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“The middle gets it. The middle is happening.” ~ Paul Hawken, American author In The Sustainable Hour on 14 February 2018: • Architect Alvyn Williams from Soft Loud House Architects about passive houses and star rating systems • Councillors Susan Rennie and Trent McCarthy about the world’s first municipal climate
“If we change the story, we can change the world.” ~ Brady Piñero Walkinshaw, CEO, Grist Magazine “When we get the story right, we move quickly.” ~ Jeremy Rifkin, economist “The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a
“As if it wasn’t already clear, 2017 provided even more evidence that we are changing our planet in dangerous ways.” ~ Heather Leibowitz, environmental advocate and lawyer “In 20 years we’ll look back on 2017 as a turning point for the climate challenge.” ~ Simon Holmes à Court, senior adviser
Something rare just occurred: an Australian tv news journalist made a connection between extreme weather events and climate change! Sadly and strangely, this is actually such an extremely rare event in public media in Australia that it calls for an exclamation point and a special mention – in particular in
When it comes to climate change, “we are suffering a dearth of vision and political will,” says ‘the accidental councillor’ David Bell, an organic farmer who recently was appointed as the new mayor of Surf Coast Shire. “Let’s change the paradigm of what we do with our politicians,” he suggests
Inaction on the climate emergency only makes sense in a shortsighted perspective. Enter The Sensible Citizen who has the capacity to think long term and to think independently, able to see straight through all the media ‘white noise’ – the fake news, disinformation and outright nonsense which we are bombarded with
October 2017 climatic clippings – part 2: All that that we don’t talk about. “We will have the choice of the collapse of civilisation and into the dark ages we go – or we find something renewable.” ~ Elon Musk “The only question is will we decide to live sustainably and
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 1 November 2017 is Camilla Novotna, CEO and founder of Ecokit which sells a new concept of small DIY eco houses. Leigh Ewbank from Friends of the Earth Melbourne’s Act on Climate campaign gives us a report from the Melbourne Day of Climate
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 18 October 2017 is Geelong Gallery’s deputy-director Penny Whitehead. On the phone we talk with Councillor Cathy Oke, chair of the City of Melbourne Environmental Portfolio. At the Humans in Geelong Expo, Tony meets two 20-year-old cycling Danes, Marcus Frellsen and Kenneth McDonald Kelly,
October 2017 climatic clippings – part 1 Today, in 2017, we see it on the news almost every day. We are victims of climate change. Climate change causes what the silly journalists of our mainstream media keep calling ‘natural’ disasters, even though more or less everyone knows that these disruptions