We talk about the climate emergency’s BBQ-moment in The Sustainable Hour on 6 February 2018: a summer where the climate emergency for the first time is no longer a taboo to talk about at social gatherings
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Cross pollination between youth, extinction rebels and grey-haired councillors
As we enter 2019, three new global climate emergency movements are making headlines: Extinction Rebellion, which started in England in 2018, the council climate emergency declaration campaign, which started in Australia in 2016 and now counts 40 councils, and the school strike movement, which Greta Thunberg started in Sweden in August 2018.
A new model that makes the existing model obsolete
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller, American author (1895–1983) In The Sustainable Hour on 24 October 2018, we receive a letter from 14-year-old Harriet and Milou in Castlemaine, who are
Councils respond to the climate emergency
It was a world first when Darebin City Council adopted a community-wide climate emergency plan. Now, some of Australia’s other 536 councils are getting ready to act, and in the United States, the emergency campaign has already been taken up by three local governments, including Los Angeles County. Fed up
Geelong now has a Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy
The new strategy provides a target for the City of Greater Geelong council: in three years, by 2020, council must halve carbon emissions from its buildings and vehicle fleet. With the release of its new Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy for the period 2017–20, the City of Greater Geelong council wants
Podcast to council and youth leaders: Meet the climate realists
“We’ve got to be realists, if you’re going to live with the butterflies you’re going to die with the butterflies.” ~ Barnaby Joyce, The Nationals leader, warning those “that oppose fossil fuels” Welcome to the new reality-concept in Australian politics, introduced by Barnaby Joyce: fake realism. Genuine realists in The
Thought leadership: How local councils crunch the climate stalemate
While the Australian Coal Circus is getting more and more bizarre, with a federal government claiming that wind turbines increase carbon emissions, and that more coal is a great investment, the first Victorian councils are now sending a clear message of sanity to stop the proposed construction of the world’s
Exploring the critical role local councils can play in reversing global warming
Local government as a way of getting climate emergency action through Photos by Julian Meehan, audio recordings by The Sustainable Hour Philip Sutton | Trent McCarthy | Mik Aidt | Bryony Edwards | Adrian Whitehead How councils can reverse global warming With State and Federal Governments failing to implement policies to reestablish a