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How To Reduce Food Waste at Christmas
The most wonderful time of the year is also the most wasteful, but that needn’t be the case! In this post I share five ways you can reduce your food waste this Christmas so the season is lighter on your wallet, waistline and our precious planet. Podcast: Play In New...
Engineering Solutions to Climate Change
If you’ve been feeling down about the state of the global environment, particularly after COP26 in Glasgow, this Eco Chat episode is for you. I’m sharing a presentation I delivered to around 200 doctors last month at the Doctors for the Environment iDEA 2021...
How Climate Risk is Impacting Home Insurance and Property Valuations
There’s plenty of factors to consider when investing in a home. Proximity to schools, shops, health services, family and public transport are some of the key considerations. Smart investors of today are factoring in another consideration – climate change risk – and...
How Home Battery Storage Systems Work
If you’re looking to reduce your household carbon emissions, you really can’t go past installing a home solar photovoltaic system with battery storage. But with so many dealers and installers out there, and with such a high investment cost, where do you even start? In...
How Home Solar Systems Work
If you’re looking to reduce your household carbon emissions, you really can’t go past installing a home solar photovoltaic system with battery storage. But with so many dealers and installers out there, and with such a high investment cost, where do you even start? In...
Oliver Smuhar, Author of ‘FireWorks’
What were you doing when you were 20 years old? Perhaps you were already working full time or were studying hard for a professional career. Maybe you were enjoying a gap year backpacking around a foreign country. Regardless of whether you were working, studying or...
Teaching Kids About the Climate Crisis
There’s no denying that the effects of climate change will be felt the most by people who have contributed the least to the crisis. The younger generation, our children and grandchildren, will inherit a world vastly different to the one we all grew up in. It breaks my...
Climate Change and the Human Health Impact
Climate change has traditionally been viewed as an economic and environmental issue but it is fundamentally a human health issue. In this episode of Eco Chat I’m joined by Dr Kate Wylie from Climate Medicine to discuss the growing health risk to the human population...
Patricia Newman, Author of ‘Planet Ocean’
If you’re looking for educational sustainability books for the children in your life, you’re in the right place. I’m joined on Eco Chat by Patricia Newman, author of several educational books on environmental and social justice issues including Eavesdropping on...
Clean Your Home Plastic and Toxin Free with Resparkle
If you’re looking for commercial cleaning products that are toxin free, plastic free and are made in Australia by a social enterprise, look no further than Resparkle. Pearl Chan is on a mission to create a plastic free future for our families and she’s helping people...
Five Positive Environmental Stories From 2020
While 2020 saw Covid-19 ravage human populations and communities around the world, there were many positives throughout the year for our local, regional and global environments. Air pollution improved in many cities in China, Europe and the US, water quality also...
How to Become a Carbon Neutral Certified Business
If your business, company or organisation wishes to become carbon neutral to reduce their environmental impact and demonstrate a strong commitment to sustainability, this episode is for you. I’m joined by Polly Hemming from Climate Active to discuss the steps business...
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