Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 24 May 2017 is Dr Simone Boer, manager of strategy and program delivery of ‘Our Future’, the new 30-year vision for Geelong city and region which links life-long learning and education with industry and
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Looking back from the future
In The Sustainable Hour on 17 May 2017 we talk with a group of international students from Dueli, the English Language Institute at Deakin University, and their teacher Kate Simpson about the excuses for our inaction on climate – and how
Active citizens getting clever and creative
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 10 May 2017 is Samuel Pottenger from 350.org for a talk about Australia’s energy market and about what it means to be an active citizen. Does active citizenship mean, for instance, that you
A city waves goodbye to ‘business as usual’
During the next decades, the Geelong city and region is going to transform itself to become a ‘clever and creative city’ if things go as decided by an assembly of 350 local residents who gathered on 6 May 2017 to
Invitation to Geelong community meeting on 24 May: Stop Adani
Together we stopped fracking in our area. When enough people stand up, politicians listen. Now we will join thousands of Australians to stop Adani’s insane, climate-destroying coal mine. Come to this meeting to see the documentary ‘Guarding the Galilee’ and
Cyclones, cyclists, zero carbon and a coal baron
A Sustainable Hour around cycling without helmets, road safety, zero carbon, cyclones, coal and climate change – and a butterfly whisperer who laughs in our face about the prospect of him facing a climate crimes tribunal. Interviews with comedian Mandy Nolan
Geelong now has a Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy
The new strategy provides a target for the City of Greater Geelong council: in three years, by 2020, council must halve carbon emissions from its buildings and vehicle fleet. With the release of its new Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy for
New Zealand has moved on: cross-party support for climate action
What does it take to unite politicians of all parties in a parliament to start working on finding real climate solutions? Ask New Zealand, because they have done it. While the Australian parliament has turned into a coal-clown circus of
To care or not to care. That’s the question
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 26 April 2017 are: Dorthe Pedersen, co-founder of Cycling Without Age, Tim Buckley, industry analyst from Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Guy Abrahams, CEO of Climarte and
The transformative effect of cycling with neighbours across all ages
“We need to understand that we are together in this, and I think Cycling Without Age can actually bring that across.” ~ Dorthe Pedersen, co-founder of Cycling Without Age Transcript of interview with Dorthe Pedersen The Sustainable Hour on 94.7