Climactic

Your stories on climate change

About the show

We live in Climactic times.

The culmination of billions of lives lived since the Industrial Revolution. The Anthropocene — our current age of technology, machines, and an insatiable need for fuel — has changed the planet and set us on a new path.

There is now broad agreement that the consequences of our collective actions are severe. We’re facing an unprecedented future with a destabilised natural world due to rising temperatures.

Climactic tells the stories of the people making a difference. Regular people like us, in a daily struggle to live sustainable lives. We want to be the people's voice on climate change, embedded in the community, from the perspective of the actual people.

We want to hear these powerful stories. Are you a member of a community environmental group? Do you have knowledge of climate change? A regular person struggling to figure out your role?

We'd love to help you tell your story.

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Episodes

  • 🎤⭐ Gretchen Miller | Hot Summer Land - Fires (2 of 3)

    February 16th, 2020  |  29 mins 2 secs
    abc, climate change, climate crisis, climate summer, gretchen miller, hot summer land, rn, sustainability

    In the Hot Summer Land project RN Earshot and ABC Open teamed up to ask our audience—you—to paint us a word picture of how your landscape changed over the three months of summer.

  • 🔥🐨 Catastrophic | Sulari Gentill

    February 13th, 2020  |  42 mins 1 sec
    australia burns, australia fires, bushfire, climate change, sustainability, wildfire

    Catastrophic tells the tales of the Australian bushfires and calls for all-partisan political action around Climate Change. Each episode of Catastrophic features an Australian talking about their experience of living through the bushfire crisis, what their fears are now and for the future and what they would like to see done about it on a government level.

  • 🏡🌱 Transition Australia | National Wrap 14-20th Feb 2020

    February 12th, 2020  |  9 mins
    climate change, events, sustainability, the weekly wrap, the wrap, transition australia

    Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on.

  • 🎤⭐ Gretchen Miller | Hot Summer Land - Anticipation (1 of 3)

    February 9th, 2020  |  35 mins 29 secs
    abc, climate change, climate crisis, climate summer, gretchen miller, hot summer land, rn, sustainability

    In the Hot Summer Land project RN Earshot and ABC Open teamed up to ask our audience—you—to paint us a word picture of how your landscape changed over the three months of summer.

  • 🏡🌱 Transition Australia | National Wrap 7 - 13th Feb 2020

    February 5th, 2020  |  9 mins 9 secs
    climate change, events, sustainability, the weekly wrap, the wrap, transition australia

    Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on.

  • 🔥🐨 Catastrophic | Pamela Cook

    February 5th, 2020  |  20 mins 44 secs
    australia burns, australia fires, bushfire, climate change, sustainability, wildfire

    Catastrophic tells the tales of the Australian bushfires and calls for all-partisan political action around Climate Change. Each episode of Catastrophic features an Australian talking about their experience of living through the bushfire crisis, what their fears are now and for the future and what they would like to see done about it on a government level.

  • 🔥🐨 Catastrophic | Sophie Masson

    February 4th, 2020  |  14 mins 45 secs
    australia burns, australia fires, bushfire, climate change, sustainability, wildfire

    Catastrophic tells the tales of the Australian bushfires and calls for all-partisan political action around Climate Change. Each episode of Catastrophic features an Australian talking about their experience of living through the bushfire crisis, what their fears are now and for the future and what they would like to see done about it on a government level.

  • Bronwyn Gresham — Communities in transition, moving beyond zero emissions | Imogen Jubb from BZE

    February 2nd, 2020  |  39 mins 32 secs
    beyond zero emissions, bze, clean energy, climate change, policy, public policy, sustainability, think tanks, traditional fire management, transition

    Ever wondered about the phrase ‘think globally, act locally’? Or how your local community could transition to zero emissions? Well we are stoke to say that this visionary work is underway right now!

  • How To Use the Community Corner

    January 31st, 2020  |  4 mins 39 secs
    climate change, sustainability

    We make a space available each week for community messages, here's how to make use of it!

  • Climactic Live | Climate Emergency Cinema — MPavilion

    January 31st, 2020  |  33 mins 22 secs
    bze, climate change, greenfleet, live, mpavilion, ofkin, slf, sustainability, sustainable living festival, transitions film festival

    Climactic does a live show!

  • 🏡🌱 Transition Australia | National Wrap 31st Jan-6th Feb 2020

    January 29th, 2020  |  8 mins 25 secs
    climate change, events, sustainability, the weekly wrap, the wrap, transition australia

    Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on.

  • 🔰💬 Mark Spencer — Evan Hynes | Climate.careers and the everyday Green New Deal

    January 26th, 2020  |  49 mins 52 secs
    careers, climate careers, climate change, cop, employment, green jobs, green new deal, jobs, sustainability, un, work

    Evan Hynes is the founder of the climate jobs site Climate.careers, an entrepreneur and deep-thinker on the practicalities of solving the climate crisis.

  • 🏡🌱 Transition Australia | National Wrap 24th-30th Jan 2020

    January 22nd, 2020  |  6 mins 24 secs
    climate change, events, sustainability, the weekly wrap, the wrap, transition australia

    Each week Transition Australia, in collaboration with other Transition and environment groups will be putting together a summary of some events that are happening across the country. The aim is to promote the amazing work that's going on and make sure people know just how much is going on.

  • ✍️🌏 Katerina Cosgrove | How surviving cancer helps me cope with the climate crisis

    January 20th, 2020  |  8 mins 46 secs
    bushfire, cancer, cancer survivor, climate change, climate grief, grief, resilience, sustainability, writing for the environment

    Katerina Cosgrove wrote a January 10th, 2020 feature for Al Jazeera. Here, she reads her piece aloud, in her home.

  • 🌊💙 Tess Chapman — Wantoks: Dance of Resilience, and the Power of Media | Iara Lee

    January 19th, 2020  |  41 mins 8 secs
    climate change, iara lee, independent film, independent media, national geographic, pacific, pacific islands, patrick rose, seasters, solomons, sustainability, wantoks

    Tess speaks to independent filmmaker and chronicler of social change and activism Iara Lee.

  • Nancy Hillier Lecture | Climate Justice — new community activism

    January 12th, 2020  |  1 hr 29 mins
    climate change, elly baxter, jean hinchliffe, lecture, nancy hillier, panel, ss4c, sustainability, sydney, tema milstein, unsw, varsha yajman, xr

    In 2016, staff in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales proposed an annual lecture to commemorate the life and work of Nancy Hillier OAM, a prominent figure in the Botany Community, instigator of significant community services across many fields, and a life time supporter of education and scholarship.