Dispatching from the climate emergency bunker on 13 March 2019
Tag: climate anxiety
Have: Overwhelmingly gloomy facts. Need: Resilience
Ready for a self-managed online climate emergency resilience course? I invite you to begin that journey right here, right now. The first step will be to watch two one-hour video presentations which you find further down on this page. But before that, here’s a bit of an introduction to why
Australian parents angry about climate threat
Australian Parents for Climate Action demand immediate emergency-scale action from all levels of government and from business to safeguard the future for our children by cutting atmospheric greenhouse emissions to safe levels…
Climate emergency: from unmentionable to mainstream
[ Climatic clippings no 8 in 2018 ] 100 years from now, our descendants will look back on our choices in this era as no less serious than the choices made during WWI. Simply: We have the choice to preserve civilization by taking radical action to remake society without fossil fuels
Working with nature to cultivate system change
We had planned to present you with an hour about regenerative farming practices, healthy soils and carbon drawdown solutions. But then the Swedish teenage-oracle Greta Thunberg stepped into our lives, and The Sustainable Hour on 5 September 2018 morphed into a podcast about climate anxiety among the youth and a
Warming stripes and climate grief
We have entered September in the year 2018, and as these warming stripes illustrate, the climate which has been a steady backdrop to life on our planet for thousands of years, is beginning to change. If you are among those who “didn’t see this coming”, you should probably start to
When an airborne catastrophe hangs over our heads, here’s what we do
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 27 June 2018 in order of appearance: • Colin Mockett’s global outlook • Josh Meadows, media and communication officer, Environmental Justice Australia, about the Beyond Coal and Gas Jamboree • Dr Chris Atmore, lawyer, author of Environmental Justice Australia’s report ‘Raising a Stink’ •
Green cleaning in a bubbling uprising
Wellness advocates Misty Barth from Witchy Brews and Sarah Bradford from Earth Love Gratitude are our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 13 June 2018. Colin Mockett shares his global outlook with us – today he examines the new Climate Change Performance Index from Germanwatch and Melbourne’s bikeshare flop. We
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 plastic and air pollution is concerned. Guests and segments in
Lawyer gave his life to protest over climate pollution
“My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves.” ~ David Buckel, in an e-mail sent shortly before he self-immolated As a metaphor for the destruction of the planet, David Buckel doused himself in fossil fuel before starting a fire. He hoped his macabre death