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
Care is in the air
…and on air, not just in The Sustainable Hour, but finally now also in national news programs and documentaries on the channels of our public broadcasters. In The Sustainable Hour on 7 March 2018, we talk climate care with ACT’s
When zero waste makes business better
Our guests in the Sustainable Studio on 13 September 2017 are Barbara Ferrante, owner of Salon Eve in Geelong, and Krystina Birch, Sustainable Salons Australia’s Victorian representative. We visit Gayle English and Phil Slocombe at It’s Only Natural, an eco-friendly dry cleaning
Becoming indigenous to place
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 6 September 2017 is Mark Dekker, who is an urban planner, organic farmer, youth outreach worker and Transition Street mobiliser. We also play a short excerpt from a speech held by the Victorian
The slow fashion revolution of a creative city
Swap til you drop! On 7 June 2017, The Sustainable Hour goes in creative city mode and opens the door to an exciting new world of slow fashion: The latest trends in clothes upcycling, swapping and repairing. Conscious consumerism with
The transformative effect of cycling with neighbours across all ages
“We need to understand that we are together in this, and I think Cycling Without Age can actually bring that across.” ~ Dorthe Pedersen, co-founder of Cycling Without Age Transcript of interview with Dorthe Pedersen The Sustainable Hour on 94.7
Climate change: made by man – or made by men?
The Sustainable Hour on 8 March 2017, the International Women’s Day, with Suzette Jackson, Ninna Katrine Larsen and Thea Ormerod – and rally speeches by Dr Kate Lardner, Wendy Farmer and Cat Nadel. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 159 on
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