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A three-minute report from the ‘school strike’ for climate action in Geelong, Australia, with interviews with some of the students who bravely walked out from their different schools in Geelong on Friday 23 November 2018. The #FridaysForFuture action took place in front of Labor member of federal parliament Richard Marles’
“You are always telling us kids to clean up after ourselves, so now it’s your turn. We are coming to remind you to tidy up your mess. And we will only get louder.”~ Nora, Year 6 student at Forest Lodge Public School In the lead up to the first-ever #SchoolStrike4Climate
Half way through the National Recycling Week, our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 14 November 2018 is singer Wayne Jury who is also head of waste reduction at Queenscliff Music Festival, coming up on 23 November. He has brought his guitar with him and performs two songs with sustainability
Great if you are able to promote and attend the Geelong School Strike for climate action outside Richard Marles’ office in Yarra Street, Geelong on Friday 23 November from 9am. Laura Kelly and Jude Corbet from Kardinia International College are organising the action — they’d love adults’ help with promotion and coming along on
“Climate change is a political choice.” ~ Mike Smyth, Chair of Energy4All, speaking at the Community Energy Conference in the United Kingdom in 2015 If you are going to vote in the Victorian state election, which is just around the corner now, we hope you will spend a bit
“The time has come!” The sustainable revolution is happening, and the youth are coming out – making sit-ins and going on school strike for the climate. So we’re saying: Just like the youth revolution back in the 1960s had its anthems, where is the ‘sustainable anthem’ or ‘climate action song’
Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 31 October 2018 is Ken Dickens, managing director of Corio Waste Management. Paul Wittwer explains that the National Day of Inaction on 30 November 2018 is actually a day of climate action. Australian school kids go on school strike tomorrow. We play an excerpt
Irish-Columbian missionary priest and well-known eco-theologian Sean McDonagh explores Pope Francis’ encyclical by touching on the moral and spiritual aspects on what it means to be a Christian in the 21st century by caring for the Earth. Father McDonagh offers his take on Laudato Si’ in his book, ‘On Care
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller, American author (1895–1983) In The Sustainable Hour on 24 October 2018, we receive a letter from 14-year-old Harriet and Milou in Castlemaine, who are
Glimpses from the climate change and sustainability forum ‘Care for Our Common Home’ at Geelong West Town Hall on 11 October 2018. Jasper Harris » Share this on Facebook and Youtube 15-year-old Jasper Harris’ five-minute speech at the climate change and sustainability forum. Jasper is a Year 10 student at