Seaweed farmers v. Big Oil & soil with Freya Mulvey
This one’s for you if you’re interested in how a class action case works, if you wanna hear about seaweed farmers taking on big oil companies or if you’re also a soil person 🌱🪱
Freya Mulvey is a senior lawyer and environmental enthusiast who is passionate about implementing better soil and landscape regulation into policy and legal frameworks. She is a 2023 Churchill Fellow and a 2017 recipient of the Australian Lawyers Alliance Civil Justice Award for her work on the Montara Oil Spill. She is also a published author of the book Ground Breaking: Soil Security and Climate Change. We're also making a podcast together!
You can find Freya on LinkedIn, subscribe to SOIL on Spotify here, find us on socials @soilpodcast or read more at thesoilpodcast.com. Donate to our Pozible campaign by March 16th or via our website afterwards. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people.
Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep:
Indonesian seaweed farmers win class action over one of Australia's largest oil spills
Phil Mulvey, Environmental Earth Sciences International
Ground Breaking: Soil Security & Climate Change (the book Freya co-authored with Phil Mulvey)
Seaweed People is completely independent. You can support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.
This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal and Larrakia Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.
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Seaweed People
A podcast about seaweed and people. It's for you if you're interested in what seaweed is, how it works in ecosystems, whether it's a legit carbon sequestration solution, growing it for food, regenerating coastlines and the intersection of science, art and culture. Expect fortnightly interviews with humans who research or work with seaweed and the sea.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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