The Sustainable Hour

From deep despair to deep collaboration


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Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no 398 on 9 February 2022 are:Doctor Julie Shiels – a visual artist who makes sculpture and photomedia work for the gallery, web and the street. She is also a lecturer at RMIT University’s School of Art in Melbourne. Her most recent project and book ‘The Grandmasters #Shtfckery’ is a series of political parodies. These digital collages combine old masters paintings, with verbatim quotes extracted from the daily news churn with headshots of our political leaders and power brokers. The purpose of the project is make these moments humorous and memorable. Julie’s work can be followed on Instagram, or can be seen around Melbourne as pasteups. To find out more about Julie go to her website: julieshiels.com.au



Professor Yin Paradies – a Wakaya man who teaches and undertakes research in Indigenous knowledges and decolonisation at Deakin University. He is an anarchist and ecological activist who is committed to understanding and interrupting the devastating impacts of modern societies. Yin seeks meaningful mutuality of becoming and embodied kinship with all life through transformed ways of knowing, being and doing that are grounded in wisdom, humility, respect, generosity, down-shifted collective sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, direct participation and radical localisation. Today he tells us about a four-day deep immersion Thrive to Survive experience coming up on 24-28 March 2022 on the intentional community in which he lives in the Yarra Valley. We also learn what drives him to do the work he does, as well as what he values. Here’s a link to a workshop Yin is running in May 2022, and here is information about the event ‘Explore a sustainable, ecologically focused community’ at the Moora Moora intentional community on 27 February 2022.



Mik Aidt starts off today outraged by the public money being put into fossil fuel projects and the way it is reported on the front page of a local newspaper as if it’s a good thing. He connects this with extreme weather events being fuelled by the same fossil fuel projects and their cost.



Mik also mentions a new exciting and sustainability-focused housing development project in Geelong, which launched its website last week: Bellarine Urban Farm – aspiring to become a place where “Your loved ones of all ages can grow and farm together in harmony with the seasons and the elements while remaining connected to modern conveniences. Inspired by urban farm models and edible landscapes, your family will grow their own food and discov...
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