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What can you do to build community resilience?
Developing ties within your community can have a huge impact when facing environmental change. You can share and trade resources to help with the cost of living, you'll know where to get support and sandbags if a flood is imminent, neighbours know to check on you if bushfires threaten, and if global supply chains are disrupted then you have other ways to find fresh food. So what can you do to build community connection and resilience?
Tej tswv yim twg thiaj pab kom tau zaub mov thiab dej ruaj siv ntawm tsev?
Cov xov xwm kaw ua suab hu ua yeej tau qhia txog ntau cov zejzog sib txawv ntawm tej zos yaj sab ntawm xeev Victoria yeej tau nrhiav ntau yam tswv yim coj los nrog daws tej teeb meem huab cua pauv hloov ua ke. Lub zos Mildura uas yog ib lub zos uas tej neeg muag dej kom tau nyiaj tsam thiab yog ib lub zos uas tej neeg tsim lwm yam coj los xa muag txawv teb chaws ntawd, kuj tau muaj ib co kev koom tes los pab ua tib zoo xyuas kom tau tej zaub mov noj thiab dej ruaj siv rau tej tej neeg zejzog.
How can you help young people to adapt to climate change?
The podcast is about how regional Australian communities are already learning to survive and thrive in a changing climate. As you'll hear in the series, there are things we can be doing now to help young people understand and adapt to climate change. Listen and be sensitive to climate grief Grief is a logical response to the current extinction and climate crisis but can become debilitating and unhealthy.
What can you do to increase thermal comfort?
As you'll hear in the podcast , adapting to a changing climate is about more than coping with emergency events. It’s dealing with , rising energy costs, supply chain issues and other threats to our health and wellbeing. There are several things that you can do to improve your thermal comfort, and not all of them require spending money on heating and cooling.
What steps can you can take to improve food sovereignty and water security at home?
The podcast shows how different communities in regional Victoria are tackling climate impacts head on by exploring new ways to work together. In the regional city of Mildura, where water is traded for profit and most produce is exported, a co-op is helping to ensure basic food and water security for local people. There are lots of simple ideas that you can take from their experience to improve food and water security where you live. Buy local.
When freshwater ecologist Deb Bogenhuber witnessed Mildura’s agricultural land being overwhelmed by dust storms in 2019-2020, she wanted to leave. Instead, Deb and her community are developing solutions to the problem of food sovereignty and water scarcit
When freshwater ecologist and slow food advocate Deb Bogenhuber witnessed Mildura's agricultural land being overwhelmed by relentless dust storms in 2019-2020, she wanted to leave. Instead, Deb and her community began to find solutions to the problem of food sovereignty and water scarcity, while giving landless farmers like Jocelyn Majambere a place to grow and belong.
The secret life of bacteria - small, smart and thoughtful!
We can't survive without them -- and we've long underestimated their prowess. Controversially, bacteria could even have cognitive talents that rival our own. Predatory behaviour, cooperation, memory -- Jules Verne eat your heart out -- Natasha Mitchell takes you on a strange adventure into the secret world of microbial mentality.
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