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44 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago -Listen to the world’s greatest minds live from WOMADelaide’s “The Planet Talks” stage - fascinating conversations about our environment and sustainable relationship with the planet.
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2019 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - The Fight for the Bight Against Big Oil
June 26, 2019 07:02 - 54 minutes - 125 MBSPEAKERS: Peter Owen, Bunna Lawrie and Jodie Rummer HOST: Clare Press Peter Owen (The Wilderness Society), Bunna Lawrie (Mirning Elder and Coloured Stone frontman) and Jodie Rummer (marine scientist, James Cook University) represent a large and growing movement of concerned people, councils, businesses, industries, environmental and scientific organisations opposing the proposed drilling by Norwegian oil company Equinor in The Great Australian Bight. It’s a David versus Goliath battle in ...
2019 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Adani, Coal Wars, and the National Interest.
June 26, 2019 07:00 - 58 minutes - 134 MBSPEAKERS: Quentin Beresford and David Ritter HOST: Deb Tribe Our Prime Minister recently declared the need for “fair dinkum power" when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. But can this “fair dinkum power” be good for the planet, leaving the 90 per cent of the nation’s coal reserves in the ground estimated for Australia to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement? Join Prof Quentin Beresford (author of Adani and the War on Coal) and David Ritter (Greenpeace CEO and autho...
2019 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Less Meat, Less Heat: Is the elephant in the room a cow?
June 26, 2019 06:57 - 1 hour - 138 MBSPEAKERS: Angie Plummer, Cecile Godde, Matthew Evans and Andy Lowe HOST: Deb Tribe Can we really tackle climate change without addressing our relationship with meat consumption and the livestock industry? Ditching the snag on the BBQ and shifting to a more plant based diet is a demand-side solution but only half the consumption / production equation. What needs to be done to change a livestock industry that contributes 15% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions? That’s even more than the ...
2019 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - The Magic of Mushrooms: A mycelial path to saving the planet.
June 26, 2019 06:56 - 1 hour - 138 MBSPEAKERS: Gavin McIntyre, Brian Pickles, Alison Pouliot and Mike Hornblow HOST: Robyn Williams Fungi preceded trees and animals on the Earth by hundreds of millions of years, and they’ll be cleaning humanity’s mess long after we’re gone. But can the humble ‘shroom help us save the planet right now? Bioneer Gavin McIntyre from ground breaking New York biofabrication company Ecovative Design, mycologists Brian Pickles and Alison Pouliot, and interdisciplinary designer Mike Hornblow are certa...
2019 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - The Party Room podcast: Live!
June 26, 2019 06:49 - 59 minutes - 136 MBSPEAKERS: Fran Kelly, Patricia Karvelas, Senator Penny Wong and Minister Simon Birmingham. Radio National’s brilliant politics podcast The Party Room comes out of the studio and into the Park for the first time. Join two of Australia’s most respected journalist broadcasters, Fran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas, plus special guests Senator Wong and Minister Birmingham as they analyse and interpret the latest issues from Canberra affecting our world.
2019 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Can Trees Talk, Think and Heal?
June 26, 2019 06:25 - 58 minutes - 132 MBSPEAKERS: Brian Pickles, Monica Gagliano and Alex Gaut HOST: Robyn Williams Join pioneering scientists Brian Pickles and Monica Gagliano alongside Nature Connection guide, Alex Gaut as they discuss the fascinating world of tree communication, plant cognition and the healing powers of forest bathing. Gagliano’s bio acoustics research in plant cognition and Pickles’ work revealing a mycelium communication network dubbed “the Wood Wide Web” has exposed an incredible hidden world where plants ...
2018 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Tim Flannery Keynote with Robyn Williams
August 24, 2018 01:21 - 1 hour - 112 MBInternationally celebrated environmentalist, scientist, explorer, writer and 2007 Australian of the Year, Professor Tim Flannery will open the Planet Talks with a keynote address and conversation about our sustainable relationship with the planet joined by the father of Australian science broadcasting, the legendary Robyn Williams. Currently Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and chief councillor of the Australian Climate Council, Australia’s largest and most...
