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Audio recordings of the presentations at the feature festival event ‘The Great Debate’ at the Big Weekend of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2018 on 9 February 2018. Photos by Julian Meehan The event set out to explore the vital role carbon ‘drawdown’ could play in helping reach a below
The Sustainable Hour goes to the moving images: YouTube! – launching the series: ‘Learning by doing about sustainable living’ In our first outside report we are in Ocean Grove visiting Soft Loud House Architects as they put a green roof on top of their new office premise. » You can subscribe
By Dr Andrew Glikson, Earth and Paleoclimate scientist, Australian National University When Hurricane Harvey hit the United States in August 2017, it was called a “500-year event” and referred to as “historic” and “unprecedented”. The press has a short memory. In reality, it was Houston’s third such flooding event in
A review of the new book ‘Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival’ by Dr Peter Carter and Dr Elizabeth Woodworth Reviewed by Dr Andrew Glikson, Earth and Paleoclimate scientist, Australian National University “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is
To return to safe levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – the famous 350 parts per million – we have got to figure out how we can rapidly drawdown huge amounts of carbon. The trouble is that we now have burned so much oil, coal and gas and put
It was a world first when Darebin City Council adopted a community-wide climate emergency plan. Now, some of Australia’s other 536 councils are getting ready to act, and in the United States, the emergency campaign has already been taken up by three local governments, including Los Angeles County. Fed up
“If we change the story, we can change the world.” ~ Brady Piñero Walkinshaw, CEO, Grist Magazine “When we get the story right, we move quickly.” ~ Jeremy Rifkin, economist “The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a
“As if it wasn’t already clear, 2017 provided even more evidence that we are changing our planet in dangerous ways.” ~ Heather Leibowitz, environmental advocate and lawyer “In 20 years we’ll look back on 2017 as a turning point for the climate challenge.” ~ Simon Holmes à Court, senior adviser
It is still below the radar of popular music in the mainstream media, but musicians are beginning to act, react and take action on climate change issues. Concerning the gas industry’s method of ‘fracking’, for instance, over 500 songs – mostly protest songs – have been composed and published as
October 2017 climatic clippings – part 2: All that that we don’t talk about. “We will have the choice of the collapse of civilisation and into the dark ages we go – or we find something renewable.” ~ Elon Musk “The only question is will we decide to live sustainably and