Season Six Finale with Degrowth Network Australia

August 25th, 2024  |  Season 6  |  37 mins 49 secs

activism, degrowth, degrowth network australia, nena conference, post-growth, social justice, theatre

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A Post Growth Approach to Urban Planning with Michael Buxton

August 14th, 2024  |  Season 6  |  48 mins 52 secs

degrowth, michael buxton, planning democracy, population, steady-state, town planning, urban planning

The way in which we plan our cities and towns has a huge impact on the way we live. This in turn impacts our carbon emissions and ecological footprints. Fortunately, there are a few urban planners who recognise that transitioning to a degrowth, steady-state system is imperative for the future of urban planning. Our special guest, Emeritus Professor Michael Buxton (OAM) is one such expert.

Mini Episode: Shane Simonsen on Farming, Podcasts, Books and Population

July 26th, 2024  |  Season 6  |  15 mins 13 secs

degrowth, going to seed podcast, our vitreous womb, population, shane simonsen, taming the acocalypse, zero input agriculture

We caught up with Shane to get an update of the farm - including the addition of some new four legged residents - only to discover that Shane has branched out accross many projects including: Cohosting the 'Going to Seed' podcast; authoring 'Our Vitreous Womb' and 'Taming the Apocalypse' as well as two articles on overpopulation written for 'Zero Input Agriculture'.

World Population Day 2024 Special

July 10th, 2024  |  Season 6  |  42 mins 42 secs

degrowth, holistic activism, mark allen, michael bayliss, post-growth, sustainable population australia, world population day 2024

Welcome to PGAP’s “World Population Day 2024” special episode, where your co-hosts Mark Allen and Michael Bayliss share their recent contributions to the sustainable population movement. World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues

Mini Episode: Larry Blight, Noongar Menang Friend of Yakamia Forest Boodja

July 2nd, 2024  |  Season 6  |  10 mins 39 secs

albany, conservation, degrowth, larry blight, noongar menang, yakamia forest boodja

PGAP welcomes back Larry Blight, Noongar Menang cultural educator and friend of Yakamia Forest Boodja for this mini episode, ahead of NAIDOC week.

Post Growth Guide with Marcus Feldthus

June 24th, 2024  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 7 mins

degrowth, degrowth in business, marcus feldthus, post growth guide

For our first full length episode for this season, our special guest is Marcus Feldthus from Post Growth Guide. Post Growth Guide is a company based in Denmark, where Marcus Feldthus Oscar Haumann work within the business community to assist other organisations in transitioning toward Post-Growth ways of operation. This is crystalised in the handbook "Setting Limits To Growth:How to make better business decisions in the 21st century" which also serves as a document of their own journey, still in progress, toward becoming a Post-Growth business.

Mini Episode: Alex Baumann on Public Housing and Degrowth

June 6th, 2024  |  Season 6  |  21 mins 42 secs

alex baumann, degrowth, land tenure, public housing, sustainable futures

Finding The Money with Maren Poitras

February 29th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  49 mins 43 secs

degrowth, ecological economics, film tour, finding the money, maren poitras, mmt, modern monetary theory, post-growth, sustainable population

As this episode goes to air, a brand-new documentary on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is touring Australia and PGAP has been given the incredible opportunity to speak to USA based director of "Finding the Money", Maren Poitras. Maren has just embarked on a screening tour of South East Australia alongside Stephanie Kelton, who is a leading proponent of the MMT movement and author of ‘The Deficit Myth’.

Debunking Green Growth with Timothée Parrique

February 9th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  58 mins 23 secs

beyond growth, decoupling, degrowth, economics, green growth, post-growth, timothee parrique

For this episode of Post-Growth Australia Podcast, we go international by welcoming our esteemed guest Timothée Parrique, who is based in France and Sweden. Timothée is an economist at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden). He has built a steady reputation as a colourful writer and speaker on the fallacies of our growth-based economy and is a loud and proud advocate of Degrowth, Post-Growth and Steady State based solutions.

Conversation with Noongar Menang Educator and Storyteller Larry Blight

January 8th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  49 mins 5 secs

degrowth, first nations, larry blight, noongar menang, overdevelopment, population, western australia, yakamia forest

Happy new 2024! For this very special episode of Post-Growth Australia Podcast, we interview Menang Noongar educator Larry Blight on site at the Yakamia forest, one of the few remnant bushlands in Albany, which is currently under threat from overdevelopment (of course!) Larry discusses the environmental and cultural significance of the Yakamia forest. We then delve into a broader conversation across many issues such as overdevelopment, colonisation, the perils of neoliberalism and population policy. Larry incorporates his local knowledge and his connection to Boodja (Land) in what is a very deep and insightful conversation.