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Guests in The Sustainable Youth Hour on 28 November 2018 are three students from Sacred Heart Collage in Geelong, just back from a sustainability camp, and four English language students from Deakin University in Geelong: Yuya, Mami and Nanami from Japan, and Charlie from Vietnam. We interview Laura Kelly and Jude Corbett, students
“The young people of Australia look to the actions of the government in this place, and they are revolted.” (…) “You have underestimated the young people of this nation.” ~ Senator Jordon Steele-John “What we want is more learning in schools, and less activism in schools.” ~ Prime Minister Scott
“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
“If you want to join us in striking, you could walk out of school, like us, in November and go and sit outside a politician’s office with your own climate strike sign,” writes Harriet and Milou, who – inspired by the 15-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg and her #ClimateStrike which
“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
“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
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 17 October 2018 are Damien Cole – a surfer, campaigner against oil drilling in the Bight and independent South Barwon candidate in the November state election – and Peter Cowling, Vesta’s Country Head for Australia and New Zealand. We also play a clip with
An hour about Sustainable House Day Geelong, the Sun Bear Festival in Anglesea, and more Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 10 October 2018 are two house owners who open their homes on Sunday 14 October: Kerri Erler from Teesdale, Stephen Williams from Manifold Heights, and energy assessment expert Dan