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Ursula Rakova’s entire community at Carteret Islands is currently relocating because of the impacts of climate change. Together with Pais Taehu, Chairman of the Coalition of the Atolls, she sets out to open a dialogue about what moves Australians and
Many people put solar panels on their roof because they are conscious of the climate crisis, but they may not be aware that the benefits to the climate of doing that is completely undermined if that same household eats just
A Sustainable Hour powered on solar and aired live on FM and streaming from The Farmer’s Place on ‘Mini Farmer’s Day’, 30 March 2016 – an event which kicked off the annual ‘Eat Local Month’ in Geelong. Guests in the
Jackray Black wrote on 29 March 2016: Last night in the middle of the night I woke and couldn’t go back to sleep, ruminating on the low point we witnessed last night on ABC Television. Greg Hunt, in response to
The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 23 March 2016 marks the World Meteorological Day, a global event organised by the World Meteorological Organization and the worldwide meteorological community with the goal “to contribute to a better understanding of
Councillors are our locally elected representatives. In City of Greater Geelong, they are elected for four year terms to represent 12 local areas. They meet regularly to deal with a wide range of issues and may be able to meet
We need ideas leadership. The rate of climate action needs to be more urgent than the politicians want to speak about, says David Spratt, author of ‘Climate Reality Check’, in this short audio interview: » Right-click to download the audio
Ben Courtice, president of Moorabool Environment Group, is campaigning to stop a new open cut coal mine near Bacchus Marsh (00:00–29:00), while board chair and CEO of Green Music Australia, Tim Hollo, is launching a new Bring Your Own bottle
The Sustainable Hour visits the Pilliga forest in New South Wales where a group of activists are protesting against the company Santos which wants to extract gas there with the use of the controversial ‘fracking’ method. Whether we should allow
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