“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
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#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
When an airborne catastrophe hangs over our heads, here’s what we do
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 27 June 2018 in order of appearance: • Colin Mockett’s global outlook • Josh Meadows, media and communication officer, Environmental Justice Australia, about the Beyond Coal and Gas Jamboree • Dr Chris Atmore, lawyer,
Bypassing the carbon paralysis
“The fossil fuel industry has become the public enemy number one. They are not paying for the destruction that they are causing. And that is one of the biggest subsidies to the industry.” ~ Dr John Iser, Victorian chair, Doctors
Lawyer gave his life to protest over climate pollution
“My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves.” ~ David Buckel, in an e-mail sent shortly before he self-immolated As a metaphor for the destruction of the planet, David Buckel doused himself in fossil fuel
Renters going solar and a regenerative gruffalo
In The Sustainable Hour on 13 December 2017, we talk about Tony’s trip last week to the front line in the battle against the Adani coal mine in Queensland. Tony interviewed 71-year-old Audrey Cooke about why she locked herself on
Climate fighters putting bubbles and bodies on the line
The blockade of Adani’s construction works in Queensland is becoming Australia’s next frontline in the fight against the climate crisis caused by an industry that wants us to keep burning their fossil fuels. In the morning on 6 December 2017,
Richard Marles, you have three generations on the line
Our MP wasn’t in. His integrity had left the office too. Temporarily, we hope Where did the honest federal politician go? We dedicate this podcast to Richard Marles MP in the hope that he will listen to these strong voices
The case of civil disobedience: Meet the friendly ‘eco-fascists’ in the Pilliga
The Sustainable Hour visits the Pilliga forest in New South Wales where a group of activists are protesting against the company Santos which wants to extract gas there with the use of the controversial ‘fracking’ method. Whether we should allow
Season’s greetings from the carbon frontier
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