Climate News: All-electric garbage truck - fun ride; Nuclear focus forces resignation; Elizabeth Kolbert talks about hope

The much loved ARIA and AIR Award-winning children’s act Teeny Tiny Stevies, featuring sisters Byll and Beth Stephen, released their fifth record The Green Album via ABC Music. It is launched into the world with a new single and accompanying video, Climate Change. "Growing leaders in Maryborough: How a school groundsman and students tackle climate change"; "The Nymphageddon with Dr. Trebicki"; "The great distribution dilemma – can public interest journalism survive?"; "Green petrol and eco plastic? Fake ‘Earth friendly’ claims are out of control"; "The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International"; "Powering ahead with green hydrogen"; "Global plastic pollution treaty talks hit critical stage in Canada"; "Video Games Are Finally Waking Up to Climate Change"; "The $200 Billion Video Game Industry Is a Climate Opportunity"; "Players travel the world to learn about heat-resilience techniques—then come back and gallantly slay the heat dragon"; "Extreme Heat Series for Minecraft Education"; "Attention gamers! Defeat the ‘heat dragon’ or get burned."; "Species living closely together in symbiosis is far older and way more common than you might think"; "Native bats should be celebrated like other Australian wildlife, ecologist says"; "Residents of climate change-affected communities support Torres Strait Islanders in landmark federal court case"; "If plastic manufacturing goes up 10%, plastic pollution goes up 10% – and we’re set for a huge surge in production"; "Blue Derby Wild's High Court appeal thrown out, with native logging set to continue near mountain-biking trails"; "Violent tornadoes wreak destruction in Nebraska and Iowa"; "PM Update: Summery night to follow warm Sunday. First 90-degree day Monday?"; "Tornadoes rip through Plains, with more possible Saturday"; "The Environmental Victories Keep on Comin"; "Chart: Heavy industry is the next big climate problem to tackle"; "G7 agrees to shut down coal plants by 2035, UK minister says, in climate breakthrough"; "Anatomy of a failed EV startup": "Why are fish still dying in the Darling River at Menindee — and what can we do to prevent it?": "Geothermal heat pumps are helping clean up city buildings"; "Majority of young American adults say climate change influences their decision to have children"; "Climate Change Has Infiltrated Game Night—and That’s a Good Thing, Experts Say"; "The Drowning South"; "Grasslands 101: Everything You Need to Know"; "Bunbury becomes 30th member of WA EV Network with new fast-charger along Blair Street"; "It’s time to strike an environmental grand bargain between businesses, governments and conservationists – and stop doing things the hard way"; "Battery Energy Storage Capacity Must Increase 6x Faster to Meet Global Climate Goals: IEA"; "4 Must-Read Graphic Nonfiction Books About the Environment"; "Creating a liveable, equitable world"; "A New Federal Tool Could Help Cities Prepare for Scorching Summer Heat"; "China’s quiet energy revolution: The switch from nuclear to renewable energy"; "A Simple Act of Defiance Can Improve Science for Women"; "Strict new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down"; "Letting Your Grass Grow Wild Boosts Butterfly Numbers, UK Study Says"; "More Than 1 in 5 Cars Sold Globally This Year Will Be Electric: IEA Report"; "Humans might need to re-engineer the climate"; "Global warming threatens Antarctica’s meteorites"; "Extreme Heat Stress in Europe Hit Record Levels in 2023, Report Finds"; "Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret"; "How an Arizona Medical Anthropologist Uses Oral Histories to Add Depth to Environmental Science"; "Biden to Announce $7 Billion in Rooftop Solar Grants to Power Nearly 1 Million Households"; "Birdsong once signalled the onset of spring on my street – but not this year"; "Renewable Electricity Generation Outpaces Fossil Fuels for Record Time Span in UK"; "Climate change threatens the coastal Gullah Geechee" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Life often stands in the way of goals, but eventually, the fog lifts and you get back to the essence of those aims - "Playing God With the Atmosphere"; "Why won’t Chris Packham have a real debate on climate?"; "‘Outrageous’ climate activists get in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?"; "Global battery rollout doubled last year – but needs to be six times faster, says IEA"; "Deadly Dubai floods made worse by climate change"; "E.P.A. Severely Limits Pollution From Coal-Burning Power Plants"; "“Guiding compass to 1.5C”: COP29 presidency unveils plans for global climate action"; "Tanya Plibersek rejects claims renewable projects are being held up by approval delays"; "Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of UAE floods, study finds"; "Nationals’ nuclear climate policy puts Australia’s Paris deal in doubt"; "Circular Action Guide"; "‘Just do it!’ Wisconsin couple built a net-zero home"; "Could fossil fuel companies be charged with homicide?"; "Clean image, dirty truth | Between the Lines"; "The truth about getting to net zero, according to the numbers – video"; "Honda Commits to E.V.s With Big Investment in Canada"; "Tesla Fell Behind, Then Leapt Ahead of ExxonMobil in Market Value This Week"; "Alabama Coal Mine Keeps Digging Under A Rural Community After Hundreds of Fines and a Fatal Explosion. Residents Are Rattled"; "In Wyoming, a Tribe and a City Pursue Clean Energy Funds Spurned by the Governor"; "How an obscure atmospheric phenomenon causes catastrophic flooding in California"; "NASA Announces Summer 2023 Hottest on Record"; "A long, hot U.S. summer is looming, forecasters say"; "Cities' heat solutions are mainly Band-Aids"; "How Phoenix is preparing for its next brutally hot summer"; "Climate Damage Costs Could Total $38 Trillion per Year by 2050, Study Finds"; "‘It’s Got to Be a Fight’: Author Adam Welz on Surviving Climate Breakdown and Saving Species of a ‘Tarnished Eden’"; "Worst wine harvest in 62 years blamed on ‘extreme’ weather and climate change"; "Will There Be Less Wind to Fuel Wind Energy?"; "Dozens of Climate Activists Arrested at Citibank Headquarters in New York City During Earth Week"; "How to talk to a climate doomer (even if that doomer is you)"; "Doctor: To fight asthma, fight global warming"; "Tensions rise over who will contribute to new climate finance goal"; "State of the climate: 2024 off to a record-warm start"; "Climate activist's 'Kafkaesque' trial"; "Climate Impact of Primary Plastic Production"; "Building a Net Zero Ready Home: Episode 1"; "Sinking land is a problem for cities all over the world"; "I’m asking BP to take its share of responsibility for my son’s death, and will take it to UK court if I have to"; "Could this pink rice be the food of the future? Scientists say it’s more nutritious than normal rice"; "How the EPA will spend $27 billion in carbon-reduction funds"; "Kiwis are learning how to fight climate change – polls"; "A global study just revealed the world’s biggest known plastic polluters"; "Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires"; "Hot Oceans Worsened Dubai’s Dramatic Flooding, Scientists Say"; "Mining Giant BHP Makes $39 Billion Bid for Rival Anglo American"; "Nearly Half the States Sue E.P.A. Over New Limits on Deadly Pollution"; "Energy Dept. Aims to Speed Up Permits for Power Lines"; "Biden Administration Pauses Approvals of New Gas Export Terminals"; "New Pollution Rules Aim to Lift Sales of Electric Trucks"; "So Much Produce Comes in Plastic. Is There a Better Way?"; "Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution"; "State of the science on plastic chemicals"; "For Earth Day 2024, experts are spreading optimism – not doom. Here's why."; "This state is quickly becoming America's clean energy paradise. Here's how it's happening"; --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Kyla Brettle (pictured) drops the first two episodes of her new podcast: "Everything We Need"; "Lessons in Climate Storytelling"; "America’s biggest wind farm | Repowering the West"; "Chris Stark: Rishi Sunak has set us back, head of climate change watchdog says"; "What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know"; "LSU’s fossil-fuel partnerships"; "Uncharted Oceans"; "Cristina Mittermeier"; "Consumer watchdog refuses to certify green labelling scheme"; "Thoughtful Threads: Presented by Climate One and Nothin But Hits at SF Climate Week"; "A new rule aims to fortify public lands against climate change. Here’s why Utah wants to fight it."; "Biden-Harris Administration Announces $7 Billion Solar for All Grants to Deliver Residential Solar, Saving Low-Income Americans $350 Million Annually and Advancing Environmental Justice Across America"; "West Antarctica’s ice sheet was smaller thousands of years ago – here’s why this matters today"; "Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023"; "Chinese province of Guangdong hit by historic floods"; "Cloak and desecrate: The specter of deep-sea mining"; "Stockland and Ampol rev up superfast EV charging stations"; "Rewilding ourselves: A project of hope [Midwest USA]"; "Almost half of all major Chinese cities are sinking, study warns"; "Do the people care about the climate crisis? These voters say yes - but the polls do not"; "US offshore wind needs American-made