Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 23 October 2019 is artist and radio host Zahidah Zeytoun Millie who is organising a multi-media art exhibition of works set on the theme Mangroves from the Water to be exhibited for a month at the Project Space Gallery Deakin University Waterfront Campus in Geelong from 26 July 2020.

Geelong climate activist Sharon Bush from Thrive for Future tells us about her ‘This business has declared a climate emergency’ posters, which she presents to local business and shop owners in Geelong’s CBD, asking them to put it up in their entrances and shop windows. We play an excerpt of the half hour interview we did with Leigh Barnes from Intrepid Travel in the latest Regenerative Hour podcast – about B Corp certification and becoming a carbon positive company.Emma Black is one of the organisers of a protest blockade of an international miners’ conference, IMARC, in Melbourne next week. She explains why – and how you can join.Carolyn Ingvarson is co-organiser of Lighter Footprint’s event in Melbourne on 31 October, ‘Living in the Clean Economy’. She shares with us and our listeners why she is particularly excited about this event. More info below.

“One can ‘live in’ old philosophies, but the world can’t be understood in any inventive way by sticking to the old principles.”~ Luc Ferry, 2013

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“Let’s re-imagine a beautiful, community centred low carbon future: a faster transition to a clean economy will bring massive benefits!“

Listen to The Sustainable Hour’s interview with Carolyn Ingvarson about the event

LIGHTER FOOTPRINT PRESENTS:On the benefits of a low carbon economy, and the case for a faster transitionThursday 31 October at 7:00pmLocation: Hawthorn Arts Centre, 360 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn       

Tom Kompas is the Professor of Environmental Economics and Biosecurity at the University of Melbourne. He is the lead author of a high level business case on a faster transition to a clean economy for Victoria and Queensland. His work details avoiding the massive costs of inaction (conservatively $584 billion by 2030),