Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
In The Sustainable Hour on 9 August 2017, as Al Gore‘s documentary ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ premiers in cinemas, Dr Michelle Maloney tells us about The New Economy and the conference about this topic in Brisbane in September, we listen to clear talk about economy, coal mining and
In The Sustainable Hour on 26 July 2017, Geelong’s Chief Administrator Dr Kathy Alexander and Dr Simone Boer, who is Manager of Strategy and Program Delivery in City of Greater Geelong, talk about the new 30-year vision for Geelong. Erin ‘Rogue Ginger’ Rhoads talks about living a zero waste life
The ‘Our Future’ vision for Geelong is a challenge of a lifetime – but we can do it. Geelong is about to find out whether politics and votes can be determined not by the usual short-term election promises which everyone knows are unlikely to be fulfilled anyway, but by daring
On 19 July 2017 in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we delve in natural and agricultural solutions to the climate change crisis. We have our regenerative studio phone lined up to Verity Morgan-Schmidt, the newly appointed CEO of Australian Farmers for Climate Action, and to natural sequence farming
Stephen Higgs, former principal of Ballarat Grammar, explains why he and the newly formed community alliance #StopAdani Geelong has set a goal to stop the construction of Adani’s $16 billion dollar coal mine in Queensland. But this is not just another protest movement, this is active citizenship driven by passion
More and more Australians would like to harness the tremendous benefits of biking, such as physical and mental well-being, clean air and climate safety. As the photo above shows, which is from Geelong in the 1950s, Australians actually were used to commute in that way – in those days mostly because
“Aren’t we already we at the point of no return with making our planet uninhabitable?” Narrative navigation: Why does it have to be a choice between either Heaven, Hell or Hoax when politicians and climate action campaigners talk about the future? What if plain honesty – and the fact that
Our clever and creative guests in the sustainable studio on 28 June 2017 are: Dr Mazher Iqbal Mohammed, known by friends and colleagues as Iqy, a Research Fellow at School of Engineering at Deakin University, who explains to us how plastic waste material can be turned into 3D ‘eco-printing’. And
Joining us in the sustainable studio on 21 June 2017: David Spratt, co-author of the new report ‘Disaster Alley: Climate change, conflict and risk’, for a talk about the publication and a new Senate inquiry, and as Plastic Free July approaches, Robert Skehan from Plastic Bag Free Victoria gives us an
Guests in the sustainable studio on 15 June 2017 are Geelong Gallery’s director Jason Smith, and ActOnClimate campaign-leader Leigh Ewbank from Friends of the Earth Australia. We talk over the phone with Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth Melbourne about their vision for a renewables park at Point Henry.