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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
It is Sustainable House Day in Geelong region on Sunday 16 October 2016, and that is what The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse focuses on this Wednesday: Vicki Perrett, Sustainable House Day organiser, with home owners Susan Weymouth, Dan Cowdell and Dierijk Drent tell their stories. We also talk with Claire
Hosts: Anthony Gleeson and Alistair Cameron The Sustainable Hour #134 – 12 August 2016 • Interview with Lisa Neville, Victorian minister for water. The Sustainable Hour #133 – 5 August 2016 • Live interview via phone with Susanna Bevilacqua, Director and Founder, Moral Fairground. Moral Fairground is a Melbourne not
In Orlando, USA, on 9 July 2016, the platform committee of the Democratic Party added language into their platform acknowledging the official position of the Democratic Party to be that we are in a global climate emergency. Russell Greene wrote: The platform acknowledges the scale of the threat to be
“Climate change is a medical emergency,” said professor Hugh Montgomery, director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance, in June 2015. “It thus demands an emergency response, using the technologies available right now. Under such circumstances, no doctor would consider a series of annual case discussions and aspirations
An hour on 94.7 The Pulse about climate emergency, the Break Free campaign, divestment, civil disobedience …and knitting. Guests in the studio: • Jesse Nicolle Kalic and Darcy Poulton, students who were ‘locked on’ at a recent divestment campaign at University of Melbourne. Jesse is one of the group’s media
As levels of global temperatures, greenhouse gas pollution, the sea and governmental hypocrisy all keep rising, we too must now rise to challenge our failing leaders. Welcome to an hour’s podcast about climate frontlines, blatant hypocrisy of Environment Minister Greg Hunt embarrassing his country at the UN Climate Agreement signing
The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 20 April 2016 is about ethics and honesty in relation to how we are changing the planet’s climate and eco-systems. It is the hour where we, inspired by the Climate Emergency Declaration Petition, take a look at what it will take before
Many people put solar panels on their roof because they are conscious of the climate crisis, but they may not be aware that the benefits to the climate of doing that is completely undermined if that same household eats just one or two steaks a week[1]. Or that it is
The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 23 March 2016 marks the World Meteorological Day, a global event organised by the World Meteorological Organization and the worldwide meteorological community with the goal “to contribute to a better understanding of climate variability and climate change, as well as to the