Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
We connect thinkers and rethinkers with doers, sharers and carers in Geelong and around the planet. BLOGPOSTS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
“…and this is why I am calling on civil society and young people in particular to campaign for climate action.” ~ Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, 10 September 2018 “What is still missing is the sense of urgency. Let there be no doubt about the urgency of
Interview with Gene Blackley, who is starting up the ambitious project Drawdown Australia and is looking for people who would like to join him on that journey. The interview was recorded on 18 September 2018 in Melbourne, where Gene Blackley gave a presentation at a Wetland Carbon Workshop at Arthur
“If grown-ups don’t give a shit about my future, I won’t either.” ~ Greta Thunberg “I don’t care if I get into trouble at school. I believe that one person can make a difference.” ~ Greta Thunberg, 15-year-old Swedish student on school strike for the climate Imagine if students or
“The time has come / to pay our share.” ~ Midnight Oil, ‘Beds Are Burning’, 1987 The time has come… for a youth revolution, for carbon drawdown and for keeping the climate-wrecking fossils in the ground – which means putting a full stop to the Adani coal megamine in Queensland. Our
A podcast hour about what happens when we adults – as the school-striking climate campaign oracle Greta Thunberg requests in Sweden – begin to talk about the climate crisis as the global emergency it really is. In this hour, we learn about being aware and about how to keep our emergency messaging
We had planned to present you with an hour about regenerative farming practices, healthy soils and carbon drawdown solutions. But then the Swedish teenage-oracle Greta Thunberg stepped into our lives, and The Sustainable Hour on 5 September 2018 morphed into a podcast about climate anxiety among the youth and a
How do you tackle climate change without actually talking climate change? Government Drought Spokesperson @GretaLeeJackson provides the answers #Tonightly pic.twitter.com/z7q06RShmm — Tonightly (@tonightly) August 30, 2018 Everyone in Australia can see it. It’s not at all funny – though Tom Ballard’s Tonightly segment on the ABC actually is. Those who
We have entered September in the year 2018, and as these warming stripes illustrate, the climate which has been a steady backdrop to life on our planet for thousands of years, is beginning to change. If you are among those who “didn’t see this coming”, you should probably start to
With all the knowledge that I have about global warming and with what I see happening around the world — extreme weather, downpours, droughts, heatwaves, superstorms — I now believe that the situation is so serious and urgent that I no longer can defend flying. Thus I will stop doing
Guest in the Sustainable Studio on 29 August 2018 is upcycle fashionista Diem Huong Young, founder of DHY Design which repurposes clothes in Torquay. Over the phone we connect with La Vergne Lehmann, executive officer for Grampians Central West Waste & Resource Recovery Group in Horsham and Ballarat, and Peter