2018 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Climate Justice & the Human Face of Climate Change
August 24, 2018 01:03 - 58 minutes - 107 MBSpeakers: Kathy Jetnil Kijiner, Ursula Rakova, Julian Burnside, and Tim Costello Host: Ben Doherty While the world’s richest countries talk about climate change, many of the poorest nations are experiencing its devastating effects right now. Climate justice activists, Ursula Rakova (Carteret Islands) and Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner (Marshall Islands) are the human face of climate change. Their homelands are the first nations of people being forcibly displaced due to manmade global warming. Ursula...
2018 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Techtopia LIVE
August 24, 2018 00:23 - 1 hour - 113 MBSpeakers: Genevieve Bell, Kristin Alford and Toby Walsh Host: Bernie Hobbs Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Machines represent the most significant social and organizational challenges since human civilisation emerged 5000 years ago. How humanity engages with these technologies today is the key to ensuring that the future development of these tools benefit both society and the environment. Joining Bernie Hobbs for a live discussion exploring the ramifications of technologies set to ...
2018 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Is Plastic Pollution as Great a Threat to Humanity as Climate Change?
August 24, 2018 00:05 - 56 minutes - 104 MBSpeakers: Vaughan Levitzke, Vivian Sim, and Anne Sharp Host: Deb Tribe An estimated five trillion plastic items - mostly less than five millimetres in size - are currently circulating the surface of the world's oceans and scientists cite microplastics (particles less than 5mm) entering our food chain as a potential toxic ticking time bomb. Let that sink in for a minute... ('scuse the pun). Three experts in waste, microplastic contamination research and consumer behaviour, Vaughan Levitzke...
2018 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - The Wonder of Birds
August 23, 2018 23:56 - 1 hour - 108 MBOur Most Vital Connection to Nature & What They Tell Us About the Planet & Ourselves Speakers: Jim Robbins and Sonia Kleindorfer Host: Robyn Williams Our human relationship to birds is like no other creature on earth. These wondrous and miraculous animals captivate, inform and enrich all life on the planet in extraordinary ways. New York Times writer and author of "The Wonder of Birds" Jim Robbins and professor of animal behaviour at Flinders Uni Sonia Kleindorfer, will come together for...
2018 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Wardrobe Crisis LIVE
August 23, 2018 23:53 - 53 minutes - 98 MBSpeakers: Clare Press, Gab Murphy and Megan O’Malley Vogue Australia's Sustainability Editor-at-Large, respected fashion journalist and author Clare Press brings her popular "slow fashion" podcast Wardrobe Crisis to a live recording at the Planet Talks! The WARDRODE CRISIS Podcast decodes the fashion system and digs deep to explore fashion’s effects on people and planet. Sitting down with Clare are intrepid documentary makers Gab Murphy and Megan O’Malley of "Walk Sew Good" to investigate t...
2018 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Peter Greste in Conversation with Ben Doherty
June 25, 2018 05:16 - 56 minutes - 129 MBSpeaker: Peter Greste Host: Ben Doherty Peter Greste is an award winning foreign correspondent who worked for Reuters, the BBC and Al Jazeera around the world, including London, Belgrade, Africa, South America and Afghanistan. Most recently however, he has become best known for his campaign for press freedom after enduring 400 days in a Cairo prison on charges of terrorism and producing fake news to undermine Egyptian national security. Peter will be joined in a conversation about press f...
2017 WOMADelaide Artists in Conversation - Oumou Sangare
February 06, 2018 05:28 - 1 hour - 105 MBSit in on a one-on-one chat with some of the festival's biggest names with our popular Artists In Conversation series and get a unique insight into the fascinating minds, music and worlds of visiting WOMADelaide artists!
2017 WOMADelaide Artists in Conversation - L-Fresh The Lion
February 06, 2018 05:14 - 59 minutes - 95.6 MBSit in on a one-on-one chat with some of the festival's biggest names with our popular Artists In Conversation series and get a unique insight into the fascinating minds, music and worlds of visiting WOMADelaide artists!
2017 WOMADelaide Artists in Conversation - Inna Modja
February 06, 2018 05:09 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBSit in on a one-on-one chat with some of the festival's biggest names with our popular Artists In Conversation series and get a unique insight into the fascinating minds, music and worlds of visiting WOMADelaide artists!
2017 WOMADelaide Artists in Conversation - Hanoi Masters
February 06, 2018 04:45 - 58 minutes - 88.4 MBSit in on a one-on-one chat with some of the festival's biggest names with our popular Artists In Conversation series and get a unique insight into the fascinating minds, music and worlds of visiting WOMADelaide artists!
