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

Posted: March 12, 2023 in Uncategorized
Tags: ableism, car-free, chronic fatigue, climate action, disability, environmental veganism, individual solutions, Lottie, structural solutions, sustainable transport, Veganism

Screenshot from Duolingo, translation from French to English is: I like walking; I don't take the car. — Screenshot from Duolingo.

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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 289: Feeling Okay About What You’re NOT Doing – Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Posted: February 25, 2023 in Uncategorized
Tags: Dilan Fernando, emails, Getting Things Done, hierarchy, individual solutions, mental health, Mindfulness, productivity, self-care, self-help, structural solutions

Dilan and Nick recording this episode on Youtube – there is a link to this YT video below.

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Nick and Dilan discuss the book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. We cover: what drew us to Getting Things Done (GTD), how it has benefitted us, some tips from the book and finally critiques of GTD.

Additional resources covering similar issues:

Factually! with Adam Conover podcast: Death to Productivity with Oliver Burkeman.
Article by Cal Newport in the New Yorker: The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done.
Pynk Spots podcast: How I’m Attempting to Not Feel Like Shit About Myself in 2023.

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Clips:

GTD – Life Hacking on The Office, Confidence by Oscar Scheller and Ashnikko.

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Episode 276: Is the Environmental Movement Promoting the Most Effective Individual Actions for the Climate?

Posted: January 25, 2022 in Uncategorized
Tags: Adam Cardilini, bullshit jobs, climate action, climate change, climate change denial, Don't Look Up, Donald Trump, environmental veganism, Finds from the street, individual solutions, just transition, pop culture, science, working class

Image based on page 4 of the Wynes and Nicholas article linked to below.

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Nick is joined by Adam Cardilini to discuss the movie Don’t Look Up (Netflix) and compare individual actions for the climate commonly promoted in the environmental movement with scientific research on the most effective actions. We do this by discussing the actions promoted on the website https://www.count-us-in.org/en-gb/project/ and the following scientific article: Wynes, S. and Nicholas, K. A. 2017. The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions. Environ. Res. Lett., 12(7), 1-9.

This show is replayed from Nick’s other show Freedom of Species on 3CR Community Radio. You can subscribe to this show on a bunch of apps including iTunes and Spotify.

Additional links:

This show is a continuation of our last episode Episode 275: Don’t Look Up…Actually You Probably Should! Re-Engaging with the Climate Crisis.
Adam recommends the website https://drawdown.org/ over count-us-in.org for websites measuring the impact of different individual actions of the climate.
Nick recommends the book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber – available as a print book and audio book.
‘Don’t Look Up Doesn’t Get the Climate Crisis’ (article by Eric Levitz on nymag.com).

Some more #FindsFromTheStreet – we've managed to get some good stuff given away by neighbours including outdoor storage (dog not included 😜), a doggie door draft stopper, glasses and an unused note pad. Good way to reduce environmental impact and save $$$ pic.twitter.com/v1yDJsWVEu
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) January 25, 2022

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Music and other clips:

Animal liberation by Los Fastidios, Clip from Don’t Look Up (Netflix), Union speaker Luke on just transitions for fossil fuel workers – from the Climate Crisis National Day of Action event in Melbourne, The Voracious March of Godliness by Bad Religion, Work-Rest-Play-Die (live) by Subhumans.

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Episode 242: Don’t Shoot the Messenger! Environmentalism and Hypocrisy

Posted: March 8, 2020 in Uncategorized
Tags: animal agriculture, body image, climate change, climate emergency, environment, environmental activism, Finds from the street, gender norms, health, hypocrisy, individual solutions, structural solutions, The Bold Type, The Game Changers, Veganism, woke culture

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On this show we speak out against the constant accusations of hypocrisy made against anyone advocating for the environment. For more on this, you can read Nick’s article on the topic.

We finish the show by discussing the documentary The Game Changers on Netflix, which looks into plant-based athletes.

There are some delicious looking recipes on the #GameChangersMovie website. The green smoothie has already become a regular for us but we look forward to trying more! #Vegan https://t.co/g3RYbbOwJE
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) December 16, 2019

Other stuff covered/links:

Josh Gabbatiss ‘Meat and dairy companies to surpass oil industry as world’s biggest polluters, report finds’ (2018 article on independent.co.uk).
Katie’s ‘Nationwide media campaign to address the climate emergency’.
A “woke off” on The Bold Type.
A return of the segment ‘Finds from the Street’.

Our latest #FindsFromTheStreet – shelves, an office chair and a backpack all picked up from the side of the road. We live in such a wasteful society, it is great to use stuff that is already in existence, rather than buying new things and adding to the cycle of resource use etc. pic.twitter.com/VpQXihELZZ
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) March 8, 2020

Freedom of Species ‘Introducing Madison Griffiths to the FoS Team – Meat and Masculinity’ and ‘Mark Allen – Working Together Across Movements’ (podcast episodes).
Revolutionary Left Radio ‘Malcolm X’ featured a discussion on hip hop, race and consumerism and ‘Mind & Nature: Meditation, Psychedelics, and Eco-Grief’ – with Vegan Vanguard (podcast episodes).

Clips:

Bugzy Malone ‘Come Through’, Bo Burnham ‘Oh Bo’, Needed Sound Effects ‘Time Travel Clip Sound Effect’, Russell Brand ‘Lewis Hamilton, Veganism & Hypocrisy’, Adam Ruins Everything – Going Green: ‘The Corporate Conspiracy to Blame You for Their Trash’, Anti-Flag ‘The Debate is Over’, The Adventures of Lano and Woodley (series 2, episode 4), The Decline ‘Brovine’.

This is how my year sounded on Spotify. Get your 2019 Wrapped #spotifywrapped https://t.co/2kIuRp2gFd
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) December 18, 2019

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