The launch event of a 520 solar system at MACS – Multicultural Aged Care Services in West Geelong – in July 2018 marked the completion of a four-year dream to create a large-scale solar project in Geelong. Listen to an excerpt
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Clean energy rocks
The fossil fools in the Australian government can wave their lumps of coal in the parliamentarian chambers as much as they like. It won’t change a thing. Clean energy is moving in and taking over, simply because it is cheaper
People-powered solutions saving on emissions and money
“Decarbonisation is the great task of our generation and Costa Rica must be one of the first countries in the world to accomplish it, if not the first.” ~ Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica, May 2018 Find out what
Replacing Big Energy with community solar
The Geelong Community Solar Rebellion Why I am interested in this community solar program Interviews with Jen Fuller, Sheryl Biddle and Lindsey Fuller recorded after Alex Georgiou’s presentation at Geelong Library on 14 May 2018 . . . . .
Our journey towards free energy
“Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.” ~ Al Gore, former American Vice-President
Sow beauty and free energy, not pollution and destruction
Replacing Big Energy with community solar. Podcast about the community rebellion. Our guest in the sustainable studio on 25 April 2018 is Geelong Sustainability’s project manager Dan Cowdell, who has great news about ‘CORE Geelong One’ – a newly launched solar
You know the transformation has started when…
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
Renters going solar and a regenerative gruffalo
In The Sustainable Hour on 13 December 2017, we talk about Tony’s trip last week to the front line in the battle against the Adani coal mine in Queensland. Tony interviewed 71-year-old Audrey Cooke about why she locked herself on
Renewables now cheapest of all – and at times even utterly free
We are in a dead-serious race against time when it comes to stopping our pollution of the atmosphere. Equally important is to share and spread the knowledge about how fast things are actually progressing in the right direction towards a
The renewable energy revolution is happening
Guest in The Sustainable Studio on 11 October 2017 is Dan Cowdell from Geelong Sustainability. He is the project coordinator of Geelong’s first investor-financed community energy project. We also talk with Tom Hunt who is member of Citizens’ Climate Lobby,