ships. The first is nearly ready"; "Tritium, major supplier of EV fast-charging equipment, is insolvent"; "Lisa Wee on how digital solutions drive the transition to net zero and help cut industrial emissions"; "Fashion and lifestyle brands unite to protect forests on Earth Day"; "Here’s the truth: energy transition is hard. Not everyone gets a pony"; "If Australia has reached ‘peak milk’, what does that mean for our food security?"; "Gone in a puff of smoke: 52,000 sq km of ‘long unburnt’ Australian habitat has vanished in 40 years"; "Guardian Essential poll: voters back Labor’s Future Made in Australia plan while overestimating cost of renewables"; "Meet four people in refugee communities who are creating a greener future"; "Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River"; "In Wyoming, a Tribe and a City Pursue Clean Energy Funds Spurned by the Governor"; "Would you give up planes for these trains? Europe pushes travel that’s climate-friendly."; "These 150-foot-high sails could help solve shipping’s climate problem"; "Nine practices from Native American culture that could help the environment"; "Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem"; "Coal trains carry health risks along with cargo"; "Climate change is creating a ‘cocktail’ of health hazards for 2.4 billion workers"; "High Levels of PFAA (Subgroup of PFAS) Found in Sea Spray"; "Seychelles Beach Cleanup Shows Potential for Citizens to Tackle Marine Trash"; "Metal Waste Could Be Used as a Catalyst for More Sustainable Hydrogen Production, Researchers Say"; "Biden’s Bureau of Land Management Will Offer Leasing of Public Lands for Conservation"; "More than coral: the unseen casualties of record-breaking heat on the Great Barrier Reef"; "Ecosystems are deeply interconnected – environmental research, policy and management should be too"; "SeaLegacy"; "The Commons Social Change Library"; "Scottish Greens to vote on power-sharing deal with SNP after carbon goal ditched"; "Tens of thousands evacuated from massive China floods"; "Pakistani province issues a flood alert and warns of a heavy loss of life from glacial melting"; "Austria likely to be largely ice-free within 45 years as glaciers recede quickly, experts say"; "Next UN climate talks are critical to plot aid for poorer nations, says incoming president"; "Powering down: end times for the UK’s final coal-fired station"; "Coastal cities not safe from sea level rise warns oceanographer"; --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Joining a Melbourne workshop and arriving early, as I always do, I was helping a woman adjust some blinds and upon hearing me speak she said "Are you a podcaster?" In answering yes and adding that I host "Climate Conversations", she said she was a follower. I was thrilled! Anne is the co-host of RadioMMT, a program that can also be found on YouTube. "What is a passive house?"; "Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts"; "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"; "A third of U.S. adults are interested in cutting back on meat, report finds"; "NOAA Confirms 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event as Climate Crisis Puts Reefs ‘Under Serious Pressure’"; "Dubai floods: Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record rains"; "Great Barrier Reef experiencing one of its worst coral bleaching events"; "Climate change: Deadly African heatwave 'impossible' without warming"; "Global warming is coming for your shopping cart"; "How Do Neighbors of Solar Farms Really Feel? A New Survey Has Answers"; "‘We would not survive without coffee’: how rules made in Europe put Ethiopian farmers at risk"; "Death Valley is alive this year. A super bloom is the latest sign."; "Meteorologist warns of 'weather wars' between countries after Dubai floods were blamed on 'cloud seeding' - with 'catastrophic' consequences"; "Extreme Heat Resilience: lessons from Spain for Australia"; "Battery-Electric Buses piloted in Seattle reduced maintenance costs per mile by 44.1 per cent compared to their diesel bus counterparts."; "EPA $61 Million in Funding Will Put Clean School Buses on the Streets of New York City"; "EV school bus rollout off to slow start despite billion-dollar subsidies"; "Water is at the heart of farmers’ struggle to survive in Benin"; "‘Step on the gas,’ ‘well-oiled machine,’ and other fossil-fuel phrases that pervade our language"; "Schools in coal country are going solar"; "How much CO₂ does the world emit? Which countries emit the most?" "A California firm may have a concrete way to help the planet with cleaner cement"; "Construction to begin on high-speed rail between Vegas and California"; "Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016"; "Climate