The Sustainable Board

Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 31 October 2018 is Ken Dickens, managing director of Corio Waste Management. Paul Wittwer explains that the National Day of Inaction on 30 November 2018 is actually a day of climate action. Australian school kids go on school strike tomorrow. We play an excerpt of a speech that Greta Thunberg gave in Helsinki, Finland, on 20 October 2018, and...

Teenagers pick up the torch – #TheTimeHasCome | Guest in The Sustainable Youth Hour is 19-year-old Alex Marshal who has picked up the torch from being 2017 School Captain of Sacred Heart College to becoming a climate emergency campaigner in Geelong and the Surf Coast...

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 themes for us, live on air. Two students at Kardinia International College, Laura Kelly and Jude Corbett, explain why they are helping organising a school strike for climate action in Geelong on 23 November. And Colin Mockett is back.

On the lookout for the sustainable anthem of 2018 “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’ for the youth revolution of 2018? We have selected 11 candidates – but to find the right one, we need to hear YOUR opinion: Which one is your…

A new model that makes the existing model obsolete: In The Sustainable Hour on 24 October 2018 we receive a letter from 14-year-old Harriet and Milou in Castlemaine, who are mobilising an Australian school strike for the climate, and our guest in the studio is Lis Bastian from ‘The Big Fix’, a successful community news outlet in the Blue Mountains, which possibly could be started up in our community as well. ...

The renewable turnaround time | Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 238 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 clips with the American professor of economics Jeffrey Sachs, energy investor Alex Turnbull, and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Sustainable Hour no 237 on 10 October 2018: Community opens its doors to sustainable housing | An hour about Sustainable House Day Geelong, the Sun Bear Festival in Anglesea, and more

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 236 on 3 October 2018 are Vicki Perrett, president of Geelong Sustainability and coordinator of Sustainable House Day Geelong, together with Peter Clapinski from Tiny Homes Geelong & Bellarine, for a talk about why he is so passionate about this idea to build tiny houses.

Kids on school strike, councillors in emergency mode | Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 12 September 2018 is Jackie Matthews from Suburban Scrap Solutions, a mum of five kids who gives educational talks in the community about recycling and the circular economy. www.scrapsolutions.com.au

Guest in The Sustainable Hour no 235 on 26 September 2018 is Rosemary Nugent from Humans in Geelong, who gives us all the details about the optimistic Humans’ expo which is held on 7 October. We talk sustainable coffee pods with Kayla Mossuto from Crema Joe. Regenerative farming with Jody Brown. We listen to Paul McCartney’s new climate song and a speech by the secretary-general of the United Nations. And more...

#YouthRevolution? #StopAdani? #Drawdown? Yep: #TheTimeHasCome | 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 guest in The Sustainable Hour no 234 on 19 September 2018, who explains how we will stop Adani, is Charlie Wood from Tipping Point and the #StopAdani movement’s Melbourne HQ...

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 232 on 5 September 2018 are Cindy Eiritz from Healthy Soils Australia, member of Citizens Climate Lobby and a regenerative farming researcher, and Lene Fogsgaard, a Danish journalist based in Melbourne. Greta Thunberg, 15-year-old Swedish student, was interviewed in Stockholm by Janine O’keffey...

Upcyclability and the idea that we can do better | Guest in the Sustainable Studio on 29 August 2018 is upcycle fashionista Diem Huong Young, founder of DHY Design which repurposes clothes in Torquay... [Click on photo to read more]

Liberating wind of change in Geelong region | An energetic 230th 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...

Eco-loop dream a reality: energy saved, waste reduced | We have five extraordinary guests and speakers in The Sustainable Hour no 228 on 8 August 2018 who each are making a significant difference as innovators, pioneers and leaders in their respective fields

Embracing a new messaging | Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 15 August 2018 is Maxine Bazeley of Teal Collaborative, who lives in Torquay and is a member of Surf Coast Energy Group. Click on photo to learn more about the podcast