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Center for Climate Safety urges the Australian Senate to adopt the ‘Galilee Basin Coal Prohibition Bill Act’ which prohibits the mining of thermal coal in the Galilee Basin in Queensland. The Climate Council of Australia concluded already in 2015 that over 90 per cent of Australia’s remaining coal reserves must
An hour about hemp, meat and climate with sustainable time management tips – how we support the local economy and become more sustainable at a personal level. Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 19 December 2018 is Les Watson from Get More Time, known as the Time Lord. He covers some
The Swedish teenager who simply says it as it is. “We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. We need to keep the fossil fuels in the ground, and we need to focus on equity.” ~ Greta Thunberg, 15, Swedish student 15-year-old Swedish climate action advocate Greta
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 12 December 2018 are Meg Blair from Transition Streets East Geelong and Nicole Urbanski from Urban Upcycle who covered some of the small changes YOU can make. Christmas can be a manic time, but as we come to the festive season you can take
In The Sustainable Hour on 5 December 2018 we interview Fiona Armstrong, founder of Climate & Health Alliance, and Jonathan Balls, Melbourne University researcher on renewable energy who specialises in the development in India. We’ve also talk with 13-year-old Alex Aidt who took part in the school strikes for climate
[ Climatic clippings no 9 in 2018 ] 2018 was the year when words of emergency, breakdown, collapse and extinction started ringing in our ears with more disturbing clarity than ever before, but even so, the destruction of our climate continued as if no one was listening. ‘Plan A’ for how
Interview with 13-year-old Alex Aidt from Geelong High School who was one of several thousand students who walked out of school and joined the school strike in Melbourne on 30 November 2018. Alex talks about what he learned from NOT attending school the last two Fridays, and what he thinks
Guests in The Sustainable Youth Hour on 28 November 2018 are three students from Sacred Heart Collage in Geelong, just back from a sustainability camp, and four English language students from Deakin University in Geelong: Yuya, Mami and Nanami from Japan, and Charlie from Vietnam. We interview Laura Kelly and Jude Corbett, students
“The young people of Australia look to the actions of the government in this place, and they are revolted.” (…) “You have underestimated the young people of this nation.” ~ Senator Jordon Steele-John “What we want is more learning in schools, and less activism in schools.” ~ Prime Minister Scott
Global broadcast of ‘no-fly seminar’ about the Club of Rome’s Climate Emergency Plan “Climate change is now reaching an end-game scenario, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or accepting that it has been left too late and bear the consequences.” ~ Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, professor and