The SEI Podcast Series
Episodes
Why Island Nations' Isolation on the Climate Change Threat Must End
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this public talk, we hear from the former President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, one of the world’s most prominent advocates for global action on cli...
Building Food Utopias: Voice, Power and Agency
18 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In response to the social inequities and ecological damage wrought by an industrial and globalised food system, a growing food movement that champions...
Living In A Warming World - Professional obligations in an age of climate change
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Part Four of the Living in a Warming World series convened by Dr Frances Flanagan and Michelle St Anne and co-presented by Sydney Ideas. The radical t...
Jellyfish Behaving Badly?
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time we talked about jellyfishes. They dazzle us, terrify us, nourish us, and fascinate us. They can seem utterly otherworldly, and yet they’...
Tibet: Life on the Frontlines of Climate Change
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For millennia, Tibet’s nomads flourished sustainably on the ‘roof of the world’. Today they are being forcibly removed from their ancestral land...
Living In A Warming World: Making the New Energy System Fair
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Part Three of the Living in a Warming World series convened by Dr Frances Flanagan and Michelle St Anne and co-presented by Sydney Ideas. It is inargu...
Environmental Behaviour Change: Harnessing the Power of Volunteers and Grass-Roots Campaigners
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The assumption that helping the environment means changing our individual behaviours is a commonplace of daily life. We are all urged to ‘do our bit...
The Coal Truth
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this public event, contributors Tara Moss, Berndt Sellheim and Lesley Hughes, join lead author David Ritter for the national launch of The Coal Tru...
Stories and Seaways
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do oceans remember? What times do they record? Whose histories – and whose futures – are visible by sea-light? The Sydney Environment Institut...
Living In A Warming World: Inequality and Climate Change
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Part Two of the Living in a Warming World series convened by Dr Frances Flanagan and Michelle St Anne and co-presented by Sydney Ideas. Climate change...
Indigenous Sustainability Practices and Processes
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to care for Country? How can changes in food production address the historical injustices of colonialism? How can we address our cur...
Ocean’s Forms: Process, Structure, and Imagination at Sea
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Void. Mirror. Sanctuary. Habitat. Drowned Earth. Saltwater country. These represent a tiny fraction of the ideas and images the ocean has been seen to...
Artists Have Never Been More Important
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists collect data and from it create information about the world, which is of great value to society, but not necessarily reflected in policymak...
Urban Farming: Feeding the Future
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Intensive farming in urban areas and the areas on the outskirts of our metropolitan areas and cities hold much promise for delivering healthy and safe...
What Lola Heard: Theatrical Sounds of Climate Change
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sydney Environment Institute in partnership with The Living Room Theatre presents ‘What Lola Heard’ – the second artistic work from a SSSHARC fu...
Carbon Capitalism and Communication, Confronting Climate Crisis
06 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This panel brings together activists and academics to discuss the central role of communication in environmental debates and launch the book Carbon Ca...
Beyond the Climate Elephant: From Climate Denial to Public Engagement
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change inaction and climate change denial are serious issues, and indeed, a well-organised counter-movement has challenged the science on clim...
Environmental Justice 2017 Conference Keynote: 'EJ and Place'
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote Conversation 10: 'Environmental Justice and Place' from the 'Environmental Justice 2017' Conference, held at the University of Sydney (6-8 Nov...
Environmental Justice 2017 Conference Keynote: 'Just Transition'
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote Conversation 9: 'Just Transition' from the 'Environmental Justice 2017' Conference, held at the University of Sydney (6-8 November). Chair: Li...
Environmental Justice 2017 Conference Keynote: 'Culture, Food and Health'
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote Conversation 8: 'Culture, Food and Health' from the 'Environmental Justice 2017' Conference, held at the University of Sydney (6-8 November). ...
Environmental Justice 2017 Conference Keynote: 'EJ and Indigenous Cultures'
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote Conversation 7: 'EJ and Indigenous Cultures' from the 'Environmental Justice 2017' Conference, held at the University of Sydney (6-8 November)...
Environmental Justice 2017 Conference Keynote: 'EJ Gender and Materiality'
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote Conversation 6: EJ Gender and Materiality' from the 'Environmental Justice 2017' Conference, held at the University of Sydney (6-8 November). ...
Environmental Justice 2017 Conference Keynote: 'Multispecies Justice'
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote Conversation 5: 'Multispecies Justice' from the 'Environmental Justice 2017' Conference, held at the University of Sydney (6-8 November). Chai...
