Sustainable Lens: Resilience on Radio
Sustainable Lens Resilience on Radio: hear an informed, intelligent and provocative discussion of sustainability issues every week. Samuel Mann and Shane Gallagher are joined every week by a leading figure in the sustainability scene. Politics, science and controversy on Sustainable Lens Resilience on Radio. Sustainablelens.org
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Dr Donald Norman
To respect the others’ point of view and try to ...
To respect the others’ point of view and try to understand it. This applies whether it’s warring nations, difficult negotiations in business or designing something for other people to use. You know when a door has a label that says pus[...]
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Prof Greg Dawes
Once you accept that government can decide without due legal ...
Once you accept that government can decide without due legal process which of its citizens, or perhaps worse still, other countries’ citizens, can be put to death, because you judge them to be a threat, then we are in a very dangerous situati[...]
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Dr Marcelle Dawson
Far too often problems are individualised, young people are told ...
Far too often problems are individualised, young people are told that to succeed they have to do so at the expense of others – “to get ahead you have to stomp on others” (yet) we know we are far stronger when we act collectively [...]
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Prof Jim Flynn
Despite our increasing IQ, the bombardment of conflicting information combined ...
Despite our increasing IQ, the bombardment of conflicting information combined with a paucity of training in critical thought renders us bewildered cynics, unable to manage our increasing complex world Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at th[...]
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Murray Harris
You can’t always spot a good farm from the over ...
You can’t always spot a good farm from the over the fence – a tidy farm is not always a good farm – sustainable farming is more about decision making, about seeing the benefits of a triple bottom line approach Murray Harris joine[...]
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Dr Adrian Macey
We have a target gazetted to reduce emissions by half ...
We have a target gazetted to reduce emissions by half by 2050, and if you look at projections, they’re way up, double by 2050. How do you join those things up? There’s currently no government statements around that. The target was p[...]
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Prof Gerry Carrington
The fossil fuel era is a hang-over from the hunter-gatherer ...
The fossil fuel era is a hang-over from the hunter-gatherer era. Finding fossil fuels is something that is a bit speculative – a form of hunting, and digging it up is a form of gathering. We’ve moved away from that, most of us[...]
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John “Skip” Laitner
As a society we are currently at 14% energy efficiency ...
As a society we are currently at 14% energy efficiency – most of what we use we waste. This is the major barrier to development. John A. “Skip” Laitner is a resource economist. He currently leads a team of consultants ‘Ec[...]
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Dr Katharine Legun
Environmental/economic tension is rising and this overlaps with questions of ...
Environmental/economic tension is rising and this overlaps with questions of social equity – who is benefiting from extraction and who is suffering ills from that? Dr Katharine Legun is an environmental sociologist in Otago University’[...]
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Dr Lisa Ellis
For policies such as preserving fragile habitats, democratic policy flux ...
For policies such as preserving fragile habitats, democratic policy flux means there’s only really one medium term policy outcome and that’s extinction… We need to adjust our structures so that there’s fluctuation within a [...]
