Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 11 September 2019 are Heidi Fog, a carbon consultant, who helps companies and schools lowering their carbon footprint and save money on the electricity bill, and who is featured in the ninth episode of our Show Me How series, and Audrey Aronsten-Whytcross, school strike organiser from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, who explains about what will happen at Geelong City Hall on Friday 20 September at 10am.

600 business leaders from around the world have pledged to support their employees to strike on 20 September for the Global Climate Strike. 

We also talk with Dr Geoff Berry, who has drafted a succinct one-page letter designed to help supporters get their workplaces on side in reference to the 20 September climate strike.

Sustainable People reports from a unique event in Denmark: The Democracy Festival, a festival for the youth, which this year gathered 30.000 young people from all over Denmark. The festival started back in 2013 as a very tiny one with only 150 people invited, but after the first meeting, the vision of building a festival started growing, and three years later it was a reality with more than 80 organisations supporting it. The keywords are democracy and involvement in the society. There are several stages and workshops in tents all over the park, Valbyparken, where it takes place, with thousands of curious young people visiting. The climate issue played a big role this year. Lene Fogsgaard spoke with Olav, one of the founders of the festival, Rye, Anders and Benjamin, three young Danes attending it, and the famous Danish rap artist Jesper “Jokeren”, who spoke from the stage about starting a “green revolution now”. Lene asks us: “Australia! What about you being next in line to start a festival like this? You have our full support!”

“If today’s decision makers do not understand the double seriousness of climate crisis and social crisis and understand that we need a radical change, I fear that some in desperation will end up in eco-terrorism.”~ Jørgen Steen Nielsen, Danish journalist, Information

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