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This is Geelong calling. We say it is time to change the way we talk about renewables and emissions targets. First of all, we need to stop the confusing use of percentages in relation to a specific year. Instead, when we all express our results and targets in carbon-tonnes per
Every week in Australia, 3,000 new roof top solar systems are switched on. 1.4 million Australian homes are sun-powered by now, and they are increasingly being helped by cheaper solar batteries to store the energy locally, and Internet-based technology to supervise it. The solar industry is on the verge of
As part of Cool Australia’s national enviro week, Geelong High School are having a small expo on 3 September 2015, open to all students during their homegroup period. If there are any environment related organisations interested in setting up a display/stall and talking to students about their issue or cause
On United Nations’ International Youth Day, The Sustainable Hour gives voice to an intergenerational call for climate action. In brief: Grandparents for a Safe Earth’s advice to the youth: get involved! Alan Barlee’s advice to the elders: divest! Guest in the studio: Alan Barlee Phone interviews: Barry Cash from Grandparents
Listen to this week’s news bulletin from Jack Nyhof in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse: 12 August 2015 was the United Nations’ International Youth Day, and inspired by this, Jack Nyhof also produced this special report from Geelong High School and the school’s Green Team: The bulletin and
Sometimes progress is to say NO to something which is wrong. In the 19th century, a good part of the American and European economies were built on slavery. It was painful and horrendous to the slaves, but it was “good for the economy”. 150 years ago, slavery represented a sixth
Rewriting ‘The Australian Dream’ with a change of consciousness. Today we explore whether that journey to a more sustainable world which many of us would like to see our governments set out on, really must begin somewhere else: somewhere inside ourselves. A century ago the Indian leader Gandhi said that
With 6,500 staff across 21 sites, Barwon Health is the largest employer in Geelong region, and one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in all of Australia. Our guests in the sustainable studio on 94.7 The Pulse on 29 July 2015, Scott Randall and Bronwyn Aylmer from
Seed is Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network and is part of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition which has 120,000 members. The youth is shaking the tree! In the 82nd Sustainable Hour on 22 July 2015 on 94.7 The Pulse, we interview Corina Richie and Paul Gorrie from Seed and
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