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For a productive and happy 2023 as we push – and sing and dance – for the transformation towards a zero-carbon lifestyle and climate safety:
We play some of the best climate songs we aired in The Sustainable Hour during 2022, along with a couple of good old ‘enviro-classics’ and a completely fresh one. Presented by Anthony Gleeson, Colin Mockett and Mik Aidt.
Why singing and dancing is important and can play a very special role was explained well by an Aboriginal elder, when she spoke at the Wullumbin Festival in 2004, saying: “Normally, we follow roads that are already there. But that’s the wrong way. When you walk, you have to send the landscape – and the road – out of yourself. In order to help this form, we carry on the ritual singing and dancing.”
No roads have been built yet to where we need to go as a society. Meanwhile a frightening landscape of climate destruction and collapse is building up in the horison. And as the American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller suggested: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
In 2023, thought-leaders and activists in the climate movement need to begin sending a new landscape – and an entirely new road – out of themselves. In order to help this form, we are reminded of the significant role that music always plays in any transformation or revolution.
If you think there was a song we forgot to play, please put it in the comments field below so we can play it in The Sustainable Hour during 2023.
With this, we wish you a happy and joyous New Year.
“Unite in a national effort to save from destruction all that makes life itself worth living.”
~ MacKenzie King, former Canadian Prime Minister
“We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action.”
~ Ban ki-Moon, General-Secretary of the United Nations, in 2011
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“Normally, we follow roads that are already there. But that’s the wrong way. When you walk, you have to send the landscape – and the road – out of yourself. In order to help this form, we carry on the ritual singing and dancing.”
~ Aboriginal elder, speaking at the Wullumbin Festival in 2004
We at The Sustainable Hour would like to pay our respect to the traditional custodians of the land on which we
are broadcasting, the Wathaurong People, and pay our respect to their elders, past, present and future.
The traditional owners lived in harmony with the land. They nurtured it and thrived in often harsh conditions for millenia before they were invaded. Their land was then stolen from them – it wasn’t ceeded. It is becoming more and more obvious that, if we are to survive the climate emergency we are facing, we have much to learn from their land management practices.
Our battle for climate justice won’t be won until our First Nations brothers and sisters have their true justice. When we talk about the future, it means extending our respect to those children not yet born, the generations of the future – remembering the old saying that, “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.”
The decisions currently being made around Australia to ignore the climate emergency are being made by those who won’t be around by the time the worst effects hit home. How disrespectful and unfair is that?
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“Saying ‘it’s not my revolution if I can’t dance’ is something I’ve held close for the entire time I’ve worked on climate. Not only does it link to my dance roots, but it’s also a reminder to have fun: fun is an essential part of creating change.”
~ Nicky Ison, energy transition manager, WWF Australia (Together We Can, p. 291)
→ The Sustainable Hour’s Youtube-playlist currently contains 212 climate and sustainability-related songs
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Playlist
The didgeridoo music after the program jingle is Doug Maxwell’s ‘Running Through The Forest’.
The 13 songs we play are all available on Youtube. Here is the list:
Hopscotch: ‘Climate Change Song’
Paul McCartney: ‘Despite Repeated Warnings’
Joni Mitchell: ‘Big Yellow Taxi’
Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton: ‘Big Yellow Taxi’
Michael Franti & Spearhead: ‘Good to Be Alive Today’ (Acoustic Remix)
“Good to be Alive” is a song about gratitude. A song to remind us of the good in the world, on the days when our souls are rocked by all of the bad news that surrounds us. A reminder to be grateful for all we have, at the same time, to tenaciously stand behind things in life that serve the greater good — getting one step closer to a world where EVERYONE can all say “it’s good to be alive today.”
~ Michael Franti, May 2016
Sam Garrett & Mollie Mendoza: ’Mama’
Kacey Musgraves: ’Oh, What a World 2.0’ (Earth Day Edition)
Billie Eilish: ‘All Good Girls Go To Hell’
Peter Garrett’s rant at Woodside during a Perth concert
Midnight Oil: ’Beds are Burning’
Anneli Kamfer: ‘Eve of Destruction’
Formidable Vegetable & Spoonbill: ‘Climate Movement’
Lil Dicky: ’Earth’ (clean version)
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