“One of the main drivers of our climate and biodiversity crisis is land use, specifically agriculture. It is a key area people need to understand – this is really important for everybody.” ~ Shane Ward, Action Ecology
Tag: carbon sequestration
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Mangroves, microorganisms and care for country
The first half of this Regenerative Hour is about mangroves, seaweed and blue carbon in an indigenous perspective. The rest of the podcast digs into the topics of soil health and carbon sequestering through regenerative farming.
Drawdown Australia: A shared narrative for reversing global warming
Interview with Gene Blackley, who is starting up the ambitious project Drawdown Australia and is looking for people who would like to join him on that journey. The interview was recorded on 18 September 2018 in Melbourne, where Gene Blackley
#YouthRevolution? #StopAdani? #Drawdown? Yep: #TheTimeHasCome
“The time has come / to pay our share.” ~ Midnight Oil, ‘Beds Are Burning’, 1987 The time has come… for a youth revolution, for carbon drawdown and for keeping the climate-wrecking fossils in the ground – which means putting a
Paul Hawken’s Drawdown project: how we sequester CO2 from the atmosphere
Pulling CO2 out of the air. Drawdown. Carbon removal. Carbon capture. Negative emissions. Sequestering carbon. This child has many names. Some see it as ‘the climate change cure’, while others say it is but a cloudy distraction designed to move
The Regenerative Hour: Bring soils into the conversation
A regenerative hour about stable soil sinks versus ‘coke of the farming world’ – with Chris Balazs from Sage Farm, Cindy Eiritz from Healthy Soils, permaculture singer and songwriter Charlie Mgee from Formidable Vegetable Sound System, and Colin Mockett from
The Victorian government’s climate pollution targets
“79 per cent of Victorians would be proud to live in a state that is leading the way on climate change.” ~ Findings of a survey by Sustainability Victoria who in 2016 commissioned Wallis Market and Social Reseach to interview
The Great Debate 2018 – and the little coral that could
Audio recordings of the presentations at the feature festival event ‘The Great Debate’ at the Big Weekend of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2018 on 9 February 2018. Photos by Julian Meehan The event set out to explore the vital
Drawdown for a safe climate
To return to safe levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – the famous 350 parts per million – we have got to figure out how we can rapidly drawdown huge amounts of carbon. The trouble is that we now
Immediate solutions in a climate emergency
In The Sustainable Hour on 21 February 2018, we talk about why we need to draw down massive amounts of greenhouse gases for a safe climate – and about how we can do it. The program features three presentations which