Gilbert Rochecouste, the Melbourne-based agent of change who founded the world-renowned placemaking company Village Well, joins Mik in The Tunnel for a talk about what’s happening and where we need to go from here
Tag: mobilisation
Switching the narrative around
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 311 on 29 April 2020 are Damien Cole from Kindness Pandemic TV, James Conlan from Environment Victoria and Glenn Todd, director of Action Skills. Even though our individual habits have changed radically in the last month because of the pandemic, relatively little carbon emissions have
When an airborne catastrophe hangs over our heads, here’s what we do
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 27 June 2018 in order of appearance: • Colin Mockett’s global outlook • Josh Meadows, media and communication officer, Environmental Justice Australia, about the Beyond Coal and Gas Jamboree • Dr Chris Atmore, lawyer, author of Environmental Justice Australia’s report ‘Raising a Stink’ •
Clean energy rocks
The fossil fools in the Australian government can wave their lumps of coal in the parliamentarian chambers as much as they like. It won’t change a thing. Clean energy is moving in and taking over, simply because it is cheaper and better for all. The clean energy revolution is happening.
Did you meet the neo-peasants who moved in next door?
It’s all happening. Local residents are coming together, talking together, working together, creating solutions, building community resilience. Making it happen. We are getting off carbon. The decarboniser movement is spreading and morphing fast. It has different names, techniques, recipes and approaches. There’s the urban farmers. The organic neo-peasants. The permaculture
People-powered solutions saving on emissions and money
“Decarbonisation is the great task of our generation and Costa Rica must be one of the first countries in the world to accomplish it, if not the first.” ~ Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica, May 2018 Find out what the renewable energy revolution looks like from the inside. Today
Replacing Big Energy with community solar
The Geelong Community Solar Rebellion Why I am interested in this community solar program Interviews with Jen Fuller, Sheryl Biddle and Lindsey Fuller recorded after Alex Georgiou’s presentation at Geelong Library on 14 May 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
You know the transformation has started when…
You know that humanity is making positive steps to change our behaviour – and that the business community is beginning to speed up its transition away from polluting fossil fuels and plastic to clean, green energy in a recyclable and circular economy – when you hear and read statements from multinational
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
Becoming indigenous to place
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 6 September 2017 is Mark Dekker, who is an urban planner, organic farmer, youth outreach worker and Transition Street mobiliser. We also play a short excerpt from a speech held by the Victorian Minister for Local Government, Natalie Hutchins as Geelong’s ‘Clever and