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This podcasts for beginners and intermediate learners provides small episodes in german, with slow pace and a relaxed vibe! It can be a great daily tool to support your german learning (e.g. in addition to a course) or just get you accustomed to the sound of the language. A long the way you'll learn interesting things about everyday topics, but also german culture, politics and history. Usually there will be new episodes every monday. Transcripts can often be found in the show notes. I would ...
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Clover Hogan has been on the planet 24 years, and spent the past 13 working to save it. She believes it’s possible. She also believes that the threat even greater than climate change is how powerless we feel to stop it. In Season 3, Clover invites us behind the scenes of what it’s really like to be a climate activist. You’re going to hear from activists on the stuff that doesn’t get talked about, like burnout, getting cancelled and the ethical compromises of making money. And even what it’s ...
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Climate News: Luisa Neubauer uses Japan's Cherry Blossoms to help us get a handle on the worsening climate crisis
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Luisa Neubauer (pictured) was a guest on a recent webinar organised by the Yale Center for Environmental Communication and the Yale School of the Environment’s Climate Learning Community and that is where you will find the webinar featuring the young German climate activist. Luisa, responsible for the "1.5 Degrees" podcast, used the Japanese Cherry…
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Climate News: 'Nature positive' - It can be anything you want, Executive Director of The Australia Institute, Richard Denniss
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Richard Denniss (pictured), the Executive Director of The Australia Institute laughingly said in an ABC interview, that Nature Positive can be anything you want it to be. And on the 7:00 am podcast, we are told "Why Plibersek’s "nature positive" plans won’t fix the environment". "Is our Government less “nature positive” than a mining magnate?"; "Ei…
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Climate News: Pragmatist or purist? Senior Fellow with the World Resources Insitute, Dr Karl Hausker, explains the difference
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A Senior Fellow with the World Resources Institute, Dr Karl Hausker (pictured), delivered a public lecture on October 10 at the University of Melbourne on "Recent developments in US climate policy." And it was during the lecture, thanks to what Dr Hausker said, that I realised I was a purist as opposed to being a pragmatist when it came to my appro…
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Event: Victoria's Shadow Energy Minister David Davis talks up bioenergy at the Shepparton forum of the Victorian Bioenergy Network
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Victoria's Shadow Minister for Energy, Affordability and Security, David Davis (pictured) was the keynote speaker at the recent Victoria Bioenergy Network forum in Shepparton. Nearly 100 people enjoyed the forum at Shepparton's Carrington Hotel, being welcomed by the network's president, "Elizabeth Lewis-Gray". During his address, Mr Davis mentione…
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Climate News: Tim Winton puts pen to paper and launches his readers into a dystopian future
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Prolific Australian writer, Tim Winton, has published "Juice" and in doing so has unveiled a dystopian future - "Can Tim Winton’s new book save us? With six grandkids, he had to try"; "Tim Winton goes cli-fi – his dystopian novel Juice breaks new ground to face the climate emergency"; "Why Tanya Plibersek is ‘absolutely prepared to put the blowtorc…
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Event: Helping reporters tell the story about climate with both confidence and accuracy
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Dr Friederike Otto (pictured), a Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, was one of two speakers at a recent event staged by "Covering Climate Now". The press briefing staged by Covering Climate Now was aimed at equipping reporters with the knowledge and confidence to report the story; th…
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Event: The story of bioenergy will be told in Shepparton by the Victorian Bioenergy Network
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Ragini Prasad (pictured) is the Executive Officer of the Victorian Bioenergy Network and will play a key role in the Shepparton Bioenergy Forum, which is scheduled for Tuesday, October 8. The forum will be held at Shepparton's Carrington Hotel, starting at 8:30 am, in the city's Wyndham St. The day-long program includes an impressive array of speak…
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Climate News: Capitalism is at the root of the climate crisis and we urgently need and alternate story
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Capitalism is consuming the planet and as it endlessly consumes to satiate its ever-growing appetite, it's taking all life, including you and I, to a rather gloomy conclusion. Writing on "Meditations" - Journal of the Marxist Literary Group - Jodi Dean says: "Many associate Fredric Jameson’s remark, “It’s easier to imagine an end to the world than …
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Event: Ethics in Turblent Times and democratic renewal in the era of climate change
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Joseph Camilleri, convenor of the Melbourne-based "Conversation of the Crossroads", introduced the third gathering in the six-part series "Ethics in Turbulent Times" with the provocative proposal, "To avert disastrous global warming, we need drastic change to politics, lifestyles, and consumption patterns of the affluent West." The guest speaker at…
