This year on Earth Day, 22 April 2024, we are many who will be waving a flag for the Earth. Would you like to wave one as well?
Tag: awareness
#FindYourRole: The peaceful perseverers
#FindYourRole: The peaceful perseverers | Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 436 are Caroline Danaher and Maree Maria from Fridays for Future Geelong, Kay Wennagel who is facilitating an electric vehicle bulk buy, and peace activist Nick Deane.
Refinery’s social license up for public discussion
An utterly offensive disgrace of last century’s technology that lost its social license to pollute long ago…? …or a company the city can be proud of? Viva Energy obviously thought it was worth thousands of dollars to see if they could convince Geelong’s residents to think the latter. Recently Geelong
Harnessing the power of the arts for change
“What arts can do is create a climate where action becomes necessary,” says festival director Guy Abrahams of the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE festival which opened in Victoria, Australia, on 19 April 2017. In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, he explained about the festival’s aims and intentions – and he told about
Builders of sustainability and frugal hedonism
In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 19 October 2016 we meet Dave Martin, a sustainable builder who started Small Giants and a concept of ‘sustainable apprenticeship’, we talk with Annie Raser-Rowland about her new book, ‘The Art of Frugal Hedonism’, and Robert Skehan from Plastic Bag Free
Treating the planet as if it was the only one we’ve got
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
Be the change of consciousness
Rewriting ‘The Australian Dream’ with a change of consciousness. Today we explore whether that journey to a more sustainable world which many of us would like to see our governments set out on, really must begin somewhere else: somewhere inside ourselves. A century ago the Indian leader Gandhi said that
The climate fight in a nutshell
…or rather, in the shell of a caravan. In a caravan camouflaged as an island, that is. A Maldivian island, threatened by rising sea water levels. Currently placed on Federation Square, the pumping heart of Melbourne. By a Dane. Confused? Here’s the story: » Rightclick here to download the mp3-file
Audio highlights from the Renew Geelong Picnic 2014
On 27 April 2014, 94.7 The Pulse broadcasted live – powered by a biogas generator – from the Renew Geelong Picnic 2014 in Geelong’s Eastern Park, where over 150 citizens gathered to celebrate Earth Day and its Green Cities theme of this year. In the 30th edition of The Sustainable Hour
Environmental awareness – building a map
Here is how you can contribute to build up a global map of environmental awareness. If we want to improve environmental awareness, it is important to understand the current situation: what is the level of environmental awareness in different countries today – and which factors affect this? Today, simply put,