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At a time when governments protect and promote the coal and gas industries… At a time when the entire world is saying that coal and gas urgently need to be phased out due to the climatic complications caused by the burning of it… who will protect the people? Who will
In Australia, the National Tree Day is coming up, and in the 34th Sustainable Hour, we take this as an opportunity to go green and talk in-depth about both practical and visionary aspects of tree planting. As part of the Greenway Project, Geelong Council will plant over 60,000 trees and
A board on Tasmania is about to make a big decision. Should they invest in a two-billion-dollar wind farm on King Island? A fossil-fuel funded lobby group has managed to create a major drama around the board’s proposed decision, and the Federal Government is reviewing the country’s Renewable Energy Target
Whether the Australian government likes it or not: The renewable revolution is rolling. Across the world, clean energy is booming, now producing more than 20 percent of the world’s electricity needs. And the clean energy is cheaper than polluting fossil fuels in many countries – including Australia. The federal government
On 27 April 2014, 94.7 The Pulse broadcasted live – powered by a biogas generator – from the Renew Geelong Picnic 2014 in Geelong’s Eastern Park, where over 150 citizens gathered to celebrate Earth Day and its Green Cities theme of this year. In the 30th edition of The Sustainable Hour
Climate change can be linked to increase in Australia’s suicide rates, a study shows. In this the 29th edition of The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we talk about what a city’s councillors could and should be doing in order to ensure that its teenagers don’t lose hope on
Instead of fighting over the expansion of landfill sites, it is time to start a much more interesting conversation about how we create a world without landfills. In The Sustainable Hour on 4 June 2014 on 94.7 The Pulse we talked about how we can build our own houses from
While Lismore City Council aims to go 100 per cent renewables in just ten years, the City of Greater Geelong Council has recently approved a draft budget with sustainability initiatives receiving little or no funding. “We need to have a mature discussion about what is happening to our environment,” wrote
This was the week where the word ‘unstoppable’ melting of ice was introduced and sunk in – the fact that the ice at West Antarctica is melting faster than anyone had realised – and it is already around 20 years too late to do anything about this. Scientists at the
In Geelong, the annual budget was adopted as a draft at a city council meeting on 13 April 2014. The new budget means cuts to the council’s sustainability initiative, Future Proofing Geelong. The federal government released the budget for the nation as a whole on the same day. The national