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:
In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 16 September 2015 we report from the Second Sustainability Party at Sydenham-Hillside Primary School. We have interviews with the Climate Guardian Angels from ClimActs, who are taking kids’ letters to the UN Climate Summit in Paris in December, with Beyond Zero
“The refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe gives us a sobering glimpse of what a less stable world looks like.” OurVoices.net In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 9 September 2015 we listen to excerpts from inspirational climate change speeches held during the last week by
Update on 7 September 2015: Response from Lily D’Ambrosio MP 22 June 2015 Dear Daniel Andrews, Premier, and Lily D’Ambrosio, Minister for Energy and Resources, I am vigorously supporting a recent letter to you from Mik Aidt (Geelong) reproduced and slightly edited below – with some additional points following.
An hour’s podcast about Enviroweek and youth environmental action, plastic bag free towns, the eight million tonnes of plastic which are entering our oceans every year, and how we transition away from both single use plastic bags and fossil fuels. Guests in the The Sustainable Hour on 2 September 2015
Those climate goals our politicians keep talking about don’t match with the climate reality. There is a huge gap between what the world needs for climate restoration, and where we are heading. At best, Paris will deliver commitments that will lead to over 3°C degrees of warming. The United Nations’
This is Geelong calling. We say it is time to change the way we talk about renewables and emissions targets. First of all, we need to stop the confusing use of percentages in relation to a specific year. Instead, when we all express our results and targets in carbon-tonnes per
Every week in Australia, 3,000 new roof top solar systems are switched on. 1.4 million Australian homes are sun-powered by now, and they are increasingly being helped by cheaper solar batteries to store the energy locally, and Internet-based technology to supervise it. The solar industry is on the verge of
As part of Cool Australia’s national enviro week, Geelong High School are having a small expo on 3 September 2015, open to all students during their homegroup period. If there are any environment related organisations interested in setting up a display/stall and talking to students about their issue or cause
On United Nations’ International Youth Day, The Sustainable Hour gives voice to an intergenerational call for climate action. In brief: Grandparents for a Safe Earth’s advice to the youth: get involved! Alan Barlee’s advice to the elders: divest! Guest in the studio: Alan Barlee Phone interviews: Barry Cash from Grandparents
Listen to this week’s news bulletin from Jack Nyhof in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse: 12 August 2015 was the United Nations’ International Youth Day, and inspired by this, Jack Nyhof also produced this special report from Geelong High School and the school’s Green Team: The bulletin and