At election time, there are so many scorecards and interest groups coming out to spoon-feed you and tell you who to vote for. The group of volunteers behind the Geelong Community Survey 2020 has produced a candidate survey, which they
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Clever and creative women putting climate first
On 30 September 2020 The Sustainable Hour hosts a panel of ‘Put Climate First’ candidates for Geelong and one from the Surf Coast Shire for the local government elections that are rapidly approaching via our postboxes.
The Sustainable House in the age of change
The Sustainable Hour no 333 about Sustainable House Day, a ‘Put Climate First’ election campaign, The Change Agency and the school strike for climate on Friday.
Questions to your local election candidates
11 points and 14 questions for Councils to reduce household gas demand
Making the tree change: standing with Earth
The Sustainable Hour no 322 with Sarah Jones and Jamie Marloo Thomas, co-founders of Wayapa Wuurrk, election candidate Belinda Moloney and youth correspondent Ben Pocock
Climate alleviation with plants, drinks and Twitter memes
The Sustainable Hour no 330 with Edwina Robinson from Climate Factory, Deano Goodbrew from Goodbrew Kombucha and Dan Bleakley from Access Disrupt.
Build an election platform for climate safety
Words and ideas you can pick up, take inspiration from or copy/paste for your climate emergency election campaign.
Deliberation means action in the climate emergency
Geelong Councillor Eddy Kontelj is guest in The Sustainable Hour no 322, talking about the municipality’s Plastic Free July and 100% renewables initiatives
Tom O’Connor: Who do we want to be
Guest in our 22nd Regenerative Hour is Tom O’Connor, a former Geelong councillor, swimming coach and an active local community organiser, who lives in Drysdale on the Bellarine Peninsula. He will run for the Geelong Council election in August 2020.
Shane Ward: Better systems thinking for a resilient future
Can we turn the 2020s into ‘The Regenerative Decade’? In this series of interviews about what that would imply, we talk ecology, deep adaptation, grief, compassion and passion, connecting with nature, resilience, revitalisation, restoration, revolution… – the bigger picture, in