Liquid Natural Gas, LNG, is a dangerous substance. This new film from Geelong Renewables Not Gas shows just how dangerous it is and which areas of Geelong could be impacted if there is an incident.
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Geelong’s future is in renewables – not risky gas
In The Sustainable Hour no 382, Sal Fisher and Garth Norman from Geelong Renewables Not Gas explain why a proposed gas import terminal will put residents at risk
Petition peak moment, community power and The Bentley Effect
Reports from a climate emergency petition peak moment in Canberra, a congress about community power in Melbourne, and from New South Wales where the so-called ‘Bentley Effect’ has been transforming local communities. Welcome to the Sustainable Hour on 1 March
Dear environment minister, it’s time for simple logic to dictate your policies
Jackray Black wrote on 29 March 2016: Last night in the middle of the night I woke and couldn’t go back to sleep, ruminating on the low point we witnessed last night on ABC Television. Greg Hunt, in response to
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
Call for a risk assessment by our leaders
Could this ‘Wise Response’ appeal from New Zealand show a model which could be copy-pasted and translated in your country? Tackling the threats of climate change by transitioning our society to a zero-carbon energy production really shouldn’t be a political
World leaders: ‘No, we will not get our act together’
In this blog-post I explain why — in our efforts to create climate safety — I believe we must focus less on our politicians and more on the public, the popular and the personal. In particular the youth movements and
Someone must take the lead
[Danish version below] When it comes to covering the climate crisis and global warming in the media, we believe public service broadcasters could take the lead now. This is the very essence of the concept of ‘public service’: to do