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→ Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/sustainablehour608_128kbps_16sept2026.mp3→ Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour608‘WHETHER’ BECOMES ‘HOW’: Denmark’s green transition in motionWhat does the green transition look like when a country stops arguing about whether it should happen – and starts getting on with how to do it?In this week’s episode of The Sustainable Hour, we broadcast from Aarhus in Denmark and speak with Danish journalist and podcaster Bjørn Olsen.In Denmark, the green transition – 'Den Grønne Omstilling' – is no longer treated as some fringe environmental project. It has become part of the national direction of travel.Wind power. Electric cars. District heating. Cycling infrastructure. Regenerative farming. Reuse systems. New ways of thinking about economics.But Bjørn says Denmark is no green paradise. Its seas are badly damaged. Industrial agriculture remains a huge problem. Biodiversity is struggling. And the transition risks leaving lower-income people behind if sustainable choices become something only wealthier people can afford.“If everybody felt that they had a real opportunity to participate in the transition, I think most people would want to,” says Bjørn.For an Australian audience, perhaps the most interesting Danish lesson is not a particular technology. It is cooperation.Farmers, environmental groups and government – people who strongly disagree – have nevertheless managed to sit around the same table and negotiate major changes. And in much of Danish politics, the argument has moved beyond: “Is climate change real?” or “Should we have a green transition?” The argument is now about HOW to do it.That shift in the conversation may be one of the most important transitions of all.The Sustainable Hour 608 – broadcasting from Denmark.climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour608. . .#TheSustainableHour #TheGreenTransition #EnergyTransition #Denmark #Australia #ClimateAction #ClimateSolutions #DoughnutEconomics #WellbeingEconomy #RenewableEnergy #RegenerativeAgriculture
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→ Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/sustainablehour607_128kbps_2sept2026.mp3→ Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour607ON THE GROUND – practising what comes nextAfter 25 years inside politics, Tim Hollo has reached a confronting conclusion: the pathway is broken.Tim has worked in federal parliament. He has been a political candidate. He has spent decades in the climate movement trying to change policy and politics from within. Now he says: “I am very convinced now that that pathway is broken.”Tim is not walking away from democracy. He is asking us to rethink where democracy actually lives. He argues that we have placed far too much faith in elections, politicians and governments to create the transformation required – even as the evidence keeps showing us that governments are unwilling or unable to act at the scale the climate and ecological crises demand.His answer? Go local. Build community energy systems. Grow food together. Restore bushland. Create repair cafés. Share meals. Make decisions together. Create places where neighbours meet and know each other’s names. Stop waiting for permission. Because the future will not arrive through another election campaign or another promise from Canberra. It has to be built – street by street, suburb by suburb, town by town – by people practising a different way of living together.As Tim puts it: “We need to rebuild our democratic systems from the grassroots up.”That is the most important message in this week’s Sustainable Hour.→ Listen to episode 607:climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour607. . .#TheSustainableHour #TimHollo #LivingDemocracy #ClimateAction #CommunityPower #GrassrootsDemocracy #ClimateCrisis #LocalAction #CommunityResilience #BeTheChange
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