Clippings from the newsstream about the links between corona and climate
Category: Educational
Heidi Fog: Emergency call and solutions from Australia
Carbon consultant Heidi Fog’s 10 suggestions for doable ways to cut your own individual carbon footprint in half.
Climate activists’ perspectives on the coronavirus
Selfishness and greed among some members of the community can put us all in danger — and that’s no matter whether the issue is a virus crisis or a climate crisis.
The girls, the women and the climate
There’s something going on which we need to talk about more openly: The climate issue is also a gender issue
Speaking of drawdown (2): Our roles as ‘Personal leaders’
Speech by David Spear, the Executive Officer of Geelong Sustainability’s brand new social enterprise called GreenLight.
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