Blogs

Listen at noon, Tuesday 21 July on Seymour FM or anytime as a podcast. What if the impact of your efforts to save the planet and plant trees could be seen from space? How exciting would that be? Tony Rinaudo is someone who spent 18 years in West Africa seeking to support farmers to regenerate forests and fight desertification. The program, called Farmer Managed Forest Regeneration, has been responsible for growing 200 million trees and reforeston 6 million hectares-

This week, EarthChat hosts Mark and Jacqui are talking about the environment impact of data centres. What will be the costs in terms of energy use and water resources. And what about costs and benefits for human societies?

Ruth is joined by Dr Greg Moore OAM, a Senior Research Associate from the University of Melbourne, and EarthChat regular, Cath Olive from the Euroa Arboretum.

This week on EarthChat we chat with Ivan Carter on the detection and control of Serrated Tussock, the working party tasked with its detection and control and the impacts of it.

Join EarthChat for a thought‑ provoking conversation on the big issues facing us in climate and social justice.

Join EarthChat for a thought‑ provoking conversation on the big issues facing us in climate and social justice.

Join EarthChat for a thought‑provoking conversation on the big issues facing us in climate and social justice.

Join EarthChat for a thought‑provoking conversation.

Join EarthChat for a thought‑provoking conversation about dairy farming. This week, Tim chats with Ellen Hunt from the “Impossible Dairy”, which is showing an "udder" approach to dairy farming.

Many Australians do not know what a treaty is or could involve. To help answer this question and explore other major issues surrounding Indigenous-State treaty-making, Ruth is joined by Uncle Charles Pakana, founder and editor of Victorian Aboriginal News.

On EarthChat this week, Jacqui and Mark chat about a few different things related to misinformation, renewables and price rises

This week on Earth Chat we discuss all the ways to minimise our prolific and destructive use of plastics in our lives. Can we eliminate the use of single use plastics?

What if regional communities owned their own power instead of multinationals? What if that power came from reliable renewables, instead of fossil fuels controlled by foreign powers and at risk to global geopolitics? What if they got the dividends instead of big companies?

Ruth Yeatman invites Phil Bourne and Russell Fisher to join her to reflect on the interconnected crises threatening humanity and the planet today, primarily driven by climate change, extreme poverty, and geopolitical conflict.

Sustainability in Floristry and the Horticultural Supply Chain

We will be chatting with Michael Watson from the upper Plenty Merri Creek Landcare Group about the enormous diversity across Mitchell Shire. We will look at the various different environments that are represented across the Shire.

Seymour Vet, Andrew Hogan, and wildlife rescuer and carer, Jenny Oakley, join Ruth to discuss the impact of the recent fires that caused tragic losses of livestock and native wildlife, not to mention the cruel experience of being burnt alive.

This week, we talk to two people who have spent three months in Palestine, observing life under Israeli occupation for Palestinian people, who see their land stolen, water diverted, trees bulldozed. What can be done?

Our guest on Tuesday will be local environmental legend Jacqui Fulton. Mark Lyons will be talking to Jacqui Fulton from Broadford about her connection to various conservation groups.

Listen at noon, Tuesday 10 March on Seymour FM or anytime as a podcast. Our guest on Tuesday will be Dr Christlina Zdeneck from birdlife Australia. We will discuss the major problem caused by the poisons commonly used to kill rodent pests. These poisons are readily available and widely used. The problem is that they are slow acting and when birds of prey kill the poisoned rodents the poisons accumulate in their bodies over time and sicken them. The birds then become ill and