Environmental Justice 2017 Conference Keynote: 'EJ and Climate Governance'
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote Conversation 4: 'EJ and Climate Governance' from the 'Environmental Justice 2017' Conference, held at the University of Sydney (6-8 November)....
Environmental Justice 2017 Conference Keynote: 'EJ and Climate Governance'
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote Conversation 3: 'EJ and Climate Governance' from the 'Environmental Justice 2017' Conference, held at the University of Sydney (6-8 November)....
Environmental Justice 2017 Conference Keynote: 'Looking Forward'
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote Conversation 2: 'Looking Forward' from the 'Environmental Justice 2017' Conference, held at the University of Sydney (6-8 November). Chair: Go...
Environmental Justice 2017 Conference Keynote: 'Looking Back'
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote Conversation 1: 'Looking Back' from the 'Environmental Justice 2017' Conference, held at the University of Sydney (6-8 November). Chair: David...
Food Justice in the City
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How can we build fairer urban food systems in the face of growing climate challenges? Never in human history has our interconnected global food system...
The Future of Environmental Justice
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The idea of, and movements around, environmental justice continue to grow. From lead contamination of water in Flint, to infringement of Aboriginal ri...
Coral Bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the last 30 years, we have lost 50% of the world’s corals, and coral bleaching events are likely to become even more frequent and severe due to c...
Renewable Reinvention: The Green Global Shift
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Global energy markets are in process of rapid change and transformation. Over the last decade, renewable energy technologies like solar and wind have ...
The Food Waste Debate
11 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One third of all food produced in the subsequent stages of the food supply chain is wasted between initial production and household consumption. Food ...
How Humans Made the Anthropocene Biosphere
07 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Humans modify the biosphere at an accelerating rate, directing evolution of species and ecosystems, trans-locating organisms across the globe, appropr...
Climate Change in the City
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is now widely recognised as one of the paramount environmental challenges of our time. As a so-called global issue, the social and poli...
Food at Sydney: The Suburban Harvest
12 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Australian suburbs have been a site of food production for over one hundred years. This seminar explores the past, present and future for urban food p...
Food at Sydney: Eating in the City
06 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Too many Australians are going hungry in the City. Recent research from the City of Sydney found that a staggering 8% of residents were food insecure,...
Food at Sydney: Cultivating Our Campus
26 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Universities have long been advocates for more healthy and sustainable societies. Across Australia, though, campus food systems are anything but, bein...
Tackling Food Waste
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Leading up to our 2017 Food [at] Sydney series, we are looking back at our previous food events... Too much of the world’s food goes to waste. This ...
Global Warming and the Mass Bleaching of Corals
05 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this special Sydney Ideas public lecture, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Professor Terry Hughes and a distinguish...
Plastic Plague: Global Governance and the "Plastisphere"
08 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While we have known for some time that plastic debris is a visible nuisance in oceans, increasing evidence suggests it is, bluntly, everywhere – fro...
Ecological Democracy: Looking Back, Looking Forward
26 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Efforts to reconcile theories and practices of democracy with environmental sustainability have long been central to environmental political thought. ...
Defeating the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock
22 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Starting in April 2016, thousands of people, led by Standing Rock Sioux Tribal members, gathered at camps to stop the construction of the Dakota Acces...
Human Health and Climate Change
13 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Because the health risks of climate variability and change are not new, it has been assumed that health systems have the capacity, experience, and too...
The Madhouse Effect: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump
13 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States, it now seems climate change denial has reached into the most powerful politi...
Truth & Beauty: Talking About the Environment
05 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our relationship with the environment can be expressed in terms of our love for the transcendent beauty of nature, or the scientific building blocks o...
Do Fish Feel Pain?
09 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Fish, with their lack of facial expressions or recognisable communication, are often overlooked when it comes to welfare. Annually, millions of fish a...
Nutrition, Gender and Generations
20 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Forward-thinking communities pay greater attention to their most vulnerable citizens. As we age poor nutrition has a profound impact on our health and...
Food at Sydney: Who's Packing Your Lunchbox?
06 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The food environment we experience most is not at home; it is the one we find in and around the places we work or study. Food courts, vending machines...
Putting Good Food Back on the Table
17 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
According to recent reports, 1.2 million Australians regularly struggle to put good, healthy food on the table. From low incomes to high living costs,...
Agricultural land grabs: What are their impacts Australia and globally?
