The Sustainable Hour no 304 with Geelong Mayor Stephanie Asher about her city council’s recent climate emergency declaration
Tag: climate emergency
Recordings from the Climate Emergency Summit 2020
The first Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne was live-streamed on YouTube, and these recordings are now made available in shorter segments, together with an additional set of audio recordings of the break-out sessions.
Geelong grapples with its climate emergency declaration
On 25 February 2020, Geelong Council declared a climate emergency. Guest in the sustainable studio on 26 February is Monica Winston from Transition Streets Geelong.
Has Geelong Council lost its spine?
Is it possible to recognise climate change as a global emergency and order a newly built bikelane demolished at one and the same council meeting? Well. Geelong Council managed to do just that on 25 february 2020.
Safe climate declaration to lead the way
With Ian Dunlop, Luke Taylor, Janine Duffy, Sarah Hathway, Ben Pocock, Russell Crowe, and more
The only way we can deal with the climate emergency
“The only way we can deal with [the bushfires], is to connect with each other.” In The Sustainable Hour no 300, we connect with Paul Shelton, Luke Taylor, Ben Pocock, Suzie Brown, and we play a new climate action song from Paul Kelly.
The unexpected impact of collectively waiting in a tunnel
Coldplay’s move is bold and unique in a similar was as Greta’s first day in front of the Swedish Parliament was. It is an idea which is replicable, and it can spread and morph just like a virus can.
First responders seize their Coldplay moment
In The Sustainable Hour on 4 December 2019, Mik Aidt has just returned from a speaker-trip in New Zealand, where he talked about the emerging ‘Pause Movement’ and the impact which a wave of ‘Coldplay Moments’ could trigger
Coal-arsonists, climate fiction and youth leadership
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 13 November 2019 are Ben Pocock, our new youth reporter, and author Mark Smith
Mayoral bridge over troubled water
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 6 November 2019 are Geelong’s new mayor Stephanie Asher and deputy mayor Kylie Grzybek for an important conversation about the climate emergency.