Practical Changemakers: A Carbon Positive Story

Laure’s career in climate change started two years ago, when she decided to leave her job in digital advertising. She felt that the magnitude of the climate challenge was too big and becoming a parent to a now 3 year old boy accelareted her need to take action. As a French-Australian citizen, currently living in Sydney, Australia, Laure is the Head of Experience for WorkforClimate, an organisation that provides climate-concerned professionals with the tools, guidance and community to help them accelerate their company’s actions on climate. Join her as she discusses how as an employee or business owner you can take charge.  To donate and help fund more projects or even offset your carbon footprint check out our website! https://carbonpositiveaustralia.org.au

Join Keith Hutchings founder of the Comfortable Home Project, a non profit working to change the way we build houses in Australia. On this episode, Keith chats with Louise about how badly we are doing housing in this country and how good it could be, the ways in which we can make our homes more environmentally sustainable and the link between the environmental crisis and housing crisis. To donate and help fund more projects or even offset your carbon footprint check out our website! https://carbonpositiveaustralia.org.au

Join Jennifer West, Founder and Managing Director of Carbon West, a WA based carbon farming consultancy as she discusses just what inspired her to get behind wokring in the carbon sector and in particular why soil carbon is so important. Experienced in regenerative farming, journalism, publishing, natural resource management administration, small business, directorship and soil carbon project development Jennifer has a broad range of knowledge and experience. She has managed a fine-wool Merino breeding program, completed numerous environmental protection/regeneration projects (including creek line fencing, revegetation, vermin control and weed eradication), improved farm management infrastructure, implemented annual cropping programs and introduced numerous 'sustainable farming' initiatives across a property she farmed with her husband near Boyup Brook. This episode will help you to understand just how important soil is to the agricultural sector in Australia. To donate and help fund more projects or even offset your carbon footprint check out our website! https://carbonpositiveaustralia.org.au

Join Brenna Quinlan an Artist and Educator who has taught permaculture in Argentina, Brazil and Chile. As an Artist, she has worked with the Australian Red Cross, Milkwood Permaculture, the Bob Brown Foundation and CSIRO to name a few! Brenna currently runs ‘Grow Do It Permaculture Education’ a project focused on bringing climate solutions to kids (and their parents) through art, music and creativity. This episode will be sure to inspire the Artist in us all and inspire us to create change that improves the Earth through permaculture principles. Want to help fund restoration project. Donate now to help restore Australia. https://carbonpositiveaustralia.org.au

Like so many people who watched War on Waste in 2017, April Hannah was inspired to take action the moment it finished and she continues to do so today. With a Diploma in Sustainable Operations, April delivers educational workshops and custom training programs about waste and sustainability in WA. Lauren, Communications & Partnerships Coordinator for Carbon Positive Australia, is equally passionate about sustainability and ethics and believes you can’t have one without the other (social and environmental sustainability must go hand-in-hand). Join them as they discuss with Louise how you can make take the small steps that add up to making a big difference just by following your passion and speaking up.

In 1981, Basil Schur came to Western Australia to study at UWA in Perth. After graduating with qualifications in science, education and environmental management. he is now Project manager with Green Skills, an NGO dedicated to working for sustainability initiatives. He has been with this group since it was formed in 1988, based in Denmark, on WA’s south coast. Basil was awarded the NRM National Landcare Manager award in 2021. Over the years he has coordinated many projects linked to landcare, eco restoration, wetland conservation and farm forestry. Basil is passionate about promoting Gondwana Link ( https://gondwanalink.org/), and, in this episode, chats to Louise about the large scale conservation program that aims to reconnect habitat across 1,000km of country across the lower South West.

Cesira has a strong foundation in sustainability, commercialisation, stakeholder engagement and project management. Glen is passionate about the energy sector which is currently undergoing rapid disruption. Together they run Sunovate, which was founded to create a platform for the rapid transition to renewable heat. The approach is to fundamentally reform the way heat energy is sourced and delivered to customers. Join Cesira and Glen as they chat with Louise about how energy and sustainability can go hand-in-hand to create a better future for all.

When you meet someone who is deeply passionate about trees it helps you understand their importance. Join Pollyanna Darling, Carbon Positive Australia’s Head of Community and Philanthropy, as she discusses with Louise why trees are amazing, how they mitigate climate change and why working together makes so much possible. Coming from a background in project management, reforestation, community engagement & NFP sector management, this episode will make you want to immerse yourself in nature.

In 2020, Carbon Positive Australia was supported by LotteryWest to build a personal carbon calculator alongside the design team at Anthologie, a local Perth creative agency. Join Niaal Holder, Digital Director of Anthologie, and Jess Fitzgerald, Commercial & Carbon Project Coordinator from Carbon Positive Australia, as they discuss with Louise the design, data collection and analysis of this new and improved tool and why it is important that we understand our personal carbon footprint.

Reduce, reuse, recycle - these are terms we are all familiar with, but are we familiar with the difference between the three and did you know that, in Western Australia, we aren’t really recycling plastic?! Join Maryline Cassou of KITO Plastics & Precious Plastics Perth and Sharka Hornahova of Donut Waste & Responsible Cafes as they discuss with Louise how plastic waste is one of the main issues of the waste management crisis in WA and what can be done to rectify this.