To return to safe levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – the famous 350 parts per million – we have got to figure out how we can rapidly drawdown huge amounts of carbon. The trouble is that we now
Tag: climate-champions
Renters going solar and a regenerative gruffalo
In The Sustainable Hour on 13 December 2017, we talk about Tony’s trip last week to the front line in the battle against the Adani coal mine in Queensland. Tony interviewed 71-year-old Audrey Cooke about why she locked herself on
Podcast to council and youth leaders: Meet the climate realists
“We’ve got to be realists, if you’re going to live with the butterflies you’re going to die with the butterflies.” ~ Barnaby Joyce, The Nationals leader, warning those “that oppose fossil fuels” Welcome to the new reality-concept in Australian politics,
Thought leadership: How local councils crunch the climate stalemate
While the Australian Coal Circus is getting more and more bizarre, with a federal government claiming that wind turbines increase carbon emissions, and that more coal is a great investment, the first Victorian councils are now sending a clear message
Finding foothold as a wave of climatic counter-logic hits our parliaments
Some January 2017 notes with links and contemplations as we enter a new year and are confronted with governments’ increasingly absurd lack of response to the dangerous climate change disruption – the Great Turning, collapse, catastrophe, apocalypse or whatever you want
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?
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
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
Targeting the target confusion
This is Geelong calling. We say it is time to change the way we talk about renewables and emissions targets. First of all, we need to stop the confusing use of percentages in relation to a specific year. Instead, when
Three brave Australians’ sustainability pilgrimages
Today, The Sustainable Hour introduces you to three adventurous Australians who went one big step further to spread the message about the urgent need for change as far as our environmental impact and carbon footprint is concerned. Mary Beth Gundrum