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Category: Local Geelong matters
Biggest ever global #ClimateStrike announced
To everyone who cares about climate safety and climate justice for all of us, this is your invitation to join the Global #ClimateStrike on 20 September 2019 – millions of people around the world standing up to confront the climate crisis when our politicians won’t. → Join or host a
Climate emergency, hypocracy and a green wedge
Guest in The Sustainble Hour on 5 June 2019 is Noel Emselle who invites all community members to a public forum, the Southern Bellarine Coastal Forum, on future development in the “green wedge” between Point Lonsdale and Ocean Grove on the 21 June 2019. The interview with him starts at
Petition: Call on Geelong Council to declare
We used to say, “to declare a climate emergency.” Now it has become such a common thing to do that people just say “to declare” and expect everyone to know what they mean. → You can add your name to the petition here:www.geelong.climateemergencydeclaration.org/petition – – – – – – –
Caroline Danaher’s direct action quest for the climate
A 75-year-old Australian pensioner got inspired by a 15-year Swedish teenager, and hear what happened next… 30-minute radio documentary by The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse about Caroline Danaher’s direct action quest in Geelong, Australia. This is the story about what happened when Caroline Danaher took inspiration from the
Soil, rivers and drones of the Climate Spring
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 29 May 2019 are: Lorna Martin – Permaculture Geelong co-founderLachlan Gordon – Friends of the Barwon, andCameron Steele – People for A Living Moorabool We also play a clip from a press meeting in Heathrow Airport, where four members of Extinction Rebellion announced
Tremors from the Australian youthquake
Guests in the The Sustainable Hour’s climatesafety-bunker on 22 April 2019 are 17-year-old school striker Oscar Pearce, student and school captain at Albert Park College, and our treasured ‘people-reporter’ Lene Foghsgaard who stops by the headquarters to greet our listeners with a proper ‘See you!’ before she heads off to
Direct action, disobedience and an emergency restart button
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 15 May 2019 are from the Australian climate action community
In defense of our planet: Give your vote to the kids
London calling: In The Sustainable Hour on 8 May 2019, we cancel some of our planned interview appointments in order to make room for reporting about something historic: the breakthrough for the climate emergency declaration and mobilisation which has been pushed forward by the school strikers and the Extinction Rebellion
#ClimateStrikers’ call to politicians: Show us you mean it
Climate change is here, the Australian election is here, and the third national student climate strike is here. We have two youth strikers in the studio, Caitlin Ramsay and Hilary Cao, who say they are ready to act like their lives and their futures depend on it. We open the