This is the 60th Climate Resilience Podcast. Yippee for us! Welcome where ever you are. Thanks for listening in. We've been checking the stats and it looks like we've got more listeners in Singapore than anywhere else in the world, so extra special greetings to you. On this podcast we talk about all sorts of things related to climate breakdown and …

This is the 59th Climate Resilience podcast and my name is Jim Bowen. Welcome wherever you are. If you've listened to earlier shows you'll see things are a bit different now. For the first thing, we've got a backing track, but more important than that I've no longer got a show on Cardigan Internet Radio because it has shut down. Bobby, who set it u…

In the final episode of Contain This this season, we are joined by Australia’s Ambassador for Global Health, Dr Lucas de Toca PSM, and the former Ambassador for Regional Health Security, Dr Stephanie Williams, to reflect on how Australia delivers assistance for health in our region and what they see as the key challenges and priorities. They discus…

This show features: Interviews with growers and attendees at the Caerhys Organic Farm CSA Harvest Party Conversation with Philippa Gibson, one of the organisers of the Cardigan Extinction Rebellion Climate Matters event in the Small World Theatre on 9th September An interview with Jonathan Tiller of Trees for the Future which is based in Nevern, no…

This episode features a conversation with Mary Ellen from Disable People against the Cuts recorded in the Green Futures Field at Glastonbury Festival 2023. Of all the interviews we've done, this is perhaps the most urgent as Mary Ellen talks about the government's shameful program of eugenics. Do listen in, and if you can, please help…

This show features: An interview with the Abbey Shakespear Company about community arts and the relevance of Sheakspear to us all today. The search for new climate-friendly Church of Wales bishop for St Davids Conversation with Ben Ferguson, co-executive director of Community Energy Wales Conersation with the Director of Visit Pembrokeshire about t…

In today’s episode of Contain This, we feature the Field Epidemiology in Action (FEiA) program, which trains field epidemiologists in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands to strengthen outbreak detection and response through partnership and workforce development. The FEiA program, supported by the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, is current…

The Australian Volunteers Program is an Australian Government-funded initiative that supports global volunteering across the Pacific, Asia, and Africa to achieve locally led change and the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals. In this episode of Contain This, we bring you a story of how one Australian volunteer helped to support health …

Launched earlier this year, the sixth Global Health 50/50 report focussed for the first time on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the workplace ranging from menstruation, abortion and menopause, to antenatal care and caring responsibilities. Our guests on this episode are the founders of Global Health 50/50, Professor Sarah Hawkes…

"I want to know what to do when I get my first period and what changes to expect during puberty, so I feel prepared, assured and confident to manage them.” – Oky user Girls have important questions about their health, and often they don’t know where to turn to find trusted, culturally sensitive information about their menstrual, sexual and reproduc…

What are ‘bad medicines’? How do they make it onto our shelves? And what is being done to address substandard and falsified medicines in the Indo-Pacific? In this week’s episode, we delve into the ongoing problem of ‘bad medicines’, otherwise known as substandard and falsified medicines. Our guest is Dr. Paul Huleatt, strategic partnerships and pro…

Our guest this week is Sir Jeremy Farrar, the World Health Organization’s new Chief Scientist, who took up the role earlier this year. As Chief Scientist, Dr Farrar oversees WHO’s science division, bringing together the best brains in science and innovation from around the world. Prior to joining WHO, Dr Farrar was the director of the Wellcome Trus…

Our guest this week is Carolyn Reynolds, Co-founder of the Pandemic Action Network (PAN). In this episode we discuss how Carolyn’s involvement in the response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa led her to co-found PAN; and what PAN works to achieve, particularly in the lead up to the high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and resp…

This week we talk about three very different (but inherantly linked) subjects: The illegal mining at Ffos y Fran coal mine near Merthyr and the community activists who are trying to stop it, With Martyn Buck, the co-director of Ben Elton's play 'Gasping' which is being performed by the Newcastle Emlyn Attic Theatre With Heather from FareShareCymru,…

This is the first of three shows full of interviews from Glastonbury Festival 2023's Green Futures Field: Mark from the Chapel of Unrest, Rockaway Park near Bristol, Woody who is a member of the Extinction Rebellion Art Blocker Team, and Anna and Holly who are part of the Big Head Climate Activist Crew.…

This week we focus on the work of the British Hen Welfare Trust and then we talk with local artists and activists Rhowan Alleyne and Titus Sharp about our rivers, the sea and the role of the community artists. There is no link between these two subjects....or is there!?!

