Posts Tagged ‘car-free’

Episode 290: Who Sold Out Now? Cars, Veganism and Disability

Posted: March 12, 2023 in Uncategorized
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Screenshot from Duolingo, translation from French to English is: I like walking; I don't take the car.
Screenshot from Duolingo.

You can listen to this episode above, on Libysn and you can also download it on Archive.org (53mins, 36MB). Subscribe to our podcast on your favourite app – we’re on a bunch including Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Podcast Addict.

We discuss no longer being car-free but still believing cars are the number one enemy, individual and structural actions for sustainable transport and food systems, and visible versus invisible disabilities. In discussing how effective different actions are in tackling climate change, we refer to the article The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions by Seth Wynes and Kimberly Nicholas.

Graph showing low, moderate and high impact actions for the climate.
This image is from the Wynes and Nicholas article linked to above.

We also do some taste testing of vegan products from the Vegan Grocery Store, featuring: Future Farm Plant-Based Tuna, Chuckie Creme Egg and Hands Off My Chocolate Bites – Candy Choc Crispy. This vegan tasting segment is NOT a paid advertisement or sponsored segment or anything like that, it’s just something we felt like doing!

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Music:

Who Sold Out Now? by Ignite.

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Episode 207: It’s Hard to be Gangsta with a Basket on Your Bike (but it’s better than “Growing Up” and Buying a Mercedes-Benz)

Posted: May 23, 2018 in Uncategorized
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car free kt and emil

Nick’s cousin Emil with Katie being creative in their car-free living.

You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (50mins, 37MB).

On this episode we give practical advice on living car-free, including:

  • Think of alternative transport options when you’re choosing where to live.
  • If possible you can choose to rent a furnished place to avoid having to move big items.
  • Wheels are your friend: use trolleys, bags with wheels etc to carry bulky/heavy stuff.
  • Use delivery services to buy in bulk (only occasionally or that will have a high environmental impact!). We do online orders through sites like Who Gives a Crap for toilet paper and Veganpet for vegan dog food.
  • Use a car share like Car Next Door for the rare times you do need access (not ownership) to a car.

We also discuss shitty Mercedes-Benz ads, Adam Ruins Cars and some recent stories from Media Watch.

We finish the episode by covering the Grattan Institute report on housing affordability in Australia, high rise apartments and population.

This episode is brought to you by Jason P – thanks a lot to Jason for donating to our Crowdfunding campaign!

Clips:

David Rovics ‘I’m a better anarchist than you’, Behind the Song: Lowkey discussing ‘Ahmed’, Bushwalla ‘Gangsta’.