‘We are the change’ – Excerpts from Geelong’s #ClimateStrike on 15 March 2019
Category: Local Geelong matters
#TellTheTruth: The idea whose time has come
Dispatching from the climate emergency bunker on 13 March 2019
15 March 2019: Striking for a safe climate
Citizens of all ages who have been inspired by Greta Thunberg will join the global climate action manifestation on 15 March 2019. It currently looks as if there will be 1,325 school strikes held in 98 countries. More than 60 strikes in Australia, more than 200 in France. A French
Global school strike: History in the making
The Sustainable Hour on 6 March 2019 is about two coming events: the global school strike on 15 March and the Nature Forum in Geelong on 16 March
Sustainability leaders touching us all
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 27 February 2019 are: [20:50] Judy Hassel, organiser of the Sustainable Living Show in Queenscliffe on 23 March 2019. [33:04] Brianne West, founder of the beauty products company Ethique, who talks about how we can reduce the use of plastic across all aspects in
Breaking the bystander effect
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 20 February 2019 are filmmaker David Lowe, singing teenagers Karla and Anna from Denmark, and Colin Mockett. We play an excerpt from a presentation by Margaret Klein Salamon.
Two councillors’ and a teenager’s recipe for change
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 13 Februay 2019 are two first-time councillors of the Greater Geelong City Council: Cr Sarah Mansfield, Chair of the Environment and Sustainability Portfolio, and Cr Stephanie Asher, Chair of the Planning Portfolio.
The BBQ-moment for the climate emergency
We talk about the climate emergency’s BBQ-moment in The Sustainable Hour on 6 February 2018: a summer where the climate emergency for the first time is no longer a taboo to talk about at social gatherings
Coastal community campaigner’s surf into politics
A sustainable hour with Damien Cole where he announces that he is running as an independent for the seat of Corangamite in the upcoming federal election.
Solar leadership, climate creativity and disruptive vitality
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 30 January 2019 are Lachlan Magee, energy solutions manager at Choice Solar, Luke Taylor, director of the National Sustainable Living Festival, and Deborah Punton from Greensong Ecopsychology