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Interview: 'Where are we heading, what sort of future do we want to have?' - Greg Foyster, Rivers and Nature Campaign Manager, Environment Victoria
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Greg Foyster (pictured) is the Rivers and Nature Campaign Manager for Environment Victoria and wants to have a broad conversation to help us understand where we are heading and what sort of future we want. Greg and others from Environment Victoria will be at Mooroopna's Gemmill Swamp early next month to check the bird life and talk about rivers and…
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Interview: Justin J. Pearson cares about gun control and climate justice
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Justin J. Pearson (picured) arrived publically and politically when he made his point about the need for gun control in the U.S. Pearson has also been outspoken about the need for climate justice. In this episode of Climate Conversations the American activist and politician, a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the 86th d…
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Climate News: It's all happening and modern day preppers are getting ready, but with a twist
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A new podcast from the University of New South Wales, "Preppers" gives us a new take on an old idea. "‘Climate breakdown’: State of calamity in Portugal as fires rage out of control"; "George Monbiot: Neoliberalism, Nature and Negative Consequences"; "I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia";…
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Interview: Mark Bachelder talks about the Foundation for Climate Restoration - why it's important personally and for humanity generally
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Mark Bachelder (pictured) orchestrates the community calls for the Foundation for Climate Restoration from his home in California, reaching out to the world. I met Mark by chance and in an illustration of how small the world is, he and a recent guest on this podcast, Osprey Orielle Lake, know each other well. Mark is interested in climate matters a…
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Interview: 'Well, who are you gonna call' - when it's about the third runway at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, it's Mark Carter, of course, from Flight Free Australia
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Mark Carter (pictured) from Flight Free Australia was clearly the first person to call when it was announced that Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport would receive Federal Government cash to make the complex's third runway a reality. A story in The Melbourne Age - "Melbourne Airport’s $3 billion third runway cleared for take-off" - told of this develop…
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Interview: Ray Russell cruises silently into history on his revolutionary electric bike,, 'The Phantom'
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Shepparton's Ray Russell (pictured) and his Mooroopna business partner, Marty Rogers, built their first electric bike, "The Phantom" in 1987. Building the bike was, in a sense, the easy part, bringing changes to Victorian State Government road rules was truly the hard part - it took months and months of dedicated lobbying by many people, including …
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Interview: Author and WECAN founder, Osprey Orielle Lake, talks about the story being in our bones and the 'polycrisis'
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Osprey Orielle Lake (pictured) is passionate and committed to navigating through the "keyhole" of opportunity we have to avoid the worst of the climate crisis. Osprey founded "The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)", international, and through that organisation engages women and feminists across the gender spectrum worldwide in policy…
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Event: International philosopher and animal liberationalist, Peter Singer, discusses the seriousness of climate change at 'Ethics in Turbulent Times'
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The Melbourne-based "Conversation at The Crossroads" opened its six-week series, "Ethics in Turbulent Times: How to Bring Society to Higher Ground" with broad and sweeping discussion and a presentation from the internationally known philosopher, Peter Singer (pictured). During his presentation at the University College at the University of Melbourn…
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Interview: Shepparton's Sebastian Mangiameli tells us about his long-range Tesla that replaces his Mercedes Benz
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Shepparton businessman, Sebastian Mangiameli (pictured), is thoroughly impressed with his long-range all-wheel-drive Tesla. The car, he explains is economical in every sense, and requires almost no servicing, has the latest in technology and most everything can be attended to in a virtual sense with upgrades being applied by the Tesla factory. This…
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Climate News: Applying the Framework for Ethical Decision Making to the Issue of Climate Change from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics; Losing my childhood home
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The devastation of Super Typhoon Rai showed a whole generation of Filipino youth the impacts of climate change, according to youth activist Grace Ann Enriquez. Now in Canberra, she's joining First Nations climate activist Eduardo Maher and other youth campaigners in calling for the federal government to take stronger action on climate change "'I lo…
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Climate News: Bill McKibben of the catastrophe that is Donald Trump; The Guardian reports on our record breaking summer
