Kids Teaching Kids is a great idea. It aims to inspire future environmental leaders by connecting and challenging students with real world issues, inspiring them to want to know more. This is how it works: First give school students the
The Sustainable Hour: Over 575 hours of engaging podcasts - for a clean, green and sustainable world
We connect thinkers and rethinkers with doers, sharers and carers in Geelong and around the planet.
Cattle, carbon and the new breed of climatarians
Is it true or false that grass-fed cattle are such a burden on the Earth? Is it with the cattle industry as it is with the fossil fuel industry – that ‘denier propaganda’ is deliberately being spread to make everyone
Catering thirst for knowledge about a sustainable future
24,000 Australian teachers have signed up to ‘Cool Australia’, a non-profit website that provides inspirational material to schools and caters the students’ thirst for knowledge about how to be smart, clean and efficient. Close to 20,000 teachers are regular users
Questions about ecology, technology, limits and choices
On 8 April 2015 on 94.7 The Pulse, we move into unchartered waters asking questions about the choices we make in our daily lives. How do we live responsibly in a technological age? How do we make the best choices?
The Green Teams’ solar dream: New energy in the school
An hour around The People’s Solar and ‘green teams’ from two schools in Geelong. Guests in the studio: • Alex Houlston, Energy for the People • Aaron Lewtas, Surf Coast Energy Group • Alex Aidt, 9 years, member of the
The economic impact of doing something about climate change
Our guests in the 65th Sustainable Hour were Rob Gell and Christine Couzens. “The Chinese understand. We are laggards in Australia in our understanding. The media in particular. Journalists have really not chosen to inform themselves. There are very few
Climate change, sea level rise and the letter writers
“We are putting climate change back on the agenda in Victoria”, climate minister Lisa Neville declared at the Australian Coastal Councils Conference last week, promising to make the Victorian state a national and international leader on the issue. In the
Live well and have fun with sustainability
In the 63th Sustainable Hour we learn that the core of sustainability is just as much about connecting with your local community, having fun and living well as it is about protecting the environment and caring about our carbon pollution.
The benefits of building a sustainable home
A Sustainable Hour about the advantages of “building green” when renovating old homes and building new houses, storing energy with thermal mass, learning about the latest research, about benefits of energy efficiency, finding out what is happening in the building
Building new pillars of distributed energies
The 61st edition of The Sustainable Hour is coloured by the Sustainable Living Festival which currently runs in Geelong and Melbourne with more than 80 events. Dave Kerin gives us an update about the launch of the first Earthworker factory