Our guests in The Tunnel on 1 July 2020 – The Sustainable Hour no 321 – are: Peter Martin, Queenscliff and Port Lonsdale Anglican minister. Five years ago, in the days when Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato Si’ had just been published, we had Peter setting a precedent on this show in creating one whole minute of silence. We’ll never forget that very special moment. Today he is back to talk about the launch on Sunday of the local chapter of the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change, ARRCC. We posted an excerpt of the interview on Youtube. Vicki Perrett and Claire Ziegler from Geelong Sustainability talking about their latest exciting project in partnership witfh Deakin University and other strong community players: building a ‘micro village’ – a small, sustainable and climate neutral social housing project in Geelong as a pilot study for others to follow.Between the two interviews, we have the very appropriately entitled song ‘Strange Days’ by Inanna.

Colin Mockett‘s Global Outlook today addresses three items:• The dire implications for the Arctic regions of the current unprecedented high temperatures. • Our Reserve Banks’s announcement over the weekend to join 66 other national Central Banks in their public warning of the horrific economic consequences of following business as usual in any stimulus packages post Covid-19.• The recent decision by a local super fund for health care workers, HESTA, to walk away from any exposure to thermal coal projects – they are now actively looking for alternatives that won’t cost us the earth, literally.You’ll find more info and links below on this page. Until next week, be that difference. 

“Our goal is not to amass information or to satisfy curiosity, but rather to become painfully aware, to dare to turn what is happening in the world into our own personal suffering and thus discover what each of us can do about it.”~ Laudato Si’ 19, quoted by Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale Vicar Peter Martin in The Sustainable Hour

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