Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 16 January 2019 are:

• Maxine Bazeley is in the early stages of labour – with contractions every 10 minutes as we speak on the phone. Her dedication to reducing waste is not stopping her from sharing valuable tips to our listeners. She explains how she has nested sustainably in preparation for her first baby. As the Marie Kondo revolution transpires through social media, Maxine is at the forefront of this phenomenon by not being an over-consumer. At 40 weeks and four days pregnant… yep: Maxine has not bought one thing brand new for her new bub. Her home only has second hand goods.
The whole thing with the ‘Kondo clean out’ is that people over-consume in the first place. Are all these people who are cleaning out then not going to over-purchase again? – or will they have to be kondo-cleaning out again in 12 months time? Something for our listeners to think about.

• Hadassah Djordan talks mindful consumption, sustainable fashion and ethical clothing with our roving reporter Lene Foghsgaard – the seventh segment of her series, ‘Sustainable People’. Hadassah Jordan owns the store ‘Frankie’s Story’ in South Melbourne Market which sells clothing and accessories for both children and adults that is both ethical and ecological. The store is named after Hadassah Jordans daughter, Frankie. It all started with her. The vision and wish to provide mindful clothing for children

• Helen McCosker, co-organiser of National Regenerative Agriculture Day which is on 14 February 2019, St Valentine’s Day. Helen and her husband Mike are farmers in New South Wales. They are passionate about soil and soil health, and they embrace regenerative agriculture to achieve this.
Back in 2015, they organised community concerts to assist with the wellbeing of people in country areas. Now they have set up a charity, ‘What would love do’. The aim of this charity is to provide longer-term solutions to drought-torn rural communities. On Valentine’s Day they are reaching out to the nation and making people more aware of where their food comes from.

• Lauren, Anissa and Bec – three young Front Line Action on Coal (FLAC) activists, interviewed immediately after they had run a very successful day of non-violent direct action training with around 40 participants in Melbourne in December 2018. They talk about why they do such training, how they feel the training day went, and why they think non-violent direct action is important in affecting change.

“Participation – that’s what’s gonna save the human race.”
~ Pete Seeger, American singer

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