While a Spring Rebellion disrupts Melbourne, author Matt Purbrick meets one of his readers, Megan Blair, for a talk about ‘Grown & Gathered’ and ‘The Village’
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Mik’s debut as a youtuber: The ‘Show me how’ series
Mik has picked up the video camera on his phone to start ‘youtubing’ about people in his city who are reducing their ecological footprint
The BBQ-moment for the climate emergency
We talk about the climate emergency’s BBQ-moment in The Sustainable Hour on 6 February 2018: a summer where the climate emergency for the first time is no longer a taboo to talk about at social gatherings
Headlines of good news we tend to overlook
In particular in the field of renewable energy, 2018 gave us many landmark moments and remarkable news headlines that called for optimism. Though frustratingly slowly, the story is changing.
A new model that makes the existing model obsolete
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller, American author (1895–1983) In The Sustainable Hour on 24 October 2018, we receive a
The art of turning a ship despite repeated leadership failures
Guest in The Climate Emergency Warming Room on 26 September is Rosemary Nugent from Humans in Geelong, who gives us all the details about the optimistic Humans’ expo which is held near Geelong Waterfront on Sunday 7 October. We talk
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
Liberating wind of change in Geelong region
An energetic Sustainable Hour where two friends of the wind – Friends of the Earth Melbourne’s Yes2Renewables coordinator Pat Simons and community-owned Hepburn Wind’s community manager Taryn Lane – help us bust a couple of industrial wind farm and power price myths,
Eco-loop dream a reality: energy saved, waste reduced
Be the difference: We have five extraordinary guests and speakers in The Sustainable Hour on 8 August 2018 who each are making a significant difference as innovators, pioneers and leaders in their respective fields – turning eco-loop dreams into reality,
First community-owned renewable energy plant in Geelong
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