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Newsletter No 13 from #StopAdani Geelong: Community Meeting 6 November @6.30pm GENERATIONS AGAINST ADANI ACTION 21 NOVEMBER 11AM What: Peaceful protest out the front of Richard Marles’ office Who: Anyone who wants to take a stand to Stop Adani from the young to the young at heart When: 21 November
Our first guest in The Sustainable Hour on 25 October 2017 is the Geelong-based author and columnist Trevor Pescott who presents his new book, ‘Birds and Botanists: A field naturalist’s history of Geelong’. We play an excerpt of a speech Annie Raser-Rowland, author of ‘The Art of Frugal Hedonism’, gave
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 18 October 2017 is Geelong Gallery’s deputy-director Penny Whitehead. On the phone we talk with Councillor Cathy Oke, chair of the City of Melbourne Environmental Portfolio. At the Humans in Geelong Expo, Tony meets two 20-year-old cycling Danes, Marcus Frellsen and Kenneth McDonald Kelly,
Guest in The Sustainable Studio on 11 October 2017 is Dan Cowdell from Geelong Sustainability. He is the project coordinator of Geelong’s first investor-financed community energy project. We also talk with Tom Hunt who is member of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a non-profit advocacy organisation focused on national policies to address
What a turnout down Eastern Beach for our StopAdani Geelong human sign! Over 200 people showed up to help us form a human sign, above and beyond all expectations. Protests all over Australia showed similar levels of engagement and popular rage over the Adani project. The Australian people as a
On 3 October 2017, Geelong Chamber of Commerce organised a Candidate Forum at Rydges Geelong where each candidate was given 90 seconds to present his or her response to a number of questions and also summarise their policies and priorities. Rusty has launched a ‘Not in 90 seconds’ series, which presents
“Comfortable”, “low energy and water bills”, “health and happiness” are some of the aspects our guests mention when asked why they are so passionate about sustainable housing. Sustainability makes so much practical and tangible common sense and joy. The Sustainable Hour on 4 October 2017 turns into The Sustainable House
Guests in the sustainable studio on 94.7 The Pulse on 27 September 2017 are: Alvyn Williams, architect and owner of Soft Loud House Architects, creating “values-based architecture for environment, community and spirit”, and Amy Gillett, GMHBA’s Community Relations & Partnerships Manager, who explains how the company’s vegetable roof top garden
Guests in the Sustainable Studio on 20 September 2017 are: Monica Winston, Transition Streets Geelong, Leigh Ewbank from Act on Climate, and Jacqui Bennett from Humans in Geelong. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 187 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format, right-click here
Our guests in the Sustainable Studio on 13 September 2017 are Barbara Ferrante, owner of Salon Eve in Geelong, and Krystina Birch, Sustainable Salons Australia’s Victorian representative. We visit Gayle English and Phil Slocombe at It’s Only Natural, an eco-friendly dry cleaning shop in Yarraville. And over the phone we talk with