You’re Full of Microplastic and AUSMAP Are Doing Something About It
This episode of Act Local will give you the ick, the ick for microplastic.
You’ve heard the phrase, ‘Think Global, Act Local’ when conserving our natural world? But what does Act Local look like?
We’re catching up with legends from across Australia who are getting their hands dirty and having a positive environmental impact in their local communities.
This episode of Act Local will give you the ick, the ick for microplastic.
I’m Dr Martin Freney. Welcome to my self-sufficient crib.
When you interview a bunch of conservationists, chances are you’ll learn a thing or two. Cam’s done precisely that.
George is the founder of the Grassland Earless Dragon Alliance, which is in town to rally the local community around the survival of a local lizard species called the Bathurst Grassland Earless Dragon.
Red? Yellow? Green? Where oh where does this rubbish go? Help me Wasteman Mick!
We bring the cameras to our community planting event and sit down with Operation Crayweed to learn about seaweed sex.
We all know rubbish doesn’t belong in the ocean. Sure, we can keep picking it up off our beaches, but what if we could stop it from being created in the first place?
When you think of landcare, what comes to mind? Is it a bunch of 18-35 year-olds planting trees and dancing? That’s what it looks like for the crew at Gippsland Intrepid Landcare.
Did you hear that Victoria will end native forest logging by the end of this year? These things don’t just happen by themselves. They take many helping hands.
Australia’s current snow season got off to a bumpy start and Sam Quirke wants to make sure it doesn’t dry up any more.
Step into Evan Howard’s workshop. There are pants blown out beyond repair, a Barc’teryx dog jacket made of upcycled, down and a bunch of sewing machines.
In-between ‘surfing her brains out,’ Belinda Baggs is growing a sea-roots movement of surfers who are taking climate action and protecting the Australian coastline.
Cameron Doyle’s parked up in Apollo Bay, turned down the town’s famed scallop pie and jumped on local fisherman Trev’s boat to chat with grassroots activist Lisa Deppler from OCEAN.
All aboard! The Explorer Bus is hitting the road to bring you stories of grassroots conservationists in our brand-new YouTube series, Act Local.