We take an encouraging step on the Stairway to Hiatus in The Tunnel this week. Together with our three guests we discover how to live – and live well – in the climate emergency. Welcome to our first ‘Sustainable Disaster Hour’!
Tag: climate-champions
Just climate
Our guests in The Tunnel on 5 August 2020, as we get organised for the Hiatus, are law student Katta O’Donnell and online human rights blogger Sarah Josephine Liberty.
From Earth Day towards the green recovery
Guests in the The Sustainable Hour on Earth Day 22 April 2020 are Suzie Brown from Australian Parents for Climate Action, Karina Donkers who is starting a climate leadership course in May, and Robert Rothko, who launches his new climate-related song today: ‘Coffee’.
Neighbours unite to amplify efforts
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 309 on 15 April 2020 are Nerida Thompson from Neighbours United for Climate Action, Colin Long from the Victorian Trades Hall Council who is manager of Just Transitions for Workers, and AFL player Jasper Pittard, a defender for the North Melbourne Kangaroos
The girls, the women and the climate
There’s something going on which we need to talk about more openly: The climate issue is also a gender issue
UK doctor on hunger strike for more action on climate
Dr Clifford Kendall is a UK trained doctor who has worked largely in South Africa since 2010. On 14 July 2019, he started a hunger strike outside the UK Parliament to push for more aggressive action on the climate and ecological emergency. He writes: “The world is a complicated place,
Business leaders declare a climate emergency
On 20 May, Dale Vince, an entrepreneur and founder of the renewable energy utilities firm Ecotricity, publicly declared a climate emergency for his company with a pledge to upgrade the company’s current sustainability commitments to become a carbon-neutral business by 2025
Voice of our planet
Available on BBC iPlayer – screen it for your colleagues, class mates, students, or an entire school “A landmark documentary”~ The Guardian Sir David Attenborough literally is the voice of Our Planet – the Netflix series by this title, that is. With his latest BBC documentary about ‘Climate Change –
People and communities cut the carbon
Hepburn community heads for zero carbon by 2029, Shannon Lughnone sets out on an extremely long walk, Extinction Rebellion group starts in Geelong, and Mik has decided to ‘walk the talk’, get solar and renovate his house.
Two councillors’ and a teenager’s recipe for change
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 13 Februay 2019 are two first-time councillors of the Greater Geelong City Council: Cr Sarah Mansfield, Chair of the Environment and Sustainability Portfolio, and Cr Stephanie Asher, Chair of the Planning Portfolio.