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Sadly for Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his coal-mates have turned out to be eager to sabotage the national wind turbine industry, costing thousands of lost jobs and tonnes of carbon emissions. But the rest of Australia really should be listening to what these good folks in Ohio have
Today, The Sustainable Hour introduces you to three adventurous Australians who went one big step further to spread the message about the urgent need for change as far as our environmental impact and carbon footprint is concerned. Mary Beth Gundrum walked 1,005.5 kilometres over 23 days to create awareness about
A radio podcast for politicians and decision makers in the Victorian state parliament about the prospects of turning farmland into industrial gasfields. 1.3 million hectares of land in Victoria is threatened by onshore gas mining. The 80th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse contains an ‘audio submission’ produced for the
A new global health report calls climate change a ‘health emergency’, but also an opportunity. Citizens are taking legal action against their own governments’ inaction on climate change because it is going to harm the nation. And in Holland, they won the case. The 79th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The
The Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is a dedicated Catholic. Pope Francis’ new encyclical letter and his call for action on climate change confronts Tony Abbott with an interesting dilemma: As the leader of a nation shortly to become the world’s biggest exporter of gas and among the world’s Top
Why is Pope Francis’ teaching letter, the encyclical, so significant? Because it has brought the questions around not just climate change, but to Australians more specifically coal mining and onshore gas mining into the moral’s sphere of the total element of who we are as human beings. Geelong St Mary’s
It is solstice, a turning point – and in Anglesea as well as globally, it is ‘coalstice’. The beginning of the end for using coal to produce electricity. The 77th Sustainable Hour on 17 June 2015 on 94.7 The Pulse invites you to a community forum in Anglesea which was
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 18, 2015 The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. ~ Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 18, 2015
An hour on 94.7 The Pulse about what’s next after the successful campaign to have the coal-fired Anglesea power station and coal mine closed down – about the transformation in community, wildlife, heathland and nature, with disappearing species, disconnectedness and anger as well as new engaging opportunities, exciting initiatives and
We invited community planner Pat Onesta from Hawaii, who recently moved to the Surf Coast, to be our guest in the 75th Sustainable Hour for a talk about communities and renewable energy projects, energy efficiency, eliminating waste and about how best to reduce our individual carbon footprints. In today’s program