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On 20 December 2017, we look back at the year that flew by as we celebrate rounding a corner: This is Geelong calling for the 200th time, providing sustainable insight, leadership and vision on 94.7 The Pulse, Geelong’s community radio. During the last four years, some 500 Geelong residents, business
In The Sustainable Hour on 13 December 2017, we talk about Tony’s trip last week to the front line in the battle against the Adani coal mine in Queensland. Tony interviewed 71-year-old Audrey Cooke about why she locked herself on to a gate to stop the construction work from going
Something rare just occurred: an Australian tv news journalist made a connection between extreme weather events and climate change! Sadly and strangely, this is actually such an extremely rare event in public media in Australia that it calls for an exclamation point and a special mention – in particular in
The blockade of Adani’s construction works in Queensland is becoming Australia’s next frontline in the fight against the climate crisis caused by an industry that wants us to keep burning their fossil fuels. In the morning on 6 December 2017, a group of #StopAdani campaigners locked on to a gate
When it comes to climate change, “we are suffering a dearth of vision and political will,” says ‘the accidental councillor’ David Bell, an organic farmer who recently was appointed as the new mayor of Surf Coast Shire. “Let’s change the paradigm of what we do with our politicians,” he suggests
Our MP wasn’t in. His integrity had left the office too. Temporarily, we hope Where did the honest federal politician go? We dedicate this podcast to Richard Marles MP in the hope that he will listen to these strong voices we present during the hour. It’s time to take a
On 21 November 2017, over 50 people gathered for a ‘Generations Against Adani Community Action’ at Labor’s member of federal parliament Richard Marles’ electoral office in Geelong’s CBD. The politician’s office was presented with another letter and petition indicating strong sustained community opposition in Geelong to the proposed mine in
Inaction on the climate emergency only makes sense in a shortsighted perspective. Enter The Sensible Citizen who has the capacity to think long term and to think independently, able to see straight through all the media ‘white noise’ – the fake news, disinformation and outright nonsense which we are bombarded with
Aerial landscape photographers and traditional land owners join forces to #StopAdani As new coal mines are opened up in Queensland, a collaboration of one of the best landscape photographers in this part of the world with a traditional land owner is using their gifts and abilities for conservation of the
With the National Recycling Week coming up on 13 November, we talk about waste and recycling in The Sustainable Hour on 8 November 2017. Our guest in the studio is education officer Darby Munro from City of Greater Geelong Waste Services. We talk with Queensland farmer Bruce Currie about coal