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“This is a dead duck,” say our guests. They are talking about the fossil fuel industry. However, it is obviously not quite dead yet, because as strange as it may sound considering the warnings about how global warming caused by carbon emissions threatens life on the entire planet Earth, the
“Love what you do,” it says in big letters on the wall in the café at The Farmer’s Place. And this is the starting point for farmer, business man and entrepreneur Robert Pascoe, the owner of the place – and winner of 2015 Geelong Business Excellence Award for Sustainable Business.
The UN climate conference ended with a global agreement. That’s the good news from Paris. But will this agreement do the trick and save humanity from the catastrophic global warming which climate scientists have warned that we are heading towards? Is it time to open the champagne bottles and celebrate?
In the 103rd Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 9 December 2015, we talk with Alison Marchant from Frack Free Moriac and Lock the Gate about the 200-page inquiry report on fracking which a commission has put together for the Victorian government. What is the outcome? Will we see
In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 2 December 2015 we debrief the fantastic weekend of climate rallies around the world with speeches held recently in Geelong by the Minister for Climate in the Victorian Government, Lisa Neville, and by Professor of Atmospheric Science at University of Melbourne,
The one-sentence, moral solution to climate change “We call on all world leaders at COP 21 to embrace Pope Francis’ pleas, to adopt just, honest and transparent accounting practices and, after hundreds of years of giving companies and governments a free ride, to finally and simply require that those who
With Victoria McKenzie McHart, Australian Conservation Foundation’s climate manager, David Spratt, coordinator of The People’s Climate March in Melbourne, and Jack Nyhof, 14-year-old high school student, who spoke at the opening of the Act on Climate Festival in Geelong. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 101: » To open or
Over 300 people have contributed to making The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse into Geelong’s leading media outlet on sustainability, clean energy and global warming issues. Here is an overview of the participants in the first 100 hours of radio in 2014 and 2015: Click on image for more
100% powered on solar, the 100th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse was broadcasted live from the Act on Climate Festival at Steampacket Gardens on 21 November 2015. In the first hour we talked with Cr Andy Richards, Leo Renkin, Mary-Jane Walker, Michael Martinez, Jack Nyhof, Robert Skehan, and Andrea
In the lead up to the Act on Climate festival in Geelong and the UN Climate Talks in Paris, the 99th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 18 November 2015 is an hour spent in pleasant company with Climate Reality Leader Sam Smith from Future Proofing Geelong, a department