Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 20 February 2019 are filmmaker David Lowe, singing teenagers Karla and Anna from Denmark, and Colin Mockett. We play an excerpt from a presentation by Margaret Klein Salamon.
Tag: climate emergency
Have: Overwhelmingly gloomy facts. Need: Resilience
Ready for a self-managed online climate emergency resilience course? I invite you to begin that journey right here, right now. The first step will be to watch two one-hour video presentations which you find further down on this page. But before that, here’s a bit of an introduction to why
Australian parents angry about climate threat
Australian Parents for Climate Action demand immediate emergency-scale action from all levels of government and from business to safeguard the future for our children by cutting atmospheric greenhouse emissions to safe levels…
Cross pollination between youth, extinction rebels and grey-haired councillors
As we enter 2019, three new global climate emergency movements are making headlines: Extinction Rebellion, which started in England in 2018, the council climate emergency declaration campaign, which started in Australia in 2016 and now counts 40 councils, and the school strike movement, which Greta Thunberg started in Sweden in August 2018.
Persistent presence in the face of parliamentarians
Every Friday Caroline Danaher and whoever else joins her on the day sit at a table right in front of the office of their local member of the federal parliament: Sarah Henderson, member for Corangamite, who has her office in Waurn Ponds in the outskirts of Geelong…
Geelong’s persistent #FridaysForFuture campaigner
Caroline Danaher is Geelong’s persistent climate action campaigner, who every Friday sits in front of her local Member of Parliament’s office in support of Greta Thunberg’s #FridaysForFuture school strike.
Reconsidering Christmas, climate action and time
An hour about hemp, meat and climate with sustainable time management tips – how we support the local economy and become more sustainable at a personal level. Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 19 December 2018 is Les Watson from Get More Time, known as the Time Lord. He covers some
Global Rescue Plan A flopped. Now what? Enter Plan P
[ Climatic clippings no 9 in 2018 ] 2018 was the year when words of emergency, breakdown, collapse and extinction started ringing in our ears with more disturbing clarity than ever before, but even so, the destruction of our climate continued as if no one was listening. ‘Plan A’ for how
Climate emergency action plan launched in Stockholm
Global broadcast of ‘no-fly seminar’ about the Club of Rome’s Climate Emergency Plan “Climate change is now reaching an end-game scenario, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or accepting that it has been left too late and bear the consequences.” ~ Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, professor and
Teenagers pick up the torch – #TheTimeHasCome
“You are always telling us kids to clean up after ourselves, so now it’s your turn. We are coming to remind you to tidy up your mess. And we will only get louder.”~ Nora, Year 6 student at Forest Lodge Public School In the lead up to the first-ever #SchoolStrike4Climate