150. Earth Day Special: The Environmental Music Prize! with Edwina Floch
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Australia is turning up the volume on environmentalism for the world to hear!
If you turned on your favorite music radio station, would you know we’re in a crisis?
Only 1% of songs in National Australian premier radio station Triple J’s Hottest 100 (2.5M+ votes) over the last 5 years directly referenced environmental issues…and that’s following mass bleaching of The Great Barrier Reef, The devastating Australian Bushfires of 2019-2020, AND a recent study before COP26 that reported 75% of Australians are concerned about climate change.
So why is Australian mainstream music so culturally disconnected from a population overwhelmingly environmentalist? We know artists, bands, and musicians have been and are currently creating environmentally-minded music, so how do we get those songs into the mainstream?
Our guest today, Edwina Floch, recently launched The Environmental Music Prize - A new $AU 20,000 prize that amplifies the voices of artists who inspire action for climate and conservation. The prize launched during the UN Climate Summit, and it's a global first and a call-to-action for artists to create and submit powerful music videos that celebrate nature and encourage us to defend it.
Every movement needs anthems. The search is on!
Enjoy the show and stick around to hear some amazing music from music artists Montaigne, In Hearts Wake, Little Green, Billy Otto, and King Stingray!
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WATCH: All the Music Videos by the finalists for The Environmental Music Prize!
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LEARN: Learn more about The Environmental Music Prize!
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Thanks to our guest this week, Edwina Floch!
Edwina Floch
Founder | Environmental Music Prize
Environmental Music Prize
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A massive thank you to all our musical guests this week:
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I am not Tom Griffith-Karneck, but I am Cristiano |
| 0:18.9 | Fighettis. |
| 0:19.9 | And I'm not Paul Dickinson, but I am Clay Carnell. |
| 0:24.2 | And this is not a typical episode. As we celebrate Earth Day around the world, |
| 0:29.8 | today, we bring you a musical festival and a wonderful conversation with Idouina Flock |
| 0:37.2 | from the Australian Environmental Music Prize. Thanks for being here and enjoy the musical feast. |
| 0:44.2 | So, Cristiano, what are we doing today? Tom and Paul are away, and you've invited me to |
| 1:02.9 | come on with you for this Earth Day episode. And so if this is not a regular episode, what |
| 1:10.0 | is this? |
| 1:11.0 | It's sort of a hybrid, right? It is sort of an episode, but it's a very special one because |
| 1:17.2 | it is absolutely packed with music. We are going to be interviewing Idouina Flock, who is Australian, |
| 1:25.5 | and who has had an absolutely brilliant idea of starting an environmental music prize |
| 1:33.3 | that she's starting in Australia. And it is a prize that seeks to encourage and then |
| 1:39.2 | amplify the voices of artists who are inspiring action for climate, but in conservation in |
| 1:44.5 | general. It is definitely a first, and as she will say on the interview, she's been inspired |
| 1:53.6 | by other prizes that are out there, also inspiring action. But this is a very special |
| 1:59.1 | one, isn't it? She's calling for music videos that have environment calls and environment |
| 2:07.5 | themes at their core. Now, Clay, I don't know about you because you're the one that always |
| 2:13.4 | has to find these musical pieces that we are so delighted to include in our regular episodes. |
| 2:20.7 | But my sense is there's a real drought out there of environmental music. We put on beautiful |
| 2:27.0 | pieces, but are they all environmentally themed? |
| 2:30.5 | No. And listeners of the show will know that the artists that we do have on the podcast |
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