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
Tag: mobilisation
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 –
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
Community in the offing to stop Adani
Stephen Higgs, former principal of Ballarat Grammar, explains why he and the newly formed community alliance #StopAdani Geelong has set a goal to stop the construction of Adani’s $16 billion dollar coal mine in Queensland. But this is not just
Movement-wide climate petition collaboration
• Get wider exposure for your own petitions: add them to the list Whenever you launch a new petition or ready-to-send email campaign, add it to the embeddable list here: www.climatesafety.info/newpetition • Help other climate groups reach more people: embed
Speaking of how we can act on climate
Speeches held at the Act on Climate Festival opening night and film evening in Geelong in November 2015. On this page you have an opportunity to listen to thought-provoking and inspiring speeches held at two events where residents in Geelong
Advocacy for climate action gains momentum
In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 2 December 2015 we debrief the fantastic weekend of climate rallies around the world with speeches held recently in Geelong by the Minister for Climate in the Victorian Government, Lisa Neville,
Mobilising for the world’s biggest climate march ever
With Victoria McKenzie McHart, Australian Conservation Foundation’s climate manager, David Spratt, coordinator of The People’s Climate March in Melbourne, and Jack Nyhof, 14-year-old high school student, who spoke at the opening of the Act on Climate Festival in Geelong. Listen
The difference between a sand mine and a koala
The three headlines in the 98th Sustainable Hour on 11 November 2015: A You Yangs Protection Group is formed A new community campaign seeks to protect the You Yangs – a mountain area with forest and wildlife 20 minutes drive
Aiming for safety: Restoring the balance in our atmosphere
We have known about the problem for decades: The atmosphere is not an open sewer we can continue throwing 40 billion tonnes of carbon into every year without any consequences. Ignoring the problem, we have created a climate emergency. Now