Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
Can an entire region transform to being self-supplied by 100 per cent renewable energy in less than ten years? Yes, explains Søren Hermansen from Denmark who spearheaded his island’s efforts to become energy independent and even a clean energy exporter. Samsø has proved to the world that it is absolutely
First they enriched us with Donald Duck. Now the Americans are bringing to the world their very own… Donald Dumb and his backroom club of fossil fools. It may turn out to be better news that it seemed at first. American president Donald Trump’s own goal is not only that
What does it take to unite politicians of all parties in a parliament to start working on finding real climate solutions? Ask New Zealand, because they have done it. While the Australian parliament has turned into a coal-clown circus of lies, denial and rising emissions, New Zealand – as the
An hour’s radio-podcast around the new climate for consensus among scientists, artists and politicians. Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 19 April 2017 are: Kate Ferris, ethics officer and co-organiser of the March for Science in Melbourne, which takes place on Earth Day 22 April, and as the Art+Climate=Change
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 5 April 2017 are Steven Reddington, senior environmental planner at Barwon Water, Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald, new editor of Slow Magazine, Danny Kennedy, and managing director of the California Clean Energy Fund. We also play a clip from this week’s Q&A on ABC with federal energy
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 29 March 2017 are Doug Rolfe from the Alternative Technology Association, and Anine Cummins from 350.org Melbourne – as the largest anti-coal movement in Australia’s history is kicked off to stop Adani’s mega coal mine in Queensland, the country’s dirtiest coalfired powerplant closes,
The Sustainable Hour on 8 March 2017, the International Women’s Day, with Suzette Jackson, Ninna Katrine Larsen and Thea Ormerod – and rally speeches by Dr Kate Lardner, Wendy Farmer and Cat Nadel. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 159 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open or download this programme
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 21 December 2016 are climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez from the United States and Australian singer Missy Higgins. We take a look at what is ahead in the new year, and also listen to audio clips with American senator Bernie Sanders, actor Mark Ruffalo,
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.