New Podcasts

Macquarie University's Doctor Scott Wilson discusses a brilliant new TEC project which addresses the micro-plastic plaguing our beaches. AUSMAP is a data collection, citizen science strategy, which matches students and academics in a massive, global first initiative to measure, map and analyse the presence of this toxic pollutant in our aquatic ecosystems.

We have one of Australia's last healthy populations of wild koalas in Sydney, but their habitat is about to be bulldozed after recent "rezoning" by the State government knocked an eviction order on their habitat to make way for thousands of new human homes. TEC's Sustainability Campaigner Saul Deane chats to Ruth Hessey about how critical this koala community is, and how many people are fighting to save not just the koalas, but a significant stretch of Western Sydney's bushland. What Can You Do? Donate to TEC's campaign and support Saul's work to Save Sydney's Koalas.

Doctor Ian Wright is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in freshwater ecology and water pollution at University of Western Sydney. Here he chats to TEC's Ruth Hessey on TEC's weekly environment radio program, about water stress and what happens when a city runs dry - could it happen here?

Dr Gene Sherman has been a cultural provokateur and inspirational philanthropist for several decades, creating influential conversations between artists designers and intellectuals, while infiltrating popular culture with her many activities. Since the 1980s she's kept her wardrobe down to 33 pieces, donating retired items to the Powerhouse Museum's collection. Here she chats to TEC's Ruth Hessey about the power of our personal choices and the future of fashion.

Time Travelling Tom Griffiths, popular author, Eureka Prize winner and history professor at ANU, chats to Ruth Hessey about the lessons we should learn from human interaction with our environment over the past few thousand years - if we don't want our civilisation to disappear, as so many others have! 

Australia is now deforesting faster than almost any other country in the world. Here Dr Penny van Oosterzee's chats to Ruth hessey about the ecological consequences, now and in the future. Penny is a QLD scientist and writer who has won two Eureka Science Prizes.

Third generation pastoralist Charles Massey's new book, Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture – A New Earth, heralds a movement to regenerate our pillaged Australian landscape by listening to indigenous wisdom and avoiding the over use of pesticides. It has been praised as "brutally honest" by Tim Flannery, and lauded for its groundbreaking case studies. Here Charles chats to Ruth Hessey on TEC's environment radio program, Monday Drive, 89.7fm.  

Jayne Paramor, Deputy Director of the Boomerang Alliance chats about bringing business, science, and community together for the world's first conference to end plastic pollution, October 31st - Nov 1 www.beyondplasticpollutionconference.org.au

Creating exquisite and confronting artworks from plastic pollution takes Marina DeBris all over the world. Here she chats to Ruth Hessey about her Trashion Show for the Gala Dinner of Beyond Plastic Pollution: Pathways To Cleaner Oceans, a ground breaking 3 day conference from October 31- November 1 at Cockle Bay curated by the Boomerang Alliance. https://www.beyondplasticpollutionconference.org.au/

Whether you're a self employed tradie or a huge development company - a revolution is sweeping through the construction industry! Robin Mellon explains the online resources available through the Supply Chain Sustainability School covering the environmental and social impacts of waste, water, energy and more.