Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
How do we make Geelong into a more sustainable city? Ask the residents! “Sustainability is on everyone’s mind,” Simone Boer tells us, the project leader of Geelong Council’s ‘Our Future’ project. She is our guest in the studio in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 26 October 2016
In one week, on 4 November 2016, the Paris Agreement will go into effect. The world’s first universally adopted global climate agreement, uniting countries everywhere in fighting climate change. Australia hasn’t ratified the Agreement, which is symbolic of the cowardice position its government takes on the issue. Below is a
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
The greatest threat humanity has ever been confronted with is not climate change. It is us, human beings, and the way we have organised ourselves in democracies where money flows both openly and secretly back and forth between powerful commercial interests and members of our governments. The threat of climate
It is Sustainable House Day in Geelong region on Sunday 16 October 2016, and that is what The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse focuses on this Wednesday: Vicki Perrett, Sustainable House Day organiser, with home owners Susan Weymouth, Dan Cowdell and Dierijk Drent tell their stories. We also talk with Claire
In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 5 October 2016 we meet liberal ex-senator Peter Rae at the All-Energy 2016 conference for a talk about the federal government’s spin and mistruths around the renewable energy targets in South Australia and Victoria, and we talk about Reenergise Geelong’s new
In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 28 September 2016 we participate in a divestment action event at Vision Super’s headquarters, we hear about the climate emergency, and we jump of joy over the new climate change poll which shows that two thirds of Australians now want our
Our guests and speakers in The Sustainable Hour on 21 September 2016 are senator Janet Rice, marine ecologist Alastair Hirst, anti-fracking campaigner Naomi Hogan, and Dr Alex Teytelboym from Oxford University. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 140 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open or download this programme in
As it looks from our studio window at 94.7 The Pulse, this Sustainable Hour marks the beginning of a new era in Victoria where a fourth of all Australians from now on stand united with one common goal: a sustainable future. An era where our leaders and lawmakers stand up
Simone Boer and Tim Hellsten from City of Greater Geelong explain about the exciting ‘Our Future’ project which the city council launched on 1 September 2016 with an aim to create a conversation with at least 25,000 of the city’s residents. Future Super CEO Simon Sheikh grabs our radio relay