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:
An hour on 94.7 The Pulse around the business case for fighting climate change and investing in a prosperous future for our children With Paul Tant, Bank Australia, Alan Howell, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre, and Robert Skehan, Plastic Bag Free Victoria, in the sustainable studio on 1 June 2016,
“The approach to climate and ecosystem protection campaigning that has been used for the last 40 years is out of date. We cannot keep accusing the Coalition parties and Labor of climate and environmental hypocrisy, when our own demands and policies bear no practical relationship to what we say we care
As Australia enters its annual Reconciliation Week, we talk with Mel King and Vicky Grosser from Geelong One Fire Reconciliation Group about how and why traditional custodians of the land put culture before coal, while ramping up community-owned renewable energy and the protection of wildlife. We also talk with film
Our optimistic and knowledgeable guests in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 18 May 2016 are engagement manager Adam Majcher and head of implementation Scott Ferraro from ClimateWorks. We also play a short statement by the owner of the world’s first off-grid solar-powered industrial factory, Chugg Boggs from
The state of the reefs presents the climate action movement with a some very difficult issues that I think we will need to face up to urgently. The most serious Great Barrier Reef bleaching events have been 1998, 2002 and 2016. The intervals between these events were: 4 years and
The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 11 May 2016 with Katerina Gaita, director of Climate for Change, Tim Buckley, director of Energy Finance Studies at the Australasia Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Fanny Beck, Zoe Tseng and four other Deakin university students plus their teacher Steve
An hour on 94.7 The Pulse about climate emergency, the Break Free campaign, divestment, civil disobedience …and knitting. Guests in the studio: • Jesse Nicolle Kalic and Darcy Poulton, students who were ‘locked on’ at a recent divestment campaign at University of Melbourne. Jesse is one of the group’s media
Climate Emergency Petitionstorm Mobilising public and private resources to restore a safe climate for the common good In February 2016, global temperatures spiked to well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial times, just weeks after the Paris resolution aimed at not exceeding that benchmark. (See: Climate Reality Check) Ask the Australian parliament
As levels of global temperatures, greenhouse gas pollution, the sea and governmental hypocrisy all keep rising, we too must now rise to challenge our failing leaders. Welcome to an hour’s podcast about climate frontlines, blatant hypocrisy of Environment Minister Greg Hunt embarrassing his country at the UN Climate Agreement signing
The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 20 April 2016 is about ethics and honesty in relation to how we are changing the planet’s climate and eco-systems. It is the hour where we, inspired by the Climate Emergency Declaration Petition, take a look at what it will take before