2017 WOMADelaide Artists in Conversation - Bebel Gilberto
February 06, 2018 04:12 - 49 minutes - 73.9 MBSit in on a one-on-one chat with some of the festival's biggest names with our popular Artists In Conversation series and get a unique insight into the fascinating minds, music and worlds of visiting WOMADelaide artists!
2017 WOMADelaide Artists in Conversation - Aziza Brahim
February 06, 2018 04:06 - 59 minutes - 97 MBSit in on a one-on-one chat with some of the festival's biggest names with our popular Artists In Conversation series and get a unique insight into the fascinating minds, music and worlds of visiting WOMADelaide artists!
2017 WOMADelaide Artists in Conversation - Archie Roach & Uncle Jack Charles
February 06, 2018 03:50 - 51 minutes - 84.9 MBSit in on a one-on-one chat with some of the festival's biggest names with our popular Artists In Conversation series and get a unique insight into the fascinating minds, music and worlds of visiting WOMADelaide artists!
2017 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - What's god got to do with it?
May 19, 2017 06:58 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBSpeakers: Prof Mohamad Abdalla | Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black | Philippa Rowland Host: Father Bob Maguire The Pope’s game changing encyclical—Laudato Si – stressed environmental stewardship and climate change action is consistent with Christian spiritual life. But the Green Faith movement is not just a Christian thing. It’s a central pillar of all major religions. This interfaith panel led by Australia’s favourite Catholic, Father Bob Maguire, will discuss how and why Christian, Muslim, Bud...
2017 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Valuing Indigenous Knowledge and Language
May 19, 2017 06:29 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBSpeakers: Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien | Veronica Perrurle Dobson | Fiona Walsh | Zaachariaha Fielding Host: Miriam Corowa 40,000 years of Indigenous Australians have maintained a sustainable relationship with every corner of Australia’s diverse environment via a deep listening tradition that preserves language, heritage and culture. In this panel respected Indigenous Elders, an Ethno-Ecologist and a young Indigenous rising star who sings in his country’s language will talk about this knowledg...
2017 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - "Do Something"
May 19, 2017 05:57 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBSpeakers: Karen O'Brien | Jon Dee | Erin Rhoads | Vanessa Morrish Host: Sonya Feldhoff Just because you can't do everything it doesn't mean you shouldn't do something. Do we view climate change as a problem for Governments, scientists, environmentalists and economists to sort out or is our role as individuals more important? Join Karen, Jon, Erin and Vanessa as they chat about their work focusing on the “I” in climate change, how people see themselves making changes and how we can empower ...
2017 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Redefining Resources and the Right To Repair
May 19, 2017 05:30 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBSpeakers: Kyle Wiens | Veena Sahajwalla | Nicholas Chileshe Host: Robyn Williams We’re running out of resources but according to this panel, we’re going to be ok. Can we compete with the convenience of the garbage dump and the latest iPhone? Are tech companies taking away our right to extend the life of products? Is a waste-free economy possible? iFixit founder Kyle Wiens, UNSW’s Scientia Professor of Materials Science, Veena Sahajwalla and UniSA’s reverse logistics expert Nicholas Chilesh...
2017 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Human Life on Mars
May 19, 2017 04:53 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBSpeakers: Carmel Johnston | Josh Richards Host: Robyn Williams Is colonising Mars the next giant leap for humanity or is it a waste of time and money? Do humans need to be a multi planet species to avoid extinction as argued by Elon Musk? What have humans and the blue planet got to gain in the short term by practising and preparing to inhabit the Red Planet? Who better to ask than two of our favourite Martians, Australian Mars One candidate, Josh Richards and Carmel Johnston – Crew Command...
2017 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Richard Fidler in conversation w/ Sir Tim Smit
May 19, 2017 03:58 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBGuest: Sir Tim Smit (UK) Host: Richard Fidler Former Archaeologist, music composer and producer, Sir Tim Smit is best known for his achievements in Cornwall in restoring the Lost Gardens of Heligan and co-creating the multi Award-winning Eden Project - a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture. Eden has become one of the world’s most popular man-made eco-tourism destinations with more than 16 million people visiting it since 2000. And that’s only part ...
