About this episode

The episode explores the impact of environmental changes on local rivers and community responses to these challenges.

What's a river to you? After cyclone Alfred crossed Australia's East Coast earlier this year, tens of thousands of fish died in our local river, Dave got a persistent staph infection and our community tousled with a question: what's wrong with our river? And what can we do about it ? How does change happen when we, and the world, seem stuck in our ways? We’re curious about how change happens – and what people are doing on the ground, in our community, to create the causal pathways...

Topics covered

• river health
• community action
• environmental change

Keywords

• cyclone Alfred
• staph infection
• fish deaths
• causal pathways

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Rivers Run

Places: Australia, East Coast

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