This week we discuss Art and Community Resilience with special guests local actor Ceri Ashe, who talks about her play Bipolar Me, Lou Weldon from Cardigan's Seagull Gallery and Martyn Buck from Newcastle Emlyn's Attic Theatre.

The fourth in our series about sport features conversation with Pembokeshire County Councils Sports Link Officer, Alun Jones and then Llechryd Cricket Club's captain John Curran, their President Laurence Harries, and player Peter Noone. If you care even a little bit about sport and/or the climate, listen in. If you'd like to come onto the show, ple…

This week we talk with retired lawyers Mike Reed and Nicky Cross who know more than a little bit about pensions, banks, divestment and the changes in the law which are having a huge impact in our right to peaceful protest.

This week we talk with Michael McCarthy from Music Theatre Wales, from Bethan Tohey-Gamble from SPAN Arts about the Scorched Earth Street Art Opera Trilogy, and then with Brian Madigan from A Band Called Brian who tours the country on his bike playing gigs with an environmental and social concience. Apologies again for the sound in this show…

This is our first show with live music, focusing on its value in bringing people together for fun, friendship and community resilience. Featuring Michael Shakhib and Jessica La Bianca, two of the stars of the Fishguard Folk Festival 2023.

This week the subject is food. Our guests are food cultural historian, grower and author, Carwyn Graves, Anna from C+M Organics and Elizabeth Neagle and Andrea Sanders from Er Ardd Community Garden in Llandysul.

This is the first in, hopefully, a series of conversations with our emergency services, asking how they are preparing for climate breakdown. This week we talk with Justin Lewis, Area Manager and Corporate Head of Organisational Risk, Jessica Millard Services Sustainability Officer of Mid and West Wales Fire Services. Dyfed Powys Police have been in…

What was The Big One? With co-host Vicky Moller, we hear from Olympic athlete Etienne Stott, Reel Rebel Sian Vaughan and Audley Burnett.

This week we talk about Carmarthenshire County Council. With Co-host Pete Wheeldon from Cardigan Seagul Gallery, we talk with Cllr Aled Vaughan Owen Carmarthenshire County Council's Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Decarbonisation and Sustainablity and Augusta Lewis the Sustainable Food Places Officer from Carmarthen County Council…

This week we speak about Nature as a tool for Learning and Wellbeing with our guests Mike Hotson and Sarah Wentworth from Arts4wellbeing, Diana Budge from SPAN Arts and Co-host, Soo Hutchinson from the Rebel Kitchen, who is an all round advocate of nature.

The third in our series about sport and our guests are Anna Nicol and Gareth Rowlands from the Teifi Boating Club, Sian James from Fishguard Football Club and Oxford University's Director of Sport Jon 'Shaft' Roycroft.

This week we talk about Extinction Rebellion's Big One: Guests are Soo Hutchinson from the Rebel Kichen and Cardigan's ecoshop and Nicky Penn from Cwm Arian Renewable Energy (CARE).

Guests this week, talking about the River Teifi are Piers Partridge and Jessica McQuade of Poppit SeaGals, and marine ecologist Hanna Muutilla talking about the ocean and large marine life.

Cohosted with Rosie Gillam, from Ffynnone Community Resilience Show, this is another show looking at Community Growing, with guests Vicky Moller and Rob Jones from Plas Helyg in Haverfordwest.

In this show we talk about the Human Rights Act, Right to Roam and an update from BeeView Farm and our guests are Bill Hamlett from Small World Theatre, Rambler Angus McClew and Matt from BeeView Farm. Dyfed Powys Police were invited on to the show too, but they bottled it!

