Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 9 January 2018 are: Melanie Humphrey (Boomerang Bags), Lane Crockett (Impact Investment), Kim Drew (Op Shop Sacred Heart), Chris Balazs (Sage Farm), and more
Tag: recycling
Synchronised inaction and a recycling convention
Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 31 October 2018 is Ken Dickens, managing director of Corio Waste Management. Paul Wittwer explains that the National Day of Inaction on 30 November 2018 is actually a day of climate action. Australian school kids go on school strike tomorrow. We play an excerpt
Kids on school strike, councillors in emergency mode
A podcast hour about what happens when we adults – as the school-striking climate campaign oracle Greta Thunberg requests in Sweden – begin to talk about the climate crisis as the global emergency it really is. In this hour, we learn about being aware and about how to keep our emergency messaging
Groundswell of zero waste living
Australia is getting ready for Plastic-Free July – the countdown started today with a major supermarket chain stopping its handing out free single-use plastic bags. In The Sustainable Hour on 20 June 2018, we talk with Linda Grant, an education officer based in Hamilton for the Barwon South West Waste
Waste is in the air
In The Sustainable Hour on 2 May 2018, Corio Waste Management CEO Ken Dickens shares his insight into the disruptions that are going on in the Australian recycling sector at the moment – a recording from Geelong Sustainability’s Green Drinks event in March. The countdown to breaking our old habits
Ready to recycle, #BanTheBag and #StopAdani
With the National Recycling Week coming up on 13 November, we talk about waste and recycling in The Sustainable Hour on 8 November 2017. Our guest in the studio is education officer Darby Munro from City of Greater Geelong Waste Services. We talk with Queensland farmer Bruce Currie about coal
Climate and coal: It is when we get together real action begins
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 5 April 2017 are Steven Reddington, senior environmental planner at Barwon Water, Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald, new editor of Slow Magazine, Danny Kennedy, and managing director of the California Clean Energy Fund. We also play a clip from this week’s Q&A on ABC with federal energy
Citizens getting involved in waterways and our future
In The Sustainable Hour on 9 November 2016 we talk with State Waterwatch Coordinator Deirdre Murphy (left) and State EstuaryWatch Coordinator Rose Herben about the two citizen science programs and their new websites. And we talk with Tom O’Connor about the Committee for Bellarine and their Future Forum on Saturday
Celebration of our circular future – and a three-year-old’s birthday
How do we make Geelong into a more sustainable city? Ask the residents! “Sustainability is on everyone’s mind,” Simone Boer tells us, the project leader of Geelong Council’s ‘Our Future’ project. She is our guest in the studio in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 26 October 2016
Season’s greetings from the carbon frontier
In the 103rd Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 9 December 2015, we talk with Alison Marchant from Frack Free Moriac and Lock the Gate about the 200-page inquiry report on fracking which a commission has put together for the Victorian government. What is the outcome? Will we see