2016 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Words, Pictures and Climate Change Pitches
March 29, 2016 04:22 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBSpeakers: Dee Madigan | Jane Caro | First Dog on the Moon Host: Tory Shepherd Can effectively communicating facts about climate change make any difference to how people vote in the next election? What is the PR pollution clouding carbon politics? Is it possible to make an issue this complex simple enough to get good decisions within our short-term electoral cycle? This panel of communications gurus and a canine political cartoon commentariat are masters of words and pictures, so what’s th...
2016 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Should We Trust Scientists?
March 29, 2016 04:17 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBSpeakers: Naomi Oreskes | Tanya Monro | Karl Kruszelnicki Host: Paul Willis Is economic growth possible if we truly address climate change or will a transition require serious economic pain before any gain? Is coal about to disappear as fast as Kodak did and, if so, can new energy technologies deliver a ‘win-win’ for the environment and the economy? This panel features some of our foremost economic and political minds discussing the possibility of a new economy and clean growth.
2016 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - A Green Growth Economy
March 29, 2016 04:14 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBSpeakers: Ross Garnaut | John Hewson Host: Lenore Taylor Is economic growth possible if we truly address climate change or will a transition require serious economic pain before any gain? Is coal about to disappear as fast as Kodak did and, if so, can new energy technologies deliver a ‘win-win’ for the environment and the economy? This panel features some of our foremost economic and political minds discussing the possibility of a new economy and clean growth.
2016 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Off the grid game changers
March 29, 2016 04:11 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBSpeakers: Simon Hackett | Dan Spencer | Felicia Whiting Host: Robyn Williams Three South Australian leaders of 'off the grid innovation and activism' look at what the near future could hold in powering homes, business, streets and cities. Will there be any place for coal fired power stations in that future?
2016 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - What's Love Got To Do With It
March 29, 2016 04:07 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBSpeakers: David Suzuki | Indira Naidoo | Amelia Telford Host: Robyn Williams Is winning the battle for our hearts more important than the economy, politics and carbon numbers? As we increasingly live in cities is our society losing its connection with nature? If so, how might we change this? Our panel looks at cultivating love for the environment and how this helps bring about positive change at the human rather than political level.
2016 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - David Suzuki Keynote
March 29, 2016 04:01 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBSpeaker: David Suzuki MC: Robyn Williams For four decades Canadian David Suzuki has been one of the most prominent, articulate, passionate and effective advocates for our planet and its environment. At 79 he shows no sign of slowing down. Spend an hour with one of the greatest eco-warriors of our time.
2015 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Repairing the Blue Heart of our Planet
May 11, 2015 02:30 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBSpeakers: Sylvia Earle, Charlie Veron, Bronwyn Gillanders Host: Bernie Hobbs Marine experts have warned that we are in the middle of an unprecedented high-risk period of marine species extinction. On our watch the world’s oceans and natural wonders like The Great Barrier Reef have borne the brunt of a potent combination of over-fishing, pollution, unparalleled mining and farming run-offs, the acidification of the seas caused by increasing carbon dioxide emissions and the disruptive results...
2015 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Creating Hope
May 11, 2015 02:30 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBSimran Sethi in conversation with Sylvia Earle Host: Bernie Hobbs Simran Sethi and Sylvia Earle are two of the world’s most inspiring environmental messengers. Their mission is both clear and hopeful - to inspire us all to take responsibility for, and play a role in creating a better future for the earth for all generations to come. Listen to two of the world’s foremost eco-heroes discuss their hopes and dreams for the planet.
2015 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Can Human Beings Be Well When The Planet Is Sick?
May 04, 2015 02:30 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBSpeakers: Paul Willis, Emily Johnston, Ingo Weber Host: Bernie Hobbs Is health the forgotten latecomer to climate change? The change in global temperatures is already causing significant stresses on human populations and we'll need to adapt to a hotter climate regardless of successful emissions reductions. What is the impact likely to be and how might we mitigate it? Our panel of health and science experts discuss what climate change means to our health and well-being.
2015 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - I'm Not A Climate Scientist But...
