More than 190 UK institutions and individuals from the arts and culture sectors have pledged to declare a climate emergency and in this way become part of a first wave of climate emergency declarers in the country.
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Breaking the bystander effect
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 20 February 2019 are filmmaker David Lowe, singing teenagers Karla and Anna from Denmark, and Colin Mockett. We play an excerpt from a presentation by Margaret Klein Salamon.
Solar leadership, climate creativity and disruptive vitality
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 30 January 2019 are Lachlan Magee, energy solutions manager at Choice Solar, Luke Taylor, director of the National Sustainable Living Festival, and Deborah Punton from Greensong Ecopsychology
Sustaining the sparkle: connection is everything
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 23 January 2018 where we celebrate our 250th show are Sue Constable, teacher co-organiser of Earthfest in Ocean Grove, and Caroline Danaher, Geelong’s ‘persistent pensioner’ advocating for climate action
The art of turning a ship despite repeated leadership failures
Guest in The Climate Emergency Warming Room on 26 September is Rosemary Nugent from Humans in Geelong, who gives us all the details about the optimistic Humans’ expo which is held near Geelong Waterfront on Sunday 7 October. We talk
Homage to Earth – and one lawyer’s call for action
Sunday 22 April is supposed to be Earth’s day and all about how we secure a future free of plastic pollution. Meanwhile, we, the human species on Earth, appear to have arrived at our ‘now-or-never moment’ as far as our
Reframing evolution and the climate that changes
A visual ecologist, a thoughtful vegan and a Climate for Change facilitator. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 208 on 94.7 The Pulse on 21 March 2018: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format, right-click here (Mac: CTRL
Care is in the air
…and on air, not just in The Sustainable Hour, but finally now also in national news programs and documentaries on the channels of our public broadcasters. In The Sustainable Hour on 7 March 2018, we talk climate care with ACT’s
Concerned musicians communicate climate problems
It is still below the radar of popular music in the mainstream media, but musicians are beginning to act, react and take action on climate change issues. Concerning the gas industry’s method of ‘fracking’, for instance, over 500 songs –
How to love your home with natural light and trikes
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 18 October 2017 is Geelong Gallery’s deputy-director Penny Whitehead. On the phone we talk with Councillor Cathy Oke, chair of the City of Melbourne Environmental Portfolio. At the Humans in Geelong Expo, Tony meets