crisis: average world incomes to diminish by nearly a fifth by 2050"; "The heat is on: what we know about why ocean temperatures keep smashing records"; "The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)"; "The economic commitment of climate change"; "For the first time, U.S. may force polluters to clean up these ‘forever chemicals’"; "Despite Their ‘Bad Rap,’ Bats Can Help Farmers"; "More Than $100 Billion in Debt-for-Nature Swaps Could Help Fight Climate Crisis, Report Says"; "Climate change played a role in killing tens of thousands of people in 2023"; "Global billionaires tax to fight climate change, hunger rises up political agenda"; "Fossil fuel debts are illegitimate and must be cancelled"; "World Bank climate funding greens African hotels while fishermen sink"; "Researchers at Michigan Tech Want to Create a High-Tech Wood Product Called Cross-Laminated Timber From the State’s Hardwood Trees"; "Fracking-Induced Earthquakes Are Menacing Argentina as Regulators Stand By"; "Ultra-fast fashion is a disturbing trend undermining efforts to make the whole industry more sustainable"; "Following a t-shirt from cotton field to landfill shows the true cost of fast fashion"; "More EV drivers embracing outback roads amid plan to expand Queensland's charger network"; "‘End crippling debt’: Calls mount for global financial reform to tackle debt and climate crisis"; "Airline Places Order for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Made From Human Waste"; "‘Climate-controlled pig’? Danish Crown admits to misleading people with greenwashing pork claims"; "Govt urged to protect seabirds on the brink of extinction"; "Global coral bleaching caused by global warming demands a global response"; "Geothermal joins the energy mix". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Executive Secretary at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Simon Steel (pictured during Q&A at London's Chatham House), has declared we have "Two years to save the world". As a bonus, you can follow this link and go to "Outrage and Optimism" to hear an interview with Simon Steill and then listen as hosts, Tom Rivett-Carnac, Christiana Figueres and Paul Dickinson, take a deep dive into what Simon Steill said. On climate, the world has gone from denial to procrastination. Climate inaction is no longer defended by denying the science, but because action is claimed to be ‘too costly’ or unachievable. Yet, the time to shape a liveable future is running out, with the decisions taken over the coming two years determining how close to limiting global warming to 1.5°C we will get by the end of the century. With more than 60 countries going to the polls this year, and nearly 90 per cent of the population in 125 countries want stronger climate action, every election is a climate change election.  We must now see climate action as a tool to create better, more equitable and cleaner societies, with solid economies built around plentiful, renewable energy. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

"Investor heavyweights failing to boot directors on climate commitments"; Samantha Helps is full of praise for Violet Coco (pictured) in her piece on Pearls and Irritations: "XR blocking arteries of capitalism labelled “catastrophic inconvenience”"; "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action" - Dana R. Fisher; "The EV revolution has stalled. Can these nifty bikes kick it back into gear?"; "Unprecedented spread of coral bleaching along Great Barrier Reef"; "After years of promises on climate change, oil giants are backtracking"; "Climate for Change"; "Plibersek scales back environment reforms as coral bleaching goes global"; "Fossil fuel’s war on protest"; "Jonathan Vigliotti: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America"; "Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing"; "Callaway Climate Insights founder David Callaway joins the Bulletin’s Governing Board"; "Is hydropower aging out of the clean energy race?"; "California derailed its booming rooftop solar buildout. Can it be fixed?"; "Climate Deniers in the 117th Congress"; "New House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Dismisses Climate Concerns"; "Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles"; "Brown University Study Documents Links Between National & Local Offshore Wind Opponents"; "Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel: could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world?"; "Russia and Kazakhstan evacuate tens of thousands amid worst floods in decades"; "Climate change driving demand for predatory loans, research shows"; "Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have