On 20 May, Dale Vince, an entrepreneur and founder of the renewable energy utilities firm Ecotricity, publicly declared a climate emergency for his company with a pledge to upgrade the company’s current sustainability commitments to become a carbon-neutral business by 2025
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Submission to the Victorian government: Go early, go hard
The following is Centre for Climate Safety’s submission to the Victorian Government, which has called for comments from the public on the targets it will soon set in regard to how fast or how slowly it should aim to reduce
Great cycles of bike-rescuing, climate action and an eco-egg
We kick off the 275th Sustainable Hour with yet another of the now world-famous Geelong Roars, which we recorded on Friday at 11:59am in front of Geelong City Hall. Video below. Our guest in the studio is Tom Allen from
The climate emergency declaration hour
The Sustainable Hour’s special one-hour report on the global movement of local governments declaring a climate emergency
Stop the car and get out
Clippings from the news stream about individual action on climate change “There is research showing that climate change is happening faster than we thought. We’re in a car hurtling towards the edge of a cliff, we’ve got our foot on
Juggling with the ‘It’s-already-too-late’ syndrome
“I have had a big blue fear since I heard in a speech that for Planet Earth, it was too late. I felt collapsed for 15 seconds.”~ Brice Pascal Abbey In an era of global ecological destruction, climate change is
Inter-generational journey towards falling in love with Earth
The Sustainable Hour no 273 with Margie Abbott, Lauren Sandemen, and Elizabeth Meiler
Change the climate: Youth, art and a river walk
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 19 June 2019: Alex Marshall calls for community support to get Surf Coast Council to vote for a climate emergency declaration on their 25 June meeting. 19-year-old Alex has been driving a petition
Thrive for future
This is “Extinction Rebellion for Kids” – meaning: Let’s talk about how we will win, and not about how we are losing. On 5 July 2019 at 11am at Geelong City Hall: Photo shoot and animal dress up. The recipe
Leader of 1.3 billion Catholics declares a climate emergency
“Faced with a climate emergency, we must take action accordingly, in order to avoid perpetrating a brutal act of injustice towards the poor and future generations,” said Pope Francis