Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 454 is Rob McBride who for a decade has fought for the protection of a river system against greed and corruption.
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Walking the talk with spades and sweat
The Sustainable Hour no 399 with Elly Tucker, Joe Barnes-Hill and David Maher from AusRegen and Olympic walker Rhydian Cowley.
Otways Subterranean National Park – a world’s first
Our studio guest in The Sustainable Hour on 4 March 2020 is Malcolm Gardiner from the Land & Water Resources Otway Catchments (LAWROC) Landcare group.
Sustainable water guidance in world of extreme heating
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 7 August 2019 is Derek Ryan from Transition Street Saleyards in North Geelong. His amazing Do-It-Yourself effort with storing and recycling water in his home is featured in our ‘Show Me How’ episode 4, ‘Storing and recyling passion in pipes’ Kate Sandle from
Beyond our water pipes
Future water security lay outside the usual water delivery infrastructure. In The Sustainable Hour on 11 July 2018, our guest is the Victorian Minister for Water and Police, the Hon Lisa Neville MP, who expands our vision on water in a talk about water efficiency and behaviour change, storm water,
200 reasons to celebrate sustainable leadership and vision
On 20 December 2017, we look back at the year that flew by as we celebrate rounding a corner: This is Geelong calling for the 200th time, providing sustainable insight, leadership and vision on 94.7 The Pulse, Geelong’s community radio. During the last four years, some 500 Geelong residents, business
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 engineer and talks on “our waterways as sponges, not drains”.
Water management as a solution to climate change
“Geelong needs creative leaders who can change what’s the norm,” Dr Sohail Inayatullah tells us in The Sustainable Hour on 22 February 2016, and in the studio, we have the privilege to spend the hour together with one such leader: Tracey Slatter, who is the new managing director of Barwon
Showing the love with louder calls for change
A teenager’s, a kayaker’s, a raingarden-maker’s and a festival leader’s call for change: In the Sustainable Hour on 8 February 2017 we talk with Luke Taylor, leader of the Sustainable Living Festival, about the festival’s ambitious call for strong climate action – and with professor Rob Skinner about what sustainable
As politics gets dumber, people and companies get smarter
The Sustainable Hour on 14 December 2016 looks at the rising electricity and water prices, an example of superb local sustainability leadership, climate action campaigning, plus… one of the “dumbest things” we have heard in federal politics in recent times. Interviews with Tony Overman, sustainability coordinator at Barwon Water, about