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The huge turnout at the ‘Shut It Down’ rally and march on 10 August 2014 signaled the end of Anglesea coal social licence, which a group of children literally shredded to pieces during the event. In the 38th Sustainable Hour we play audio-excerpts of four of the anti-coal speakers: Leigh
A board on Tasmania is about to make a big decision. Should they invest in a two-billion-dollar wind farm on King Island? A fossil-fuel funded lobby group has managed to create a major drama around the board’s proposed decision, and the Federal Government is reviewing the country’s Renewable Energy Target
On 27 April 2014, 94.7 The Pulse broadcasted live – powered by a biogas generator – from the Renew Geelong Picnic 2014 in Geelong’s Eastern Park, where over 150 citizens gathered to celebrate Earth Day and its Green Cities theme of this year. In the 30th edition of The Sustainable Hour
In Geelong, the annual budget was adopted as a draft at a city council meeting on 13 April 2014. The new budget means cuts to the council’s sustainability initiative, Future Proofing Geelong. The federal government released the budget for the nation as a whole on the same day. The national
In this Earth Day Special on 23 April 2014, The Sustainable Hour explores what our relationship with the natural world means, what we can learn from looking at old civilisations that collapsed, and from traditional, indigenous people. How moving from the ‘take, make and waste’ mentality to a ‘borrow, use
Dancing with Cs. Science confronts us with a question dominated by the letter C: Can we curb carbon emissions with clean energy in time to combat catastrophic climate change? The answer not only blows in the wind but is also full of compelling cs because of communities and citizens who
Okay. So the news is out. ‘Climate change – it’s here’. Front cover headlines. ‘UN: Climate change threatens billions of people’. For a day, the release of the latest UN-report gave climate change a comeback on the front pages of many national newspapers around the world, the Age included. So
While over a million Australian house-owners have placed solar panels on their roof, only very few community-owned renewable energy projects have been launched, for instance where citizens buy a share in a wind farm or a larger solar power plant. Around 40 communities in Australia are currently looking into the
“Renew Geelong!”, everyone says – but how? For a start by creating a new narrative around how we deal with the employment crisis that Geelong is currently experiencing. In Chinese writing, the word ‘crisis’ is made up of two signs – one for ‘danger’ and one for ‘opportunity’. In The
The sky over Geelong is covered with dark clouds, but in the radio studio at 94.7 The Pulse during this hour it is going to be sunny – talking solar power, megawatts and feed-in tarifs up and down the walls. Because: What is it with solar and harnessing the sun,