The Sustainable Hour no 330

In our Hiatus Tunnel on 2 September 2020, we have three dynamic people who are all passionate community solution seekers.

Founder of the Climate Factory Edwina Robinson tells us how her not-for-profit creates cool outdoor havens. Their community based decision-making process can be rolled out anywhere using locally sourced plants.

Dean O’Callaghan – also known as Deano Goodbrew – is the founder, CEO and Abundance Generator at Goodbrew Kombucha. Deano regales us in his unique way about how his team operates as a greater-world-values driven corporation. We also learn how the ideas for new flavours for his probiotics come to him. We are sure that you’ll agree with us that Deano is a truly unique and very likeable character.

“We can set the narrative,” says climate activist Dan Bleakley as he shows us yet another solution focusing on the use of social media to educate people about the extent of political corruption and the tangled web they weave with fossil fuel companies. Dan is part of a group called Access Disrupt. They have started producing memes on Twitter – tiles which highlight individual politicians and what they are doing that is cause for concern. Long may this continue, till we repair our political system in Australia.

In this week’s Global Outlook, Colin Mockett firstly takes us back to Mauritius where we see further consequences to the horrible oil spill from the Japanese ship that ran aground there. Following this, he reveals the shocking conclusions that came out of a combined study by a number of English universities using NASA satellite imagery over a 30-year period. Finally, he brings us home and highlights the extent to which our current federal government government is prepared to go to support fossil fuel projects. Support which in fact flies in the face of the science that is screaming out to us that we must stop digging up, transporting and burning fossil fuels.The Australian-British band Harriet Comfort calls for us to join the rebellion as they launch their new single this week, ‘Time Is Now’.

Till we return next week, Geelong and district residents and ratepayers, remember to follow our four women Gas Free Geelong candidates in the City of Greater Geelong elections in October. They are looking for volunteers who’ll support them with getting their campaign known in our community. Time has come for us to engage with our friends, colleagues and neighbours to #VoteTheDifference.

“People know there is a lot of fossil fuel corruption out there, however it’s really hard to grasp how much there is because you never see all together. That’s why we created Access Disrupt. We synthesise complex issues down into easily digestible memes and threads.”~ Dan Bleakley, climate activist and co-founder Access Disrupt

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