Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
In this zoominar, Port Phillip Emergency Climate Action Network (PECAN) and Glen Eira Emergency Climate Action Network (GECAN) are bringing together key experts to help us understand the proposal for a so-called gas-led recovery, and how an alternative renewable-led recovery would work.
In a Zoom-meeting on 28 August 2020, we launched a new group called Gas Free Geelong to inspire and assist our local business and resident community with transitioning away from gas – and to advocate for the cancellation of any new gas projects and investments in our region. If all
What we can do from the inside. Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 313 are economist Jim Crosthwaite who talks about the economics of gas, and Janet Massey who talks about her electric car.
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
A radio podcast for politicians and decision makers in the Victorian state parliament about the prospects of turning farmland into industrial gasfields. 1.3 million hectares of land in Victoria is threatened by onshore gas mining. The 80th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse contains an ‘audio submission’ produced for the
Why is Pope Francis’ teaching letter, the encyclical, so significant? Because it has brought the questions around not just climate change, but to Australians more specifically coal mining and onshore gas mining into the moral’s sphere of the total element of who we are as human beings. Geelong St Mary’s
In the 47th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 15 October 2014, we report from the meeting on 14 October where Geelong Council unanimously voted to advocate for a permanent state ban on fracking. Our guests in the studio are painter and artist Mary Constance Black, and Jackray Black
‘Fracking’ is moving in — very possibly to an area near you. People all over the planet are protesting against it. In the UK, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Argentina, South Africa, and also increasingly in the United States and Canada where fracking has been going on for years. In
Citizens of Geelong are outraged to find out that the oil and gas company Lakes Oil is coming to the region. The company acquired an exploration license for ‘tight gas’, a kind of ‘unconventional’ gas. This exploration is likely to involve the controversial fracking (hydraulic fracturing) technique which is known
On 24 September 2013, 45 concerned citizens – a good mix of farmers, fishermen, tradesmen, civil servants, teachers, doctors, activists, students, and parents – met at Geelong Trades Hall to discuss how they feel about that the company Lakes Oil is going to begin drilling and exploring for gas in the