global impact, say experts"; "India Forecasts Searing Heat Ahead of World’s Biggest Election": "UK Climate Minister Stands Down Ahead of General Election"; "Lightning and heavy rain kill dozens in Pakistan and Afghanistan in three days"; "Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record"; "As the Federal Government Proposes a Plan to Cull Barred Owls in the West, the Debate Around ‘Invasive’ Species Heats Up"; "Climate change is causing marine ‘coldwaves’ too, killing wildlife"; "As Climate Change Intensifies Wildfire Risk, Prescribed Burns Prove Their Worth in the Heat-Stressed Plains of the Texas Panhandle"; "A Highway in Indiana Could One Day Charge Your EV While You’re Driving It"; "Air pollution boosts Alzheimer’s disease risk"; "Air NZ calls for Govt mandates to help drive sustainable aviation fuel use"; "Corals are bleaching in every corner of the ocean, threatening its web of life"; "There’s no such thing as a benign beef farm – so beware the ‘eco-friendly’ new film straight out of a storybook"; "Sewage pollution could jeopardise Olympic swimming events in the River Seine, NGO warns"; "‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief"; "World in grip of new major coral bleaching event, reefs at risk"; "Switching to Plant-Based Diets Could Save More Than 200,000 Lives per Year, Study Finds"; "The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched Western Australia"; "A Philosopher’s Guide to an Ethical Diet: A Conversation With Peter Singer"; "Africa’s Great Apes Are Already Feeling the Effects of Climate Change, First-of-Its-Kind Study Finds"; "Great Barrier Reef Suffering Record Coral Bleaching With Damage 59 Feet Below the Surface"; "Green economy summit: how can Australia get more from its relationship with Vietnam?': "Trillions of tonnes of carbon locked in soil has been left out of environmental models – and it’s on the move"; "Greece to Invest $830 Million for Marine Conservation"; "Tonnes and tonnes of old solar panels with nowhere to go"; "Victorian households have the highest gas usage in the country — will they turn it around?"; "Faster-melting snow causes major flooding in Russia and Kazakhstan"; "BOM's first winter forecast for 2024 declares it could be one of Australia's warmest on record"; --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Just 40 minutes, along with a fair bit of research, with Gabrielle Bond (pictured), the woman behind the Modern Money Lab at Adelaides Torrens University, changed, no, exploded my views about economic ideas, particularly those of Federal Government deficits. Gabrielle is an enthusiast of the Modern Money Theory (MMT) and an ardent supporter of her contemporary from the university, Assistant Professor Steven Hail, who explained MMT through an article in The Conversation, entitled, "Explainer: what is modern monetary theory?". In that article, he discussed one of MMT's pioneers, Professor Bill Mitchell, who has long explored the workings and application of the Modern Monetary Theory. Of course, the real modern hero of MMT is U.S. economist, Stephanie Kelton, who can be seen in this TEDx talk "The big myth of government deficits" and again in this "Stony Brook University Presidential Lecture Series". My journey to interview Gabrielle began when I listened to Professor Kelton in Melbourne, where she talked about many things, including the movie "Finding the Money". It was in 2021 that reporter Gareth Hutchins wrote a story for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) entitled: "Modern Monetary Theory: How MMT is challenging the economic establishment". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

The Climate Council CEO, Amanda McKenzie (pictured) talks about "Seizing the Decade"; "Consumer Energy Summit"; "Verdict saying Switzerland violated rights by failing on climate action could ripple across Europe"; "Does "Every Little Thing" REALLY Stop Climate Change?"; "‘Historic’ European Court of Human Rights ruling backs Swiss women in climate change case"; "Solar canopy over Denver school parking lot will provide energy to low-income families"; "Climate complacency: study finds even the most informed people would rather take the easy option" "Fashion's climate impact and how to reduce it"; "The Permian Basin Climate Bomb Series"; "How to prepare your finances for an extreme weather disaster"; "The Rising Tide"; "The Peoples' Blockade"; "Intensifying Cycle of Extreme Heat And Drought Grips Europe"; "Network of ‘ghost roads’ paves the way for levelling Asia-Pacific rainforests"; "How climate change could reverse progress in global inequality"; "How Nigeria is reeling from extreme heat fuelled by climate