Clippings from the newsstream and research about what a ‘green recovery’ means – and how it can improve our quality of life
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:
Shane Ward: Better systems thinking for a resilient future
Can we turn the 2020s into ‘The Regenerative Decade’? In this series of interviews about what that would imply, we talk ecology, deep adaptation, grief, compassion and passion, connecting with nature, resilience, revitalisation, restoration, revolution… – the bigger picture, in other words. “Find your village!” says our guest in the
Sustainable vibes
The team on The Sustainable Hour have compiled a playlist of songs that are not only catchy and something you can clap your hands to but also all have an underlying message.
Steps forward at recycling and relearning solidarity
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 315 are Geelong Councillor Ron Nelson, chair of Council’s Waste & Resource Recovery committee, and Clare Land, author of the recently released book, ‘Decolonising Solidarity’
Victories of a gardening culture
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no 314 on 20 May is David Holmgren, co-founder of the permaculture movement, and author of ‘RetroSuburbia’, a guide to life in a post-carbon world.
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Isolating for nature
“I will not stand idly by while the very trees that are integral to our survival are ripped out of the earth and increasing our fire risk,” says Nic Fox, Isolating for Nature
Tim Hollo: Growing up through the common
Guest in our 19th Regenerative Hour is Tim Hollo, Executive Director of the Green Institute. An hour about how we can build a better world once we are coming out of the Covid tunnel, and about what it will take to start the transformation.
What we can do from the inside
What we can do from the inside. Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 313 are economist Jim Crosthwaite who talks about the economics of gas, and Janet Massey who talks about her electric car.
John Merory: Neurological doctor’s climate call
An hour with Dr John Merory – the highly experienced neurologist who became a whole-hearted climate activist
Normalising care – Geelong gets the green light
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no 312 on 6 May 2020 are David Spear, Michael Bayliss and Ainsley Halbmeijer – for talks about the new normal, climate anxiety and a green light at the end of #TheTunnel