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:
Today, we take a step outside to the wetlands, to the ocean, to the birds and the sea life. In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 17 February 2016, we meet four inspiring environmentalists: Rod Lowther and Craig Morley from Geelong Field Naturalists Club, who are working to
The more we spend and the richer we are, the more we pollute. The world’s richest 10 per cent produce half of all carbon emissions, according to a recent Oxfam study. A person among the richest one per cent produces several hundred times more carbon emissions than a person among
An hour with Sam Smith from Future Proofing Geelong talking about the local Sustainable Living Festival which starts on 12 February 2016 and runs over the following three weeks. Geelong’s favourite eco-champions, Costa Georgiadis from ABC’s Gardening Australia and Tim Silverwood from Take 3 for the Sea are back in
This year, a key feature on the annual Geelong Sustainable Living Festival is the inaugural Geelong Environmental Film Festival (GEFF), which will be held on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th of February at GPAC in Geelong. Our guests in the Sustainable Studio on 3 February 2016 are two of the
Speeches held at the Act on Climate Festival opening night and film evening in Geelong in November 2015. On this page you have an opportunity to listen to thought-provoking and inspiring speeches held at two events where residents in Geelong got together to focus on how their community can act
Listen to Bethany, Heather and Maria in The Bicycle Show on 14 November 2015 on 94.7 The Pulse as they interview Mik Aidt, 53 – a cycling Viking, or an exiled ‘Biking’, as he moved from Copenhagen to Geelong, Australia in 2013. He talks about the new findings and figures
Climate misinformation thrives in Australian media. The Australian Press Council has a stake in this. Along with other regulators and authorities, the Press Council fails to understand that the fatal climate crisis caused by an ongoing build-up in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere is an unprecedented, wicked economic and political
We have good news for you. Literally! For the 100th Sustainable Hour radio show on 21 November 2015, we collected a list of examples of climate action news stories that have come out recently. Landmarks, mile stones and gains to celebrate and that give hope for a much faster transition
“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.