Why has a climate journalist written a book about masculinity? Is there a connection?
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GENTLE AS A MAN – when power learns to serve life
Our ‘guest’ in The Sustainable Hour no. 602 is co-host Mik Aidt, who is publishing his book ‘Man of Earth’ today.
#BreaktheBias: The Climate Hour
The Sustainable Hour’s Women’s Day special on 8 March 2022 – with Monica Winston and Suzette Jackson, Dr Belinda Moloney, youth climate activist Hailey Tan and author Elizabeth Bechard.
Now or never: kicking off a climate revolution
Guests in The Tunnel of the 348th Sustainable Hour are: Director of the National Sustainable Living Festival Luke Taylor and Swedish sustainability consultant Mats Larsson.
Land on fire but also flowing with honey and good ideas
Guests in the studio are seven-year-old Holly and her mum Jana Holmer, who share their enthusiasm for everything organic, repurposed or reinvented.
A new model that makes the existing model obsolete
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller, American author (1895–1983) In The Sustainable Hour on 24 October 2018, we receive a letter from 14-year-old Harriet and Milou in Castlemaine, who are
William Vollmann: It’s too late
“Try to be happy and helpful…” ~ William Tanner Vollmann, author of ‘Carbon Ideologies’ “‘Carbon Ideologies’ seeks to explain to future inhabitants of Earth why we, the people of today, persisted in emitting carbon into the atmosphere in spite of growing evidence that the practice threatens life as we know
Changing the story one low-carbon lover at a time
A lowcarbon-loving author, an American economist, a local expert in Geelong’s history and the Terminator help us change the story as we roll out The Sustainable Hour no. 207 on 14 March 2018 on 94.7 The Pulse. Listen here: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format, right-click here
Climate change criminality and the period of consequences
A review of the new book ‘Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival’ by Dr Peter Carter and Dr Elizabeth Woodworth Reviewed by Dr Andrew Glikson, Earth and Paleoclimate scientist, Australian National University “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is
Eco-youth and eco-tourism: capturing two birds with one phone
Our first guest in The Sustainable Hour on 25 October 2017 is the Geelong-based author and columnist Trevor Pescott who presents his new book, ‘Birds and Botanists: A field naturalist’s history of Geelong’. We play an excerpt of a speech Annie Raser-Rowland, author of ‘The Art of Frugal Hedonism’, gave