The Sustainable Hour no 365

In #TheTunnel on 2 June 2021 we have two guests:

[11:25] Mindfulness coach Lise Saugeres tells about her personal experience with depression and when she found the practice called mindfulness so helpful in dealing with this, she decided to devote the rest of her life to bring this healing practice to others. She soon found that she could turn this into an occupation of running courses that could sustain her. Her next course will an eight-week online mindfulness course, ‘Mindfulness in Everyday Life’ via Zoom every Monday starting 21 June 2021 with a free online information session for the course on 7 June.

[29:20] Our second guest this week is Crusty from Manic Seeds Media, a long time social justice and environmental journalist and filmmaker as well as a staunch climate activist who in his travels from campaign to campaign all over Australia saw a real gap in getting messages out to the Australians about what was really happening in blockades and action that often take place in isolated areas.

Crusty found that the mainstream media couldn’t be relied on not to distort the reporting and decided to create it himself while teaching other activists to do the same. More than 100 short films and a feature film of a Tasmanian forest campaign have resulted. For the last six years he has travelled all over the country in a very cheap car that just can’t be coaxed to the next campaign. Not to be deterred, he has started a crowd funder. He is already almost half way to his $5,000 target.

If you’d like to contribute to keeping Crusty reporting the truth from blockades all over Australia, go to www.tinyurl.com/frontlinemedia

[03:25] Colin Mocket‘s Global Outlook demonstrated that the climate change pendulum has swung in favour of us and our precious planet. The Dutch court ruling that multinational oil giant Shell must reduce its emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 was grouped with the news from the United States that shareholders in another oil multinational, Exxon, appointed two environmental activist-nominated directors to the board. At a third oil company, Chevron, investors voted in favour of a proposal to cut its total greenhouse gas emissions, including customers’ emissions. These, along with the Australian Federal Court decision to support school students action tasking Environment Minister Sussan Ley to consider their future when making decisions affecting climate change, such as allowing new coal mines to be opened, means that the environmentalists now have society’s backing and the polluters are on the back foot.

Meanwhile in Washington, president Joe Biden announced a budget where $6 trillion will be raised for health care, education and climate change packages by taxing the company’s rich-list and biggest corporations.

In China’s Shenzhen city, on the Pearl River delta in southern province of Guangdong,