In this Bonus Sustainable Hour edition, we give you a glimpse of how G21 CEO Elaine Carbines’ environmental journey started, where she has been, and where she is headed.
Category: Local Geelong matters
Neighbours unite to amplify efforts
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 309 on 15 April 2020 are Nerida Thompson from Neighbours United for Climate Action, Colin Long from the Victorian Trades Hall Council who is manager of Just Transitions for Workers, and AFL player Jasper Pittard, a defender for the North Melbourne Kangaroos
The right thing to do
Singer Dawn Barrington joins us in The Tunnel with a big picture point of view on what is the right thing to do for Mother Earth, and what decarbonisation has to do with social trust and refugee justice.
Surprising energy news and ideas in The Tunnel
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 1 April 2020 are Brad Homewood, Coral Bleach and Lignite Pitt QC, Tim Buckley, Petra Goerschel and Silja Nyboe Andersen
Light at the start of The Tunnel
The Sustainable Hour self-isolates as our ‘mothership’ 94.7 The Pulse FM goes in lockdown. Corona brings havoc and despair, but at the same time, it also has become a gamechanger.
Female artists taking us forward
Guest in The Sustainable Hour no 305 is Diane Spicer. She is one of the 31 female artists contributing to the ‘What Do You Have To Lose?’
Geelong’s new approach to the climate emergency
The Sustainable Hour no 304 with Geelong Mayor Stephanie Asher about her city council’s recent climate emergency declaration
Otways Subterranean National Park – a world’s first
Our studio guest in The Sustainable Hour on 4 March 2020 is Malcolm Gardiner from the Land & Water Resources Otway Catchments (LAWROC) Landcare group.
Geelong grapples with its climate emergency declaration
On 25 February 2020, Geelong Council declared a climate emergency. Guest in the sustainable studio on 26 February is Monica Winston from Transition Streets Geelong.
Has Geelong Council lost its spine?
Is it possible to recognise climate change as a global emergency and order a newly built bikelane demolished at one and the same council meeting? Well. Geelong Council managed to do just that on 25 february 2020.