The Sustainable Hour no 366 with ChangeMaker Isabella Morand and game-developers Natalia Shafa and Edmund Weir.
Tag: council
City Council takes lead: carbon-neutral by 2025
Our two guests in The Sustainable Hour no 351 are the City of Greater Geelong councillors Mayor Stephanie Asher and Dr Belinda Moloney.
Paving the way to climate leadership
Our guests in the Tunnel on 18 November 2020 are two extraordinary climate leaders who are paving the way
Change of mindset to take Geelong forward
Geelong Council candidates Tom O’Connor and Stephanie Asher together with Carl Obst, director of IDEEA Group, give their views on what will take the municipality forward.
USA: City of Richmond declares a climate emergency
In July 2018, the Council of the City of Richmond in California followed City of Berkeley, Montgomery County in Maryland, Hoboken City Council in New Jersey and the Los Angeles City Council and declared a climate emergency: “The City of Richmond calls for an emergency mobilization effort to end citywide greenhouse
Opening of conversation about Geelong’s long-term future
What do we imagine Geelong’s future could look like? The Sustainable Hour will be exploring this theme in the months to come, while reporting on how the new community consultations process which has been launched by the City of Greater Geelong rolls out. We talk with the city’s new Chair
The art of merging nature with local culture
The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 13 April 2016 reports live from the You Yangs, a mountain 20 minutes outside Geelong, where around 50 volunteers planted trees around Big Rock, as the beginning of a ‘Green Corridor’ through the Geelong region and the preparation for the M~M2016, the
Our mayor and councillors – what do they think about climate change?
Councillors are our locally elected representatives. In City of Greater Geelong, they are elected for four year terms to represent 12 local areas. They meet regularly to deal with a wide range of issues and may be able to meet with and discuss issues with ratepayers. So, at a personal
Carbon-cutting makes good business sense
In the 59th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 11 February 2015, we talk about how we can catalyse action to reduce carbon emissions. Our guest in the sustainable studio is Fran MacDonald from the Western Alliance for Greenhouse Action, WAGA. She explains about ‘Low Carbon West’ – the
Passion for sustainability in the community
In the 55th Sustainable Hour on 10 December 2014 we talk with Andrea Pape from The Give Grid about sustainability in the community service sector, and with Sustainability Officer Tim Mordaunt from Geelong Council about the new Greenhouse Gas Strategy review. On 5 December, Geelong mayor Darryn Lyons was spruiking