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Bill McKibben (pictured) writes in The Guardian about the danger of Donald Trump winning the U.S. Presidential election - "Donald Trump gets everything wrong about the climate crisis"; "Hottest summer on record could lead to warmest year ever measured"; "Households, EVs to the rescue as Australia’s emissions cuts stagnate"; "‘Make good on what they…
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Event: Watching 'Farming Forever' at Melbourne Connect and learning about 'Allfed'
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Kelsie Williams (pictured) has a key role with Farmers for Climate Action along with Paul Stark, a Policy and Farmer Engagement Officer with the group, who represented the organisation on the Thursday, September 5, screening of the movie, "Farming Forever". The screening was held at the University of Melbourne's "Melbourne Connect" building. Among …
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Climate News: The 'C' word rarely heard during U.S. presidential campaign; Climate Change was once rare in news stories, now becoming increasingly common
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Kamala Harris (pictured) rarely mentions the 'C' word as she campaigns to become the next U.S. President and although that was once the case in news stories it's now becoming almost daily usage. "Why Kamala Harris has said the c-word only twice on the campaign trail"; "How climate change accelerated spring winds"; "Clean up begins but strong winds …
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Climate News: U.S. listener argues we must shift the Overton Window if humanity is to survive
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An American listener, "Tim" from Michigan, quoted Carl Sagan: "Extinction is the rule, survival the exception". Tim has argued, in an email: "If we want to be exceptional we have to move the Overton Window a lot more than Tom Steyer can even imagine". My American friend was commenting on a recent "Climate Conversations" episode featuring a discussi…
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Climate News: Personal failure at 2050 irrigation plan launch; Some fail to understand importance of human powered transport
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The recent launch of The Shepparton Irrigation Region Land and Water Management Plan for 2050 was a wonderful opportunity to record some impressive speakers, but put to the test, I failed - what I recorded was less than adequate. The event, at Girgarre's Gargarro Botanic Garden Cafe, was attended by more than 100 people and was organized by the "Go…
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Event: American businessman and inspirational climate champion, Tom Steyer, on Climate One with Greg Dalton
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Tom Steyer (pictured) put himself up for election in America's 2020 presidential race, but unfortunately for America and the world, chance did not fall his way. Steyer was a guest on the interview program organised by Climate One and shared the stage with Greg Dalton, the face, and voice of Climate One. Although Steyer never became the U.S. preside…
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Climate News: Climate scientist Andrew King explains why Australia is ridiculously hot right now
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A fellow who questions the legitimacy of our economic system and is the convenor of Public Interests before Corporate Interests (PIBCI), Joseph Toscsano, has a Wattle Day Picnic coming up this Sunday in Melbourne's Parliament Gardens. "Green dreams go bad: Why feel-good investing doesn’t make for good returns"; "Big emitters chase new climate fix: …
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Interview: Genevieve talks about the tireless and seemingly endless effort that saw a solar farm set up at the central Victorian town of Newstead
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Genevieve Barlow (pictured) was part of a core community group that spent the best part of two decades creating a solar farm for the central Victorian community. Along with others on the Renewable Newstead committee, Genevieve worked with the State Government and ultimately "Flow Power" to make the solar farm a reality. Interest from across Austral…
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Interview: Global warming and the threat to democracy both exercise the thinking of University of Queensland economist, John Quiggin
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University of Queensland economist, Professor John Quiggin (pictured), concerns himself with many things, including his fitness by running half marathons and presently training for an Ironman event, but central to his thinking is the economy. Professor Quiggin has long contributed to the public conversation, regularly writing articles for The Conve…
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Cimate News: Net-zero by 2050 back in the news, window to 'suicidal idea' closing fast
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The idea of net zero by 2050, considered by many, including Adrian Whitehead, to be 'suicidal' is back in the news: "Australia’s window for hitting net zero is ‘rapidly closing’"; Filmmaker, Damon Gameau, has given viewers something new with "Future Council: The kids talking truth to power"; "Girls in Southern Africa are being married off in exchan…
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Climater News: Evidence dispells misinformation about sheep and solar farms; Planning for irrigation water through to 2050
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Hard economic and practical evidence dispels misinformation about farming sheep under solar panels - check out the Geni Energy website. The Goulburn Valley in northern Victoria needs a renewable energy hub, but interestingly it already has one, GV Community Energy just needs State Government recognition. The Shepparton Irrigation Region is planning…
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Interview: Adrian Whitehead talks about delusional and suicidal views people hold about net-zero by 2050
