Grappling with the climate crisis from the inside out.

From the vantage point of a country town in Australia, Endgame podcast traces the connections between big and small things to look at how the crisis is re-shaping our relationship to ourselves, each other and the world.

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Season 1

Close to home

part 1. Significant roadside area

[19’30”] Stepping through a crack in the fabric of the universe, where the past and the future collide, Kyla Brettle unravels the history of a small patch of bush near her home in Barkers Creek. Guided her children, an ecologist, a landcare volunteer and a local First Nation's Elder, Kyla explores connections between people and place and how the different ways we see an environment manifest in the world around us. [more]

part 2. Close to home

[47’58”] An intimate look at embracing the cactus - what stops us from taking the climate crisis into our hearts and hands - and then what can happen when we do.

Kyla Brettle and Rob Law risk peering into the dark and seeing the light - diving into moments that ‘changed everything’. They also explore what shapes public opinion about the crisis, and track their small town’s struggle to acknowledge they’ve got a climate problem. [more]

 

audio P O S T C A R D S

Whatever works for you

[3’23”] Tune into the thrum of subconscious and cling tenaciously to our culturally constructed beliefs. An audio mash-up experiment challenging the hero narrative and the myth of separation. [more]

 

The rules have changed

[8’27”] Kyla Brettle on the fate of her toothbrush, how Eboneza Scrooge was treated unfairly in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and reading Jem Bendall’s ‘Deep Adaptation; a map for navigating climate tragedy’. [more]

 

Dragons of inaction

[6’49”] Rob Law asks if our brains be getting in the way of how we process climate change… Opening the lid on our ancient brain and how cognitive biases both help and hinder our climate response. [more]

 

Ocean of plastic

[4’16”] Kyla Brettle has a ‘moment’ in a supermarket isle before a magpie and a carpet of flowers float bye... on the daily grind of living with cognitive dissonance and small things that become big.[more]

 

One hundred years

[6’32”] Terry White and Neil Barrett are old friends and have a hundred years of climate action between them. They speak with Rob Law about the long game of climate advocacy and what gives them hope. [more]

 

Before the rush

[11’42”] Kyla Brettle on collapsing after Christmas, looking for frogs in the creek and the pile of books by her bed - reading up and trying to get to the nub of what it means to live in a sustainable way. [more]

When you know a place

[8’00”] Listen to an invisible world that parallels our own - and allow yourself to be inspired by insights from twenty-five years of deep listening to natural ecologies - with landscape recordist, Andrew Skeoch... [more]

 

A welcome to Country

[14’41”] A Thursday night in 2019 finds Kyla at a community information session about the Climate Emergency. Speakers Uncle Rick Nelson and Warwick Smith put ‘change’ in a local perspective [more]

Highly strung

[7’21”] Rob Law invites you into his music room and introduces some of the voices you hear in Endgame. Explore the liner notes and trace the thematic links between music and climate change. [more]

 

We can’t stop now

Heather Cummins and Laura Noonan on the first experience of climate action - igniting a local campaign to declare a climate emergency. On the importance of friendship, safe spaces and the antidote to despair [more]

 

Everything you hold dear

[15’04”] A mother facing the mother of all threats. When everything changed for writer and editor Melanie Scaife - realising that climate would be a defining factor in her daughters future. [more]


 

Healing landscapes

[9’38”] Rob Law reflects on his shifting relationship to his local creek during COVID lockdowns, and how a strong sense of place can help to anchor feelings in a rapidly changing and uncertain world. [more]

Hope and coffee

[6’13”] What hopes do we hold for a climate changed world - and can hope be trusted to guide our way? Kyla Brettle turns on the coffee machine, opens the books and tackles this head on. [more]

Breath

[1’00”] Wakka Wakka First Nations elder Uncle Paul Gilralido Chapman plays and teaches the didjeridoo - helping young people to learn about themselves and to listen deeply to the world. [more]