New Year is a time to take a breather, recharge the batteries and lift the glasses, while reflecting on both the wins and the failures of the year that went by. 2022 was a year flooded with bad news, however
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Call for a treaty to stop the fossil madness
2022 was the year that the Fossil Fuel Treaty evolved from a conceptual idea to a proposal backed by two countries, 74 cities, and over 500 parliamentarians.
Cultivating a culture of collective care
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 443 are Liz Wade, who is a Good Grief facilitator, and Iain McIntyre from the Commons Social Change Library.
Pushing the frontiers for nature and solar
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 442 are PhD Candidate Kirsty Jackson, who studies childrens’ connection with nature, and Kim Mallee, who has started selling ‘solar plots’ in Australia’s first ‘solar garden’
Transformational designers of the true zero
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 441 are Charles van Dongen from the battery company Zenaji and Tim Adams from the ‘true zero carbon’-focused architectural firm F2 Design.
Art to open a gentle dialogue about climate
Guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 440 is landscape artist Peter Biram, who opens an exhibition next week. We also hear from Swedish climate activists Greta Thunberg and Janine Okeefe.
Do we deserve this?
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 439, three days before the Victorian State Election, is ‘Australia’s first climate refugee’ Rod Simpson.
Why they come every Friday with their signs and banners
Members of Fridays for Future Geelong reflect as individuals on why they do what they do.
Catalysts for a radical sustainability revolution
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 438 are Olly Hornung from the new Catalyst Community Centre in Melbourne, and Abdul Farouk from Kenya, a conservationist building beehive fences to protect elephants.
Runway to fossil fuel freedom
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 437 are No More Gas campaigner Freja Leonard, and Mark Carter from Flight Free Australia.