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“The young people of Australia look to the actions of the government in this place, and they are revolted.” (…) “You have underestimated the young people of this nation.” ~ Senator Jordon Steele-John “What we want is more learning in schools, and less activism in schools.” ~ Prime Minister Scott
A three-minute report from the ‘school strike’ for climate action in Geelong, Australia, with interviews with some of the students who bravely walked out from their different schools in Geelong on Friday 23 November 2018. The #FridaysForFuture action took place in front of Labor member of federal parliament Richard Marles’
“You are always telling us kids to clean up after ourselves, so now it’s your turn. We are coming to remind you to tidy up your mess. And we will only get louder.”~ Nora, Year 6 student at Forest Lodge Public School In the lead up to the first-ever #SchoolStrike4Climate
Half way through the National Recycling Week, our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 14 November 2018 is singer Wayne Jury who is also head of waste reduction at Queenscliff Music Festival, coming up on 23 November. He has brought his guitar with him and performs two songs with sustainability
“If you want to join us in striking, you could walk out of school, like us, in November and go and sit outside a politician’s office with your own climate strike sign,” writes Harriet and Milou, who – inspired by the 15-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg and her #ClimateStrike which
“The time has come!” The sustainable revolution is happening, and the youth are coming out – making sit-ins and going on school strike for the climate. So we’re saying: Just like the youth revolution back in the 1960s had its anthems, where is the ‘sustainable anthem’ or ‘climate action song’
“If grown-ups don’t give a shit about my future, I won’t either.” ~ Greta Thunberg “I don’t care if I get into trouble at school. I believe that one person can make a difference.” ~ Greta Thunberg, 15-year-old Swedish student on school strike for the climate Imagine if students or
“The time has come / to pay our share.” ~ Midnight Oil, ‘Beds Are Burning’, 1987 The time has come… for a youth revolution, for carbon drawdown and for keeping the climate-wrecking fossils in the ground – which means putting a full stop to the Adani coal megamine in Queensland. Our
A podcast hour about what happens when we adults – as the school-striking climate campaign oracle Greta Thunberg requests in Sweden – begin to talk about the climate crisis as the global emergency it really is. In this hour, we learn about being aware and about how to keep our emergency messaging
We had planned to present you with an hour about regenerative farming practices, healthy soils and carbon drawdown solutions. But then the Swedish teenage-oracle Greta Thunberg stepped into our lives, and The Sustainable Hour on 5 September 2018 morphed into a podcast about climate anxiety among the youth and a