Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 27 February 2019 are: [20:50] Judy Hassel, organiser of the Sustainable Living Show in Queenscliffe on 23 March 2019. [33:04] Brianne West, founder of the beauty products company Ethique, who talks about how we
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Starting small and working our way up
An existential Sustainable Hour with James McLennan, education program manager at The Farmer’s Place and ResourceSmart Schools coordinator, talking about climate change, leadership, kids with ‘nature deficit disorder’, the idea of taking fossil fuel executives bushwalking and how 60 out
Climate change means water change
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on World Water Day on 22 March 2017 are: Ernesto Sanchez, worm farmer and permaculture enthusiast, Taryn Lane from Hepburn Wind who runs a community-funded hydro project, and Steve Posselt who is a water
Life after growth requires closer relationship to natural resources
Migration to the cities of the world and declining respect for craftsmanship has distanced us from nature. When people no longer live close to nature or work with its resources, they lose respect for it. This has paved the way
Green communities a driving force for change
Communities can become the driving force behind the concrete changes that our planet is so badly in need of. A multiplicity of joint initiatives is a good antidote for the feeling of powerlessness and incapacity, including the incapacity that leads
Builders of sustainability and frugal hedonism
In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 19 October 2016 we meet Dave Martin, a sustainable builder who started Small Giants and a concept of ‘sustainable apprenticeship’, we talk with Annie Raser-Rowland about her new book, ‘The Art
Sustainable business excellence a matter of love
“Love what you do,” it says in big letters on the wall in the café at The Farmer’s Place. And this is the starting point for farmer, business man and entrepreneur Robert Pascoe, the owner of the place – and
Live well and have fun with sustainability
In the 63th Sustainable Hour we learn that the core of sustainability is just as much about connecting with your local community, having fun and living well as it is about protecting the environment and caring about our carbon pollution.
City of Greater Geelong endorses the One Planet Living principles
In the evening on 28 October 2014, Geelong’s Council approved a new Environment Management Strategy. It was a cheerful moment for both the councillors and the local residents who had been following and influencing the process. The paper has been
The Sustainable Hour about energy, people and power
On 5 February 2013, The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse embarked on an ‘Eco-Energy Quest’ together with Surf Coast councillor Eve Fisher who just returned from a study tour which took her to the United States, Canada, Germany and