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“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy.” ~ Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847–1931) Once or twice a month, I have been getting these emails and phone calls from schools in the region, asking me, “How did you do it?”… How did we organise a successful crowdfunding campaign
In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 19 October 2016 we meet Dave Martin, a sustainable builder who started Small Giants and a concept of ‘sustainable apprenticeship’, we talk with Annie Raser-Rowland about her new book, ‘The Art of Frugal Hedonism’, and Robert Skehan from Plastic Bag Free
The greatest threat humanity has ever been confronted with is not climate change. It is us, human beings, and the way we have organised ourselves in democracies where money flows both openly and secretly back and forth between powerful commercial interests and members of our governments. The threat of climate
[CLIMATIC ROOT TREATMENT] is a series of blogposts seeking to uncover and understand the deeper roots of society’s problems with taking appropriate action on the climate emergency, and to explore the advantages we could see once the action sets in. “The [fossil fuel] industry thinks we are all fools, so
In 2016, the national Divestment Day in Australia was on 7 October, and action took place in Geelong as well, with customers of the four big banks closing their bank accounts, moving over to banks which are not closely knitted together with the fossil fuel industry. Claire Danaher explains why
[CLIMATIC ROOT TREATMENT] is a series of blogposts seeking to uncover and understand the deeper roots of society’s problems with taking appropriate action on the climate emergency, and to explore the advantages we could see once the action sets in. “The [fossil fuel] industry thinks we are all fools, so
Mik Aidt’s presentation at the Geelong Green Drinks on 24 August 2016 » Suggestion: Start the player and listen while you take your time to browse through the photos below An audio recording of a ten-minute group workshop at the end of the presentation can be found further below. In Geelong,
You can’t judge climate sceptics as if they are all the same. They come in various sizes and shapes, with different motivations, and we need to be able to distinguish sceptics from deniers, trolls from laggards. We have seen their messages of doubt spread and grow just like a virus.
[CLIMATIC ROOT TREATMENT] is a series of blogposts seeking to uncover and understand the deeper roots of society’s problems with taking appropriate action on the climate emergency, and to explore the advantages we could see once the action sets in. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity”
Our optimistic and knowledgeable guests in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 18 May 2016 are engagement manager Adam Majcher and head of implementation Scott Ferraro from ClimateWorks. We also play a short statement by the owner of the world’s first off-grid solar-powered industrial factory, Chugg Boggs from