[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.
Tag: behavioural change
Changing climate – changing people
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
The Costa Effect
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?
Birdlife, eco tourism and the issue with plastic
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
Pioneers of our carbon neutral future
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
Inspiring sustainable living with local festival and fun
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
Speaking of how we can act on climate
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
Sustainable business excellence a matter of love
“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
“Don’t look at the branches, look at the root. We are the root”
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
Cultivating sustainability – through the stomach to the heart
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,