Three-hour online summit in Australia about the need to rapidly cool the planet.
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Emergency Town Hall meeting in Melbourne
Agenda and speakerlist for the Climate Emergency Town Hall meeting on 9 September 2023 at the Melbourne Town Hall at 1pm.
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
How to love your home with natural light and trikes
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 18 October 2017 is Geelong Gallery’s deputy-director Penny Whitehead. On the phone we talk with Councillor Cathy Oke, chair of the City of Melbourne Environmental Portfolio. At the Humans in Geelong Expo, Tony meets two 20-year-old cycling Danes, Marcus Frellsen and Kenneth McDonald Kelly,
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
Climate action speeches at the Sustainable Living Festival 2017
» John Hewson and David Spratt: Right on climate » Paul Gilding: Great Disruption to great transition » Exploring the critical role local councils can play in reversing global warming RIGHT ON CLIMATE John Hewson on climate change and conservative thinking As the polarisation of ideology in our local and global
Melbourne festival aims high: “Big impact for big change”
16-minute radio interview with Sustainable Living Festival director Luke Taylor about his ambition for the festival that dares to mingle with “the mother of all issues” – the climate emergency. The interview was broadcasted in The Sustainable Hour on 8 February 2017. 5-minute radio interview with Luke Taylor about the
We learn from each other’s solutions
A revolution is happening under our noses: We’re watching a bright green coalition begin to build a future that makes sense in our lifetime. Wind energy is now cheaper than coal. The only thing standing in the way for a transition to clean energy and a safer climate is political