We need a shift in focus. Away from ‘climate’ as an abstract concept towards ‘life’ as something personal, shared, and worth protecting.
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:
When survival meets policy failure
Many frontline communities are carrying a deep sense of betrayal.
These climate disasters are not an accident
As 2026 begins and Australia faces fires and floods, it is time to take stock and get our act together – together.
Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster
18 councils in Victoria are now under a “state of disaster”. Damage control because prevention has failed.
Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 576 are permaculture teacher Jessica Perini and refugee leaders Eric Hakizimana in Uganda and Ruth Akinyi in Kenya.
Geelong Advertiser: Paid misinformation on climate
Friday’s half-page advertisement in the Geelong Advertiser titled “The science of fossil fuel CO₂ for plant nutrition” contains claims that are demonstrably false and misleading. The climate crisis is serious. The public deserves better than paid misinformation dressed up as science. The advertisement states that global atmospheric CO₂ levels have
A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025
In The Sustainable Hour no. 575 we mark the launch of 50 of our songs on Spotify, Apple and Amazon music: ‘The Force of Life Collective’.
CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
Our guest is environmentalist and poet Georgina Woods, Head of Research and Investigations at Lock the Gate Alliance.
FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
Third episode of the Force of Life podcast series features the Danish architect and systems thinker Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov,
In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 573 is community builder Kate Shelton, founder of Peacemeals.