Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
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
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 26 April 2017 are: Dorthe Pedersen, co-founder of Cycling Without Age, Tim Buckley, industry analyst from Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Guy Abrahams, CEO of Climarte and director of the festival ‘Arts+Climate=Change’, and Graeme Stockton, co-organiser of
“What arts can do is create a climate where action becomes necessary,” says festival director Guy Abrahams of the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE festival which opened in Victoria, Australia, on 19 April 2017. In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, he explained about the festival’s aims and intentions – and he told about
An hour’s radio-podcast around the new climate for consensus among scientists, artists and politicians. Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 19 April 2017 are: Kate Ferris, ethics officer and co-organiser of the March for Science in Melbourne, which takes place on Earth Day 22 April, and as the Art+Climate=Change
“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, introduced by Barnaby Joyce: fake realism. Genuine realists in The
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 29 March 2017 are Doug Rolfe from the Alternative Technology Association, and Anine Cummins from 350.org Melbourne – as the largest anti-coal movement in Australia’s history is kicked off to stop Adani’s mega coal mine in Queensland, the country’s dirtiest coalfired powerplant closes,
The Danish energy company SE has produced six for an energy company rather unusual – sometimes emotional, sometimes humourous and a bit silly – short-films about climate change, climate despair and climate solutions, asking: “WTF DO WE DO WITH CLIMATE” “Please give Denmark’s Leonardo DiCaprio a warm reception! Magnus Millang has thrown
The Sustainable Hour on 8 March 2017, the International Women’s Day, with Suzette Jackson, Ninna Katrine Larsen and Thea Ormerod – and rally speeches by Dr Kate Lardner, Wendy Farmer and Cat Nadel. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 159 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open or download this programme
“The Federal government has been promoting coal, misleading the public on causes of blackouts and electricity rises, and trashing renewable power. They’ve seemingly forgotten all about climate change. Meanwhile extreme weather has played havoc on power infrastructure around the country, and reports reveal the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing bleaching