On 5 February 2013, The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse embarked on an ‘Eco-Energy Quest’ together with Surf Coast councillor Eve Fisher who just returned from a study tour which took her to the United States, Canada, Germany and Denmark to look at options for community renewable energy generation. She met with leaders of a people-powered energy reform, and in Colorado she saw the consequences of fracking.
“If there’s a world here in a hundred years, it’s going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.”
Pete Seeger (1919–2014)
Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 11:
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Excerpts from the programme
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Excerpt 1:
The 13-minute section of the radio show where Eve Fisher talks about fracking:
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Excerpt 2:
The 10-minute section of the radio show where Eve Fisher talks about Denmark:
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Mentioned in the programme
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» Eve Fisher’s blog, ‘Energised Communities’: www.evefisher.com
» The Sydney Morning Herald – 9 January 2014:
New low-cost, high-energy batteries could be powered by rhubarb, plants
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Community Energy links
An incomplete list of Australian community energy initiatives and funding projects, listed in alphabetic order:
100% Renewable
» www.100percent.org.au
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Alternative Energy Association
» www.ata.org.au
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Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia
» www.corenafund.org.au
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Clean Energy for Eternity
» http://cleanenergyforeternity.net.au/
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Coalition for Community Energy
» c4ce.net.au
» www.fundcommunityenergy.org
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Community Owned Renewable Energy
» www.core.futureplans.org.au
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Earthworker Cooperative
» www.earthworker.org
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Embark
» www.embark.com.au
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Energetic Communities
» www.energeticcommunities.org.au
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Energy for the People
» www.energyforthepeople
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Solar Citizens
» www.solarcitizens.org.au
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The Sunrise Project
» www.sunriseproject.org.au
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Yes 2 Renewables
» www.yes2renewables.org
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Sustainability Expo in Geelong
Saturday 8 February 2014 at 10:00am–1:00pm
GPAC in Geelong, Victoria, Australia
» Facebook event-page: www.facebook.com
» For more information about the festival go to: www.slf.org.au
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Music
These were the songs we played in The Sustainable Hour on 5 February 2014:
► Formidable Vegetable Sound System: ‘No such thing as waste’
Formidable Vegetable Sound System is a three-piece band from Fremantle, which puts gently funny lyrics about living a permaculture lifestyle. Mgee who writes the music and lyrics and plays ukelele says: “This is a way to make sustainability fun.”
» music.formidablevegetable.com.au/track/no-such-thing-as-waste
» Download from: music.formidablevegetable.com.au/music
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► Leo Sayer and The Aussies Against Fracking Allstars: ‘No Fracking Way’
Published on youtube.com on 16 December 2013.
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► Patti Smith: ‘People Have the Power’
Published on youtube.com on 9 February 2012.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMVmgK5CE24
► Pete Seeger: ‘If It Can’t Be Reduced’
A Mark Gagliardi quote which Pete Seeger turned into a song: “If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.”
► Listen to Pete Seeger explain about it here
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