Rare Air with Meri Fatin Podcast
1) Petra Tschakert: Geologist, Anthropologist, IPCC Scientist
"Overshoot means we consciously and willingly allow to go above 1.5 while waiting for the right technology...to then rapidly bring down the overshoot. It would fulfill the goal laid out in the Paris ...Show More
2) Peter Newman: Environmental Scientist and Sustainable Transport expert
"We changed the world to start to see that automobile dependence was not a good thing...we were much hated by the automobile associations, the vehicle companies, the oil companies. They used to run p...Show More
3) Saul Griffith: Australia's Electric Future
If you follow thought leaders on the energy transition, you’ll be familiar with the hashtag Electrify Everything. The argument is that a huge proportion of ‘global energy needs’ can be met with electr...Show More
4) Paul Cleary: Yindjibarndi Native Title Fight
"I think it’s a scandal in this country that so much wealth is being extracted and Aboriginal people are no better off." Paul Cleary is author of "Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeate...Show More
5) Matthew Evans: Soil
The power of great storytelling has never been more evident than in the fight to change hearts and minds around sustainability, environmental care and climate action. The people who can sweep us alon...Show More
6) David Carter + Jeff Hansen: An Unlikely Alliance
It began with a deep sea cod. David Carter and Jeff Hansen are people who have the courage of their convictions. What’s surprising about their alliance is that at first glance one might struggle to s...Show More
7) Andrew Wear: Solved
There’s a whiff of hope out there. Sounds like a strange thing to say as Australia comes to grips with the early days of the corona virus pandemic as this episode is recorded. We are a nation that h...Show More
8) Tom Cronin: The Portal
Can meditation really save the world? Tom Cronin thinks so. Big ideas and the people who chase them are captivating. Tom Cronin’s big idea is to bring an ancient practice, meditation, and sweep the me...Show More
9) Matthew Kemp: Inventing the Artificial Womb
The idea of an artificial womb – a place where a prematurely born baby could continue to safely gestate closer to full term, is one scientists have worked on intermittently since the late 1950’s. Unti...Show More
10) Dominic Smith: Writing The Electric Hotel
Dominic Smith’s fourth novel, the New York Times best seller "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos" won both Indie Book of the Year AND the Australian Book Industry awards Literary Fiction Book of the Yea...Show More