New Podcasts

Jeff Angel, Director of the Total Environment Centre, discusses the most recent interation of Inner West Council's Tree Development Control Plan in the context of the global warming.  

Jeff Angel from the Total Environment Centre discusses his serious concerns with Inner West Council's new Tree Development Control Plan, the important role trees play in the urban environment, and how they mitigate effects of global warming.  

Are you in a habit of bringing your own bags to the supermarket? It's been a year since the two big supermarkets voluntarily stop giving out free single use plastic bags and it seems like the NSW government is finally getting around to coming up with developing the state's first comprehensive plastics policy. ABC Statewide Drive speaks with Boomerang Alliance and Total Environment Centre Director Jeff Angel about the Berejiklian government overturning its long-held opposition to banning plastic bags.

Cassie McCullagh's interview with Jeff Angel, Director of Total Environment Centre. He made a compelling argument to get rid of the jobs vs the environment narratives that we've adopted for so long and start thinking about how environmental services and goods, including small medium and large businesses, can be generating jobs and of course profits from making practices that are going to be beneficial for the environment.

TEC Director Jeff Angel tees off with broadcaster and Greens councillor Col Hesse as the Federal election looms and the political landscape shifts from brown to green.

Appalled by textile waste and fast fashion toxicity, designer Camille Reed decided to create an industry congress by starting the Circular Fashion Conference. Here she talks with TEC's Ruth Hessey about how sustainability will transform fashion manufacturing and design on TEC's weekly environment themed radio program, Monday Drive 89.7fm.

Canberra is rife with extremists who think climate science shouldn't be influencing the Australian economy and those who point to the growing $billions lost in desiccated river systems, collapsing food bowls, dying reefs and endless drought. Jeff Angel offers seasoned insights talking to Ruth Hessey on 89.7fm

Colonial Sydney is only a scratch away from the modern metropolis but from the Powerhouse to Parramatta to Mount Gilead, TEC's Urban Sustainability and Koala Advocate, Saul Deane, says we are developing our history away. Here he chats to Ruth Hessey about what's at stake - from Sydney's koalas to rare heritage landscape.

Science teacher, activist, and mother of three, Fiona McCrossin has been swept up in AUSMAP, the new citizen project from TEC which is mapping and analysing plastic on our beaches to help build solutions. She talks to Ruth Hessey about how she became aware of what the UN recently identified as the greatest threat to the planet currently facing us - and how that has affected her teaching career. For more info visit the AUSMAP website. To listen to our weekly radio program check out Monday Drive on 89.7 fm every Monday 4-6pm.