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.
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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.
The bats and humans who belong – in Geelong
Report from a guided nature walk and community learning experience centred on Geelong’s grey-headed flying fox colony.
FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
In this second episode of The Force of Life podcast series, writer, philosopher, and sociologist Barbara Lepani explains what she calls ‘enlivenment’.
Treaty and protestival – listening for change
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 572 are Rory Bush-Belton from Rising Tide and Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth Naarm/Melbourne.
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
Rejecting passive optimism, American scientist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson calls instead for strategy, courage and action.