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Adrian Whitehead (pictured) has spent most of life doing what he could to make people aware of environmental issues. Those early concerns have morphed into taking direct action on global warming and saw him play a significant role in the establishment of "Beyond Zero Emissions". Adrian was one of a small group that worked to see Melbourn's "Darebin…
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Climate News: 'We can't escape the environmental debt' - Nobel-Prize winning economist, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Nobel-Prize winning economist, former World Bank Chief Economist Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz (pictured) speaks on a webinar organised by "The Australia Institute"; "Australian fossil fuel exports ranked second only to Russia for climate damage with ‘no plan’ for reduction"; "Greek officials advise staying in with windows shut due to fires near Ath…
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Climate News: 'Terrified of climate change': polymath, Arnold Dix
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Melbourne's Arnold Dix (pictured) is something of a polymath, who is terrified of climate change, but who sees some value in Australia adopting nuclear power and he discusses that in a Melbourne Age story - "The ‘scared’ green activist who is now embracing a nuclear future"; "Magic thinking vs the hard truth of climate change"; "Last summer was so …
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Webinar: Ninety minutes of climate information we all need to hear
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The latest webinar from the Maryland Department of Planning during its Climate Resilience Month was entitled: "Community Action for Climate Change". Unprecedented heat waves, storms of the century, and devastating fires are impacting communities across the country. While large-scale interventions in policy and technology are necessary to preserve t…
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Interview: Bert Lobert gives us an insight into the legal struggle to protect Victoria's Strathbogie Forest
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Bert Lobert and his compatriots from "Save our Strathbogie Forest" are eager to keep what remains of the forest intact, especially for all the animals who live there and, of course, the thousands of people who enjoy the amenities it provides. The focus of the original legal case put by the group was the Southern Greater Glider (a young Greater Glid…
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Event: Australia's Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, a guest on 'An evening with the Minister - Strengthening our Nature Laws'
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Australia's Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek (pictured), spent almost an hour listening to and chatting with people from all over the country during an online event organised by the Queensland Conservation Council. The event, entitled "An Evening with the Minister, Strengthening our Nature Laws", had the Chief Executive of the Conversation Cou…
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Webinar: 'It's real, it's here, it's now, it's happening, it's not a future event and it's consequential' - Minister Stephen Jones on climate change
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The realities of climate change were spelt out with distinct clarity at the Tuesday, August 6, forum, both in person and online, organised by the Australian National University through its Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions. The keynote speaker was the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones. Mr Jone…
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Climate News: Like the Titanic, we steam toward disaster, aware of the trouble ahead but doing little to avoid the catastrophe
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The Titanic, on its maiden voyage in 1912, is something of a metaphor for the world community today - like those in charge of the ocean liner, we know there's trouble ahead, but we steam into the future, doing nothing or little to make the world, and the people on "spaceship Earth" climate-ready. "Earth broke all-time heat record two days in a row,…
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Interview: Conversation is the most powerful tool for social change, Professor Joseph Camilleri
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Professor Joseph Camilleri (pictured) has long believed in the power of conversation. He acted on that belief about three years ago and set up the Melbourne-based group, "Conversation at the Crossroads". Here he talks about that group, and the power of conversation and alerts listeners to an upcoming series of six, weekly sessions entitled "Ethics …
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Interview: Clive Hamilton talks about 'Living Hot: Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet', the book he co-authored with George Wilkenfeld
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"Living Hot: Thriving and Surviving on a Heating Planet", co-authored by Clive Hamilton and George Wilkenfeld, tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it's time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of t…
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Interview: Home comfort and energy expert, Tim Forcey, talks about his new book on 'Australia's BIggest Book Club'
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Tim Forcey (pictured) was recently a guest on The Australia Institute's "Australia Biggest Book Club". He was interviewed and talked about his relatively new book," My Efficient Electric Home Handbook". Tim has been a guest on Climate Conversations. He spoke recently at "Shepparton's GV Library" a few months ago with the members of Zero Carbon Tatu…
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