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This page was published on 31 October 2016. It was updated on 1 September 2017 by which date it had been viewed 123 times. By September 2019, it exceeded 3,500 views When will the ABC and SBS begin to live up to their own charters – their responsibility as public
“Action is the antidote to despair.” Edward Abbey, American author (1927–1989) Climate Catch 22: The antidote to climate despair is action. Everyone we have talked with in our radio show The Sustainable Hour agrees with this. But we don’t act as long as we are in doubt. Therefore, the removal
In The Sustainable Hour on 9 August 2017, as Al Gore‘s documentary ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ premiers in cinemas, Dr Michelle Maloney tells us about The New Economy and the conference about this topic in Brisbane in September, we listen to clear talk about economy, coal mining and
On 19 July 2017 in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we delve in natural and agricultural solutions to the climate change crisis. We have our regenerative studio phone lined up to Verity Morgan-Schmidt, the newly appointed CEO of Australian Farmers for Climate Action, and to natural sequence farming
“Aren’t we already we at the point of no return with making our planet uninhabitable?” Narrative navigation: Why does it have to be a choice between either Heaven, Hell or Hoax when politicians and climate action campaigners talk about the future? What if plain honesty – and the fact that
Our clever and creative guests in the sustainable studio on 28 June 2017 are: Dr Mazher Iqbal Mohammed, known by friends and colleagues as Iqy, a Research Fellow at School of Engineering at Deakin University, who explains to us how plastic waste material can be turned into 3D ‘eco-printing’. And
Joining us in the sustainable studio on 21 June 2017: David Spratt, co-author of the new report ‘Disaster Alley: Climate change, conflict and risk’, for a talk about the publication and a new Senate inquiry, and as Plastic Free July approaches, Robert Skehan from Plastic Bag Free Victoria gives us an
Guests in the sustainable studio on 15 June 2017 are Geelong Gallery’s director Jason Smith, and ActOnClimate campaign-leader Leigh Ewbank from Friends of the Earth Australia. We talk over the phone with Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth Melbourne about their vision for a renewables park at Point Henry.
In The Sustainable Hour on 17 May 2017 we talk with a group of international students from Dueli, the English Language Institute at Deakin University, and their teacher Kate Simpson about the excuses for our inaction on climate – and how we are to explain them to future generations. We talk
A Sustainable Hour around cycling without helmets, road safety, zero carbon, cyclones, coal and climate change – and a butterfly whisperer who laughs in our face about the prospect of him facing a climate crimes tribunal. Interviews with comedian Mandy Nolan about cyclones and the #StopAdani campaign, and with Danish road