The 71st Sustainable Hour on 6 May 2015 marks the International Composting Awareness Week and the International Permaculture Day. In previous weeks we have talked with primary and high school students, Cool Australia and Kids Teaching Kids. Today, we are
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Inspiring future environmental leaders: kids teaching kids
Kids Teaching Kids is a great idea. It aims to inspire future environmental leaders by connecting and challenging students with real world issues, inspiring them to want to know more. This is how it works: First give school students the
Catering thirst for knowledge about a sustainable future
24,000 Australian teachers have signed up to ‘Cool Australia’, a non-profit website that provides inspirational material to schools and caters the students’ thirst for knowledge about how to be smart, clean and efficient. Close to 20,000 teachers are regular users
The Green Teams’ solar dream: New energy in the school
An hour around The People’s Solar and ‘green teams’ from two schools in Geelong. Guests in the studio: • Alex Houlston, Energy for the People • Aaron Lewtas, Surf Coast Energy Group • Alex Aidt, 9 years, member of the
Speaking of sustainability in schools
“Let’s make sustainability fun!”. “It’s got to be about action!” These were two of the numerous suggestions by four speakers who gave inspriring presentations at the event ‘Sustainability in schools – preparing the next generation’ in Geelong on 28 May
The Sustainable Hour no 1 to 10 on 94.7 The Pulse
On this page you can listen to the radio shows in full length and in excerpts. See the audioplayers below. You will also find links to more information about the topics and sites that have been mentioned during the hour.
Calling all schools and ‘sustainanators’
Where are the really good sustainable ideas for teachers and students? Did you hear about the “sustainanator”-idea from Geelong East Primary School? (If not, listen here or see below on this page). Could that be an idea which other schools
Danish university to train climate change graduates
Denmark has positioned itself among the first in Europe to offer comprehensive interdisciplinary graduate training in climate change. ‘Climate Change, Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation’ is the name of a new 2-year interdisciplinary MSc programme at Copenhagen University that combines both