Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
On United Nations’ International Youth Day, The Sustainable Hour gives voice to an intergenerational call for climate action. In brief: Grandparents for a Safe Earth’s advice to the youth: get involved! Alan Barlee’s advice to the elders: divest! Guest in the studio: Alan Barlee Phone interviews: Barry Cash from Grandparents
Listen to this week’s news bulletin from Jack Nyhof in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse: 12 August 2015 was the United Nations’ International Youth Day, and inspired by this, Jack Nyhof also produced this special report from Geelong High School and the school’s Green Team: The bulletin and
With 6,500 staff across 21 sites, Barwon Health is the largest employer in Geelong region, and one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in all of Australia. Our guests in the sustainable studio on 94.7 The Pulse on 29 July 2015, Scott Randall and Bronwyn Aylmer from
Seed is Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network and is part of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition which has 120,000 members. The youth is shaking the tree! In the 82nd Sustainable Hour on 22 July 2015 on 94.7 The Pulse, we interview Corina Richie and Paul Gorrie from Seed and
Today, The Sustainable Hour introduces you to three adventurous Australians who went one big step further to spread the message about the urgent need for change as far as our environmental impact and carbon footprint is concerned. Mary Beth Gundrum walked 1,005.5 kilometres over 23 days to create awareness about
A radio podcast for politicians and decision makers in the Victorian state parliament about the prospects of turning farmland into industrial gasfields. 1.3 million hectares of land in Victoria is threatened by onshore gas mining. The 80th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse contains an ‘audio submission’ produced for the
A new global health report calls climate change a ‘health emergency’, but also an opportunity. Citizens are taking legal action against their own governments’ inaction on climate change because it is going to harm the nation. And in Holland, they won the case. The 79th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The
Why is Pope Francis’ teaching letter, the encyclical, so significant? Because it has brought the questions around not just climate change, but to Australians more specifically coal mining and onshore gas mining into the moral’s sphere of the total element of who we are as human beings. Geelong St Mary’s
It is solstice, a turning point – and in Anglesea as well as globally, it is ‘coalstice’. The beginning of the end for using coal to produce electricity. The 77th Sustainable Hour on 17 June 2015 on 94.7 The Pulse invites you to a community forum in Anglesea which was
An hour on 94.7 The Pulse about what’s next after the successful campaign to have the coal-fired Anglesea power station and coal mine closed down – about the transformation in community, wildlife, heathland and nature, with disappearing species, disconnectedness and anger as well as new engaging opportunities, exciting initiatives and