Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 397 are: Jasper Pittard and Tom Campbell from AFL Players for Climate Action and Belinda Baggs and Linley Hurrell from Surfers for Climate
Tag: Surf Coast
Momentum for koalas, surfers, athletes and nature
The Sustainable Hour no 339 with Janine Duffy, president of the Koala Clancy Foundation, Belinda Baggs, founder of Surfers for Climate, and Craig Foster, the face of soccer for many years on SBS News.
Vote the difference
Guests in The Tunnel on 12 August 2020 are local government election candidate Monica Winston, climate activist Caroline Danaher, community survey initiator Sanja Van Huet and Councillor Trent McCarthy from Darebin City Council.
Surf Coast Shire Council has declared a climate emergency
In this video, Surf Coast community campaigner Alex Marshall explains why she is excited about her Council’s decision – and what she believes it will mean for children, youth and adult residents in the coastal municipality. Geelong Councillors ask: “What do you think Geelong?” Geelong Councillor Anthony Aitken wrote on
Pivotal point for transformation
Surf Coast Shire Council has declared a climate emergency – we talk with Alex Marshall who helped make it happen. Ben Shaw and Mark Randall are guests in the studio.
Help make our community’s climate action more visible
The Victorian parliament is wanting inputs on how our communities are responding to the existential threat of climate breakdown. They would like to hear about which actions people and organisations in the local communities are taking to reduce emissions in an effort to limit the magnitude of long-term global warming
In an emergency we all need to be playing our part
In The Sustainable Hour on 24 July 2019, Mik wears a new hat as a “youtuber” as he launches a new visual direction for the program – and for the Transition Streets movement in Geelong. Our guest in the studio is Monica Winston, who is coordinator of Transition Streets Geelong.
The climate emergency declaration hour
The Sustainable Hour’s special one-hour report on the global movement of local governments declaring a climate emergency
Changing the climate paradigm
When it comes to climate change, “we are suffering a dearth of vision and political will,” says ‘the accidental councillor’ David Bell, an organic farmer who recently was appointed as the new mayor of Surf Coast Shire. “Let’s change the paradigm of what we do with our politicians,” he suggests
Ten Stars to community repowering and clever housing
Today we talk community renewables, clever housing and star rating systems in The Sustainable Hour as the communities around Geelong and the Surf Coast are charging up for an energy transformation which is both clever and economical. “The key to a comfortable house with no bills is knowledge, not money.”