Citizens’ Climate Conventions – also known as citizens’ assemblies on climate – are emerging as the new norm for legitimate and quality decision-making in many democratic forums around the world. Is the climate movement paying attention?
Tag: solutions
Deepening democracy
Deepening democracy: Our guests in ‘The Tunnel’ today are Anna Langford from Friends of the Earth Melbourne and Sonia Randhawa from the Sortition Foundation and Coalition of Everyone.
Victories of a gardening culture
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no 314 on 20 May is David Holmgren, co-founder of the permaculture movement, and author of ‘RetroSuburbia’, a guide to life in a post-carbon world.
Intensive learning programs online
Take your sustainability knowledge and practice to the next level with one of GreenLight’s online sustainability master classes.
We will come out stronger than ever
“It’s a time for inventing, for creativity.” ~ Pope Francis – “We will come out stronger than ever.” ~Mike Bloomberg
Heidi Fog: Emergency call and solutions from Australia
Carbon consultant Heidi Fog’s 10 suggestions for doable ways to cut your own individual carbon footprint in half.
Speaking of drawdown (2): Our roles as ‘Personal leaders’
Speech by David Spear, the Executive Officer of Geelong Sustainability’s brand new social enterprise called GreenLight.
Speaking of drawdown (1): What role might I play?
How we can affect our climate change future? At Geelong Sustainability’s Clever Living Seminar on 3 March 2020 at the Geelong Library, David Spear, CEO of Greenlight, and Gene Blackley, director of Drawdown Australia presented their answers to that question.
First responders seize their Coldplay moment
In The Sustainable Hour on 4 December 2019, Mik Aidt has just returned from a speaker-trip in New Zealand, where he talked about the emerging ‘Pause Movement’ and the impact which a wave of ‘Coldplay Moments’ could trigger
Mayors of 94 cities recognise global climate emergency
Listen to some of the remarkable speeches at the C40 World Mayors Summit 2019 in Copenhagen