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EarthChat

BEAM Mitchell Environment Group Inc

EarthChat presents in-depth conversations and views on the many environment issues affecting our community. EarthChat is brought to you by BEAM Mitchell Environment Group. You can listen live each Tuesday on Seymour FM at 12noon AEST, with hosts Ruth, Peter, Marie and Tim. Time to tune in, listen up and get active. Don’t forget to like and follow.

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42:09

Why caring for our oceans is so important S25 Ep36

EarthChat ·

2025/09/24

This week, listen in to Jill Grant exploring the importance of our oceans and chatting about some great organisations that are working to protect this amazing global resource and habitat.Oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface and they provide a vital regulator of global climate and weather through their currents that transfer heat from the Equator to the Poles and dictate rainfall and wind systems with vital impacts on food production, water supplies and habitation. They also directly supply

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47:18

Four million birds and counting S25 Ep35

EarthChat ·

2025/09/17

This week on Earth Chat our guest is Sean Dooley from Birdlife Australia. Sean has been involved with Birdlife Australia for many years and is an expert on our local birds and ways to accurately identify them. Sean and Marie will be discussing Birdlife Australia's impressively large citizen science project, their annual Aussie bird count which has just been launched. This year's count will be from 20th to 26th October.Last year 57,000 participants counted a total of 4,117,293 birds in a week. Go

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43:23

What might the circular economy look like? S25 Ep34

EarthChat ·

2025/09/10

This week's guest is the amazing Sally Quinn, who for over 20 years has been on the cutting edge of social enterprises in the circular economy. Sally is the CEO and Co-founder of Green Collect, a pioneering social enterprise in sustainability and inclusive employment and training practices. Over 20 years she has led the enterprise as a provider of resource recovery services through innovation and best practice in the circular economy.Sally has taken the enterprise through the phases of start-up,

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45:39

Celebrating Nagambie’s Grey Box Grassy...

EarthChat ·

2025/09/05

Nagambie locals and Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority are celebrating 30 years of revegetation work with local native grey box trees grassy woodlands (trees and understory) on Friday. Classified as an endangered environmental community in 2010, Grey Box and derived Grassy Woodlands are iconic. This is our vegetation backyard in the Goulburn Valley. They have enjoyed 30 years of ecological restoration, and deserve some celebration. Celebrate! Friday Sept 12th, Somewhere Café on the

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48:01

Dr Karl gets excited about our ability to address...

EarthChat ·

2025/08/20

Renewable Avenel Energy is hosting a half day expo on 22/8 “Take the heat out of climate change with home-based solutions & renewable energy“. The informative and entertaining Dr Karl Kruszelnicki headlines an impressive line-up of guest speakers.This Tuesday, Dr Karl joins EarthChat. Peter Lockyer captured Dr Karl in a recorded interview during the week, and this will be shared with John Hyland and Jim Billings from Renewable Avenel Energy in the EarthChat studio. Dr Karl is all positive

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44:06

Making the fashion industry more sustainable S25 Ep31

EarthChat ·

2025/08/13

The fashion industry has been revealed as a major source of waste especially those fabrics which contain a high proportion of synthetic and plastic compounds which take a very long time to degrade and leave a toxic legacy, often far from where they are manufactured or purchased.So called “Fast Fashion” is placing a huge burden on waste streams and the natural environment and while consumer behaviour needs significant education and changes there are excellent collaborations happening between

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46:19

Tracks and Trails in Mitchell Shire S25 Ep30

EarthChat ·

2025/08/06

This week, we discuss the proposal to develop tracks and trails throughout Mitchell Shire. We chat about the possibilities of developing links within the shire and also with neighbouring shires. We will look at the health benefits of walking and cycling in the environment. We will also examine the need to protect our natural treasures.The planned growth in the population in the Shire means that we need to plan for our future now. Estates being developed now should include provision for safe

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47:49

Straw bale houses in Australia and India S25 Ep29

EarthChat ·

2025/07/23

Ravish Sran commissioned Peter Lockyer to build a straw bale house in his family village in Punjab, from 2016 to practical completion in 2020. Ravish was impressed with straw bale houses in Victoria, and together with his mother liked one in Nagambie. “This house in India can demonstrate energy efficient housing”. Passive solar design, rainwater harvesting and in-ground brick tanks, straw bale walls of rice straw, saved from being burnt as “rubbish”. And rooftop solar. Completed, it does attract

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43:36

The Environmental Damage of Military Conflict S25 Ep28

EarthChat ·

2025/07/17

This week Peter Lockyer and Marie Gerrard discuss the very serious long term and widespread damage being caused by military activity both in war and peace time. We will examine the recent military developments such as drones and the more traditional forms of conflict. We will try to relate this damage to the populations who are so badly impacted.

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41:49

NAIDOC 2025, the Next Generation: Strength, Vision...

