Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
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 engineer and talks on “our waterways as sponges, not drains”.
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 for thoughtless overconsumption and the perception that economic growth equals
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 us to accept world leaders’ procrastination, writes Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen from
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 of Frugal Hedonism’, and Robert Skehan from Plastic Bag Free
“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 winner of 2015 Geelong Business Excellence Award for Sustainable Business.
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. Guest in the studio: • Trish Clayton from Barwon Heads
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 almost three years on the way, because it has been
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 Denmark to look at options for community renewable energy generation.
Rodney Thomas, Manager of City of Greater Geelong’s Environment & Waste Services, was guest in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 22 January 2014. He talked about Geelong’s new environment strategy, which has been published in a draft version, still open for comments from the citizens of Geelong.
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