Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
[CLIMATIC ROOT TREATMENT] is a series of blogposts seeking to uncover and understand the deeper roots of society’s problems with taking appropriate action on the climate emergency, and to explore the advantages we could see once the action sets in. “The [fossil fuel] industry thinks we are all fools, so
The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 11 May 2016 with Katerina Gaita, director of Climate for Change, Tim Buckley, director of Energy Finance Studies at the Australasia Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Fanny Beck, Zoe Tseng and four other Deakin university students plus their teacher Steve
How do you get an entire school to talk about composting and waste with excitement and big smiles? How do you get kids started on the journey to become sustainability and energy literate – and towards an environmentally conscious behaviour? Try The Costa Effect! Lots of action and new projects
Today, we take a step outside to the wetlands, to the ocean, to the birds and the sea life. In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 17 February 2016, we meet four inspiring environmentalists: Rod Lowther and Craig Morley from Geelong Field Naturalists Club, who are working to
The more we spend and the richer we are, the more we pollute. The world’s richest 10 per cent produce half of all carbon emissions, according to a recent Oxfam study. A person among the richest one per cent produces several hundred times more carbon emissions than a person among
An hour with Sam Smith from Future Proofing Geelong talking about the local Sustainable Living Festival which starts on 12 February 2016 and runs over the following three weeks. Geelong’s favourite eco-champions, Costa Georgiadis from ABC’s Gardening Australia and Tim Silverwood from Take 3 for the Sea are back in
Speeches held at the Act on Climate Festival opening night and film evening in Geelong in November 2015. On this page you have an opportunity to listen to thought-provoking and inspiring speeches held at two events where residents in Geelong got together to focus on how their community can act
“Love what you do,” it says in big letters on the wall in the café at The Farmer’s Place. And this is the starting point for farmer, business man and entrepreneur Robert Pascoe, the owner of the place – and winner of 2015 Geelong Business Excellence Award for Sustainable Business.
In the 97th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we talk about the People’s Climate March, Climate Action Network Australia, the Act on Climate festival in Geelong, the Waves 2 Woods festival in Anglesea, the #SmallChanges campaign, the inadequate commitments of 146 countries, now presented to the United Nations in
In The Sustainable Studio on 94.7 The Pulse, we’re always hungry for new knowledge about sustainability – and on 7 October 2015, we dedicated a full Sustainable Hour to the topic of food and drinks, because as it turns out, it appears to be a topic which opens up great