Shows
Post-Growth Australia PodcastIsaac Kabongo: Degrowth, COP talks and Family Planning in UgandaIsaac Kabongo is the CEO of the Uganda-based Ecological Christian Organisation (ECO), a faith-driven initiative dedicated to fostering environmental stewardship at the grassroots level. ECO works to integrate sustainability with community-led action, including raising awareness about family planning and contraception. By reframing the relationship between Christianity, family planning, and discussions around population, the organisation provides an important bridge between faith and sustainability.
In addition to his leadership at ECO, Isaac has represented Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) at each international COP talk since 2012, playing a key role in shaping discussions on how the Global South and...2025-02-021h 06
Dave the Planet21: Make EARTH Great Again – Dave the Planet Town Hall“It’s not a happy time when Dave Gardner has to cancel his campaign, the last hope for a living planet.” Presidential candidate Dave Gardner, running mate Stefanie Hawks-Johnson, and key campaign team volunteers share observations of the 2024 U.S. presidential race, make an important campaign announcement, and plan for the future. They consider possible reasons the campaign failed to attract significant media attention and public support. They also discuss The Bright Future Project and post-campaign steps to ensure we don’t leave our kids a dead planet.We also hear when Bill Maher implored his audience to “Make...2024-10-1554 min
Belle Trace, Parcours de grands championsAlain Blondel : "Je suis responsable de l’organisation des épreuves d’athlétisme aux Jeux de Paris 2024"Alain Blondel est l’invité de Flo Masnada cette semaine dans Belle Trace. L’ancien champion d’Europe de décathlon occupe aujourd’hui le poste stratégique de Sports Manager pour les Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris 2024. Dans le podcast, il revient sur son parcours d’athlète, d’entraîneur, de manager et désormais son rôle dans l’organisation des Jeux de Paris 2024. Alain Blondel occupe un rôle clé pour Paris 2024, celui de Sports Manager. A ce titre, l’ancien décathlonien est responsable de l’organisation des épreuves d’athlétisme et de para-athlétism...2023-12-2050 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastEarthCare Permaculture GhanaFor this episode of PGAP, we travel (virtually) to equatorial western Africa to speak with Innocent Kelvin Coffie, youth leader and founder of EarthCare Permaculture Ghana. Kelvin takes us on a verbal tour of the property, the successes the property has had in up skilling new generations in food self-sufficiency, and some recent challenges that the property has endured through. Kelvin also gives some insight into how the permaculture movement is taking root in Ghana, some of the unique environmental and social challenges experienced in his country and how permaculture is one solution to solving these problems.
2023-03-2839 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastWomen for Conservation with Isabella Cortes LaraOn November 15 2022 the global population hit 8 billion. Despite the fact that half of all the world’s pregnancies are unplanned, any talk of global approach to family planning and reproductive health care in the global south remains controversial. So often, this is debated across the global north without including stakeholders who live in the global south and work with the issues first hand. PGAP aims to make amends for this oversight by inviting Isabella Cortes Lara to the podcast, Vice President of ‘Women for Conservation’, who work alongside rural communities in Colombia and Nepal. An incredible artist and storyteller, Isabel...2023-01-221h 03
Post-Growth Australia PodcastSmaller Families for People and Planet - With Florence Blondel, Maxine Trump and Tanya WilliamsThree inspiring women. Three powerful arguments why empowered women who choose smaller or childfree families are good for individuals, good for communities and arguably better for the planet. This is the case regardless of where in the world you happen to live - global north OR global south. Population is a contentious conversation starter - in large part because it is a very personal issue for all of us. Yet it is a conversation that we must have if we are to envision a future with less, rather than more, human impact. This incredibly special episode goes hand in...2021-02-171h 23
Green Root PodcastProtecting Nature, Empowering Women (with Florence Blondel, global justice campaigner)On episode #38 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg leaves the continent with environmental and global justice campaigner, Florence Blondel, to explore biodiversity loss in her native country of Uganda, how empowering women’s birth control choices can reduce poverty while also protecting forests and climate, and whether the developing world may someday become a model of sustainability.
2021-01-1155 min
Hamilton Institute Seminars (HD / large)Reaching Consensus about GossipSpeaker:
Prof. P. Thiran
Abstract:
An increasingly larger number of applications require networks to perform decentralized computations over distributed data. A representative problem of these “in-network processing” tasks is the distributed computation of the average of values present at nodes of a network, known as gossip algorithms. They have received recently significant attention across different communities (networking, algorithms, signal processing, control) because they constitute simple and robust methods for distributed information processing over networks.
The first part of the talk is a survey some recent results on real-valued (analog) gossip algorithms. For many topologies that are realistic for wireless sensor netw...2012-05-281h 12
Hamilton Institute Seminars (iPod / small)Reaching Consensus about GossipSpeaker:
Prof. P. Thiran
Abstract:
An increasingly larger number of applications require networks to perform decentralized computations over distributed data. A representative problem of these “in-network processing” tasks is the distributed computation of the average of values present at nodes of a network, known as gossip algorithms. They have received recently significant attention across different communities (networking, algorithms, signal processing, control) because they constitute simple and robust methods for distributed information processing over networks.
The first part of the talk is a survey some recent results on real-valued (analog) gossip algorithms. For many topologies that are realistic for wireless sensor netw...2012-05-2800 min
Lowy InstituteThe future of EuropeThe political and economic unification of Europe through the European Union is one of the modern world's greatest political projects. Indeed, it questions many of the conventional wisdoms of political science. The evolution of the European Union is also perplexing, particularly for countries such as Australia, who are geographically distant but maintain very close ties to many European countries. On 26 September at a special Tuesday version of the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy series, Professor Jean Blondel will discuss where the European Union is headed and if it can recover from its referendum setbacks. Professor Blondel is...2012-04-241h 03