EarthChat ·

2025/07/12

NAIDOC Week this year marks a powerful milestone: 50 years of honouring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture, and resilience. The 2025 theme, "The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy," celebrates not only the achievements of the past but a future, empowered by the strength of young Indigenous leaders, the vision of communities, and the legacy of ancestors. The NAIDOC journey began as a movement for recognition and rights, sparked by Indigenous communities who saw a future built on

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48:43

Indigenous Protected Areas S25 Ep25

EarthChat ·

2025/07/02

Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) are areas of land and sea Country managed by First Nations groups in accordance with Traditional Owners’ objectives. IPAs deliver biodiversity conservation outcomes for the benefit of all Australians, through voluntary agreements with the Australian Government. There are 87 IPAs across Australia, 9 in the Kimberley.This week on EarthChat, Jamie Brown, head ranger at Paruku IPA in the South East Kimberley, chats about his work, discusses the emergence of the ranger

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37:35

Are you ready for Plastic Free July S25 Ep24

EarthChat ·

2025/06/25

Plastic Free July is only a few sleeps away! Now is the time to think about the small steps we can all take to reduce our use of harmful plastics. To help us, in this week's EarthChat, Tim is again chatting with Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, the founder of the global Plastic Free Foundation.Plastic Free July is a key initiative of the Plastic Free Foundation, inspiring all of us to work towards a vision of seeing a world free of plastic waste. Rebecca is a change-maker, author, TEDx speaker and

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43:34

News from the Euroa Arboretum, S25 Ep23

EarthChat ·

2025/06/18

There are always interesting goings on at "the Arb", and, it’s always a joy to catch up with the passionate and innovative folk who work there.Ruth is delighted to welcome development manager, Cathy Olive, and grassy ground cover restoration coordinator, Bronte Haines to this week's EarthChat. Two remarkable people among many caring for the Arboretum, including a group of committed volunteers, who lovingly contribute to the Arb’s great work and its beautiful environment. In consultation with local

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46:49

Combining Art and Activism for the Sake of the Planet...

EarthChat ·

2025/06/12

This week, Tim Budge talks with Alex Kelly, an artist, organiser and filmmaker based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Working across film, theatre, communications strategy and troublemaking, Alex purposefully connects the disciplines of art and social change.This EarthChat conversation is part of an ongoing series of programs with people who are seeking to be changemakers/ activists or just community leaders. Together this week we explore Alex's work as an activist and an artist and how that has led

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47:23

Repurposing surplus medical and educational goods S25...

EarthChat ·

2025/06/11

This week, Marie Gerrard is chatting about a new group in our area. The group is currently setting up a store of donated medical and educational goods that are being discarded by our own health and educational institutions but are greatly needed by our International neighbourhood. Jenny Foster from the Rotary Club of Change Makers Cub together with a highly motivated group that will be sending container loads of carefully sorted goods that the recipients have indicated that they both need but also

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45:38

Celebrating ‘Friends of the Earth’ S25 Ep20

EarthChat ·

2025/05/30

Friends of the Earth (FoE) is the largest grassroots federation of environmental activists in the world and currently active in more than 70 countries, with over 2 million supporters and members world wide. FoE began 56 years ago in the USA (San Francisco in 1969), and 53 years ago FoE set up its first Australian office in Adelaide (1972), and a year later (1973) the Melbourne office was set up. The national Australian office was established in 1974. Since 1973, Friends of the Earth Australia (FoE)

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43:11

Biodiversity - Nature's Insurance Policy for a...

EarthChat ·

2025/05/21

This week Tim, Jill and guests will be discussing biodiversity. Biodiversity is a term that is used frequently today - but what does it really mean and why is it so important to many aspects of our lives? Essentially it is all the variety and variability of all the different life forms on Earth ie plants and animals, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fungi and other micro-organisms such as bacteria. The complex interactions of the species and the balance of natural processes and lifecycles make it

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52:08

Mitchell Shire's green space possibilities S25 Ep18

EarthChat ·

2025/05/15

This week Marie and Ruth chat with recently retired shire Councillor Rob Eldridge about some wonderful possibilities in Mitchell Shire for developing our opportunities to set aside significant areas of green space for the future.They start with the proposed Wallan Wallan wetland park. This is an opportunity that must not be missed as the population of this area grows. There is also a great discussion on some of the restrictions to the actual powers of the Shire, what we can and cannot do.

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43:55

Post election challenges S25 Ep17

EarthChat ·

2025/05/07

With Dutton and much of the Coalition voted out of parliament, we are saved from going down a fraught path of nuclear power, and the voters of Australia have strongly rejected Trumpism here.But there are some big challenges for Australia for the resurgent Labor Government. For starters, ramping up the transmission linkage of renewables, upgrading our environmental protection laws, and getting serious about a national conversation on a more sustainable water policy. Retired academic and strategic

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46:29

Nuclear facts and fictions S25 Ep16

EarthChat ·

2025/04/30

Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are policy realities in this current federal election. Both major parties support them in one way or another. The Leader of the Opposition has been open in saying a Coalition government would build nuclear reactors in Australia to replace “ageing coal power stations”. Both Labor and the Coalition are committed to AUKUS, which would see Australia supplied with eight nuclear-powered submarines, at a cost of approximately $360,000,000,000. Neither party is keen to

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