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We connect thinkers and rethinkers with doers, sharers and carers in Geelong and around the planet. BLOGPOSTS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
“It is our responsibility to act with clear urgency to protect the planet and all its inhabitants. We are rebelling for life, for our future, for the future of all species.”~ Extinction Rebellion “From this moment despair ends and tactics begin. Despair is the infantile disorder of the revolutionaries of
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 24 April 2019 are singer Andrea Robertson, professor Melissa Haswell, Fatima Kidwai from Climate Leaders, Tina Zenou who stopped eating meat, and Brian Paterson from Urban Systems.
In The Sustainable Hour no 263, Fiona Armstrong, founder of the Climate and Health Alliance, informs us about the effects of health with climate breakdown, and Michael Strickland from WM Waste, explains how the company achieves a recycling rate of approximately 80 per cent.
More than 190 UK institutions and individuals from the arts and culture sectors have pledged to declare a climate emergency and in this way become part of a first wave of climate emergency declarers in the country.
Australia has a new ‘Climate Party’ formed around the climate emergency. It is called Independents for Climate Action Now, ICAN.
Hepburn community heads for zero carbon by 2029, Shannon Lughnone sets out on an extremely long walk, Extinction Rebellion group starts in Geelong, and Mik has decided to ‘walk the talk’, get solar and renovate his house.
Doctors from across Australia gathered on 6 April 2019 in Hobart to declare a climate emergency.
We have five overseas students from Deakin University in the studio today. They do Colin’s job and tell us how their country views sustainability and the environment.
2019 was the year the ‘climate emergency’ genie eventually was allowed to come out of its bottle and go mainstream…
The Sustainable Hour’s #FridaysForFuture special broadcasted live from Albert Park College in Melbourne