25 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Since the global food crisis of 2007, agricultural land has become an attractive asset for large private corporations and state-owned entities wanting...
Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water
20 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Australians spend more than half a billion dollars on bottled water every year. But as people sip on the chilled H2O, rarely do they question the proc...
Saving Indonesia’s rainforests: using maps, brands and politics to end deforestation
10 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
2016 is a critical time for Indonesia’s rainforests. An area of forest the size of Germany has been lost in the last 25 years, driving species to th...
How to Talk About Climate Change Without Talking About Climate Change
18 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For the past decade, Australian policy makers and the media have been altering the public narrative and framing of ‘climate change’ despite the sc...
Waste Matters: You Are My Future
18 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday 12 April 2016 Recent research into the human body biomes and fecal microbial transplants (FMT) has led to better understanding of both the imp...
A Low Carbon Future: Unlocking Australia's Renewable Energy Potential
04 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Fundamental changes in global energy production pose significant challenges for Australia. In particular, as the recent Paris climate agreement highli...
The Small Changes: Coastal Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise
24 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Wednesday 23 March 2016 Our love affair with coastal living is at risk.Coastal properties and infrastructure systems in Australia are being significan...
Energy Cultures in Historical Perspective... and what we can learn for the future
14 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today as the population of our planet is on the rise, as energy needs are growing and CO2 emissions are threatening livelihoods around the globe, it m...
Lives Versus Livelihoods? Biopolitics in California’s strawberry industry
24 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been great debate over the years about pesticide use in the production of our fruit and veggies. California’s lucrative strawberry industr...
Painful Husbandry
28 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It has been well publicised that eliminating meat consumption can help the environment. But with the average Australian consumption of red meat at aro...
Climate Change, Capitalism And Corporations
22 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is the greatest challenge we will face this century. Indeed, the worst-case scenarios paint an unimaginable vision of large tracts of t...
A Global Climate Deal in 2015: What are the chances? What are the implications?
24 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
For two weeks at the beginning of December, world leaders and climate negotiators will meet at COP 21 Paris to agree the parameters of a new global cl...
Social and environmental justice in community food organising
24 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, we have seen an explosion in the number of community organisations that orient themselves around the production and distribution of f...
'Risky Milk Risky Cheese' - Uncovering the good and bad of raw milk
17 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Raw milk was linked to the death of a Melbourne toddler last year. It stirred a major debate about the dangers of drinking non-pasteurised milk, label...
Steven Wantarri Janpijimpa Patrick
15 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Defence of Country: Aboriginal people dealing with the impacts of globalisation in Australia. 'People, Culture and Country' Session with Steven Wantar...
Curtis Taylor
15 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Defence of Country: Aboriginal people dealing with the impacts of globalisation in Australia. Curtis Taylor is a filmmaker, screen artist and a young ...
Harold Furber
14 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Defence of Country: Aboriginal people dealing with the impacts of globalisation in Australia. 'Cultural Heritage Protection' Session with Harold Furbe...
Adrian Burragubba
09 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Defence of Country: Aboriginal people dealing with the impacts of globalisation in Australia. 'Success Stories' Session with Adrian Burragubba, Wangan...
Paul Spearim
09 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Defence of Country: Aboriginal people dealing with the impacts of globalisation in Australia. 'People, Culture and Country' Session with Paul Spearim,...
Anne Poelina
08 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Defence of Country: Aboriginal people dealing with the impacts of globalisation in Australia. 'Success Stories' Session with Dr Anne Poelina, Nyikina ...
Clayton Lewis
08 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Defence of Country: Aboriginal people Dealing with the impacts of globalisation in Australia. Cultural Heritage Protection Session with Clayton Lewis,...
Climate + Capital: A conversation with Prof Dipesh Chakrabarty
27 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday 23 July 2015A conversation with Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, Visiting Fellow Sydney Environment Institute, University...
Indigenous Peoples and Globalisation with Victoria Tauli Corpuz
27 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday 30 July 2015Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations. She has been a long time e...
Peace, People and Power: social change from anti-Apartheid to the climate movement with Kumi Naidoo
27 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Dr Kumi Naidoo has a confronting message for Australia: “The world is now moving on climate change a...
Ethics Of Communicating: Insights from Aristotle
27 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The field of climate change communication (CCC) has recently emerged to address the gap between scientific knowledge of climate change and public moti...
Beauty Without Harm
27 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the mass production of clothes we’ve been able to enjoy an abundance of products at reasonable prices. But for too long this hasn't always...