We talk changing your life and career in response to environmental fears with corporate world exile Andrew Lucas, now gardening expert and commercial compost maker, and co-organiser of the conference The Future of…
We speak with Lachlan Simpson about the ever mysterious 'cryptocurrency' bitcoin. Bitcoin has both its many critics (who worry about crime and tax avoidance) and champions (who promote its decentralised, private nature). But…
Zainil Zainuddin grew up on a self sufficient farm in Malaysia but these days she's a researcher and scholar in local food and urban agriculture, currently doing her PhD at RMIT. Some of…
Where will Melbourne's food come from as urban sprawl, climate change and farm degradation reduce local growing capacity while the city grows to a projected 7 million by 2050? We ask Seona Candy…
While three fifths of the world's calories come from just three crops, John Ferris grows over 700 different edible species (not to mentions hundreds more cultivars) at his nursery business, Edible Forest Gardens…
Let's squeeze more people into smaller houses. That's actually the main theme of the show as we think about sharehousing and grannie flats from environmental and happiness perspectives. To help us we have…
Asking "what is agroecology, and can it save the world?" with agroecologist and permaculture researcher Rafter Sass-Ferguson, who joined us on the wires from Portugal. Rafter is currently a visiting researcher at the…
Tonight's guest Russell Shields talks food security for asylum seekers. After years with the food rescue operation SecondBite, in 2014 Russell co-founded The Community Grocer, a not-for-profit and social enterprise that aims to…
'Ethicurean' farmer Tammi Jonas joins us in studio to talk about the problems with your supermarket's bacon, and more ethical and tasty alternatives. Tammi with her family runs Jonai Farms in Central Vic…
We talk urban planning and the big issues facing Melbourne with James Larmour-Reid, Managing Director at Planisphere. Planisphere is a planning, urban design and landscape architecture consultancy. James is also the Victorian President…
Our guest is community organiser Theo Kitchener. Theo is founder of several groups, including Doing It Ourselves which aims to both broaden understanding of the debt crisis and peak resources and encourage action…
We talk with Professor Steve Keen, Head of the School of Economics, Politics and History at Kingston University London. He's one of the few economists who anticipated the Great Financial Crisis and says…
We talk shop, without the supermarket, with Robert Pekin, a former 4th generation dairy farmer, who like tens of thousands of his small- and medium-scale colleagues, lost the family farm in the 1990s…
Deano Goodbrew, of The Goodbrew Co on getting tipsy on kombucha and the challenges of food regulation for small producers, and about Save the Planet, a new political party and community campaign focused…
We talk about how to use dead wombats and doormats to improve your soil with one of Australia's gardening legends, and author of over 140 books (!!!) Jackie French.
Talking going off grid living with maverick inner Sydney sustainable living guy Michael Mobbs, author of Sustainable House and Sustainable Food. www.sustainablehouse.com.au www.streetcoolers.com.au
Alison Pouliot is an ecologist and nature photographer with a passion all things wild and in particular the world of fungi. She chases the fungi season around the world, dividing her time between…
You, sweet listener, produce one of the best fertilisers known to humanity, several times a day. And if we keep putting it into drinking water and sending it out to sea, we don't…
Talking about how our domesticated herbivores -- cows and sheep -- can be used to restore landscape, with "restoration grazing" practitioner Jodi Roebuck. He tells us that the solution to overgrazing -- one…
Bushy's mate Stephen Pepper stops by the studio to discuss his move from a busy North Melbourne intersection to living off the grid in an old classroom in the Macedon Ranges. Stephen discusses…
Satyajit Das is a former banker with over 35 years' experience in financial markets and is an expert on the complex financial instruments at the heart of the Global Financial Crisis. We talk…
Talking intentional communities and natural building with Dr Samuel Alexander. Sam is the founder of The Simplicity Institute which is an educational and research group which envisions a simple way of life. His…
This evenings guest is Mariam Issa, a woman who carries many arrows in her quiver, including author, story teller and public speaker, community building cook and gardener, advocate for cultural diversity, social justice…
