About this podcast
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 or to the repeat on Saturday at 8am with your hosts Vanessa, Peter, Ruth and Tim. Time to tune in, listen up and get active EarthChatters!
Episodes
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- The Return of Soft Plastics Recycling to Australia, S26Ep38 · 43 min · Episode 195This week on EarthChat, Jill Grant discusses the return of soft plastics recycling to Australia and the exciting implications of having a method of dealing with this waste stream…
- A conversation with Georgie Purcell, Animal Justice Party’s state MP, S26 Ep37 · 29 min · Episode 194This week on EarthChat, Tim Budge chats with Georgie Purcell, the Animal Justice Party’s MP in the Legislative Council. The EarthChat focuses on Georgie’s work in Parliament, her…
- Food plant solution S26 Ep36 · 48 min · Episode 193This week on Earthchat Marie Gerrard chats to to Una Hobday about a Rotary project that has developed an extensive data bank of native foods suitable for children in danger of…
- Learning from other cultures and their ecosytems of care, S26 Ep35 · 49 min · Episode 192This week Meredith Budge chats with Inaam Barakat, OAM about what it means to be an older migrant, caring within and across communities.Inaam was born in northern Lebanon and…
- Top Environment issues, S26 Ep34 · 45 min · Episode 191This week Marie Gerrard chats with Ian Dempsy about the most important issues facing us due to environmental damage. They discuss the damage being done but also possible actions…
- Environment Minister Jaclyn Symes joins EarthChat this week · 54 min · Episode 190Jaclyn Symes is the State Labor Member for Northern Victoria and the Minister for Environment, Energy and Resources, Climate Action and the SEC. She is also this week's guest on…
- How fair is modern society? S26Ep32 · 41 min · Episode 189Does everyone have the same access to financial, legal and health benefits in today's society? Who will benefit from the massive role out of data centres? Does capitalism only…
- Friends of the Earth Melbourne, S26Ep31 · 47 min · Episode 188FOE's Cam Walker joins Ruth to outline significant environmental issues for this next Victorian State Election. Cam will take us through the issues and then offer ways we can…
- How Indigenous Cultures Remember Everything, S26 Ep30 · 49 min · Episode 187This week on EarthChat, Tim Budge talks with Dr Lynne Kelly AM, a science writer and Adjunct Research Fellow at LaTrobe University. After a secondary school career, Lynne…
- Caring for Communities, Gardens and Country, S26 Ep29 · 48 min · Episode 186This week, new EarthChat host Meredith Budge welcomes Clare Claydon as her first guest. A long-time, Central Victoria resident, Clare has spent her life working in community…
- The Forest Underground – hope for a planet in crisis, S26 Ep28 · 55 min · Episode 185What 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…
- What will be the real cost of data centres? S26 Ep27 · 44 min · Episode 184This week, EarthChat hosts Mark and Jacqui are talking about the environment impact of data centres. It is generally accepted that they will use significant amounts of energy and…
- An ode to trees: losing trees means losing our lifeline, S26 Ep26 · 52 min · Episode 183Ruth 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. They join her to…
- Serrated Tussock - a very nasty weed, S26 Ep25 · 49 min · Episode 182This week on EarthChat Marie chats with Ivan Carter on the detection and control of Serrated Tussock, the working party tasked with its detection and control and the impacts of…
- Australia’s energy future – progress, practical solutions and possibilities, S26 Ep24 · 46 min · Episode 181This week on EarthChat we want to focus on some of the key issues facing Australia’s energy future including excellent progress being made towards sustainable transport options…
- Australia’s First Treaty is now six months in, S26 Ep23 · 45 min · Episode 180Treaties between First Peoples and governments have been signed in many other countries, like New Zealand and Canada, but until October 2025, Australia was the only Commonwealth…
- Why Gaza Matters: Violet Coco on Courage, Climate, and Conscience, S26 Ep22 · 49 min · Episode 179Would you risk physical injury, sexual assault and more from a foreign militia just to get baby food and emergency supplies to people cut off from humanitarian aid?Violet Coco…
- Environmental issues we need to follow S26 Ep21 · 51 min · Episode 178This week on EarthChat, we discus a range of environmental issues that affect us here in Mitchell shire as well as those that affect our wider lives. Forecasts of very high…
- Cows, Carbon & Change — Inside the Impossible Dairy S26 Ep20 · 48 min · Episode 177This week, Tim chats with Ellen Hunt from the “Impossible Dairy”, which is showing an "udder" approach to dairy farming. What if a small, regenerative dairy could not only…
- Treaties are Essential for Countries that have been Colonized S26 Ep19 · 48 min · Episode 176Many 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…
