Caroline Danaher is Geelong’s persistent climate action campaigner, who every Friday sits in front of her local Member of Parliament’s office in support of Greta Thunberg’s #FridaysForFuture school strike.
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70,000 school strikers this week – with more to come
Support for Greta Thunberg’s call keeps rising. Activists from numerous countries are preparing a Global Day for Climate Action on 15 March 2019.
School strikers: “What we are doing here today is change”
A three-minute report from the ‘school strike’ for climate action in Geelong, Australia, with interviews with some of the students who bravely walked out from their different schools in Geelong on Friday 23 November 2018. The #FridaysForFuture action took place in front of Labor member of federal parliament Richard Marles’
#ClimateStrikeAustralia: Students walk out of school
“If you want to join us in striking, you could walk out of school, like us, in November and go and sit outside a politician’s office with your own climate strike sign,” writes Harriet and Milou, who – inspired by the 15-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg and her #ClimateStrike which
Synchronised inaction and a recycling convention
Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 31 October 2018 is Ken Dickens, managing director of Corio Waste Management. Paul Wittwer explains that the National Day of Inaction on 30 November 2018 is actually a day of climate action. Australian school kids go on school strike tomorrow. We play an excerpt
“Inaction on climate change is making people sick…”
National Day of Inaction: 30 November 2018 “We are sick of the inaction of government and business on climate change. So we are taking a sick day” ~ Victorian climate activists “Use the National Day of Inaction to start conversations with your friends, family and co-workers. Because the mainstream media
Care for our common home – with climate action
Glimpses from the climate change and sustainability forum ‘Care for Our Common Home’ at Geelong West Town Hall on 11 October 2018. Jasper Harris » Share this on Facebook and Youtube 15-year-old Jasper Harris’ five-minute speech at the climate change and sustainability forum. Jasper is a Year 10 student at
Community opens its doors to sustainable housing
An hour about Sustainable House Day Geelong, the Sun Bear Festival in Anglesea, and more Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 10 October 2018 are two house owners who open their homes on Sunday 14 October: Kerri Erler from Teesdale, Stephen Williams from Manifold Heights, and energy assessment expert Dan
#StopAdani Geelong is doorknocking
» Share this video on Facebook and/or YouTube Engaging our community one doorknock at a time – to #StopAdani we have to speak up both individually and collectively. Lots of #StopAdani billboards up on private fences in one area of Geelong. More to come! Would you like to help? –
Community climate action event in Geelong
Climate change forum to highlight solutions • School students, churches and sustainability groups collaborate about community-focused sustainability event • A panel of experts at Geelong West Town Hall to provide the latest climate science, solutions and inspire local action • The event will highlight surprising new developments in local communities