Guests in The Sustainable Hour 374 are Philip Huggins, president of the National Council of Churches Australia, and three Lara residents campaigning against a proposed waste-to-energy plant.
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What price our security
Guests in the 352nd Sustainable Hour are environmental law honours student Sonya McKay, Simon Copland from Green Agenda, Rod Mitchell from Citizens Climate Lobby Australia, and more.
Just climate
Our guests in The Tunnel on 5 August 2020, as we get organised for the Hiatus, are law student Katta O’Donnell and online human rights blogger Sarah Josephine Liberty.
Help call for better laws for nature in Australia
Once every decade, the Australian Government has to review our national environment law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. That review is happening right now, and the panel of experts reviewing the law would like to know what matters to you. Each of us have been given until
Can we hand-on-our-heart say that we are doing enough?
Here’s that up-to-date report from the climate emergency frontier in Victoria and the rest of the world, which your so-called professional and public media – sleepwalking on their payroll – once again completely failed to deliver to you. With strong emotions in the chamber, City of Melbourne declared a climate
Submission to the Victorian government: Go early, go hard
The following is Centre for Climate Safety’s submission to the Victorian Government, which has called for comments from the public on the targets it will soon set in regard to how fast or how slowly it should aim to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. This is probably one of
Climate-wrecking carbon pollution can no longer be free
The lesson from Australia’s abolished carbon tax and France’s cancelled petrol tax is that it is extremely important that it is done in such a way that is reasonable and fair, and is carefully explained so that it is also perceived by the wider public in that way
Bike safety first
More and more Australians would like to harness the tremendous benefits of biking, such as physical and mental well-being, clean air and climate safety. As the photo above shows, which is from Geelong in the 1950s, Australians actually were used to commute in that way – in those days mostly because
Scandinavians take legislative steps to slash their carbon emissions
Sweden On 15 June 2017, the Swedish Parliament took a decision on the most important climate reform in the country’s history. Sweden committed to cutting its net carbon emissions to zero by 2045, becoming the first country to significantly upgrade its carbon ambitions since the Paris Agreement in 2015. The
The second front against climate change: SLCP
When it comes to climate change and energy transition, reaching global — or even national — consensus on what we want is not an easy task. There are so many ways we could go. In order to speed up the process of decarbonising our societies, here is a proposal from