposal known as “Petroleum Exploration Permit 11” or PEP 11, is back on the agenda despite opposition from the community and environmental g…
Sun 12 Mar 2023
Carbon Cost of Logging
Did you know that Emissions from native forest logging in south-eastern Australia are greater than Australia’s domestic aviation industry? This episode we speak with Dr Jennifer Sanger from environme…
Sun 05 Mar 2023
Threats to Australia’s amazing wild bees
Threats to Australia's wild bees Around sixteen hundred and fifty species of bees indigenous to Australia have been identified through western science and it’s estimated that well over a thousand are…
Sun 26 Feb 2023
How the climate crisis is worsening inequality
The climate emergency will continue to bring fire, floods, and extreme weather events all across the world— but not everyone is going to be affected in the same way.Communities that are white and wea…
Sun 19 Feb 2023
Save Big Spotty and Australian forests .
Takesa explains her connection to the forest she lives in on Yuin Country, NSW, the impacts of taking trees and why Australian forests need protection now more than ever. Later in the show Jo…
Sun 12 Feb 2023
Australia's Carbon Credits Conundrum
Carbon offsets have underpinned Australia's climate policies for the last decade. But the credibility of the carbon credits market has been tarnished with allegations of fraudulent credits, and quest…
Sun 05 Feb 2023
Plastic Straw Bans and other false solutions
The sustainability movement likes to tout self-promoted actions of recycling and zero waste, but are these movements possible for everyone? This week we problematise the lack of inclusivity in the su…
Sun 29 Jan 2023
From the Martuwarra to the Baaka - Communities in Flood
From the Martuwarra Fitzroy River in North West WA to the Darling Baaka River in Far West NSW.Remote communities are seeking control over disaster information and flood management as questions are ra…
Sun 22 Jan 2023
Rivers' Rights as Ancestral Beings
This week Earth Matters explores how uniting Indigenous world views with emerging legal concepts offers a strengthened calls for rights for nature. It’s a republication of 2DRY FMs Water Watch episo…
Sun 15 Jan 2023
Bushfire survivor stories help depoliticise global heating negotiations.
Jo Dodds, co-founder of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action observed at COP27 that stories from victims of extreme climate impacts help depoliticise discussions aimed at solving the global heating …
Sun 08 Jan 2023
Biodiversity on the line at COP 15
Biodiversity on the line at COP 15The COP 15 UN biodiversity meeting held in Montreal Canada in December 2022, was seen as a "last chance" to save the nature upon which the world depends. The resulti…
Sun 01 Jan 2023
Calling in from Japan
Japan is not doing great when it comes to climate action. Absent from COP27, awarded "the infamous 'fossil' award and leading a revitalized push by for Nuclear energy, there is a lot to be desired fo…
Sun 25 Dec 2022
First Nations call to Stop Fracking and compensation for damages from bad land management decisions
Rikki Danks; a Karanjini Gundanji women talks from COP27 in Egypt. She wants compensation for first Nations people impacted by climate change and poor resource extraction decisions To protect count…
Sun 04 Dec 2022
Sybil Disobedients: Aprons, Agitprops and Climate Action
Sybil Disobedients: Aprons, agitprops and climate protest You may have seen them on your telly or in front of the AGL building in Melbourne’s CBD in their hooped skirts and yellow aprons...moving slo…
Sun 20 Nov 2022
The lands of flooding rains
The 3rd year of La Lina compounding with the Indian Ocean Dipole has been unrelenting on communities across eastern Australia. In the southern Murray Darling Basin, thousands of homes have been damag…
Sun 13 Nov 2022
Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 2
Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 2While climate catastrophe escalates globally, mutual aid movements are interconnecting and building their power fr…
Sun 06 Nov 2022
Birrarung: Stories of the River
One of Victoria's most iconic rivers, the Birrarung (also known as the Yarra River), is a site of beauty and contradiction. The river is a vital water source for surrounding ecosystems, a reminder of…
Sun 30 Oct 2022
Indigenous Justice Advocacy Network
Al Oshlack talking about the work of the Indigenous Justice Advocacy Network. Insider stories from the epic conservation battles at Timbarra, Iron Gates, the North Lismore Plateau and more. He also …
Sun 23 Oct 2022
Save Our Songlines: A campaign of the Murujuga
Earth Matters speaks with Raelene Cooper from the Save Our Songlines campaign against over-development of the Murujuga in Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia. The campaign has been vocal against the …
Sun 16 Oct 2022
Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 1
Building Power While the Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power Part 1While climate catastrophe escalates globally, mutual aid movements are interconnecting and building their power fr…
Sun 09 Oct 2022
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