Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 514 is energy analyst Tim Buckley talking about the transition to renewable energy.
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Engaging communities in the transition
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no 494 are Ty Christopher from Energy Futures Network, Laura Grufas from Parents for Climate, Jacqui Dunn from One Planet Festival, and Josh Kirkman from Surfers for Climate
Deep emissions reduction: How we will do it
Professor Andrew Blakers’ presentation about how Australia gets to 100% renewables and storage.
Steps forward at recycling and relearning solidarity
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 315 are Geelong Councillor Ron Nelson, chair of Council’s Waste & Resource Recovery committee, and Clare Land, author of the recently released book, ‘Decolonising Solidarity’
Election candidates discuss climate and renewables
“Climate change is a political choice.” ~ Mike Smyth, Chair of Energy4All, speaking at the Community Energy Conference in the United Kingdom in 2015 If you are going to vote in the Victorian state election, which is just around the corner now, we hope you will spend a bit
The renewable turnaround time
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 17 October 2018 are Damien Cole – a surfer, campaigner against oil drilling in the Bight and independent South Barwon candidate in the November state election – and Peter Cowling, Vesta’s Country Head for Australia and New Zealand. We also play a clip with
Liberating wind of change in Geelong region
An energetic Sustainable Hour where two friends of the wind – Friends of the Earth Melbourne’s Yes2Renewables coordinator Pat Simons and community-owned Hepburn Wind’s community manager Taryn Lane – help us bust a couple of industrial wind farm and power price myths, along with how best to respond to the various ‘visual
Groundswell of zero waste living
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 officer based in Hamilton for the Barwon South West Waste
It’s time to take charge
In the sustainable studio on 4 April 2018: • Heinz Dahl, sustainability consultant and wind energy expert • Charlie van Dongen, electronic electrical engineer, principal of CTO Australia • Bill Yates, community mobiliser in Victoria’s south-west • Excerpt of TEDtalk by Naomi Klein, Canadian author Listen to The Sustainable Hour
Renewables now cheapest of all – and at times even utterly free
We are in a dead-serious race against time when it comes to stopping our pollution of the atmosphere. Equally important is to share and spread the knowledge about how fast things are actually progressing in the right direction towards a new, sustainable energy era. Below are some recent examples. The