change"; "Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?"; "This is an emergency - climate silence is climate denial. #EndClimateSilence now"; "The Olympics are usually a sustainability disaster. Can Paris be different?"; "Australia could reach an ‘ambitious’ emissions cut of up to 75% by 2035, advisers tell Labor"; "Australia is playing catch-up with the Future Made in Australia Act. Will it be enough?"; "Nexamp nabs $520M to build community solar across the US"; "In-depth Q&A: How does climate change drive human migration?"; "EU Policy. European Parliament approves energy market overhaul"; "‘It’s a sun trap’: climate crisis brings boomtime for British wine"; "‘A Massive Win for All Generations’: European Human Rights Court Rules Switzerland Violated Rights With Climate Inaction"; "Storm in Perth's north causes flooding, damage as BOM issues severe weather warning"; "Earth Day 2024"; "See photos, video of flooding in New Orleans metro neighborhoods during severe weather"; "Rainfall Intensity and Daily Rainfall on April 10, 2024"; "Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Stronger Clean Air Standards for Chemical Plants, Lowering Cancer Risk and Advancing Environmental Justice"; "Flooded farms in England refused compensation as ‘too far’ from river"; "Climate target organisation faces staff revolt over carbon-offsetting plan"; "Labour may fail to grab target seats as young voters turn away over Gaza and climate"; "Carbon price should be set at $70 a tonne and rise six-fold by mid-century, says AEMC"; "New Yorkers for Clean Power"; "Rural opposition to solar farms goes beyond beliefs in climate change"; "The heat is on: what we know about why ocean temperatures keep smashing records"; "Adelaide is losing 75,000 trees a year. Tree-removal laws must be tightened if we want our cities to be liveable and green"; "How the essential, dirty steel industry is going green": "Driven by China, Coal Plants Made a Comeback in 2023"; "What Happened When a German Car Factory Went All Electric"; "Brazil Labor Spat Thwarts Lula’s Bid to Boost Growth and Save the Amazon"; "Tanya Plibersek’s proposal to save Toondah Harbour is a win for both threatened species and people power"; "Deforestation rising in Colombia 5 years after peace deal"; "NGO links H&M and Zara cotton to deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado"; "How to prepare your finances for an extreme weather disaster"; "Earth sees hottest-ever March, the 10th record-breaking month in a row"; "Here’s how EVs could get 200 miles per gallon"; "Spies Like Us: why the Government is still backing Woodside over Timor-Leste"; "Power to the people? Bolivia’s hunt for gas targets national parks – and divides communities"; "Feeling depleted? So is the planet. Here’s how to move from exhaustion to empowerment"; "Incarcerated People Subjected To Worst Of Climate Change"; "Embodied Carbon = 10% Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions!". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Shepparton's Foott Waste is trialling an all-electric garbage truck and principal, Peter Foott (pictured behind the wheel of this revolutionary truck) took me for a "test ride" just a few days ago. "Understanding Climate Change: All the Natural and Human Causes"; "Split inside conservative green group over new nuclear agenda"; "Ontario's Nuclear Advantage"; "Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between"; "Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a toxic idea in UK?"; "Dutch court ruling considers national airline guilty of greenwashing"; "Fossil subsidies could have paid for Canadian wind and solar projects 12 times over"; "Salt, air and bricks: could this be the future of energy storage?"; "Generation starts at what will be South Australia’s biggest wind farm"; "Australia’s biggest coal generator teams up with SunDrive to make solar at Liddell"; "Solar Sunshot: Albanese pledges $1bn to take Australia from “pit to panel”"; "Toronto is home to the world’s largest lake-powered cooling system. Here’s how it works."; "Even Disney’s beloved Autopia ride is giving up on gas-powered cars"; "The Carbon Brief Profile: Australia"; "The Carbon Brief Profile: Nigeria"; "An ‘extremely active’ hurricane season is headed our way, experts warn"; "Man's body found near reserve in Sydney's west after rain and extreme weather hits NSW"; "Carbon Emissions Reduction Rate in U.S. Has Doubled Since Passage of Inflation Reduction Act, Report Finds"; "Should Big Oil Be Tried for Homicide?"; "Zambia’s fossil-fuel subsidy cuts help climate and kids – but taxi drivers suffer"; "Is water provision in drought-hit Zambia climate ‘loss and damage’ or adaptation?"; "New PBS Documentary Focuses on a More Hopeful Future"; "Virginia’s Utility Regulator Approves Enough New Solar Projects to Power Nearly 200,000 Homes"; "Secondhand Clothing Market in U.S. Grew 7x Faster Than General Clothing Retail in 2023": "‘On the Move’ examines how climate change will alter where people live"; "Zimbabwean president declares state of disaster due to drought"; "Rivers Recover Rapidly Once Dams Are Gone, Study Finds"; "Klamath Dam Removal: ‘It’s an Environmental Disaster’"; "Dam removals, restoration project on Klamath River expected to help salmon, researchers conclude"; "In the Pacific Northwest, Salmon Declines Upend a Way of Life"; "Climate change is changing how we keep time". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Former Federal Minister, Greg Combet (pictured) was a guest this week on the National Press Club talking about getting to net zero: "Greg Combet - Chair of the Net Zero Economy Authority"; "After years of promises on climate change, oil giants are backtracking"; "Dive in: Climate change is affecting all types of weather"; "States brace for collision of weather systems"; "A man has died in Queensland floodwaters, as heavy rain lashes east coast"; "Australia’s soil to become net carbon emitter and threat to climate goals, report says"; "El Nino-linked drought threatens energy and food supplies in southern Africa with millions at risk"; "Thousands more of Tasmania 'giant' native trees could be spared from logging under policy change"; "Natasha’s hot home is bad for her health. So is the cost of living"; "When it comes to climate action, beware the policy bundle"; "Florida’s tiny ‘fairy tale’ deer are losing habitat as seas rise"; "Shell says landmark emissions ruling won't help climate goals"; "India Predicts Searing Heat in Threat to Lives, Power Supply"; "He Wants Oil Money Off Campus. She’s Funded by Exxon. They’re Friends."; "Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016"; "Boom in mining for renewable energy minerals threatens Africa’s great apes"; "Network Rail to spend £2.8bn to cope with effects of climate crisis"; "Snowball effect: Is artificial snow a long-term solution for ski resorts in a warming world?"; "Throwing Soup At Mona Lisa For The Climate Cause?"; "Buckled lines and landslides: How climate change is hitting Europe’s rail industry"; "In Texas, Ex-Oil and Gas Workers Champion Geothermal Energy as a Replacement for Fossil-Fueled Power Plants"; "Do organic farms cause unintended harm? Study finds uptick in pesticide use in neighbouring fields"; "Global Warming Will Enable Tropical Species From the Atlantic to Colonize the Mediterranean Sea"; "‘I want to tackle it in a big way’: Meet the Nigerian women spearheading solar projects"; "Bird Flu Is Picking its Way Across the Animal Kingdom—and Climate Change Could Be Making it Worse"; "Europe is divided on nuclear power: Which countries are for and against it?"; "It takes a village: the Indian farmers who built a wall against drought"; "The Anthropocene already exists in our heads, even if it’s now officially not a geological epoch"; "A Canadian lake holds the key to the beginning of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch"; "Anthropocene: human-made materials now weigh as much as all living biomass, say scientists"; "Homelessness, PTSD and paltry pay: The crisis in wildland firefighting"; "No EV recovery, with worst sales quarter in nearly 3 years"; "‘Headaches, organ damage and even death’: how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk"; "Inside the minds of the oil rig-climbing activists"; "Australia faces postwar-style reconstruction to reach net zero target, Greg Combet says"; "An Australian farmer has held the first carbon-neutral cattle sale – here’s how it works"; "East coast weather: big wet headed for Sydney after month of rain dumped on parts of Victoria in 24 hours"; "Why artificial submarine curtains won’t save West Antarctica’s retreating glaciers"; "Out of alignment: how clashing policies make for terrible environmental outcomes"; "Scientists warn Australians to prepare for megadroughts lasting more than 20 years"; "Native animals that survived Bayindeen bushfire face increased threat from predators six weeks on"; "Tiwi Islands leaders appeal to federal government to reconsider offshore gas project approvals changes"; "First Nations people must be at the forefront of Australia’s renewable energy revolution"; "Forget nuclear: would Peter Dutton oppose a plan to cut bills and address the climate crisis?"; "A big week for climate policy in Australia: what happened and what to make of it"; "Awful’: climate crisis threatens to sink historic north-east golf club". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message