In conversation with Gary Higgins and Amy Nicolass talking about the St Dogmaels Repair Cafe, Peaceful Protest and Positivity

The second in our series around Sport in a time of ecological breakdown. Our guests are Olympic athletes and climate activists Laura Baldwin and Etienne Stott

Part 2 of 2: Faith in a time of ecological breakdown. How can we use our faith to support ourselves and our community as the climate breaks down around us? Our guests are Pamela Gaunt and Gwen Sanderson If you'd like to come on the show and talk about your faith or belief system, please get in touch. Sorry about the sound on this one. No idea why, …

Part one of two: Faith in time of ecological breakdown 1: Conversation with Sue Weaver, David Jenkins, Becky Searle and Audley Burnett. What would Jesus do?

The focus of this week's show is Sport and how it needs to adapt in the face of climate and ecological breakdown. Guests are: Dave Hampton, welsh internation rower and David Waters MBE from Kenya. Apologies for the sound on much of this show. Not sure what happened there

In this week's show we focus on Nature for Health and Wellbeing and we talk about education with Betty James and Kwame Salam of Tonic Surf Therapy and Walkin' on Water.

The focus of this week's show is Nature for Health and Wellbeing and features conversations with Bonnie Welch from the Sustainable Food Network and Charlotte Carmel from Cardigan Craft Circle

Welcome to the second part of our insights from the Global Health Division at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Climate, Health and International Development Seminar. The seminar explored the impacts of climate change and health, its relevance to health policy and programming in the Australian aid program, and how to build climate adapt…

The Global Health Division at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade recently presented the second of its Health and Development Seminar Series: Climate Change, Health and International Development, supported by the Specialist Health Service (SHS). The seminar explored the impacts of climate change and health, its relevance to health policy an…

In this bonus episode, the BBC’S International Editor Jeremy Bowen and Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent Marianna Spring talk about their respective new podcasts: Frontlines of Journalism and Marianna in Conspiracyland. They reflect on the obstacles that stand between journalists and the truth and the conspiracy theory movement that see…

This week's conversation is about the future of land use and our guests are Matt Watkin from Beeview Farm, and Jane Powell from the Real Food and Farming Festival. We also discuss how to broaden the climate conversation. How do we plan for the future when our leaders (and many of our friends and neighbours) don't want to acknowledge the challenges …

Episode Two in our Voices from Around the World Series. This week we speak to Australian sports start, international diplomat and humanitarian Scott Kelleher who has worked in East Africa, Russian, the Middle East and loads of other places. As our climate breaks down society changes bringing great local impact and also changes on the national level…

In this show we hear from Neil Kingsnorth who works for Cwm Arian Renewable Energy.

This week's show focuses on Community Resilience and our guests are local community activist Sarah Wright and organic farmer and activist, Gerald Miles, both local heros and well worth hearing.

In this week’s episode, we bring you a panel discussion on how the vaccine champions programme has empowered community leaders to advocate for COVID-19 vaccines in Australia, Vietnam, and Fiji. You will hear from three vaccination experts and leaders who are all involved in an innovative behavioural change programme known as Vaccine Champions, whic…

As part of the celebration of Big Green Week 2022, our guests include Vicky Moller talking about local environmentalism, campaigning and historical perspective, EcoDewi's Jeremy Wadia, Francesca Nelso talking about the Quaker Holding the Light Meditation, Lynda Duffiled of the West Wales Climate Coalition, Augusta Lewis talking abou the new Newcast…

This is the third in a series of shows about the River Teifi and our rivers as a whole. Our guests include: Professor Callum Firth, the chair of the Save the Teifi group and Alison Morgan from the Llechryd and Llangoedmore Community Resilience Group talking about flooding and how a community group came together.…

Rebellion! Ahead of the Extinction Rebellion Autum Rebellion 2022, in this show we talk to people who rebel. Those to actively cross the line, break the law and stand up for things they believe in. We speak with eight rebels who tell their stories, why they got involved, what they did and what they intend to do next. There are reasons people break …

In this show...we talk about the River Teifi and how we, as a community came together to protect it. Guests include Jane Rotie Morgan from the St Dogmaels Housing Campaign Group, Jess McQuade of the Poppit Seagals and performance artist, Simon Whitehead. Why not listen in and join a community group to save the rivers you love…