Everything We Need

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Australian communities are already grappling with the impacts of climate change — adapting to food and water insecurity, worsening bushfire and flood risk, intense summer weather and rising energy costs. Hear from people who are taking action at a local level to improve climate resilience, and rethinking what they need to thrive. Take inspiration and ideas for what you can do to make positive change, and help protect the things you love.

Episodes

  1. 05/27/2024

    Significant Roadside Area: Exploring the world through a child's eyes

    In this special bonus episode, host Kyla Brettle is guided by her two children on a dreamlike walk that unravels the history of a small patch of remnant bush on the edge of a highway near her home in Barkers Creek, designated as a 'Significant Roadside Area'. On the journey, they're joined by an ecologist, a landcare volunteer and a First Nations Elder, to explore a small crack in the fabric of the universe where the past, present and future collide. It's a beautiful meditation on appreciating the connections between people and place, and rediscovering the world around us.

    19 min

  2. 05/19/2024

    Turning Wrong Way Climate Right Way: a First Nations response to climate change in Central Victoria

    First Nations People have a wealth of traditional knowledge and skills to adapt to climate change, gained through thousands of years of survival and resilience. In Central Victoria, the Dja Dja Wurrung people have developed a climate change strategy called "Turning Wrong Way Climate Right Way." The strategy emphasises a holistic approach to climate change adaptation, incorporating all elements of the ecosystem and traditional knowledge. It includes specific initiatives, such as re-landscaping waterways, forest gardening, controlled cultural burns, and nature-based flood mitigation.

    23 min

  3. 05/12/2024

    How Bendigo’s Karen community is adapting to climate change

    Newly arrived communities can be more vulnerable to climate change and during climate events, they are often among the most severely affected. Through the story of the Karen community in Bendigo, see how we can adapt to climate change with a strength-based, social justice approach.

    25 min

  4. 05/05/2024

    YIMBY: Community composting for connection and climate action

    YIMBY is short for ‘yes in my backyard’. It’s a community-run, backyard composting scheme that was founded in 2020 in Castlemaine, Victoria. To organisers' knowledge, there’s no other program like it in Australia. Co-founder Lucy Young says YIMBY is a way of “sharing high-level composting skills with lots of keen composters, and supporting them to run micro-processing hubs at home." Joel Meadows, the other co-founder, explains the approach as super small scale and super local, with “low carbon input and low carbon output." Hear about the potential of schemes like this to help build resilient communities.

    23 min

  5. 04/28/2024

    Growing leaders in Maryborough: How a school groundsman and students tackle climate change

    Maryborough is a regional town on Djaara country. The town is home to the Maryborough Education Centre, a primary, secondary, and special needs school. Maryborough faces socio-economic challenges and is ranked as the most disadvantaged local government area in Victoria. It’s also a community where individuals like Troy Butler, the school's groundsman and sustainability officer, are dedicated to making a positive impact, particularly in the area of climate change. Hear about the power of mentorship, vulnerability, and community action in preparing and supporting young people to adapt to a changing climate.

    18 min

  6. 04/21/2024

    Starting climate conversations in small town Victoria

    Maldon is a picturesque town in Djaara Country, about an hour and a half drive north of Melbourne. It's known for its heritage streetscape and goldfields history. It has an older but active population with around eighty community groups. As a town surrounded by bush and filled with weatherboard miners' cottages, the threats and impacts of heatwaves and bushfires are serious. Enter Amy Atkinson, coordinator of the Maldon Neighbourhood Centre, who subtly steers the community towards climate adaptation. By focusing on tangible impacts like heatwaves and bushfires, the ‘Climate Ready Maldon’ project fosters crucial conversations and empowers locals to confront the challenges of a changing climate.

    19 min

  7. 04/21/2024

    Mildura locals innovate to safeguard food and water in a changing climate

    In Mildura, regional Victoria, there are climate champions and farmers battling dust storms, water woes, and working to build a resilient future. From a cooperative that shares unused farming land with newly immigrated farmers, to an innovative water bank, the Mildura community are not just ‘surviving'; they're making tools for a better future.

    19 min

  8. 04/03/2024

    Introducing Everything We Need: A podcast about climate adaptation

    Climate change is not just some some vague threat that will impact us in the future, the changes are touching our lives now. Everything We Need shares stories of Australian communities that are working with what they have, to protect the things they love. It's a podcast about re-thinking what we all need to thrive, now and into the future.

    3 min
  • 8 Episodes

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Australian communities are already grappling with the impacts of climate change — adapting to food and water insecurity, worsening bushfire and flood risk, intense summer weather and rising energy costs. Hear from people who are taking action at a local level to improve climate resilience, and rethinking what they need to thrive. Take inspiration and ideas for what you can do to make positive change, and help protect the things you love.

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  • Channel
    SBS Audio
  • Creator
    SBS
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    8
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