Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 31 July 2019 is Jackie Matthews. She’s also a co-host of the show, of course, but we feature her as our ‘guest’ today, because she is starting a Transition Streets group where she lives, and is an interviewee in the third episode of Mik’s ‘Show Me How’ series on YouTube, which we launch during the hour, after hearing about ‘Mik’s realisation’ in the second episode.We open the hour with a statement by Tony Wellington, mayor of Noosa – the first town in Queensland to declare a climate emergency. A big welcome back to Colin Mockett, who gives us the Global Outlook with a focus on the situation in United Kingdom today, as he has just returned from there, and also reporting on record-breaking tree planting in Ethiopia.Coming back to Denmark, Lene Outzen Foghsgaard was surprised how much has happened there with the bins and the sorting of litter. The Danish government has announced that by 2022, all councils have to recycle at least 50 per cent of their waste. And because food leftovers constitute a large part of this, the Danes now have to sort the organic material into a new green bin, which then eventually is turned into biogas. Biogas is considered to be carbon neutral, green energy. Lene talked with Pia and Per, two of the residents in her municipality.Sir David Attenbough appears before a parliamentary commission and says we are not being radical enough on the climate crisis. We play a musical manifest by Greta Thunberg and The 1975s who calls for civil disobedience and rebellion to tell politicians to act on the climate crisis, and we end with a speech for nature by Harrison Ford. More below.

“It is now time for civil disobedience. It is now time to rebel.”~ Greta Thunberg, Swedish teenager and climate action advocate

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