The marvelous Prof Tim Flannery was once described by the Financial Times as akin to a cross between Charles Darwin and Indiana Jones for his pioneering mammalogy and paleontology field work. But he gave up this adventurous life to focus on climate change writing and campaigning. Tim drops into the studio and we discuss why, and talk about his new book (his second follow up to the highly influential The Weather Makers): Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument For How To Feed, Power, and Clean Up The World.
Act: Inspiration
Sunlight and Seaweed
By Adam Grubb, Tim Flannery, originally published by Greening the Apocalypse
August 14, 2017
Adam Grubb
Adam Grubb left a career in IT to pursue becoming backwardly mobile after learning about energy depletion. He founded the energy news clearinghouse Energy Bulletin in 2003 which became the most popular website about peak oil on the net. He got into permaculture in 2004 and a couple of years later co-founded (with Dan Palmer) the now global permablitz movement. These days he and Dan are co-directors of the urban permaculture consultancy Very Edible Gardens (VEG) in Melbourne, and are in demand as designers, garden creators and educators. He co-hosts Greening the Apocalypse on 3RRR. He has been a wild food enthusiast for over a decade and running edible weed walks since 2006.
Tags: climate change responses, Renewable Energy
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