A new podcast from the University of New South Wales, "Preppers" gives us a new take on an old idea.

"‘Climate breakdown’: State of calamity in Portugal as fires rage out of control";

"George Monbiot: Neoliberalism, Nature and Negative Consequences";

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Mark Bachelder (pictured) orchestrates the community calls for the Foundation for Safe Climate from his home in California, reaching out to the world.

I met Mark by chance and in an illustration of how small the world is, he and a recent guest on this podcast, Osprey Orielle Lake, know each other well.

Mark is interested in climate matters and sees much of the solution to the present dilemma to be found through conversation and during our chat, I alerted him to the six-week series being organized by the Melbourne-based Conversation at the Crossroads - "Ethics in Turbulent Times: How to Bring Society to Higher Ground".

Mark Carter (pictured) from Flight Free Australia was clearly the first person to call when it was announced that Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport would receive Federal Government cash to make the complex's third runway a reality.

A story in The Melbourne Age - "Melbourne Airport’s $3 billion third runway cleared for take-off" - told of this development.

Mark explains how his group draws inspiration and sustenance from the European organization, "Stay Grounded" and is affiliated with the locally-based group, "Climate Action Network Australia".

High-speed rail is an alternative to flying and one view can be read in an article on The Conversation by Phillip Laird, "High-speed rail plans may finally end Australia’s 40-year wait to get on board".

The Geelong-based, "The Sustainable Hour" talked with Mark earlier in the year and this episode of "Climate Conversations" includes the audio from that interview, which happened before the confirmation announcement of the the third runway.

Shepparton's Ray Russell (pictured) and his Mooroopna business partner, Marty Rogers, built their first electric bike, "The Phantom" in 1987.

Building the bike was, in a sense, the easy part, bringing changes to Victorian State Government road rules was truly the hard part - it took months and months of dedicated lobbying by many people, including a former CEO of Victoria's Bicycle Network, Harry Barber.

Ray and Marty produced 80 Phantoms and one is presently on show in Shepparton's "Museum of Vehicle Evolution (MOVE)".

Ray, who is still enthusiastic about electric bikes, and recently graduated to a carbon fibre mountain bike, believes it is such things as mountain bikes with their go-anywhere capacity that can reshape human movement in Shepparton.

Osprey Orielle Lake (pictured) is passionate and committed to navigating through the "keyhole" of opportunity we have to avoid the worst of the climate crisis.

Osprey founded "The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)", international, and through that organisation engages women and feminists across the gender spectrum worldwide in policy advocacy, on-the-ground projects, direct action, training, and movement building for global climate justice.

Her award-winning book, "The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis" expands on what Osprey does with WECAN.

Osprey is a busy woman and among other responsibilities helps humanity avoid the worst of this "poly-crisis", she sits on the steering committee of "The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative".

The Melbourne-based "Conversation at The Crossroads" opened its six-week series, "Ethics in Turbulent Times: How to Bring Society to Higher Ground" with broad and sweeping discussion and a presentation from the internationally known philosopher, Peter Singer (pictured).

During his presentation at the University College at the University of Melbourne, Mr Singer mentioned the podcast with which he is involved - "Lives Well Lived".

Five sessions are yet to come in "Ethics in Turbulent Times", an event you can attend either in person or virtually - I shared the first breakout room with several people, including a woman from Germany who was an enthusiast of Peter Singer's work.

Shepparton businessman, Sebastian Mangiameli (pictured), is thoroughly impressed with his long-range all-wheel-drive Tesla.

The car, he explains is economical in every sense, and requires almost no servicing, has the latest in technology and most everything can be attended to in a virtual sense with upgrades being applied by the Tesla factory.

This exciting, new and different way of buying and owning a car is explained on the Tesla website

The devastation of Super Typhoon Rai showed a whole generation of Filipino youth the impacts of climate change, according to youth activist Grace Ann Enriquez.

Now in Canberra, she's joining First Nations climate activist Eduardo Maher and other youth campaigners in calling for the federal government to take stronger action on climate change "'I lost my childhood home': From disaster to climate action";

A powerful presentation by Canadian Naomi Klein in 2014 has long been one of the most powerful and memorable presentations from "Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas";

"Applying the Framework for Ethical Decision Making to the Issue of Climate Change";

"Almost 68% of Australia’s tourism sites at major risk if climate crisis continues, report says";

"Ethics in Turbulent Times: How to Bring Society to Higher Ground";

"Sharing and Reflecting on our Common Future";

"South Australia to enshrine 100 pct net renewable target in law as BHP looks to double smelting capacity";

"Climate disasters challenge right to safe and adequate housing";

"As climate disasters grow, early warning systems become essential";

"Electric Big Rigs Are Poised to Revolutionize the Trucking Industry";

"Climate Change Is Making ‘Last Chance Tourism’ More Popular, and Riskier";

"Solar Farms Have a Superpower Beyond Clean Energy".