New Podcasts

TEC's director Jeff Angel unpacks the escalating tension between developers and residents as Sydney experiences a particularly excruciating and exfoliating growth spurt - which many people feel is destroying the city with an international reputation for natural beauty and liveability. Find out what you can do! And don't forget to listen to our environment radio program Monday Drive, presented by TEC's Communications Director, Ruth Hessey, on 89.7fm #EastsideRadio  (image Amy Scully, Jeff Angel pic Chris Rehberg)

Dispell the doom and gloom! Ruth Hessey discusses how the transition to a new green energy future is already happening with energy analyst Alan Pears in this TEC Green Podcast, originally broadcast each Monday afternoon on 89.7fm. Pears says the flip-side to the current political torpor and the energy crisis is the exciting transition away from fossil fuels, burning the planet, and generally stuffing things up for the next generation. 

Dr Arthur White has been communing with frogs since he was a kid scrambling through the Eastlakes Wetlands. Here he chats to TEC's Communications Director Ruth Hessey about what frogs do for us, and what we can do for them.

  She's quite batty - in the best way! Rosy Porter chatted with Ruth Hessey on TEC's environment radio show, Monday Drive about how much she's learned from working with the Australasian Bat Society. Rosy is the community coordinator at Addison Road Community Centre, in Marrickville and has a BA in landscape Architecture UNSW.

Tom Nockolds explains how democratically controlled, distributed community energy projects are already bringing social, environmental and economic benefits to communities across Australia. Director of The Community Power Agency, and a founding member of Sydney group, Pingala, Tom has expert knowledge of the different business models available to community groups in Australia's complex technical and regulatory environment.   

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What the hell is Pumped Hydro Storage? And why has our PM Malcom Turnbull got behind a new Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme? Energy Expert Hugh Saddler told us just how it works in this interview for Monday Drive with TEC's Communications Director Ruth Hessey. Click here for more info on TEC's Green Energy campaign.

Why has the Daily Telegraph been calling for the total "defunding" of Total Environment Centre? Jeff Angel reveals all in a radio interview with Ruth Hessey on the environment themed Monday Drive program, 89.7fm  

In this podcast Ruth Hessey interviews Benjamin Cooke, who is a lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne. They discuss the future of “green cities” and how the rapid construction of units and high rises and indeed cities can and has effected the environment. Ruth and Benjamin delve deeper into the topic of how green planning has taken on a more political / democratic approach in the form of urban greening, and how this can effect us as a species.

In this podcast Ruth Hessey talks to Peter Stevens from the Wolli Creek Preservation Society about the tragic demolition of the Bexley North – Tempe ecosystem. They also discuss the effects of the Baird government’s NSW Bio-banking and what the offsets would be, to the community, the environment and most importantly, the wildlife.