May 04, 2015 02:30 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBSpeakers: Andrew Denton, Rod Quantock, Hannah Gadsby Host: Robyn Williams Climate change is no laughing matter … or is it? Science or satire - how do we best communicate climate science and the urgency to act on the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced? Do more people turn to Will Ferrell’s climate change YouTube clips or Al Gore pie charts and PowerPoints for the truth? Are people more likely to share on social media Leigh Sales’ 7.30 interview with the world’s leading climate scien...
2015 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - The Silver Lining in the Cloud of Climate Change
April 27, 2015 02:30 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBSpeakers: Cecilia Woolford, Peter Langridge, Bob Brown Host: Robyn Williams Are our climate-altering activities hurtling us towards a bleak fate or is this the catalyst for a new era of environmentally sustainable ideas and innovation? Are we witnessing the dawning of an unstoppable wave of action and leadership? According to our panelists we do have the ideas, innovation, motivation and people to give us the hope that we can and will respond to the challenge. Listen to our visionary panel...
2015 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Valuing Our Planet
April 27, 2015 02:30 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBSpeakers: Vandana Shiva, Paul Sutton, Tim Jarvis Host: Robyn Williams A famous native American proverb says 'Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught, will we realise we cannot eat money.' The panel's three leaders challenge this pessimistic prediction by discussing values - financial and what we love and care about - that we place on our land, food and water. They will range across themes including seed democracy, urbanisation and ...
2014 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Three Great Threats to Biodiversity: Climate Change, People and Habitat Loss
December 10, 2014 01:50 - 1 hour - 139 MBSpeakers: Peter Ward, Chris Daniels, Peter Owen Hosted by: Robyn Williams Life on this planet is under extreme duress. The three pressures, whilst being interlinked and ultimately originating with humans all affect ecosystems in different ways. A warming earth affects the water cycle which ultimately determines the susceptibility of terrestrial landscapes to support life. Cities across the world are growing dramatically over the best land, and habitat clearance to support human needs eli...
2014 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - When Polly Met Peter And Tim
December 10, 2014 01:42 - 57 minutes - 131 MBSpeakers: Polly Higgins | Peter Garrett | Tim Flannery Hosted by: Bernie Hobbs Find out what happens when one of the world’s most visionary thinkers in the area of law and environmental action - Polly Higgins - meets Australia's leading environmental thinker, writer and activist Tim Flannery and former government minister, ACF president and Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett for a frank conversation about why and how the law and legislation must tackle climate change.
2014 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Transforming Society
December 08, 2014 05:48 - 55 minutes - 126 MBSpeakers: Paul Gilding | Simon Holmes à Court | Richard Slaughter Hosted by: Robyn Williams With a change of government and climate change action policy, where to now for “the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time”? Our panel discuss some of the social, corporate and political structures that we still have at our disposal to deal with a planet wide emergency now and into the future.
2014 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Gen Z and Distractions vs. Action
December 08, 2014 04:13 - 58 minutes - 133 MBSpeakers: Tim Hollo | Simon Sheikh | Ane Brun Hosted by: Bernie Hobbs Generation Z are the most globally exposed and connected generation in the history of the planet. They will inherit any mess made by their parents and grandparents but are they more concerned about celebrity culture and low carb diets than climate change and low carbon economies? With the oldest Generation Z turning 19 this year how do we activate their hearts and minds to consider climate change action as their priorit...
2014 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - Climate Change and 100 Million Person Cities
December 08, 2014 04:05 - 58 minutes - 133 MBSpeakers: Tom Wigley | Steffen Lehmann | Amie Albrecht Hosted by: Bernie Hobbs Thanks to the latest research from a host of the world’s most respected climate scientists like Tom Wigley, the weight of evidence pointing to the human role in changing our weather is now beyond compelling. Consequently, if their forecasts of climate change increases do occur, life in our most densely populated areas face an unprecedented and urgent call to action. With 26 cities on the planet ...
2014 WOMADelaide Planet Talks - The Captain Kirk & Dr. Spock of Communicating Climate Change
December 08, 2014 02:29 - 57 minutes - 132 MBSpeakers: Annabel Crabb | Tory Shepherd | Tanya Ha Hosted by: Robyn Williams The Media, MPs and Mothers all play vital roles in shaping our emotional (Kirk) and rational (Spock) attitudes to environmental action. How do they frame a climate change message in ways that are relevant, accurate and meaningful to their audiences? Our panel of expert science, environment and politics communicators discuss some of the social, cultural, political and psychological machinations behind the things ...