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Tag: education
Pushing the frontiers for nature and solar
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 442 are PhD Candidate Kirsty Jackson, who studies childrens’ connection with nature, and Kim Mallee, who has started selling ‘solar plots’ in Australia’s first ‘solar garden’
Actions from the classroom
Deakin University PhD student Natalie Purves is searching for two schools who will take part in her climate action study, Rusty calls in from Australia’s coal capital Newcastle, and Heidi Fog delivers her second ‘Sustainable Endpoint’ episode.
Free online course: Think resilience
Twenty-two short video lectures by Richard Heinberg and offered by Post Carbon Institute to help you learn how we can work together to build a truly sustainable, equitable and resilient world.
Albert Park College: #FridaysForFairness
The Sustainable Hour’s #FridaysForFuture special broadcasted live from Albert Park College in Melbourne
Starting small and working our way up
An existential Sustainable Hour with James McLennan, education program manager at The Farmer’s Place and ResourceSmart Schools coordinator, talking about climate change, leadership, kids with ‘nature deficit disorder’, the idea of taking fossil fuel executives bushwalking and how 60 out of the 250 schools in Barwon South-West are hugely benefitting
Key to our future: citizen-led education, life-long learning
Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 24 May 2017 is Dr Simone Boer, manager of strategy and program delivery of ‘Our Future’, the new 30-year vision for Geelong city and region which links life-long learning and education with industry and jobs. We also talk with Andrew Gaines about Kitchen Table
How South Geelong Primary School became a local solar beacon
“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy.” ~ Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847–1931) Once or twice a month, I have been getting these emails and phone calls from schools in the region, asking me, “How did you do it?”… How did we organise a successful crowdfunding campaign
The Costa Effect
How do you get an entire school to talk about composting and waste with excitement and big smiles? How do you get kids started on the journey to become sustainability and energy literate – and towards an environmentally conscious behaviour? Try The Costa Effect! Lots of action and new projects
Aussie kids to world leaders: ‘Don’t ruin our home’
In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 16 September 2015 we report from the Second Sustainability Party at Sydenham-Hillside Primary School. We have interviews with the Climate Guardian Angels from ClimActs, who are taking kids’ letters to the UN Climate Summit in Paris in December, with Beyond Zero