Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
We are in a dead-serious race against time when it comes to stopping our pollution of the atmosphere. Equally important is to share and spread the knowledge about how fast things are actually progressing in the right direction towards a new, sustainable energy era. Below are some recent examples. The
October 2017 climatic clippings – part 1 Today, in 2017, we see it on the news almost every day. We are victims of climate change. Climate change causes what the silly journalists of our mainstream media keep calling ‘natural’ disasters, even though more or less everyone knows that these disruptions
Guests in the sustainable studio on 94.7 The Pulse on 27 September 2017 are: Alvyn Williams, architect and owner of Soft Loud House Architects, creating “values-based architecture for environment, community and spirit”, and Amy Gillett, GMHBA’s Community Relations & Partnerships Manager, who explains how the company’s vegetable roof top garden
“Action is the antidote to despair.” Edward Abbey, American author (1927–1989) Climate Catch 22: The antidote to climate despair is action. Everyone we have talked with in our radio show The Sustainable Hour agrees with this. But we don’t act as long as we are in doubt. Therefore, the removal
The ‘Our Future’ vision for Geelong is a challenge of a lifetime – but we can do it. Geelong is about to find out whether politics and votes can be determined not by the usual short-term election promises which everyone knows are unlikely to be fulfilled anyway, but by daring
Sweden On 15 June 2017, the Swedish Parliament took a decision on the most important climate reform in the country’s history. Sweden committed to cutting its net carbon emissions to zero by 2045, becoming the first country to significantly upgrade its carbon ambitions since the Paris Agreement in 2015. The
Can an entire region transform to being self-supplied by 100 per cent renewable energy in less than ten years? Yes, explains Søren Hermansen from Denmark who spearheaded his island’s efforts to become energy independent and even a clean energy exporter. Samsø has proved to the world that it is absolutely
First they enriched us with Donald Duck. Now the Americans are bringing to the world their very own… Donald Dumb and his backroom club of fossil fools. It may turn out to be better news that it seemed at first. American president Donald Trump’s own goal is not only that
What does it take to unite politicians of all parties in a parliament to start working on finding real climate solutions? Ask New Zealand, because they have done it. While the Australian parliament has turned into a coal-clown circus of lies, denial and rising emissions, New Zealand – as the
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 26 April 2017 are: Dorthe Pedersen, co-founder of Cycling Without Age, Tim Buckley, industry analyst from Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Guy Abrahams, CEO of Climarte and director of the festival ‘Arts+Climate=Change’, and Graeme Stockton, co-organiser of