Speech by David Spear, the Executive Officer of Geelong Sustainability’s brand new social enterprise called GreenLight.
Category: Educational
Speaking of drawdown (1): What role might I play?
How we can affect our climate change future? At Geelong Sustainability’s Clever Living Seminar on 3 March 2020 at the Geelong Library, David Spear, CEO of Greenlight, and Gene Blackley, director of Drawdown Australia presented their answers to that question.
Recordings from the Climate Emergency Summit 2020
The first Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne was live-streamed on YouTube, and these recordings are now made available in shorter segments, together with an additional set of audio recordings of the break-out sessions.
When enough of us act on climate, we get to set the new rules
Lots of us have been convinced that our individual action on climate change isn’t worth the effort and the cost. But is it true?
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: An economist’s call for naturism
Jim Sampson is a 73-year-old retired economist, and a business entrepreneur, who has written a 56-page document, Naturism, where he suggests “a framework for solutions to the climate crisis”.
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: A natural farmer’s big vision for Australia
The UN is preparing to declare 2021-2030 the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Adrian Drew is part of a group of farmers and land owners who think Australia should take a leading role in making that happen. What to call the equivalent of a modern-thinking ‘urban farmer’ or permaculturalist, who works
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: A plant whisperer’s big solution
A Regenerative Hour with landscape-restoration legend and ‘plant-whisperer’ Peter Andrews as we stand on the doorstep to what the United Nations has named “the Decade of Eco-Restoration.”
Greta at UN Summit: “People are ready for change”
Videos, quotes and excerpts of statements by Greta Thunberg and others at the United Nations Summit in Spain, COP25
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Carbon March to #BurstTheBubble
Podcast with Stuart Rosson, author of the cli-fi novel ‘East’, about an impending collapse and the idea of starting a Carbon March to Canberra to #BurstTheBubble
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Storing carbon with 15 trees
The eight Regenerative Hour is recorded at a beautiful place called Narmbool, where we meet with Colleen Filippa, founder and director of Fifteen Trees, and Mathew Dowler from the Narmbool Education Team