Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
“We need each other more than ever.” Phil Baulch – in The Sustainable Hour “Less is a new more.” Simon Mulvani – in The Sustainable Hour Triggered by the epically stupid plan to build a toxic coal complex in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef, The Sustainable Hour on
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 30 November 2016 – woooohooooooo! Show no 150 – are: Gilbert Rochecouste, managing director of Village Well (at 6:45–16:00), ABC RN radio journalist Gretchen Miller (20:45–37:15), and filmmaker David Lowe (37:30–50:25). And Rusty reports on what is happening with Geelong Council’s ‘Our Future’ project (16:30–20:45).
A sustainable hour about community energy on 23 November 2016. Our inspiring guests in the studio are: Nicky Ison and Manny Pasqualini from Community Power Agency – among Australia’s leading experts in community energy (they enter at 28:30 min in the program) Dan Cowdell, coordinator of Geelong Sustainability’s community energy
In The Sustainable Hour on 16 November 2016, we look at the variety of campaign solutions which are at offer when it comes to solving the the most important challenge humankind has ever had to face, climate change. One direction of campaigning rings the climate emergency alarm bells and calls
The Sustainable Hour on 2 November 2016 is all about the ‘evil smoke’ – some prefer prettier names such as greenhouse gasses or carbon emissions – and how we will get rid of it, now that the global Paris Agreement on Climate Change goes into effect on 4 November 2016.
We have a climate emergency, but no one is reporting or acting on the facts. What are we going to do? Inspired by American presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ call for a World War II mobilisation, we started asking a row of Australian leaders this question. Their reply was not to
Submission to the Committee Secretary, Re: Retirement of coal fired power stations It’s time to get serious about the climate emergency and start shutting down coal fired power stations. There is no more time to pander to the coal industry, to keep letting them have a free run, or to
In one week, on 4 November 2016, the Paris Agreement will go into effect. The world’s first universally adopted global climate agreement, uniting countries everywhere in fighting climate change. Australia hasn’t ratified the Agreement, which is symbolic of the cowardice position its government takes on the issue. Below is a
In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 19 October 2016 we meet Dave Martin, a sustainable builder who started Small Giants and a concept of ‘sustainable apprenticeship’, we talk with Annie Raser-Rowland about her new book, ‘The Art of Frugal Hedonism’, and Robert Skehan from Plastic Bag Free
The greatest threat humanity has ever been confronted with is not climate change. It is us, human beings, and the way we have organised ourselves in democracies where money flows both openly and secretly back and forth between powerful commercial interests and members of our governments. The threat of climate