“One of the main drivers of our climate and biodiversity crisis is land use, specifically agriculture. It is a key area people need to understand – this is really important for everybody.” ~ Shane Ward, Action Ecology
Tag: nature
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: At home in the universe
Our guest in the second episode of ‘Regenerative Hours’ is Dr Geoff Berry for a talk about our relationship with nature, the search for 21st century ethics, and the concept of “being at home in the universe”.
Change the climate: Youth, art and a river walk
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 19 June 2019: Alex Marshall calls for community support to get Surf Coast Council to vote for a climate emergency declaration on their 25 June meeting. 19-year-old Alex has been driving a petition which got more than 1,000 signatures in just a few
Soil, rivers and drones of the Climate Spring
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 29 May 2019 are: Lorna Martin – Permaculture Geelong co-founderLachlan Gordon – Friends of the Barwon, andCameron Steele – People for A Living Moorabool We also play a clip from a press meeting in Heathrow Airport, where four members of Extinction Rebellion announced
Global school strike: History in the making
The Sustainable Hour on 6 March 2019 is about two coming events: the global school strike on 15 March and the Nature Forum in Geelong on 16 March
Working with nature to cultivate system change
We had planned to present you with an hour about regenerative farming practices, healthy soils and carbon drawdown solutions. But then the Swedish teenage-oracle Greta Thunberg stepped into our lives, and The Sustainable Hour on 5 September 2018 morphed into a podcast about climate anxiety among the youth and a
Act for responsibility in wave of bird extinction
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 1 August 2018 is Craig Morley from Geelong Field Naturalists Club, who is joined on the phone by Sean Dooley, editor of Australian Birdlife, which is published by Birdlife Australia. We talk recycling and plastic pollution with Kirsty Bishop-Fox, Zero Waste Victoria, co-organiser
Our understanding of the global commons is key
“There is no space left on Earth for egoism.” ~ Naoko Ishii, environmental policy expert from Japan It can’t be said more clearly. This TED-conference presentation by Naoko Ishii – a Japanese environmental policy expert who leads the Global Environment Facility, a public financial institution that provides around US$1 billion
Starting small and working our way up
An existential Sustainable Hour with James McLennan, education program manager at The Farmer’s Place and ResourceSmart Schools coordinator, talking about climate change, leadership, kids with ‘nature deficit disorder’, the idea of taking fossil fuel executives bushwalking and how 60 out of the 250 schools in Barwon South-West are hugely benefitting
Eco-youth and eco-tourism: capturing two birds with one phone
Our first guest in The Sustainable Hour on 25 October 2017 is the Geelong-based author and columnist Trevor Pescott who presents his new book, ‘Birds and Botanists: A field naturalist’s history of Geelong’. We play an excerpt of a speech Annie Raser-Rowland, author of ‘The Art of Frugal Hedonism’, gave