Interview: 'Where are we heading, what sort of future do we want to have?' - Greg Foyster, Rivers and Nature Campaign Manager, Environment Victoria

Greg Foyster (pictured) is the Rivers and Nature Campaign Manager for Environment Victoria and wants to have a broad conversation to help us understand where we are heading and what sort of future we want. Greg and others from Environment Victoria will be at Mooroopna's Gemmill Swamp early next month to check the bird life and talk about rivers and the important connection between what happens at the swamp and the workings of the Murray Darling Basin. Those eager to join the October 7 event at Gemmill's Swamp can register through the Environment Victoria website.

Justin J. Pearson (picured) arrived publically and politically when he made his point about the need for gun control in the U.S. Pearson has also been outspoken about the need for climate justice. In this episode of Climate Conversations the American activist and politician, a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the 86th district, talks with Greg Dalton from "Climate One".

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Mark Bachelder (pictured) orchestrates the community calls for the Foundation for Climate Restoration from his home in California, reaching out to the world. I met Mark by chance and in an illustration of how small the world is, he and a recent guest on this podcast, Osprey Orielle Lake, know each other well. Mark is interested in climate matters and sees much of the solution to the present dilemma to be found through conversation and during our chat, I alerted him to the six-week series being organized by the Melbourne-based Conversation at the Crossroads - &quot;Ethics in Turbulent Times: How to Bring Society to Higher Ground&quot;.

Mark Carter (pictured) from Flight Free Australia was clearly the first person to call when it was announced that Melbourne&#39;s Tullamarine Airport would receive Federal Government cash to make the complex&#39;s third runway a reality. A story in The Melbourne Age - &quot;Melbourne Airport’s $3 billion third runway cleared for take-off&quot; - told of this development. Mark explains how his group draws inspiration and sustenance from the European organization, &quot;Stay Grounded&quot; and is affiliated with the locally-based group, &quot;Climate Action Network Australia&quot;. High-speed rail is an alternative to flying and one view can be read in an article on The Conversation by Phillip Laird, &quot;High-speed rail plans may finally end Australia’s 40-year wait to get on board&quot;. The Geelong-based, &quot;The Sustainable Hour&quot; talked with Mark earlier in the year and this episode of &quot;Climate Conversations&quot; includes the audio from that interview, which happened before the confirmation announcement of the the third runway.

Shepparton&#39;s Ray Russell (pictured) and his Mooroopna business partner, Marty Rogers, built their first electric bike, &quot;The Phantom&quot; in 1987. Building the bike was, in a sense, the easy part, bringing changes to Victorian State Government road rules was truly the hard part - it took months and months of dedicated lobbying by many people, including a former CEO of Victoria&#39;s Bicycle Network, Harry Barber. Ray and Marty produced 80 Phantoms and one is presently on show in Shepparton&#39;s &quot;Museum of Vehicle Evolution (MOVE)&quot;. Ray, who is still enthusiastic about electric bikes, and recently graduated to a carbon fibre mountain bike, believes it is such things as mountain bikes with their go-anywhere capacity that can reshape human movement in Shepparton.

Osprey Orielle Lake (pictured) is passionate and committed to navigating through the &quot;keyhole&quot; of opportunity we have to avoid the worst of the climate crisis. Osprey founded &quot;The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)&quot;, international, and through that organisation engages women and feminists across the gender spectrum worldwide in policy advocacy, on-the-ground projects, direct action, training, and movement building for global climate justice. Her award-winning book, &quot;The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis&quot; expands on what Osprey does with WECAN. Osprey is a busy woman and among other responsibilities helps humanity avoid the worst of this &quot;poly-crisis&quot;, she sits on the steering committee of &quot;The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative&quot;.

The Melbourne-based &quot;Conversation at The Crossroads&quot; opened its six-week series, &quot;Ethics in Turbulent Times: How to Bring Society to Higher Ground&quot; with broad and sweeping discussion and a presentation from the internationally known philosopher, Peter Singer (pictured). During his presentation at the University College at the University of Melbourne, Mr Singer mentioned the podcast with which he is involved - &quot;Lives Well Lived&quot;. Five sessions are yet to come in &quot;Ethics in Turbulent Times&quot;, an event you can attend either in person or virtually - I shared the first breakout room with several people, including a woman from Germany who was an enthusiast of Peter Singer&#39;s work.

Shepparton businessman, Sebastian Mangiameli (pictured), is thoroughly impressed with his long-range all-wheel-drive Tesla. The car, he explains is economical in every sense, and requires almost no servicing, has the latest in technology and most everything can be attended to in a virtual sense with upgrades being applied by the Tesla factory. This exciting, new and different way of buying and owning a car is explained on the Tesla website

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