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The Sustainable Hour: Over 600 hours of engaging podcasts - for a clean, green and sustainable world

We connect thinkers and rethinkers with doers, sharers and carers in Geelong and around the planet. BLOGPOSTS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:

Climate change and democracy: can Citizens’ Assemblies get us out of this crisis?

11 March 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary One comment

“Climate change is a symptom of a failed set of governance,” Eddie Kowalski explains in this podcast interview about an online Citizens Assembly project.

Open blogpost

Introducing: green prosperity

8 March 2025 Guest writer World affairs

Anthony Stott took those at the Geelong Climate Cafe on a metaphorical journey from humanity’s beginnings to where we are now – a planet in crisis.

Open blogpost

Raise the flag for life on Earth

6 March 2025 Mik Aidt Recommendation

This year on Earth Day, 22 April 2024, we are many who will be waving a flag for the Earth. Would you like to wave one as well?

Open blogpost

Community Independent enters Corangamite race for federal election

6 March 2025 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Agricultural scientist Kate Lockhart has been selected as the Voices of Corangamite Community Independent candidate

Open blogpost

When in doubt, vote the man out

5 March 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no. 538 is an International Women’s Day tribute with Kate Lockhart and Aleta Moriarty hosting the episode.

Open blogpost

Dutton wants to ‘dig baby dig’

26 February 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

“Australia is sleepwalking into an election that could deliver the most anti-renewable government in Australia’s history,” says John Grimes from the Smart Energy Council.

Open blogpost

Climate refugees – where will they all go?

26 February 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 537 is Chris Schmidt, a human rights and refugee advocate from Adelaide, Australia.

Open blogpost

The Coalition’s nuclear folly

25 February 2025 Guest writer Australian matters

“The Coalition’s promotion of nuclear generation seems to have gained traction, but it’s outrageously incompetent – or deceptive.”

Open blogpost

Let’s get it right – a vision for the green transition

20 February 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

Four-minute audio vision of what the green transition would look like – paired with a guide on how to make it reality.

Open blogpost

Playing the long game – vote climate

19 February 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 536 are Jane Morton from Vote Climate and Ben Pederick, creator of TAG, The Adaptation Game.

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • Denmark has moved on from ‘whether’ to ‘how’
  • ON THE GROUND – practising what comes next
  • Zero waste in an age of hungry machines
  • Walking in two worlds
  • Tinyer homes – bigger possibilities
  • Lives we overlook
  • The climate crisis needs a new story of manhood
  • GENTLE AS A MAN – when power learns to serve life
  • KEEP TURNING UP – as the climate bill arrives
  • CATCH THE BALL: The 600th episode of hard truths
  • COUNTRY REMEMBERS what greed forgets
  • BLUE ECONOMY: The sea is the limit
  • Ancient wisdom for a nation still growing up
  • Learning to share the atmosphere
  • FROM THE GROUND UP: The connecting link between medicine and farming
  • Treaty to take us beyond fossil fuels
  • Justice on Country
  • CONNECTION CAFÉ – finding joy in practical action
  • FOOTY FOREVER – climate action meets Australia’s game
  • The world doesn’t have to be this way
  • Democracy, diesel and the true cost of fossil fuels
  • The body count of fossil fuels
  • Democracy is failing the climate
  • DEMOCRACY AT A CROSSROADS – can we reconnect and respond?
  • From backyard trees to community oil – the story of the Barwon Oil Barons
  • From climate emergency to festival of life
  • RESHAPE OUR WORLD – from positivity to regenerative communities
  • From persuasion to connection – a theory of change for the climate reset
  • EARTH DAY 2026 – voices from ocean to earthmark
  • Tuning in to Earth Day at The Pulse
  • BE COLLECTIVE – power, climate and the necessity of cooperation
  • POWER UP – reclaiming energy, democracy and community
  • POWER OF IMAGINATION in a world on edge
  • RUN FOR COUNTRY – ice cream in a fight against fracking
  • FESTIVALS OF CHANGE – from climate worry to community action 

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