Australia is getting ready for Plastic-Free July – the countdown started today with a major supermarket chain stopping its handing out free single-use plastic bags. In The Sustainable Hour on 20 June 2018, we talk with Linda Grant, an education
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Green cleaning in a bubbling uprising
Wellness advocates Misty Barth from Witchy Brews and Sarah Bradford from Earth Love Gratitude are our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 13 June 2018. Colin Mockett shares his global outlook with us – today he examines the new Climate
The Regenerative Hour: Bring soils into the conversation
A regenerative hour about stable soil sinks versus ‘coke of the farming world’ – with Chris Balazs from Sage Farm, Cindy Eiritz from Healthy Soils, permaculture singer and songwriter Charlie Mgee from Formidable Vegetable Sound System, and Colin Mockett from
Upcycling, downshifting and climatically having a go
Guests in the Sustainable Hour no 218 are: Claire Ziegler, a member of Geelong Sustainability, the Repair Cafe in Highton and organiser of a World Environment Day event, and Colin Mockett, who is just back from Shanghai and has a
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
People-powered solutions saving on emissions and money
“Decarbonisation is the great task of our generation and Costa Rica must be one of the first countries in the world to accomplish it, if not the first.” ~ Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica, May 2018 Find out what
Bypassing the carbon paralysis
“The fossil fuel industry has become the public enemy number one. They are not paying for the destruction that they are causing. And that is one of the biggest subsidies to the industry.” ~ Dr John Iser, Victorian chair, Doctors
Waste is in the air
In The Sustainable Hour on 2 May 2018, Corio Waste Management CEO Ken Dickens shares his insight into the disruptions that are going on in the Australian recycling sector at the moment – a recording from Geelong Sustainability’s Green Drinks
Sow beauty and free energy, not pollution and destruction
Replacing Big Energy with community solar. Podcast about the community rebellion. Our guest in the sustainable studio on 25 April 2018 is Geelong Sustainability’s project manager Dan Cowdell, who has great news about ‘CORE Geelong One’ – a newly launched solar
Homage to Earth – and one lawyer’s call for action
Sunday 22 April is supposed to be Earth’s day and all about how we secure a future free of plastic pollution. Meanwhile, we, the human species on Earth, appear to have arrived at our ‘now-or-never moment’ as far as our