Sonia KcKay, Margaret Fleck and Lynn Benn prepare us for the National Day of Action against new fossil fuels and former A League player Chris Harold speaks out about his climate concerns.
Category: Local Geelong matters
Momentum for koalas, surfers, athletes and nature
The Sustainable Hour no 339 with Janine Duffy, president of the Koala Clancy Foundation, Belinda Baggs, founder of Surfers for Climate, and Craig Foster, the face of soccer for many years on SBS News.
The Sustainable Disaster Hour
We take an encouraging step on the Stairway to Hiatus in The Tunnel this week. Together with our three guests we discover how to live – and live well – in the climate emergency. Welcome to our first ‘Sustainable Disaster Hour’!
Let’s change our practices and the way we do things
In The Sustainable Hour no 337 on 21 October 2020 we have two people closely associated with the making of the award-winning film ‘In My Blood It Runs‘: Traditional elder William Tilmouth and the film’s director Maya Newell.
Change of mindset to take Geelong forward
Geelong Council candidates Tom O’Connor and Stephanie Asher together with Carl Obst, director of IDEEA Group, give their views on what will take the municipality forward.
Election candidates reaching for a bigger green
On 7 October 2020 our focus in The Sustainable Hour no 335 is on three candidates who have put themselves up to represent the citizens of Greater Geelong in the upcoming local government election.
Climate questions to Geelong candidates
At election time, there are so many scorecards and interest groups coming out to spoon-feed you and tell you who to vote for. The group of volunteers behind the Geelong Community Survey 2020 has produced a candidate survey, which they
Clever and creative women putting climate first
On 30 September 2020 The Sustainable Hour hosts a panel of ‘Put Climate First’ candidates for Geelong and one from the Surf Coast Shire for the local government elections that are rapidly approaching via our postboxes.
Climate strikers: “Fund our future – not gas”
Geelong school students and climate activists will mobilise on Friday 25 September 2020 at 11:00am under the banner ‘Fund Our Future – Not Gas’ in the first major protest since lock-down. The online protest rally will be held on Zoom
The Sustainable House in the age of change
The Sustainable Hour no 333 about Sustainable House Day, a ‘Put Climate First’ election campaign, The Change Agency and the school strike for climate on Friday.