Be the difference: We have five extraordinary guests and speakers in The Sustainable Hour on 8 August 2018 who each are making a significant difference as innovators, pioneers and leaders in their respective fields – turning eco-loop dreams into reality, saving big on energy, engaging the community, taking action on climate change and wasting close to nothing:

Green dialysis and sustainable healthcare: Professor John Agar, conjoint clinical professor of medicine at University Hospital Geelong and Deakin University School of Medicine, tells us about Barwon Health’s and Geelong Hospital’s extraordinary two decadal journey into ‘green dialysis’ and energy efficiency, creating results as a world-leading eco-innovator – and for the first time bringing his story out into the public arena.

Energy market: Alan Rattray, founder of Energy Umpire, a start-up online energy comparison service which intends to make a massive difference for energy customers, shows us a way through the jungle of greedy energy retailers and green energy price myths.

Community energy revolution: The launch of MACS community-financed solar system was a huge milestone for Geelong Sustainability. We hear project leader Dan Cowdell explain to the guests at the event – which included Victoria’s minister for energy Lily D’Ambrosio MP and Geelong’s member for Geelong Christine Couzens MP – how and why this project came about, and how it could enable the citizens of Geelong to take power generation almost entirely into their own hands.

Zero waste: Erin Rhoads – also known as The Rogue Ginger – from Zero Waste Victoria explains what readers will learn from her new book ‘Waste Not – Make a Big Difference by Throwing Away Less’.

Climate sensibility: We play a clip with New Zealand’s climate minister James Shaw in an interview at Newshub Nation, where he explains why

“Stopping climate change will make us richer than doing nothing.”

~ James Shaw, New Zealand’s climate minister

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“The main culprit in increasing power prices is really this excessive margin that has blown out in the last ten years. The fact is that now wind and solar are the cheapest sources of supply. Coal may have been the cheapest 20 years ago, but that is just no longer true.”

~ Alan Rattray, Energy Umpire, in The Sustainable Hour on 8 August 2018

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