“[Offshore wind energy] has dropped 70 per cent in two years! The International Energy Agency thought that might have happened by 2030, 2040… It’s happened today. And that’s technology for you. That’s finance for you. That’s game over. But the
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Refinery’s social license up for public discussion
An utterly offensive disgrace of last century’s technology that lost its social license to pollute long ago…? …or a company the city can be proud of? Viva Energy obviously thought it was worth thousands of dollars to see if they
Harnessing the power of the arts for change
“What arts can do is create a climate where action becomes necessary,” says festival director Guy Abrahams of the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE festival which opened in Victoria, Australia, on 19 April 2017. In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, he explained
The new climate for consensus
An hour’s radio-podcast around the new climate for consensus among scientists, artists and politicians. Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 19 April 2017 are: Kate Ferris, ethics officer and co-organiser of the March for Science in Melbourne, which takes
Podcast to council and youth leaders: Meet the climate realists
“We’ve got to be realists, if you’re going to live with the butterflies you’re going to die with the butterflies.” ~ Barnaby Joyce, The Nationals leader, warning those “that oppose fossil fuels” Welcome to the new reality-concept in Australian politics,
Fight against coal to become “the fight of our time”
First some good news: Australia’s dirtiest power station, Hazelwood, has closed down. And it is the ninth and largest coal-burning power station to close in the past five years in Australia. However, there are 20 coal power stations remaining in
Thought leadership: How local councils crunch the climate stalemate
While the Australian Coal Circus is getting more and more bizarre, with a federal government claiming that wind turbines increase carbon emissions, and that more coal is a great investment, the first Victorian councils are now sending a clear message
Climate and coal: It is when we get together real action begins
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 5 April 2017 are Steven Reddington, senior environmental planner at Barwon Water, Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald, new editor of Slow Magazine, Danny Kennedy, and managing director of the California Clean Energy Fund. We also play a
Movement to stop coal aims to become unstoppable
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 29 March 2017 are Doug Rolfe from the Alternative Technology Association, and Anine Cummins from 350.org Melbourne – as the largest anti-coal movement in Australia’s history is kicked off to stop Adani’s mega
Climate change means water change
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on World Water Day on 22 March 2017 are: Ernesto Sanchez, worm farmer and permaculture enthusiast, Taryn Lane from Hepburn Wind who runs a community-funded hydro project, and Steve Posselt who is a water