Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
On United Nations’ International Youth Day, The Sustainable Hour gives voice to an intergenerational call for climate action. In brief: Grandparents for a Safe Earth’s advice to the youth: get involved! Alan Barlee’s advice to the elders: divest! Guest in
Listen to this week’s news bulletin from Jack Nyhof in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse: 12 August 2015 was the United Nations’ International Youth Day, and inspired by this, Jack Nyhof also produced this special report from Geelong
Seed is Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network and is part of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition which has 120,000 members. The youth is shaking the tree! In the 82nd Sustainable Hour on 22 July 2015 on 94.7 The Pulse,
Why is Pope Francis’ teaching letter, the encyclical, so significant? Because it has brought the questions around not just climate change, but to Australians more specifically coal mining and onshore gas mining into the moral’s sphere of the total element
Kids Teaching Kids is a great idea. It aims to inspire future environmental leaders by connecting and challenging students with real world issues, inspiring them to want to know more. This is how it works: First give school students the
24,000 Australian teachers have signed up to ‘Cool Australia’, a non-profit website that provides inspirational material to schools and caters the students’ thirst for knowledge about how to be smart, clean and efficient. Close to 20,000 teachers are regular users
An hour around The People’s Solar and ‘green teams’ from two schools in Geelong. Guests in the studio: • Alex Houlston, Energy for the People • Aaron Lewtas, Surf Coast Energy Group • Alex Aidt, 9 years, member of the
“Let’s make sustainability fun!”. “It’s got to be about action!” These were two of the numerous suggestions by four speakers who gave inspriring presentations at the event ‘Sustainability in schools – preparing the next generation’ in Geelong on 28 May
Where are the really good sustainable ideas for teachers and students? Did you hear about the “sustainanator”-idea from Geelong East Primary School? (If not, listen here or see below on this page). Could that be an idea which other schools