Enjoy some extraordinary melodicism and dazzling technique in-studio with me next week, when Monday afternoon gets hot and high octane with a visit from Wolfgang Muthspiel, one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians. In town with his trio for one gig at the Sydney Recital Hall,  Muthspiel’s last recording, Bright Side, was described as “gorgeous, luscious, joyous, shimmering, subtle and divine, …heart-stoppingly beautiful music” by one reviewer, and some of that deliciousness will be yours to share with me between 4-6pm on August 8th.

Speaking of the divine, the Pope is about to hear from young Australians who want the Catholic Church to divest from fossil fuels, with an event that will coincide with World Youth Day. We’ll have Gen Z in the studio next week, prior to Wolfgang to explain where this ethical push is coming from. Our other guest next Monday will be hydrogeologist Phil Dyson, who recently admitted he is addicted to talking to trees. Don’t worry, it’s all very scientific.

And for those yet to listen to this week’s show, we’ve had terrific feedback already about the interview with Professor Heinz Schandl, Senior Science Leader, CSIRO, who said he loved the Akala track I played before he explained to us why economic growth need not be fatally connected to continuing, and environmentally deleterious, resource consumption. Heinz made what could be a dry and confusing topic so easy to understand, elucidating the many options the future will bring, if we move fast enough to change the economic models driving modern society. After a couple of hundred years of unbridled industrial revolution, it’s good to hear there is a way to stop this without compromising the health and prosperity of billions of people. Here’s a link, and the report summary is very readable. CSIRO Report

Professor Schandl was followed by Gordon Renouf who dropped by to tout his new consumer app, Good On You, which promises to help us choose fashion which does no harm, and even counter the unsustainable consumption and waste of diminishing natural resources. We talked about radical transparency throughout the production chain, and how it will change the business models of retailers and manufacturers as consumers demand more information about who and what were involved in the making of jeans, jackets, hats and even socks. https://goodonyou.org.au/app/

Finally we had a visit from glamorous geo-environmentalist, AnitaParbhakar-Fox, who flew up from Tasmania to tell us about an opportunity which the end of the mining boom in Australia could allow Australians to turn toxic trash into treasure by mining the tailings of Australia’s 50,000 odd abandoned mines. Anita’s research is funded by ARC Transforming the Mining Value Chain

https://goodonyou.org.au/app/