Dr Louise Woodward’s call for help: “Why are the Northern Territory people being sacrificed for the sake of fossil fuel company profits?”
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Upcycling, downshifting and climatically having a go
Guests in the Sustainable Hour no 218 are: Claire Ziegler, a member of Geelong Sustainability, the Repair Cafe in Highton and organiser of a World Environment Day event, and Colin Mockett, who is just back from Shanghai and has a great story to tell about what has happened there in
Concerned musicians communicate climate problems
It is still below the radar of popular music in the mainstream media, but musicians are beginning to act, react and take action on climate change issues. Concerning the gas industry’s method of ‘fracking’, for instance, over 500 songs – mostly protest songs – have been composed and published as
Criminally continuing to pollute and destroy
Our guests and speakers in The Sustainable Hour on 21 September 2016 are senator Janet Rice, marine ecologist Alastair Hirst, anti-fracking campaigner Naomi Hogan, and Dr Alex Teytelboym from Oxford University. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 140 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open or download this programme in
Uncommon signs of leadership and common sense
As it looks from our studio window at 94.7 The Pulse, this Sustainable Hour marks the beginning of a new era in Victoria where a fourth of all Australians from now on stand united with one common goal: a sustainable future. An era where our leaders and lawmakers stand up
How ordinary citizens can change the world
A powerful clean energy victory took place in Victoria on 30 August 2016: In a national first, the Andrews Labor Government announced a permanent ban on the exploration and development of all onshore unconventional gas, including hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) and coal seam gas. Three years ago, it seemed like an
The case of civil disobedience: Meet the friendly ‘eco-fascists’ in the Pilliga
The Sustainable Hour visits the Pilliga forest in New South Wales where a group of activists are protesting against the company Santos which wants to extract gas there with the use of the controversial ‘fracking’ method. Whether we should allow that our air and water is being polluted, and that
Season’s greetings from the carbon frontier
In the 103rd Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 9 December 2015, we talk with Alison Marchant from Frack Free Moriac and Lock the Gate about the 200-page inquiry report on fracking which a commission has put together for the Victorian government. What is the outcome? Will we see
Follow the sun and which way the wind blows
On 23 September 2015, The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse follows the sun and the way the wind currently blows, which is in the direction of better understanding of the benefits of cycling, wind energy, new forms of energy storage, and what food can do to open up new
“Good for the economy” not a valid argument
Sometimes progress is to say NO to something which is wrong. In the 19th century, a good part of the American and European economies were built on slavery. It was painful and horrendous to the slaves, but it was “good for the economy”. 150 years ago, slavery represented a sixth